RoxyRollah

I am curious to hear from our other posters, in different parts of the world.

Do you guys have cautionary semi creepy tales told to you, that may in fact be rooted in an actual events or is this solely an American thing?

Also my countrymen and women, I always love hearing ones I haven't heard.

Some of the ones I have heard

Man with hook:check
Baby in microwave: check
Razors in apples on Halloween :check
Babysitter getting phone calls from inside the house. :check
Killer kills everyone and hides under your bed all night licking your hand
: check.


Well?

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Pet_Sounds

inb4 Trollheart makes a Hatemonger joke.

I first heard the licking one around a campfire when I was eight or so, and I couldn't sleep the rest of the night.

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RoxyRollah

Yeah me too. But you are Canadian so is this the one?


Also known as "The Licked Hand," "The Dog's Lick," "People Can Lick, Too," "Not Only Dogs Can Lick," etc.Example #1

Once there was a nice old lady who had a lovely little dog. One day, the old lady heard on the radio that a crazy murderer had escaped from jail and that she should lock all her doors and windows. So she locked every door and window in the house except one tiny one to let some air in. She thought that a murderer would never get in through there.
So that night she went to bed as usual. She knew everything was okay because when she put down her hand the dog licked it. But later in the night she heard a drip, drip, drip. She put her hand down and the dog licked it and everything was okay, so she went downstairs to check out the tap. But the tap wasn't dripping. So she went to bed again. And everything was okay. She woke up again later in the night, though, so she thought the dripping sound must be coming from the shower. She went into the bathroom, and there was her dog, dead, hanging in the shower, dripping with blood, all its intestines hanging out.Written on the mirror was: "Humans can lick, too!" And behind her in the mirror, she saw the murderer.

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DwnWthVwls

I heard there is a crazy mexican in florida that smacks bitches who don't get their weave right.

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RoxyRollah

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DwnWthVwls

I don't know any.. NJ is loaded, since ya know:

Weird NJ | Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

and the Jersey Devil tales.

I'm not into that kind of thing so I can't actually tell you specifics.

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RoxyRollah

Hang on the jersey devil isn't an urban legend I don't think.


You have a highway phantom that's something every city in the states has, that is an urban legend.

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Chula Vista

Black Christmas (1974 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Creepiest slasher flick ever and predates Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

RoxyRollah

Dude I didn't ask for a film reference. I have seen Black Christmas. A better movie reference is

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Psy-Fi

Back in the 1980's I bought a couple of books by Jan Harold Brunvand, an author and folklorist who has written several books about popular urban legends. 'The Vanishing Hitchhiker' and 'The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends' are the two that I own. Loads of good urban legends to read about in those and other books he's written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Harold_Brunvand

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