Urban Legends.

Woman goes for a smear and accidentally leaves a bus ticket stuck on her fanjo.

What about the one where the girl picks up an old lady hitchhiker who gets in the passenger seat. Driving along the girl tries to engage in conversation with the lady who's face is mainly covered by her headscarf. The old lady doesn't say much and strikes the girl as weird. She looks down and notices the old lady has very hairy hands. She stops the car, saying something is wrong with it and asks the old lady to check the tires on her side. Old lady opens her door, the girl kicks her out of the car and drives to police station with old lady's bag still in the car. When they open it, it contains a butcher's knife, a hammer and pliers.

Just remembered one a woman in work was convinced was true.

She said that her 18yo niece had ended her first serious relationship and to help her get over it had gone on a girls weekend to Amsterdam. Whilst there she met a man in a club. After having a bit of a fumble he tried to persuade her to go home with him. She declined.

After returning home she developed a really bad cold sore that spread all over her lower face.

She went to the docs who took some swabs. A few days later the police were at her door as the tests had shown an infection that could only be caught from touching dead bodies. The police in Amsterdam later arrested the man from the club and found the bodies of several young women.

Work friend is convinced this actually happened. Even when we have shown her similiar stories on line. Bonkers!

I can't believe nobody had mentioned the guy who hooks up with a beautiful stranger in a hotel and washes up in a bath of ice with his kidneys missing. My personal favourite.

Yes that's it.

The one I remember had the escaped lunatic being mentioned on the radio.

Wasn't there a film about these.

Babysitter getting creepy calls that turn out made from the house she is in.

granny on the roofrack.

Mike, I used to love that story when I was young

Mike, this one?

I love these.

The one with the dog beside the bed had me petrified as a child.

There was also one about a couple in a car and they hear scratching on the roof.

Not sure how that one ends though

Aah...thanks, Troll. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer this morning!

I like the one with the babysitter who calls the police because she is sitting on the sofa watching tv when she sees a man with a knife staring at her through the patio doors opposite her. It's a dark snowy evening and the police arrive only to tell her there is no trace of tracks in the snow outside so she must have been mistaken. Until a junior officer notices wet footprints behind the sofa where she was sitting! What she actually saw was his reflection as he stood behind her.

Eek.

Curry made out of pet dog/cat, Harlett.

Oh, and the Phantom Hitchhiker who vanishes? It's not an Urban Legend...

D'oh...italics fail!

^My sister's boyfriend was eating out at a restaurant with a group of friends, he had ordered a beef curry and was enjoying his meal when he found a small fragment of bone in his mouth. He removed it and was astonished to see it was actually a small piece of metal. He checked his cutlery in case a piece had broken off, but they were intact, so he called the waiter over to complain.

To his confusion, the waiter appeared flustered and was quite insistent on taking the piece of metal away. He became suspicious and pocketed it, leaving his share of the bill and leaving so that his friends could continue to dine without making a big scene.

The next day, he took the bit of metal into a police station, and they identified it as a microchip, the kind inserted into pets to prevent them from getting lost. ^

Can someone explain to me why this is sinister? I know it's horseshit, like all of these legends and I'm probably overthinking this but I can't see where the 'cautionary tale' or whatever is in this one?

I don't get it - what's meant to have happened to it?

A different version of my favourite one.
Three Grandmas in California hire an RV and drive down to go to Mexico. However before they get to the border they realise one of them's passport is out of date, so in order not to be stopped at the border she hides in the toilet. They get through the border fine. But a few days later she has a heart attack and dies. They decide to go straight home, and hide her body in the toilet again. When they stop for gas the other side of the border, her body is missing.

love this thread :)

ONE SUMMER day in Putney, London, a woman pulled into a petrol station. The woman told the man behind the counter that she was in a hurry to pick up her daughter, who had just finished an art class in Richmond.

A very-well-dressed man walked over to her car and started talking to her. He explained that his rental car had died, and he needed a ride to Richmond for an appointment. She said she would be happy to give him a ride. He put his briefcase in the backseat and said he was going to the men's room quickly.

The woman looked at her watch and suddenly panicked. She drove off quickly, having forgotten that the man was coming back to the car for a ride.

She thought nothing of him again until she and her daughter pulled into their driveway. She saw his briefcase and realized she had forgotten him! She opened the briefcase looking for some form of identification so she could notify him about his belongings. Inside she found nothing but a knife and a roll of duct tape!

A FRIEND of a friend and his daughter were driving along a lonely country road at night and happened upon a female hitchhiker. The woman asked for a ride to her home just a few miles up the road. The travelers obliged and continued on with the woman riding silently in the backseat.

As they approached their destination, the driver turned to inform the mysterious passenger that they were about to arrive, only to discover she had vanished from the backseat without a trace! Thoroughly spooked, our travelers inquired at the house whose address she had given and learned that a woman matching the description of the hitchhiker had indeed once lived there, but died several years ago in an automobile accident.

Her ghost, they were told, was sometimes seen wandering beside the highway, attempting to thumb a ride home from strangers.

This is the most horrible one I've heard. Upset me for days :(

My sister's boyfriend was eating out at a restaurant with a group of friends, he had ordered a beef curry and was enjoying his meal when he found a small fragment of bone in his mouth. He removed it and was astonished to see it was actually a small piece of metal. He checked his cutlery in case a piece had broken off, but they were intact, so he called the waiter over to complain.

To his confusion, the waiter appeared flustered and was quite insistent on taking the piece of metal away. He became suspicious and pocketed it, leaving his share of the bill and leaving so that his friends could continue to dine without making a big scene.

The next day, he took the bit of metal into a police station, and they identified it as a microchip, the kind inserted into pets to prevent them from getting lost.

A friend of mine asked a neighbours teenaged daughter to babysit for the first time. She called to check in with her during the evening. The babysitter said she was fine, she had just put the baby down to sleep but she had been really freaked out by the clown statue in the babies bedroom. My friend told her to grab the baby and run like hell to her own home.

They don't have a clown statue in the bedroom.

The man dressed in a clown costume was arrested by the police in town later that night and charged with the murder of another local girl.

I didn't sleep too well last night after reading these just before bed. It was raining which always sounds loud in my dormer, DD had left a bathroom tap running which I could hear in my sleep long before I woke up and sorted it out and the dog kept licking my bloody hand!

(scaredy cat emoticon)