I remember my mom used to flush spiders or other bugs that she killed down the toilet. I always avoided using the toilet she put the bug down for a while because I thought that the dead bug mysteriously floated back up and would bite your butt!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that crocodiles lived in the toilet and would bite my butt when I had to go to the loo.— Oz
- i used to think that when i was pooping a crocodile could come out of the toilet and bite my butt off.— derek
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- I used to believe that there were red and black spiders underneath the table in the toilet.— Phil
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike
- If i was drinking out of the toilet, i could have been killed!— Slinx