Urban Legends

[Kesa]

Definition of an Urban Legend: An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or, more accurately, a  contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of  apocryphal stories that those who tell them believe to be true.

I  sort of noticed that a lot of users on Amiga.org are from different  parts of the world so i thought it would be interesting to share Urban  Legends with each other. Lets see who has the scariest stories       :nervous:

OK then,  I'll go first. The following is an urban legend in my hometown of Newcastle, Australia.

The Newcastle Turd Monster.  Legend has it in 1970 a local surfer who was surfing at the time was so  desperate to take a dump but couldn't as that mean't that he would have  to get back onto the beach and walk up to the toilet just so he could  let loose. He figured it was too much effort so he just went in the  water. I suppose it made sense at the time, i mean, who hasn't taken a  leak in a swimming pool? Nice and easy. However it soon became apparent  that it wasn't that easy. It clearly did not go to plan. Instead of  sinking never to be seen again it simply floated away, it then took on a  mind of it's own, never to be seen again apart from the odd sighting.  This moment would later be remembered as the origins of the Newcastle  Turd Monster. To this day it is said to be still floating up and down  the 3 local beachs looking for unsuspecting surfers to prey upon. Some  say he (it?) is a creation of the devil himself while others say it is  nothing more than a really ugly fish. Some claim they have even seen it  fly! I believe there is more than what we know about and we should just  let things be.    :nervous:

This  legend has been my greatest fear for most of my life. I remember my  parents telling me stories about it when i was 5. Been absolutely  terrifed ever since. Everytime i get in the water and go for a surf i'm  always looking around just in case. It scares the crap out of me!     :nervous:  

OK  now i'm going lock myself in my closet for the next few hours in terror  for even having the nerve to talk about this. Some things should never  be spoken about this is one of them      :nervous:

[ElPolloDiabl]

I like the films where they play out the urban legends. I imagine 'the ring' started as an urban legend somewhere.

My favourite is the boogeyman who gets naughty kids and kids who stay up after midnight. Read up on the legend of the boogeyman (also known as the sackman), every country seems to have one.

There was an interesting urban legend about a car being stuck in a cliff. Upon investigating they found out that a man had put a solid rocket booster on his car and used it on a stretch of highway, his brakes had melted in a effort to stop before ending up in the cliff. Says the story. However there is no police record of such an incident. Mythbusters even tried it out and were able to keep the car under control.

[Kesa]

I like the films where they play out the urban legends. I imagine 'the ring' started as an urban legend somewhere.

My favourite is the boogeyman who gets naughty kids and kids who stay up after midnight. Read up on the legend of the boogeyman (also known as the sackman), every country seems to have one.

There was an interesting urban legend about a car being stuck in a cliff. Upon investigating they found out that a man had put a solid rocket booster on his car and used it on a stretch of highway, his brakes had melted in a effort to stop before ending up in the cliff. Says the story. However there is no police record of such an incident. Mythbusters even tried it out and were able to keep the car under control.

Yeah i'm pretty sure The Ring was based on an urban legend. In fact if you watch the tv show Supernatural every episode is actually based on a real life urban legend. For example: hookman and bloody mary. That's why i like it so much.      

[amigadave]

Your biggest fear and from age 5 is a floating turd!  :lol:  That is one of the funniest things I have read here in a while.

[coldfish]

The Newcastle Turd Monster.  LOL!

Mine is a tale of a lonely hiker on a remote trail in the forests of the south west...
 
After walking a few days alone on the trail I had almost become used to the loneliness of the huts at night, the strange night noises; howling and moaning of frogs, stomping of kangaroo, pre-dawn foraging rodents and glimpses of something large and shaggy seen (or maybe imagined) in the corner of one eye.

The thought did cross my mind that a fella could come to foul-play out here and no-one would know for weeks.

Sitting alone in one draughty hut late one evening, just as the sun was going down I happened to pick up the hut manifesto, there I learnt the chilling tale of the Mad Axeman.  Once a simple, quietly spoken woodsman in the forest, some unknown thing drives him to walk the trails in search of his victims.

The Axeman it is said, is wont to appear out of nowhere beside a hikers bed in the middle of the night with one thing on his warped and twisted mind. To bury his axe in human flesh.

Only when his axe is bathed in the blood is he content, only when the cries of slaughter and suffering have echoed through the trees is he satisfied.

And now the sun is gone and the darkness of a moonless night seeps into every corner.

[Belial6]

How about...

If you smoke a cigerette in an apartment, you will kill a baby three units over.

[Kesa]

@ Coldfish. Where abouts is this in Australia? I'm tempted to go and have a look for myself!  

[jj]

My gran used to tell me that if I swallowed chewing gum it would wrap around my heart.

[Bigbronc]

I live near Burkettsville MD, the home of the Blair witch, after the movie it was a major place to seek urban legends. Some times when I boot my A2000 up and load my toaster, before I sync the genlock the screen flickers and tears, in betweent the scan lines I can see the Blair Witch.

[Pentad]

How about the one where Apple invented the GUI and multimedia on computers?  :-)

[jj]

My father also told me that he was in uniy wiht someone who just used to eat pie beans and chips for every meal and he died of malnutrition.
 
I love the crap parents tell you when your young, which you repeat to your friends, and then when your older you realise.

[whabang]

God.

/me hides

[coldfish]

@Kesa. Bibbulmun track, one of the huts between Donnelly River Village and Pemberton, if memory serves.
Its a yarn to entertain solo hikers like meself.  Put a shiver up me back that night when heading out to the drop toilet. Spoo-kee!  ;o)

[Templario]

Here in Spain as urban legend we have the curve girl, but the ghost is very normal, for example in Galicia with the Santa Compaña, and some special abandoned places, hospitals, towns, etc., we are in TV a program where the people speak about these themes besides of aliens, and other things...

[Linde]

The Newcastle Turd Monster.

Are you sure that this is an urban legend and not just a story your parents told you? I can find no references to the newcastle turd monster except here.