What is the Urban Legend that you actually believed?

Question

I think at one time or another we have (come on-admit it) all been duped by an urban legend. Maybe by an e-mail from a relative who received it from a "credible source" or a story that went around the playground. When I was young; I believed that some kid was actually castrated in the bathroom of a large shopping mall near us. And as a result of that story, me and a lot of other kids, had a huge fear of shopping mall bathrooms for many years. I'm almost 40 now, and i can still remember how freaked out I was when i first heard that bullcrap story.

Answer 1

Its not an urban legend. But the fact that you can turn someone into a zombie. I have seen at least 4 so called zombies in Haiti

Answer 2

My college roommate told the "Psychotic escaped from the Insane Asylum" too well ::: Boyfriend & Girlfriend making out and radio tells of an escapee from the local insain aslym ... then the guy goes out to check and there is a struggle, so the girl freaks and hids under the dashboard ... well when my roommate got to the part where there was a "Screaching" noise ... she dragged her fingers through the air ... ( her nails were extreemly long, and neatly manacured ) ... that sent the hairs on my neck straight up!!!

She was a master urban legend spreader!!!

Answer 3

For the longest time I believed the one about the businessman who hooks up with the prostitute in vegas, only to find himself the next morning in a tub full of ice, a note on the mirror saying "call an ambulance" and his kidney gone!! I know it's not true now, but it's still a cool and freaky story!

Answer 4

I believed, and still do believe the legend of the Ogopogo, although I think that it is a land-locked pre-historic fish and that it is in greater numbers than one single monster. I also believed the Sasquatch stories, but I do not any longer... and of course there are the stories of the infamous werewolves. I must admit that when I am deep in the forest and all alone, I am still afraid...

Answer 5

I was totally convinced that the Loch Ness monster was a living pleseasaur and I had plans for an underwater exploration to see it for myself.

I also believed the one about the Japanese fishermen who caught a recently dead pleseasaur in their net. Of course, it turned out to be just a decayed shark.

I believed almost every sea monster sighting I heard of. I was really into dinosaurs and really wanted to believe there were still some out there.

Answer 6

When i was a kid i really believed the one about the couple making out in a deserted area, he leaves the car, she hears a slow scraping sound on the roof of the car, and he's found dead hanging upside-down the next morning, windpipe dragging on the car. That one actually gave me nightmares after hearing it at camp.

Answer 7

The streets are paved with gold.....and then found out you had to work for the city or better yet be a contractor with a few polittians in your back pocket not to mention a judge or two and a few lawyers also ''working'' for you......or here in toronto or canada A POLITITICAL HACK IF NOT AN OUTRIGHT MEMBER.....

Answer 8

I don't know if this is an urban legends...but the one about people eating like over a thousands spiders a night...or something like that. Rather then that I'd say none.

Answer 9

a story about a guy hospitalizing 11 others in a barfight, and seeking 3 hours to get to the 12th, who had run away.

Ofcourse, i'm not entirely sure it's not true.

Answer 10

The microwaved cat story in 1974, recently some yobs did it England so sadly maybe it wasn't a myth.