What Urban Legends do you remember from childhood?

[Palomiino]

The ones that stick in my mind are;

Supermodels harbour tapeworms as a way to keep their weight down.

Prince had a rib removed so he could give himself oral.

Various iterations of terrorist plots (IRA in the 80s) where an Irish chap told someone you know not to go to a particular shopping centre on a certain date because there was going to be a terrorist attack.

A woman driving her car was being stalked by another driver who was actually trying to warn her about an assailant on her back seat.

There was a women who bought a bra and didn’t wash it before wearing it. She developed spots on her breasts. When she went to the Drs, they found maggots growing inside.

The spiders in our town are so big because of the local banana factory. They come in on the crates and mate with local spiders.

The Marc Almond one was also said about Rod Stewart too - he even mentions it in his autobiography!

Richard Gere sticking hamsters up his bum

he has spoken at this so not just 'news' in the uk 😀

I have seen this IRL .

I would so love there to be wild colonies of big cats in moorlands though.

siniggering away like Muttley remembering this

Yes! We had this one in Australia.

Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World (now closed, sadly) had several spiders. Most tanks had labels with the name of the species. One had a label that said "Species unknown - found in bananas".

No it's not.

I used to work for Marlboro years ago and the grief the KKK myth caused them! It was actually based on the logo which looked if you squinted like 3Ks . There used to be another urban myth about B+H cigarettes that the number printed inside each pack (a printer guide thing) was actually a secret lottery and if you ever got 500 in your pack you would win a fortune.

A girl at school did a poo on a glass coffee table while a boy lay underneath and watched (rumours about various girls doing this)

Girl gets pet cat to lick her fanny

Boy George got a hamster stuck up his bum

Neil Tennant also got a hamster stuck up his bum (that’s why his band was called The Pet Shop Boys)

Marc Almond had to have his stomach pumped because it was full of dog spunk

If you make a swan angry it will break your arm

Ten swans ?

Wow!! I didn’t realise it was actually taken seriously!!

Now I’m older and heavier I feel like there are razor blades on the joins 😂

Hahaha! My dad thought this too! It was a bunch of kids, who had probably heard the legend, seeing how far they could throw their trainers up!!

I got bitten by a swan once. It didnt break my arm tbough.

And i got pushed over by a pig.

KFC changed their name from “Kentucky Fried Chicken” because they use weird mutated creatures that are almost all breast. So they aren’t allowed to call it “chicken”.

I once got bitten by a horse in a park whilst clapping it..bloody hurt.

That reminds me of one about a woman who had a breast reduction, took her bra off shortly afterwards and her nipples came away with the bra.

'Why did the hamster fail its driving test?'

'It couldn't get into gear'

<taxi>

An old one off of YouTube
The tale of the gerbil two gay guys
And the safe word "Armageddon"
True story.

This reminds me of Margaret Atwood’s book ‘Oryx and Crake’ - mass produced chicken that wasn’t really chicken iirc.

Yes, Purple Aki was a, real person in Liverpool

What happened to the sheep? Did he get into trouble for it?

That one is true, there's been a few cases of it happening.

What the hell is wrong with some people? I've just found the story and want to slap that woman. There were so many things she could have done to not leave her daughter alone to die. That poor little girl must have been so scared.

@the80sweregreat I remember that one. I can't understand that one either. 🥺