I was up at the lake when I was about 3 years old, and had to use an out house. I had some how gotten it in my head that an alligator lived in the toilet and was waiting to grab me when I sat down. I was so scared of falling in the toilet that I had to get my dad to hold me up (I wouldn't even touch the toilet), and I cried the whole time.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G