Favorite urban myths and legends.

Alberto · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:40 am

Which urban myth is Your favorite, Mine would have to be the pop rocks and soda one.

Pop_tire · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:54 am

Claim: A man whose car bore personalized license plates reading 'NO PLATE' received notices for thousands of unpaid parking tickets. This is my favorite. It's so funny. Read it for yourself, Funny story, that snopes says is real.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:09 am

Claim: Does a Picture in the newspaper Show Anton LaVey and Senator John Kerry together?

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/lavey.asp

heh, what a load, but its fun to think of, considering Mr.LaVey was dead before 2003 when it was colected. heh...

PianoManGidley · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:14 am

I've always been a bit partial to the one about the girl who scares herself to death in a graveyard by accidentally pinning her dress to the ground with a knife.

Encountering Gremlins · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:12 am

The ones that are most amusing to me are the idea that Mountain Dew lowers your sperm count (which I've heard enough times as a Dew addict...

) and the one about Phil Collins writing "In The Air Tonight" about a drowning man and all variations of that.

Maybe I'll throw more out there as I think of them. Urban legends (and reading about them on snopes.com) are fun!

Pepperochu Pepperotyugh · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:37 am

There are so many good ones. The one about cats sucking out babys' breath and thus killing them is pretty cool.

"A planet-dissolving dust cloud will wipe out our solar system in 2014." is a good one, as well. =B

And there's this really cool really elaborate, but failed suicide one involving hanging, shooting, and poisoning. To make sure he dies, this guy swallows some poison, takes a gun, and tries to hang himself off a cliff over the sea. As he jumps, he tries to shoot himself, but misses and shoots the rope. He falls into the sea, accidentaly drinks some salt water, and vomits the poison. He swims to shore and obviously survives. =B

Yeah... Snopes.com is cool. xD

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:16 am

I like the one about having a loose axel thingy or whatever (I'm not much of a car guy) will come off when you hit a bumb, get lodged into that bump, then make your cars backside jump. Another good one is the thing about flour exploding in a room with a furnace.

Funkstar · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:56 am

Mr.KISS wrote:

I like the one about having a loose axel thingy or whatever (I'm not much of a car guy) will come off when you hit a bumb, get lodged into that bump, then make your cars backside jump.

Whoa, that's a pretty cool.

Prof. Tor Coolguy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:34 pm

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

Claim: Does a Picture in the newspaper Show Anton LaVey and Senator John Kerry together?

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/lavey.asp

heh, what a load, but its fun to think of, considering Mr.LaVey was dead before 2003 when it was colected. heh...

Heh, this gave me a chuckle. I always knew all politics had a bit of the devil in 'em

!

The Noid · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:29 pm

I like a lot of them found on Snopes, but I'm quite partial to the horrors section.

Me love a nice scary story.

Acekirby · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:00 pm

Funkstar wrote:

Mr.KISS wrote:

I like the one about having a loose axel thingy or whatever (I'm not much of a car guy) will come off when you hit a bumb, get lodged into that bump, then make your cars backside jump.

Whoa, that's a pretty cool.

Heh. I remember seeing that on Mythbusters. Although I think they busted that one.

I like the Pop Rocks and soda one as well. Not so much because it's partially true (I'm not sure whether it is or not- I can't remember that episode), but because it's one of the most referenced myths of all.

Encountering Gremlins wrote:

The ones that are most amusing to me are the idea that Mountain Dew lowers your sperm count (which I've heard enough times as a Dew addict...

)

Tell me about it.

Kevin DuBrow · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:42 pm

alberto wrote:

Which urban myth is Your favorite, Mine would have to be the pop rocks and soda one.

Check my latest post in the Mythbusters or Brainiacs poll for the answer to that urban legend.

Hi Guys · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:37 pm

I like the one about how the guy who played Steve on "Blues Clues" died of a heroin overdose. It wasn't true of course...

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:46 pm

Acekirby wrote:

Encountering Gremlins wrote:

The ones that are most amusing to me are the idea that Mountain Dew lowers your sperm count (which I've heard enough times as a Dew addict...

)

Tell me about it.

Don't worry; it's been busted on Snopes. The myth started because Yellow No. 5 was "found to have a lot of allergic-type reactions in sensitive people."

Kevin DuBrow · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:51 pm

So THAT'S where that came from? Cool, I guess.

Shippinator Mandy · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:21 am

This one.

It's about a boy who was born without a body, and he uses a burlap sack stuffed with leaves instead.

Definitely roffle-worthy.

This one is pretty good too, as is this one.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:28 am

Pop_tire wrote:

Claim: A man whose car bore personalized license plates reading 'NO PLATE' received notices for thousands of unpaid parking tickets. This is my favorite. It's so funny. Read it for yourself, Funny story, that snopes says is real.

I remember that one. I read it right on Snopes, in fact. I love it.

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:04 am

Acekirby wrote:

Funkstar wrote:

Mr.KISS wrote:

I like the one about having a loose axel thingy or whatever (I'm not much of a car guy) will come off when you hit a bumb, get lodged into that bump, then make your cars backside jump.

Whoa, that's a pretty cool.

Heh. I remember seeing that on Mythbusters. Although I think they busted that one.

They got it to wrok, but only after a million tries and making the joint on the axel thing un-realistically weak. But, ya...Busted.

extremejon09 · **Joined:** Mon May 10, 2004 10:28 pm **Posts:** 4675

Quote:

Dr. Johansen said if you foward this e-mail then Bill Gates will team up with AOL and do a survey with NASA. Then the astronauts will collect prayers from school children all over America and take them up to space so that the angels can hear them better. Then they will go to the Pope, and he will take up a collection in church and send the money to the doctors

Roffle-waffle.

Metal Matt · **Joined:** Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:19 pm **Posts:** 18

Acekirby wrote:

Funkstar wrote:

Mr.KISS wrote:

I like the one about having a loose axel thingy or whatever (I'm not much of a car guy) will come off when you hit a bumb, get lodged into that bump, then make your cars backside jump.

Whoa, that's a pretty cool.

Heh. I remember seeing that on Mythbusters. Although I think they busted that one.

They did that one on there? I've always wondered what would happen if the drive shaft fell out from the front. My universals were going bad a few years ago and I was afraid to find out.

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:55 pm

Metal Matt wrote:

Acekirby wrote:

Funkstar wrote:

Mr.KISS wrote:

I like the one about having a loose axel thingy or whatever (I'm not much of a car guy) will come off when you hit a bumb, get lodged into that bump, then make your cars backside jump.

Whoa, that's a pretty cool.

Heh. I remember seeing that on Mythbusters. Although I think they busted that one.

They did that one on there? I've always wondered what would happen if the drive shaft fell out from the front. My universals were going bad a few years ago and I was afraid to find out.

Thye found out that they had to be REALLY worn before anything will happen.

Itsy Bitsy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:10 am

PianoManGidley wrote:

I've always been a bit partial to the one about the girl who scares herself to death in a graveyard by accidentally pinning her dress to the ground with a knife.

that was not real... that was a made up story they put in the book scary stories. i forget if it was 1, 2 or 3

Acekirby · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:12 am

IantheGecko wrote:

Acekirby wrote:

Encountering Gremlins wrote:

The ones that are most amusing to me are the idea that Mountain Dew lowers your sperm count (which I've heard enough times as a Dew addict...

)

Tell me about it.

Don't worry; it's been busted on Snopes. The myth started because Yellow No. 5 was "found to have a lot of allergic-type reactions in sensitive people."

Yeah, I knew it wasn't true. I just hear it a lot because I like Dew so much.

Metal Matt wrote:

Acekirby wrote:

Funkstar wrote:

Mr.KISS wrote:

I like the one about having a loose axel thingy or whatever (I'm not much of a car guy) will come off when you hit a bumb, get lodged into that bump, then make your cars backside jump.

Whoa, that's a pretty cool.

Heh. I remember seeing that on Mythbusters. Although I think they busted that one.

They did that one on there? I've always wondered what would happen if the drive shaft fell out from the front. My universals were going bad a few years ago and I was afraid to find out.

Don't worry about it. As KISS stated above, they had to do some crazy things to make it work- it's totally unrealistic.

Itsy Bitsy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:20 am

i'm surprised noones posted that thing with that song: roller coaster love. when they say that the bands manager killed the woman on their cd cover because(i'm to lazy to type everything at the moment) when they were recording the song at the same time, and you can hear her screaming in the song. but its not true. for a very obvious reason.

Mr.KISS · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:23 am

Itsy Bitsy wrote:

PianoManGidley wrote:

I've always been a bit partial to the one about the girl who scares herself to death in a graveyard by accidentally pinning her dress to the ground with a knife.

that was not real... that was a made up story they put in the book scary stories. i forget if it was 1, 2 or 3

Isn;t that still a myth though?

Itsy Bitsy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:31 am

a scary story. maybe a myth, but its got one of the usual plots of a scary story: a teenage girl, a graveyard, a dance(sometimes), midnight, and a dare. lemme see if i can remember it(but not tell it the way they told it in the book).

there was a girl at a dance at a high school that was built next to a graveyard for some reason, and her friends told her that if you go to the graveyard at midnight with a knife and plunge the knife into one of the graves the person under the grae will reach up and pull you underground. the girl didnt think that it was tru and she wasnt afraid to go try. so her friends got her a knife from somewhere and made her go to the graveyard and try it. so she did and she was afraid so she found a grave and plunged the knife in the ground. then she waited and nothing happened, walked back and something tugged at her dress and she thought it was the dead guy grabbing her dress so she screamed and scared herself to death when she actually just stabbed her dress into the ground.

wow that was a great time waster

Musachan · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:50 pm

All my favorites, as I'm going through them in my head, are somewhat sexual in nature soooo I'm not gonna go any farther XD

I did like the recent one aboth the cyclops kitten than turned out to be true. The kitten died, though ...

Teh Ch8t · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:22 am

Itsy Bitsy wrote:

a scary story. maybe a myth, but its got one of the usual plots of a scary story: a teenage girl, a graveyard, a dance(sometimes), midnight, and a dare. lemme see if i can remember it(but not tell it the way they told it in the book).

there was a girl at a dance at a high school that was built next to a graveyard for some reason, and her friends told her that if you go to the graveyard at midnight with a knife and plunge the knife into one of the graves the person under the grae will reach up and pull you underground. the girl didnt think that it was tru and she wasnt afraid to go try. so her friends got her a knife from somewhere and made her go to the graveyard and try it. so she did and she was afraid so she found a grave and plunged the knife in the ground. then she waited and nothing happened, walked back and something tugged at her dress and she thought it was the dead guy grabbing her dress so she screamed and scared herself to death when she actually just stabbed her dress into the ground.

wow that was a great time waster

didnt PianoManGidley just say that? But atleast we know the full story now

Teh Ch8t · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:25 am

Oh, and about the girl and the knife again.. I've read that story, technically, it's possible for it to happen, I forget what show I saw it in, maybe Medium I think, where a little boy was scared to death because his father was going to kill him, but thats just a show... fiction.

Teh Ch8t · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:26 am

Musachan wrote:

All my favorites, as I'm going through them in my head, are somewhat sexual in nature soooo I'm not gonna go any farther XD

I did like the recent one aboth the cyclops kitten than turned out to be true. The kitten died, though ...

huh? never heard it... what happened? I mean the kitten...

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