What is your favorite urban legend?

This isn’t my favorite urban legend but it was one that I totally bought into before I saw the movie and before I found out it was all a hoax: The Blair Witch Hunt.

This article on Snopes.com is a good look at the absurdity of the whole affair.

I wouldn’t call it my favorite, but the only one that ever actually scared me is the ‘Humans Can Lick, Too’ one.

The Jersey Devil

The Orange Juice Man story. I have heard this story from many people from different parts of the U.S. It goes something like this.

I know this guy and he gets pulled over and he had 1000 hits of L.S.D. in his possession. Not wanting to get caught with the acid he eats all of it. He is dosed out of his mind and goes crazy. Now he is sitting in the looney bin and he thinks he is a glass of orange juice. No one can get near him without him screaming “Get away from me!” “Don’t tip me over I’m a glass of orange juice!”

Do you guys know the Orange Juice Man?

@buster. I don’t know the Orange Juice Man but I do know The Muffin Man. And I actually know Jack Shit too. He’s a smart guy. :o)

Pop Rocks and Soda! I loved that one! I think it was supposed to cause your stomach to explode…oh and the kid – Mikey – from the Life Cereal commercials died from eating Pop Rocks and drinking Soda. Poor guy, he was alive the entire time! :)

@cak. They tried the Pop Rocks/Soda thing on the show Mythbusters. It was pretty funny actually and of course, the exploding stomach thing was totally debunked. :o)

heres a link to the Orange Juice Man http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/orange.asp

Ok, I don’t know much about urban legends, but recently I’ve found an amazing movie trailer and been following the film (I hope it comes out soon!) here’s a link to the trailer on youtube it’s called ‘Trick r’ Treat’ sounds like it’s chock a ‘block full of spooky halloween mythos!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDNhd5FC2U

The creepiest part i’d swear is the little scarecrow character, the fans are calling him ‘sam’ on wikipedia

My favorite urban legend is the gang initiation that continuously circulates through emails.

Another favorite is the boy in the restroom, which has been repeated since the mid 1960’s.

@blue – I saw that one! I loved it!! I remember my sister being terrified when my older cousins drank soda and downed a pack each of Pop Rocks. Both lived for many more years, stomachs survived the mixture. I think that one was the big one that went around when I was young.

Way back in the eighties, the rumor was that Molly Ringwald got pregnant by a Beastie Boy. My husband still

Swears

wears it is true. It’s not!

Being from Louisiana, all of the Marie LaVeau stories are pretty good!

My fave: the story of a teenage girl with dreads that has not washed her hair in 3 years. She starts complaining of headaches and severe pain in her scalp. When some friends help her cutoff the dreads they discover a spider had created a nest in her hair and lots of baby spiders hatched, which were eating into her head.

@deaddolly. Here is another urban legend debunked by Snopes about spiders that is similar to what you posted.

The one that somebody steals your kidneys after a wild party, we played a joke on a friend, we went to a party and he got so wasted he could not feel anything, we put him in a bathtube full of ice and some colored red water, and with lipstic we put in the mirror “call 911”
We almost kill him
He doesn’t speak to us anymore :s

@flameboi OMG thats great!

@Uber
That was the best halloween ever, o.k. it was almost as good as the “kidnapped” joke we played on a friend 2 years ago, he was walking to the store to buy something, we were all masked and had toy guns and were waiting for him, we stepped out of a car he didn’t know that had no plates and put him on the trunk, we faked calls asking for a ranson while he was in the trunk sobbing, we drove around the city for 1 hour, then after that, we took him out of the trunk saying that they were not going to pay so we had to get rid of him, he was shaking and crying, when we took out the paper bag that was covering his head he found out that we organized a birthday party for him, we almost kill him (i know, my friends and I are bad people)

AHHAHA thats both horrible and hilarious. Im surprised you have any friends left LOL :P

@Uber
Yep, lol we like to scare people, but we do innocent ones, like posting and ad selling your car for a super cheap prize in a local newspaper, with all you telephone numbers, people keeps calling for like a week, we do nothing but laugh about it :)

@flameboi Those are great!!!! Sign one of your friends up for a free sample of DEPENDS. They get very embarassed when they get the follow up sales call to see how they worked…

@dd
Sure lol
One night we were having drinks and a friend got wasted (side note, do not get wasted, ever, things like this can happen to you) so we drove to a bus station, paid for a ticket to the beach, it is barely 5 hours away, talked to the bus driver (he was laughin so badly when we told him our plan he accepted to cooperate) and we put him on the bus, he woke up and the first thing he saw were palm trees, we took his wallet and his cellphone, and his wrist watch, we put a note in a folded $20.00 bill “Enjoy your hangover, you have enough money to buy something to eat, and a ticket to come back, enjoy, sorry, but we took your valuables, just in case”...
Obviously he got back the next day, just imagine the drama we had from his mom and gf… (lol)