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What's your favorite Urban Legend/Myth?

Asked by ibstubro (18804points) November 2nd, 2013

For some reason I’m reminded of the tarantula that jumped out and bit a customer at the grocery every time I see bananas.

I never got the flashing your headlights at someone without headlights on and being hunted down story straight. Doesn’t make me think about it less.

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chyna's avatar

That the U.S. government was involved in 9/11.

ibstubro's avatar

@chyna Yes. Like those yahoos could keep a SECRET.

Thanks!

filmfann's avatar

The deadly spiders that like to hide under toilet seats, waiting for that big juicy meal to perch down.

lx102303's avatar

The one about US Marines having to kill a dog or murder a family member in order to join the US Marine Corps !
0_O

ragingloli's avatar

That the U.S. government was not involved in 9/11.

Seek's avatar

I always check my back seat before I get in my car.

bea2345's avatar

That alligators live in the sewers of New York (a seventies myth that people would flush their pet alligators down the lavatory and they would flourish and grow large), I wish I could remember the title of the novel I got this idea from.

Smitha's avatar

The Legend of Bloody Mary that says anyone who chants the words Bloody Mary three times in front of a mirror will summon a vengeful spirit.

KNOWITALL's avatar

My half sister loves sasquatch lol. I think our local albino community is amusingly odd.

ragingloli's avatar

@lx102303
They do not have to do that. They do that for fun.

ucme's avatar

Errol Flynn used to tie his cock to his thigh during filming fo fear of unleashing the beast on an audience that was enjoying his swashbuckling antics.

ibstubro's avatar

@bea2345 the alligators is a really good one…popular!

@Smitha I’ve never heard the Bloody Mary one.

@ucme I’ve not heard the Errol Flynn one, either. How thrillingly silly. That would be one hell of a costuming accident! lol

bea2345's avatar

@ibstubro – I just found the novel.. It is V, by Thomas Pynchon. Chapter Five describes a character who hunts alligators in the sewers of Manhattan.

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