Monday, October 21, 2019

Your Turn

Your favorite urban legend.

113 comments:

  1. She was only a whiskey maker, but I loved her still.

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  2. Razor blades in the candy apples at Halloween

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  3. That Avril Lavigne is really Melissa ;)

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  4. The dead dog in the suitcase.

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  5. That Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite.

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  6. Marc Almond needed to have his stomach pumped because it was full of pints and pints of cock custard.

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    1. rod Stewart had his stomach pumped for same thing🙄

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    2. Blonde hair fur balls?

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  8. There was only one gunman who shot JFK.

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  9. Jet fuel melts steel beams.

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  10. The people who bring a dog home from a Mexican vacation and it turns out to be some kind of large Mexican rat.

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  11. @Unknown 10:05, Oh that's like the urban legend of the dead girl they found after a frat party.

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  12. My favorite URBAN LEGEND is RURAL NOBODY!

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  13. Snow White had a thing for minors.

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  14. I think some people are confusing conspiracy theories with urban legends.

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    1. Same thing in my book.
      Which is:
      The Great Big Fuck Off Book of Urban Legends and Enlightened Speculation (Conspiracy Theories)

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  15. @Unknown 10:07, That's like the one of how office supplies and furniture can melt steel beams.

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    1. And that 3rd building no one likes to mention just fell down.

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  16. @Unknown, I thought the cum dump legend was Rod Stewart?

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    1. I think he drove him to the hospital.
      😁

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  17. The babysitter who gets a creepy call and it turns out to be someone in the house

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  18. If so say Candy Man three times while you're standing in front of a mirror
    Sammy Davis Jr appears behind you.

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  19. @Unknown,that legend was originally started with Rod Stewart in the Seventies.

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    1. It did bounce around different celebrities but while I was at school in the 80s it was Marc Almond.
      I imagine if I was at school now it'd probably be Kevin Spacey, Justin Beiber or Donald Trump.
      😁

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  20. @Moose I always heard Elton John

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  21. The snake coat at the Burlington Coat Factory.

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  22. @Unknown 07, Well they say she had 7 Up every night.

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    1. Haha...love it
      To them she was a High Ho

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  23. The Jersey Devil

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  24. Mikey from Life cereal died eating pop rocks.

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  25. Can't kill a praying mantis cause they's protected by the government.

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  26. Spanish Fly...stick shift.....hahahaha

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  27. If you tape recorded music from your radio
    The police would kick your door in and arrest you.

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  28. Paul McCartney died in 1965.
    Probably because Jane Asher poisoned him in one of her cakes.
    🎂

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  29. Momma Cass...ham sandwich

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  30. Rush Limbaugh is Jim Morrison
    Alex Jones is Bill Hicks
    Michelle O is really a man
    so many more but those are my personal favs!

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  31. Richard Gere put hamsters or gerbils up his butt.

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  32. Not to mention James Dean is too.

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  33. Eating Twinkies can cause people to commit murder.

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    1. I tried one after years of hearing about them on American TV and films
      And thought they were absolutely horrible!
      Every time I watch Zombieland I am disgusted at Woody's enthusiasm for these sickly sweet, sugary turds.

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  34. Tupac still alive, all eyez on me.

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  35. Every type of plastic will give you cancer.

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  36. Snakes found in bolts of fabric.

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  37. Social security will still be solvent or pay anything when it's your turn.

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  38. Antibiotics will still work in the future.

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    1. Might be time to give Unclebiotics a try.

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  39. Renee Zellweger never had plastic surgery.

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  40. The Slender Man
    And his even thinner friend
    The Splenda Man.

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  41. Stevie Wonder is not actually blind.

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    1. I did see a youtube clip of him catching a falling mic stand while onstage.

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  42. She's just a friend.

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  43. Mikey dying from eating pop rocks with cola

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  44. Marianne Faithful, a drug bust in England, and a Mars bar.
    Debbie Reynolds and Agnes Moorehead having an affair.

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    1. With regards to the Marianne Faithful story
      It was actually a Kit Kat and not a Mars Bar.
      She said she just fancied four fingers of goodness inside her.

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  45. that clicker clackers(toy)will explode in your face.

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    1. Those two balls on string that always end up wrapped around overhead wires?

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    2. crystal balls on a string. yes...lol

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    3. Haha...there was a set of these wrapped around some wires near the home I grew up in for over 30 years.

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    4. @Sd I thought it was Silver Bells on a string?....

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  46. The UL about "In The Air Tonight". That is a classic.

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    1. Do Tell me more.
      I've not heard this one.

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  47. Taylor Swift being a clone of Zeena LaVey, daughter of Anton LaVey (Church of Satan founder).

    Mama Cass' COD being listed as 'Death by Ham Sandwich'.

    Lady Gaga having hairy balls.

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  48. That your vote matters.

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  49. The legend of the Silver Backed Splatford

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  50. The legend of the Butterscotch Stallion (a/k/a Mr. "Wowwwwww!!!" himself, Owen Wilson).

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  51. Anonymous12:21 PM

    Alligators roamed the sewers in NYC. I begged my Dad to take us there on vacation so I could see them.

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  52. Marilyn Manson having a rib surgically removed so he could fellate himself.

    Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie actually consummating their "marriage".

    JonBenet growing up to be Katy Perry.

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  53. Stepping on a crack in a sidewalk = immediate broken back for your Mom.

    Holding your breath as you pass cemeteries so the spirits of the undead can't inhabit your body.

    Eating green M&Ms makes you RANDAYYYYY, baby! Oh behave!!

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    1. Lifting your feet and holding your breath while driving over a bridge... Did something... Lol, i don't what happened if you didn't make it, fell off the bridge, maybe?!

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  54. Unknown -- two balls on the telephone line? I remember tennis shoes on the phone wires in L.A. - never did know what that was about.

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    1. I always imagined some poor kid walking home shoeless when I saw that.

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  55. @Doug,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_tossing

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  56. The Beaver died in Vietnam.

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  57. lady gaga is an actress/singer

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  58. I’m only going to have one drink

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  59. Kind of mentioned above, but, I went to Catholic school and saying "Bloody Mary" in the mirror at midnight and she will appear and kill you haha. Not going to lie...took me 4 years to actually try it!

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  60. There was an urban myth for a while that Mr Rogers had been a decorated military sniper, but of course that was totally disproven/disavowed.

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  61. @DoTell I know there is one, but never heard what it actually is! Please elaborate! :)

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  62. Carol Channing and corn.

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  63. Surreptitiously dissolving aspirin in a Coca Cola with turn your date into a nymphomaniac.

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  64. This doesn't exactly qualify as an urban legend, but most of the comments here didn't anyway. The Sioux Tribes tell some pretty creepy stories about the wendigo, skin walkers and dogmen. No doubt there are things out there we don't know about. Heard a lot of stories and they sound very sincere. No desire to see any of the above.

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  65. Vaccines cause autism.

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    1. You win the thread! 👍🏼

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    2. I hope not.
      I'm getting my flu jab in a bit.

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  66. @Little Miss Sunshine said...
    Eating Twinkies can cause people to commit murder.

    That came from the murder of Harvey Milk. The killer, Dan White, blamed the murder on consuming too much sugar, thus the name "The twinkie defense".

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  67. Gere. Gerbil. *mic drop*

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  68. @LaurenMaye Other tribes also have windigo legends. Cree and Ojicree do. An excellent book by Joseph Boyden weaves the windigo legend into his book about Cree soldiers in WWI, Three Day Road. Highly recommend the book.

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  69. @Tigerlily, thanks for the tip, I will look for it :) I read a lot, especially like history of the old west and the American Indians. I think all the tribes have similar stories. They also mention the giants, very interesting. I only mentioned the Sioux tribes because it's closer to home.

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  70. I think the majority of the posts here qualified as urban legends, actually.

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  71. @AListDiva, the "In The Air Tonight" UL goes like this:

    According to the urban legend, as a boy, Collins witnessed a man who had failed to save a drowning victim, while Collins himself was too far away or otherwise unable to help. The UL then says that Collins spent years tracking down the man and when he located him, sent him tickets to one of Genesis's concerts. As the band began to play "In The Air Tonight," Phil directed the spotlight to shine on the culprit while he sang directly to him.

    There are various and more extreme versions of this story, including the guy
    losing his mind, getting dumped by his wife, etc, and most of them are posted at Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/in-the-air-tonight/

    The song is actually a vent by Phil Collins about what he was feeling when he was going through a divorce. Which may be even creepier than any of the ULs as it is a pretty vicious song.

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    1. Thanks! Divorce is scary enough,thanks Phil :-/

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    2. I always thought it was about a Something About Mary/hair gel type incident.
      And the song was called In The Hair Tonight.
      😁

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  72. That Michael Jackson had hundreds of platonic sleep overs...
    With multiple children...
    In the same bed...
    With jars of Vaseline...
    Left all over the room...
    Among children's underwear...

    Because only a great actor can pull off an urban legend.

    The other one is Bill Cosby never roofied a star struck child actor.
    A child pimped out by a desperate mother needing a fix.
    Children don't need chemical enslavement to be raped, they just scream less if incapacitated.

    Fuck you Pedowood.

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  73. Pop Rocks and Mikey. Harmless and easily disproved.

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  74. They were making out in the car, the radio was on. A news bulletin declared the escape of a one-armed homicidal maniac from the local lunatic asylum.
    Oh Lawd, they high-tail it out of there. When they stop for a breath, there.on the door handle.is a prosthetic hook.
    Ahhhhghghghgh!!!!!

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  75. Gentle, that is the BLOODY HOOK I love that one! ALSO Katy Perry iS Jon Benet!! That was an MSNBC marathon story ala OJ. BTW yesterday OJ tweeted a pic of himself with a White Bronco on Twitter. It was Elway. ;

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  76. My favourite urban legend is that Keith is heterosexual and married Nicole Kidman for love.

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  77. The Pope is a lizard...

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  78. Which brand is the soft drink that turns you gay? That was a big one in primary school.

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  79. This might be an urban legend, but I have a friend who attended New Orleans Loyola University in the 90s. One very rainy Sunday evening he and his girlfriend were standing at the streetcar stop when one of those Marathon cabs pulled up. The driver asked if they needed a cab and as wet as they were, they agreed. The driver asked where they were going and my friend told him they were going to the Quarter to listen to some music. At that point the cab driver said he had a better venue and better music for them at which point he took them to a little bar called Madigan's to listen to the great John Cleary play. After they arrived the driver refused the fare--it's just minutes from Loyola--and bid them farewell.
    My friend--who is not prone to hyperbole--to this day is convinced it was Dylan messing around on a Sunday night.

    What makes me think it was Dylan was the fact that he was in town working with producer Daniel Lanios and that he (Dylan) had shown up barefooted in a hoodie another Sunday evening. He quickly left, I am told by the bartender because he was recognized.

    I really want this to be true.

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  80. Robert Downey Jr. is a Himmmm.

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  81. Not an urban legend, but Whitney H was definitely a lesbian and her long time friend Robin was her lover! The escaped mental patient leaving his hook in someone's car door was my favorite that scared the crap out of me as a kid!

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  82. Matt that is weird. I worked at Madigans as the bartender for a while, must have been 87 or so. Dylan was all over the place at the time. I ran into him more than once, but I didn't work the John C. gig night which may have been when he'd come in.

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