Best urban legend you ever heard

IvaBigWun · 22-09-2013 10:33PM #1

For me its gotta be the one about the dead boy's ghost in the film 3 Men & A Baby.

When it came out a story started to spread like wildfire that a boy used to live in the New York apartment where they filmed the movie. The boy apparently killed himself either with a rifle/shotgun or by jumping out the window he's seen standing near, depending on who was telling the story, and what you see is his ghost.

This rumour was all pre internet and many as a kid, myself included, believed it and many scared ourselves sh!teless by looking out for the "ghost" of the dead kid

He can be seen here @ 34 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2f__k0Pnw

It's actually a cardboard cut-out of Ted Danson, whose character in the movie plays an actor. The cut-out is supposed to have been part of an advertising display involving his character. Apparently, there was some mention of it in the original script, but it got left on the cutting room floor.

http://cdn3.whatculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cardboard.jpg

But, for awhile at least, it was a great urban legend

Whats the best one you've heard either as a kid or in recent years?

Dicky Pride · 22-09-2013 10:34PM

You're some man for starting the threads.

Links234 · 22-09-2013 10:49PM

the most outlandish urban legend I've heard it that you've a big wun :pac:

thought this one was fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NUtr68-Bo

*Shumai is a type of pork dumpling

Banjo String · 22-09-2013 10:53PM

In before someone says "KFC burger, instead of mayo, spunk" legend

Del2005 · 22-09-2013 10:57PM

Banjo String wrote: »

In before someone says "KFC burger, instead of mayo, spunk" legend

Or they had to change their name from KF Chicken as they didn't use chickens anymore.

Waitsian · 22-09-2013 11:03PM

Trainers hanging from some kind of line or tree branch outside a house means there's drugs being sold from there - utter tripe quite frankly.

Some eejit attached a CD to a piece of string and hung it from a tree opposite me (it keeps birds from crapping on your car allegedly?) and now the street residents are up in arms because, they allege, it's a signal for junkies. It's hilarious what people believe.

BillyMitchel · 22-09-2013 11:06PM

the hanging in the wizard of oz movie is a cracker. The video is good, cant attach on my phone though.

22-09-2013 11:06PM

Guy cycles into A&E with a jam jar lodged up his butt, and explains that he accidentally sat on it.

I don't actually think this is an urban legend, since I've heard it from three people who's mothers neighbours cousins husbands brother was the A&E doc that removed it, albeit in three different hospitals in two different countries.

And I know of many people who were on the bus, on many different routes and on many different occasions, when an asylum seeker trying to board couldn't fold their childs buggy, so they abandonded it at the bus stop, explaining rather loudly to everyone - on all these occasions - that the Social Welfare would buy them a new one in the morning.

Why they were getting the bus instead of driving their free car, I'll never know.

Must be true though, I've heard it from several sources, none of whom were racist at all

IvaBigWun · 22-09-2013 11:12PM

Candie wrote: »

Guy cycles into A&E with a jam jar lodged up his butt, and explains that he accidentally sat on it.

Thats reminded me of the Richard Gere and the Gerbil urban legend :pac:

22-09-2013 11:15PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Thats reminded me of the Richard Gere and the Gerbil urban legend :pac:

I never heard that one and googled it.

Googles three top suggestions were:

Richard Gere and the gerbil
Richard Gere and the dog
Richard Gere and the Dalai Lama

What an interesting life that man must lead

The Backwards Man · 22-09-2013 11:16PM

There are woman on the internet.

Howard Juneau · 22-09-2013 11:20PM

The old " Guy wakes up in a bathful of ice missing his liver, or kidneys, spleen, balls," Greatest load of rubbish & people swallowed it, hook line & sinker

sassyj · 22-09-2013 11:22PM

The child kidnapped in an Irish shopping centre, the centre shut down, and the kid found in the toilets with different clothes on and different hair colour or cut hair. Has apparently happened in several centres, however for some reason has never been on the news or in the papers, hmmm.

Kidchameleon · 22-09-2013 11:22PM

Maggots in Slimfast springs to mind

sassyj · 22-09-2013 11:23PM

Also, the frequent "man in a white van" trying to kidnap a child. Gets plastered all over Facebook. You'd think paedophiles would know better than to buy white vans at this stage.

fryup · 22-09-2013 11:24PM

the lead singer of soft cell > marc almond

who had to get his tummy pumped because it was full of man juice

who the hell make these up??

IvaBigWun · 22-09-2013 11:27PM

fryup wrote: »

the lead singer of soft cell > marc almond

who had to get his tummy pumped because it was full of man juice

who the hell make these up??

And that's reminded me a certain urban legend about Prince

22-09-2013 11:27PM

Howard Juneau wrote: »

The old " Guy wakes up in a bathful of ice missing his liver, or kidneys, spleen, balls," Greatest load of rubbish & people swallowed it, hook line & sinker

If you're asleep in a tubful of ice, the hypothermia isn't going to wake you up!

I remember another one my granny loves. Girl goes on holidays and has sex with another holidaymaker every night for two weeks. As she leaves for the airport, he gives her a gift wrapped package and tells her to open it when she gets home.

On arrival home (like anyone would wait that long) she opens said package and inside is a miniature coffin, and inside of that is a note bearing the greeting:

"Welcome to the world of AIDS"

I think this probably did the rounds in the '80's when HIV was the boogeyman under the bed, it's the kind of shocker that my gran loves to repeat in the hope it'll keep everyone pure.:)

fasttalkerchat · 22-09-2013 11:28PM

sassyj wrote: »

Also, the frequent "man in a white van" trying to kidnap a child. Gets plastered all over Facebook. You'd think paedophiles would know better than to buy white vans at this stage.

The smart ones switched to the red sports car.

fryup · 22-09-2013 11:29PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

And that's reminded me a certain urban legend about Prince

ya go on......didn't hear that one

22-09-2013 11:31PM

fryup wrote: »

ya go on......didn't hear that one

He had a rib removed to ...er... increase his flexibility. He wanted to bend forward further, or something.

He has an air about him that makes me believe there might be some truth in that one.:)

DarkJager · 22-09-2013 11:33PM

Heard one a few times about a guy meeting a Turkish woman in a nightclub. They get chatting and he ends up going back to her place at the end of the night. She straps his hands and legs to the bed and leaves the room to get changed. Then a few minutes later, 3 big black fellas enter the room and have their way with him.

So the moral of the story is, if you're on a night out in Limerick, Cork, Galway, Belfast, London or Amsterdam, don't go home with a Turkish female

evolving_doors · 22-09-2013 11:33PM

Dark side of the moon album in sync with Wizard of Oz...

the lunatic is on the grass...

fasttalkerchat · 22-09-2013 11:34PM

Candie wrote: »

He had a rib removed to ...er... increase his flexibility. He wanted to bend forward further, or something.

He has an air about him that makes me believe there might be some truth in that one.:)

Wasn't that Marlyn Manson?

dango · 22-09-2013 11:35PM

Cow-tipping.

fryup · 22-09-2013 11:36PM

Candie wrote: »

He had a rib removed to ...er... increase his flexibility. He wanted to bend forward further, or something.

when getting it up the jacksey ??

Howard Juneau · 22-09-2013 11:38PM

Candie wrote: »

If you're asleep in a tubful of ice, the hypothermia isn't going to wake you up!

I remember another one my granny loves. Girl goes on holidays and has sex with another holidaymaker every night for two weeks. As she leaves for the airport, he gives her a gift wrapped package and tells her to open it when she gets home.

On arrival home (like anyone would wait that long) she opens said package and inside is a miniature coffin, and inside of that is a note bearing the greeting:

"Welcome to the world of AIDS"

I think this probably did the rounds in the '80's when HIV was the boogeyman under the bed, it's the kind of shocker that my gran loves to repeat in the hope it'll keep everyone pure.:)

Yeah, reminds me of the time Vincent Hanley died. An eye condition killed him was what the tv reported
Irish men weren't gay back then, and certainly didn't die of aids dontcha know.

22-09-2013 11:38PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Wasn't that Marlyn Manson?

Same legend, different target.

fryup wrote: »

when getting it up the jacksey ??

No, for those occasions when he felt the greatest love of all.

KKkitty · 22-09-2013 11:38PM

Guy goes to house party and in one of the rooms there's a girl having sex with anyone that wants to. Guy decides he wants a go and since it's a dark room he doesn't see her but does the deed and finds out it was his own sister.

Howard Juneau · 22-09-2013 11:39PM

fryup wrote: »

when getting it up the jacksey ??

No, self fellatio
Probably explains why Cher got 2 ribs taken out

downonthefarm · 22-09-2013 11:40PM

the superman sweets with the transfers that you licked were meant to be laced with lsd.put there by some evil drug lord

Best urban legend you ever heard

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