When I was a kid, my cousin told me that if you sat on the toilet for too long at her house before or after you "did your business" a hand would come up and grab onto your butt. I still worry about that happening sometimes. I think it happened in a movie or something.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there— Tom
- 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
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa