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LordOfThe5Rings · 03/08/2012 23:23

I know I've been hogging the boards the last few days, but I don't care :P Just been curious on other peoples opinions on things.

I didn't know where to put this, so I apologise if it's in the wrong category.

I was wondering what everyones favourite Urban Legend/Cautionary Tale was. I have been fascinated in them for pretty much forever, due to so many meanings and of course expressing the nations fears.

So what are your favourites? Feel free to share the UL with us! :)

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Seshat · 11/08/2012 10:43

Ebay haunted painting!!

Seshat · 11/08/2012 10:41

Google the ebay painting!

My friend knew a woman who had arranged a 2 week holiday for herself and her husband. The couple had a 6 mth old baby who would be looked after in their home by the husbands sister. On the day of their departure, the aunt was late to arrive to look after the baby. If left any longer the couple were anxious they would miss their flight. They phoned the husbands sister, who stated she had gotten caught up in traffic and was literally around the corner. The wife told her she and her husband would leave immediately for the airport and that the child was in her highchair having breakfast. When the couple returned from their holiday, their child was were they left her, in her highchair dead. The husbands sister had been killed in a RTA seconds after hanging up her mobile phone!

Seriously disturbing !!

Himalaya · 11/08/2012 10:09

I saw this thread the other night, but i was home alone so too scared to read it Grin. DH and kids are here now so i can enjoy it. Not clicking on any of the freaky picture links though.

Moominsarescary · 11/08/2012 09:57

I couldn't even look at the stick man pics till this morning

plutocrap · 11/08/2012 09:49

Ha, child ghouls. I have a baby vampire/ succubus, who rolls up to me in the middle of the night and starts sucking the life out of me Grin. Don't fall asleep feeding, ladies: you will spend the rest of the night with your nipples exposed and wake up <a class="break-all" href="http://images.google.com/imgres?q=pale+and+wan&hl=en&biw=1366&bih=624&tbm=isch&tbnid=o5NANEX2pq8B_M:&imgrefurl=www.darkmoon.me/2011/verlaine-chanson-dautomne/&docid=kK-hk06CNkhI9M&imgurl=www.darkmoon.me/uploads/silent-scream.jpg&w=600&h=475&ei=GBwmUKifHommhAeazICQDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=764&vpy=311&dur=1959&hovh=200&hovw=252&tx=165&ty=168&sig=108179448108048041186&page=2&tbnh=125&tbnw=158&start=23&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:27,s:23,i:230" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">exhausted.

ipswichwitch · 11/08/2012 08:19

Now it's daylight and DS (10mo) and elderly cat are up to keep me relatively sane (DP no use, he's still in bed Hmm), I'm brave enough to click all those links...

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff · 11/08/2012 02:17

MyinnergoddessisatLidl

That is the scariest phenomenon of all Shock

17 pages - eek.

So that's what I did with my day Blush (am off sick and 5 weeks pregnant, I'm allowed a day of slobbery!)

COLOURmeHAPPY · 11/08/2012 01:54

oh theres 17 pages... ok i never read them al- i read a few!l Blush

COLOURmeHAPPY · 11/08/2012 01:53

u lot r killin it!! having kids makes u a nervous wreck as it is. blaaady 'ell. but u know i had to read them all Confused

MyinnergoddessisatLidl · 11/08/2012 01:41

Oooh perhaps a new phenomenon for the modern era. Forget creepy stick man....

Baggy knickered kitchen window ghoul.......

SPsFanjoSponsorsTheOlympics · 11/08/2012 01:31

Ourselves*

SPsFanjoSponsorsTheOlympics · 11/08/2012 01:30

When I was younger me and a group of friends decided to go to a known park in Leeds. It was around 11 at night when wesaw a huge group at the other side of the lake, all wearing white with what looked like sticks on fire.

They were chanting some weird language.Any way been the idiots we were we thought we would get closer.

We got behind a bush and watched them. The were burning what looked like a cat! We shit are selves and ran!

We kept looking back and the people were now facing us and watching us run.

We went back a few days later and in a old fire pit were bones! We think they were devil worshipers. I'd love to go back and see if it happens again.

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff · 11/08/2012 01:27
Grin

I had a similar thing happen to me just before, I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water and a packet of crisps from the cupboard and the most hideous site greeted me in the window.

A pale, barely clothed woman with a saggy belly.

Hideous!

MyinnergoddessisatLidl · 11/08/2012 01:15

I just witnessed a terrifying sight at my patio door. I opened the fridge and there in the reflection of the fridge light on the window, stood a hideous gargoyle with sticky up hair, a grubby stained t shirt and baggy knickers shoving a ryvita sideways in her mouth and slurping a carton of milk around it.

Shock

Luckily I slammed the fridge shut and she disappeared.

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff · 11/08/2012 01:06

Katuk - post a pic please!!!

I love the phantom airplane sightings.

Grin
LordOfThe5Rings · 11/08/2012 00:25

Maybe click on new at top and they should show up :)

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Katuk82 · 10/08/2012 23:58

On the 10th March 2012 we took a trek in the Bleaklow area of the Peak Distrct, the weather was cold and misty and we stumbled across what we now know is the remains of a crash site.
DP took some photos of the huge crash site and happy with some of the photos of a piece of history, they were posted in an album on Facebook. A week later a friend commented on one of the photos stating they could see 'something' in the photo.
There has been a fair bit of interest in the photo, some people claiming that they can see a 'Ghost', some people suggesting it was the 'light' and some people claiming the photo is fake.
Where as I don't actually believe in Ghosts but at the same time I cannot explain what was in the photo, there were two of us looking in the direction of the 'unexplained object' when the photo was taken and neither of us spotted what would have been impossible not to see and there was nobody else in the area. So I am not claiming this to be a Ghost but the photo is exactly as it was taken, nothing has been changed and nothing added, so make your own mind up....

Researching after, I have found that in this area of the Peak District, there are frequent supernatural sightings' with walkers and visitors claiming to have seen unexplained 'people' and even 'phantom planes'. The details of the actual crash are:

On 3 November 1948, USAF Boeing RB-29A Superfortress 44-61999, of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division, Strategic Air Command; crashed at Higher Shelf Stones, Bleaklow, whilst on route from Scampton to Burtonwood. All 13 crewmembers were killed. A large amount of wreckage is still visible, as a memorial to the crash. Also, a proper memorial was erected at the site in 1988. There is public access to the area.

MyinnergoddessisatLidl · 10/08/2012 23:36

oh bugger, not just me then!

Although PMSL about the hairy hands trying to get into a caravan.

PissyDust · 10/08/2012 23:33

I've been searching for this thread for ages so I need t mark my place (sorry) so. Don't lose it again.

MyinnergoddessisatLidl · 10/08/2012 23:31

The story of someone clawing their way out of a coffin is quite a common historical reality. Not the part about predicting it - that's super spooky. A very old set of graves in my hometown in Wales needed to be rebuilt due to collapse and they found a coffin partially opened. It must have been much harder to recognise comas or such in the old days perhaps?

We used to shit each other up as kids on school trips in Devon about the "hairy hand of Dartmoor". If you heard a storm and saw clouds the hand would come out of the sky and sweep you away in the fog! Did anyone else ever hear of this, or did we make it up?

Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme · 10/08/2012 23:14

I have had to get up and close the curtains. Thank god dh is home now.

And I am not clicking on any more bloody links.

LemarchandsBox · 10/08/2012 22:10

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whatkungfuthat · 10/08/2012 22:09

DP has asked me to point out that he worked for many years in a hospital that was built as a victorian asylum. He was there at all hours as he got called out in the night and would have to walk up and down really long empty corridors where the footsteps echoed on the victorian tiling, and the trees outside cast unearthly shadows. The strangest thing he saw was Ian Hislop walking around when it was virtually closed down. He was doing a documentary Grin

whatkungfuthat · 10/08/2012 21:43

"A 12 yr old girl was walking home from her friend's house alone. She had spent a long time with the friend and it was getting late. Although it was a residential area, there was nobody around. It was getting dark, too. She heard footsteps following her, turned around, but nobody was there. She started walking again, heard the footsteps again, and convinced that somebody was definately after her. Then she found a public telephone (it was before the time mobile was used), the telephone box was brightly lit and looked safe. She went into the box and phoned her mum at home. "Mum, I think somebody is following me. Can you please collect me from the telephone box?" Mum said 'Sorry, but I'm cooking now and I can't leave the oven unattended. Can you just ran home from there? It's not so far from home.' So she had no choice but to leave the tel box and dash. The footsteps were still following her and getting closer. Finally she arrived at her house, turnd around at the door, then found a man in a black coat just behind her. Suddenly the man brought an axe down on her neck and she was brutally killed.

She then woke up and realised it was a dream. Although she was really freaked out by the nightmare, soon forgot about it and never talked about it to anybody.

Fast forward, she became 14 yr now, and it's NOT a dream this time. She was walking home from her friend's house alone. She had spent a long time with the friend and it was getting late. Although it was a residential area, there was nobody around. It was getting dark, too. She heard footsteps following her, turned around, but nobody was there. At this point, she realised that the situation was quite similar to the nightmare she had had 2 years ago. She hurried, but footsteps were getting closer. Then she found a telephone box. She made a call to her mum and said 'Collect me from the tel box.' Mum said, 'OK, I'll be there as soon as possible.' Mum came to see her, so they left the tel box. Mum also heard the footsteps, got scared, so they ran and ran to their house. At the door, they turned around, and found a man in a black coat, who said to the girl 'Lucky this time, huh?' Then he left"

whatkungfuthat · 10/08/2012 21:40

Do you want me to find another screamer link?

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