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! :)

Or like the very old hotel I stayed in several years ago - have reception laugh and say 'Oh don't be silly, there's no such thing as ghosts'. Then a heartbeat later mention that you probably shouldn't go into the library (next to the bar) after 10pm.

Amazing how many people found their way into the library via the bar at 22:00 hrs!

Just watched Most Haunted last night.

Definately Nightmare Fuel Retardant! :o

Oh god - remember this?!

Mary is much like me tonight :) TMI????

I've seen derek accorah on one of his tours

PMSL Lemarchands!

I once went out with a guy who dumped me for the old landlord's daughter at the White Hart. I just couldn't compete with a pub!

Ha ha no!

at Hidden Mary.

That Russian sleep thing scared the pants off me when I read it last night.

So pleased this thread is still going. I've just got back from camping in Dartmoor, no hairy hands to report.

I have to say in starting to get a bit nervous. There was a murder last year literately at the end of my garden. We had some travellers camped in the grounds of an old pub - their garden and ours are like a "T" with ours being the vertical and theirs the horizontal. Three of the travellers got cross at the fourth and killed him with an axe. At the end of my garden. Little bit concerned that the anniversary is fast approaching... Really don't wanna be looking out of the windows at night...

Re: Derek Acorah - Have you seen this? I didn't know Yvette said this on TV!

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=derek%20acorah%20fake&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFUQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBSiFlVp65NM&ei=gScuUKGbH-ql0QWUuYDoDA&usg=AFQjCNGsGeqnS8PWbFw8SlbNiNNGAAaI6A

Is there much to be said about places where nothing actually happens but you just get a bad vibe? My first flat was brilliant - very spacious and well kept for a rental but something about it just never felt quite right and I hated being there on my own (was living with DH, then DP). He said he never felt it but did in our next flat where I felt the opposite. The only time I had a horrible moment there was when, heavily pregnant, I hauled myself out of bed at 3am to go to the loo. Went to switch on the hall light and...nothing - cue me having a horror movie moment flicking the switch frantically hoping it would come on but no. There was still a power cut .

The place we have just moved into though has a lovely vibe even though I know the previous owner died in what is now DS's room. This I think is to do with the fact that the previous owner was DH's grandad and our DC's are the 5th generation of the family to live here. There's something very comforting about that especially because DH's grandad was a lovely man. None of the weird creaks bother me because I figure that if it is something supernatural then it's unlikely to be malicious.

OK, someone I used to work with lived with her husband in a house in west London, out Heathrow way. It was a biggish Queen Anne era place with a row of terraces attached that used to be servants' cottages but were now separate dwellings.

It needed a lot of work and they had workmen in a lot. One day one said 'Your little boy doesn't say much, does he?' - they don't have any children. A boy of about 6 or 7 had been watching them on and off all day standing on the landing.

Some of the work involved replastering the walls of an upstairs room. This was a dusty business, so they shut the door at the end of the day to let it all settle. Next morning nobody had been in the room but there was one child size bare footprint in the middle of the floor with none leading up to it.

They also got cold spots in the house, running sounds upstairs when they were downstairs, childrens' voices at odd times of day like 4am.

Her husband reckoned that one day he saw an old woman in a chair wheel herself through the wall of the kitchen. There used to be a connecting door there into the row of cottages.

The last one was the only one I doubted because all the others were second hand or could have been mistakes...I visited the house and it had no adverse feel to it.

Who posted that creepy pasta link? You owe me a night's sleep! This one is a good one.

EauRouge Are you spreading the word? :o

I read the Smile Jeff one too on the creepy pasta site - it read like something my mates would tell each other when we were teenagers. Like a picture chain letter.

I think it kinda is.

There are quite a few of those on www.knowyourmeme.com

I love a good freaky story, me.

Ahhh, lovely bedtime listening!

There's quite a lot of slenderman stories on that site too.

Obviously, well I didn't have any dreams about smile dog last night so maybe it worked

That creepy pasta site is messing up my eyes though, the font is too tiny to read and too bright against the black background. I am seeing phantom lines of text. Spooky!

Have been having nightmares about the clown one. Just imaginine, if you were the babysitter and being told, 'grab the baby from the room the clown is in and run - how could you do that.... And if you were the parent, calling the babysitter telling her that..... I know it is fiction but is sure is balrdy effective creepiness!!!!!!

I totally agree urgh.