In our childhood home, the bathroom door was located directly across from the basement door. When I was 6 years old, my sister (9) told me that when I flushed the toilet a killer whale would come out and eat me, but if i didnt flush it the pee-pee monster that lived in the basement would be waiting for me at the top of the stairs to take me away. However, the pee-pee monster was scared of the light so he wouldnt come out if we laid a flashlight at the bathroom door pointing at the basement. My only hope, according to her, was to point the light at him, flush the toilet, and run away from the killer whale as fast as I could. The funny thing was...she wasn't being mean to me, she honestly believed it herself and was only attempting to protect her lil bro from the "bad things" lol
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement— Kelly bulanek
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- when i was little i used to believe that darth vador lived in my basement, and i was scared to go down there.— Jilli
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- My dad could change a traffic light from red to green using our garage door opener.Anon