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Urban Legends.

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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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susiedaisy · 05/08/2012 22:37

Urrgh the fecking clown one and the man's reflection in the window one are still on my mind, making me twitchySadAngry

Uppermid · 05/08/2012 21:54

Bastards!!!!!

cookielove · 05/08/2012 21:00

I told DP them and he just smiled then said 'yeah i can see why that would creep you out' smug bastard

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 20:42

I pretty much know them all. :D

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 20:41

Miss No, it doesn't. There are many protective barriers between your ear and your brain. You'd lose your hearing from your inner ear having problems, before it even got close to your brain.

Also don't like the cactus one where lots of poisonous spiders burst out of an imported cacti!

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 20:37

nosleep forum

and

nosleep podcast

There you go upper, maybe it didn't link right last time :)

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MissHairspray · 05/08/2012 20:02

This is giving me flashbacks to Brownie camp and all of the terrifying 'true' stories told by some of my fellow pixies.

Another really gross one (definitely not from the brownies this time) is about the woman who has really bad stomach pains, goes to the toilet, and loads of horrible liquid and live shrimps erupt from her fanjo. Naturally this was because she had been using the tail of a live lobster to, ahem, pleasure herself, which had then laid it's eggs inside her. Eurgh.

My mil will also kill any spiders she sees in the house in case they crawl into my DCs ears when they are asleep and lay eggs. (If this does in fact has some basis in reality please do NOT enlighten meSmile)

Uppermid · 05/08/2012 19:48

Phew can't find it!

fuzzywuzzy · 05/08/2012 19:43

oh lord why did I click that and why did I read the eiditic memory one.....

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 19:38

nosleep

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 19:36

[evil grin]

www.nosleepaudio.podbean.com

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HermioneE · 05/08/2012 19:36

This thread is HORRIBLE!! love it!

Uppermid · 05/08/2012 19:35

Damn you, you know I'm gonna read it now!

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 19:34

I lve Reddit no sleep! Have all the podcasts!

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ivykaty44 · 05/08/2012 19:32

Has the rabbit one been done - where the neighbour is supposed to feed the rabbit whist they are on holiday?

YouBloodyWolf · 05/08/2012 19:30

Sorry, Uppermid Grin Compulsive isn't it ?

You definitely shouldn't Google the 'Nosleep' section on Reddit.com though...

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 19:23
Grin
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cookielove · 05/08/2012 19:19

Just read some of those stories to my mate on the phone and i got shivers reading them and yet when i read them in my head not so much.

My mate stated 'and that is why i never baby sit'

Uppermid · 05/08/2012 18:55

You bloody youbloodywolf! Why did I click on that link. I'm going to be terrified going to bed now!!

Schlock · 05/08/2012 18:38

I heard that one about sleeper trains in the early 90s when interrailing Grin

MikeLitorisRings · 05/08/2012 18:37

Also heard this one a lot in school. Always happened to a friend of a friend

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 05/08/2012 18:36

NKU I was told that about the ovenight sleeper to Naples...

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LordOfThe5Rings · 05/08/2012 18:33

Some awesome ones here. I find them fascinating.

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NeverKnowinglyUnderstood · 05/08/2012 18:32

when interrailing int he late 80's we took it in turn to sleep on night trains because we were told that sleeping gas was regularly pumped into the carriages and theives went form cabin to cabin stealing everything....

I have no idea if it was true..

Mintyy · 05/08/2012 18:26

I love the one about the snake measuring up its owner by lying straight alongside her! Tis one of my old favourites.