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Any urban legends or myths you legit believed at one point?
- Thread starter MrMatt555
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Does Bloody Mary count? If so yes I did when I was in a child.
In elementary, we all believed and would try to get each other to say it in the boy's bathroom. Sometimes we'd shove someone in and held the door shut till they say it, usually we'd give up or a faculty shows up/
In elementary, we all believed and would try to get each other to say it in the boy's bathroom. Sometimes we'd shove someone in and held the door shut till they say it, usually we'd give up or a faculty shows up/
Yup. Always seemed totally plausible given the reputation of NYC's sewer system and the sorts of things that got tossed down into it.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
There was this path I had to cut through to get home from my buddies place when I was a kid. After reading that story going through the path at night I was scared AF riding my bike through it.
Even worse when I didn't bike and had to walk :(
There was this path I had to cut through to get home from my buddies place when I was a kid. After reading that story going through the path at night I was scared AF riding my bike through it.
Even worse when I didn't bike and had to walk :(
My parents bought me a copy of the Weekly World News as a gag when I was a kid. I had no conception that a newspaper could be anything other than completely factual, so for weeks I was telling people JFK was alive.
Molly Crenshaw. She was THE urban legend if you grew up in the St. Louis suburbs. She was a witch whose body was chopped to pieces, and then over time the pieces were supposedly found to be moving closer together. I think it's why Blair Witch Project fucked me all up.
http://www.stateofhorror.com/crenshaw.html
That's a pretty good write up on it.
http://www.stateofhorror.com/crenshaw.html
That's a pretty good write up on it.
Why is it always because the crops or livestock died? It couldn't just be bad weather?
I'd say that counts. For me, it was both Bloody Mary and La Llorona.
We also had what you might call a local legend at the elementary school I attended. There was a busted up trailer at the far end of the school field and all the kids had this legend about how a witch-like monster lived in there and would snatch up children who dared to get too close. All the kids in the school never played near that trailer, and some said that, if you glanced over at the trailer, you might see the door creak open to a crack while a long, bony arm poked out and beckoned children to come to it. If you were within earshot, you'd hear a voice that seemed sweet, but with a tinge of a croaking gurgle, tell you that there's candy, toys and other fun things awaiting you in the trailer. When you got too close, the arm would shoot out (unnaturally long), grab you and pull you in. At that age, I had yet to even hear of Stephen King's It, but that scene in the recent movie where Pennywise's arm stretches out of the sewer and pulls Georgie in gave me flashbacks of the trailer lore. That local myth was there before I started that school, and from my siblings accounts, remained relevant afterwards.
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This. My friends thought it was fun do it one time. Nothing happened right after, but I was scarred for years.
I grew up one town over from Woodstock, NY, so when the urban legend of the guy who took so much acid he thought he was a glass of orange juice made it my way, I believed it totally.
I totally believed the no swimming until 30 minutes after eating thing until I was like 14 and then I just realized that parents wanted a brief break after eating a meal.
A few.
Kids and adults would offer me drugs for free. Never happened.
I believe BigFoot as a species existed but may be dead now
Lochness monster is real and was a baby, has a hidden tunnel it uses to go to the ocean
The ocean terrifies me, theres shit down there we will never see because of how dark it is/the govt will never tells us cthulu is sleeping down there.
Kids and adults would offer me drugs for free. Never happened.
I believe BigFoot as a species existed but may be dead now
Lochness monster is real and was a baby, has a hidden tunnel it uses to go to the ocean
The ocean terrifies me, theres shit down there we will never see because of how dark it is/the govt will never tells us cthulu is sleeping down there.
Never believed anything as a kid, because my mother told me all of it was garbage, and to get real.
Quite the unmagical childhood I had...
Quite the unmagical childhood I had...
Yep forgot about this stupid country ass stuff ha. We also had Mothman in WV, never believed that one even though it was in my county. Some kids would be scared on the way home in the school bus at night. Thought it would swoop down and follow us ha.
Somehow I never heard about this one until adulthood, but always tapped B when the pokeball shaked like it was a rhythm game, haha.
I totally bought into the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe email that went around (although it was changed to various other department stores). It was the first chain email I ever received at college, and had that "weird, but not too weird" quality that made it fairly believable.
Close second would be the stolen kidney email when the guy wakes up with "call 911 if you want to live" written in lipstick on the mirror.
Close second would be the stolen kidney email when the guy wakes up with "call 911 if you want to live" written in lipstick on the mirror.
We had that story where I grew up but it was a witch named Melinda, and there was a stone that said "Upper Melinda" where the upper half was supposedly buried. The stone legit existed.
For some reason I used to believe aliens were real most of my youth. Too much sci-fi does that to you.
I was a sucker for aliens, big foot, Loch Ness, crop circles, etc as a kid in the '90s.
More pop culture wise, i fell for the Marilyn Manson was Paul from the Wonder Years myth.
More pop culture wise, i fell for the Marilyn Manson was Paul from the Wonder Years myth.
Not sure it fits this thread, but John Titor legit caused me to lose sleep as a kid. It was probably 2002-2003 when I was introduced to it and I was so afraid that the US was going to collapse into civil war and that I'd be drafted into the military or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Sewer frogs, too. Just the other day a frog showed up in my roommate's toilet.
I have no idea how it crawled up the pipes. We live on the 3rd floor.
That all of the evidence pointed overwhelmingly to there being a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination.
Turns out all of the evidence points overwhelming to the official story.
Turns out all of the evidence points overwhelming to the official story.
That the Vatican had the largest porn collection in the world. I don't know where I heard it but I believed it for whatever reason.
La El Es El Chupacarah was always talked about and I thought it was real.
Same for The Mothman, gat dayum was that one scary when I was younger.
Also the Pilliga Monster.
Bloody Mary was stupid, that one was easily disproved.
Another one I was afraid of was if you got your hand licked at night while your hand was over the side of the bed it was the devil.
Same for The Mothman, gat dayum was that one scary when I was younger.
Also the Pilliga Monster.
Bloody Mary was stupid, that one was easily disproved.
Another one I was afraid of was if you got your hand licked at night while your hand was over the side of the bed it was the devil.