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! :)

Stella - I know, that's what makes it even creepier. According to t'internet there've been some pretty serious police investigations into it in various parts of the country, but no one ever seems to have been charged.

Some of the stories have the bogus social workers (or BSWs if you're in with the in-crowd) seeming not quite right somehow, kind of plastic-faced.

Horse slashers is another odd one. Wtf is that about?

What doll are you talking about, mole?

Horse slashers?

Also still confused by stickmen, ter net isn't coming up with much!

ShrinkingNora's post up thread.

Link that says "sorry but it's fucking scary".

It is, but really needs to be mentioned that it's a doll. I HATE dolls. I now LOATHE that one.

*terrifying.

Not scary.

Being on the news doesn't mean something's true...

Oh you fucking bunch of fucks. I should never have started reading this. Those black eyed children. That doll.

Although I quite like the idea of a friendly stickman.

Sausage, yes It did have Joshua Jackson in it. He's the reason I watched it!

Lord, i found this about straw men here. It's a thread with people reporting sightings of them.

Also after reading the above, I'm a bit saddened that the scariest story I have ever read on MN about the stick man, is infact, maybe a lie. It's too similar to one of the sightings mentioned on the above link posted in 26.03.10. Might be an urban legend.

Lord - every so often there are localised outbreaks in rural areas of stables being broken into at night and horses slashed with knives. Google 'horse mutilations England'.

I'm not into this sort of stuff in a creepy way, btw. I'm just a big Fortean Times fan and it gets discussed there, usually in a folklore context.

urgh I have been reading these on my own and I am to scared to go upstairs now.

Oh and my sister sees shadow people in the corners of hers eyes. They're quick as a flash and move really quickly.

About 5 mins ago I heard someone turn the key in our front door and I thought dh is home, but no one has opened the door and he hasnt come in. < shit scared >.

So far only one that's made me freak is the dog one! Mainly because I have a big hairy dog and do rely on him for protection, however, he does not sleep next to my bed. Weirdly enough I can watch criminal minds ext without too much fuss

Are the stickmen harmless, then? ^

Criminal Minds is v. interesting.

If you wanna scan through them, just go to snopes I loved it when a teen; debunking the myths you were told happened.

Another freaked out person here...

Was also going to say Eastern 401 is true. I heard it was the crew trying to warn other aircrews not to fall into the same trap they did.

sad as well as true then, really.

I used to see shadow people in the back of my car, always when driving at night on the M62. It was a figure in a hood sitting in my Ford Fiesta. Clearly something about the shadows cast in that particular car and the fact that the M62 between Ferrybridge and Hull is usually particularly quiet, so allowing my mind to play tricks. I was fooled though and a couple of times pulled over to check!

Eek.

I love urban legends - my dad used to tell them as if they had happened to him in the 70s. My favourites were the vanishing hitch-hiker and the killer in the back seat. The only one he used to tell that hasn't already come up here was supposed to have been about my granddad, who was a bit of an eccentric and a hoarder:

Granddad was driving home one summer evening in the late 70s when he spotted a microwave lying abandoned at the side of the road. No on he knew had a microwave yet and this one was obviously broken, but Granddad was good with machines and liked to see how they worked so he pulled over, nabbed the microwave and took it home. He got home and was looking at the microwave, a bit mystified about how it worked as it was of a completely unusual design, when there was a knock at the door. He answered and there were two policemen asking why he had stolen their new speed camera.

:o

Loving this thread.. But only in daylight

These are great!!

My MIL is Queen of the email urban myth (we suspect she was a Nigerian spammer in a former life). If her emails are to be believed the Fleet Services on the M3 are the most dangerous place in the UK- awash with gangs looking for people to kidnap and involve in "initiations".