Urban Legends & Superstitions?

OutlawPete · 04-03-2010 05:11PM #1

Did you ever believe something when you were young that turned out to be an Urban Legend?

I believed Stan Laural was Clint Eastwood's dad.

I believed some woman bought a KFC in O'Connell St and eat it in the Cinema and it contained a Rat. She then ran screaming into the lobby with blood running from her mouth.

All lies, damn lies :mad:

neil_hosey · 04-03-2010 05:13PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Did you ever believe something when you were young that turned out to be an Urban Legend?

I believed Stan Laural was Clint Eastwood's dad.

I believed some woman bought a KFC in O'Connell St and eat it in the Cinema and it contained a Rat. She then ran screaming into the lobby with blood running from her mouth.

All lies, damn lies :mad:

when you see a bag buried in the ground thats where a banshee lived.. always avoided them as a kid when i saw them..

still do......

bazmaiden · 04-03-2010 05:14PM

saluting a magpie whenever you see one

and

Believed in jesus/god for a while

IrishManSaipan · 04-03-2010 05:16PM

"Ireland is the envy of europe".

neil_hosey · 04-03-2010 05:16PM

bazmaiden wrote: »

saluting a magpie whenever you see one

still do it!! especially when driving

stovelid · 04-03-2010 05:17PM

Heard the KFC one too except that it was a mouse and it was in Tallaght.

Or the one that punters were regularly bitten by rats in the Stella cinema in Rathmines (Dublin)*

*somebody will verify this now and make a show of me.

petes · 04-03-2010 05:17PM

bazmaiden wrote: »

saluting a magpie whenever you see one

and

Believed in jesus/god for a while

Aren't they superstitions and not urban legends though?

OutlawPete · 04-03-2010 05:19PM

bazmaiden wrote: »

saluting a magpie whenever you see one

and

Believed in jesus/god for a while

That's a superstition really, but I've changed the thread title to include them anyway .. say 'thanks Pete'

OutlawPete · 04-03-2010 05:21PM

Insurgent wrote: »

Aren't they superstitions and not urban legends though?

You beat me to it

biko · 04-03-2010 05:22PM

A friend told me there was a company in Germany that built spaceships and if I sent them money and a drawing they'd build it.
I'm still not absolutely certain he lied...

Wazdakka · 04-03-2010 05:22PM

In before the unavoidable snopes.com link or mythbusters reference.

daveyboy_1ie · 04-03-2010 05:22PM

Was told when younger that Marilyn Manson was actually that dude Paul from the wonder years. You know Fred Savage's charector Kevins geeky mate......once I told was hard to not believe it

stovelid · 04-03-2010 05:24PM

Mama Cass choking to death on a ham sambo was actually an urban myth wasn't it? I believed that for years and years.

Giselle · 04-03-2010 05:26PM

My mum told me if I eat my crusts my hair would grow nice and curly.

It was only one of many, many lies, told to me for my 'own good'.:(

alwaysadub · 04-03-2010 05:26PM

that Marilyn Manson was the geeky kid in The Wonder Years...

Edit:Glad i wasnt the only one!!

BluesBerry · 04-03-2010 05:27PM

There was this woman (in her 50s) where I lived as a kid that dressed like a goth and had long jet black hair and wore heavy make-up kohl eyes and cycled an old fashioned bike as kids we were terrified of her she hated kids and pretended to jinx us if we look straight at her

Anyway rumor has it that she had killed a child and buried him in her back garden and took local cats and skinned them to make cushions

As kids she was terrifing yet interesting we loved playing Knick Knack (to see who was not chicken) I can still remember walking up her drive heart pounding, cold sweat and my legs not working fast enough when I knocked and legged it

Poor woman was totally innocent but just because she looked and dressed different she became our local "celebrity" and we really must have tormented the life out of her................I feel bad now

OutlawPete · 04-03-2010 05:30PM

neil_hosey wrote: »

when you see a bag buried in the ground thats where a banshee lived.. always avoided them as a kid when i saw them...

My mother's side of the family in Monaghan, are all nuts with that Banshee sh*t.

When I was a kid I use to be sitting outside on the door step in the back of the beyond (compared to Dublin) and I'd be scared senseless with their stories.

They'd be going on and on about how when the woman up the road died a wee white woman was screaming her head off and that the night this other man died they heard the wails of a banshee.

They'd talk like that for hours.

They told me if I ever seen a comb lying on a road when someone was ill it was a banshee's warning.

Don't get me started on "The Knock" :rolleyes:

Or the fcuking "Death rattle".

Had a row with a cousin of mine in a hospital when he started talking about that, gives me the willies, it does.

kumate_champ07 · 04-03-2010 05:30PM

this is an urban legend, could be true, heard it when I was 14. apparently 2 girls with braces were found in the public toilets in naas stuck together by the braces on their teeth, actually thinking about it now it was prob untrue but at the time hearing anything lesbian related was a big deal

Dudess · 04-03-2010 05:33PM

stovelid wrote: »

Mama Cass choking to death on a ham sambo was actually an urban myth wasn't it?

That's right. It was actually a chicken sambo.

Mr. Presentable · 04-03-2010 05:34PM

Size doesn't matter = UL
Washing hands after the toilet = Superstition

bazmaiden · 04-03-2010 05:35PM

Insurgent wrote: »

Aren't they superstitions and not urban legends though?

That's a superstition really, but I've changed the thread title to include them anyway .. say 'thanks Pete'

thanks man d'oh

kumate_champ07 · 04-03-2010 05:35PM

traveller women can put a curse on you are give ya good luck. when I was a kid one of them(she was a customer in a shop) told me I was gonna have luck with the ladies at the weekend, it didnt work

OutlawPete · 04-03-2010 05:37PM

Others I remember also was when Trading Places came out they said Jamie Lee Curtis was a Hermaphrodite.

I wouldn't have cared with those bazookas though.

I treasure my little clip of her closing the door on Dan Ackroyd as he looks at her in the mirror, never losing that url

Also, Jim Morrison was a CIA agent or something?

General Zod · 04-03-2010 05:40PM

Dudess wrote: »

That's right. It was actually a chicken sambo.

Ah now, lets correct the myths. She had a heart attack, due to complications arising from her obesity.

[-0-] · 04-03-2010 05:40PM

A girl drives in to get petrol in some petrol station in Limerick on the dock road.

While she's paying, the dude behind the desk notices some guy going into the back of her car and lying down on the floor.

He gets her to come inside the store and calls the cops.

They arrive and find the guy lying down on the back seat with a knife, rope and some tape.

Total arse of course.

BluesBerry · 04-03-2010 05:40PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

My mother's side of the family in Monaghan, are all nuts with that Banshee sh*t.

When I was a kid I use to be sitting outside on the door step in the back of the beyond (compared to Dublin) and I'd be scared senseless with their stories.

They'd be going on and on about how when the woman up the road died a wee white woman was screaming her head off and that the night this other man died they heard the wails of a banshee.

They'd talk like that for hours.

They told me if I ever seen a comb lying on a road when someone was ill it was a banshee's warning.

Don't get me started on "The Knock" :rolleyes:

Or the fcuking "Death rattle".

Had a row with a cousin of mine in a hospital when he started talking about that, gives me the willies, it does.

I stayed in my nanas as a child and one night outside I could hear whailing and lots of it my nana freaked out got out the holy water and sprinkled it all around the house and made me say a prayer I was totally freaked out by that

It turned out I learned in later years that it was only cats in heat also I was never allowed pick up a comb on the street because a banshee had dropped it

bazmaiden · 04-03-2010 05:42PM

Isn't there one about satanic messages when you play "Stairway to Heaven" backwards??

And

There is an urban myth that Paul MacCartney is dead, and was replaced by a lookalike

AnonoBoy · 04-03-2010 05:44PM

When I was younger I believed that everybody is special in their own way.

As I grew up it became obvious that this is patently untrue.

daveyboy_1ie · 04-03-2010 05:44PM

[-0-] wrote: »

A girl drives in to get petrol in some petrol station in Limerick on the dock road.

While she's paying, the dude behind the desk notices some guy going into the back of her car and lying down on the floor.

He gets her to come inside the store and calls the cops.

They arrive and find the guy lying down on the back seat with a knife, rope and some tape.

Total arse of course.

Actually a scene from the film 'Urban Legends', except of course the clerk was ignored by the girl and got into the car to 'escape' the pest of a clerk

[-0-] · 04-03-2010 05:46PM

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

Actually a scene from the film 'Urban Legends', except of course the clerk was ignored by the girl and got into the car to 'escape' the pest of a clerk

Haha. Sucks for her!

MikeC101 · 04-03-2010 05:50PM

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

Actually a scene from the film 'Urban Legends', except of course the clerk was ignored by the girl and got into the car to 'escape' the pest of a clerk

Said film features scenes based on actual urban legends. (well, as "actual" as urban legends get)

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