"have you heard the one about...??"
what urban legends have you heard in and around sheffield?? the school playground or the office??
im intrested to hear about any... from anything from middlewood to meadowhall!!
just for my own amusement, i love stuff like that!!!

I've haven't got time to list them now, but go here (http://www.snopes.com) for the most common ones in the world. Most 'local' ones tend to be really international ones without us realising anyway.

Try the following links:-

http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/advice/survivors.htm

http://users.aber.ac.uk/mikstaff/ftn53.htm

http://www.mysterymag.com/whatsnew/index.php

http://www.snopes.com/

The best one that I came across in recent years was...

"A friend of my mates wife was in the queue in Poundland in Meadowhall and the man in front of her was 10p short so she lent him the money. He said "Thankyou so much, and in return I will just warn you that there's a suicide bomb planned for here soon - be careful!" He was Asian so he knew what he was talking about. Stay away from Meadowhall"

Then a pal told me the very same story whilst I was in Florida about their local mall. :thumbsup:

and asians wonder why it is so "them" and "us" joking about things like that could have a terrible knock on effect for the gulible

Originally posted by Shellspeare
and asians wonder why it is so "them" and "us" joking about things like that could have a terrible knock on effect for the gulible

was that tongue in cheek?

Originally posted by Tony
The best one that I came across in recent years was...

"A friend of my mates wife was in the queue in Poundland in Meadowhall and the man in front of her was 10p short so she lent him the money. He said "Thankyou so much, and in return I will just warn you that there's a suicide bomb planned for here soon - be careful!" He was Asian so he knew what he was talking about. Stay away from Meadowhall"

Then a pal told me the very same story whilst I was in Florida about their local mall. :thumbsup:

The way I heard it there was no mention of a bomb. The 'friend' asked why he should stay away from Meadowhall, was there a bomb? The answer was no, it's c**p.

Oh, and it was an arab not an asian. Why would an asian know about bombs?

Originally posted by max
Oh, and it was an arab not an asian. Why would an asian know about bombs?

Err, semantics I know, but without wanting to encourage the racist majority...
Afganistan
Pakistan
India
Bali
Iraq
Iran
... need any more?

Originally posted by Tony
Err, semantics I know, but without wanting to encourage the racist majority...
Afganistan
Pakistan
India
Bali
Iraq
Iran
... need any more?

OK, fair point.

yeah i remember being told that just after september 11th

my children have all been told this at different times

Hasnt meadowhall been under threat all the time since sept 11th. Dont kno if its true but i heard that meadowhall had got bodybags in their cellar or summin along those lines!!!!

Now thats what i call prepared eh! Quite scary

Not in the same league, but I have always enjoyed the one about the woman from Haworth who went on holiday to the west coast and went on a mystery day trip excursion, which landed up in........Haworth

This one is strange.
About seven years ago a mate of mine told me about a young girl who had died, whose parents had, instead of burying her, had her stuffed, and had put her infront of a window in the house that she used to look out of a lot. Eventually the locals complained to the council and the parents had to get frosted glass fitted to the window.

When I stopped laughing at him he promissed to show me next time we were in town.

This next Bit I cant fully explain but I swear on all I hold dear is true.

We drove up this road in S6 the following week, and there in the window at the top of the stairs was a silouet (excuse my bad spelling) of a small child

The next week I went passed three or four times and every time there it was.

The only thing I can think, is it was one of those vacume cleaner covers but it did look real.

ps its gone now.

Damn inflatable dolls. Where else can you keep 'em?!

the one about meadowhall with the bodybags isnt true apparently someone saw some suit bags being delivered to marks and spencer and assumed they were body bags

Originally posted by hj dary
This one is strange.
About seven years ago a mate of mine told me about a young girl who had died, whose parents had, instead of burying her, had her stuffed, and had put her infront of a window in the house that she used to look out of a lot.

Well I am 35 now and that one as been going around since I was at senior school. It was meant to be some house in walkley but me and my mates were too scared to go and look.

You often hear stories going around and wonder if they are actually true. This is one I heard a while ago and still don't know if it's fact or fiction.

A lady, who was a little over weight had a Doctors appointment for a routine smear test around Xmas time.

Wanting to be all nice and fresh - she popped into the shower and afterwards took a can of deoderant and gave the area to be examined a quick blast!

Off she went to the Docs feeling and smelling as fresh as a daisy.

As she was layed on the examining table she noticed a startled look from the nurse and the Doctor looked at the patient and said "Very Festive"

All the way home the lady was puzzled at the Docs comments until she went to the loo.

As she stood up to pull the flush - she noticed all glitter down the toilet!

It wasn't deoderant she had sprayed - it was hair glitter.

Unfortunately being a larger lady she could not see her mistake.

The Docs comment made sense - he thought she had decorated herself for Xmas!!! :hihi:

Bet she was ready for the Christmas Period!!!

If you are the lady in question please come forward I would love to know if this actually happened.

Has anyone else heard this or any other stories?

Carman Electra has apparently admitted to it!

Full details of this story here

http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/feminine/glitter.asp

If you want more stories like this have a good long look at this site

www.snopes.com

Nomme

Thanks nomme - interesting stuff. Bit disappointed though was hoping the glitter story was true.

Its amazing how these stories spread and how far they can reach!

One story I know is definately true.

My sister was a nurse at a food factory. There was an accident and a man got his hand caught in machinery causing him to lose some fingers. The other workers frantically searched for said fingers to rush to the hospital to be stiched back on.

They brought my sister two mini pork sausages covered in bean juice!!!:loopy:

Good job she noticed before they were attached! :hihi:

Threads merged.

I heard a similar story:

A woman on the way for her test, popped to the ladies and found there was no paper to she used a tissue from her handbag. Later, during the examination, the gynaecologist found a Green Shield stamp!

Originally posted by MrHelicopter
I heard a similar story:

A woman on the way for her test, popped to the ladies and found there was no paper to she used a tissue from her handbag. Later, during the examination, the gynaecologist found a Green Shield stamp!

"Green Shield Stamp" - what's one of those MrH? :D ;)

Nomme

Originally posted by hj dary
This one is strange.
About seven years ago a mate of mine told me about a young girl who had died, whose parents had, instead of burying her, had her stuffed, and had put her infront of a window in the house that she used to look out of a lot. Eventually the locals complained to the council and the parents had to get frosted glass fitted to the window.

When I stopped laughing at him he promissed to show me next time we were in town.

This next Bit I cant fully explain but I swear on all I hold dear is true.

We drove up this road in S6 the following week, and there in the window at the top of the stairs was a silouet (excuse my bad spelling) of a small child

The next week I went passed three or four times and every time there it was.

The only thing I can think, is it was one of those vacume cleaner covers but it did look real.

ps its gone now.

I know which house you're talking about. As an impressionable teenager my friends and I would drive past to have a look quite often. We once saw kids of about ten or twelve stood on the garage roof peering inside.

The explanation I heard was that it was just a statue. Wonder who and how this was started? :confused:

My favourites:
The Captain Pugwash myths: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.htm

The McDonalds 'mayonaise' myth: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tumor.htm - Warning! Untrue, but not for weak stomachs.

Well i have heard three versions of this story

a man was working in a factory stamping the handles of cutlery with the makers name etc.

He decided he could work much faster without the safety guards so removed them

unfortunately he slipped crushed his right fingers

when he was asked what happened by the h&s manager he showed the guy how he had removed the guard and picked up a fork like so, placed it here like this and then him the peddle for the fork to be stamped, as he did this the stamper came down and crushed his left fingers aswell


this is a good one too
http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/wordperf.htm

Originally posted by max
The way I heard it there was no mention of a bomb. The 'friend' asked why he should stay away from Meadowhall, was there a bomb? The answer was no, it's c**p.

Oh, and it was an arab not an asian. Why would an asian know about bombs?

Whoohoo, the politics forum is back!

Although, we could hardly pretend white people never plant bombs. Is there a country on earth that could claim that one of their nationals has never planted a bomb? I don't know, maybe iceland, they all seem pretty nice :)

But never mind, this thread is about urban myths. There are lots of urban myths about murder, aren't there. Theres that stupid teen slasher film, whats it called, I can't remember (maybe its called urban myths?) about all those people who die in the gruesome fashion of an urban myth?

I've heard the camping / toothbrush one a couple of times from people who swear it's happened to neighbours or friends of friends.

Whats the camping toothbrush one?

A family go on their holidays - camping. A day or two after pitching their tent a group of lads turn up and camp beside them. They're a little boisterous but nothing serious.

The father of the family speaks to the site manager and asks if he could just ask the lads to tone it down a little, as he's on holiday with his little ones and doesn't want them to see any lewd or inappropriate behaviour.

The site manager agrees to sort it and the family go out for the day.

As they return to the site, the manager sees them and stops their car. He tells them not to worry about the lads, he's thrown them off the site.

The family feel a bit bad about it, but are relieved to have a quiet holiday.

As they drive up to their tent, they find it open, the flaps blowing in the wind. They assume the worst - the lads have ransacked the tent, especially as dad left his expensive camera in there.

Oddly enough, nothing is taken or out of place, and they soon ignore it and get on with their holiday.

When they get back home they take the film from the camera to be developed. When they get their photos back they see a picture of the group of lads, naked from the waist down, bent over with the family's toothbrushes up their backsides!

Theres the one about a man admitted to A&E with a severely damaged penis with bite marks and gashes all the way down it and the woman who is admitted at the same time unconcious and severely beaten.

It turns out that they are lovers and the woman had an epileptic fit whilst performing oral sex on the male. Her jaw clamped shut and the only way that he could get her off him was by hitting her around the head.

Hows about this e-mail one:

This was forwarded to me by a friend, they don't know if it's true or not but, I'm passing it along. We might see this on the 10:00 news tomorrow as the latest big internet hoax but....

Joan just told me that her friend heard a crying baby on her porch the night before last and she called the police b/c it was late and she thought it was wierd. The police told her "whatever you do, do NOT open the door." The lady then said that the baby had crawled near a window and she was worried that it would crawl to the street and get run over.

The police said, "we already have a unit on the way, whatever you do, DO NOT open the door." he told her that they think the serial killer has a baby's cry recorded and uses it to coax women out of their homes thinking that someone dropped off a baby. He said they have not verified it but have had several calls by women saying that they hear baby's cries outside of their doors when they're home alone at night.

Please pass this on and do not open the door for a crying baby.

:loopy:

not going to go into detail, I'll leave it to your imagination, but my favourite urban legend is the sweetcorn one......

:gag:


:clap:

Originally posted by fox20thc
Please pass this on and do not open the door for a crying baby.


I think it's a hoex. I heard it months ago, maybe here. But it's never been in the press. Surely the police would make people aware properly instread of relying on spam emails? :suspect:

It is a hoax! An urban myth.. thats why I posted it :rolleyes:

Originally posted by alchresearch
A family go on their holidays - camping. A day or two after pitching their tent a group of lads turn up and camp beside them. They're a little boisterous but nothing serious.

The father of the family speaks to the site manager and asks if he could just ask the lads to tone it down a little, as he's on holiday with his little ones and doesn't want them to see any lewd or inappropriate behaviour.

The site manager agrees to sort it and the family go out for the day.

As they return to the site, the manager sees them and stops their car. He tells them not to worry about the lads, he's thrown them off the site.

The family feel a bit bad about it, but are relieved to have a quiet holiday.

As they drive up to their tent, they find it open, the flaps blowing in the wind. They assume the worst - the lads have ransacked the tent, especially as dad left his expensive camera in there.

Oddly enough, nothing is taken or out of place, and they soon ignore it and get on with their holiday.

When they get back home they take the film from the camera to be developed. When they get their photos back they see a picture of the group of lads, naked from the waist down, bent over with the family's toothbrushes up their backsides!

I think this one may actually be true. Several years ago I used to have a few books of the "Confessions" slot from the Simon Mayo radio show. This is basically a segment where people write in and confess funny but bad things that they've done. This exact story was in there. Admittedly the person who wrote it was telling it on behalf of their friend, but you'd think that anyone who'd write to a radio station reciting the story would have a genuine connection to the person it happened to.

I recently received an urban myth email warning aimed at female motorists. It warned all female motorists not to buy perfume from people selling it from their cars on petrol station forecourts. The "robbers" ask the woman if she'd like to smell the perfume first. When she does, the perfume is actually some kind of chemical that knocks her unconscious. The robbers then take her purse, phone etc.

Then there's the urban myth of the teenage boy who was masturbating in his bedroom with the door closed. He puts some music on his walkman, puts on the headphones, closes his eyes and does the "deed". When he's finished, he opens his eyes to find that his mum has come in without him noticing, and has left a glass of milk and a plate of cookies on his bedside table.

Or there's the classic one about people getting stabbed with HIV-infected syringes whilst in nightclubs, and attached to these needles are pieces of paper saying "welcome to the world of AIDS".

What is so fascinating to me is the sincerity with which these urban legends are told.

Strangely, it's not really just telling a lie. We all know these things DIDN'T happen but these tale tellers seem to have convinced themselves that it did happen to people they know. The incidents always happen to the tale teller's cousin, friend or friend of a friend.

I've had respected, reputable people swear that they personally know the bride who waited to confront her cheating groom and her backstabbing Maid of Honor in front of the wedding guests; the woman "shot" by a can of refrigerator biscuits; the girl whose kidnapper cut her hair and dressed her as a boy in the mall toilets; the victims of the ax-wielding woman who lurks in back seats and the woman who was charged $250 for the top-secret Neimann-Marcus cookie recipe.