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When I was in the toilet I used to shake my head. because there was story about the ghost who counted the hairs in the toilet. If the ghost finished the counting the person would die. So Before finishing the counting the person had to shake his/her head not to count.

Chang Hee-Jeong

After seeing the Stephen King movie 'It', I would sometimes get spooked when going to the bathroom. I kept thinking that the clown with the jagged teeth was going to come up out of the toilet and do something awful to my private parts.

Anon

While I entered school at the age of 6, we had a lunch at an eating-place that was simply terrible. And the toilets were the worst thing. Closets were in such disgusting sheet-metal boxes and one or two of them were permanently closed.
I thought that someone closed himself inside and couldn't open the door.
Because noone helped him he died.
I used to believe that there were locked skeletons at the toilets!

radka.cz

I used to think that every time I used a toilet at a place I was not familiar with (such as a public restroom in a distant city, while traveling, etc.), that some kind of monster was going to come out and grab my parts below, and haul me away through the pipings.

Cin

I used to think that if I didn't look down the bowl as i was sitting down on the toilet, a hand would grab my behind and pull me in.

chris

I first remember when I was 5, my parents would take us every summer to campgrounds. You know those outhouse toilets with the HUGE hole in the seat? Well, I was so scared to sit on it I started crying, because I really believed I was gonna fall in (I was very small) and drown in the sewer, or that a monster would grab my butt and pull me in it. Then I would never be found!
I'm still afraid I'll fall in after 25 yrs... :(

Rachael B., WA

there was a movie a long time ago about a lizard that was flushed down a toilet and emerged from the sewer as a giant alligator. My sister who was 4 or 5 at the time believed it was true!

Anon

When I was little I overheard my parents talking about a toilet that was stopped up and Dad had a plunger. For years I thought that meant that if you pooped too much that everything the toilet ever flushed would come flowing back out of it! For a very long time I would flush and then sit in the sink so that if something came out I wouldn't have to stand in 20 years of waste. EEEEEEEW!

~<-*->~ Agnes ~<-*->~

The film arachnophobia had a lasting effect on me. Up until the age of about 12 I would check behind the toilet every time I went in case there was a big spider there waiting to bite my bum.

Phil

I saw the corny schwarzenegger movie, "The Predator" for the first time at about 4 years old. Every time I would have to pooh I would always try an do it as fast as possible because I was afraid the aliens hand would reach out from the hole in the toilet and grab my bum. As soon as I would finish dropping my loggers I would run from the bathroom as fast as I could and would shut the light off on the way. Hardly ever would I wash my hands afterwards, and sometimes i wouldnt even whipe! After all, that is all too time consuming and the vicious beast would have me by then!!! No wonder I got brown streaks.

AvengethePredators

i would always flush after i washed my hands because i thought the water overflowed if you did it at the same time.

scardy cat

I used to believ that whenever I flushed the toilet, that it would disturb all of the spiders in the bathroom and they would come out to get me!

Samantha

When I was little I used to think that hundreds of little spiders lived in the toilet and would come out and bite your butt as soon as you sat down to use the toilet. I would never sit directly on the toilet but would hold my self an inch above the seat so they couldn't reach me!

Anon

when i was younger, i was afraid that there were lobsters in the toilet that would come up and bite me if i wasnt careful. i was a......different child.

the village idiot

I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.

Millie

I always used to believe if i sat down fully on the toilet so that it went completely dark a witch woudl come out of the toilet and bite my bum :P

Had me terrified and purching on toilets for years!

Hellybell

I used to beleive that if I was looking
in a toilet hole,Two little yellow eyes would stare up at me and attack.


stupid huh?

Im not here

when i was little i used to believe that if you sat down on the toilet for too long that the devil would take his staff and poke you in the butt! so i would never sit completely down on the loo.

Anon

I used to believe that if you flushed the toilet while sitting on it you would get sucked in, so I always got off before I flushed it.

Anonymous

One time I was at McDonald's with my grandmother, and I had to go to the bathroom. She told that she needed to come with me so that no bad men come and get me in the bathroom. From that day on, I always checked behind the toilet in the bathroom stalls, and inside the toilets to make sure nobody was in there waiting for me!

Anon