.. to ask for the weird rumours you believed in primary school? (And still sort of do)

[HubbabubbaT]

Just remembered these weird ink eraser things.. and how we all were sure they had pig wee in them..!? also that if you swallowed even one piece of chewing gum you'd have to have an operation to remove it ... Etc etc!

More high school than primary, but sucking a 2p coin before going in the school disco after having any alcohol would mean you wouldn't be caught

Yeah I remember the Chelsea Smilers. Was terrified of that when I was at primary!

@Tunnocks34

There was a rumour in my school about a gang called the ‘smilies’ who would grab you, slice the corner of your mouth and then tickle you until you cut your cheeks open,

I wholeheartedly believed this gang existed until I was about 14!

This gang were called the Chelsea Smilers at my school and I was petrified of them and the whole idea of West London as a result.

Blimey, these posts brought back some memories! The pig wee, Marilyn Manson, chewing gum would stay in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it! If you crossed your eyes and the 'wind changed' you'd stay like that.

What about saying 'Are you scared of butterflies?' Then clapping at their face saying 'you blinked, you're scared!' or believing someone had the lurgies so you'd pass it around and say 'no returns' so you didn't get it.

Walking across three drains on the pavement was unlucky and meant something terrible would happen to you.
It took me years to get over that one

Saying Bloody Mary three times into a mirror at midnight, and then a demon would come and drag you to hell. (I don’t believe this as an adult I hasten to add!).

I remember the Chelsea smile rumour!

If you swallowed an apple pop a tree would grow in your stomach

The black bit in the end of a banana are spiders eggs.

Bobbles on clothes are clothes mites that have cocooned themselves in the fibres.

I don’t believe these now obviously 😆

Our Primary School was haunted due to being built on a graveyard.

The graveyard but was true. We learnt about it in history. I don't think the ghosts we 'saw' were real though.

As a kid I thought quicksand was going to be a much more common problem than it actually is

Yes!!! DP and I were talking about this recently. We had so many talks in school about it and I’d seen a TV programme where a horse got stuck in it and came to the conclusion that all mud under rivers or the sea was Quicksand and I developed a fear of going in the sea.

I’m ok now by the way

That Miss Jones in year 3 kept a mincing machine at the front of her classroom for naughty children. We were moving up to her class the next year. I was terrified.

Had my illusions destroyed on my first day at primary school, apparently, as my mother told me I burst out at the end of the day shouting: "It's not a 'tuppy': Debbie Harris says it's a cuckoo!' ".

Still don't like walking through ferns as Joanna-across-the-road told me snakes lived in them.

If you touched dandelions you'd wet the bed (a belief shared with the French, presumably).

And my mother was a good source of old wives tales: if you crossed your eyes a lot you'd stop being able to uncross them (wind blowing or not); if you didn't wee when you needed to (I was very fussy about public toilets and used to try to hang on until home), you'd eventually not be able to go and you'd have to have "a tube put in".
I think the latter was based on a story about my paternal grandmother going into retention in her 80s.

@hippohector I still can’t walk over three drains and if you do you must spit on the last one 😳

Urban legend round here that I heard as a child . We used to have the old fashioned trains that ran to the coast , you could pull the windows down.
The story was there was a teenage boy going to the seaside with his mates who stuck his head out of the window, and a train was coming the other way.
His head got chopped off and his mates had to sit with his headless body all thr way to southend.
Really gory and totally untrue ( I hope !) But everyone believed it

You can tell when posters on this thread went to primary school by whether it was Marilyn Manson or Prince who’d had a rib removed!!

Secondary rather than primary but we all believed that when the school was built there was a swimming pool where the netball hall is now but someone drowned so they just built the floor over the pool. The fact that most of our parents went to that school in the first few years after it was built and told us there was never a pool there did not stop us believing this true fact.

That the girls toilets were haunted.
At the time it terrified me as the toilets were so far away from the classrooms and always dead quiet.

@hippohector I still avoid 3 drains just in case

There was a girl in our primary school who allegedly ate poo and drank wee. That rumour followed her around for years and we all believed it 🤦‍♀️

@ApocalypseNowt

That if you said "Bloody Mary" three times with your fingers crossed then span around in the girls loos in the dark she would come and Get You.

Did you go to my primary school 😂😂

@drinkingwineoutofamug Maybe ...! It was by the seaside...

Things from my primary school:
If you picked a dandelion you would wet the bed
If you swallowed chewing gum you would die
If you ate the apple core, an apple tree would grow in your stomach
If you stepped on the cracks on the pavement, a monster would get you

If you swallowed chewing gum it wrapped around your heart.
Crusts made your hair curly.
Does anyone remember the rumour about Richard Gere and the gerbil? That was out when I was in 1st year seniors. 😂

I used to think eating slimming products made you slim with no further effort required. If only!!

The only ones I remember are Bloody Mary & the Marilyn Manson story (could definitely see that being true to be honest).

Never heard the Keenan & Kel rumour but ‘the kids’ have been watching the repeats on one of the music channels, it’s still brilliant! Keenan is on Saturday Night Live now, took me ages to figure out it was him when I first saw it.

People talking about Marilyn Manson/primary school rumours is making me feel old

@hippohector yes it was the three drains one for me too. I still avoid them if I can!