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In 3rd grade a friend brought a large garter snake to school for Science. It escaped and went down the urinal in the boys bathroom. From then on I knew the snake was going to come up the toilet when I was sitting on it. I would do my business in record time and jump off!

T.K.

When i was younger i used to think that vampires lived down the toilet and if you stayed on too long they'd pull you down the loo or bite your bum!

anon

i was completely afraid of the toilet after watching an episode of the X-files when i was about 7 or 8. i was almost certain that a fish-man would hear me going to the bathroom and come up through the pipes to eat my butt.

kathryn

I've always had this fear that there was a hand living in every toilet, and that whenever you were using it, it would come up and pull you down, taking your hands for the next toilet. I'm 14 now and still check all toilets before and during.

The Hand

I used to believe that if you used the toilet during a storm, lightning was sure to come through the pipes and electrocute you through your rear.

Anon

i used to believe that there was a gorilla living in our toilet, and if you spent too much time on the pot that he would stick his finger up your butt. needless to say, i learned to be very quick about using the toilet!

sarah

I used to get a little scared after spending too much time on the toilet- I had this odd fantasy of a gang of half-friendly half-very-bad if I thought about them too much cartoon type characters or other creatures that would hang out right behind me as I sat on the toilet, living in the toilet tank or right behind me. I would hurry up and get out of there if I thought about them too much, and I thought of them mostly as ducks, with some little tiny humans. I'm not sure where that came from....

RayRayRachel

When I was a little girl, I didn't like loud noises. One of the things I believed was that the sound the toilet made when it was flushed called some type of evil spirit/monster, but this rule only applied after dark. As a result, I wouldn't flush the toilet if I got up to go during the night. Now as a mother of 4, I think about this when we wake up to unflushed toilets. My husband isn't as understanding, he gripes at them.

Anon

When I was in the 1st grade, the bathroom near my classroom had painted stalls. In one of the stalls, the paint was a chipped, and it was chipped in such a way that it looked like the guy from the movie Scream. I thought that he lived in that bathroom and that was a picture that he made of himself!

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I used to think that Jaws would come up through the toilet when I flushed.

Nicole

i used to believe this creature would come up the toilet drain after u flushed so i would jump up as fast as i could after i flushed and sit on top of the lid for at least 45 seconds. I did for so long sometimes after i lifted the lid i could see a tail going back down the drain. It was in my mind of course but it looked like it was really there.

Brooke

My elementary school had these freaky-looking toilet paper holders...with the screws in it, it looked like a one eyed monster with toilet paper in its mouth. If the toilet paper got low, You could see the "eyes" (2 screws that held the "monster" to the wall) of the toilet paper monster's victims. I thought that it would eat me if I stayed in the bathroom too long, so I'd get my buisness done as fast as I could. I also stuffed some toilet paper in its mouth so that I couldn't see the "eyes".

Liz

When I was little I didn't like the toilets at parks and campgrounds that didn't have plumbing and didn't flush. I thought that there were dead birds inside the toilet and that they were nasty. I still hate those toliets. I call them dead bird toilets.

Anon

I used to believe that evil leprechauns lived in the u-bend. I went to the bathroom as fast as I could and close the seat cover before they could come up and bite my butt.

Shannon

mine is sorta like kes but rather there was a really skinny man in the toilet who i called the U-bend man who would reach up and drag me down to replace him... i know he doesn't exist but whenever i remember that, i get really nervous about using the bathroom even though i'm in my older teens

a

I don't know why I believed this... but when I was being potty-trained, I was terrified of the Toilet Monster. I thought if I didn't go #1 or #2 then he would be hungry and would get mad and eat me! I was so scared of NOT being able to go, that I totally avoided the bathroom. Curses to whomever told me that!

Sunnie

I went to visit a friend as a small child, and while I was there I saw part of a horror movie where a person in a bathtub got turned into a red hand that chased people. I came home so terrified that I didn't want to go anywhere near the bathroom for any reason without my mom with me, I was sure that red hand was going to drag me into the pipes- through the bathtub, down the toilet-

Anon

I was up at the lake when I was about 3 years old, and had to use an out house. I had some how gotten it in my head that an alligator lived in the toilet and was waiting to grab me when I sat down. I was so scared of falling in the toilet that I had to get my dad to hold me up (I wouldn't even touch the toilet), and I cried the whole time.

Anon

That when i was like 4 I was terrified of the toilet and that there was a little monster livving in it so my mom had to come with me to the bathroom till I was like nine years old!

Angela

My sister and dad were talking about a movie where aliens come out of the toilet, so for like three years i would go to the bathroom really quick then I would flush the toilet then run down the hall to where I was safe

Anon