urban legends?

[nitrogyen]

why are all the best ones fake?
are there any urban legends that are REAL and GOOD?
if so, post them here and we shall discuss.

[TheZach]

What is internet?

[RED-X-MASTER-777]

Hey, I know one. You ever here the tail of THE CHAIN GANG?!?!?!?!

[aSquared94]

I'm pretty sure if something is classified as an urban legend, it can't be real

correct me if i'm wrong

[RED-X-MASTER-777]

At 6/29/09 01:55 PM, aSquared94 wrote: I'm pretty sure if something is classified as an urban legend, it can't be real

correct me if i'm wrong

Well, George washington's wife once said (back in the 1700's) a man named Neil armstrong would walk on the moon. They classified it as an urban legen then, but it happened!

[Arthuria99]

Still remember aboutJohn Titor? the one who claimed himself as a timetraveler

[MajorBanter]

The whole point is that they're gospel truth.

An example is the whole "you eat 8 spiders a year"

No you fucking don't, that fact was made up and put in a newspaper in the 70's to see if people believed what they read entirely.

Obviously they did.
Retards.

Methinks the point of an urban legend is that it's so fucking ridiculous it can't be true, but in the back of your mind you're thinking "what if?"

Personal favourite: Michael Jackson escaped out of his LA hospital and jetpacked off to live with eskimos.

I didn't make that up.

[JabberWocky]

At 6/29/09 01:30 PM, nitrogyen wrote: why are all the best ones fake?
are there any urban legends that are REAL and GOOD?
if so, post them here and we shall discuss.

There's one where a woman was eating an apple with the skin on(first time she did that)then started choking. Her dog started the Heimlich maneuver!

P.S. The woman survived. Because of her dog.

[Dogmeat]

This is pretty cool stuff.

[nitrogyen]

At 6/29/09 02:52 PM, Dogmeat wrote: This is pretty cool stuff.

i aint gonna click that

[Dogmeat]

At 6/29/09 04:49 PM, nitrogyen wrote:

At 6/29/09 02:52 PM, Dogmeat wrote: This is pretty cool stuff.

i aint gonna click that

Why?...

First off it's wikipedia, so it's relatively rated G.

And second the article name is Bloop, how is that bad in any way?

[RWT]

Scott Adams once almost ate a spider.

[XzaLLeNT]

At 6/29/09 01:55 PM, aSquared94 wrote: I'm pretty sure if something is classified as an urban legend, it can't be real

correct me if i'm wrong

QFT.. i was just about to say that?

but i love reading about urban legends though. especially the ones that say "if you do this, he/she will pop out and kill you" or whatever haha..

is there like a website that lists all the popular urban legends??

[Schizo-Sephy]

There's this thing called the Goatman where I live.
It's on the road that holds the second most disappearances in Wisconsin. My friend lived near it and was there in the dark. The forest talks man, whispers, they'll drive you mad.

[DanN180]

At 6/29/09 02:39 PM, MajorBanter wrote:

Personal favourite: Michael Jackson escaped out of his LA hospital and jetpacked off to live with eskimos.

I didn't make that up.

is that seriously true?! what a load of shit! by now he is melted down into a plastic bag! he is STILL a hazard to children!!

[Bramly-apple]

At 6/29/09 05:08 PM, XzaLLeNT wrote:

At 6/29/09 01:55 PM, aSquared94 wrote: I'm pretty sure if something is classified as an urban legend, it can't be real

correct me if i'm wrong

QFT.. i was just about to say that?

but i love reading about urban legends though. especially the ones that say "if you do this, he/she will pop out and kill you" or whatever haha..

is there like a website that lists all the popular urban legends??

www.snopes.com

I like the one with the clown statue.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/sta tue.asp

Obviously made up but it's still pretty creepy.

[yurgenburgen]

The one that I always remember from school is that people used to claim that if you swallowed your chewing gum, it would stay in your body for seven years. Why they chose seven years I don't know, but anyway it's obviously bollocks.

Also people would elaborate on that myth and say that swallowed gum gets stuck to your intestines or your heart.