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Tied to a bedpost in an old motel, confused and naked.

Wendigo, bitches. Yours?

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Chupacabra. I guard my goats with a ten foot electric fence and automated sentry turrets

   
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poppa G wrote:Wendigo bitches. Yours?

Tell me about these "wendigo bitches". I'm not familiar with them.



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Tied to a bedpost in an old motel, confused and naked.

 azazel the cat wrote:
poppa G wrote:Wendigo bitches. Yours?

Tell me about these "wendigo bitches". I'm not familiar with them.



Pop Rocks and Coke.

Bunch of sluts, man. They'll do anything!
I forgot a comma. Sorry.

 
   
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 Ahtman wrote:
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Ooo that's a good one.

 
   
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Hellish Haemonculus






Boskydell, IL

Bugs (be it arachnid, insect, or otherwise) depositing eggs/larvae into your body.

Close runner up: the Mexican sewer-rat myth.

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Not too far from where i live there is a railroad track. Not too long ago a bus got stuck full of kids, a train hit them killing everyone one. Now it is siad the ghosts of those kids now push any car off the train tracks, or onto depending on who is telling it.

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 Jimsolo wrote:
Bugs (be it arachnid, insect, or otherwise) depositing eggs/larvae into your body.


Botflys aren't an urban legend.

There's several disgusting videos on youtube for you to peruse if you feel inclined.
   
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 Skarwael wrote:
 Jimsolo wrote:
Bugs (be it arachnid, insect, or otherwise) depositing eggs/larvae into your body.


Botflys aren't an urban legend.

There's several disgusting videos on youtube for you to peruse if you feel inclined.


Yes, but every other variant of the 'bug invasion' myth, including spiders under the skin, boll weevils through the brain, and all the other varieties, are complete hooey.

So, I amend my answer to 'Bugs except botflies depositing eggs/larvae into your body.'

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Tied to a bedpost in an old motel, confused and naked.

 Jimsolo wrote:
 Skarwael wrote:
 Jimsolo wrote:
Bugs (be it arachnid, insect, or otherwise) depositing eggs/larvae into your body.


Botflys aren't an urban legend.

There's several disgusting videos on youtube for you to peruse if you feel inclined.


Yes, but every other variant of the 'bug invasion' myth, including spiders under the skin, boll weevils through the brain, and all the other varieties, are complete hooey.

So, I amend my answer to 'Bugs except botflies depositing eggs/larvae into your body.'

I've seen some of those, nasty bastards.


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 Krellnus wrote:
The one to rule them all.

I never got why he's so freaky

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Newcastle, OZ

Wendigo aren't an urban myth. Racial/cultural legends from a pre-industrial society can't really be called "urban".

They're much older than that.

So are vampires, for that matter. Many cultures have a boogeyman that fits that myth.



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 chromedog wrote:
Wendigo aren't an urban myth. Racial/cultural legends from a pre-industrial society can't really be called "urban".

They're much older than that.

So are vampires, for that matter. Many cultures have a boogeyman that fits that myth.




IIRC, one of the first 'recorded' myths that fit the vampire 'trope' was found in ancient china, and a possible defence was to spill grain on the floor, the vampire would then be compelled to pick up all the grains. Man, if that one had stuck Van Helsing would have been a boring movie
Dracula: 'And now, Van Helsing, prepare to die! BWA HA HA HA!'
Van Helsing: 'Here, have some rice' *spills it on floor* 'Woops!'
*Rest of movie consists of dracula crawling on his hands and knees picking grains of rice out of the carpet*

As for me, my two favourite urban legends are probably El Chupacabra, and this one from Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_urban_legend#Kuchisake-onna_.28Slit-mouthed_Woman.29

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The myth about the gang that drugged people in bars, who then woke up in a bath full of ice the next day with their kidneys removed is always a good one.

There was also one I heard at school about Prince, who apparently had a rib removed so he could perform a certain act on himself. I've heard the same myth told about Marilyn Manson as well. It's great how these things re-invent themselves for each new generation.

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I came to post the kidney thing, but Lucius beat me.

Runner up: Richard Gere and an illicit act with a small animal.

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Legion zero, why did you have to post that link mate, I read the whole thing and I won't be able to sleep tonight...the Japanese really know how to do ghosts!

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Salisbury

That if you use your mobile phone in a garage 'something bad will happen'..... not sure what the bad thing is as its never explained? Maybe something like candy man? Or get yelled at over the tannoy but someone with an odd accent? Who knows, its a mystery.

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My favourites are
3)
The family who go home and find their dog choking - they rush it to the vets and he removes fingers from its throat.
They go home and find a burgler with no fingers, hiding in a cupboard. EDIT: how did he get into the cupboard?
2)Everyone knows someone who knows someone who got a cyst or an abcess in a chicken piece/burger from either Mcdonalds or KFC.
1)A family hire a young babysitter to look after their 10 year old kid. In the evening, the babysitter hears screaming coming from the kids bedroom. She goes in and sees the kid is afraid of a clown statue. Shes goes downstairs and phones the parents and asks 'is it ok if I move that clown? - the kid doesn't like it'
The parents respond 'what clown?'
When the parents hurry straight home, no-one's there.


I blame Steven Kings 'IT' for that last one....it made me laugh when I heard it.


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One last one

A driver is driving along and runs over a cat. He stops, gets out looks round and sees the cat on its side lying down in someones garden. He see's it's still breathing and decides to put it out of its misery.
He takes a shovel from the boot of his car and finishes the cat off.
A woman comes running out of the nearby house and shouts 'What the hell have you done to my cat?!'
He explains that he ran the cat over and was just ending its suffering.
The woman replies 'NO! THATS the cat you ran over, wrapped round your wheel! mine was just asleep in my flowerbed!'

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 Blacksails wrote:

Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
 
   
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Ohio Grassman. I like my legends local.

   
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Penis stealing.

http://www.alternet.org/world/penis-snatching-rise-africas-genital-stealing-crime-wave-hits-countryside

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/06/a-mind-dismembered/


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Pleasant Valley, Iowa

I bet Ramsay Bolton was behind that.

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MN (Currently in WY)

Moth man

and for local flavor....

Phantom Kangaroos and panthers.

http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/cryptozoology/phantomkangas.html

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Jimsolo wrote:Bugs (be it arachnid, insect, or otherwise) depositing eggs/larvae into your body.

Close runner up: the Mexican sewer-rat myth.

what's the Mexican sewer rat myth, never heard of it
poppa G wrote:Wendigo, bitches. Yours?

not exactly urban legend but still creepy. Probably one of the few legends that actually creeps me out. Skinwalkers are a close second

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That Jamie Lee Curtis was born as a Hermaphrodite.


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Mothman, Spring Heeled Jack, or The White Ninj (of Connecticut fame)

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Well, thanks for giving me stuff to google tonight, gentlemen!

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Ohio Grassman? I'll have to check that one out thanks Hordini!

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