R&S: what is your favorite urban legend-?

Question

Religion is NOT an urban legend, you may say religion is a myth or false but that does not make it an urband legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend

Answer 1

mooseback333: I live in Milwaukee and never heard that - though not surprising - Urban Legends tend to not go where they supposedly originate from. Oddly enough, though, I have heard of the same thing in San Antonio, TX.

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My favorite is the one where a lady dies because she wore a dress that was used on a dead person. The embalming fluid is toxic and somehow oozed out of a dead woman and soaked into the dress - when another woman wore it, she absorbed the fluid and died.

I also like the "man hiding in the back seat of a SUV while a woman is driving and another driver sees him and chases the woman down to save her life.

Say, have you ever noticed that a lot of these UL's tend to have female victims?

Answer 2

La Segua.

The story goes like this:
"a young man goes out at night to a party (this is a very very old legend so originally the young man goes to certain religious festivity but in the end it's also a party) and gets really drunk. Later that night he mounts his horse and rides home. On the road, he sees a beautiful lady in a silky, sensual dress, barefooted, walking by. He thinks it's a dangerous place so he stops and asks her if she needs any help (and we all know what kind of help he hopes she wants). The girl smiles and jumps on the horse. She doesn't really tell him anything, but he assumes she's ok with whatever he wants. In the original version, she jumps on the back of the horse and while they ride, she carresses him. The guy is so drunk and so turned-on, he turns around to grab her, but what he sees terrifies him: the beautiful girl's face has turned into a dead horse's head, eyeless whose mouth expells fire. Her body is a skeleton and the dress is rags. She screams with a demonic voice and the man is so scared he leaves the horse and runs away as fast as he can. Needless to say, he never goes out again because what he saw, my friend, was the devil disguised. "

ta daa. This story was told to my grandparents as a true story and a warning: youngsters, don't lose yourselves in devilish temptations or you'll end up in the devil's embrace!

Answer 3

Kind of funny, but kind of painful too.

A girl works at a barber shop and is about to close up when a man with scraggily hair comes in asking for a haircut. The girl decides to give the man a quick cut and then she can go. She gets the man in the chair and puts the sheet that completely protects the clothes over him. She then turns to grab some scissors and when she turns around, she sees an up and down jerking motion going on underneath the sheet. Thinking that the man is j@ck!ng off she quickly turns around, grabs a hair dryer, and uses it to hit the man hard in the head knocking him out. The girl quickly calls the police. Five minutes later, when two cops arrive, the man is still out cold. One of the officers goes up to the unconscience man and when he pulls the sheet away, he is shocked to discover that the man wasn't playing with himself, he was merely cleaning his glasses.

Answer 4

Haunchyville.
In the Milwaukee, WI area it is rumored to be a small village of midgets, dwarfs, little people or what ever the PC term is these days. They have filed there teeth to points and if you come on there land they will attack you with shotguns and baseball bats. It's been going around for decades. Some variations have them as albinos too. And in some they wait for men to pee by bushes then cut there things off.

Answer 5

The Loch Ness Monster

Answer 6

I think the Mothman is very interesting - the harbinger of disaster - the whole collapse of the Silver Bridge thing. First, why a mothman? Second, just how weird. It's very mysterious.

I wonder if there was a Mothman in MN.

Answer 7

Boy driving girl home after a date. She demands to get out of the car near a cemetery. The next day, he goes to her house to return the sweater she left in the car. Her parents accuse him of a cruel hoax, since their daughter died 20 years ago.

Answer 8

Jesus was born on Dec 25. that one gets me going. Why do people not know he was not and then compare Jesus to pagan gods that where born on Dec 25. That has been one I have seen on here a few times.

Answer 9

The one that came out a few years back that stated "Scientists find that sperm reduces chances of breast cancer"

I was in high school at that time, and you wouldn't guess how many guys tried to use that.

Answer 10

I love the chupacabra. Also, the mothman. My crazy aunt claims to have seen him!