cAN YOU TELL ME YOUR FAVORITE URBAN lEGEND?

Question

IT COULD BE OF ANYTHING.

Answer 1

My favorite urban legends concerns the town where I teach. As long as I can remember, people have claimed that they know someone who has seen or heard black panthers in the woods around there (No one ever purports to have seen or heard one themselves). Now, black panthers are really leopards with all black fur or jaguars with black fur. (Really, look it up!) Black leopards live in Africa and Jags in South America. They don't live in my state. But you will never convince some people of this fact.

I have two other folkloric items that aren't really legends but they are favorite old wives tales. When my son was a baby, his grandmother would get upset if I lifted his feet when changing a diaper, because she said it would turn his liver over. Once, when we were moving, she told me I shouldn't take the cat, because it was bad luck to move a cat. When I assured her that I wasn't about to leave my cat, she then said that I had to move everything else and go back and get the cat. She was a very superstitious person.

Answer 2

To Just17seconds... your story rocks. I've never heard that one and I thought I had heard them all!!

Anyway mine is not scary, but it is definitely an urban legend. It's the one where a lady supposedly has twins and names them Orangello and Lemongello.
And the great part about it is that the person who tells you the story always claims to know someone who knows the nurse who was working in the hospital when it occurred.

Who knows, the story is so old it may have actually happened by now. After all my son goes to school with a kid named LaDoctor and his sister LaNursa. And those are real names. I know the kids.

Answer 3

The one about how cats will lay on your chest and "steal" your breath. My father-in-law actually believes this.

Either that, or the one about the rabbit. My brother-in-law actually told me this story in true urban legend fashion - it happened to a friend of a friend. I burst out laughing so hard I cried.

In short, you have the Smiths and the Jones. The Jones have a pet rabbit which is kept in a cage outside. The Jones go on vaca. The Smiths' dog is found with the rabbit in its mouth. Horrors! Fido has killed the Jones' pet! So they take the rabbit, clean it up and put it back in the cage. I believe blow-drying is involved.

So the Jones come back from vaca, and ask the Smiths if they noticed anyone hanging around. Apparently some sick FREAK has dug up their deceased pet rabbit and put it back in the cage!

Answer 4

There was an legend that was popular when I was growing up. In my town, it was alleged in the 1700's that a woman named Mary killed her family with an axe and was hanged. The place where I grew up has plenty of old communities that date back that far, and my town was once a homestead where George Washington visited. The legend went that if you sat in a darkened room with a flashlight (or candle) and looked in a mirror while repeating "Hatchet Mary, Hatchet Mary, Hatchet Mary" over and over, she will appear in the mirror behind you with an axe. That story scared the hell out of us when we were kids, and I don't know anyone who was brave enough to do it. There were people I knew who claimed that they did it on their own, but they would never do it again to prove they weren't afraid.

Answer 5

I remember the goat man story my brother used to tell me when I was little. It was a ridiculous story and I didn't even believe it then but it reminds me of old times, even though it's not scary.
I think every town has their own version of goatman.
The one my brother told me went like this:
A lumberjack was out in the woods alone (already improbable) when he was stopped to catch his breath his axe slipped and cut off his leg (how does that happen?) So he killed a goat and cut off it's leg and sewed it where his own leg had been. After a few years of using the goats leg as his own, hair began to grow all over his body and he began to resemble a humanoid goatman. He went crazy and lived in the woods. And everytime someone visited the area he would kill them. It was a silly story and my brother and I were both little so it was fun for him to tell it to me. We both knew it was b.s. though.
One that freaks me out is the urban legend about drug dealers hollowing out little kids to smuggle drugs. There has never been a reported case but I knew this chick who swore up and down that it really happened. (she was a twit) It's still a creepy concept though.
Another one that scares me is the one about the baby sitter who was watching t.v. in the parents bedroom because all the good channels were blocked in the living room. The parents called her to check up on the kids and she asked if she could cover up the clown statue in their bedroom because it was creeping her out. Then they told her to get the kids and run next door to call the cops because they didn't have a clown statue. I think that one freaks me out because clowns scare the bejeezus out of me. And I remember seeing those statues as a kid, and I always hated them. There's something sinister about them and this urban legend only confirms that feeling. I mean, even though it probably didn't happen, I know I'm not the only one who hates those things.

Answer 6

My favorite is the one where a young girl's parents leave her home alone for an evening. A few strange noises scare her while she's in bed, but her dog that sleeps under the bed reassures her everything is fine by licking her hand.

She finally gets up to use the restroom, only to find her dead dog in the shower and a man hiding underneath the bed in her room.

BAHH!! Creepy guy licking her hand.

Answer 7

I grew up in a small town in oklahoma as a preteen and teen their was an urban legend about a bridge that you have to cross to get from Walters to Temple. About 30 years b4 i was born a man was hung from the bridge because he raped a young native american girl from Walters..they say if you cross the bridge at night you will see his body hanging from the rafters of the bridge and he will fall on your car and try to get in and get away ( i never tried to see it myself i am chicken).

Answer 8

To Just17seconds... your tale rocks. i have under no circumstances heard that one and that i presumed I had heard all of them!! besides mine isn't scary, however it truly is definitely an city legend. it is the single the position a lady supposedly has twins and names them Orangello and Lemongello. And the total section about it truly is that the man who tells you the tale continually claims to understand someone who knows the nurse who changed into operating interior the health center even as it befell. Who knows, the tale is so old it might want to have honestly occurred by using now. in spite of each and every thing my son is going to school with a baby named LaDoctor and his sister LaNursa. and those are genuine names. i comprehend the toddlers.

Answer 9

I think that I'd have to say that Keith Urban is my FAVORITE Urban legend.

Answer 10

Cow tipping....love that one I have seen my buddies convince a new guy in town that it is true and take him out to do it only to get him chased by cows and covered in manure LOL They still had him believing even after this and he said that he was going to try it with his buddies when he got back to his town..LOL we laughed about it for months imagining a bunch of guys futilely trying to push cows over in a field...LMAO