When I was little I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet (ONLY THE ONE AT MY COUSINS HOUSE) this vampire-like monster would come up out of it and attack you... if you're not out of the bathroom by the time its done. So I would always hurry up and use the toilet, wash my hands, and THEN flush. One time my cousin caught me running out of the bathroom and she asked me what I was doing, and I told her that if I didn't, then the vampire-thing would eat me. She said she'd always believed the same thing. From then on, I knew I wasn't crazy, or alone in my fear of U-bend dwelling vampire-like creatures.
Then I realized that SHE was also crazy and that we both needed to grow up. (We were both only like 7.)
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
- every time I see a shadow thats not mine I freak out because I think It's a vampire— Dalton Anderson
- I used to think I was a vampire, and that my parents were trying to kill me by making me go to school. — Max
- After watching a crazy TV show, I believed that aliens were real. I still have a little fear of them. — Niki005
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie