Until i was like 8 i thought if i flushed the toilet, the boogeyman would come up and kill me so everytime i went to the bathroom, i would flush it and run or make my brother stand in ther and flush it while i stood on the other side of the door.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly
- I believed everytime the toilet flushed a wave broke on a beach— Jenelle
- I used to believe that Limabeans would kill you if you didn't eat them.
I flushed them down the toilet.— Lima - When I was little, I thought that since boys stood up to pee, they could stand up to poop.— Lacey