Weird things that went around your school?

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Did anyone else have these?

In my primary school it was known that if you pressed hard enough behind someone’s ear it would collapse their whole skeleton and they would die. I believed it and was terrified of it accidentally happening for years!

There was also a rumour in my high school that one of the art teachers was shagging one of the (married) geography teachers. Nothing ever came of it but years later when my younger sister was at the same school it turned out to be true!

In the days of the 11 plus exam, one of my classmates told me solemnly that if she didn't pass, she would be placed in a children's home. She said she'd already been taken to visit and the matron had said " So this is the little girl coming to us if she fails her 11 plus!"

I actually believed her till I told my mum, who told me it was a complete lie, which did make me feel better!

We had one of these too! Older man who wore bright hippie clothes and walked with a spring in his step. Apparently went to Glastonbury one year, took loads of acid, and "never came down"

In my school the "Chelsea Smilers" were definitely not Chelsea football hooligans but people who would apparently put a bank card or similar in your mouth sideways and punch you hard in the stomach so would wince enough to slice open either side of your mouth hence leaving you with a "Chelsea Smile" 😳😅 I remember being terrified of this! Never did see or hear of it actually happening to anyone

"• The rumour about the girl who thought crisp packets as condoms were effective contraception"

How would that even work?

All our teachers who were shagging each other/pupils were quite open about it.

The variant I heard was the bloke thinking he was a glass of orange juice and wouldn't move in case he spilled. The ring pull story is better!

There's something about Art and Geography combined being an aphrodisiac, I think! Our Art and Geography teacher were having it off, too. She eventually got knocked up by him then they became a real life couple.

😅 at ring pull boy!

The spring in his step man? We had one too!? ‘Jesus Man’? Due his long straggly beard?

Exactly the same, never cam down from his acid trip at Glasto. Quite a solid drug deterrent!

We didn't have the crisp packet but a coupling who apparently used the corner of a Safeway carrier bag.

The ‘death list’ apparently a list if year 6 kids transitioning to high school that were going to get beat up/ head flushed down the lol on arrival. Coordinated by the year 7s already there 🤔

Hahaha. How did the orange juice bloke get so high in the first place? Ours apparently had a sheet of acid tabs, he put them under his tshirt but it started raining and they all soaked into his body 😂

That if you got punched on your arm where you got your bcg vaccination you would die. Though that one was quickly disproven by all the boys going around punching each other on the arm after getting the vaccination.

That one of the history teachers was a perv and liked to hang out in the boy's changing rooms to watch them change.

In a different school, it was that our RE teacher was an alcoholic, on drugs, and lived in his campervan in the school carpark. And judging by how our lessons went (he just made us draw pictures of Hindu gods and goddesses while he told us stories about ghosts sitting on the end of his bed, and the time he was abducted by aliens), I'm inclined to believe that one.

Also in that school, the one classroom in the attic of one of the buildings (which was where we had those RE lessons) was haunted by the ghost of a child.

Our primary school had old outside buildings which were full of rubble and other building rubbish which we weren't allowed to play near. There was a large boulder outside one which was "tooth shaped". The rumour was that it had come from a giant. I actually believed this when I was 4. It was something that the older children liked to scare the reception children with.

When I was at primary school (many years ago) everyone was talking about the spaceship that had landed in the field behind X street and someone had actually seen green men come out of it!!! We were excited and terrified all at the same time!!

Our school's sixth form block was an old house which was meant to be haunted by a bloke who hung himself when he came back from the war and found his girlfriend had married someone else.
We were told this several times by our loopy RE teacher (in between the rants about school management, trying to convert us all to Buddhism, moving his little doll that represented his emotions around in its bird cage, and making us colour in mandalas and drink fruit tea 😂he also used to sit cross legged on the front desk and meditate for an hour completely ignoring us )

We also got told all the gossip about staff relations (both romantic and professional) by the equally loopy Italian teacher - I swear those two between them spread far more stories than the students did !

That the v large maths teacher had once fallen off the stage and broken her leg and it had taken 4 fireman to lift her.
That if it was foggy and you couldn't see the fence by lunchtime we would be sent home.
We used to get a lot of flashers due to location of school and was an all girls school. There were always rumours about this and everyone would rush off to where they supposedly were. Saw one out in the window during a lesson once and the whole classroom rushed over to look.

In primary school. The year 6 teacher was having an affair with the head.

We came back after the summer holidays a few years after that rumour started and they'd got married, so I guess it was true. But how did 7-11 year olds know?!

The school was haunted by a former headteacher, whose portrait hung in the dining hall and we would all go on about how his eyes would follow you around the room.

Same headteacher was also said to have murdered a fellow teacher and buried their body in the long jump pit, where on moonlit nights you could see a skeletal hand reaching out of the sand.

At primary school we had a 'witch' that lived next door to the school. You never saw her but she destroyed any football that went over the fence. In reality I expect it was a normal person who was absolutely sick of balls being kicked over.

In the early 90s in late primary you couldn't say the phrase 'I've got it,' or someone would start shouting 'they've got it, they've got it! They've got AIDS!!'

My secondary was a normal bog standard comp but must have been morally superior to a lot of places as I never heard a rumour of teachers shagging. In Year 11 some of us were convinced one teacher was in love with another teacher as he sometimes popped in on her lessons and also came with us on a school trip that was for her subject and nothing to do with his, but in reality they were probably just good friends as they were both married and I heard he died recently and was still married til the end.

There were the normal rumours of a couple of the PE teachers being lesbians, which they probably were. I hope that's more accepted nowadays and kids don't gossip about it as if it's a big thing.

Going into Year 7 you were always told that you'd probably have your head flushed down the toilet. I don't know anyone who had that done to them.

The husband of one of the science teachers had had both thumbs amputated and if you twiddled your thumbs in front of her she'd start shaking and crying. We spent every opportunity twiddling our thumbs to zero reaction and yet the rumour perpetuated!

HT and an English teacher were having an affair. Toward the end of Year 11 (having first heard this rumour before I even started as I knew people in the year above me) this turned out to be true...

Were you at AGS @Deathraystare ?

I was but just after he left. I knew several of the girls mentioned in his autobiography but don't remember 'Hillary' who was said to have taken his Virginity.

This made me proper laugh 😂