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My first one is actually the Mama Cass story about her choking on a ham sandwich. My dad told it to me to get me to stop wolfing down my dinner
I remember the Halloween candy well, because we were warned about it in school every year. I also remember one year our neighborhood was warned about a gang giving out Mickey Mouse stickers with LSD in the glue.
I started coming here after I read "The Big Book of Hoaxes" and got hooked on hoaxes and urban legends. I became a regular after Sept. 11th because I kept hearing those so much in school. Nostradamus really got around!
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quote:Originally posted by okenter, light as a Feta: [QB] "There was this kid, right, and he saw a new girl in school, ok? Anyway, she's wearing this ribbon around her neck, a big, thick ribbon that's pink. They grow up together, and are in each others classes, and they start dating, then after gradation, they get married, right? And every day, she's wearing the same ribbon. And one day, when they're all grown up, he asks her why she's wearing the ribbon, and she says that when she was a kid, before she moved to his school, someone tried to cut her head off, and the doctors had to use the ribbon to keep her head on. Then she undid the ribbon, and her head fell off!" QB]
Oh my God, I remember that story! I used to hear it at school, and I read it in some horror story book, complete with illustrations. Though the way I heard it, the woman didn't tell him about the ribbon until she was on her deathbed and she simply told the man to undo it and her head fell off.
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The first one I remember is that one about that Jesus fella. The guy that was executed and came back to life and now he sends people to hell for disagreeing with him. I never belived it. It's a pretty childish story.
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quote:Originally posted by Blue: The first one I remember is that one about that Jesus fella. The guy that was executed and came back to life and now he sends people to hell for disagreeing with him. I never belived it. It's a pretty childish story.
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Mine was a hybrid of the beehive and the killer dress. The woman died because the dress had moth larvae in it that chewed through her chest and ate her heart. This was in early elementary school from a young lass who would go on to terrify me with many more such stories over the years.
-Tabby the princess with claws
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When my dad was younger, he had a flat tire and had to stop right in front of the state mental hospital. The whole time, one of the inmates watched him. It was making my dad really nervous, and somehow, he dropped the lug nuts, which rolled into the ditch. He dug around in the muck, but could not find the nuts. It was starting to rain, and things were looking pretty desperate when the lunatic said "why don't you take one nut off of each of the other tires, then you'll have three on each tire?"
My dad was shocked that he hadn't thought of this himself. He quickly did as he was told and just as he was getting in the car, said, Thanks, how did you know to do that.
The nut replied "hey, I'm crazy. I'm not stupid!"
I believed this story for 25 years, until I read this Tire Nut story on snopes
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Those scary ones were the first ones I heard, at Church Camp in the summer. All that stuff about being glad you didn't turn on the light, the roommate scratching her nails against the door, and she was told not to turn around but she did anyway!!!
Funny how they were started as a "Warning" to teenagers. We just thought they were ghost stories (why is it that most ghost stories don't even have ghosts in them?). Shortly thereafter we found a porno under one of the mattresses and charged boys to see it, therefore ending the ghost stories, but beginning a lucrative summer. Ah, church camp. finkles "kum-bah-yah" 2000
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Northern IL.
Early 1970s.
Mary Worth.
What else can I say.
And to the one who used this as an opportunity to slam someone else's beliefs:
I thought that was rather childish, really.
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I've been thinking about this for four years now, and I still don't know what else you can say.
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Yes, we're keeping my son's two Jack Russell Terrorists, and I'm barricaded in my home office.
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