Take it from me, it works better with apples.
Some girl who goes to somebody’s cousin’s school tried to have sex with a hot dog but it got stuck and she had to go to emergency to have it removed.
I heard many of these, and can add the story that a teacher told as fact. His friend bought a new Volkswagen, and began hearing rattling noises almost as soon as he drove away from the lot. The guy immediately took the Beetle back to the dealership, but a thorough search of the engine and drivetrain revealed no problems.
So the friend got back in and headed home, only to hear the same rattling. This time the mechanics tore the car apart, and finally found the cause of the noise – a bunch of scrap metal inside one of the wheels. Accompanying the nuts, bolts, and other detritus was a note which read: HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR CAR, YOU IMPERIALIST PIG? Apparently some anti-American worker at the plant knew that because the speedometer was in miles per hour instead of kph, the auto was headed to the USA, and thus to a buyer who richly deserved contempt…
We had the Pope Lick Monster-it was quite famous locally.
This isn’t one I heard from a friend of a friend, but one that I’ve seen in books and online. It’s my favourite and I remember it creeped the hell out of my when I first read it.
Any of you guys familiar with a horror story series illustrated by Stephen Gammell? Those illustrations are what nightmares are made of, and I kind of don’t understand why they were used in a children’s series of books! Even now some of them give me chills!
My friend told me about a supermarket in Malaysia (so far away it must be true) where people had kidnapped a kid and dyed his/her hair and drugged him/her so they could escape with the child. They were discovered at the door. I thought that story was terrifying until I read the Big Book Of Urban Legends.
We were on a car ride with my dad and he drove past a park (apparently a popular “parking” place when he and mom were teens) and told us that the story of “a woman had been stranded in her car while her boyfriend went for help, she heard scratching, got scared, turned out it was his dead hand scratching against her roof as he hung from a tree” had happened in said park.
I totally believed him for a long time. But it’s an urban legend
We also have Mutane Town just a few miles south of me, where lots of kids went to go scare themselves but I was never brave enough to go.
Chewing gum sticks to your ribs.
No, it doesn’t. It does stay in your stomach for 7 years, though.
:eek:
There was an ice cream man around my neighborhood that did actually sell crack from his van thing. I remember him offering it to us as we got off the bus from our middle school.
I don’t see him anymore, though.
I’m pretty sure I heard Bowie’s ex-wife on a talk show years ago saying that she caught them in bead together.
:smack: I should’a read further!
What about if you eat watermelon seeds (or any other seeds for that matter) you will grow watermelons in your belly?
Also, what about the one with Phil Collins and that song about drowning?
Oh man those illustrations used to scare the crap out of me when I was reading those books in my elementary school library. Definitely some of the scariest ones I’ve seen, especially for a children’s book
Those hoverboards from Back to the Future were real but Mattel said they were too dangerous to sell to kids.
Our elementary school, from the sky, is shaped exactly like a swastika. (it’s actually half of one)
Lake Tahoe had a monster in it. Loch Ness=Nessie. Tahoe=Tessie. So well known they made T-shirts of it.
Bloody Mary. If you don’t know, don’t ask, knowing will just just kill brain cells.
Swallowing grape seeds will give you appendicitis (which will strike when you are on a camping trip, 100’s of miles from a hospital).
Swallowing chewing gum will clog you innards 9requiring an operation to put right).
-Golf balls contain an acid that will immediately cause blindness.
-Dialing your own phone number will wreck the telelphone company; and black suited men will come an haul you off to jail.
-swimming in muddy ponds will cause you to contract polio.
These are only the ones I actually believed at some point:
Mikey, the Life cereal kid, dying from pop rocks and coke.
Car with horrible stench because someone died in it.
Spiders in the bouffant hairdo.
$200,000 Cookie recipe.
Peanut butter, dog and surprise party.
Gang members and flashing your lights.
Woman who found a small “dog” on the beach and took it home, turned out to be a giant Indonesian rat.
I heard the elevator story, but it was Eddie Murphy, not Reggie Jackson and it was “hit the floor” not “sit lady” (hit the floor makes infinitely more sense in an elevator, don’t you think?)
Girl with the hot dog story.
Man waking up in bathtub of ice, his kidney had been removed.
The Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight” drowning story.
Chewing gum in your stomach for seven years.
Nobody else heard about everyone’s favorite twins, Lemonjello and Oranjello?? Somebody in my neighborhood tried to pass that one on to me.
I was told as a kid that “sea scallops” don’t exist. Bay scallops were real scallops, but what you saw for sale as sea scallops were actually disks of skate or shark meat. Apparently there’s a grain of truth to this, in that some dishonest restaurants and fishmarkets have used skate to make imitation scallops.
We also had the van full of killer clowns myth.
I lived in Waukesha County, & we had Phantom Kangaroos.
http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2004/January_04/01242004_05.asp
I win.