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?

From college, I remember the one where Snapple used chemicals in their product designed to sterilize black men.

From childhood, I vaguely remember hearing a kid killed himself by consuming Pop Rocks and soda at the same time.

what's the one that comes out of the mirror if u say her name with the lights off? that one scares me.

The one about the gas station attendant telling a lady that her credit card didn't ring up correctly and to come inside and talk about it. Then he tells her that there's this man in the back of her car crouched down with an axe.

namepeace said:

I always heard that was Mikey from the Life cereal commercial.

AsianBomb777 said:

What happened next? Did she pay by cheque?

fathermcmeekle said:

fathermcmeekle said:

unlucky7 said:

bloody mary

DanceWme said:

omg that is scaring me I never heard of that one!

ZombieKitten said:

go in the bathroom and turn out the lights and lock the door.
stand in front of the mirror and say bloody mary 12 times
she will come out and get u

unlucky7 said:

BIGGIE SMALLS.

DanceWme said:

fuckin no way I am doing that!!!!!

FruitToAttractBears said:

ZombieKitten said:

oh come on
please try it

DanceWme said:

no!!!!

ZombieKitten said:

DanceWme said:

That shit used to scare the hell outta me too. They stole that idea for Candyman.

ZombieKitten said:

Ok well, how about just saying "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" then?

JustErin said:

LOL ^ yeah candyman scared the crap out of me too. OMG I was so scared.

a woman bought a cashmere sweater in a department store. the sweater had been made in india. the woman brought the sweater home and put it into her dresser drawer. a few weeks later, she opened the drawer, and a poisonous snake slithered out and bit her.

that kept me awake for many many months.

purplerein said:

were u really scared at that?

the girl and the gearshift....

My parents fell for the whole "Satanic panic" flap in the early-to-mid 80s. If there was an urban legend about how Satanists were aiming to kidnap kids and sacrifice them to Satan, they LOVED to believe it.

They believed that Dungeons and Dragons had been directly linked to human sacrifice, rape, suicide, etc.

They REALLY believed in satanic backward masking on records.

When they first heard George Michael's song "I Want Your Sex," which incidentally was changed to "I Want Your Love" on all California radio stations, my Dad thought George sang "Satan's on my side" when he actually sang "It's taken so much time."

My parents believed some wacko preacher on TBN in the fall of 1988 when he said that the underground Satanic network was going to kidnap and sacrifice 100 kids to Satan on Halloween night. My dad told me "If you see someone hanging around school in like a Motley Crue or Ozzy Osbourne shirt, you run and call the cops."

Yes, every word of this is true...

namepeace said:

I remember my cousin telling me that story.

DanceWme said:

The story changes though. I've heard say the name 3 times and I've heard say the name 5 times. Some people would even say "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, I killed your baby" and she'd come through the toilet to get you. Others say the mirror. So yeah, the story's been changed plenty of times.

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Has anyone actually SEEN Bloody Mary? I've never done the technique...I'm scared too! My loft is already haunted...don't need to add to the ghosts.

SnakePeel said:

cool....I wanna live in a haunted house. I really would like to experience seeing a ghost. People always have these awesome stories about their paranormal encounters, and well I wanna be one of those people. Mainly to put an end to my slight skepticalism. I love hearing about them though

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...