Feel free to post and/or discuss urban legends here.

I don't really have any good urban legends to share, so this is about the best I can do...

he he....uh....death of a thousand paper cuts??? :blink:

Daddy long-lens are poisonous spiders but thier mouths are too small to bite: FALSE (http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm) <-- I beleived that for almost my entire life

Yellow #5 kills sperm: FALSE (http://www.snopes.com/toxins/yellow.htm)

School cafeterias use Grade D meat: FALSE (http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/badmeat.asp)

oh, i got one.

Coke can clean up bloodstains: True

Hehe, this would go well with the Myth Busters thread.

Ghosts, Big foot, and aliens can go here xP hehe ok my opions on them
Ghosts:NOT true their lost souls or even better spirit... >_< dont get why people call them that.
Big Foot: Donno I need more info to beleive this one
Alliens: I dont wanna think about'um :shudders:

Ghosts (or lost souls, as you like to call them kairiekh) are real! our school has about 7 that float around at night...

@aoiryuukishi13: i thought that they found out on mythbusters that coke actually cleans blood up not so well?

Well, there's one I know...

If you drink Coke and eat Pop Candy, you'll blow up: FALSE! (I actually tried it)

Daddy long-lens are poisonous spiders but thier mouths are too small to bite: FALSE (http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm) <-- I beleived that for almost my entire life

you did? I yelled at people who said that was true....


Ghosts, Big foot, and aliens can go here xP hehe ok my opions on them
Ghosts:NOT true their lost souls or even better spirit... >_< dont get why people call them that.
Big Foot: Donno I need more info to beleive this one
Alliens: I dont wanna think about'um :shudders:

Not true about ghost and the rest of that stuff. Those arnt urban legends, but more in the lines of legends or myths because Ive never seen bigfoot traveling around in a big city, thus not making it an URBAN legend.

But anyways, those could fit into here very good, just change there title to 'Myths, Legends and Urban Legends'.

About Ghost, I think they are the the replay of the past in the area. The replay is left behind like an after image when something goes really fast, but in this case the atoms and electric currents in the area expel some colors or sounds when somthing happends, such as the humidity going up/down, or more electricity [stactic] is in the right area.

But if that was true, it doesnt explain EVP because those voices are in real time, actualy talking to you.

um...if a dude stares at a microwave while it's running, it minuses their sperm count. TRUE.

My dad says he saw big foot as a kid, they used to live in the woods and were poor so they hunted food, he saw it when he was like 8 and tried to shoot it. ...my dad doesn't lie about stuff like that either....:think:

Ghosts (or lost souls, as you like to call them kairiekh) are real! our school has about 7 that float around at night...

@aoiryuukishi13: i thought that they found out on mythbusters that coke actually cleans blood up not so well?

well, it was one or the other... I forget things sometimes... lol...

anyways,
(grr, i can't think of many urban legends...)

Oh, on aliens, I think that there is a high possibility that aliens do exist. Scientists can even prove it using methids like the Drake equation. Also, what defines life? Couldn't there be other beings in our universe that do not depend on oxygen or water? That would almost exponentially increase the chances of alien life forms... But that is kinda off topic...

I don't know if this is an urban legend, but it should be...

Bill Gates has to pay like a thousand (or million) dollar fine every day for monopolizing- true

um...if a dude stares at a microwave while it's running, it minuses their sperm count. TRUE.

My dad says he saw big foot as a kid, they used to live in the woods and were poor so they hunted food, he saw it when he was like 8 and tried to shoot it. ...my dad doesn't lie about stuff like that either....:think:

Where did he live? Because if it isnt in oregon, idaho, california or washington, it isnt 'the' 'bigfoot', but a creepy counter part somewhere else....

na, it was in missouri. there have been sightings too....by ppl. like my grandmama and other "senior citizens"

lol, it seems funny to me to picture asians out of asia...Even though im a prime example XP

...onto the subject, that wouldnt be bigfoot, because 'the bigfoot' is the name for unknown primate sightings in the N.W. america. That can and willl have a name, and ill give it one right now...Middle-America-Homo....

For me ghosts and aliens aren't real.

Big foot, el chubacabra, and Nessie may be real, they just haven't been found yet, if they are. I do believe in them, it just I won't be dissapointed if they are not real.

If you stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and chant "Bloody Mary" 12 times starting at the stroke of midnight, the face of a hideous woman will appear in the mirror. It's the spirit of a girl who was born with a disfiguring disease and was killed by a cruel joke gone wrong.........I know it sounds all fake but Its all i got. :heh:

i thought it was.. if you say bloody marry 10 times at midnight then she would appear..? well tahts what me bro told me..
and there was another one how.. you go into a bathroom and say candyman 5times i think and he will appear and kill you O_O"
but.. yeah... just stupid little things i heard of when i was young...

i thought it was.. if you say bloody marry 10 times at midnight then she would appear..? well tahts what me bro told me..

I dont really know you know how stories get twisted around sometimes :heh:
Ill try it and if she gets me on the tenth time then your right XD you should give it a try too. :lol:

Bed Thirteen

In a hospital intensive care unit there was a bed numbered thirteen - any patient placed in this bed was guaranteed to be dead by Thursday. As there are often deaths in the unit this wasn't paid much heed, until they discovered that the cleaner who came into the ward once a week unplugged the life support unit in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner...

The Little Old Lady

A woman had just finished her shopping and went to the underground carpark to collect her car. To her surprise there was an elderly lady sitting in her car - it was an old car, the door locks didn't work and she was relying on the fact that it was an old bomb to act as a deterrent to thieves. The lady said her husband had been hospitalised and she had no way of getting back to see him as she'd been waiting for him to pick her up - would the woman be so kind as to give her a lift to the hospital?

At that point the woman realised that the lady had... hairy arms - half-hidden by the blouse sleeve, but thick, curly hair. She agreed to offer the old lady a lift home, but asked her to get out of the car in order to guide her out of the parking space. She reversed out of the space with the lady guiding her out, and then she roared away, leaving the old woman behind. On the back seat of the car, the elderly lady had left 'her' shawl, covering a basket. In the basket was a hand-axe. A lucky escape?

Other hospital tales (these ones are true 'cause they happened in my Mum's hospital!)

A patient came in complaining of a terrible pain in her ear - turned out a cockroach had crawled inside her ear canal when it was young and had grown up on a diet of ear wax deposits. It had to be surgically removed.

A patient with a Rastafarian hair style (naturally infrequently washed) hatched out a nest of red-back spiders in his hair.

An Aboriginal patient came in claiming that he had been cursed by another tribesman - there was nothing physically wrong with him but he wasted away and died within a week.

A woman came in with a lump on her foot - a pulsating lump, which when cut for biopsy revealed a seething heap of maggots.

eww, i say! eww!

BOHAHAHAHA! Oh, and there's a rather nasty little parasite out in the tropics of Asia which gets under your skin and eats away the flesh that surrounds it - my mate's just gone to Borneo for World Challenge and their team leader can actually stick half his finger into this hollow under the skin of his buttock where one of them got in!

:sick:
well two different friends told me this...
umm.. bascially, there was this person and one day he/she (i dont remember) had a lump on his neck.... after days and days it just kept getting bigger.. and eventually it popped open with spiders and stuff coming out of it..
(sounds similar to maz's story eh.. but still *slight pause* ewww)

my cousin told me this (my memory does not serve me well)
there is this lady... she lives in this house by herself with her dog. basically, one night she was sleeping and she heard this dripping sound. and whenever she is scared she makes sure that her dog is there with her. so she put out her hand over the bed where the dog sleeps so that the dog can lick her hand so she will know that she is safe.
so anywayz.. so ya, she puts her hand over the bed and her hand gets licked... so she gets up and finds where the dripping sound was coming from. she doesnt turn on the light (god knows why). it was from the tap in her bathroom so she turns it off. she goes back to bed.
a couple of hours later she hears the water dripping again. she checks if the dog was there and then the dog licks her hand. so she gets up back (with the light off) to the tap and turns it off.. but the tap wasnt dripping. so she goes over to the kitchen and finds that it wasnt dripping either.. she had no idea what the dripping sound was. she ignored it and went back to bed. she put her hand over to recieve a lick from the dog just to know that she is safe...
later in the morning she gets up and her dogs not there.. she walks over to her bathroom and there is bloodstains everywhere... and on the dripping mirror it says "i can lick too"

or somthing like that >< lol.. well i heard it a while ago... and yeah.. its probz all fake! and wouldv been more scarier if i rememberd how it went.... but meh... itll do..

anywwayz, my cousin was scared of putting her ahnds and feet out of the bed at night XD

yeah
i've heard of that one...

and to add more EEW!!! to this thread here's another story.

A boy who went to Columbia (i think) got some "dust" in his eye. he thought nothin of it. Like a few days (or weeks) later, his eye started to hurt, and got all red and stuff, so he went to the doctor. The doctors examined and revealed that the "dust" that had fallen into the boy's eye was actually eggs from a Botfly. The doctors pulled out a (not sure...) 3cm long botfly larva out of this boy's eye.

Also,
My father went to some country in central or south america during jungle training in the army, and he saw people whose flesh was literally falling off. THAT is nasty...

um...if a dude stares at a microwave while it's running, it minuses their sperm count. TRUE.
That doesn't make any sense; you'll need to provide some proof. Based on how microwaves work and sperm works, I'm calling bullshit on that one :bleh:

yeah
i agree with you on that...

Buuuuuuuull SHIT momma! XD

Here's another true one, this came from one of the orthoptists I did work experience with: A boy fell asleep on top of his biro during class and got it stuck in his eye - miraculously they managed to remove it without doing too much damage to his eyesight, only some weeks later he was still getting headaches - he went back to hospital and had an xray done, and it turns out the biro had a lid on it, which had gotten lodged in his trochlear muscle behind the eye :blink:

:sick:
well two different friends told me this...
umm.. bascially, there was this person and one day he/she (i dont remember) had a lump on his neck.... after days and days it just kept getting bigger.. and eventually it popped open with spiders and stuff coming out of it..
(sounds similar to maz's story eh.. but still *slight pause* ewww)

my cousin told me this (my memory does not serve me well)
there is this lady... she lives in this house by herself with her dog. basically, one night she was sleeping and she heard this dripping sound. and whenever she is scared she makes sure that her dog is there with her. so she put out her hand over the bed where the dog sleeps so that the dog can lick her hand so she will know that she is safe.
so anywayz.. so ya, she puts her hand over the bed and her hand gets licked... so she gets up and finds where the dripping sound was coming from. she doesnt turn on the light (god knows why). it was from the tap in her bathroom so she turns it off. she goes back to bed.
a couple of hours later she hears the water dripping again. she checks if the dog was there and then the dog licks her hand. so she gets up back (with the light off) to the tap and turns it off.. but the tap wasnt dripping. so she goes over to the kitchen and finds that it wasnt dripping either.. she had no idea what the dripping sound was. she ignored it and went back to bed. she put her hand over to recieve a lick from the dog just to know that she is safe...
later in the morning she gets up and her dogs not there.. she walks over to her bathroom and there is bloodstains everywhere... and on the dripping mirror it says "i can lick too"

or somthing like that >< lol.. well i heard it a while ago... and yeah.. its probz all fake! and wouldv been more scarier if i rememberd how it went.... but meh... itll do..

anywwayz, my cousin was scared of putting her ahnds and feet out of the bed at night XD

it said that "humans can lick too." which is extremely nasty!

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That doesn't make any sense; you'll need to provide some proof. Based on how microwaves work and sperm works, I'm calling bullshit on that one

hey! i heard that in health class! the radiation kills ur sperm!

hrmm.. i still choose to believe that it does not kill sperm... because it still doesnt make sense to me...
does that mean the radiation from monitors can kill it too O_O"

anywayz.. this is just somthing that happend to me when i was young.. nothing that eew...
but years ago, when i was 10 or so.. my eye lid started puffing up... i thought it was nothing so i left it.. and weeks after weeks it got bigger and bigger..
just for the fun of it i told me friends that a fly flew into my eye XD
anywayz... so i went to teh doctor.. and he said that its nothing serious...
so he took out a needle (=S) and told me to stay still else i will have eye damage.. and he poked at my eye lid frm the inside!!!! he would stab it and crap.. and man was it scary!!! i hate needles.. but one next to your eye is freaky!!! and eventually a whole bunch of white puss came gushing out o.o"
and yeah.. thats all

:sick: EWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! GROSS!!!!!!
there was this stupid one that some friends told me, kinda like bloody mary, it's called baby blue. you stand in the bathroom with the lights of and say "baby blue" 7 times while your arms are shaped like your holding a baby, then you look down in your arms. if you see a blue baby crying and you drop it you get 7 years of bad luck, it you hold it and make it stop crying then you have 7 years of good luck. <_< ...it didnt' work.

This is from the VH1 countdown show called "100 Most Metal Moments", and it is perhaps the scariest and grossest thing that I have ever heard in my life.

Formed around 1985 by Necrobutcher and guitarist Euronymous (born Oystein Aarseth), Mayhem was the first death metal band from Norway to make much of an impact in their homeland, which in the early '90s developed a burgeoning underground scene rife with violent, sometimes anti-Christian activity -- as evidenced by Mayhem's non-musical history. Drummer Hellhammer, who at one time worked in a mental hospital, is the only remaining member of the band's prime-period lineup. Lead vocalist Dead committed suicide in 1991 (two years after joining the band) by shooting himself in the head; Hellhammer made a necklace using some of his skull fragments, and Euronymous reportedly cooked and ate pieces of Dead's brain. Euronymous, in turn, was stabbed to death while in his underwear on August 10, 1993, by the band's bass player, Count Grishnackh (born Christian Vikernes). Grishnackh's alleged motive was jealousy over the fact that Euronymous had a more evil reputation; he inflicted 23 separate wounds, it was also rumored, so as to outdo rival band Emperor's drummer, Faust, who was convicted in the stabbing death of a homosexual acquaintance. When police arrested Grishnackh, they found over 150 kg of stolen dynamite in his house, complete with a plan to blow up a large church on a religious holiday. Grishnackh went on to pursue his electronic-influenced project Burzum while in prison; meanwhile, Euronymous' parents requested that his bass tracks be erased from Mayhem's 1994 album, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, (which featured session vocalist Attila Csihar). Still, thanks to growing worldwide interest in Norwegian death metal, Mayhem product has continued to appear on the shelves into the next century. Hellhammer also put together a new Mayhem lineup, which has toured sporadically. During one such tour in 2003, a concert-goer in Norway received a fractured skull as a sheep head flew from the stage while band member Blasphemer was cutting the head away from the torso.

EWW!!!!!!!

About the eye-bug stories, heres what it may have sprung up from:


Its just like from an alien movie be very careful when u get caught with dust...as following pics will show effects of bad dust to a person.

While he was walking he felt an eye irritation, thinking that it was just regualr dust, he started to rub his eye, in an effort to remove the dust.... then his eyes got really red, and he went and bought some eye drops from a pharmacy....few days passed n his eyes were still red and seems a little swollen.

Again he dismissed it as the constant rubbing and that it will go away. The days go by the swelling of his eye got worse, redder and bigger.... till he decided to go and see a doctor for a check up.

The doctor immediately wanted an operation, being afraid of a tumor growth or cyst. At the operation, what was thought to be a growth or cyst, actually turned out to be a live worm..... what was thought initially to be just mere dust actually was an insect's egg......because of that, my friends, if u do get caught in dust, and the pain persists, pls go see a doctor immediately...... thank you....

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/graphics/eye.jpg

... BLARGH!!!!!...

*shudders*....yuk..... *is especially sensitive to anything involving eyes, having had a stick stuck in his own a few years ago*

can we refrain from posting medical procedures?

.....ew....scared....someone....hold.....gross.... .

LOL, interesting procedure from a medical point of view - I'm gonna be watching eye operations in a few weeks time ;) I could post some pictures from my opthalmology textbook... not pretty :devil: And that ain't a worm, that's a maggot!

EEP!!!! *is deathly afraid of wringling things*

its a worm, maggots dont look like that, they are thinner and more white.

Also, I just wanted to show how all those 'eye bug' type stories were started, by this.

Is it just me, or did we change the original topic from "Urban Legends" to "Biggest Gross-Outs"? I think we need to get back on topic, or at least have the topic starter change the topic title.

plz! if there is going to be some visuals then put it in a link! and WARN people plz!!!

*shudders*....someone please...help...

A man and women went to Las Vegas for their honeymoon, and checked into a suite at a hotel. When they got to their room they both detected a bad odor. The husband called down to the front desk and asked to speak to the manager. He explained that the room smelled very bad and they would like another suite. The manager apologized and told the man that they were all booked because of a convention. He offered to send them to a restaurant of their choice for lunch compliments of the hotel and said he was going to send a maid up to their room to clean and to try and get rid of the odor.
After a nice lunch the couple went back to their room. When they walked in they could both still smell the same odor. Again the husband called the front desk and told the manager that the room still smelled really bad. The manager told the man that they would try and find a suite at another hotel. He called every hotel on the strip, but every hotel was sold out because of the convention. The manager told the couple that they couldn't find them a room anywhere, but they would try and clean the room again. The couple wanted to see the sights and do a little gambling anyway, so they said they would give them two hours to clean and then they would be back.

When the couple had left, the manager and all of housekeeping went to the room to try and find what was making the room smell so bad. They searched the entire room and found nothing, so the maids changed the sheets, changed the towels, took down the curtains and put new ones up, cleaned the carpet and cleaned the suite again using the strongest cleaning products they had. The couple came back two hours later to find the room still had a bad odor. The husband was so angry at this point, he decided to find whatever this smell was himself. So he started tearing the entire suite apart himself.

As he pulled the top mattress off the box spring he found a dead body of a woman.

wouldnt people notice a huge lump in the bed or are people that stuid now adays?

I think we should make a new thread for these creepy stories, and another one for these nasty stories.

I think we should make a new thread for these creepy stories, and another one for these nasty stories.

make a post your disturbing pictures thread too, so if anyone wants to post something that may need a warning, they can go there...

I have pages of horrible eye pictures to freak everyone out with if they so desire XD

go ahead, if u rly want to; ive had lotsa stuff done to my eye before so nothing eye related can disturb me

If a thread gets made for gross-out pictures then I'll post them ;)

you can post those pics if you want, but i think putting them in a link would be the best idea for our more "sensitive" viewers. and, i think that the nature of the pics should be stated beforehand, so people know what they're about to look at.

And,
to those who said that we were deviating from the topic, the eye worm is an urban legend. Look it up.

But, we are starting to move towards things that gross you out a little bit. but, as long as it is only scarce, i think i can let it go.