Urban Legends.

[LordOfThe5Rings]

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! :)

[LordOfThe5Rings]

[YouBloodyWolf]

Sorry, Uppermid Compulsive isn't it ?

You definitely shouldn't Google the 'Nosleep' section on Reddit.com though...

[ivykaty44]

Has the rabbit one been done - where the neighbour is supposed to feed the rabbit whist they are on holiday?

[LordOfThe5Rings]

I lve Reddit no sleep! Have all the podcasts!

[Uppermid]

Damn you, you know I'm gonna read it now!

[HermioneE]

This thread is HORRIBLE!! love it!

[LordOfThe5Rings]

[evil grin]

//www.nosleepaudio.podbean.com

[LordOfThe5Rings]

nosleep

[fuzzywuzzy]

oh lord why did I click that and why did I read the eiditic memory one.....

[Uppermid]

Phew can't find it!

[MissHairspray]

This is giving me flashbacks to Brownie camp and all of the terrifying 'true' stories told by some of my fellow pixies.

Another really gross one (definitely not from the brownies this time) is about the woman who has really bad stomach pains, goes to the toilet, and loads of horrible liquid and live shrimps erupt from her fanjo. Naturally this was because she had been using the tail of a live lobster to, ahem, pleasure herself, which had then laid it's eggs inside her. Eurgh.

My mil will also kill any spiders she sees in the house in case they crawl into my DCs ears when they are asleep and lay eggs. (If this does in fact has some basis in reality please do NOT enlighten me)

[LordOfThe5Rings]

nosleep forum

and

nosleep podcast

There you go upper, maybe it didn't link right last time :)

[LordOfThe5Rings]

Miss No, it doesn't. There are many protective barriers between your ear and your brain. You'd lose your hearing from your inner ear having problems, before it even got close to your brain.

Also don't like the cactus one where lots of poisonous spiders burst out of an imported cacti!

[LordOfThe5Rings]

I pretty much know them all. :D

[cookielove]

I told DP them and he just smiled then said 'yeah i can see why that would creep you out' smug bastard

[Uppermid]

Bastards!!!!!

[susiedaisy]

Urrgh the fecking clown one and the man's reflection in the window one are still on my mind, making me twitchy

[poorbuthappy]

Right this is from my sister's friend's dog's auntie: but I did actually want to kick my sis when she told me.

Not long after 7/7 "apparently" someone is in Asda/Tesco/Sainsbos/Waitrose/Naicehamshop and there is a lady in a full burkha in front of them. Said lady is 20p short to pay for her shopping so person we do/don't know offers 20p to make it up. Burkha lady then is so grateful that she tells family member/friend not to go near a certain area/shopping centre/railway station etc etc on a certain date cos something bad will happen.

I really tore a strip off my sister when she told me in a hushed voice and actually believed it.

Not scary, just fucking ignorant.

[stookiesackhouse]

Ha ha sorry Susie, the reflection one was me

[LordOfThe5Rings]

Olol.

[BrianButterfield]

Poorbuthappy, I do enjoy the joke version of that story though, where the Asian person says "stay away from Mansfield next week" and when asked if its because there's going to be an attack, says "no, it's a shithole".

I love urban myths. It always pisses me off when someone tells me one as though it's real. Just say "I heard a great urban legend" - I'd still enjoy it just as much!

[poorbuthappy]

It was worrying though because it highlighted to me quite how guillable my lovely dippy sister is.
She runs everything past me now...

[cheeseandmushroomtoastie]

Arf at Mansfield joke

at clown story

[Gabeesh]

Awww, I was going to tell the dead-person-in-subway-carriage one!

Two I heard recently:
A Man was driving down a highway years ago when he passed an older black lady on the side of the road with two children. It was raining heavily and she had lots of shopping bags, her car having broken down. Everyone else was ignoring her but the driver was worried so he went back, tried to fix her car and, when he couldn't, drove he all the way to her house. She was naturally very grateful and begged for his address which he eventually gave her, thinking she might send him a thankyou card or something. Two weeks later he gets a knock on the door and finds delivery men there with a huge tv. With it is a note from the woman, thanking him for his kindness in helping her out, signed Mrs Nat King Cole.

Second one: There was a woman who had gone to Begas and won a huge some of money on the machines. Nervously she decided to take it back to her room for safekeeping and went to the elevator. As she was about to press the button a huge, scary-ass guy followed her in a barked 'Hit the floor!' terrified she dropped to the floor an the man burst out laughing. He explained he had wanted her to hit the ground floor button, then personally escorted her to her room to check she was safe. The next day when she went to check out she found her hotel bill had already been paid and there were several bunches of flowers waiting for her, along with a note which read 'Thankyou for the biggest laugh of my life. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.'

And slightly more a ghost story:

A man picks up a hitch hiker who is quiet the whole journey. Suddenly she shouts 'Be careful on this next bend!' he slows down and narrowly misses a collision with a speeding lorry. He pulls over to the side of the road, shaking, and asks how she knew he needed to be careful. She replied 'Because that's the spot where I was killed by a speeding driver.'

[ScorpionQueen]

A nice one...

A 50- something year old white woman arrived at her seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn't want the seat. The seat was next to a black man. Disgusted, the woman immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The woman said "I cannot sit here next to this black man." The fight attendant said "Let me see if I can find another seat." After checking, the flight attendant returned and stated "Ma'am, there are no more seats in economy, but I will check with the captain and see if there is something in first class." About 10 minutes went by and the flight attendant returned and stated "The captain has confirmed that there are no more seats in economy, but there is one in first class. It is our company policy to never move a person from economy to first class, but being that it would be some sort of scandal to force a person to sit next to an UNPLEASANT person, the captain agreed to make the switch to first class." Before the woman could say anything, the attendant gestured to the black man and said, "Therefore sir, if you would so kindly retrieve your personal items, we would like to move you to the comfort of first class as the captain doesn't want you to sit next to an unpleasant person." Passengers in the seats nearby began to applause while some gave a standing ovation.