What is your favorite urban legend? Have you or anyone you know ever been fooled by one?
When I was in....I think second grade or so, that whole stupid "Bloody Mary" thing was popular. Y'know, turn out the lights, stand in front of a mirror, and chant her name three times? And, of course, being seven years old, I believed it. Well, I was at school one day during the height of its popularity, and we were taking a bathroom break, and as I was standing around the corner by the stalls and waiting for my friend to be done, I heard some of the other girls talking about summoning her, and I kind of started panicking. They asked me if I wanted to do it, and I told them no, I was scared, I didn't want to. So then, the little bastards kind of laughed, pointed to a door behind me, and told me that that was where she'd come out from.
I in turn freaked out, and as I was doing so, they shouted Bloody Mary's name three times, shut off the lights, and ran out the door, leaving me locked in a dark bathroom believing that a ghost was going to come out of the door and kill me. The teacher heard me scream and came running in, and I was crying and hiding in the corner.
|Db One of my fonder childhood stories. I later found out that it was a janitor's closet. Gotta love how kind little girls are, right?
I don't think I have a favorite, though. And I don't even know if that counts as an urban legend. But it's the first time I've really been inspired to answer one of these questions. Real post and answering people comes later. I'm in a bad mood right now.