When I was little, probably 4 or 5, after I took a bath my mom would pull the plug. The sound of the water going down the drain made a sort of screaming sound. [It was an old house.] One day I asked my mom what it was and she told me that is was a ghost that lived in my drain and drank all the water. I made my mom stay in the bathroom the whole time I took a bath until I was about 8...
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- i used to believe that when you sat in the bath to long and got pruny
that the water made you old— Jami - i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- I used to think that trolls lived in my shower drain and showered with my dirty water— Troll bather
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin