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

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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!

Almost 50 years on I still don't swallow apple pips, chew gum or drink coca cola (turns your insides black).
However, I no longer believe I will die if I stand on a crack.

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

@TheWildOnesNeverDie - Me also. I blame too many episodes of Tarzan.

That someone in town had a growth in their arm after coming back from abroad. When another person brushed past her, it erupted and hundreds of spiders came out.

Mr whippy ice cream had blood in it

I do not believe either rumour any more 😁

That a swan could break your arm and Red Skittles were made out of crushed beetles.

i still thought both of these were true? never tested the swan one and i thought the food colouring (something maybe beginning with C) was made with beetles?

my most remembered are....

that sunny delight was made from nail polish remover
that marilyn manson removed his ribs and
that the english teacher had a baby with a Y11 girl. years later it turns out he did. also he moved to germany teaching and was recently in the papers for sexting school girls and lost his job.

also that the old music teacher kept whiskey and jelly babies in his cupboard and thats what he was doing during the lessons when he turned his back on us to rifle through his cupboards. poor guy.

A local swimming baths with an extensive water park section closed down due to numerous health violations and debt, but the rumour at school was it actually closed because a girl was scalped (!) by one of the flumes when her hair got caught on a loose nail.

There were some actual injuries on the slides caused by negligence but obviously not that severe - such a grisly rumour!!

I've worked in schools in three different countries, and the one I've heard that's universal is that the girls toilet/bathroom is haunted (never the boys, always the girls). It makes me smile to hear my current first graders having the same hushed conversations we had at my school in the early 80s, a continent away!

Purple Akke.

Then it turned out to be true as I found out from the bbc documentary fairly recently

Or Aki as I think it’s spelt.

I was told the semen in the stomach was Marc Almond and that it was German Shepherd semen

And it was sone time after I’d left school.

At primary school, the routine for indoor PE was that we would get changed in the classroom, then put shoes on our bare feet to walk to the assembly hall; PE would then be barefoot. There were all sorts of rumours about the evils of wearing shoes without socks, including that it might make your toes disappear, turning you into one of Roald Dahl's toeless child-hating witches. One girl tried to make this happen to herself, by being sockless for a whole day.