My older sister told me [mind you I was in 3rd grade] that If I went to the bathroom a monster would come out of the toliet and try to pull me in or eat my butt. So whenever I would use the bathroom I would constantly lean up and check just to make sure no monsters were coming...lol :)
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- someone told me that if u go to the bathroom on the toielt you would get sucked inn..— terrified child
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella