When I was little I saw "looks who's talking" and there was a scene where the toilet turned evil and looked at the little boy and said "give me your peepee" that was around the time I was potty trained and i believed thats what toilets did. it scared the crap out of me so bad that my parents had to put the baby potty in the kitchen.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon
- My brother used to be scared to poop in the potty. He thought that he was pooping out his bones.— Lillyth
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- when i was little i thought every time i left the room my parents turned into aliensAnon
- I believed alligators lived in toilets, and one apparently got hold of my sister.Anon