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a couple of years ago i used to believe that there were two little men who lived in your toilet and they would poke you with sticks when you went to the toilet if they didn't like you.

Jodie.h

...that the Wicked Witch of the West (saw The Wizard of Oz too young, apparently) would come swirling out of the toilet to grab me when I flushed. I still have scars on my knees from falling all over myself, madly exiting whatever building I was in at the time, school included =P

Anon

I used to beleive until I was like 7 that if I didn't hurry and run out of the bathroom after I flushed something would come out of the drains and eat me

Kiimmy

I used to believe that a huge snake would crawl up the toilet and bite me on the bum... i was terrified of the toilet until i was about 9! But the worst part is that there aren't any snakes in my country!

Scared of snakes

Up until I was about 8, I thought that there was an evil baby living in the old toilet we had.Every time I flushed I washed my hands for about half a second and ran to my room until the flushing noise was gone . Also every time for no reason the toilet makes a rumbling sound so I thought it wanted to get me.
*If the toilet seat top is down then it cant get me
* If I am on the toilet when it tries to get me it cant because ...you know
*If the toilet seat is up when I flush or hear the rumble ..well we are all dead meat.
* My toilet was the only way the baby could get out into the world

Stacey.K

When my younger sister and I were little, I told her that there was a monster who lived in the toilet and that every one million flushes he would come out and "get you". To this day, she still fears the toilet monster.

V

I used to believe that if I stayed in the same room with a flushing toilet, that it would take my soul to the nether world, just like it did with pets. It didn't effect grown ups, because they were already soulless, which is what I would tell my mom when she told me she didn't believe me after I explained why I ran from the bathroom after flushing the toilet.

Kaylee

I used to believe that toilets would open and swallow you up because they got dirty!!

swallowing toilet

My dad told me that if I didn't flush the toilet after taking a dump, then the turd
would come alive and kill me while I slept.

Trey

When I was in the first or second grade a guy living with us died in our downstairs bathroom.I never really used that bathroom after that because I was afraid he haunted the toilet.I was afraid his ghost's hand would reach up and grab my bum.Even though I'm in college now,I'm still afraid to use that bathroom late at night.

Ally

I used to believe, like many others, that I had to get far away from the toilet before it finished flushing. Our bathroom was very small but the sink was seperated from the toilet by a short partician. I would flush, pull my pants up then run out of the bathroom as fast as I could. I would sit outside the bathroom until the toilet finished making noises then return to wash my hands. I have no idea why I did this.

theoddone

When I was little I used to think that there was a ghost-like monster in the toilet and he come up and kill you unless you peed or pooed on it.

Random Writer

When i was younger, i don't know how old, i went to a christmas party at my aunt's house. She had a boyfriend, who had a son, about the same age as my cousin, who was that aunt's daughter. They told me that every time someone would flush the toilet, a hand would come out of the toilet and try to pull you in. That night, i went to the bathroom and the worst thing that could have happened, happened. I flushed and tried to run out of the bathroom as fast as i could, so that the hand wouldn't get me, but to my horror, i got locked into the bathroom! I hit and kicked the door till my aunt's boyfriend finally freed me, i was crying and totally freaked.

young and stupid

When I was five years old, I had just saw the movie "Look Who's Talking." Oh boy... I had a nightmare that night, in which I woke up, walked past the bathroom to go watch cartoons, and then the toilet said the movie toilet's phrase, "I want your pee-pee!" in a scary voice. I tried to run to my parent's room, but I was held in place. Then I woke up before the toilet sucked me in. For about three years, I would always run past our bathroom.

Tommy

When I was 4 or 5, I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet while sitting on the potty, that I would be flushed down with it. I used to have my sister hold on to my hands while I went to the bathroom. I was small for my age and my tushy barely covered the seat. Thank goodness my tushy got bigger.

kate

I used to believe that Jabba the Hut (Return of the Jedi) lived in the toilet. I became so terrified that his long tongue would like my patookus that I resorted to using the bathroom in the creek in our back yard - that is, until my mom caught me!

allegra

my little bro used to believe that whenever he took a dump a Brittish Royal Gaurd would jump out of the toilet and beat him. sometimes if you listen you would believe that he was getting beaten too.

stephen webb

I used to hate flushing the loo and i have no idea why. I would do my stuff then i would unlock the door, open it, wash my hands, flush the loo then run as fast and as far away as i can. It wasnt just my flushing i was scared of. I was scared of anyone else flushing it. When ever i heard it being flush i would go turn into a physco child and run like mad.
Thankfully i can now flush the loo and not run away like a maniac although i do still do it sometimes at public loos.

K

I used to believe that if i sat on the toilet for too long, this witch that lived in the drain would come up and scratch me on the bum

erin

When my sister was 3 I told her that whenever she flushed the toilet, the sound that it made was from a giant water monster that would suck everything down the bowl, and if she was too close it would suck her down too.

The revenge for this of course was that for the next 8 years she didn't flush the toilet. She's now 16 and still needs to open the door run to the tank press the button and sprint out of the room.

magiczoe