My sister used to believe that Freddie Cruger would come up the toilet and scratch her bum and she had to call mum every time she went!!
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to believe that when I used up all the sheets in my desk scratch pad, I would be married.— Barb
- I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo