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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 8, 2015 21:29:15 GMT
As a kid, our friends (and sometimes our relatives) told us stories. Some of them were true, but most of them were tall tales, and usually weren't very happy. Do you remember any of these stories or rumors, either from your friends, from your schools, or childhood in general?
All I can think of at the moment is a rumor at my elementary school that one of the kids in the grade above me hung other kids upside down in his basement and beat them up.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 8, 2015 21:30:35 GMT
I remember a few urban legends. I can't remember everything, but I do remember the main points.
When we would stay at our family cabin over the summer either our Mom or our babysitter would tell us stories of how bats or aliens would attack at night, and there was also a story about how some day we would all get suck down the Missouri river if we swam in the lake.
Our Grandpa also loved to tell us how Chucky (the doll from Child's Play) lived on the second floor of his house. He never wanted us to go up there because of this. Of course, it wasn't true, but it was good enough to keep us off of the second floor and messing with his valuables.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 8, 2015 21:31:50 GMT
Well, I don't remember any urban legends that clearly. I remember some stories that my next door neighbor would tell me. Of course, this kid lied about almost everything, so I knew most of them weren't true.
The big one I remember was that he claimed he had a "laboratory" underneath his shed in his backyard. Now, he wasn't the smartest kid, but I believed him at first. He told me, though, that I couldn't go in it because there was so much valuable stuff in there. Eventually, I realized he was lying through his teeth, but it was still funny to laugh about.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 8, 2015 21:32:59 GMT
Ooooh, I got a good one for this. When I was but a mere tyke, my friends and I all believed that when you played an arcade machine, if you were to beat the game that was on the arcade, the machine would pay out all the quarters that the losers put into the machine. So, essentially, we were at the arcade a lot, trying to figure out which games were beatable, and plotting to win $100.00's of dollars in quarters. Unfortunately it turned out not to be true, and that my friends was a sad day. To this day though, I still have no idea how that rumor got started.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 8, 2015 21:35:47 GMT
A local one, and more of a conspiracy than an urban legend, but still....
Back in elementary school, the original bathrooms were...not the cleanest in the world. The only reason they weren't torn down was because everything still worked, especially the sinks. Well, one week, I show up at school and the day is progressing normally... until about 1:30 in the afternoon.
One of the sinks had been TORN OUT OF THE BATHROOM WALL.
Now, to this day, I still don't know what exactly happened, but there were three prevailing theories:
1.) One student (We'll call him B.) was beating up another student (M.), and in the heat of the fight, B. chokeslammed M. onto the sink, knocking it out of the wall.
2.) B., who was rather, ah, heavyset, decided to sit on the sink (some versions of this theory say that M. sat on it with him) and waited until it broke.
3.) B., M. and J. (a third student) decided "To HELL with subtlety---we'll just pull the thing out!" and proceeded to do just that.
The only other thing I can remember about that afternoon was J. getting piledriven into the grass by another kid in my class; M. was having his own little fight with another guy on the sidewalk as well. Anyways, the bathrooms were torn down and new ones were built, and the mystery of the torn-out sink was never solved.....
(cue X-Files theme song)
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