When I was a child, I thought if you were sat on the toilet, doing a 'number 2' and reading a magazine, if the magazine article had a photo of a celebrity looking out, then their face would appear in the toilet bowl beneath you looking at your bottom. Put me right off going to the toilet.
Weird, I know...
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo
- I used to believe that toilet seats were for kids only and that adults sat directly on the bowl. — Evan Klyne
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G