Urban Legends.

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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! :)

I can't eat in the KFC near that Macdonalds either - someone who worked there told me the popcorn chicken was made of rats!

I wasn't keen on The moth man prophesies, not scary but not something I'd want paying me a visit! Saying that the thing from Jeepers creepers freaked me out too

That one about the rats has being doing the rounds since KFC first came to the UK, although normally its a head cooked into the chicken. Personally I suspect Wimpy

The most horrible thing I've ever heard/seen, which utterly freaks me out to a level nothing else ever has done, is the story of an abandoned theme park in South Korea.

I have no idea if it's true, or if it's concocted, because when I was googling it in my horror, I couldn't find any news reports or anything, the only stuff which exists about it is blog posts and a wikipedia entry. However, that doesn't mean much if it was covered up by local media and/or there were never any news reports in English.

Anyway, the story goes that the park owners were a little lax on safety, and a child was killed on a kiddie ride at some point during the 90s. The ride continued to operate until 1999, when another child, a little girl, was thrown off the ride and killed. In the ensuing panic the park owners disappeared overnight and were never seen or heard of again, and the most awful part - the ride was just left in the state it was when the girl fell to her death, with one carriage dangling off the side of the tracks.

I am NOT looking at that picture again but if you google Okpo Park, you will most likely find it, for some reason just the picture of this abandoned ride gives me the absolute fear, I can't look at it without feeling panicky and out of breath.

Lord en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mum_%26_Dad

At one point 'Dad' masturbates into a heart. I won't tell you the rest

Bertie, I've just googled Okpo Park and have come up with some very disturbing images. I doubt they're the ones you mean though -

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&biw=1024&bih=654&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=bP6U8IEIpdrd3M:&imgrefurl=www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/okpoland/interesting/&docid=xIGm9s7sCXik4M&imgurl=farm4.static.flickr.com/3538/3467518963_75d008f375.jpg&w=500&h=428&ei=px8pUNueHdDzsgbZ74HQDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=392&vpy=148&dur=800&hovh=208&hovw=243&tx=124&ty=97&sig=111246698219417076036&page=1&tbnh=146&tbnw=161&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:79" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Here

and <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&biw=1024&bih=654&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=AXWeLO4SkKbg7M:&imgrefurl=www.lurvely.com/photo/3465819874/110365_NOOOO_Dont_LEAVE_ME__Okpo_Land_Abandoned_Amusement/&docid=bw2-t0Pon7IM4M&imgurl=static.flickr.com/3647/3465819874_5ff5d25109.jpg&w=500&h=333&ei=px8pUNueHdDzsgbZ74HQDQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=564&sig=111246698219417076036&page=1&tbnh=115&tbnw=173&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:73&tx=69&ty=66" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here

Some people are weird

Try again

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mum_%26_Dad

The human centipede, mist disturbing film I have ever seen.

That mum and dad film! WTaF!!!??? I'm am NOT watching that any time soon.

The Others is really creepy, and YY to the ring. I saw it in cinema and I had to remove the TV from my room for a couple of weeks!

Smegs! Google in the web search and look for articles rather than images.

Bertie I just googled okpo land :(

The picture of the duck ride sitting off the rails is disturbing.

The trailer for human centipede made me feel icky for days.

OMG, there are LOADS of abandoned creepy theme parks

topknob it was so disturbing, I felt physically sick watching it worrying that even though it was just a film someone was able to think up something so depraved.

Oh, that image of Opko Land is really

I've neither seen the trailer of human centipede or even read the synopsis, as the concept is so vile. In my head it's not quite as bad as a Serbian Film though - I read a review and ended up in tears about it, and carried on bursting into tears randomly for days whenever I accidentally thought about it. In my defense I was pregnant at the time.

Serbian film sounds like a total abomination.

How do people think this stuff up let alone realise the fantasy by making a film about it??

It is chilling isn't it? I'm glad it's not just me. I couldn't sleep when I first came across it just thinking about the poor girl and her family.

I hate the idea of films like human caterpillar, Saw etc. A Serbian Film just is just... why? What? I don't understand why anyone even came up with the idea in the first place unless they have serious problems. I don't get how/why it's legal.

It's the stuff of nightmares Bertie the hostel really freaked me out too, anything with reference to snuff does because the scary thing is this stuff actually happens out there.

I can only assume the writers are very sick indeed. Or depraved as you all say. Vile !

Worst film I've seen is 9mm i think its called

Agree on the snuff, scary sick shit!

I'm going to regret asking this, but I'm a bit scared to google... What's Serbian Film?

Blue it's about snuff, child rape and necrophilia.

It's worse than that but I don't want to say anymore it's too awful, wiki have an article on it.

Disgusting and depraved.

Oh my!

I don't really want to look. But I kind of do. Ick.

I hate really gory violent films. They're not scary, just horrid. There's no need for that. I love freaking myself out with supernatural stuff though.

I found this re snuff films?

www.csicop.org/si/show/snuff_film_the_making_of_an_urban_legend/

There's a really freaky DVD we get traded in at work from time to time, called Faces of Death 3. It apparently shows people's faces as they die, not actors, but real people

Just... why? Unless it IS for sexual kicks and then why the fuck is it legal? And it's the third one!

bertie that's awful!! That link was interesting, that snuff movies are perhaps just an urban legend!

I think more people are interested in the macabre now that the Internet has made it accessible, but they always have been I guess that's why those travelling circuses were so popular.

But it's the taboo stuff that is dangerous IMO, that serbian film is something I would never ever want to see, in a million billion years.