Urban Legends...

[CompanyScum]

Snopes

Really interesting, all sorts of strange legends.

Look out for Love Rollercoaster, though false it's pretty creepy.

[Romero]

Wow that site is so cool! I love stuff like that.

[Marlboroprojects]

Urban Legends are pretty cool. It's surprising how many people not only swear that they are true, but will argue tooth and nail over them. I remember a few years ago a co worker was actually ready to come to blows with me cause I told him the story he was talking about (about the woman who picks guys up in a bar and drugs them, and they wake up in a tub of ice with their kidneys removed) was actually an Urban Legend.

Some of my favorites:

Two roommates remain at their deserted college dormitory over a holiday break. One of the girls goes out on a date that evening, and the other one turns in and goes to bed before her roommate returns. Later that night the sleeping girl is awakened by gurgling and scratching noises coming from outside the hallway door. Frightened, she locks the door and cowers inside the room until morning. When the girl finally opens the door and ventures outside, she discovers the bloody corpse of her roommate in the hallway. The murdered girl's throat had been slit, and she had bled to death in the hallway while clawing at the door.


A teenager is driving his girlfriend home from a date. The boy had been playing around earlier about the car running out of gas as a means to make out with her. Well, it doesn't work and she's mad. He starts up the car to take her home, apologizing all the way, when lo and behold they actually do run out of gas. He pulls the car over by some trees. It's very late and the area is secluded and wooded. The boy tells his girlfriend that he saw a gas station a couple of miles back and since going ahead would take even longer, he tells her to stay in the car with the windows rolled up and locked and he'll get back as fast as he can, no sense in both of them going, right?

Well, the girl waits in the car. It's been about 20 minutes when she hears a faint scratching noise. It starts to bother her, but she blows it off as the tree branches hitting the car, it had been windy that day, She decides to turn on the radio to listen to some music so it won't freak her out. Well, now it's been almost 2 hours and she's starting to get worried. Her boyfriend was a jock and could have easily made it there and back in under an hour. A half hour later she's very worried and decides to turn off the radio and look around. He had told her not to get out under any circumstances so she tries to peer out the window, she sees nothing. To her annoyment the scratching sound is still there. She decides that she will get out just long enough to break off that damn branch. She gets out and notices the gas can on the ground near the door. She immediately turns around and sees her boyfriend hanging upside down from the tree, throat slit, and his fingernails dragging across the top of the car making a scratching sound. Of course, had she been listening to talk radio instead of music, she would have known a maniac had escaped from the asylum near the woods where they were parked.


This young couple is out parked on a country road. The girl is real nervous and uneasy. It seems that there had been a report about an escaped criminal in the area. He was supposed to be dangerous, a mad killer. They called him "The Hook" because one of his hands was missing and he wore a hook in place of it. He was supposed to have used it on all of his victims. Anyway, the girl was real uneasy for some reason. Supposedly, they were not aware of the escaped killer. She kept saying she had an uneasy feeling but she did not know why. The guy finally got mad at her. He thought she was just making up excuses because she didn't want to park. Finally he lost his temper and stepped on the gas. He really tore out of there fast. He didn't say a word on the way home. When they get to the girl's house, he just got out and went around to open her door. When he got to the door, there was a hook hanging on the handle


Supposedly, at another college in the state, a girl was studying late and went back to her dorm room to get some books or notes. So she wouldn?t disturb her roommate, she didn?t turn on the lights when she got her stuff off of her desk. Later when she went back to her room, she found her roommate dead and a note written in blood on the mirror. It said, "Aren?t you glad you didn?t turn on the light?"


A woman was having trouble staying awake and the road was slick. Her anxiety level was not helped by the fact that she was running low on gas and didn't know where the next town was. Finally, just as she thought she would have to pull over and sleep till morning on the side of the road, a tiny gas station appeared -- very rundown, but a gas station nonetheless. She pulled in. The attendant made his way around the car and seemed to be very distracted as she asked him to fill it up, and even seemed to be making faces at her. He finally agreed to get the gas, but then asked her to pop the hood of the car because it "smelled like trouble." Her anxiety from being on the road was starting to flare up again, she was all alone in a creepy gas station out in the middle of nowhere and an attendant was finding reasons to keep her there. He asked her to come look at the engine, he had to "show her something". Not knowing what else to do, almost as if in a daze, she did as he asked, all the while wondering why she didn't scream. As she rounded the front of the car he grabbed her arm and said, "This car needs a tow, you'll have to come with me into the office." Then he put his hand over her mouth and forced her into the office. She began to bite his hand once they were inside and he let her go and said, "I'm sorry, but there is a man crouched down in the backseat of your car and I didn't want him to know that I'd seen him."

[Furies4life]

I really liked this linked. Its weried how people think some of these are true.

[Jigsaw]

LOL I read the one where the Japanese Robbers left a thank you note..
LOL!!

[Storm86]

I actually tried the pop rocks and pepsi thing

[warriorchick]

i find it amazing that no matter where in the country you live, there are these same legends that you hear while growing up. i wonder if that's the same in the UK? anyone over the pond that's heard these same stories while growing up?

[PunkRockWarrior62]

I love this site. I really like urban legends and on the show "Supernatural," they kind of battle the evil from urban legends, for instance they did "Bloody Mary," "The Woman in White," and "The Hook"

I advise those of you who like urban legends to check it out if you get a chance!

[tomboy]

The legends about advertising mistates, like the Chinese Coke slogan "come alive" have even appeared in my textbooks at school, so professors used them in their lessons.

:^o [-X

[CompanyScum]

Be sure to check out the gallery!
It may be gross to some, for me, the brown recluse spider bite, and the raw sushi results.

[Twitch]

I'm sure everyone's heard of the old lady that bathed her poodle and thought it would be a great idea to put him in the Microwave to quickly dry him, right?

[Oddity]

lol @ Paul McCartney died in 1966

[warriorchick]

I'm sure everyone's heard of the old lady that bathed her poodle and thought it would be a great idea to put him in the Microwave to quickly dry him, right?

LOL---just love your anim. graphic Twitch!!

[tomboy]

Or the one where the woman cooked herself by sitting in a tanning bed for too long

[Zen444]

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