Know a good "Urban Legend"? Let's hear it!

[cookiejar]

An urban legend is a true story that is too good to be true. They are usually told by credible , well-meaning people who really believe they are true. However the incidents that occur go one step beyond believable. Post the "urbans" you have heard....I'll start with one that we hear a lot.



"The Death of Little Mikey"


Have you ever heard any rumors or stories about the cute little kid named "Mikey" who appeared on the Life Cereal commercials? He supposedly drank lots of soda and ate pop rocks candy. When the two got together inside his body , they exploded and killed him.


Of course this was an urban legend.....the actor is alive and well. Got any good urban legends....post 'em!!




cookiejar

 

[rosylady]

don't know any urban legends at the top of my head right now, so i will just bump this .


bump.

 

[cookiejar]

Come on people!!

Hey people there are tons of "urbans" out there!! You all know this one!!


The Boyfriend's Death



A young couple drives down a deserted road to neck. When they get ready to leave the car won't start , so the young man goes for help leaving the girl in the car. After awhile the girl hears raindrops on the roof but as time passed no boyfriend. She decides to turn on the headlights to see if he is coming down the road , but what she saw was her boyfriend hanging from a tree with a knife in his stomach. What she thought was rain was really his blood dripping on the car.


Now we have all heard variations on that!

 

[biggbear8]

urban legends

good morning cookie hugss kisses

The core of the story is about the same as any other version I've read. The narrator notices the masses of children in town, and asks several of her relatives why there are so many children in town. Each time, she receives basically the same reply: "C'est Jacques!"

Eventually, one of her relatives explains that Jacques is a locomotive driver for the Canadian National, and then there's a twist. As her cousin explains:

"In '38 his train destroyed an auto with a group of--how you say--teenagers, drunken, on the grade crossing at the edge of town. Their families sued the railroad for much dollars and collected. After that, every morning at 5:30, as his train rolls through town, Jacques leans on the whistle from one end of town to the other--he's still doing it."

I think it's kind of interesting that suddenly there's a bit of revenge involved in the story. I haven't seen that in any of the other versions I've read.

 

[lissalynn]

How about this one.

A young man is shopping in a supermarket when he notices that an elderly woman seems to be following him, staring at him in a sorrowful manner. He moves to the next aisle, trying to avoid her, but she follows him still staring. When he finishes shopping, he ends up behind her in a long checkout line. Her grocery basket is full almost overflowing. While his basket only contains a few items. She keeps staring at him sadly, making him feel very uncomfortable. Finally she speaks up. "Pardon my staring." she says, "but you look exactly like my son, who died just two weeks ago." She begins to sniffle as she repeats her claim that the young man perfectly resembles her late son. "I mean, exactly like him." Then, as the cashier bags her groceries at the front of the line, the woman asks: "As a favor to a grief-stricken mother, would you mind saying "Goodbye, Mom! to me as I leave? it would make me feel so much better." The young man agrees to her request. She gives him a tearful smile, waves and picks up her three heavy bags. "Goodbye, Mom!" he says, waving back. The man, relecting on his good deed, feels such a warm glow of self- satisfaction that he barley notices the cashier ringing up his own few purchases. Until, that is, the cashier tells him that the bill came up to $110.00. "There must be a mistake," the man says, pointing at his single small bag. The cashier replies "Your mother said you'd be paying for hers too."


the moral is: old people are mean!

 

[biggbear8]

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Subject: The Edison Electric Chair?


+ Tb. The electric chair as a method of execution was promoted by Thomas + Edison, as an effort to show how dangerous AC power was.

This was not exactly the case although there were elements of safety involved. Around 1886, the New York State Legislature set up a commission to check into "electrical" alternatives for executing criminals. A patent for the electric chair was filed by Harold Brown in New York State (son of a gun!) by 1887. At that time, Brown was working with the chief researcher at Edison's lab in Menlo Park, Dr. A.E. Kennelly. They tested it by zapping around fifty cats and dogs. Supposedly all were strays (yeah, right, where's the SPCA when you REALLY need 'em?).

Anyway, the commission was skeptical and so Brown and co. fried a cow in their face. To drive the point home, he then fried a horse. New York Governor David Hill signed a bill making the electric chair a legal way to execute criminals on June 4, 1888. To convince officials and the public of the benefits of electrocution, Brown took his dog and pony show on the road. In Albany, he electrocuted an orangutan. In a scene predating Pepsi commercials by a hundred years, its hair caught fire.

All was not well though. Northeast electric companies were opposed to electrocution as a means of death because it might spark further public fear of the dangers of electricity.

At this time, Edison had been trying to sell the industry on his DC system for transmitting power. His rival, George Westinghouse, was pushing his "more efficient, reliable, and easier to transmit" AC system. The Chair worked on AC so Edison saw a means to try to scare the industry off of using Westinghouse's method and to this end, offered the use of his labs to Brown to perform experiments. At any rate, Edison lost out on this one and the industry adopted AC as a standard.

So safety was involved, but Edison was more interested from a business motive rather than an altruistic one. Edison went on to have great fame (and unfavorable comparisons to Tesla on AFU). Westinghouse founded a company whose tradename in lamps is now owned by the Dutch.

As it turns out, the use of the electric chair (esp. in the beginning) did show how dangerous AC current was to the successful and humane execution of criminals.

 

[biggbear8]

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good morning cookie hugs kisses

thought u might like this one lol


The electromechanical vibrator emerged in the 1880s as a medical instrument designed to mechanize massage techniques used by physicians since antiquity. Among these was vulvular massage to orgasm as a treatment for hysteria in women. The sexual character of the therapy was camouflaged in medical rhetoric which characterized female arousal as a pathological syndrome from which relief was obtained in "hysterical paroxysm". Manual massage was fatiguing and slow, however, and water and steam-powered methods capital-intensive; when portable vibrators powered by line electricity became available at the turn of this century they quickly became the dominant medical massage technology until the appearance of vibrators in erotic films in the 1920s eroded the instrument's social camouflage.

Interesting and pithy throughout, Maines points out that the sexual characteristic of the massage was occasionally acknowledged:

"God-fearing physicians," as Zacuto expressed it in the seventeenth century, were expected to induce the paroxysm with their own fingers only when absolutely necessary, as in the case of very young single women, widows and nuns.

John Harvey Kellog, subject of the book and movie _The Road to Wellville_, is mentioned as seeming not to have "perceived the sexual character of patient response."

A lot of good stuff on early vibrators included as well. (advertised in Sears, Roebuck as late as 1918.)

I encourage everybody to locate and read the article itself. The only weakness I found in it was that it did not really support the conclusion that porno film use of vibrators in the '20s changed their perception.

D "slowed and fatigued" S

 

[cookiejar]

The Exploding Toilet



A new motorcycle owner was cleaning his bike on a patio with a plate glass door. After he's done he starts the bike and somehow loses control , him and the bike go through the door. The paramedics are called and he's rushed to the hospital for many stitches. His wife is left cleaning up the gasoline spilled on the rug....using toilet paper to clean it up. As she uses the tp she throws it in the toilet.

When her hubby returns home all stitched up , he goes to the toilet ....sits down and of course lights a cigarette. He drops the match in the toilet on the gas soaked tp which explodes throwing him through the plate glass door again. The paramedics are called again but are laughing so hard they drop the stretcher. He sells the bike next day.


Now this is funny but a little far fetched. A great urban legend.

 

[rosylady]

The Costume Party

A man and his wife were supposed to go to a costume party together one halloween, but when the time came to go the woman told him to go on without her, she had a terrible headache. The man reluctantly did, and the suspicious wife decided to see just how faithful her man really was. She put on a different costume and went to the party. When she got there she saw her husband dancing with a young girl in a sexy costume, even more suspicious, she decided to really put him to the test. She danced with him and whispered they should sneak into a bedroom. She insisted they leave the masks on and had sex with him, then fuming, she ran home to wait for his return. When he got there she innocently asked if he'd had fun. He told her he hadn't, after a few minutes he and some guys had went across the street to play poker, he added "The guy who borrowed my costume said he had a hell of a time, though!"

 

[rosylady]

sick, not for the faint hearted

The Babysitting Hippie

A young couple had to resort to a new babysitter one night because their regular sitter was ill. The girl came highly recommended, but the couple were a little put off when she arrived and they discovered she was a hippie. Being a young and open minded couple, they decided to go ahead on to the theater, but would call and check on the baby and the sitter during intermission. When they called the sitter told the woman everything was "groovy" and she'd even stuffed and roasted the turkey for a nice dinner. The woman told her husband and it occurred to her that she didn't think they'd had a turkey. When they got home, they were shocked to find the babysitter lying on the floor staring blankly into space, obviously on acid or some type of drug. They panicked and looked all over for the baby, but it was nowhere to be found until they came upon it in the kitchen, roasted and partially eaten, wrapped in foil.

 

[rosylady]

Revenge anyone?

What Time is it?

A guy calls his live in girlfriend and tells her he's met someone else and wants her to move out. He'll be gone all weekend and says for her to be gone by the time he gets back. He expects to find his place trashed when he arrives, but finds everything is just fine except the telephone is off the hook. He hangs it up and thinks nothing of it until he gets the phone bill. Before she left, the girlfriend called the number to "Time" in Tokyo and left the phone off the hook for two days. -Thanks to Lisa Johnson

 

[rosylady]

Misunderstood


The Misunderstood Note

A witness at a trial was too embarrassed to repeat the obscenity the defendant had suggested to her, so the judge suggested she write it down, and let the jury read it. The woman did as she was asked, and the note was handed to the jury. The judge told them to each read it carefully and pass it along. The last man in the jury box had fallen asleep, and the young lady next to him woke him and handed it to him. He stared at it in surprise for a couple minutes, then began to fold it up. The judge asked him to please hand the note to the bailiff and the juror replied, "Your honor, this note is a private matter between the lady and myself."

 

[rosylady]

Funny

Old vs Young

An old lady was waiting for a car to pull out of a parking space at a crowded grocery store one day. When the car pulled out another car pulled in front of her, and into the space. The teenager hopped out of the car and said to the old woman, "I'm younger and faster, lady." The old lady sits there for a second, then rams the kid's car. As she backs up and gets ready to drive away she tells the teenager: "I'm older and better insured, kid."

 

[cookiejar]

Ty rosy...great ones

Here is a true story by Paul Harvey. Pass it to anyone who you think would find it interesting and inspiring. You will be surprised who this young man turned out to be. (Do not look at the bottom of this letter until you have read it fully)

Years ago a hardworking man took his family from New York State to Australia to take advantage of a work opportunity there. Part of this man's family was a handsome young son who had aspirations of joining the circus as a trapeze artist or an actor. This young fellow, biding his time until a circus job or even one as a stagehand came along, worked at the local shipyards which bordered on the worst section of town.

Walking home from work one evening, this young man was attacked by five thugs who wanted to rob him. Instead of just giving up his money the young fellow resisted. However they bested him easily and proceeded to beat him to a pulp. They mashed his face with their boots, and kicked and beat his body brutally with clubs, leaving him for dead. When the police happened to find him lying in the road they assumed he was dead and called for the Morgue Wagon.

On the way to the morgue a policeman heard him gasp for air, and they immediately took him to the emergency unit at the hospital. When he was placed on a gurney a nurse remarked to her horror, that his young man no longer had a face. Each eye socket was smashed, his skull, legs, and arms fractured, his nose literally hanging from his face, all is teeth were gone, and his jaw was almost completely torn from his skull. Although his life was spared he spent over year in the hospital. When he finally left his body may have healed but his face was disgusting to look at. He was no longer the handsome youth that everyone admired.

When the young man started to look for work again he was turned down by everyone just on account of the way he looked. One potential employer suggested to him that he join the freak show at the circus as The Man Who Had No Face. And he did this for a while. He was still rejected by everyone and no one wanted to be seen in his company. He had thoughts of suicide. This went on for five years.

One day he passed a church and sought some solace there. Entering the church he encountered a priest who had saw him sobbing while kneeling in a pew. The priest took pity on him and took him to the rectory where they talked at length. The priest was impressed with him to such a degree that he said that he would do everything possible for him that could be done to restore his dignity and life, if the young man would promise to be the best Catholic he could be, and trust in God's mercy to free him from his torturous life. The young man went to Mass and communion every day, and after thanking God for saving his life, asked God to only give him peace of mind and the grace to be the best man he could ever be in His eyes.

The priest, through his personal contacts was able to secure the services of the best plastic surgeon in Australia. They would be no cost to the young man, as the doctor was the priest's best friend. The doctor too was so impressed by the young man, whose outlook now on life, even though he had experienced the worse was filled with good humor and love.

The surgery was a miraculous success. All the best dental work was also done for him. The young man became everything he promised God he would be. He was also blessed with a wonderful, beautiful wife, and many children, and success in an industry which would have been the furthest thing from his mind as a career if not for the goodness of God and the love of the people who cared for him. This he acknowledges publicly.

The young man. Mel Gibson.

His life was the inspiration for his production of the movie "The Man Without A Face." He is to be admired by all of us as a God fearing man, a political conservative, and an example to all as a true man of courage.

If you haven't gone and seen "The Patriot" yet, do so. It is an incredible and awesome movie. It's like a "BraveHeart" with muskets. Now I understand why Mel Gibson is such an incredible actor.


Editors Note: Sounds good but, again, not true. Read more at Snopes or Urban Legends.




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[cookiejar]

Creepy Urban Tales

AIDS Mary

A man met a beautiful woman in a singles bar one night and took her home. During the evening she told him that she had been raped a few years ago, but was overcoming her resentment and fear, and was finally able to enjoy sex again. The next morning he awoke to find her already gone, on the bathroom mirror she'd written a message in lipstick. "Welcome to the AIDS club."

The exact wording of the message varies, and often the legend ends with the guy searching for "Mary" hoping to kill her before he himself dies.



The Arm

An unpopular young med. student had been particularly annoying one day and some of her classmates decided to play a trick on her. They snuck into her room after she'd gone to bed and placed an amputated arm into bed with her. The next morning they anxiously awaited her reaction but got none. Eventually they went up to check on her and found her sitting on the bed, moaning and gurgling as she gnawed on the arm.



Bloody Mary

If you stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and chant "Bloody Mary" twelve times starting at the stroke of midnight, the face of a hideous woman will appear in the mirror. It's the spirit of a girl who was born with a disfiguring disease and was killed by a cruel joke gone awry.

This one's a classic. It's told about a thousand different ways, sometimes she scratches, slaps, grabs, kills... The number of chants changes, and what is chanted changes. Some good ones are Black Agnes and Hell Mary. Sometimes she's a witch who was burned at the stake, or an innocent woman accused and burned. The stroke of midnight isn't very common, most the time it merely has to take place at night. I liked it because it makes it more difficult for even the bravest souls not to pause under pressure. - see the films: CANDYMAN's and URBAN LEGEND



The Chatroom

A young boy met a new friend in a chat room and began talking to him regularly, the friend was from out of state but would be in town in a couple weeks and they made plans to sneak out and meet. The boy began to feel odd about the arrangement and confessed the whole thing to his father. The father contacted the authorities and after a couple hours the chat was traced to a local prison, the prisoner who'd been using that computer was scheduled for release in two weeks. - Thanks to Vincent X for that one



The Concerned Mother

A man and wife were driving late one night when they were flagged down by a woman that appeared to be hurt. She claimed she'd been in an accident and her baby was alive but trapped in the car. The man told her to wait with his wife and he'd see what he could do. He got to the car and found a couple obviously dead in the front seat but a baby crying in a carseat. He cut the baby loose and returned to his own car. When he got there his wife was alone, he asked her where the woman had went and she replied that she'd followed him to the wreck. He left the baby with his wife and went back to the car to find her. When he got there he realized the woman who'd been instantly killed in the front seat had been the one who'd flagged him down.



Drinking & Driving

A man got home late from a night out drinking with the boys and staggered inside, his wife heard him and helped him into bed. The next morning she complained about his behavior and how she worried about how he makes it home so drunk. He agreed that he had no memory of the last few hours of his night out, but said he'd never had a problem before. As he pulled out of the garage to go to work, his wife was who had been watching him angrily from the front door screamed when she saw the little girl crushed into the grill of the car.



The Graveyard Wager

A group of young girls were having a slumber party one night and began to exchange ghost stories. One girl claimed that the old man who had been buried earlier that week in the graveyard down the street had been buried alive. She claimed that if you tried you could hear him scratching at the lid of his coffin still. The other girls called her bluff and told her she was afraid to go there tonight. She eventually accepted their challenge and took a stake with her to drive in the ground to prove she'd been there. She headed off to the gravesite right away and never returned, the others assumed she had "chickened out" and went home ashamed. The next morning as they passed the graveyard they saw her there at the old man's grave. She had accidentally staked her nightshirt to the ground and died of fright.



The Hairy Hitchhiker

A young lady driving alone down the highway one night say a large gray-haired woman slowly walking along the side of the road. She pulled over and offered the old woman a ride. As they rode along, the women made small-talk. As the old lady offered her a stick of gum, she noticed the old woman's hands were very wide and the knuckles were badly scarred, she also saw how incredibly hairy the woman's arm was. Realizing her mistake, she swerved and said she thought she'd hit something, then she stopped and asked the old lady if she'd take a look. When the old lady was behind the car, the girl sped off. The young girl immediately felt guilty realizing that she had probably just been an old woman, and in her nervousness she had behaved very badly. She felt even worse when she notice the old woman's purse sitting in the floor of the passenger side. Realizing she couldn't just go on with it, she lifted it from the floor and saw that inside it was filled with wallets, watches and jewelry and a large bloody hunting knife.



The Hitchhiking Prophet

During World War II a couple were driving home one night and picked up a hitchhiker. The man barely spoke during the ride, but as he got out he thanked the couple and told them to repay their kindness, he'd answer any question they may ask. The driver smiled and said "Allright, when will the war end?" the hitchhiker replied "The war will end in July as surely as you will have a dead man in your car before you get home." Unsettled, the couple said good-bye and drove off. Before they reached home they saw a wrecked ambulance by the road, they picked up the driver and a badly hurt patient. By the time they reached the hospital, the patient had already died. As the shock wore off, the couple regretted that they hadn't asked the hitchhiker what year.



The Vanishing Hitchhiker

Two guys were driving down the highway one night, when they see a lovely young girl standing by the road shivering. They stop and offer her a ride, and lent her an overcoat. When they dropped her off at her house, they forgot the overcoat as she got out. The next morning they dropped by to get it and see that the girl was ok, her mother told them her only daughter died in a car accident long ago, and showed them her grave as proof. Neatly folded on the grave was the over coat.

This one is told many different ways, in some the girl disappears before they get to her destination, so the guys stop at the house to see what's going on. In some the guys take the girl to the prom before she leaves with the overcoat. Sometimes she died exactly a year ago to the date, others she died many years ago, but something like this happens every anniversary of her death. Usually she died in the place where the boys picked her up.



The Last Call

One of the Ball Brothers, of the canning jar family, had a great fear of being buried alive. He had a telephone installed in his tomb so he could call out if this happened to him. A few days after he died some of his wife's family got worried because they could only get a busy signal on her phone. Upon entering her home, they found her dead, a look of fright frozen on her face, clutching the phone. When they went to entomb her after the funeral a couple of days later, the phone inside the crypt was off the hook



The Message Under the Stamp

During the war a soldier faithfully wrote his mother every week so she would know he was all right, until one week she didn't get a letter and immediately began to worry. Within a couple of weeks she got a letter from the Army saying that her son had been captured and was being held in a Prisoner-of-War camp, and they assured her that they had no reason to believe the American prisoners were being mistreated in any way. A few weeks later the woman finally received another letter from her son, it read: "Dear Mom, Try not to worry about me, they are treating us well and I'll be released as soon as the war is over. Make sure that little Teddy gets the stamp for his collection. Love you, Joe" The woman was overjoyed to hear the news, but was confused because she had no idea who "little Teddy" was. She decided to steam the stamp from the envelope and have a look. When she did she saw that written on the back of the stamp were the words: "They've cut off my legs".

This may be one of the oldest Urban Legends in existence, it's been circulated during every war since the Civil War. It's ironic since POW camps didn't stamp their mail, being a government institution the mail was metered. It was especially popular during Vietnam, and the part of the body cut off varies.



The Mutilated Bride

A young man and his new bride were honeymooning in Paris when his wife went into a restroom and didn't return. With time the man began to fear the worst and went to the police. The police thought it was most likely the girl simply had second thoughts about the marriage, but they checked it out anyway and found no evidence of foul play. As weeks turned into months the man finally gave up on finding his beautiful wife but his life fell into a shambles he was so filled with grief. Unable to hold a job or go on with his life, he took to wandering the world looking for anything that might ease his pain. Years later in Borneo he came upon a freakshow in an old shabby building, he went in on a whim. In the last filthy cage he saw a twisted, scarred and mutilated woman rocking back and forth and groaning strange animal-like noises. He screamed as he recognized the birthmark on his wife's face.

Thump, Thump, Drag...

A teenage baby-sitter put the kids she was watching to sleep in their beds and went back downstairs. The late night news was on the TV -- the reporter said a psychopath from a local mental institution was on the loose and that police thought he might be in the area. He cautioned residents to lock their doors and windows because this guy was very, very dangerous. Well, the teenager checked the locks on the windows and the doors, but she forgot the door on the cellar bulkhead. Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later, coming up from the cellar, armed with an ax. The children heard some noises downstairs, but thought it was the baby-sitter moving some furniture around. Then it got real quiet. All they heard for the remainder of the night was this noise: "Thump! Thump! Dra-aag... Thump! Thump! Dra-aag..." Evidently, they were too afraid to get up to see what it was. In the morning, their parents came home and were horrified to find the babysitter at the top of the stairs, dead with both arms hacked off at the elbows. She'd been climbing the stairs on the bloody stumps of her arms, pulling her badly injured body along. Was she trying to check on the children? Was she trying to get help? Or in the madness of her tortured soul, was she planning to kill the children herself? No one knows for sure. -Written & submitted by Theresa Gray

 

[cookiejar]

Urban Sex Legends

The Baby Headache

A couple returned early from a night out to find their teenage daughter having sex with her boyfriend on the couch. After the particularly awkward moments passed and the boy went home, the woman sat her daughter down for a "long talk." She got to the part about using "protection" and the girl said, "Don't worry mom, I've been taking your birth-control pills." The woman asked her how come she'd never noticed any missing and the daughter said "I replace them with baby-aspirin."



The Blind Date

The man who worked in the drugstore was getting tired of watching the nervous teenager wander around the store so he asked him if he could help him. The boy stammered a little and the druggist pulled some condoms from behind the counter and asked if that was what he was looking for. The teenagers said it was. The amused man told the boy not to worry, he was sure he'd do fine. He gave him some words of encouragement, wished him luck and told him with a wink, "I'm counting on you to become a regular customer." That evening as the young man approached the door of his date's house he was thankful for the "pep-talk" the man in the drugstore had given him, his confidence quickly disappeared when he rang the bell and his date's father, the druggist, answered the door.



The Blind Man

An attractive young woman was taking a shower one day and the doorbell started ringing. She jumped out to get it, but couldn't find a towel to wrap herself in. As she headed for the bedroom to grab something, she yelled "Who's there?" The voice called out, "It's the blind man." The woman guessed he wanted to sell some pencils or something and stopped, realizing she didn't have to get any of her clothes wet, he couldn't see her anyway. When she opened the door a wide-eyed man in gray coveralls asked her "Uh, where do you want me to hang your blinds?"





Filmed in the Act

A couple were celebrating an anniversary and had rented the exact same room they had stayed in on their honeymoon. When they got there it was pretty much the same except for a little wear and tear, it had the round bed and mirrors on the ceiling just like their previous visit. They had added a little machine that would allow you to watch porno movies on the TV though, and as his wife "slipped into something more comfortable," the man decided to check it out. A few minutes into the second scene he realized it had been filmed in the room they were staying in, and had stayed in during their honeymoon. Then he realized it was their honeymoon.



Love Maggots

A young lady went to see her gynocologyst because of a constant itching in her privates over the last couple of days. She'd never had sex with anyone but her current partner, but was suspicious and fearful that perhaps he had "given" her something. After the doctor examines her he tells her that he will have to report this to the police. The doctor explains that she has maggots inside her vagina and the only way that can happen is if she or her partner is having sex with dead people. She looks at the doctor with horror and whispers "My boyfriend works in a morgue!"



The Milkman

A man was informed the problem with his septic system was all the condoms being flushed down the toilet. This causes him to become upset because he and his wife don't use condoms. He confronts her and she admits an affair with the milkman. The next morning he hides and waits for him to arrive, and shoots him as he delivers the milk. The woman is relieved to discover it had been her lover's day off, she'd never met the dead milkman.



The Late Night

A man had stayed out too late again and was afraid his wife would be angry. On the way home he decided he'd sneak in the bedroom window and ravish her before she had a chance to be angry or notice the time. All went as planned and afterward he went downstairs to get a snack from the kitchen and saw his wife on the couch in the livingroom. "What the Hell are you doing down here?" he cried. "Sssssh, your mother's sleeping upstairs in our bed!" - Thanks to Joanna Johnson



The Sex-Crazed Sheriff

The sheriff of a small college town took his new deputy to a "make-out spot" where the students often went "camping" for a romantic evening. The deputy stuck his head in the tent and told them they were in alot of trouble and he wondered what their parents were going to think about this. The boy offered to pay a fine or whatever to get out of this, but the deputy told him there was only one way of getting out of this jam and looked lecherously at the young half-naked girl. After taking advantage of the young and obviously underage girl, he stepped out and the sheriff told him with a grin, "It works every time." The sheriff crawled into the tent unzipping his pants eagerly and told the girl it would be over in a minute when he looked at her face and recognized his fifteen year-old daughter.



Kinky Superhero

After hearing screams from a hotel room, a man broke in and found a woman tied to a bed naked. Her boyfriend was unconscious on the floor, dressed as a superhero. He'd hit his head during the sex-game and left her helpless.





Another Kinky Superhero

A man is tied up and seduced by a woman, afterwards a man dressed as a superhero comes out and sodomizes him.

The Winning Team

A woman was doing laundry in the basement of her apartment building when she noticed how dirty the robe she's wearing is. It's early morning and no one was around so she just threw it in with the rest. As she stands there naked, she notices that the moisture from the ceiling is dripping on her head. She see's a child's football-helmet in the corner and puts it on to keep the dirty water from getting in her hair. Just then a man walks in to read the meter in the room, he sees her and without batting an eye he says: "Lady, I don't know what you're playin', but I hope your team wins!"

 

[SloppyLips]

The Strip Club

This group of women goes to a strip club to see male performers for a woman's 21st birthday. (fun way to spend a birthday ). The women buy the birthday girl a table dance. The guys at this strip club strip all the way down (woohoo!!!!!) So they spend the night their, getting drunk, and the men get really really close during the dances.

A few days after this event, the eyes of one of the women starts itching terrible! o) She goes to the doctor and he tells her that she has Crabs in her eyelashes and eyebrows. One had jumped from one of the nude male strippers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

Just a funny little urban legend to add.


Kandi

 

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Darwin Awards!!

Besides "urbans" I am now posting "Darwins" , which are awards given for human stupidity. As they call them "Stupid Human Tricks".



Midnight Special
1992 Darwin Awards Winner
Confirmed True by Darwin
(21 December 1992, North Carolina)
Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death
in December in Newton, when, awakening to the sound of
a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone
but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special,
which discharged when he drew it to his ear.

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Mortal Insult
1992 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
Rattler Got Your Tongue?

(1992, California) Snakes flick their forked tongues in the air to "smell" the world, collecting molecules then pressing the tips into small olfactory pits. An inebriated twenty-year-old man took umbrage when a wild rattlesnake stuck out its tounge at him. Tit for tat! He held the snake in front of his face and stuck his tongue out right back at the rattler. The snake expressed his displeasure at this turn of events by biting the conveniently offered body part. The toxic venom swelled the man's face and throat, choking him to death.

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Priapism Takes a Penis
1988 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
Doctors warn of a dangerous new method of cocaine abuse: injecting the drug directly into the urinary tract. Physicians from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center reported the case of a 34-year-old man who suffered severe bleeding under the skin after pumping cocaine into his urethra. It led to complications that destroyed his penis, nine fingers, and parts of his legs. "They fill an eye dropper or a syringe with a cocaine solution and inject it into the penis," said Dr. Samuel Perry, a professor of clinical psychiatry.
The man had injected cocaine before intercourse in an effort to enhance sexual performance. He was admitted to the hospital because his penis had remained erect for three days, resulting in a painful inability to urinate. The medical term for a prolonged erection is "priapism." On his third day in the hospital, the man's erection suddenly subsided. Over the next 12 hours, blood leaked into the tissues of
his feet, hands, genitals, back and chest. Blood coagulation caused tissues to die over large areas of the patient's body, and he was transferred to the burn unit of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
Doctors there were forced to amputate the man's legs above the knee and all but one of his fingers to stop the spread of gangrene. The patient's penis fell off by itself. The man is currently recovering in a rehabilitation facility.

Men who inject cocaine into the penis report that it gives them a sexual high. Drug abuse treatment experts have previously reported external use of cocaine as a sexual stimulant. Cocaine powder is rubbed onto the surface of the genital organs by both men and women in an effort to halt premature ejacuation or improve sexual sensations.

"We report this case to alert clinicians to this new method of cocaine abuse and to describe its rare and previously unreported complications," the doctors concluded.

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Faulty Aim Fatal
2002 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin
(7 March 2002, Colorado) When Gerald was pulled over by police for erratic driving, he decided it was better to flee from the stolen car on foot, rather than face possible jail time for a parole violation. This was the first of two successive mental lapses. Gerald’s actual thoughts are unknown, but *may* have been something like this: "The officers are only suspicious and alert now... I’ll make them hot, sweaty, tired, and angry by leading them on a wild chase through dark alleys and fields."
During the subsequent foot chase, Gerald attempted to dissuade officers from the pursuit by firing a 9mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun blindly over his shoulder. This was the second illustration of a potential mental deficiency. "Officers are running behind me. They have guns. I have a gun! They have eyes in the front of their heads, so they can see to aim at me. I don't have eyes in the back of my head, so I’ll fire wildly behind me and see what happens!"

Unfortunately, Gerald appears to have been one of those folks who can't chew gum and walk at the same time. Or at least he couldn’t flee and fire at the same time. While discharging the weapon over his shoulder, Gerald managed to shoot himself in the head with his own gun, bringing the chase to a sudden conclusion.

Four shots were fired, none by the officers, who found Gerald's pistol next to his fallen body. Gerald was transported to a local hospital where he expired the following day, thus removing a set of genes deficient in both judgment and coordination from the gene pool.

 

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AMAZING AND USELESS ACCIDENTS

The Charred Scuba Diver

To help put out a forest-fire helicopters sometimes scoop large containers of water out of lakes and oceans to dump on the blazes. During one such occasion a man enjoying a bit of scuba-diving was accidently scooped up and dropped into the burning trees. -Thanks to MiscMan



The Crash

A young girl had decided to sneak out of the house to go to a party her protective parents wouldn't allow her to go to. While she was there she hooked up with a guy she liked and they went to a local make-out spot. The guy was drinking heavily and when he got too demanding she insisted on him taking her back to the party. On the way back they crashed into another vehicle. When the girl awoke in the hospital she knew she was dying, she was told that they guy she'd been with had died in the accident and so had the couple in the other car. She begged a nurse to tell her parents that she was very sorry she'd disobeyed them, the nurse just looked at her. After the girl died another nurse asked why she hadn't said anything with the teen had asked her to give the message to her parents. The nurse said, "I didn't know what to say, the people in the other car were her parents." -Submitted by Jezuz



Curses, Broiled Again!

A woman decided at the last minute to get a quick tan for a special occasion. When she found out about the limits the salons set on their tanning beds, she signed up at several different tanning salons. A few days later, her husband told her she "smelled funny". She showered and showered but the smell wouldn't go away. When she finally went to the doctor he ran some tests and told her: "I'm sorry, it seems you've microwaved your internal organs, there's nothing we can do for you."



The Fatal Boot

Over a hundred years ago, a cowboy shot a rattlesnake. It wasn't dead, so he stomped it to death. Within a few days, the man took ill and died mysteriously. When his son was grown, he proudly took his fathers favorite boots as his own, a few days later he turned grey and died. His wife had been pregnant at the time, and when her son was grown she gave him the boots, telling him "You're father and your grandfather died in these boots, take good care of them." A few days later he died. Finally someone noticed that in the heel of the boot was the rattlesnake's fang, and it had enough venom left for several more generations.

 

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ESCAPED LUNATICS

Two teenage lovers were parked at a local "Make-out" spot when the music on the radio was interrupted by a Special Bulletin. A dangerous Lunatic had escaped from the nearby Insane Asylum, he could be identified by the Hook he had in place of his right hand. The girl insisted she be taken home immediately. When they arrived at her house, the frustrated boy marched over to open her door for her, and hanging from the handle was a bloody hook.


The Killer in the Back Seat

As a woman was getting into her car she noticed a man with a strange look on his face walking quickly toward her. She jumped into the car and drove away, but before long she saw the man was following her in another car. She panicked and drove home as quickly as she could, swerved into the driveway and screamed for her husband. Her husband ran out just as the following man pulled up, jumped from his car and yelled "Lady, there's someone hiding in your back seat!"

see Urban Legend

The Nut & the Nuts

A young woman was driving alone one night near the local Insane Asylum when she heard on the radio that a dangerous Lunatic had escaped. Within minutes she heard a pop and felt one of her tires go flat. She built up her nerve and got out and began to change the tire. Just as she slid the spare on she noticed a man in a plain white uniform staring at her from the bushes. Startled, she dropped the lugnuts and heard them scatter on the ground, as she vainly searched in the darkness for the scattered lug-nuts she heard the man slowly approaching. Terrified, she asked herself in a trembling voice, "What am I going to do now?" and the Lunatic replied "Why don't you take one nut from each of the other wheels and put them on the spare?" She did, and was soon on her way.



The Choking Doberman

A woman came home from shopping to find her Doberman choking on something, she quickly put him in the car and drove him to the vet. The vet told her to go on home while he operated to remove whatever was lodged in the dog's windpipe, and he'd call her when she could pick up her pet. She wasn't home for long when the vet called and told her in an excited voice to get out of the house right now, he'd be by to explain in a few minutes. from her neighbor's window she saw the vet arrive with the police and ran out to see if her dog was alright and what was going on. As the police ran into her house the vet told her what her loving pet had choked on, two human fingers. The police found the escaped Lunatic hiding in the closet nursing his mangled hand.



The Babysitter

A young girl was babysitting some children in a large old house, the children were in bed and she was watching TV when the phone rang. All the voice on the other end did was laugh, she listened for a minute then hung up. A few minutes later it happened again, she was very upset and called the police who told her there was really nothing they could do, but they'd trace the call if it happened again. After she got another call from the laughing voice, she hung up and the police immediately called her and told her to get out of the house immediately, the calls were coming from the upstairs extension, where he'd already murdered the children.

There are many variations of this one, mostly as to what the voice on the phone said or did when he called, it's also been told with two babysitters. The most popular is probably the "Have you checked the Children?" version from the film When a Stranger Calls, see the Movies page for more info.

When a Stranger Calls

The Licked Hand

A young girl was left alone at home for the first time with only her dog to protect her, she heard a bulletin on the radio about a Dangerous Lunatic that had escaped from a nearby asylum, she immediately locked all the doors and went to bed. A dripping sound from the bathroom made it difficult to fall asleep, she reached down under her bed to make sure her faithful dog was by her side, he replied by licking her hand enthusiastically. The next morning when she woke up and went to the bathroom room, she found her dog hanging from the shower nozzle, blood dripping from his torn throat, on the mirror written in blood were the words: "People can lick, too!"

Campfire Tales

The Scratching

A young couple were parked under a tree on a dirt road one night. When the time came to go home, the car wouldn't start so the boy told the girl to lock the doors and he'd go for help. As time went by, the girl's nervousness about her situation grew worse, and by the time she started to hear a scraping noise on the top of the car she was terrified. The police found her the next day, as they took her away from the car they told her not to look back, but she did. Her boyfriend was hanging from a tree limb, his feet scraping the roof of the car.

Also: The boyfriend is hanging upside-down from the limb, his fingernails scratching the roof of the car. The girl often ends up in an asylum from the ordeal.

Urban Legend and He Knows You're Alone

The Roomate's Death

A young coed was lying in her room alone one night, her roomate had warned her she'd be out late, when she heard a gurgling, groan coming toward the room. Frightened, she jumped in the closet and locked the door. The sound came closer until it was obvious it was right outside the door, then whatever it was began to scratch on the door. It didn't stop for what seemed like a long time, and even after the trembling girl was afraid to move, and eventually fell asleep curled up in the closet. The next morning she opened the door to find her roomate lying dead, her throat cut and her fingers and nails bloody from scratching the door for help.



Another Roomate's Death

A young coed was returning from a night out with her friends and she didn't want to disturb her sleeping roomate, so she crept into the room and found her way in the darkness, undressed and slid into bed. The next morning as she awoke and turned to say something to her friend, she saw her mangled body on the blood-soaked bed, and written in her roomate's blood on the wall were the words: "AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU DIDN'T TURN ON THE LIGHT?"

see Urban Legend

 

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More Urbans

Legend= T=True P=Possible NT=Not True

Movies Urban Legends


P John Barrymore once pulled a screen test prank on John Carradine.

NT A drawing of Humphrey Bogart was the model for the Gerber Baby.
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T Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas Day.

NT Clara Bow serviced the entire USC football team during orgies.

T Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

T Charles Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom.

P Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite.

P James Dean's Porsche Spyder kept on killing long after his fatal accident.

P Clark Gable's bare-chested appearance in the 1934 film It Happened One Night led to a dramatic decline in undershirt sales.


NT Audrey Hepburn penned a pithy list of beauty tips.


NT Jim Nabors and Rock Hudson married each other.


NT Silent film star Buster Keaton was contractually precluded from smiling on-screen.

NT The scene in which Brandon Lee was fatally wounded was left in the final cut of The Crow.

NT Two weeks before the 2001 premiere of the movie Angel Eyes, Jennifer Lopez demanded all the film's references to her be changed to "J.Lo

NT Actress Susan Lucci is the daughter of comedienne Phyllis Diller.

NT The car crash that killed Jayne Mansfield also decapitated her.

NT Adolph "Harpo" Marx changed his name to Arthur to avoid an association with Adolph Hitler.

P Marilyn Monroe wore a size 16 dress.

NT Marilyn Monroe had six toes on each foot.

NT Marilyn Monroe was the model for Tinker Bell in Disney's version of Peter Pan.

T The woman Jack Nicholson thought to be his sister turned out to be his mother.

NT Ronald Reagan was the actor originally selected to play the role of Rick Blaine in Casablanca.

NT Rudolph Valentino died from eating food prepared in aluminum cookware.

NT John Wayne was brought to Jesus thanks to a note from an evangelist's injured teenage daughter.

NT Pia Zadora played Anne Frank on stage so badly that the audience yelled "She's in the attic!" when the Nazis arrived.
Disney Movies

P In the film Aladdin, the hero whispers, "Good teenagers, take off your clothes."
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TITANIC URBAN LEGENDS
Legend= T=TRUE NR=NOT REAL P=POSSIBLE

NR Multi-millionaire passenger John Jacob Astor made an archly humorous quip when the Titanic struck an iceberg.


NR Catholic shipyard workers believed the Titanic was doomed because her hull number read 'NO POPE' backwards. IT'S NUMBER WAS 390904!

NR A shipyard worker was accidentally trapped and entombed within the Titanic's hull.

P The Titanic carried a cursed mummy in its hold.*

NR Harvard requires all students to pass a swim test because a benefactor's son drowned when the Titanic sank.*

NR The Titanic was the first ship to send SOS as a distress call.

P A man sneaked his way onto a Titanic lifeboat by donning a woman's dress.

P The Titanic was never advertised as being "unsinkable."

T The sister ship to the Olympic and Titanic was originally intended to be named the Gigantic.

P The last piece of music played by the Titanic's band was "Nearer My God to Thee."

P Some say they saw Captain Smith after the Titanic sank. The oddest of all was somebody claimed they saw him in the streets of boston two years later!

P Some say the ships designer Thomas Andrews survived and moved to California and changed his identity!
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Still More

The Baby in the high Chair

A young couple were waiting impatiently to leave on their first vacation since the baby was born but the woman's aunt, who would be babysitting was thirty minutes late. The young woman called her elderly aunt to find out what was going on, and the old woman apologized for her forgetfulness, and said she'd speed right over. Since the aunt was only a couple miles away, the couple decided they'd go ahead and go rather than wait for her and risk missing their flight. Two weeks later when the couple returned they were horrified to find the baby still in it's high-chair where they'd left it, except now it was dead and bloated, and covered with flies. The aunt really had sped, and unfortunately crashed and died before she made it over.

Three Dead Kids

A woman was giving her daughter a bath while her 3 year old son was supposed to be watching her infant. The boy found the soft spot on the baby's head and pushed, and pressed his finger into the child's brain and killed it. Horrified the boy ran out of the house and into the street where he was hit by an oncoming truck. The woman ran outside to see what was going on, after her hysterical reaction she discovered that the daughter had drowned in the bathtub.

Always do what your mom says

A young girl watched her mother yell at her younger brother for again wetting his pants by yelling that the next time it happened she was going to "cut it off!" A few days later the mother returned from shopping to find her daughter waiting at the door with a bloody kitchen knife, she said "Timmy wet his pants, but don't worry it won't happen again 'cause I did just like you said."

God Took Them

When a little girl's cat had kittens they disappeared after a couple of days, when she asked her mother what happened to them and her mother said "God took them." Months later the cat again had a litter of kittens. Her mother sent her out to run some errands, but before she left she wanted to play with the kittens again. She heard her father coming carrying a bucket and hid from him. She watched while her father put the kittens in a sack and drowned them in the bucket. Later the girl again asked her mother what happened to the kittens. Her mother said "God took them." Several days later the mother asked the girl to watch her brother in the bath tub while she answered the phone. The mother screamed when she came into the bathroom after a few minutes. The girl told her "God took him."
The Disguised Child
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P Ghostly handprints appear on cars at a San Antonio railway crossing.



My cousin and I had gone to San Antonio, and we had heard rumors of some haunted railroad tracks. The story was, a school bus full of children had stalled on these tracks with a train coming. The train was going too fast for there to be time to get the children off. So they all died. When we finally found the tracks, we stopped the car, parking it right on the railroad tracks. We were both a little nervous, and scared, and waited for something to happen. Just when we were about to leave, the car started rolling. We were both too freaked out to do any more than grab each other and gasp, eyes wide, mouths open. After what seemed like an eternity, (but was actually less than 5 minutes tops) the car stopped rolling. We looked around, and we were off the railroad tracks. Now, that may not seem spooky, but what we saw next scared us enough to jump back in the car and make the 6 hour trip home THAT NIGHT. Both of us got out of the car and walked around to the back. After the first 6 hour drive, our car had accumulated quite a bit of dust on it. That's not scary, no. But what was scary was the little sets of handprints all over the back of the car. All the size of children's hands.
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T Decades-old automobile wreck is found alongside a road.


The most similar real-life version of car filled with skeletons discovered would probably be the case of Kimberly Marie Barnes and her four friends, who disappeared from Palm Beach in a van one summer evening in 1979. Their fate remained a mystery until, in 1997, a mud-filled van was spotted in Palm Beach County (Boca Raton) canal by a fisherman eighteen years later; the automobile was dragged out and came within seconds of being shredded for scrap when a Miami salvage yard manager noticed a shin bone fall from the van. Investigators later found a total of five skulls inside.
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