Irish urban myths.

Was it not the Joe Duffy show?

It was “horse it into me” when it first came out.

"I ate a Chinese once and puked it up, when I was cleaning it up I found a dogs microchip in the puke" is another one I've heard from a few different people

These seem to have gone out of fashion.

Lots of them from late 90s and early 00s. Just before internet and smartphones, so we had to create our own content.

There was one about sweet corn under a guys foreskin.

Guy on LSD with down syndrome child. This one is funny cos the person swore it happened to their friend in Waterford but I've since heard the same story from Americans so it's actually a global urban legend.

Brian Kennedy and Ronan Keating.

Another one about Ronan Keating having slept with someone's housemate.

Semen in fast food place.

Michael Jordan in a lift.

Bono and Bruce Springsteen.

Brother and sister in nightclub toilet.

Student on speed doing college exam.

Fella on building site who knew Lindsay Lohans grandfather.

Just after 9/11 guy gives dropped wallet to Muslim "Stay away from London/LA/NY etc next Monday"

I'm sure there's lots more I've forgotten.

They always seem to start with a loose connection like someone's cousin in Dublin/Cork/Galway told me this, it's legit.

The story about someone minding a dog and the dog dies somehow so the person decides to try and find a similar dog to replace it but has to burry the dead dog first.

They have the dead dog in a duffle bag and are on the dart going to the burial location. When they get off the train someone asks them what's in the bag as it looks heavy and do they want help getting the bag up the steps.

They reply no and the person asks them what's in the bag, they lie saying it's music equipment.

Suddenly without warning the person grabs the bag and runs off, thinking there's expensive equipment in it.

There's probably more elements/variation to the story but that's all I can remember of it. I've heard it told by a few different people over the years.

Gerry Ryan : (during a discussion on whether people would like to be buried or cremated when they die) - 'Would you like to be buried or cremated ?'

Caller : 'Oh , buried Gerry'.

Gerry Ryan : 'And where would you like to be buried ?'

Caller : 'Up to me balls in Bibi Baskin !' 

I read something like this here on Boards.ie a few years ago. It stuck with me and may have been a true story. The story was along the lines of a girl was on the Paris Metro late one night. A group of men get onto the same carriage, holding up another girl who cannot walk and is clearly worse for wear, and the men are like "don't mind her, she's drunk" etc. The "drunk" girl was put sat across from the girl, and appeared to be staring blankly at her in a weird way.

Meanwhile another man who was on the same carriage, comes up and sits near her. He tells her to get off the train at the next stop and that she was in danger. She gets off at the next stop and the man also gets off. The girl was initially panicky when the man approached her after getting off. But he then explained to her that the other girl on the train was not drunk, she was dead.

The one about the “foreigner” leaving the buggy at the bus stop.

The one about the lads bringing a corpse to collect the pension.

It was definitely buried in BiBi

That Hill 16 in Croke Park was originally built out of the rubble from O'Connell street 1916 Rising. A lot of auld lads/GAA heads in pubs love saying this one.

But it is not true at all. For a start 'The 'Hill' was built in 1915 to commemorate the battle of Galipoli WWI .

'The terrace was actually built in 1915, in time for that year's All-Ireland Finals, and was named Hill 60 after a battle in the First World War in Gallipoli.

The August 1915 battle for a hill in Turkey saw the Royal Dublin Fusiliers suffer heavy losses, and, in keeping with the tradition at the time, the hill was named in its honour.

Just as the Kop in Anfield is named after a battle in the Boer War, the terrace became Hill 60.'

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But the GAA did not like this at all and renamed 'Hill 60' - 'Hill 16' in 1931.

The rising rubble Urban Myth was really set in the 1960's

"In 1966, Raymond Smith, a journalist for the Sunday Independent, wrote how he personally met a man in a Dublin pub who had been paid 6d. a load to carry rubble to Croke Park. According to Dr Rouse: "History was overwhelmed by the power of men in pubs telling stories."

While, according to T.P. Kilfeather, writing in the Sunday Independent in 1967: "Few of those who watch Croke Park matches from the corner of the ground, known as 'Hill Sixteen', know that they stand on a hill made from the rubble of the ruins of O'Connell Street after large sections of it had been devastated in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916."