Urban legends

In my school, it was Kathy Klein's older sister and it "happened" when she was in 8th grade. I still think about it every damn time I see a hot dog. I don't even remember the girl's first name, but I think of her almost every day.

 

Dick, we had a similar one to your psychic story at UVa. Supposedly some sort of psychic prediction that there would be a massacre in a dorm shaped like the first letter of its name, overlooking a cemetery, at a university founded by a founding father. Which matches Lefevre dorm at UVa perfectly. With all the detail, it was obvious BS, but there were people who slept in other dorms the night it was supposed to go down.

 

I actually worked with a girl at Taco Bell in HS/college that admitted she DID use a hot dog once...and didn't care who knew. I also worked with an older woman who bragged about her husband's 12-inch penis. I learned so much working there...

 

The scream in the Ohio Players' "Roller Coaster of Love" was someone being murdered outside the recording studio.

 

The original Ultimate Warrior died and was replaced.

Halloween candy is poisoned.

Some sort of blue sticker was acid (I think also tied to Halloween).

 

My neighbor tried to spook all the parents about acid stickers when I was a kid. Who had them, because no one I ever ran across carried around stickers.

I wonder how many people who believe these urban legends also believe in alien abductions.

 

Paul McCartney was killed in an accident and replaced by a lookalike
Walt Disney dishonorably discharged

 

That Turbo (or it was Ozone?) from Breakin' died whilst doing a head-spin.

 

To be fair to Buck - the dolphin was asking for it.

 

At my junior high in the late 80s/early 90s it was Jordan Knight of the New Kids.

And I also liked the one about the supposed ghost of the dead kid and the upside-down shotgun in "Three Men and a Baby."

 

These sort of stories used to be called "old wives' tales," but the decline of support and elder-care services in rural areas forced them all into larger cities. That's when they became "urban legends."

Oh, and I grew up in Kansas. Almost every high school had a tale about the band that would become Kansas playing their homecoming or prom. Of course, they weren't called that when they played at the school.

 

The woman who dried her poodle in the microwave after a bath.

The driver who put their RV on cruise control and left the wheel to get something in the back.

That Iggy Pop attended our high school as a teen.