when I was very little I thought a monster lived down in the pipes under the toilet. Whenever I finished I had to get out of the bathroom as quickly as I could, because when I flushed all that pee or poop down onto his head he would come out and attack me.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

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 belive that when I would poop I was feeding all the fishies that got flushed downthe toilet!— Fish Feeder
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I used to believe that when you went poop a monster would eat it— Confused till age 7 now 11
- 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 think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G