Speaking of Urban Legends - What is your favorite?

I think mine has to be the ghost of the girl who is standing by the cemetary at night. And a kid picks her up and offers to take her home. So she has him drop her off in front of a house - but she leaves her scarf in the car.

The next day he goes back to the house to return the scarf and finds out from her parents that she's been dead for years.

I think that this story has been found in folklore in many countries.

Can you imagine, people actually believe that; people sleeping on heating grates, in parks, on benches; people picking through dumpsters just to get a meal; and ordinary citizens just walk by.

What a myth!

Never did believe it.

Yeah, when I lived in NYC in the '70's there were all these people wantering the streets. Since everyone ignored them, they must have just been extras in some movie they were making. cya :hi:

and found out it's coming from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!

was that even possible? I don't think you could call yourself from your own number. That one was going around back when people only had one phone in the house.

At least until age 7 or so and I figured it would be impossible. :D

"When a stranger calls"


Have you checked the children? So creepy, I wouldn't babysit for almost a year.

Yikes, I get chills just thinking of it to this day. :scared:

Beat me to it.

I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!



:sarcasm:

Remember Bush's press conference with the Polish PM? "We have found the Weapons of Mass Destruction!"

So, the corollary is that We Found WMD in Iraq.

A close second is the diver who got a jelly fish pumped into his suit.

it's basically a small rocket motor used to help very heavy military cargo planes get off the ground from a short runway.

He was always trying stuff like that.

and it worked!

All I remember is that they did get a car to move on some form of Jet I don't recall if they declared it busted or not. I think they said Plausable.

the car accelerated very nicely; they were able to maintain control. The car never attained the kind of velocity necessary to make it disintegrate into the side of a mountain like in the myth.

as the guy in the wheel chair who tied the weather balloons to his chair and then filled them with helium. His chair went up into the air but the rope that he had tied the chair to the ground became undone and he started to head out to the ocean.

then gets help from a friendly stranger who happens to be a mad axe murderer.

at the gas station. And reaches out and grabs your leg.

You know, the one where the parents come back to find the babysitter has cooked dinner - and it's the kid trussed up like a suckling pig with an apple in its mouth.

I pray to God that that is false.

Oh wait, that was real.

going around for every. The mice in the coke can. That kind of thing.

and the guy with the hook is after them. And they get home and find the hook caught in the car door.

She is suing. Yes, its real.

Too many holes.

What about the hand the finger was attached to? Did no area emergency rooms report a person coming in with a finger cut off?

I think it is one of those fake fingers you can buy in a magic store.

Now theories on how it got there--that's worrisome. I can't believe that a meat processer could lose a finger and not report it. Two possibilities remain: it was planted (by someone with access to cadavers) or someone at the processing plant put parts of their ex-spouse through the meat grinder.

and never bothered to take him.

to go to the hospital to get it removed.

But what about the gerbril thing?

Man, that is creepy.

New York White Marijuana

help himself and answers the ad sell a Porsche (or any expensive car) for $100. Gets there, test drives the car finds out its in perfect condition then asks the woman who is selling it the actual price and she tells him a $100 bucks. He gives it to her and is going to take the car home but asks her why she is selling it for so low. He tells her that her husband ran off with his secretary and called her to sell the car and send him the money,

and then filed a claim on them after smoking them, and was arrested for destruction of property.

There's also the vanishing hitchhiker who turns out to be Jesus or St. Francis, or somebdy like that....

The one you cited in your post was turned into one of the weeny-ist rock songs in the early 1960s..I think everyone who heard this wanted to slap the ninny who whined it...

http://www.houseoflyrics.com/sbf/artists/2074/song/8231

from Chicago. You pick her up and when you pass the cemetery she is buried in she disappears from your car.

half goat, half man formerly a geneticist working for the US government and in a freak accident got himself blended with a goat. He now supposedly looks like a satyr and is known to attack cars parked in lovers lanes with an ax. His home is supposed to be Prince Georges County in Maryland

It's actually the title of a book about urban myths.
Woman (it's always a woman) come home to find her Doberman coughing and choking. Rushes him to the vet. They tell her to leave him and she returns home. (Would YOU go off and leave your dog at the vet in that condition? Me neither.)

When she walks into her house the phone is ringing. The vet tells her to leave the house immediately and call him back from a neighbor's or pay phone. She does and he tells her that he found a finger (or two fingers, or a penis) lodged in the dog's throat. The police are called and find an intruder in a closet bleeding to death (bled to death).

All I have to do is send them $250, my ssn and bank account info to collect! Yipppeeeee, drinks for everyone :silly:

But my second favorite is the one about the couple who vacation in Mexico and buy a cute little dog. They bring it home and take it to the vet who tells them it's not a dog, but a large rat.

A really stupid woman I worked with years ago told this story and actually believed it. I pointed out to her that you can't bring animals over the border from Mexico. So it couldn't possibly be true. She said well they could have hidden the dog/rat in their luggage. I asked her if she had never gone through customs.

Couple goes on vacation (Mexico I think) and leave for the day. When they get back someone has kicked a hole in their patio door. Nothing is missing so the cops and the hotel detective (kind of dates this one huh?) figure it was just kids or something.

When the couple gets home they get their film developed (they apparently didn't take their camera with them that day) only to find a picture of both their toothbrushes up someone's ass.

I've heard this one so many times, starting with the late 70s, when my grandma told me to be careful.

A woman stopped for gas and gives the attendant her credit card. He fills her tank, goes into the station, comes back out and tells her that there's something wrong with her credit card and she needs to come in to talk to the company on the phone. When she gets in, he tells her there is a man with an axe hiding in her backseat, and the police are on their way.

"Homicide: Life on the Streets" had an episode with a similar scenario.

The first one I ever heard was the escaped lunatic with the hook hand.

Major midwest university at xmas. Everyone has gone home but a couple of folks, two young ladies, Betty & Jayne, living on the forth floor of a dorm. Betty asks Jayne if she wants to go out for dinner. Jayne says she'll stay in since she lost her key. Betty has a big meal, returns and smokes up a big bowl of chronic. Betty is awakened by a strange sound, metallic like, at about 2AM. She ignores it but it becomes louder and louder. She moves to her door and is stunned as she hears a key inserted into her lock. Petrified, she just stands there. The key doesn't work and the sound continues down the call for about another five minutes. Betty is now totally freaked out. She lays back on her bed and stares at the ceiling. She hears another noise. It sounds like a sack being dragged slowly down the hall's tile floor. She moves to the door again and is shocked when she hears a bumping then scratching on her door. Betty passes out. She wakes up at about 7AM. The sun is up, there are no sounds and she decides to open her door and run down the stairs. Just as she does, she Jayne's dead body, propped against her room door, falls forward. It was Jayne scratching at her door for help and, then she realizes, it was Jayne's key she'd heard being tried again and again down the hall.