I used to believe that toilets would open and swallow you up because they got dirty!!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- a friend thought that the song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was saying "dirty deeds dunderchief"— dubs
- i used to believe that little people lived in the toilets. and that they could eat anything and everything. — bob the pinecreek
- When I was a small boy, I used to believe there were spiders in the toilets.— nicolas, a French student in 8th grade
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt