What's your favourite urban myth?

[mamandelion]

Mine is the one about the old lady who always sent cheques to all her family in their Christmas cards. One year, in February, she came across a pile of cheques she had written that were supposed to have been put in with the cards. So that year, all her family had received just a card from her with the words "buy your own present" inside. Fantastic.

Mine is the one about the old man who keeps giving his neighbour a bag full of brazil nuts every week. One day the neighbour says to him, 'You must stop buying these for me', to which he replies 'Oh, I don't buy them, my daughter gives them to me, but I'm not keen on them, so I just suck the chocolate off'!!!

I really really like the canteen one where Person A buys a kitkat and a cup of tea and Person B (who is usually given as a scruffy student or tramp) asks to share the table and then starts to eat the kitkat. At which Person A snatches the kitkat back and says something rude (eg "Thank you very much!" sarcastically) and gets up and walks off and puts their hand in their pocket ... and there is their kitkat.

I like the one where the girlfriend of a friend of a friend goes to the loo at her new boyfriend's parents' house and can't find it and is too embarrased to ask, so she pees in the sink in one of the bedrooms and it comes away from the wall while she's sitting on it!
Have been told this twice by people connvinced it's true!!

The dead dog story - man walking friend's elderly dog whilst they're away, dog drops dead, man hides dog temporarily whilst he goes to get big sports bag to carry dog home in, struggles with it at a tube station where a Kindly Stranger helps him over the barrier with the bag and who then legs it with the bag containing the dead dog.

Hmm, for me it's probably the kidneys and the bathtub full of ice.

Jolou,my bil's brother really did have that happen!
NQC, which is that?

Mine (not really a myth,but I love it) is that a swan can break a grown man's arm.
Also that drain of NY are patrolled by crocodiles that people have tired of and flushed away when small.

i like the one with the couple who break down on a deserted country lane at night near a hospital/prison. He goes off to get help while she waits in the car .... how does it end again?

Isn't she told that there is a nutter on the loose and not to leave the car under any circumstances? Hours later,persistent knocking on car roof.After hours of this,unable to bear it any longer she gets out.Nutter is banging her (decapitated) dh's head on the roof.

Summat like that anyway.

Oh, moondog, it goes like this:

A friend of mine was on a business trip to NYC. He was out in a bar, having a lovely time, some woman bought him a drink, and the next thing he knew, he was back in his hotel room. He woke up in the bathtub, which was full of ice. Written on the bathroom mirror, was "Call 911!". And his mobile phone was left out.

He called 911. Explained the situation. She asked him to look at his back, in the mirror. There were stitches - his kidney had been removed! (The operator had of course had many calls of this sort.)

So don't let strangers buy you drinks, or they might steal your kidney.

Oh, "dogs can lick too" is good. As well.

thats it , a decapited head, knew it was a fab ending.

then there is the student nurse who parks her car in a multistory carpark. when she returns to it late at night, an old woman asks her for a lift as her car is broken. cant remember the end to that one either but I thyink the nurse notices the old lady's hands are hairy because ITS A BLOKE!!!

love scarey urban myths

Had forgotten asll about 'dogs can lick too' or whatever it is. It used to scare the pants off me.

my friend's friend's family had their holiday apartment burgled when they were on holiday in spain. the burglars didnt take the camera but when they had their holiday film developed there were photos of one of the burglars with the mum of the familiys toothbrush stuck up his arse.

i really believed that one

whats the dog one?

I'd forgotten all about the toothbrush one too, God, they really take me back.

The dog one is roughly something about a girl is lying in her bed, blah, blah. She has her hand hanging over the side of the bed and her dog/puppy is licking it. Anyway, she hears this drip, drip, drip and gets up to investigate, she finds the disembowelled dog dripping blood and thinks back to the hand licking... Looks on the back of her hand and there is a blood and note on the floor by her bed/on the pillow written by a murdering maniac...

One that made me laugh recently. I was looking for verification on the latest "Glade Plug In Fire Hazard" email sent (as these things are soooooo often myths, and people NEVER check them out just perpetrate the story by sending them to their entire email list... sigh)

Came adross this and it made me laugh...

"A man returned from shopping to find his car had been badly dented, and the culprit was no where in sight. As he got closer he felt relieved when he saw a note had been placed under his windshield-wiper. Laughing at himself for doubting the honesty of the average person, he pulled the note loose and read it, it said :"THE PEOPLE WATCHING ME THINK I'M LEAVING MY NAME AND ADDRESS, BUT I'M NOT.""

Anyone remember the sad clown one ? The one where the girl has a sad faced clown toy doll thing in her room, she's always been a bit freaked out by it but it's just a toy. One night in bed she hears whispering 'I'm the bottom stair and coming to get you' . 'I'm on the second stair and I'm coming to get you' etc etc. The voice gets closer and she starts getting really scared. Eventually voice reached the top stair and massacres the girl, when her parents find her in the morning, shes in a bit of state but the clown doll is smiling

ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NDP, that story reminds me of the one about a lady that goes into a chinese restaurant with her dog. She wants some food for her dog but they don't understand so she points to the dog and signs 'eating'. The waiter takes the dog away and she thinks he has taken the dog to be fed. Instead they cook her dog and serve him up in a plate. Yuck!

but how does anyone know what the clown said as the only witness was the girl who is now dead?

rofl. I suppose the clown one is more of a ghost story , like the maniac licking one.

There's also the one about the lady that goes to the cinema, sits down on the seat and goes 'ouch'. She then finds out she sat on a syringe. She looks down at the seat, finds a note and it says 'you have just been infected by HIV'.

A friend forwarded this to me and even though I found out it was a load of rubbish, I still check the seat every time I go to the cinema.

the bed in the intensive care unit that always has patients die in it.
turns out the cleaner unplugs the equipment to plug her vacuum cleaner in, and doesnt realise what she's doing.
no one does, for a very very long time

the KFC meal that is a breadcrumbed rat?

The car version that i know is the man goes for help, woman hears scratching on the roof , in the am police arrive and madman on roof is scratching through the metal.

Car flashing lights frantically at a woman driving... she gets really freaked out convinced the guy is chasing her trying to drive her off the road... as she pulls into her drive, the guy hidden in the back seat that the other car was warning about, slits her throat.

Lovely tales....