when i was about 5, i thought that if you stayed in the bathroom long enough, a ghost would come to get you through the shower curtain! so when i was done, i would run like hell out of the bathroom! i still run out of there today!
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- When I was little, I thought it was harmful to eat while you were going to the bathroom. Anon
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- When I heard "Don't Come Out Tonight(Bad Moon on the Rise), I thought they were saying Bathroom on the Right.— helen.sellers
- I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.Anon