When I was like 5 or 7 i thought that in public bathrooms while you went to the bathroom ghosts would surround your stall, and when you flushed it they would rush up and take you away (i'm not sure where). So always used to unlock the stall door before i flushed, not flush, or (rarely) not lock the door!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed— MrK
- I used to believe that toliets ate you after you flushed themAnon
- I used to believe that the toilet would suck me down if I flushed it.— :-)
- i use to believe that if i flushed the toilet when i was still on it would suck me down to who knows whereAnon