Just before I went on Thanksgiving break last Friday I was chatting with the kids towards the end of the period and they were asking me if I knew the legend of La Llorena, this chick in a graveyard not to far from the school I work at that murdered both her kids by drowning them then killed herself with rat poison at the school some 40 years ago that haunts the school and the neighboring streets, and I was like no then I was telling them stories about how when you eat pop rocks and chase them down with pepsi your stomach explodes or if you feed seagulls with alka seltzer in pieces of bread (which I shamefully admit to watching one of my college dorm mates do and it actually worked) that they would let out constant streams of feces. Which urban myths or legends do your remember as a kid?

I remember when I was a kid that if another kid came up to you singing "mama se, mama sa, mama coo sa" you had to counter it by singing "Chaka Kahn let me rock you Chaka Kahn...Let me rock you that's all I wanna do". If you didn't your afro would fall out...

I remember the myth that if you watched Fraggle Rock with the lights off little puppets with a postive attitude would come out and sing and steal your drawers...

Ok these weren't so much myths but lies spreaded by me through the neigborhood...

the girl and the gearshift....

karmatornado said:

...are you refering to the story of "la llorona" (or "the weeping woman")? That's a very, very old folk tale that's popular in Central America. There are different version, but essentially some woman's kids drown so she kills herself and her ghost wanders near lakes and rivers crying, and drowns any kids that come near her.

As for my childhood; yeah I remember the pop rocks tale, the Alka-Seltzer/seagull experiment, and the bloody mary story.

My wife said that she was told as a kid that eating potato chips with green parts on 'em would kill you.
And a Jehova's Witness lady once told me as a kid that Smurf dolls came to life and attacked someone. (Yeah, I thought she was crazy then too.)

I remember when I was a kid that if another kid came up to you singing "mama se, mama sa, mama coo sa" you had to counter it by singing "Chaka Kahn let me rock you Chaka Kahn...Let me rock you that's all I wanna do". If you didn't your afro would fall out...

I remember the myth that if you watched Fraggle Rock with the lights off little puppets with a postive attitude would come out and sing and steal your drawers...

Ok these weren't so much myths but lies spreaded by me through the neigborhood...

Sinister said:

WTF? I'm dyin!



I remember playing bloody mary at slumber parties. A bunch of girls would go in the bathroom and turn off the lights. We would only say "bloody mary" one or two times before everyone ran out screaming though.

illimack said:

so nobody tried saying it 3 times?

ZombieKitten said:

Zombie did u try it yet?

DanceWme said:

no! I am waiting for you to go first!!!!

illimack said:

so nobody tried saying it 3 times?

purplerein said:

were u really scared at that?

ZombieKitten said:

an angry bartender will appear and say "I heard you the first time!"