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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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shrinkingnora · 06/08/2012 20:23

I just looked at reddit and have clicked on a picture of a scary doll. I nearly pissed my pants.

shrinkingnora · 06/08/2012 20:25

<a class="break-all" href="http://evilladies.com/evilladies.com/wp-content/uploads/goth-doll.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sorry but it's fucking terrifying

whatkungfuthat · 06/08/2012 20:25

I'm just working my way through the Digital Spy thread, its great.

Lord I once had something in a curry that I first thought was a cardamom pod, but was actually a fag butt

headfairy · 06/08/2012 20:27

ooh Shrinking That doll looks like the girl in The Ring... creepy!

shrinkingnora · 06/08/2012 20:28

Please someone click on that so I am not alone with my fear. i am actually to scared to go to the loo now and dh is out.

shrinkingnora · 06/08/2012 20:29

Thank you headfairy. I am genuinely freaked out by that!

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LordOfThe5Rings · 06/08/2012 20:30

Creepy.

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headfairy · 06/08/2012 20:32

yes, there's something horribly creepy about kids toys in inappropriate places or all beaten up. Ditto kids choirs singing... how can something so beautiful sound so frightening when accompanying a creepy film?

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LordOfThe5Rings · 06/08/2012 20:33

I tell you what happened when I was about 16 in college. I bought a bottle of summer fruits fanta and opened it up, took a sip and this stuff that felt like a cotton bud but slightly firmer, with a strange smell touched my lips. I showed my tutor at the time and he nearly threw up himself. THAT TOUCHED MY LIPS. We reported it to the canteen and never found out what it was but it was truly disgusting.

It was yellowy green colour, although in an orange red liquid... wtf?

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LordOfThe5Rings · 06/08/2012 20:33

Oh yes ripped up dolls, heads bitten off action figures etc is disgusting!

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LordOfThe5Rings · 06/08/2012 20:35

The Silent Hill games are freaky as hell, too.

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headfairy · 06/08/2012 20:35

What are the Silent Hill games?

Catsmamma · 06/08/2012 20:38

this IS a horror story that I read years ago that creeped me out, it was couple of pages in a compendium that my ma bought in M&S of all places ...I'd love to read it again and find out if the writer wrote anything else

The gist of it is

A single mother has escaped from her abusive, violent husband. She has set up home in a new area with her child, but the husband is still searching for her and wishes to take her child.

She wakes in the dead of night certain someone is in her room, certain he has found her and means her some harm. It is so dark she cannot see a thing but she hears breathing and senses someone creeping towards her. She listens as hard as she can to try and hear if the intruder has her child but all she hears is someone getting closer and closer to the bed.

She realises she has one chance to save herself and her child, straining to hear and struggling to judge the right moment she snatches up her heavy bedside light and brings it crashing down on the intruder beside her bed

As it connects she hears a single word as the body falls to the floor.

"Mummy....."

Even recounting this makes my neck prickle....I so want to know who the author was!!

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LordOfThe5Rings · 06/08/2012 20:45

Cats That's horrible :(

head It's a series of surrealist horror games

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IWanders · 06/08/2012 21:14

I have a couple of Urban Style legends I think.

There's a couple and they are lost in the middle of now where its foggy and they know they have missed there hotel booking and won't make it that evening. So they decide to stop at the first place they find. A few miles later they see lights and a sign for a small farm style B and B. They decide to stop as they are both very tired and the fog is getting thicker. When they ring the bell the door is answered by a lovely old couple who show them to a lovely room, the decor is old fashioned no duvet just a coverlet, simple in style. The next morning the owner brings them up hot water from the well for washing and a cooked breakfast and later as they are preparing to leave asks them if they enjoyed their night. The couple say it was a lovely night and they had a great sleep and loved looking at the black and white photos and old papers and books in the drawing room. The owner smiles and wishes them well and shows them how to get back onto the right road. It is still foggy as they leave but they make good progress and reach there pre booked hotel within a few hours. When they arrive at their hotel they explain about getting lost and about staying at a lovely quaint B and B and could someone please tell them about the place they stayed and show them where it is on the map as they would like to stay again on their way home. The manager of the hotel is brought to them and on explanation of the evenings events suddenly goes pail and looks faint and says the B and B they stayed in was his Great Grandmas and was destroyed by fire killing all those who slept back in August 7th 1910 the only reason his Grandma survived was that she was studying in boarding school otherwise he would not be here today and that it was impossible for them to have stayed there, the women then produces the newspaper from her bag she had taken it as a souvenir the date on the paper is August 6th 1910 the day before the fire.

Gabeesh · 06/08/2012 21:16

The semen one reminds me of when I was a teenager at school. I was an absolute nerd and excluded from the general conversation but heard one of the slutty popular girls who'd recently done it with her boyfriend regaling all with her knowledge and experience, saying 'swallowing semen is really really good for you.' I remember looking at her and thinking "You twat."

Catsmamma · 06/08/2012 21:24

it is horrid, but the writer really builds the tension.

it's like a mini tales of the unexpected.

YouBloodyWolf · 06/08/2012 21:26

The 'bogus social worker' phenomenon is creepy. Unsuspecting parent gets a knock on the door from a couple (usually including a woman) who flash some ID and claim to be from Social Services, investigating a report about the young child in the house. The shocked parents let them in, the child is 'examined' and the couple leave. The parents phone the council when they've had a chance to calm down and recover a sense of 'WTF', and are told that no social workers have been anywhere near their house and there are no reports on the child.

www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=907

IWanders · 06/08/2012 21:32

This one always crept me out and upset me as dh works away a lot and we talk a lot on the phone.

There is a women busy in the house and preparing to get her kids from school when the phone rings, annoyed at being interrupted she answers it, the line is faint and crackly but its her husband she is pleased to hear from him as she missed his call earlier that day; he always called at 11am and as she didn't here the phone she is pleased he got a chance to call back. He tells her he doesn't have long to talk but she hasn't to worry, he says things are going to be different from now on, that she will have to be really strong for the kids. She's confused and asks if he's been drinking, she thinks he's being silly but can't understand why. He laughs and says he loves her but she will have to be strong, he says he loves them all very much but has to go and she shouldn't be too upset and she will understand things soon. More upset and confused she goes downstairs to get the kids thinking he was being silly and will call later. As she leaves the house a police car is pulling up to the house, they say they have some bad news her husbands plane went down at 11am that morning all soles were lost. Her husband therefore could only have called from beyond the grave.

The other ones that creep me out are dead people turning up in photos, like the RAF man killed in WW2 appearing in the group photo of the returning troops even though he never made it back.

Or the young child heading home from school and meeting grandma/mam/friend on the lane and having a lovely chat only to go into the house and be told they died earlier that day and they wanted to wait for her to come out of school before they told her.

molepom · 06/08/2012 22:04

Jesus Fucking Christ.....That bloody doll!

Fucking warn us next time, that's the sort of thing that really freaks me out.

I've been fine right up to that point.

SausageSmuggler · 06/08/2012 22:12

Reading these has made me feel rather nervous about being in a detached bungalow with curtains only in the bedrooms. I just couldn't stop reading!!

rainydaysarebad · 06/08/2012 22:20

I've got both my children laying in my bed with me asleep as I read these stories. My blinds are open and there's a gap in the curtains; keep thinking I will see someone's reflection! < shudders >

I think I remember watching a film called Urban Legends when I was younger. It was a pathetic teen horror. I think there was a story about a dog being cooked in a microwave but cant remember.

baskingseals · 06/08/2012 22:27

does anybody know the labrador one?

it's not scary at all.

StellaAndFries · 06/08/2012 22:29

The bogus socailise worker one is true, it actually happened to Xp (dd1's bio dad) and his new wife and was on the Anglia News.

SausageSmuggler · 06/08/2012 22:35

Rainydays I had that film on video Blush it had Jared Leto and Joshua Jackson in it. I can't remember the killers motive but all the classics were there.

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