Pretty boring. Just the golf ball thing. But I love the Kiss story and the 666. Nowadays, we all know you must dial 1 first.
Well, there was the “gross-out contest” between Frank Zappa (None of the kids who told this really knew who Zappa was but we were all sure he was bad-ass) and Alice Cooper (who we all knew about as the puppy-killing Satanic rocker who got his name from the spirit of the original A.C., a witch who was burned in the Middle Ages, that he contacted on a Ouija board). Zappa pooped on the stage, but Alice won the contest by eating the poop.
Or vice versa.
Oh yeah, and Alice Cooper’s song “Billion Dollar Babies” was actually about his offer of a billion dollars to buy a baby so he could kill it on stage. When I told my classmate that he couldn’t do that because it was illegal, I was so informed that “sure he could! He’s Alice Cooper! He can get away with anything!”
Of course, none of us had any idea that for Alice Cooper to have a billion dollars at all was total nonsense.
McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc admitting on TV that he donated to The Church of Satan. Also, McD’s used ground worms instead of ground beef.
Pizza Hut used dogfood instead of ground beef.
During a mild winter, someone would always note that the Bible said that in the End Times, we would only know the seasons would change by the turning of the leaves.
In the very early 1970’s, a friend assured me that the Bible said that the End would come when “The Throne of Egypt” was moved three times. It had been moved twice and “they” were preparing to move it a third time. As I got older & learned about Bible prophecy, I realized that the kid had really mangled whatever he heard about the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. Also, I just now realize that it kinda sounds like a mangled version also of the legend of “The Stone of Destiny”.
From an older version of the Wiki page:
In St. Louis, at my school there was a story that Sean Cassidy had approached the KISS drummer and had been badly beaten up.
I mean, look at them!!! It must be true!
The big UL from my grade school days was the ‘druggie babysitter.’ The girl is left in charge of an infant, with instructions to put a roast in the oven at 5pm, and the baby to bed at 6pm. However the girl takes some Angel Dust (which I guess dates me pretty thoroughly - when was the last time you heard about Angel Dust?), and winds up putting the roast in the crib at 5, and the baby in the…well, you know.
I also heard that Mikey from the “Life” cereal ads died when he ate pop rocks & drank soda at the same time (because that makes your stomach explode, y’know.)
There was also the story of the ‘hooked arm’ killer, which a variation of the lovers’ lane story.
Ozzy Osbourne reputedly bit the heads off bats as a part of his concert. Yes, I know that he actually did this once (and only once), but the talk at school was that he did it as part of his regular show. Everyone seemed to know someone who went backstage at an Ozzy show, and there was an entire menagerie of animals - bats, dogs, big cats, horses, even an elephant! - that Ozzy intended to slaughter onstage.
Masturbation causes you to go blind.
I grew up in the south in the '80s and '90s so there were more satan-worshipper ULs than you could shake a stick at. Everybody was a devil-worshipping, baby-eating, cult member demon in disguise.
Let’s see, what else . . .
There was “Old Bucket”, an old black man who wore a bucket on his head and kidnapped/killed children.
“Crazy Ivan”, an old Russian who put his parents in an oven and kidnapped/killed children (he was actually a real person but I doubt he did anything to his parents or ever hurt a kid.)
“Bloody Mary” stories out the wazoo.
Every sharp curve in the road was “dead man’s curve”, haunted by someone who died there.
Scientists in Russia dug a hole so deep that they heard the tormented souls in hell screaming.
The bible said “the bear and the eagle will clash” (referring to Russia and the US) to start the end times.
Yellow#5 shrinks your dick, and Dale Earnhardt had the world’s smallest penis from drinking so much Sun Drop (this was probably the #1 most popular UL of my entire childhood. It was so well-known that everybody started saying that their doctor prescribed them yellow5, implying their dick was TOO big.)
Every year starting in 5th or 6th grade, some girl had to be rushed to the emergency room because she stole a hot dog from the cafeteria, took it to the girl’s locker room to masturbate with it, it broke off inside her and got lost, and then got infected. Sadly, it was always a specific girl and we always believed it.
Samson’s Used Car Auto Sales in Charlotte, NC - their motto was “We’re Dealin’!” UL had it that they sold worthless cars with trunks full of cocaine. “Everybody knew” that whenever the dog was shown in the commercial, they had a new shipment of cocaine.
There was a haunted house that cost $50 and took 3 hours to go through and it was so scary that if you made it to the end you got your money back. There was always some currently-popular NFL players who DIDN’T MAKE IT! I see this one persisting to this day, out here on the other side of the country, but I’ve never been able to find this haunted house. Everyone’s cousin went last year, but nobody seems to have gone themselves.
Lots of NES ULs that I don’t remember clearly enough to faithfully repeat them . . . one I recall that persisted for awhile after the game was released was that Mike Tyson [in Mike Tyson’s Punch Out] was literally unbeatable.
Ooh, I forgot about the devil worshipers. One Halloween, the two local churches had a “ghost rally” for all the kids, and instead of anything fun, we got to hear about all of the animal sacrifices around town. Hysteria at its finest.
There was also the dude who ate too much acid and thought he was an orange, and used to sleep, hanging by a rope tied around his waist, so he could feel like he was back on the tree.
Harmonious Discord, we had a stick shift masturbation story, too, only it wasn’t because of drugs - it was because the girl was such a slut. They named her by name, too. Poor girl. Her boyfriend apparently had a dick so big that his dad punched him when he saw it. I’m sure he didn’t mind people thinking that about him.
Sigh. So this isn’t true, huh.
It’s true, but highly misleading. You should clean the wound, but Tetanus doesn’t set in for a while (I think the toxin takes a couple weeks to release, but don’t quote me) and if you got early symptoms (trouble opening your jaw wide being one) you’d probably go see the doctor anyway. It really has nothing to do with rusty metal though, it’s just that rusty things tend to reside in the same areas Tetanus does and the puncture wound serves as a good way to get the bacteria in you. It neglects the fact you can also get it from deep wounds of any kind, including an animal bite (not sure if this is correct, but I heard that they often test for Tetanus when they test for rabies because of this).
Er… from what I’ve heard, IANAD, but I did hear it from a doctor. So there ya go.
Way I heard it, guy thought he was a glass of orange juice and didn’t want to sleep horizontally 'cos he was afraid he’d spill.
Hm…
Bloody Mary, and the light as a feather stiff as a board levitation thing
poison and razors at halloween
no swimming for an hour or you may drown
dog bites always cause rabies, so avoid any dog you do not know and the cure is huge needles in the stomach
bats always fly into girls hair, even if you are outside and they are 20 feet away
poison inside golf balls
nessie, bigfoot, the yeti and the jersey devil
some murderer escaped Attica or SingSing and is hiding out in the adirondak mountains
douching with coke and aspirin will keep a girl from getting pregnant [eew, just eew
Aruvqan four people using their index fingers can lift a person of normal weight when they go through the syncing motions and lift in congress. Our hippie teacher taught us how to do it in 9th grade. Ignore this if that’s not what you were referring to.
THat is exactly it … though young girls attribute it to magic not coordination =)
Just like any other form of pseudomagic done like the bloody mary seances where something odd happens purely through suggestivity=)
The closest to this I have ever heard of was Richard “Lord British” Garriot’s high-end haunted houses that were quite the spectacle. I didn’t hear about any refunds a the end, but then again they were very popular and for a while were invitation only. By all accounts the haunted houses were pretty intense and had very large casts working them.
I was just wondering yesterday if this was true or if I was the only one who heard it! I was always told as a kid that the rabies vax was 18 shots in the belly button. Is it true or remotely true or used to be true? Why the belly button?
The rabies shot used to be a lot of shots into the stomach muscles. 18 sounds right but I don’t know any longer. The shots are nothing like they used to be.
In first or second grade, there was a story of some kid the previous year who was leaning back in his chair and fell over, and his HEAD split open when it hit the floor and there were BRAINS all over the place!
I notice that kids in my generation heard a lot of horror stories about satanists sacrificing in the woods. (For us, there was a church way back in the woods that was rumored to be run by satanists.)
What about kids in earlier generations? Did a classmate of a classmate catch polio from a swimming pool, or was some kid’s parents rumored to be spies for the Russians or the Germans?
Around here, it was Burger King that used ground worms instead of ground beef. McDonald’s used ground kangaroo meat.