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! :)

Re semen. Now I'm really confused. What's all this about swallowing it? I thought you were supposed to rub it in.

Just read this on the Digital Spy thread:

"There is no such thing as a simple 'itch'........let's be quite clear, you have been taught wrong. The teaching and theory behind how itching is tied up with nerves etc is a lie.

Every time in your life when you have felt the need to rub or touch away an itch is because you have been scratched by the dead! They are totally all around you, you are enveloped by them. It is also a very unfriendly act.

Someone earlier said that if ghosts do exist they have never harmed anyone. At the very least that should have been worded they have never been 'seen' to harm people. The main reason that, on the whole, we are not harmed is because there is a considerable gap in their ability to transfer force.

However, be aware and feel greatly disturbed whenever you feel an itch. Be it your scalp, ear, nose, arm, leg or wherever, as you itch you are at that very moment being subjected to contact by a very angry and vile entity."

whatkungfuthat my arm just itched! Argh! Loving terrified by this thread! Why is the concept of Stickmen so scary? What the heck are they?! Are they the ones from that new Jessica Biel movie 'The Tall man'? Trailer freaked me out! Actually, so did 'The Mothman prophecies'...too weird!

Loves this thread now :)

Molepom - sorry! That doll is the devil's work. I did say it was a doll in the previous post but should have been clearer. A bit of me wants to look at it again. Or post the link on my facebook page.

I am working my way through the DS thread trying to find the stickmen pic but I keep getting distracted by loads of other great stuff. When I find it I will post.

Ok, so I have just read Wolf's post and am crapping myself already. Before I read any further I am counting off how many days are left before DH is back on night shift!

Did you hear about the couple who check into a run-down motel and have to put up with a foul odour in their room all night. They call the staff the next morning to complain and between them they figure out the stench is coming from the bed.

They're wondeirng if the last guest did something really unsavoury on the mattress. But, no, the staff take off the matress and discover the couple has been sleeping over the rotting body of a dead girl who had been stuffed in the box spring.

Why oh why did I read this thread? I'm pooing myself and its daylight On my own with dd2 and I need a wee but don't wanna go upstairs That friggin doll The dripping tap one has terrified me since I was a kid, the clown and killer reflection story are new so thanks for that! can't stop reading or clicking the links tho

EEeeeek! I was going to take my dog for an early morning walk but it's not light enough after reading all of those!

rainydaysarebad i thought exactly the same thing when i read that stickman story, it's exactly the same one as someone posted on here! That's the story that originally freaked me out

still scares the shit out of me though even though it's not true!

The stickmen and dolls don't scare me, its the psycho's and killers that get me.

Stickman/Slender Man is a lot less scary when you read this. I reckon we should try making up our own urban myth to see how far it gets. Naice Ham Monster, anyone?

The naice ham monster follows people around super markets eating their grapes before they are paid for.

And takes all the P&C spaces

Shadowmen scare me more than anything. They're the reason I won't go out after dark!

Naice ham monster is the one responsible for the bizarre online shop substitutions.

Stickman isn't made up though - I've heard about it years ago, long before 2009.

I think its the way that people describe Stickman moving that scares me, it rings a bell somewhere but I don't recall seeing one

That's so scary! And the fact you were scared it would see you at the window...shudder.

Lemarchansbox Eek, tell me that's not true! Wasn't there a paranormal experiences thread on MN where someone was chased by a stickman and they just got in their front door and could see it peering angrily in at them?

Creepy! I completely believe you.

I am unforgivably woo, though.