Urban Legend / Folklore.

Xander

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Getting a bit inspired by Savage Kittens story about mud shrimp. I began to wonder.
I know there is about a million different Urban legends going around all over the world. And a lot is different from place to place. Even though they come from the same source.

I was wondering if there is any of those stories that you remember more clearly than any of the other??

In my case it was a story I heard when I was something like 9 yrs old. And I remember it scared the living shit out of me.
Anyway here goes.

This couple is driving home from a late night out. And on their way they have to drive through a big forest area. It's dark and very windy. Not the most pleasurable weather you could think about.
Anyway, the husbond, having had a lot of beverages, suddenly has the urge to go out and take a piss. So he pulls over and tells his wife that he's just gonna step outside for a minute, to do his thing.
The wife, not being overly fond of parking out there in the middle of nowhere, tells him to hurry up. Because she doesn't like to be out here. It creeps her out.
The husbond replies, that he will be just out there, in the lights of the car, so she can see him the whole time.
Well the man steps out and runs to a tree and unzips his pants.
The wife sitting in the car has a funny feeling about the whole scenario, but shrugs it off her, telling herself that she's being silly.
The husbond is taking his time, and the wife, at some point, bends down to pick up her purse. When she looks out the front window again, the husbond is gone. Nowhere to be seen.
She looks out through all the windows in the car. But she can't see him. Reluctantly she steps out of the car and starts calling out for him. Surprise surprise. No answer.
She starts to get really worried about him, and she starts to get really scared. At this point she sees a dark shadow of a man walking just outside the cone of light, the car gives.
She calls out her husbonds name again. But the figure don't answer. It just keeps wondering just outside the light.
No the wife gets really scared and jumps back into the car and locks all the doors.
She is shaking with profound fear, and have no idea what to do.
A hard thump on the roof of the car, makes her faint dead away.

At the break of dawn, she wakes up because something is continuesly hitting the roof of the car. Something heavy.
Still being affraid by last nights happenings. But now being light outside she feels a little more equipped for the situation.
So she ruzzle up as much courage as she can, unlocks the door and rushes out of the car.
As she is about 30 ft away from the car, she turns around. Stops dead on her feet, and hysterically starts screaming.

On top for the car sit a dark clad figure, with her husbonds dead body, and hammers his destroyed head onto the roof of the car.
Supposingly a farmer should have found her walking around screaming in the middle of the road close to the car.
When the police arrived at the scene of the crime. There was no sign of the killer, or the husbonds dead body. All they did find was, blood, bone fracments and a car with a beat up roof.

Seeing it now so many years later, I find it kinda funny. But being 9, this story scared the living crap out of me.
I've heard some variations of it later on. And it should have happend somewhere in the north of England (Flagg??)

So let me hear your stories :)
 
I'm not sure about that one Xander but there are certainly lots of variants of it around. Have any of yo useen the film Urban Legends? I actually know of somebody who went through a very similar thing to the first murder in that film (though I'm glad to say she made it!)

She was on a fairly long car journey and had had to stop off at a petrol station to get a cup of coffee. When she drove away from the petrol station she noticed a car following her with a man gesticulating wildy and flashing his lights at her. This really freaked her out because as far as she could tell there was nothing wrong with her car. Anyway, this continues all the way back to her home and by this point she is seriously panicking.
To cut a long story that everone's probably already heard short, it transpired that a man with an axe(!) had gotten in to her car at the service station. The man that had been following her had seen this and was obviously tryin to warn her of the danger.
Unlike in Urban Legends, she wasn't hurt and the police found the guy quite quickly. Pretty spooky though.

This happened to the mother of a friend of a friend of my girlfriend. Does that mean its bollocks and therefore just another Urban Legend? Who knows.
 
My two favorites are what I call "The tooth brush photos" and the "Baby spider blister". Both are quite disgusting but have become "classics"
 
well, hello...you are supposed to tell the stories. Not just title them and then leave us to imagine what they are about. Exp...get with it..and tell us the stories. Entertain me...it's all about me!!!
 
Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon the vengeful spirit
 
I liked the story about the man who told his live-in girlfriend that it was time for her to move, and then he left for a business trip.

He came back three weeks later, massively relieved to find that everything was in perfect order and the only stuff gone was hers. Until he got to the kitchen, found the phone off the hook, and the Tokyo weather report coming through, loud and clear, as it had for three weeks.
 
Hey now, don't diss these stories by saying they aren't true! I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken..

So anyway, one day he went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub; it was full of ice, and he was sore all over. When he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN! He saw a note on his mirror that said, "Call 911!" But he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!"

He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to save us from Armageddon when the year 2000 rolled around. His newest program will prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $600 Neiman Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true-I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.)

The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped in a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital-the one, actually, where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of X's and O's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to twenty people you will have good luck, but if you only send it to ten people you will only have okay luck, and if you send it to less than ten people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).

So anyway, the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving along without his lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.

Oh, and it's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages.
 
Rosebud said:
Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon the vengeful spirit



My mom and her friends did this in school. They were in a private school, so the excitement was few and far between. Anyways, one of the girls did it and ended up in a mental institution...she apparently DID see it!! eeeeeeek
 
I think that people really did get shot for that gang initiation thing...ummm...it happened here I know.

Now that's scary shit...I mean, there was this deaf man riding a city bus, and he was using sign language...some gang members followed him and beat the shit out of him because they thought he was flashing gang signs. They mutilated his face. HELLO!!! WTF??? Now deaf people can't even "talk" because some asshole might think it's "gang signs"...fuck that.

I'm so damn sick and tired of the bullshit. I'm tired of people getting killed because they aren't wearing the "right color"...WTF?? Should we call ahead? Bring a rolling rack full of clothes to change into as we cross gang lines?

I'm getting WAY too worked up...I need a valium and then go to bed...now, who's joining me? ;)
 
I will!! I will!!

Hiya, SJ!! Are we gonna get any sleep???

I loved the movie Urban Legend!! It was so funny. I can't remember then all, but I liked the one when the guy didn't check under his car to see if anyone was hiding under there & he got his feet cut off........
 
Xander that is the same one that first got my attention as well.
You told it so well I wont bother repeating it again.


EZ
 
Why...thank you EZ.

And while we're at the subject of "Urban Legend" the movie.
Anybody feels like saying:

Candyman....candyman....candyman....candyman....can..Naaahhh I don't think I wanna try my luck.

And how about the legend of Dixon and his 13 inch d***. Who started that one (Dixon???)

Or the legend of Fallens Wonderdog Zeke.

See!! We got a few legends right here :)
 
I know that one!

The toothbrush photos legend (if anyone is interested) is a burglar story.. house ransacked, tv/video/stereo blah blah all stolen. The camera wasn't. anyway a couple of weeks later the family had finished taking all the pictures using up the roll of film. when they got them back there were a couple of unusual pictures. The burglars had inserted their toothbrushes into their anal passages and taken photos.

I think vomiting would be my first reaction..

my favourite legend (someone told me it as a true story.. anyone know if it is?) is the girls in the appartment. A couple of students were sharing an appartment. one was a partier, the other was a homebody. anyway the partier went out one saturday night to party, and the homebody (naturally) stayed at home. At some point in the evening the partier came home for some more money (or her handbag, the story changes), and not wanting to wake her roommate she didn't turn on the light. Leaving again she went on her merry way. The next morning she returned to the appartment to find it blood splattered and her roomates head sitting in the middle of the floor. written on the wall in blood was the message "aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?"
 
Dear SS

Sorry about my neglect of duty on Friday. I don't know how I could forget, even for a second, that it is indeed all about you. My most sincere apologies and I beg your pardon.

Here are the stories.

"The vacation photo's"

A family vacationing in Jamaica returns from a day trip to a waterfall to find that their hotel room has been broken in to.

They quickly make an inventory of what has been stolen which doesnt take too long since the only items they still have in their possesion are a few clothes some rolls of film and the toiletries that were on the sink in the bathroom, specificaly their toothbrushes.

They suffer through the rest of the trip, happy that even if they no longer have a camera that they at least have the film and the memorys therein.

Upon returning home they have the films developed and are looking through them when to their horror there is a photo of the theives laughing with the groups tooth brushes inserted in their rectums.

Baby Spider Blister

A young lady enjoying her holiday in the Bahamas falls asleep on the beach. She awakes to a painful bite on the thigh and the sight of a spider scuttling away.

Very concerned that she has suffered a poisonous bite she rushes to the resorts doctor. The doctor, who she had met the night before, and whose advances she had refused assures her that there are no poisonous spiders in the islands and the bite is just that, a bite.

She enjoys the rest of her holiday despite the mild discomfort of the bite which is growing however slightly by the day. The young lady is not particularly concerned based on the assurance of the doctor (who has made no further advances but merely grins at her when they pass each other over the next few days) and the fact that mosquito and black fly bites often cause marks on her at home.

Several days after returning home the bite has continued to swell and become very painful. She resolves to see her GP the next morning and see what should be done.

Unfortunately she awakes in the middle of the night in excruciating pain to find that the "blister" has burst.... and hundreds of baby spiders poring out of their nest

Again SS my appologies for my negligence.
 
SS has forgiven me. The birds are singing. The sun is shining and all is right with the world...

At this point I am preparing to break in to a rousing rendition of "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" and going skipping through a feild of wildflowers.
 
Urban Legend really true though

Well as I stated before, my sis-in-law is an ER nurse and my mother is an OR nurse (OR scrubs Simply, OR scrubs).

We were sitting around the house about a month or so ago with some friends of ours who had come into town from AZ.

Well somehow the conversation turned to the weirdest thing that had ever happened to you at work.

Monica, my sis-in-law, tells us the story of the gentleman who's wife was out of town on business and he was stimulating himself with her vibrator. Apparently at the moment of climax he got a little frisky and POP! in it went. So he goes to the ER, and explains his situation to the staff. they tried everything she said, fingers, forceps, salad tongs (I guess that's why the food is so gross). Finally they had to admit him to surgery to remove it, now when the guy comes to from the anestheia, he asked if he could get it back. Monica had to tell him "oh no, we need to keep that it's now a surgical sample."

So not only did the guy go through the embarassment of getting it removed, he had to go out and buy a replacement for his wife.
 
OR Scrubs...did someone say scrubs? Oh me oh my I do so love that look. Comfortable, yet professional. Bested only by a sexy man in uniform...those are always tops in my book.:)

Exp ~ Glad to have made your day. What can I say? I'ma forgiving soul. That and the fact that I fully intend to insist that you make it up to me ;)
 
What have I done!!

Sammyjo said:
Rosebud said:
Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon the vengeful spirit



My mom and her friends did this in school. They were in a private school, so the excitement was few and far between. Anyways, one of the girls did it and ended up in a mental institution...she apparently DID see it!! eeeeeeek

If you drink "Bloody Mary" thirteen times, it will have the same result.
 
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