# Do You Believe In Bloody Mary? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891 "2003-10-11T20:07:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sunrise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@sunrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunrise)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/1 "2003-10-11T20:07:41Z")
Everyone has heard of the story of Bloody Mary and if you turn around 3 times and look in the bathroom mirror you might see her and if you do she might try to kill you. I heard that her child was kidnapped and Mary went mad and when she found the kidnappers she slaughtered them but never found the childs body. Do you believe in Bloody Mary? I do. Bloody Mary’s without the Worschestire sauce! 😃 Curses I bet fall on those who prefer Caesars, which have Clamato juice in them instead of tomato (which is a mixture of tomato and clam juice). Fess up! Who tried to summon Bloody Mary and did you ever believe? ---
**Author:** ![Herge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Herge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herge)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/2 "2003-10-11T20:10:11Z")
Bloody Mary? Load of nonsense. Its the Candyman you should be scared of. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/3 "2003-10-11T22:57:58Z")
My cousin and I tried to summon Bloody Mary when we were kids. The method we used was to chant her name three times. We made it to two repeats, convinced ourselves we could see the beginning of something in the mirror, and ran. So yes, I guess I believed when I was around 8 or so. Now? Both Bloody Marys and Caesars are vile, I’ll stick to my cranberry/vodka thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/4 "2003-10-12T00:15:25Z")
Sure. She makes a great drink mix. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/5 "2003-10-12T01:05:39Z")
I’ve never had a Bloody Mary (tomato juice and booze? YUCK!), and I’ve never tried to summon Bloody Mary-I was too chicken. According to my aunt, what she saw was her own reflection-all distorted from being dizzy. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/6 "2003-10-12T01:55:28Z")
Oh, Ceasar, how I do miss thee. Clamato is all but unheard of here. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/7 "2003-10-12T03:13:48Z")
When I was in grade school, I attended a rather large birthday party for a good friend. A lot of the other girls, that evening, poured into the bathroom and started chanting Bloody Mary, while I and another attendee, both far too chicken to risk such paranormal activities, huddled in the adjacent living room in our sleeping bags. We felt justified in this action when all of the other partygoers started screaming and streaming out of the bathroom at a high rate of speed. It later turned out that nobody had seen anything; one girl had been spooked by something and screamed without seeing anything at all, and everyone else screamed because they assumed somebody else had seen a ghost… ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/8 "2003-10-12T03:21:25Z")
It’s on optical illusion. Don’t remember exactly how it goes but basically you stand in front of a mirror with your eyes tightly shut for so many seconds. When you open them you see a red version of yourself in the mirror. Something like that. Anybody remember the details? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/9 "2003-10-12T03:33:27Z")
I tried once, but all I got was Lady Jane Grey… ---
**Author:** ![LadySybil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LadySybil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadySybil)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/10 "2003-10-12T04:21:42Z")
I believed in Bloody Mary, but the legend I was told was that she was Mary Queen of Scots. I was too chicken to try to summon her though. I got freaked out just looking at a mirror in the dark, unless I was practicing my psycho grin that I used on bullies. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/11 "2003-10-12T04:22:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > \*\*I tried once, but all I got was Lady Jane Grey… \*\* Nice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![crispety](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@crispety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crispety)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/12 "2003-10-12T06:12:40Z")
Eh, I always hoped that Bloody Mary would appear when I was a kid, chanting at the mirror in the girl’s bathroom with my friends. She never did, though I freaked out my friends by screaming at the top of my lungs. Maybe it’s perception…if you really believe in it, you’ll think you’ll see it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/13 "2003-10-12T20:19:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LadySybil \* > \*\*I believed in Bloody Mary, but the legend I was told was that she was Mary Queen of Scots. \*\* Wouldn’t that have been her cousin then, Bloody Mary Tudor? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/14 "2003-10-12T20:45:35Z")
And the other relative, Bloody Mary Four-Door? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/15 "2003-10-12T21:06:46Z")
I believe in straight liqour. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/16 "2003-10-12T22:14:16Z")
First off… Bloody Mary’s are really gross drinks (but then I can’t even drink tomato juice so meh) Second… intellectually I don’t believe in Bloody Mary, but I admit to still needing to have the bathroom lights on at night. Even if it wakes me up from my half asleep state the light _cannot_ be off. ---
**Author:** ![Kieras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a87d85/32.png) [@Kieras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kieras)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/17 "2003-10-12T23:50:20Z")
Oh and I thought this thread was going to be about hangovers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/18 "2003-10-13T00:02:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sunrise \* > **… Bloody Mary’s without the Worschestire sauce! 😃 …** That is a perfect phonetical spelling of the way I say ‘Worcestershire Sauce’ when I am most in need of a Bloody Mary. BTW, a Bloody Mary without ‘Wusster Sauce’ is a Vodka and Tomato Juice… sounds horrendous. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/19 "2003-10-13T03:47:16Z")
I tired saying “Bloody Mary” repeatedly in front of the mirror… and there she was. And she won’t stop singing “Bali Hai”!!! It’s driving me nuts! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891/20 "2003-10-13T03:58:05Z")
So, am I the ONLY one who **always** sees something scary in the mirror? ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-bloody-mary/206891.md?page=2)