What was the craziest rumour at your school ?

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Ours was that the maths teacher left because he was Mr January in a porn mag, nicknamed 'Billy big balls'. Everyone knew of someone who knew someone who'd seen it.

What nonsense went round your school ?

My school. Was true.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/mar/03/scotland#:~:text=Police%20were%20last%20night%20searching,West%20Mercia%20police%2C%20on%20Friday.

That a group of boys played the soggy biscuit game on the school ski trip.

We sort of had that rumour. Ours was that it was a boy at the local private school and he was struggling with an exam paper so he stuck 2 pencils up his nose then headbutted the desk.

I hope that wasn't true!

That a geography teacher had a naked woman tattooed under this beard. This turned out to be false. That my pals sister was seeing a very young geography teacher, she was 6th year and I will never forget the shock of seeing him sitting on her couch! They married a few years later. The Geography Dept was full of scandal 😂

Yes thats the one I mentioned a few pages ago too. Must be an urban legend!

I remember hearing this one too!! (My sister and I also checked our seats, lol)

That a girl in the year above me in high school got possessed, they apparently got the RE teacher involved 😂

Our chem teacher was seeing a 6th former and married her...wonder if it's same school?!

When DD was in Y6 at her Primary someone told her that her Y1 brother had been killed in an accident in the playground.
He actually HAD been hurt in an accident and an ambulance was called. The DC had all seen the ambulance and someone knew it was for her brother and then all her friends (who knew DS well) started saying he was dead!!!
I was called to school and went with DS in the ambulance so had no idea but luckily The Head caught wind and spoke to her to assure DD he was OK and then DH collected her early to bring her home.
At hometime quite a few DC from various years went home and told their parents that DS was dead and the rumour spread. Of course nobody wanted to call me and ask so the rumour went crazy that apparently that DS was dead, in a coma, had gone blind and many other things.
A good friend called me later to find out what was actually going on and I ended up putting a post on FB to clear things up.
To be fair it was mostly concern rather than gossip and quite a few people were really really upset and worried.
DS was fine and we came home the same day, although he did have to have more treatment later and has a scar.

In the early 90s…
Teachers getting involved with Y11s and 6 th form.
Pupils that were gay
Pupils that were pregnant

80s we had the pencils up nose and head slam during exam.

We called the lady in the mirror that you called x 3 ‘the lady in white’.

That one of the year 9 boys was a ‘test tube baby’ and therefore didn’t have a belly button (?!) due to growing in the test tube until he was a full term baby 😂

Still makes me laugh at how stupid we were and how we all took ‘test tube baby’ so literally.

Also often wonder why he didn’t just get his belly button out to disprove the whole thing.

That the teen parents in my school used a mars bar wrapper as a condom and that's why she ended up pregnant

That the mum of a girl in my year had left her dad who was wheelchair bound and run off with the girls older sister's husband. Apparently everyone knew this because it was in the front page of The Mirror. The girl
In my year was horrible to me, so I thought for a while that this unfortunate turn of events in her life might have contributed to that .

With hindsight, I'm not sure The Mirror would have been interested in this story even if it were true.

Crisp bags at my school !

We had a nun ghost that you could see in an upstairs window. Head had to tell us that it was just a relection such was the girly mass hysteria .

Daughter's school the Head left her husband . For the female PE teacher. Still see them around together.

This thread is unlocking so many bizarre memories. I too remember the needle one but in my case the rumour was it had a label attached to it saying "welcome to the aids club". I mean wtf! The 90s were crazy.

Same rumour circulated years later with the needle fixed to a petrol pump, making fuelling your car as a teenager a traumatic experience.

Omg yes, this! And as you say, how did it get spread in the pre-internet days?!

That Frazzles were made of cat food. I missed out on a whole childhood of Frazzle enjoyment!

Anyone have the killer clowns driving around in vans looking for kids?

We also had haunted toilets.

A male Geography teacher left the school to work at another one because he was having a relationship with a 6th former at my school. They got married and are still together.

Ice pop wrapper at our school. It didn't speak highly of the guy.

Not clowns but there was always talk of kiddycatchers being about in cars looking to steal us urchins off the streets - Im talking rural backwater here, not inner city!

The maths teacher was apparently arrested for stealing cheese from Sainsbury's

In primary school if you were very naughty teachers banished you to stand in the "bad square". There were numerous "bad squares" dotted around the school corridors.

There was a rumour that teachers had access to a button that, when pushed, would turn the bad square into a trap door and you'd fall down into a pit of crocodiles.

Looking back as an adult I realise now that these "bad squares" were actually access points to the electrics/plumbing under the floor.