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Urban Legends.

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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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stookiesackhouse · 08/08/2012 17:42

Ha ha Bluesky, my friend once showed me that on her mobile and I threw her mobile straight across the room ha ha!

Abs we have big cupboards in our flat too :( I regularly do a pre-bedtime sweep Blush

LordOfThe5Rings · 08/08/2012 18:35

Ooohzz

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perplexedpirate · 08/08/2012 20:38
Grin

Just made DH watch the video.

SausageSmuggler · 08/08/2012 20:42

I'm so not clicking that link!

this is entertaining though

LordOfThe5Rings · 08/08/2012 20:45
Torch
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poncypony · 08/08/2012 23:33

This is one of my favourite "ghost stories" copied and pasted from another forum.

About ten years ago, I worked as a part-time bar man in the local golf club. It was situated in a suburb, almost out in the countryside. I didn't drive at the time, so had a bit of a walk there and back in the dark nights. It involved walking through very dark woods with no lights (within the grounds of the golf club), and you had to unlock two padlocked gates to get to the main road (no pavement, just a road).

Very often during week nights in winter, there would be very little or no members in. I used to play my music, or watch TV to keep my mind occupied as there was an unpleasant atmosphere and I was conscious of the fact there were no curtains or blinds on the large windows, so anyone could have looked in the window or easily walked in. I contemplated leaving many times, but really did need the money at the time. Sometimes the chairman would come in and it would always startle me, or sometimes he would have been in his office for hours, but I wouldn't know it and he'd suddenly open the door late at night and I would always get the fright of my life.

A lot of friends urged me to leave there, as it was known to be haunted since the course was one of the oldest in Scotland and the building was constructed in 18th century with a lot of history behind it and famously haunted.

One particular night (the night I left actually), I was cashing up after the committee meeting one night about 12.30am. I heard a bang and just about fainted. Carried on with what I was doing and heard a heavy breathing sound. The sound continued for another ten mins, then there was a sound like a barking dog in the distance. Suddenly, I was aware of a shadow moving over the floor and the bark was very loud indeed. At the corner of my eye, I was what looked like a ghostly labrador, but without a tail. It hovered across the floor, came straight up to me and it seemed to be whimpering due to the loss of it's tail, although it's tail seemed to be hovering along next to it. I said to it, "I'm sorry, but we don't re-tail spirits after midnight"

LordOfThe5Rings · 08/08/2012 23:54

Bump.

Lets scare some MNetters out there :)

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SausageSmuggler · 09/08/2012 08:50

Aha! Very good poncy!

I haven't really got any urban legends to contribute but something creepy that happened to DH (and me technically but I don't remember it). I was staying the night when he was still living at home, his mum had mentioned before that the place was haunted by an old man. Despite feeling a bit freaked out (over active imagination) I took it with a pinch of salt because of her love of bullshit exaggeration. DH says that he woke up in the middle of the night to find me sitting up, eyes open, mumbling something or other. He asked me what I was doing to which I replied 'I'm talking to the man at the end of the bed'. Poor DH had a bit of trouble sleeping after that!

BlueSkySoftSand · 09/08/2012 09:12

he he - that made me giggle Poncy

Told you, I keep coming back for more. It's just all wrong!!!

Elsqueak · 09/08/2012 09:18

Argh! Sausage, that is so creepy...! Does anyone remember a story about an alleged "Gnome" caught on camera? It was meant to be quite creepy but I can't find it. Definitely not the garden variety either!

ElmoFan · 09/08/2012 09:56

Love reading this thread Smile

Here's one i found on another forum

The man who owned the Merry Go Round decided to close it down because he didn?t have enough customers coming to the amusement park where he held the ride. Instead of buying the owner out, the park simply boarded up the carousel and this part of the park became very much abandoned for a number of years. Some ten years after the ride was closed, the original owner?s daughter thought it was a shame to have the beautiful Merry Go Round boarded up and forgotten in this manner. She and her boyfriend decided to bring some publicity to the park and to the ride and reopen the carousel. The boyfriend was going to set a record and ride the Merry Go Round for 72 hours straight.

The boards were removed, the lights and music turned on and the press had arrived. He made a big show of patting his chosen horse on the nose and mounting the horse he would be riding for the next 72 hours. Surprisingly he was on the ride for less then 10 minutes, when he started complaining that the horse bit him. No one believed him and his girlfriend became very upset, saying that he was letting her down and backing out of the promise he had made. About 5 minutes later, he fell off the horse to the floor of the ride. They shut off the ride and ran to investigate. The young man was dead. The upset girlfriend began shaking in disbelief and backed up into the horse he was riding which immediately began to hiss violently. They looked into the horse?s mouth and saw that a poisonous snake was hiding inside.

ElmoFan · 09/08/2012 10:09

Another one -

This is a story about the Smith sisters who were murdered anonymously while they slept in their bedroom.
Its an urban legend about a boy named John Smith who was very fond of scary emails and pop-ups.
Every day, he would find new ones and post them to everyone he knew. He even started making some himself and sending them to strangers. He loved to scare people on the Net.

John lived in Plainfield, Wisconsin. One day in November 2007, he opened up his Inbox and found a message that appeared to be from two young girls. They called themselves the Smith Sisters and told him they were his older sisters, which confused him because he was an only child. They said years ago, they had lived in his house.

He replied, saying he didnt have any sisters and told them to get lost and leave him alone. The next day, he received a chilling message with some photo attachments. The first photo was of two young girls.
The caption on it said ?Smith Sisters murdered anonymously?.

The girls said in the email that they were indeed his older sisters. They told him that in 1993 they had lived in his house. His bedroom had once been their bedroom. They told him all about growing up and about their lives and how happy they had been until one horrible night.

He opened up the other attachment. It was a scan of an old newspaper article.

In 1993, two sisters were brutally murdered in the small-town community of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Lisa Smith, 19 and her sister, Sarah Smith, 15 were attacked in their parents home on the night of November 17th, around 1:30AM. The Smith Sisters were lying in bed when a crazed killer broke into the house. No-one heard them scream. In the morning, their parents found the dead bodies of the Smith Sisters hidden in the bedroom closet. They had been skinned alive. The killer was long gone and no trace of him could be found. They had been murdered anonymously. Police conducted an extensive investigation, but to no avail. The motives for the attack were never discovered. Nor was the attacker ever found. The only lead authorities had was a series of strange emails found in Lisas computer. The case was closed in October of 2000.
In the rest of the email, the sisters said that they were angry that the case was closed and people forgot about them.

They were angry that their parents wanted to forget about them too.

They were angry that their parents decided to start over and had a new baby. A little boy named John.

They were angry that their parents had never mentioned their daughters or their tragic murder to their new son John.

John Smith, sent an angry reply saying he didnt believe what they were saying. He didnt believe the Smith Sisters were really related to him and he didnt believe the newspaper article was real. He told them to go to hell.

Five minutes later, he got another email from them. It said If you dont believe us, look in the bedroom closet.

That was the last email that was found on Johns computer. Police were unable to trace who had sent the messages to him.

On the floor of the closet, the police found a faint message, carved in the wood. It simply read Lisa and Sarah ? 1993″. Underneath that, was another carving that read John 2007.

No-one knows what John did next, but in the morning, Johns parents woke up to find their son missing. Then they checked his bedroom closet and got the shock of their lives. There they found the dead body of their son. He had been skinned alive.

No-one knows what really happened that night. Police were only able to piece together parts of the story based on what they found on Johns computer.

The parents were devastated. How could this happen to a family. First their daughters were murdered. And now years later their son is murdered.

It seemed too weird to be just a coincidence. Two sisters are murdered and then years later, their brother is murdered in exactly the same way, in exactly the same place. And the only evidence left behind is a few scary emails Makes you wonder.

EauRouge · 09/08/2012 10:09

Urgh, I just found this one on Snopes-

In Berlin, after World War II, money was short, supplies were tight, and it seemed like everyone was hungry. At that time, people were telling the tale of a young woman who saw a blind man picking his way through a crowd. The two started to talk. The man asked her for a favor: could she deliver the letter to the address on the envelope? Well, it was on her way home, so she agreed.

She started out to deliver the message, when she turned around to see if there was anything else the blind man needed. But she spotted him hurrying through the crowd without his smoked glasses or white cane.

She went to the police, who raided the address on the envelope, where they found heaps of human flesh for sale.

And what was in the envelope? "This is the last one I am sending you today."

EauRouge · 09/08/2012 10:11

X-posts with ElmoFan, that's a good one! So creepy Shock

ElmoFan · 09/08/2012 10:15

Agghhh Eaurouge - That gave me a shiver down my spine EEK

perplexedpirate · 09/08/2012 10:58

Oooh, that WW2 one reminded me of one my nan used to tell me.

In Manchester during WW2 there were several cases of girls being attacked after the blackout. Police had no success in catching the attacker and women were warned to be on their guard.
One night, a young woman was walking home after the blackout when she heard footsteps behind her. Following police advice, she crossed over the road. The footsteps followed. She quickened her pace. The footsteps sped up too. Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind and a voice whispered 'don't try to run, or you'll end up like all the others'.
Thinking fast, the girl whipped her hat pin out and slashed her attacker's face with it, top to bottom of his left cheek, giving her the opportunity to wriggle free and run home as fast as she could.
Once home, she didn't tell her mother about the attack. She was strict enough with her as it was.
Her father was late for dinner that night. When he did get home he told his family that it wasn't safe to walk the streets after dark any more, that he had been mugged by a gang of hoodlums that very night. Fortunately, he had escaped with just a single, vicious, gash from his left temple down to his jaw...

stookiesackhouse · 09/08/2012 11:27

Eeeek, Perplexed, that's a good one Shock

whatkungfuthat · 09/08/2012 12:13

some good stories here
WARNING - SCARY CONTENT!

LordOfThe5Rings · 09/08/2012 13:55

Oh killer in the backseat be careful when in car alone and always check the backseat before you get ini am hiding there--

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shrinkingnora · 09/08/2012 14:22

I always check the backseat in case Lordofthe5rings is somewhere in amongst the crisps packets and old raisins

readyforno2 · 09/08/2012 15:07

Ah, whatkung, freaky!

maytheoddsbeeverinyourfavour · 09/08/2012 15:26

Fucks sake whatkungfu! That just scared the bloody life out of me, my DH has just ran up the stairs to see why I screamed Blush Grin

whatkungfuthat · 09/08/2012 15:39

Sorry Blush Grin

whatkungfuthat · 09/08/2012 15:41

Well, I got to the end of the Digital Spy thread. The pics where of the slender man rather than the lolloping stickman figure but they are still scary, even though I think they are a viral ad campaign for a movie.

EauRouge · 09/08/2012 15:45

There is a stick man movie coming out soon. Not based on the book.

KungFu, is that link one of those ones that suddenly turns into a monster and goes raaah? I hate those. I'm not clicking if it's one of those.