Urban legends?

Merch · 11-09-2012 06:10AM

mauzo wrote: »

Ugh I remember that one...

NOt going to sleep tonight now

reminds me of "the thing" creeped me out
While she was on the phone, wouldnt the clown/person hear all this, and when she turns away to get the kids be standing there with an axe :eek:

It sounds less scary when you say statue, and more as a life sized clown doll!

the dead dog one creeped me out, The driver (woman) of the car on a quiet road stopped for a person laying on the road, turns out its a dead dog dressed in clothes, weird, creeped out she then drives on but get chased down by a car flashing its lights (you know where this is going), she heads to the first lit house she sees, gets out, the other car still keeps coming, the owner answers the door and she explains whats happened, they hide inside, person that drives up to house bangs down the door, when they get sense out of him, it was because he saw someone climb into the back seat of the car when she was looking at the dog that she thought was a person.They call the gardai, some kind of serial offender/rapist in the back seat :eek:
Happened to someone that someone I know knows, their cousin or something

AnonoBoy · 11-09-2012 10:47AM

delricyo wrote: »

Also heard this from a friend about his friend ....

Thought it was true until I read it on AH
He got lucky in a niteclub with a member of the travelling community. Went back to hers where he was instructed to "Lob it in there, boss" :eek:

I actually said that to a girl I brought home once as a joke. She thought it was hilarious.

And then she lobbed it in.

fishy fishy · 11-09-2012 11:05AM

steddyeddy wrote: »

My granny was very superstitious and she always told me fantastical stories about old Dublin city. The stories ranged from a banshees to gypsy curses. Best of all I remember the urban legends she used to tell me.

One she used tell me was about the pig woman of the rotunda hospital. The story goes that a rich woman was asked by a gypsy woman for money for her child. The wealthy woman who was pregnant at the time said to the beggar "go away you pig". The woman later gave birth to a "pig faced woman" and out of guilt founded the rotunda hospital.

Another one Involved the hellfire club and the devil made an appearance during a poker game. Im not saying these are true (their not) but have you heard any good urban legends or have you got any favouraites?

that must have been some bump she had on her if she gave birth to a pig faced woman. Surely it was a baby? :rolleyes:

podgemonster · 11-09-2012 11:12AM

A lad from work and his friend went to see Keith Barry in the Olympia back in 2011. Anyway the friend gets called up on stage for one of the opening tricks. He is asked to give Keith his watch, who puts it in a velvet bag and then hammers it with a hammer into little pieces. Keith tells him not too worry as its not very valuable but the friend says it's actually his deceased grandfathers watch, my workmate saw a flicker of guilt on Keiths face.

Anyway Keith pulls out the watch undamaged and yer man returns to his seat. While the show goes on, the friend is constantly looking at his watch and eventually realises its a replica. Not wanting to cause a scene he waits until the end of the show to approach the backstage entrance but is blocked by security. His claims over is watch are laughed upon, enraged and upset he lives with my work colleague.

A few days later he meet his girlfriend for a coffee in the IFSC, while his girlfriend is ordering some doughnuts at the till, he see Keith Barry leaving with a coffee. Almost spilling his own coffee, he gets up and heads out after him. When he gets outside he looks for Keith but he has dissappeared. Distraught again he returns to his girlfriends table. Unable to talk he goes to take a bite out of his doughnut.....

And what was in the Doughtnut??

........... Jam <

Bruce7 · 11-09-2012 11:12AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Was out one night and I meet a traveller girl and we went home together, back to the site! Me in mortal fear her brothers would kill me for being with her

Anyways, there we are and she says "none of your fancy stuff boss, horse it in"

This girl gets around, she's been with several of my friends too, she said the exact same thing to them

Pretty sure this is true. A friend of mine was with this girl from Kilbarrack at a disco when he was a teenager. They went off somewhere and were kissing etc. He put his hands up her top and started feeling her tits, but didn't go any further. After a while of this, she broke away, looked at him scornfully, and asked:

"Are ya gettin' a thrill ou' a tha'?"

padd b1975 · 11-09-2012 11:52AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I actually said that to a girl I brought home once as a joke. She thought it was hilarious.

And then she lobbed it in.

Sounds like she was a he.:cool:

the culture of deference · 11-09-2012 11:54AM

Heard this 20 years ago.

Guy driving home pissed. Comes to garda check point. The garda realises the fella is pissed and is about to take the car off him when there is a car crash down the road.

Garda has to go to the crash so tells the drunk to wait, he does until garda is gone, gets back in the car and drives home. A few hours later the gardai call to his house. He answers the door with a glass of something in his hand and the garda says do you remember me. The guy goes No, should I. The garda explains the situation and the man denies it. No I wasn't driving, car in the garage all night.

Cop asks to see the car, guy goes no prob, opens the garage door, and there inside his garage is the garda car.

AnonoBoy · 11-09-2012 11:55AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Sounds like she was a he.:cool:

Sounds like you get jokes.

samk1 · 11-09-2012 11:59AM

i liked the 1 about the devil in the castletown house in celbridge coumty kildare.
story goes Connoly the house owner met a stranger while out on his horse 1 morning.The 2 men went hunting and Connoly invited him back to the house.They played cards all nite and the stanger won every game.Some cards fell on the floor and Conolly went to pick them up but when looking under the table he relised the stranger had hoofs!!
He called for the parish priest and after a while the priest trew a bible at him but it went straight through him and hit a mirror and cracked it.
Untill this day any time the mirror has tried to be replaced it cracks !!

Im living in Castletown estate now makes the story much more fun !!

fishy fishy · 11-09-2012 12:09PM

here's a good one.

Parents have only one child, a daughter. They go out for a night, tell the daughter to lock the house. They are not too bothered as they have a dog who will protect the teenage daughter. Anyway off the go, all is fine, and the girl heads off to bed. The dog usually sleeps under her bed. She sticks her hand under the bed and the dog gives it a reassuring lick. Suddenly she hears dripping - she runs down to the kitchen to check the taps - all fine. She returns to her bed, puts her hand down and the dog licks her hand. Jumps back into bed. Again, she hears dripping - she gets up, runs to the bathroom, checks taps - all fine. Again goes back, jumps in bed and puts her hand down for a reassuring lick from the dog. Again, more dripping sounds - this time she hears it coming from her wardrobe - she opens the wardrobe - there is her dog with his neck slashed - and written in blood on the door of the wardrobe is the words "humans can lick too". :eek::eek::eek:

movingsucks · 11-09-2012 01:18PM

samk1 wrote: »

i liked the 1 about the devil in the castletown house in celbridge coumty kildare.
story goes Connoly the house owner met a stranger while out on his horse 1 morning.The 2 men went hunting and Connoly invited him back to the house.They played cards all nite and the stanger won every game.Some cards fell on the floor and Conolly went to pick them up but when looking under the table he relised the stranger had hoofs!!
He called for the parish priest and after a while the priest trew a bible at him but it went straight through him and hit a mirror and cracked it.
Untill this day any time the mirror has tried to be replaced it cracks !!

Im living in Castletown estate now makes the story much more fun !!

Thats just a rip off of Loftus Hall!!

The clown in the bedroom story makes me laugh my friend was almost in tears telling me it happened near her.
Another great one is the dogs microchip in the chinese take away. Had a guy swear to me this reallt happened to his friends uncle or something.
I love the one about the pet snake preparing to eat its owner too.

whatsername42 · 11-09-2012 01:26PM

I love the one about the prisoner in a horrible prison for life. It's such a terrible place that prisoners are dying there all the time.
He hatches a escape plan with the prison gravedigger. The plan is that when the next prisoner dies, he will seize his chance to get into the coffin before the burial when noone is looking and at midnight the gravedigger would come and dig him up.
When the next prisoner dies, he climbs into the coffin and is buried. Time passes and passes and noone comes. In a panic, he lights a match and turns - the deceased is the gravedigger!!!:eek:
Freaked me out when I was a nipper!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 11-09-2012 01:28PM

delricyo wrote: »

Also heard this from a friend about his friend ....

Thought it was true until I read it on AH
He got lucky in a niteclub with a member of the travelling community. Went back to hers where he was instructed to "Lob it in there, boss" :eek:

Maybe she's related to that Traveller who once told his girlfriend 'Sure of course I love ya, doesn't I ride ya and buy ya chips!'

Duckworth_Luas · 11-09-2012 02:26PM

whatsername42 wrote: »

I love the one about the prisoner in a horrible prison for life. It's such a terrible place that prisoners are dying there all the time.
He hatches a escape plan with the prison gravedigger. The plan is that when the next prisoner dies, he will seize his chance to get into the coffin before the burial when noone is looking and at midnight the gravedigger would come and dig him up.
When the next prisoner dies, he climbs into the coffin and is buried. Time passes and passes and noone comes. In a panic, he lights a match and turns - the deceased is the gravedigger!!!:eek:
Freaked me out when I was a nipper!

An episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents back in the late 1980s.

Matt_Trakker · 11-09-2012 03:01PM

Heard this one off two different people working within a kilometre of each other on baggot st within a month.

"A female cousin of my friend".......scored some guy in a nightclub and she went back to his place, didn't have sex but they just kissed. Said his flat was a bit strange, spotlessly clean but like an icebox. Slept in the bed with him but no sex. Took his number but never called him.
A week or two later her lips begin to get rather itchy and her stomach is constantly bloated. Finally went to the doctor and he had to run some test because he didn't know what to make of it.
A week later gets the results back from the hospital and she's called into the doctor.
Dr. asks her something along the lines of "Has anybody in your family died recently? Have you been to a wake where you kissed a dead body? You have gastroenteritis, a disease that you can get from kissing, or being intimate with, a dead bodie.

dun-dun-dun!

Another one:
"my best mate's cousin..(insert female name) it was her 30th there a while ago"..... She lives alone except for her dog. Before she left, she pulled the partition over in the living room so the dog wouldn't bark at the neighbour's cat when she ran across her garden.

She went off to work on the day of her birthday and thought it was strange that none of her family had called her to wish her a happy birthday. Went on about her work and her mood became more and more dreary because not one single person in work said a word to her about her birthday or gave her any wishes, no card, no cake, nothing. It was like nobody even knew.

Ms. X went home, depressed as hell. Even called her mother along the way but got no answer, called her brother and got nothing as well, no reply, not even a text message back. So she went home to her loyal hound and decided she'd do what she always did when she was down in the dumps.

She went into the kitchen and got the tin of dog food and went back to the living room. She took off all her clothes and put some dog her on her gee and beckoned the dog over to lick it off her.
Just as the dog begins slurping and she begins moaning, the partition door opens and her family and friends jump out yelling "Surprise! Happy Birthday!"

AnonoBoy · 11-09-2012 03:03PM

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

] You have gastroenteritis, a disease that you can get from kissing, or being intimate with, a dead bodie.

That Urban Legend needs to check its facts.

u_c_thesecond · 11-09-2012 03:08PM

dodderangler wrote: »

MANBEARPIG

Hes bloomin real

i saw him...

That is to say ive seen him

Matt_Trakker · 11-09-2012 03:09PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

That Urban Legend needs to check its facts.

aye

everyone know that gastroenteritis can only be got from water that has been contaminated by dead bodies and not by actually touching them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies#Real_risks

SocSocPol · 11-09-2012 03:11PM

Not sure if this counts but I heard that there was a political party called Labour and they promised everyone that if they voted for them in the 2011 general election that the country would be run labours way not Frankfurts way, not another red cent would be paid to bondholders or bankers and that people would be put before bankers!

Anyway they got elected and guess what......:D

AnonoBoy · 11-09-2012 03:19PM

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

aye

everyone know that gastroenteritis can only be got from water that has been contaminated by dead bodies and not by actually touching them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_risks_from_dead_bodies#Real_risks

There's loads of ways to get it. There was an outbreak of it in my primary school when we were kids - no dead bodies were floating around at the time (that we knew about anyway!)

u_c_thesecond · 11-09-2012 03:22PM

My dads from Holy Cross in Tipperary and from the garden you can see a mountian with what looks like a big bite mark gone out of it. Dad called it the devils bit mountian

Apparantly years ago Satan was on earth and he took a chunk out of the mountian and dropped in on the way and the spot where he dropped it is now The Holy Cross Abbey

Hear another defination of the story where the Rock of Cashel was where he dropped it

maximoose · 11-09-2012 03:23PM

The story about Beyonce/Lady Gaga/David Beckham/Frank lampard offering to pay off someones friend of a friend/distant cousin's mortgage/debts/car loans so they can use their hotel booking for their wedding or whatever - I've heard about 5 different versions of this in the last year, gullible fools.

AnonoBoy · 11-09-2012 03:30PM

maximoose wrote: »

The story about Beyonce/Lady Gaga/David Beckham/Frank lampard offering to pay off someones friend of a friend/distant cousin's mortgage/debts/car loans so they can use their hotel booking for their wedding or whatever - I've heard about 5 different versions of this in the last year, gullible fools.

Someone told me the Frank Lampard one recently.

ClashCityRocker · 11-09-2012 03:39PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Someone told me the Frank Lampard one recently.

To be fair those rumours made some of the papers etc, Christine Bleakley had to publicly deny it was true.

BigFatGiant · 11-09-2012 03:40PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Was out one night and I meet a traveller girl and we went home together, back to the site! Me in mortal fear her brothers would kill me for being with her

Anyways, there we are and she says "none of your fancy stuff boss, horse it in"

This girl gets around, she's been with several of my friends too, she said the exact same thing to them

She has been with a friend of all my friends! At least she is consistent!

bijapos · 11-09-2012 03:48PM

A couple I hear so regularly it's getting boring:

..... Person X goes abroad (usually Africa) on holidays, comes back with a light swelling on their cheek, swelling gets worse and worse, eventually goes to doctor, he cuts it open and hundreds of baby spiders/ants/caterpillars/(insert favourite creepy crawly here) come tumbling out.

......woman gets into front of taxi, gets raped by taxi driver and his mate who were in the back.

......man goes to get a quick pick lottery ticket, is a gentleman and lets the woman beside him in first to buy a ticket, she gets a quick pick too and wins millions on the Lotto.

....... every refugee gets a new car when they arrive.

....... Guy picks up girl in a nightclub, they go back to his gaff, he shags her and the next morning at 8 the door gets kicked in. Her family/guards are there to beat the sh1te out of him/arrest him as she is only 14.

Teyla Emmagan · 11-09-2012 03:53PM

massdebater wrote: »

Another 'friend of a friend' classic was the one with the pet snake where the snake used to lie at the bottom of the girl's bed but after a while the snake started sleeping length ways beside the girl and stopped eating food for a few weeks. The girl went to the vet to find out why the snake was acting like this and the vet says that the snake was sizing the girl up to eat her.

God, I can't believe this one isn't true!!! I'm actually gutted, was sure I'd read this in the last year or two in a newspaper.

Some of ye cannot tell a good story to save your own lives btw.

thunderdog · 11-09-2012 03:55PM

A lot of dog related stories on here. So i'll share my short but (not so) sweet one.

Girl and guy have being going out a few months. One of their parents are out for the day so they decide to make the most of it. And not just your bog standard sex this time....nope, some good old fashioned rear entrance action on the brand new white leather sofa. So after a slow build up, the guy is going hell for leather at it, his girl also seems to be enjoying the rear ending. Suddenly, earlier than expeceted, the parents burst in the door, the guy panics and whips his member out so quickly that the girl badly soils not only herself, but the parents brand new white leather sofa.

Luckily for them however they blamed the family dog for the horrible mess, who as a result was put down. Sad end to the story I know, but they can't all have 'happy endings'

Dolbert · 11-09-2012 03:56PM

Heard both of these about a 'friend of a friend':

A couple go to a supermarket (the version I heard was Tesco Maynooth) with their toddler daughter. One moment their backs are turned and the child has disappeared. Security 'lock down' the store (WTF?) until she is found in the toilets. A family of fordiners have attempted to kidnap her by dressing her as one of their own and cutting her hair off :rolleyes:

A woman's beloved dog dies so she calls the vet, who tells her that they'll cremate him for her. She doesn't drive so instead she stuffs the dog in a suitcase and walks to the vet. Some young lad offers to help with the heavy suitcase, and asks what is in there. She blusters and says 'Oh, it's my boyfriend's decks, he's a DJ'. So the young lad does a runner with the suitcase

amtw · 11-09-2012 04:00PM

An urban legend that did the rounds back in the 80s. A young boy needed to use the toilet he begged his mother to let him go in on his own because he was a "big boy" now. She let him and said she would wait outside, it was the toilets that were in the centre of O'Connell Street. After a while when the child didn't come out she was really worried and asked a man to go in and check that he was ok. The man rushed out and told her to go phone an ambulance. The mother ran into the toilets to find the kid had his penis sliced off with a razor.

This story did the rounds for months it even made it on to the radio. I went to a lecture a little while later that was been given by a senior member or the Garda, he asked if we had heard the story. We all had, he said that they had had hundreds of calls about it and checked the hospitals, the toiltes and everywhere they could think of but there was no truth to the story. It was really weird because everyone was talking about it. A true urban legend.

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