Urban Myths?

Question

Come on then, lets have a few pages of your favourite Urban Myths please.

Answer 1

The chinese wall is the only man made thing which can be seen from space.

This is wrongggggg nothing man made can be seen from space.

Answer 2

The tale of the ghostly hitch hiker has been told to me as a "bona fide local story" all over the States and Europe. I betcha they have the same tale with local embellishments in the Far East.
A person is driving along a country road in the middle of the night and it is, of course, raining. He picks up a young hitchhiker (usually a girl) and tries to make conversation but she won't, she seems tense and preoccupied. She tells him she *has* to be at a certain relatively nearby place, soonest. He drives into the small town she mentions, and turns to tell her they've arrived, and she's gone.
In some versions, on the way back to the main road, he nearly has an accident and sees her standing on the shoulder of the road, watching.
He goes back to the small town the next day and inquires, only to discover she was hit by a car and killed at the spot where he picked her up several years before. Some versions tell that she was desperate to get home to see her mother before she died, etc.
They even made a TV movie based on this story in France.

Answer 3

Favourite urban myths....

Lee Oswald assassinated Kenedy
Man laded on the moon
Kentucky Fried Rat
Boyfriend beheaded by madman whilst girlfriend sits in car
Wanking makes you blind
Bush didn't fix the last Presidential election
The gulf war had nothing to do with oil
Elvis and Tupac are both still alive and in protective custody
Teeth dissolve in coke
Coke can be used as a spermicide

Answer 4

Well-known modern urban legends include the person who tried to dry off a wet poodle in a microwave oven, killing it; the vanishing hitchhiker; ground glass being a deadly poison (it is harmless [3]) and alligators said to live in New York City's sewers, where they grow to enormous size after having been flushed down the toilet by dissatisfied pet owners.

An urban legend can seldom be traced to its origins. Examples of those that can be included are The Submarine (shark), the Steam tunnel incident and "Gloomy Sunday", the tale of the so-called Hungarian suicide song.

Answer 5

Good one on the BBC radio this morning. If you nick a car radio from Ford cars, they contain a microchip which- if inserted into a "SKY" decoder- will allow you to watch sky TV ( although why anyone should want to is beyond me) for free.

All rubbish, of course. But there is a city called "Cardiff" in Wales, where car radio thefts have increased 400% due to this urban myth.

Answer 6

A woman goes into a coffee shop & gets a coffee and a kitkat. The place is full, no free tables, and she's hassled, weighed down with shopping. She sees a punk sitting at a table with a free seat in front of him, so she plonks her shopping down, sips her coffee and ignores him. Then she notices, to her horror, the punk pick up the kitkat, open it, break off a piece, and put the bar back on the table. She stares at him for a moment; he stares back. She's not going to let him intimidate her, no way, so she grabs it, eats it all, then takes her cup and shopping and moves to another table. She is still fuming when she gets home. She gets her keys out of her handbag, and finds her kitkat.

Answer 7

Here’s one I just heard, though its not exactly in an urban setting. Happened in the boondocks. Old man makes a living driving passengers with a horse-drawn carriage. One night, he picks up a very pale girl who asks to be brought to the local cemetery. He drives the carriage there, turns around to get the fee, only to discover that the girl was no longer there. Suddenly he hears her right in front of him, saying, “Here’s my fare.” Scared out of his wits, he whips the horse into a run, and speeds on to the nearest lighted place, a church. Still shivering with fear, he says aloud, “I’ve never been so scared in my whole life!” The horse turns to him and says, “Me too!”

Answer 8

A woman needs to go to the gynae for a checkup. She's late, grabs a flannel and shoves it into a bag she finds in her daughter's room and rushes off. She pops into the loo at the doctors and has a quick wash.
A few minutes later, during her examination, the doctor says "You shouldn't have gone to all that trouble." A bit bemused, the woman says "No, that'squite allright!"
She goes home and finds her daughter looking for her bag of gold glitter which has mysteriously vanished. The woman takes her flannel out of her handbag and yes, it is in the bag of glitter.

Answer 9

Well, where I come from back in Dorset Ohio , there's this story about an old male witch that used to drink his sh*t .He died the strangest death .He died one day on the front porch with a glass of pee water in his hand .they never did find out why he died .But i'm pretty sure it was from drinking all that sh*t .i think his ghost is still in those parts leaving mysterious puddles for unsuspecting pedestrians .

Answer 10

guy has car trouble at home.neighbor comes over to help.guy leaves area on errand.guy's wife thinks neighbor sticking out from under car is hubby-unzips him and starts fondling and kissing his joystick-nieghbor under car bolts up ,hits head just as hubby returns and sees wife molesting neighbor.