YEAH, BUT THIS REALLY HAPPENED--SEVERAL TIMES!
http://snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bodybed.htm

SPOOKY FOR KIDS WHO BELIEVE THIS JUNK:
Remember how when you were a kid, grownups would tell you things to scare you out of bad behavior? Sometimes they would tell a lie to discourage you from doing something that just wasn't a very good idea. Sometimes they would lie because they just didn't want you to do something.

1. Pen ink can kill you. My mother often told a story about her elementary school art teacher who discouraged the kids from inking up their skin by saying forbodingly: "I had a student years ago who drew all over himself with a fountain pen and he died!"

Logical question not asked: "I drip ink on my hands by accident, why don't I get terribly ill?"

2. My friend Kyle's mom was fond of the gum-on-lungs canard. "If you swallow chewing gum, it sticks to your lungs for seven years." The plausibility of this relies on children having not one iota of anatomical education.
Logical question not asked: "If food gets in my lungs, why don't I drown when I drink a glass of water?"
Variation on 2. It takes chewing gum seven years to through your system.
Why seven years? Why not four years or eight years? Probably because the number seven is loaded with heavy connotations of its own.

3. This one has gone by the wayside, thank God, but it really did make the rounds in generations past: "If you do that, you'll go blind!"
Logical rejoinder that killed the myth: "Can't I just do it until I need glasses?"
Variations on 3: You'll grow hair on your hands, you'll render yourself sterile, you'll render yourself impotent when you get the chance for the real thing, and of course, you'll make Baby Jesus cry.

4. If you make that face, it'll freeze like that!
Did anybody ever believe this one?

5. You must wait sixty minutes after eating before you can go swimming. If you don't you'll get stomach cramps and drown.
Logical questions not asked: Why would a popsicle have the same time limit as a bowl of Texas chili?  So if I take the plunge at 59:30, it's to the Davey Jones locker for me?

Uhhh...can't think of any others at the moment, but they're out there!

OTHER URBAN LEGEND STILL MAKING THE ROUNDS, AND BELIEVED BY THOUSANDS OF INTELLIGENT ADULTS, ONE OF WHOM WAS MY FRIEND, LESLIE, A VEGETARIAN CHEF AND NUTRITIONIST. I SAY, FOR CHRISSAKES, WHY DOES ANYBODY WITH HALF A BRAIN BELIEVE THIS KOOKY TALE?

Kentucky Fried Chicken had to change their name to KFC because the meat they serve comes from a genitically modified chickens so mutated they are not really chickens any more. Snopes summarizes the obvious bullsh!t here....in case you haven't figured it out already!
http://snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp

As a child, I had an irrational fear of the Sasquatch!  :D

My favorite is the one with the woman and the blind man.. it comes from Russia..

A woman walks down the street and runs into a blind man. She apologizes, and the man asks her to deliver a package to an address he writes on the box. She agrees. She's walking down the street and looks back and sees him sprinting away. Suspecting something, she goes to the police. When they arrive at the address, they find several rooms with recently deceased and mutilated human bodies, and human meat wrapped in paper in freezers in the basement. The package she was delivering contained nothing but a note saying "This will be the last one I send you today. I'll stop by for the money later. Treat her like the rest."

My favorite is the one with the woman and the blind man.. it comes from Russia..

A woman walks down the street and runs into a blind man. She apologizes, and the man asks her to deliver a package to an address he writes on the box. She agrees. She's walking down the street and looks back and sees him sprinting away. Suspecting something, she goes to the police. When they arrive at the address, they find several rooms with recently deceased and mutilated human bodies, and human meat wrapped in paper in freezers in the basement. The package she was delivering contained nothing but a note saying "This will be the last one I send you today. I'll stop by for the money later. Treat her like the rest."


I guess it's not a monster, but it IS an urban legend.

I guess it's not a monster, but it IS an urban legend.

Weeeellll, you know, RUSSIA, I wouldn't rule it out!

That reminds me of a scene from "The Junky's Christmas" by William S. Burroughs. This is not an urban legend, just one the many grisly scenes in the surreal doped-out world of Burroughs:

Our anti-hero, Danny-the Car-wiper is broke and junk-sick on xmas day, looking for something to steal and pawn for a a fix:

I gotta score somehow. If I had some decent clothes...

Danny saw a suitcase standing in a doorway. Good leather. He stopped and pretended to look for a cigarette.

Funny, he thought. No one around. Inside maybe, phoning for a cab.

The corner was only a few houses. Danny took a deep breath and picked up the suitcase. He made the corner. Another block, another corner. The case was heavy.

I got a score here all night, he thought. Maybe enough for a sixteenth and a room. Danny shivered and twitched, feeling a warm room and heroin emptying into his vein. Let's have a quick look.

He opened the suitcase. Two long packages in brown wrapping paper. He took one out. It felt like meat. He tore the package open at one end, revealing a woman's naked foot. The toenails were painted with purple-red polish. He dropped the leg with a sneer of disgust.

"Holy Jesus!" he exclaimed. "The routines people put down these days. Legs! Well I got a case anyway." He dumped the other leg out. No bloodstains. He snapped the case shut and walked away.

"Legs!" he muttered.

I always inferred this to be an illustration of the junky's need for a fix overriding even the most disgusting things imaginable. Anyway...

I don't know if this counts, but my friends always said that if you stood in a dark room with a mirror and spun around saying "Bloody Mary" 5 times, and then looked in the mirror, you'd see her standing behind you.

I don't know if this counts, but my friends always said that if you stood in a dark room with a mirror and spun around saying "Bloody Mary" 5 times, and then looked in the mirror, you'd see her standing behind you.


Lol, the things kids think of... ::)

Loch Ness Monster, since learning that the famous image/photo from the 30s, was first published on 1st April.

Weeeellll, you know, RUSSIA, I wouldn't rule it out!

That reminds me of a scene from "The Junky's Christmas" by William S. Burroughs. This is not an urban legend, just one the many grisly scenes in the surreal doped-out world of Burroughs:

Our anti-here, Danny-the Car-wiper is broke and junk-sick on xmas day, looking for something to steal and pawn for a a fix:

I gotta score somehow. If I had some decent clothes...

Danny saw a suitcase standing in a doorway. Good leather. He stopped and pretended to look for a cigarette.

Funny, he thought. No one around. Inside maybe, phoning for a cab.

The corner was only a few houses. Danny took a deep breath and picked up the suitcase. He made the corner. Another block, another corner. The case was heavy.

I got a score here all night, he thought. Maybe enough for a sixteenth and a room. Danny shivered and twitched, feeling a warm room and heroin emptying into his vein. Let's have a quick look.

He opened the suitcase. Two long packages in brown wrapping paper. He took one out. It felt like meat. He tore the package open at one end, revealing a woman's naked foot. The toenails were painted with purple-red polish. He dropped the leg with a sneer of disgust.

"Holy Jesus!" he exclaimed. "The routines people put down these days. Legs! Well I got a case anyway." He dumped the other leg out. No bloodstains. He snapped the case shut and walked away.

"Legs!" he muttered.

I always inferred this to be an illustration of the junky's need for a fix overriding even the most disgusting things imaginable. Anyway...
Now this reminds me of a true story ! There was a woman in London who was dog sitting for her friend's elderly pooch whist her friend was on holiday. She took the dog for a walk in hyde park and halfway round the dog dropped dead.As she had come out with the dog on the underground she felt she couldn't go back home on it carrying a dead dog! So she hid the dog in some bushes and went home to collect a box big enough to put the dog in to carry it home. In the end she found a suitcase, went back for the dog and carried it in the suitcase to the underground.She was struggling up the steps with the case when a man asked her if he could help.He took the case from her and started up off with it, getting faster and faster until he was running and had disappeared from view. So when her friend came home from holiday she had the unhappy task of telling her that not only had her dog died but he had been stolen as well !   

Lol, the things kids think of... ::)


I heard that she came out of the mirror and attacked you (the person doing it).

I don't know if this counts, but my friends always said that if you stood in a dark room with a mirror and spun around saying "Bloody Mary" 5 times, and then looked in the mirror, you'd see her standing behind you.


I do that to my little cousins to scare them. ;D

Now this reminds me of a true story ! There was a woman in London who was dog sitting for her friend's elderly pooch whist her friend was on holiday. She took the dog for a walk in hyde park and halfway round the dog dropped dead.As she had come out with the dog on the underground she felt she couldn't go back home on it carrying a dead dog! So she hid the dog in some bushes and went home to collect a box big enough to put the dog in to carry it home. In the end she found a suitcase, went back for the dog and carried it in the suitcase to the underground.She was struggling up the steps with the case when a man asked her if he could help.He took the case from her and started up off with it, getting faster and faster until he was running and had disappeared from view. So when her friend came home from holiday she had the unhappy task of telling her that not only had her dog died but he had been stolen as well !   

:D
How do you explain that in the police report?
"Constable, my suitcase was just stolen."
"Did the suitcase contain anything of value?"
"My friend's dead dog."
"I dunno what you been drinking, lady, but I suggest you just go home and sleep it off!"
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I don't know if this counts, but my friends always said that if you stood in a dark room with a mirror and spun around saying "Bloody Mary" 5 times, and then looked in the mirror, you'd see her standing behind you.

"Bloody Mary," "Candyman," whatever you want to call it is one of my favorite phenomena employing the power of suggestion. I detailed "Bloody Mary" borrowing copiously from Snopes back on page 2 of this thread. The power of suggestion is how voodoo works.

just like a zombie, this thread returns from the dead --for the holiday

It's too easy when you've got good old snopes.com at your fingertips.

TRUE:
http://snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/hanging.asp

URBAN LEGEND:
http://snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp
I love the Amityville Horror because the book scared the living daylights out of my sister, and countless others, and then the whole thing turned out to be bogus.  Except for the DeFeo murders, which catalyzed the nonsense, not one part of it turned out to be true!  No supernatural activity.  No delusions of supernatural activity.  No inexplicable phenomena whatsoever.  Just stone bullsh*t!!!
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