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LordOfThe5Rings · 03/08/2012 23:23

I know I've been hogging the boards the last few days, but I don't care :P Just been curious on other peoples opinions on things.

I didn't know where to put this, so I apologise if it's in the wrong category.

I was wondering what everyones favourite Urban Legend/Cautionary Tale was. I have been fascinated in them for pretty much forever, due to so many meanings and of course expressing the nations fears.

So what are your favourites? Feel free to share the UL with us! :)

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LemarchandsBox · 07/08/2012 14:31

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whatkungfuthat · 07/08/2012 14:45

LemarchandsBox there is something about it that seems so familiar to me but I don't know why. It's really bugging me. I 'saw' a clown in my house when I was little, which I have posted about before.

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BrianButterfield · 07/08/2012 14:46

I have "seen" a black cat in my house three times now! Each time I know what I really saw (pram raincover, sweeping brush, a shadow ffs) but I still saw that cat. It's really weird!

whatkungfuthat · 07/08/2012 14:48

Not your story as such, but the way you describe the figure and the way it moved. Its like I've seen it.

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whatkungfuthat · 07/08/2012 14:58

No, that isn't familiar at all. I've seen the stickmen described as having a 'lolloping gait' too, which definitely rings a bell somewhere Confused

whatkungfuthat · 07/08/2012 14:58

I'm on about page 49 of the DS thread, no stickmen yet

LemarchandsBox · 07/08/2012 15:09

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EauRouge · 07/08/2012 15:10

The descriptions of stick man always remind me of this. And also this.

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EauRouge · 07/08/2012 15:14

Given your experience, I wouldn't blame you for sticking to The Gruffalo Grin

ObviouslyItsTheOlympics · 07/08/2012 15:15

How could I forget the girl a couple of years above me at school! Her boyfriend dumped her and she was so desperate for sex that she spread tuna mayonnaise on her fanjo and let her pet cat clean it off :o

ObviouslyItsTheOlympics · 07/08/2012 15:16

Sorry that one really makes me vom a little....

northernmonkey · 07/08/2012 15:21

There was an old lady who lived on her own in a very foggy part of Dart moor. She had lived alone for fifteen years, ever since her husband had died in a mysterious car accident. However, the car accident is not my present purpose on which to dwell. You see, this old lady had a passion for jigsaw puzzles, it probably came with the stigma of being alone for she had no family or friends and lived in a very secluded spot. Every night she would sit at her dining room table and work on her current jigsaw puzzle until it was finished, then she would start a new one.

However, there came a night, a rugged, windy, stormy winter night when she ran out of jigsaw puzzles. She was extremely upset as she had nothing else to do (this was in the days before TV and her radio had no signal in so removed a place). She was just thinking of going up to bed earlier than usual when she heard a thud, as if something had fallen onto the mat from the mail flap.

Intrigued, the old lady hobbled downstairs to find a rectangular parcel had been put through the door and now lay, invitingly, on the mat. She picked it up, carried it upstairs to her dining table and opened it to reveal a new jigsaw puzzle! It had no picture of what it made up on the front but the old lady didn?t care. Neither did she care who had sent it, she was just so happy to have another puzzle to do.

It took her about an hour to complete it but as she began the get the entire picture her consternation grew for she saw that the picture being made up was that of the very room in which she now sat. Then, she gasped, for she realized that the woman sitting at the table in the picture with her back to the window was a picture of her. Her fingers trembled as she placed the last four pieces of the puzzle to reveal a picture of a crazed madman at the window staring into the room, holding an axe.

The last thing that old lady ever heard was the sound of breaking glass?

northernmonkey · 07/08/2012 15:29

On a dark summer night, a couple was on their way home from the movies. Riding down the same stretch of road they always took to get to their house, they came across a woman who was on the side of the road. The woman stumbled out into the street and flagged them down.

The couple pulled over and rushed to her aid. She seemed to be badly injured and with tears in her eyes, told the couple that she was just in a horrible car accident and her baby was trapped in the backseat.

The man told the woman to stay with his wife and he would go and free the baby. As the man approached the mangled vehicle, he heard the baby crying in the back seat. Relieved that the baby was still alive, he rushed to the car, got in the back seat and freed the baby. As he lifted the child, he noticed the dead couple in the driver and passenger seat. He got out with the baby and went back to where his wife and the woman were waiting, but as soon as he got there he noticed that his wife was by herself.

?Where?s the woman?? the husband asked.

?She went back to the car to help.? his wife said, also relieved that the baby was still alive and OK.

He gave the baby to his wife and went back to the car to look for the woman. When he got there, he called out for her but there was no answer. He walked around toward the front of the car. As he glanced through the broken windshield at the dead couple inside, his face turned pale and he lost his breath. The dead woman who was in the passenger seat was the same woman who had flagged them down.

perplexedpirate · 07/08/2012 15:35

Ha! I love the fact that the max axeman took the trouble to go to Boots to get the photo made up into a jigsaw for the old lady. Do you think he got mugs and a mousemat as well?
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Birnamwood · 07/08/2012 15:37

Bfg? That's what the stick man (slightly) reminds me of.

BrianButterfield · 07/08/2012 15:46

How long did that axeman stand at the window? Imagine if she'd finished it just as he'd popped into the bushes for a wee.

northernmonkey · 07/08/2012 15:56

My great-great grandmother, ill for quite some time, finally passed away after lying in a coma for several days. My great-great grandfather was devastated beyond belief, as she was his one true love and they had been married over 50 years. They were married so long it seemed as if they knew each other's innermost thoughts.

After the doctor pronounced her dead, my great-great grandfather insisted that she was not. They had to literally pry him away from his wife's body so they could ready her for burial.

Now, back in those days they had backyard burial plots and did not drain the body of its fluids. They simply prepared a proper coffin and committed the body (in its coffin) to its permanent resting place. Throughout this process, my great-great grandfather protested so fiercely that he had to be sedated and put to bed. His wife was buried and that was that.

That night he woke to a horrific vision of his wife hysterically trying to scratch her way out of the coffin. He phoned the doctor immediately and begged to have his wife's body exhumed. The doctor refused, but my great-great grandfather had this nightmare every night for a week, each time frantically begging to have his wife removed from the grave.

Finally the doctor gave in and, together with local authorities, exhumed the body. The coffin was pried open and to everyone's horror and amazement, my great-great grandmother's nails were bent back and there were obvious scratches on the inside of the coffin.

northernmonkey · 07/08/2012 15:58

someone mentioned this one earlier in the thread

A married couple were going out for the evening and called in a teenage babysitter to take care of their three children. When she arrived they told her they probably wouldn't be back until late, and that the kids were already asleep so she needn't disturb them.

The babysitter starts doing her homework while awaiting a call from her boyfriend. After awhile the phone rings. She answers it, but hears no one on the other end ? just silence, then whoever it is hangs up. After a few more minutes the phone rings again. She answers, and this time there's a man on the line who says, in a chilling voice, "Have you checked the children?"

Click.

At first she thinks it might have been the father calling to check up and he got interrupted, so she decides to ignore it. She goes back to her homework, then the phone rings again. "Have you checked the children?" says the creepy voice on the other end.

"Mr. Murphy?" she asks, but the caller hangs up again.

She decides to phone the restaurant where the parents said they'd be dining, but when she asks for Mr. Murphy she is told that he and his wife had left the restaurant 45 minutes earlier. So she calls the police and reports that a stranger has been calling her and hanging up. "Has he threatened you?" the dispatcher asks. No, she says. "Well, there's nothing we can really do about it. You could try reporting the prank caller to the phone company."

A few minutes go by and she gets another call. "Why haven't you checked the children?" the voice says.

"Who is this?" she asks, but he hangs up again. She dials 911 again and says, "I'm scared. I know he's out there, he's watching me."

"Have you seen him?" the dispatcher asks. She says no. "Well, there isn't much we can do about it," the dispatcher says. The babysitter goes into panic mode and pleads with him to help her. "Now, now, it'll be okay," he says. "Give me your number and street address, and if you can keep this guy on the phone for at least a minute we'll try to trace the call. What was your name again?"

"Linda."

"Okay, Linda, if he calls back we'll do our best to trace the call, but just keep calm. Can you do that for me?"

"Yes," she says, and hangs up. She decides to turn the lights down so she can see if anyone's outside, and that's when she gets another call.

"It's me," the familiar voice says. "Why did you turn the lights down?"

"Can you see me?" she asks, panicking.

"Yes," he says after a long pause.

"Look, you've scared me," she says. "I'm shaking. Are you happy? Is that what you wanted?"

"No."

"Then what do you want?" she asks.

Another long pause. "Your blood. All over me."

She slams the phone down, terrified. Almost immediately it rings again. "Leave me alone!" she screams, but it's the dispatcher calling back. His voice is urgent.

"Linda, we've traced that call. It's coming from another room inside the house. Get out of there! Now!!!"

She tears to the front door, attempting to unlock it and dash outside, only to find the chain at the top still latched. In the time it takes her to unhook it she sees a door open at the top of the stairs. Light streams from the children's bedroom, revealing the profile of a man standing just inside.

She finally gets the door open and bursts outside, only to find a cop standing on the doorstep with his gun drawn. At this point she's safe, of course, but when they capture the intruder and drag him downstairs in handcuffs, she sees he is covered in blood. Come to find out, all three children have all been murdered.

rainydaysarebad · 07/08/2012 16:03

That is really scary Lemarchands! I got shivers up my spine reading that!

Elsqueak - If you go up and click on the link I posted there is an exact same story of the infamous MN stickman story on there. I think it was a lie, unless stickmen always run after people and peer through their window.

The "lolloping gait" always reminds me of those Goons in Popeye the Sailor man.

whatkungfuthat · 07/08/2012 16:11

northernmonkey I love how it was the days before TV but the axeman was able to get a nice photo jigsaw Grin

northernmonkey · 07/08/2012 16:14

It was one of the first legends I was told as a child and it scared the hell out of me. But yes he was very clever to get a photo of her put on to the jigsaw and photoshop himself into it with an axe!! Very clever murdered Grin

northernmonkey · 07/08/2012 16:26

Now this story involves something far more scarey than stick men or black eyed boys...no no this story involves the most scariest of being EVER!!!

There was a woman who lived in a house by the sea. Now this woman was as normal as you or me! She worked in a school so was looking forward to having time off in the summer.
One morning she awoke to the most glorious blue skies and the sun shining hard. She decided it was time to get up and make a cup of tea....then it happened.

Whilst sat down enjoying her cup of tea and enjoying watching the olympics, the three most scariest beings entered the room!!
What happened next nobody knows.
All I can tell you is that her husband arrived home later that evening from work to find his wife sat in the corner of the room, rocking backwards and forwards with drool dripping down from her mouth. He hair was ragged and her eyes were blood shot and staring into space.

The house was destroyed. Whatever these things where had eaten all the junk food, dragged everything out of all the drawers, cupboards and basically left the house in a tip!!!

A few days later after a few bottles of wine, the husband managed to get his wife to draw out what had happened.
All I can tell you is that whatever it was...it was child like Shock