Urban Legends.

I'm I the only one that got the granny one?

Someone nicked granny's body, it it disapeared in a puff of smaoke, or she isn't really dead and let herself out.

A dead body should stay where you leave it.

Shouldn't have read these - they play on my mind for aaaaaaaages.

Please come back and explain the granny one!

But if they're not true then where do they appear from

obviously I know that over time there have been different variations of them but do they not all originally start from some soft of truth?

Then of course there's the surprise party and the dog food...

I believed the snake one as true when I heard it first time.. gullible!

I don't get the granny one either, where did the body go?

Obviously, that takes me right back! Was a perennial favourite at my school.

Someone really needs to explain the 'three grannies in an RV in Mexico' one to me. Plleeeeeeeeeease!

What about my friend who went on holiday to a very exotic yet nondescript country. When he came back he had a big itchy sore on his leg that kept getting bigger, shinier and more itchy. He eventually scratched it so hard that it burst and hundreds of tiny spiders came cascading out of it :o

Surely the whole point about the overnight trains and sleeping gas one is that they pump sleeping gas in so "staying awake" isn't actually going to help you

So glad I am reading these in the morning with a toddler to distract me! Brilliant. I actually had not heard most of these except the snake one!

Oo that dead hitchhiker one just gave me a big shiver!

Thank god I'm reading these in the morning

Scorpion - I heard that one too and would really like it to be true.

One that is on snopes, well a version of one.

A group of people are training to be Christian minsters. They have a final exam. Wehn they reach the door to sit the exam there is a note saying the exam has been moved to the other side of the campus, they will have to hurry to get there.

Half way between the rooms the students come accross someone who has fallen of their bike and is bleeding. The person asks for help and the students ignore him(sometimes it is a her).

When they reach the exam hall they recieve a fail mark for not stopping to help.

Not as creepy as the sleeping bag photos.

A friend of my cousin was travelling from London to Leeds. She was really tired so aske the person opposite to nudge her when they reached Leeds.

She woke up in Edinburgh with a post it note on her forehead that said "Don't trust strangers".

Now for the really creepy one.

Eastern Air Lines flight 401 went down in the everglades. It crashed because the flight engineer, pilot and copilot were all trying to change a lightbulb.

The plane was damaged but many parts were salvaged and after being inspected by Federal Air Investigation were returned to Eastern Airlines. The airline used the parts as spares on its other Tristar planes.

The captain and flight attendent were killed, but that didn't stop them appearing on other tristars, telling crew to "Watch out for fire on this plane", "You don't need to do the pre flight check, I've already done it", as well as issuing warning the engineer fixed an oven in the gally and the captain sat next to an Eastern Airlines executive.

I love these!

My cousin has a photo of a family party with a crying boy standing to the side, watching. It's on my Facebook but I can't post it without outing myself- spookiest thing I ever saw. Apparently it is the ghost of a boy who died in a car crash a few years previously and he was drawn by the music and laughter, as he was so lonely.

Crying Boy Picture.

You're going to have to google it yourself because I don't want it on my laptop screen in case it's true... (would probably do a link if it wasn't Irrational o'clock)

A nice one...

A 50- something year old white woman arrived at her seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn't want the seat. The seat was next to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The woman said "I cannot sit here next to this black man." The fight attendant said "Let me see if I can find another seat." After checking, the flight attendant returned and stated "Ma'am, there are no more seats in economy, but I will check with the captain and see if there is something in first class." About 10 minutes went by and the flight attendant returned and stated "The captain has confirmed that there are no more seats in economy, but there is one in first class. It is our company policy to never move a person from economy to first class, but being that it would be some sort of scandal to force a person to sit next to an UNPLEASANT person, the captain agreed to make the switch to first class." Before the woman could say anything, the attendant gestured to the black man and said, "Therefore sir, if you would so kindly retrieve your personal items, we would like to move you to the comfort of first class as the captain doesn't want you to sit next to an unpleasant person." Passengers in the seats nearby began to applause while some gave a standing ovation.

Awww, I was going to tell the dead-person-in-subway-carriage one!

Two I heard recently:
A Man was driving down a highway years ago when he passed an older black lady on the side of the road with two children. It was raining heavily and she had lots of shopping bags, her car having broken down. Everyone else was ignoring her but the driver was worried so he went back, tried to fix her car and, when he couldn't, drove he all the way to her house. She was naturally very grateful and begged for his address which he eventually gave her, thinking she might send him a thankyou card or something. Two weeks later he gets a knock on the door and finds delivery men there with a huge tv. With it is a note from the woman, thanking him for his kindness in helping her out, signed Mrs Nat King Cole.

Second one: There was a woman who had gone to Begas and won a huge some of money on the machines. Nervously she decided to take it back to her room for safekeeping and went to the elevator. As she was about to press the button a huge, scary-ass guy followed her in a barked 'Hit the floor!' terrified she dropped to the floor an the man burst out laughing. He explained he had wanted her to hit the ground floor button, then personally escorted her to her room to check she was safe. The next day when she went to check out she found her hotel bill had already been paid and there were several bunches of flowers waiting for her, along with a note which read 'Thankyou for the biggest laugh of my life. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.'

And slightly more a ghost story:

A man picks up a hitch hiker who is quiet the whole journey. Suddenly she shouts 'Be careful on this next bend!' he slows down and narrowly misses a collision with a speeding lorry. He pulls over to the side of the road, shaking, and asks how she knew he needed to be careful. She replied 'Because that's the spot where I was killed by a speeding driver.'

Arf at Mansfield joke

at clown story

It was worrying though because it highlighted to me quite how guillable my lovely dippy sister is.
She runs everything past me now...

Poorbuthappy, I do enjoy the joke version of that story though, where the Asian person says "stay away from Mansfield next week" and when asked if its because there's going to be an attack, says "no, it's a shithole".

I love urban myths. It always pisses me off when someone tells me one as though it's real. Just say "I heard a great urban legend" - I'd still enjoy it just as much!

Ha ha sorry Susie, the reflection one was me

Right this is from my sister's friend's dog's auntie: but I did actually want to kick my sis when she told me.

Not long after 7/7 "apparently" someone is in Asda/Tesco/Sainsbos/Waitrose/Naicehamshop and there is a lady in a full burkha in front of them. Said lady is 20p short to pay for her shopping so person we do/don't know offers 20p to make it up. Burkha lady then is so grateful that she tells family member/friend not to go near a certain area/shopping centre/railway station etc etc on a certain date cos something bad will happen.

I really tore a strip off my sister when she told me in a hushed voice and actually believed it.

Not scary, just fucking ignorant.