urban legends you have been told

Easy answer to that: ever heard of those email chain letters? You know, the ones saying "Forward to everyone you know". Urban legends travel quite fast that way.

I've been told heaps, so im just gonna name a few . . here goes


An old lady was asked to look after her neighbours Terrier dog, and being the kind-hearted lady she was, she agreed. When taking the dog for a long walk, it started to rain, hurrying back, the old woman returned home, both her and the Terrier were soaked. The poor little animal was shivering, and wanting to dry the dog, she decided to put the animal in the microwave for a short time. When the dog was put inside, the lady's phone rang, and upon answering, she was hooked into a conversation with her friend who had been in hospital. When she ended the call, the microwave was still on. As she opened the microwave door, all that was left of the dog was a gory mess


On a summer night in Pennsylvania, a boy and a girl drive out to a spot in the woods. Parked in the darkness, they heard on the radio that a man escaped from Allentown State Hospital, several miles from the local high school, and was terrorizing innocent people on a murder-spree. He was described to have lost his hand and years ago it had been replaced by a large metal hook. He had hacked off his own hand in a fit of madness , trying to escape a pair of handcuffs years earlier. The boy thought nothing of it, switched off the radio and turned his attention to his girlfriend. Suddenly, small noises errupted from nearby. The girl pulled away, frightened. "I'm scared. You know, about what they said on the radio? Maybe we should go home." "No way, do you want your parents to find out we didn't go to the movies? Just relax." As they picked up where they left, they didn't hear anything for a while until there was a loud screech on the door, obviously coming from the girl's side of the car. "That's it, take me home! It's not safe out here!" Her boyfriend, senselessly frustrated, relunctantly agreed. He complained all the way home, insulting her for "being such a baby". Barely waiting for the car to stop, the girl angrily opened the door and got out of the car as they pulled up to her driveway. Slamming the car door, ready to go inside, she froze, staring at the car. She started to scream. The boy, growing a bit alarmed, got out of the car and walked around to her side, where he too, stopped where he stood and could only stare at the door handle in frightened amazement. Found hanging from the car door, was a bloody hook, just dangling in place.


A girl was traveling to visit a friend and stopped to get gas. When she attempted to return to her car the gas station attendant who had a strong stutter told her to follow him inside as there was a problem with her credit card. She was suspicious as to why there would be a problem with her card but obliged and went inside. As soon as she walked in, the attendant shut the door behind them and locked it. The girl started screaming and shouting at him to move out the way. The attendant tried to explain, but his stutter made him difficult to understand. "Th-th-there uh mmm i-i-i-its b-because"
The woman was too scared and too impatient to listen to the attendant. She managed to push him aside and get out of the station, but the attendant was running after her. She rushed back to her car and got in, slammed the door shut and drove off as the attendant was still trying to get his words out "TH-TH-THERE'S SOMEONE IN THE BACK SEAT!!" The girl wasn't listening, but someone rose up behind her in the back seat with an axe and...


A woman is loading her groceries into her car after going shopping at a local supermarket. A strange old lady wearing a dark pair of sunglasses and a big bag approaches her car and asks her for a ride to the bus stop because she had been walking all day and was too tired to walk there. The lady agrees to drive her and as she finishes loading up her groceries she realizes the old lady keeps staring at her intently. When she gets back into her car she becomes suspicious and pretends that she left her credit card in the store and leaves to go check. The lady finds a squad car and tells the officer about the strange old woman. When they go back to her car they find her car door wide open, but the old lady is gone. She had left her bag, and when they look inside they find a wig, a dress, a pair of sunglasses, and a big butchers knife.


A boy and girl are parked out in the woods. He goes out for a whiz and his gf starts to hear these scratching sounds coming from the roof. It's her dead boyfriend hung from a tree. The scratching noises are his Nike's briefly rubbing the car roof.


The new gang member under initiation drives along with no headlights, and the first car to flash their headlights at him is now his "target". He is now required to turn around and chase that car, and shoot at or into the car in order to complete his initiation requirements. Make sure you share this information with all the drivers in your family!


About a month ago there was a woman standing by the Mega Mall entrance passing out flyers to all the women going in. The woman had written the flyer herself to tell about an experience she had, so that she might warn other women.
The previous day, this woman had finished shopping, went out to her car and discovered that she had a flat. She got the jack out of the trunk and began to change the flat. A nice man dressed in business suit and carrying a briefcase walked up to her and said, "I notice you are changing a flat tire. Would you like me to take care of it for you?" The woman was grateful for his offer and accepted his help. They chatted amiably while the man changed the flat, and then put the flat tire and the jack in the trunk, shut it and dusted his hands off. The woman thanked him profusely, and as she was about to get in her car, when the man told her that he left his car around on the other side of the mall, and asked if she would mind giving him a lift to his car. She was a little surprised and asked him why his car was on other side. He explained that he had seen an old friend in the mall that he hadn't seen for some time and they had a bite to eat and visited for a while; he got turned around in the mall and left through the wrong exit, and now he was running late and his car was clear around on the other side of the mall. The woman hated to tell him "no" because he had just rescued her from having to change her flat tire all by herself, but she felt uneasy. Then she remembered seeing the man put his briefcase in her trunk before shutting it and before he asked her for a ride to his car. She told him that she'd be happy to drive him to his car, but she just remembered one last thing she needed to buy. She said she would only be few minutes; he could sit down in her car and wait for her; she would be as quick as she could be. She hurried into the mall, and told a security guard what had happened; the guard came out to her car with her, but the man had left. They opened the trunk, took out his locked briefcase and took it down to the police station. The police opened it (ostensibly to look for ID so they could return it to the man). What they found was rope, duct tape and knives.
When the police checked her "flat" tire, there was nothing wrong with it; the air had simply been let out. It was obvious what the man's motive was, and obvious that he had carefully thought it out in advance. The woman was blessed to have escaped harm. How much worse it would have been had she waited in the car while the man fixed the tire, or if she had a baby strapped into a car seat. Or if she'd gone against her judgment and given him a lift.


During the wedding reception of a young couple, the guests decided to play a drunken game of hide and seek. It was decided that the groom was "it" and he eventually found everyone except his new bride. The longer he searched the more frusturated he became and he was soon furious thinking she had left. He decided the game wasn't funny anymore and went home without his bride. As weeks went by, he accepted that she'd had second thoughts and went on with her life so he did the same. A few years later a cleaning lady dusted off an old trunk in the attic of the building where the reception had taken place, out of curiosity she opened it. Inside the trunk was the rotted body of the missing bride who'd apparently became locked in the trunk she'd chosen to hide in. Whether she'd suffocated or starved was unknown, but her face was frozen in a scream.


Eating pop rocks and soft drink make your insides burst


There once was a girl who always wore a scarf around here neck no matter what time of year it was. One day while out on a date with her boyfriend, he said to her "Take off your scarf." She replied, "No, I will take it off when the time is right." Years went by and the couple became engaged to be married. On their wedding night, her new husband again said to her, "We are married now so you can take off your scarf." Again she said, "No, I will take it off when the time is right." More time passed and the young couple grew old together. The old woman lay on her death bed and addressed her weeping husband kneeling by her side. "I'm so sorry to keep this secret from you for so long. Take off my scarf and you'll see why I've always had it on." Her husband took the end of the scarf in his hand and slowly removed it from her neck. Horrified, he watched his wife's head roll off the bed and across the floor. She'd been wearing the scarf to keep her head on! A young couple went out to dinner one evening and left the baby-sitter in charge of their two children. The children had been put to bed and the baby-sitter was watching the television when the phone rang. She answered but all she heard was a man laughing hysterically and then a voice saying, "I'm upstairs with the children, you'd better come up." Thinking it was "one of those prank phone calls" or a practical joke she slammed down the receiver and turned the television sound up. A short time later the phone rang again and, as she picked it up, the unmistakable hysterical laughter came down the line and the voice once again said "I'm upstairs with the children, you'd better come up." Getting rather frightened she called the operator and was advised they would notify the police and, should he phone again, could she keep him talking in order to give them time to trace the call and have him arrested. Minutes after she replaced the receiver the phone rang again and, when the voice said, "I'm upstairs with the children, you'd better come up," she tried to keep him talking. However, he must have guessed what she was trying to do and he put the phone down. Only seconds later the phone rang again, this time it was the operator who said, "Get out of the house straight away, the man is on the extension." The baby-sitter put down the phone and just then heard someone coming down the stairs. She fled from the house and ran straight into the arms of the police. They burst into the house and found a man brandishing a large butcher's knife. He had entered the house through an upstairs window, murdered both the children and was just about to do the same to the poor baby-sitter.


This girl was babysitting for some family friends one night, a little boy and a little girl. The parents had a fetish for clowns and had collected clowns from around the world for years, setting aside a room in the house just to put them on display. That night, the children were playing in this very room. Many of the clowns were just statues, and some were life-size, one in particular, was seated in a small child-like rocking chair. The babysitter started to feel more and more uneasy about this statue throughout the night. She felt as though the eyes were following her, whenever she moved around the room with the children. She decided to call the parents. "I'm so sorry to bother you", she said, "but I was wondering if I could move this clown that you have in the rocking chair, it’s starting to scare the kids and I." "What clown are you referring to? I don’t recall us having a clown fitting that description. Are you sure its sitting in the rocking chair?" the mother asked hurriedly. "Yes, I’m sure.” said the girl. "It’s sitting right here, I’m looking at it right now...Why? I know it's probably very old and I shouldn't attempt to move it out of the way, but." "Take the kids and get out of the house, now. The neighbor across the street will let you in. Call me immediately when you get there." and with that, the mother hung up. Frightened and confused, the babysitter grabbed the kids and ran out. When she and the kids arrived safely at the neighbors, she called and the mother answered. "What's wrong? Did something happen? Are you all okay?" the girl asked. "Yes, we are fine, but its not us we are worried about, its you and the kids. I’m so glad you called--we were afraid this would happen again. We will be there shortly along with the police, I’ll explain everything when we get there", and the mother hung up. The parents later explained to the girl that for some time, the next-door neighbor had been giving them problems. He was mentally ill, heard voices, the whole bit. On numerous occasions he had snuck into their house and tried to kidnap the children. This time, he dressed up in a clown suit, painted his face, and waited quietly until he had the opportunity to do what he came to do. The parents had informed the police many times but never had any proof until now about what was happening. They thanked the girl, paid her, and drove her home.

Variations:

The clown is sometimes in the living room.
The clown statue turns out to be a “little person” that was living in the garage for 4 months and would go in and get food whenever the parents left the house. This time, he saw the parents leave, and went in to get food like he always did, not expecting there to be a babysitter in the living room.
Sometimes the babysitter calls the parents asking them if she can put a blanket over the clown statue.


There are two girls and one is spending the night at the other's house for one full weekend. One is totally fearless and the other frightens when you tap her on the shoulder - lets call them Marie and Sandra (Sandra is the fearless one and Marie is the wimp). They sleepover at Sandra's house. Sandra has a million horror movies but because Marie is scared of seeing gore they decide to tell each other ghost stories. Sandra is the expert on any type of frightening story and she really wants to scare Marie. She tells her stories of babysitters hacked to death, children eaten alive and all sorts of terrible happenings. By now they have consumed a lot of water and popcorn so after her last story Sandra excuses herself to the bathroom. Minutes passed and all Marie could think of were the stories she had just heard. When Marie heard no running water she began to worry. Logically thinking that Sandra was playing an elaborate joke, Marie waited again. Sandras phone rang and Marie jumped. The phone rang again and again so she assmumed that Sandra was unable to answer it so Marie picked it up. "Hello?" she said nervously. All she heard was breathing at the other end then a click. Marie began to panic. She climbed into Sandras bed and put the covers over her head. When she finally heard the scuffling of feet she assumed they were Sandra's but the shuffling passed by the door and did not pause. Marie was too frightened to call out Sandras name so she waited. Eventually she heard the feet again but they seemed very far away. Then a scream let out across the house. Marie was very shaken now. She wasn't sure if it was Sandra messing with her head or if someone was really going through the house. Marie finally mustered up the courage and began to wander around the vast house. All the lights were out except for the glowing of Sandras room light and the light of the moon outside.
Marie began to inch down the hallway praying that this was some giant hoax.Finally she turned a corner and saw Sandra sitting at the end of the hall. Her pajamas were red and she seemed to be leaning against the wall. Marie sighed. The fear was gone. She knew it was just Sandra messing with her head. She flicked on the nearest light switch and to her horror Sandra was kneeling against the wall but she was covered in blood, her eyes were gouged out, and her stomach was ripped open. Marie let out a terrified scream as she read the words painted in Sandras own blood over her mutilated corpse. "She became her own Urban Legend".


A newlywed couple had their first baby. Because Annie (the mom), was afraid to leave the baby alone with anyone, the once social couple, found themselves spending their nights at home. Finally, when the baby was about 5 months old, Annie's husband Jack decided to hire a babysitter to watch the child while the couple went to a friend's birthday party. Once the couple had left, the babysitter invited her boyfriend over to Annie and Jack's house to party. He brought her some booze and together they drank liquor and tried LSD, something they had never done before. When Annie called home to check on the baby, the babysitter told her about the pretty colors and the turkey that she was cooking in the oven. Annie got very upset and went to find her husband so they could rush home and see what was going on. When they got to their house, Jack ran upstairs to get the baby, and Annie stayed with the babysitter to try and make sense of what she had said earlier on the phone. Jack came running down the stairs in a panic asking over an over again "Where's the baby? Where's the baby?" Suddenly, both Jack and Annie smelled something burning. They ran to the kitchen, looked in the oven and found their beautifully burnt baby.


Ashley, a 16 year old girl, was babysitti

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