toilets: fear of

Our toilet had some bad pipes, and made a LOT of noise. My evil brother told me there was a monster at the bottom of the hole that could sense heat, so it would feel the warmth of your body and GET you, unless you were quick. I blame a lot of my constipation problems on my brother.

I saw a picture once of a very green python curled in a toilet bowl. I became convinced that snakes curl up in toilet bowls sometimes. To this day, I still can't sit on the toilet in the dark, just in case.

After my sister and I watched Nightmare on Elm St. at the ages of 5 and 6, we were so afraid that Freddy Kruger would pull us through the toiled that one of us had to hold the other's hand while sitting down. That way, we could help pull each other off the toilet if the hand tried to reach up and grab us.

i thought that whenever you pulled the toilet flush in our bathroom ghosts would come out of the toilet. i used to wash my hands before pulling the flush, just so i could run out of the bathroom before they caught me. once i got so scared i jumped down the entire flight of stairs to escape them - and executed a perfect landing on my feet at the bottom, with no injuries. not bad for a five year old!

We spent many summers in Japan when I was little. At the time my aunt's toilet was not modern. It was a separate room with a toilet and a hole that dropped about 10 feet down. There was someone who cleaned it out every week or so. She was called "the honeybucket lady" Needless to say I was terrified that I would fall into the hole, if not for being so small then from passing out from the smell. But I was really nervous that I would accidently pee or poo on the honeybucket lady (as though she would be standing in there!) I always checked first.

I used to believe that when i flushed the toilet, freddy kruger would come out and try to grab me. hence i would always flush the toilet and then race out of the bathroom at full tilt.

I heard a story about a snake getting into the plumbing of some house so every time I sat down I spread my legs and looked down the whole time so a snake wouldn't pop up and bite me!

I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a moster would come up the u-bend and bite me.

Somehow I saw Porkys (2 I think) when I was about 6, the part where the evil gym teacher sits on the toilet, and a snake (put in by the kids) comes out of the toilet while she is on it.. after that I was terrified to use a toilet... somehow I trained myself to go to the bathroom in record time.. because even now people always say "wow that was fast"

I used to believe that if i didnt run fast enough out of the bathroom after flushing the toilet that it would explode.I always made it so i was never proven wrong.

My 4 year old son is deathly afraid of the automatic flushing toilets. He will NOT go on one.

When I was really young... I never had a problem with the toilet until one morning, while watching MTV's "Rude Awakening" Jon Stewart mentioned something about how they're celebrating the kicking of his co-host's fear of "The Toilet Monster". From then on, it made sense that the loud sound of the flush was the groaning of the monster. Still to this day I have a slight apprehension when I hear an abnormally loud flush.

As a kid I refused to use toilets with those little half-circle fresheners that hooked on the side. They looked scary, they smelled scary, and they had me in a very vulnerable position.

When I was little I was afraid to sit on the toilet because my grandma told me there was a monster that lived in the pipes, and it came up and grabble little kids who stayed on for too long.

When I was little my parents would send me out of the room if they were watching a scary movie. Whenever they did this I would always make up any excuse I could to go back out. Well one year I did this and I saw a part of some movie where the guy got his head cut off and then left in the toilet. It scared me so badly that I still sometimes check in the toilet for a head before I go to the bathroom! LOL

When I was young, my family lived in the U.K. During that time, I was convinced that the Loch Ness Monster had the ability to swim up through our toilet and attack me while I was on the loo. Needless to say, I felt a great deal of angst whenever I had to use the restroom.