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Up until I was about 10 I used to think that if you didn't close the toilet lid really fast after you flushed a shark would get you!
I'm 16 and I still close them right away.

Lauren

At night i thought that there could be a skeleton sitting on the loo. I would stand well back as i gingerly opened the loo door and would cautiously approach the toilet, only turning round at the last minute and sitting down with my eyes screwed up. I would then have to go into the bathroom to wash my hands, avoiding the bath as there could be a skeleton lying in there too. I still hate going to the loo at night at my parents house!

feezer the chiropractor

I have always been arachnaphobic. When I was a little kid, a spider fell down from the swingset I was on and landed on my hand; and I blame that. When I was about 7, I watched a TV show of an afternoon about a geenie who used to stuff up every wish asked of him. On one episode, the show being set in outback Australia, a woman said to a girl about to use an outdoor toilet, "Check the dunny (Aussie slang for toilet) for redbacks (a deadly Aussie spider), under the seat. A fellow only last week died of one that bit him on the bum" or something like that. Ever since, still to this day (at the age of 16) because I live in Australia, I have checked the underside of the toilet seat and the rim of the toilet for spiders before I have sat down. Until recently, I used to jump up in alarm when my leg got itchy.

Pat the Paranoid

When I was about 4 or 5 I saw a Tv show where was sucked into the toilet and ended up in a mad scientist's lab. Of course, after that I was terrified of going to the bathroom and the few times that I didn't wet my pants I would go and then run out of the room screaming without even flushing.

Anon

When I was a kid and got up in middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I believed that I had to be out of the bathroom before the toilet finished flushing or the room would turn into an elevator and would go down into the earth and trap me there forever.

Staci G

I used to belive that an alien lived in my toilet. And I was a hero. Everytime I had to pee/poo it was my superpowers telling me to fight the aliens. And when I would pee/poo I would be poisoning the aliens (knocking then out) Then flushing the toilet would send the aliens back to the sewer. And the gap in between pees/poos would be them making a new plan of trying to take over the world, and crawl up my toilet. Yes, I was amazingly weird.

Martina May

When I was little, I somehow got it in my head that if you used the bathroom during a thunderstorm, you would be electrocuted by the lightning. I guess that was because my mom always told me not to go near water when there was lightning because I'd get electrocuted, and there was water in the toilet.

Lydia

When I was about 5 or 6 I believed that if you were not out of the bathroom before the toilet was coompletely done flushing, a bomb will go off and you would die.

Corinne

I don't know how this happened, but somehow, in my life, Pokemon and toilets combined.

I used to think that when you flushed a toilet, if you didn't get away from it fast enough, a Gyrados would rise from it, and bite you in half.

Maybe this is why I rarely wash my hands at home...

Poketoilet

When i was 6-10 i use to believe that there was some weird sea monster in the toilet so when i flushed i would run out to the hall way but naked and pull my pants up so the monster wouldn't get me.

tiny flower jocy

I used to think when you went the bathroom the toilet would suck you down. I would do my business then shut the lid, stand on the toliet and flush it. I also thought farts were actually green and people could see when you fart.

Jessica

My gramma had a hole in the wall above her toilet and I used to believe a monster lived in there and would get me while I was on the toilet. So I always sat on her toilet backwards so I could see when the monsters were coming for me.

Christina

Up until I was about 7 or 8 I used to believe that when you went to the loo at night after all the family were asleep tigers would rush out of the bowl and try to eat you as soon as you flushed it. Used to drive my dad mad when he'd find a full bowl as he prepared for work.

chris

I used to believe there was a giant slime-covered hand down the toilet which would grab you and pull you down it if you sat there too long.

Foz

i used to think that when you went to the toilet(while a storm is on) that i would get zap by lighting up my bottom...

Anon

I was quite certain that there was a killer in the toilet, and that if I just sat on the toilet he would stick his arm through the hole in the bottom of the toilet and stab me. Instead I had to wait until I really had to go, and had to start peeing immediately upon sitting down. The killer wouldn't want to get his arm in pee, after all.

what the?

For some strange reason, when I was about 4 I used to believe that Snuffalupagus lived in the plumbing of public bathrooms. So when I started kindergarten, whenever I had to use the bathroom I would sneak in quietly, open the stall door, and sit down. I thought that if he couldn't hear me, he wouldn't come drag me down the toilet with his trunk. but then came the dreaded flushing time... I would quietly get up, pull my pants up, then open the door for a quick getaway. Id pull down the handle and run like a madwoman till I was outside, where I would hold the door shut for at least 5 minutes. Me and my crazy imagination!

toiletphobia

When i was about 8 i used to believe that if i went to the toilet when it was dark outside, that if i flushed the chain a werewolf would come and attack me. I would either not flush or flush and run for my life.

Thankyou so much to the lovely lady who bought me a story book about werewolves for christmas.

Heather

When I was really small I thought that unless you put ya fingers in ya ears when you flushed, you'd be sucked down b/c the toilet would know you were listening. So I used to flush with my elbow, keep my fingers in my ears and then run as far away from the loo as poss until the flushing stopped so i could wash my hands.

Kitunae The Klot

When I was about six or seven, I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet while it flushed it would suck me in. So every time, I would finish doing my business, then stand about three feet away from the toilet. The moment I flushed the toilet, I would run as fast as I could out of the bathroom. I only found out about a year later from my mom who reassured me that it was physically impossible for the toilet to suck me in.

Ruby