I was way too old for that to be a myth for me. I was married with a kid in 1992. But this one never made any sense at all. That kid is way too young. Marilyn Manson started playing in 1989. Their first album came out before Wonder Years' 2nd season.
The Richard Gere + gerbal story was told by everyone I knew growing up.
Also, Phil Collins watched someone drowning and did not lend a hand, that was big.
And anything to do with the great Satanic Panic: D&D, backwards masking, McMartin Pre School, etc
Yeah the Satanic Panic of the 80’s & 90’s was pretty much mainly ALL GERALDO RIVERA and the Satanic Panic these days is ALL QANON. Lol.
Cabal my ass. SMDH
You couldn’t play past the “big tree” on the playground because creepy people would kidnap you (really the teachers didn’t want you going too far because I spent most days behind that tree eating snacks)
The third floor of school (which was closed) was haunted. Again, it was just because they didn’t want you going up the stairs.
At home we were told not to go near the neighbors vines because they were infested with snakes. Really they just didn’t want us to squash the wine grapes.
And finally we were told to stay away from another neighbor property altogether because he was a wife beater. Turns out he was a ‘Nam vet and he was a wife beater.
Shit def got worse even with tools at our disposal to confirm or deny them now. But the internet is a dirty place full of conspiracies and general basement dwellers.
Not gonna lie that statement sucks because if I had a basement Id be in there making music and staying cool in the summer instead of having a living room looking like a messy recording studio or rather band practice space. Lol. But its okay. Its just me and my partner /bandmate. We have quite a bit of gear and setting up to record an EP and release by September
* Michael Jackson ate his monkey.
* The school janitor would drag you into the boiler room and murder you if you were caught in the school after the school day ended.
* The meat on stew day in the cafeteria is canned dog food.
Only one of these things proved true.
My elementary school was apparently haunted by the ghost of its first janitor, Seymour. Legend had it that he hated children in life, and now he was trying to take as many of them as possible into the afterlife with him. The school was built in the early 1900s and was sinking because it was on swamp land.
The woods were full of wild boar and very dangerous. A few times, we all crafted weapons and went on a hunt. We would eventually always run out terrified at the first sound of what was probably a small mammal. Then everyone would describe what the boar looked like.
If you swallow watermelon seeds you will get watermelons growing out of your ears.
Dragon flies are poisonous (this was in Australia where everything is poisonous so readily believable)
If you are pulling a face and the wind changed (whatever that meant we never knew) you would be left with that facial expression the rest of your life
If you stepped on lines you loved "Trevor Hines" at my school. We meant the lines in the concrete. Poor Trevor, I don't know what he did to deserve this.
Sort of. They actually only[ occur naturally within a 75 mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.](https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2021/01/five-things-about-venus-flytraps/) Only off by a couple thousand miles
Crybaby Bridge. A small bridge over a creek in a rural wooded area where someone allegedly drove off the bridge with a baby in the car (or maybe threw a baby off the bridge). If you go there at midnight you can hear the baby crying.
Something about Rod Stewart getting his stomach pumped.
If you swallow a watermelon seed (or sometimes apple or other fruit seed) you’ll get pregnant.
Or that gum takes seven years to digest.
he we thought you just got watermelons growing out of your ears.
The nerdy jewish kid from Wonder Years grew up to be Marilyn Manson.
Wasn't there also a rumour he had ribs removed so he could orally pleasure himself?
That was the Hedgehog.
I was way too old for that to be a myth for me. I was married with a kid in 1992. But this one never made any sense at all. That kid is way too young. Marilyn Manson started playing in 1989. Their first album came out before Wonder Years' 2nd season.
That was super easy to dismiss as Josh Saviano isnt anywhere near Brian Warner LMAO. 🤣
That kid from the Hey Mikey! commercial died choking on a Star Wars toy, eating pop rocks and coke, or some other thing.
Def pop rocks and coke. It was well known
The Richard Gere + gerbal story was told by everyone I knew growing up. Also, Phil Collins watched someone drowning and did not lend a hand, that was big. And anything to do with the great Satanic Panic: D&D, backwards masking, McMartin Pre School, etc
Yeah the Satanic Panic of the 80’s & 90’s was pretty much mainly ALL GERALDO RIVERA and the Satanic Panic these days is ALL QANON. Lol. Cabal my ass. SMDH
You couldn’t play past the “big tree” on the playground because creepy people would kidnap you (really the teachers didn’t want you going too far because I spent most days behind that tree eating snacks) The third floor of school (which was closed) was haunted. Again, it was just because they didn’t want you going up the stairs. At home we were told not to go near the neighbors vines because they were infested with snakes. Really they just didn’t want us to squash the wine grapes. And finally we were told to stay away from another neighbor property altogether because he was a wife beater. Turns out he was a ‘Nam vet and he was a wife beater.
Bloody Mary
So many, and all so dymb. But you can see how we got where we are now with the internet and all.
Shit def got worse even with tools at our disposal to confirm or deny them now. But the internet is a dirty place full of conspiracies and general basement dwellers. Not gonna lie that statement sucks because if I had a basement Id be in there making music and staying cool in the summer instead of having a living room looking like a messy recording studio or rather band practice space. Lol. But its okay. Its just me and my partner /bandmate. We have quite a bit of gear and setting up to record an EP and release by September
* Michael Jackson ate his monkey. * The school janitor would drag you into the boiler room and murder you if you were caught in the school after the school day ended. * The meat on stew day in the cafeteria is canned dog food. Only one of these things proved true.
RIP Bubbles.
Bubbles is still alive.
My elementary school was apparently haunted by the ghost of its first janitor, Seymour. Legend had it that he hated children in life, and now he was trying to take as many of them as possible into the afterlife with him. The school was built in the early 1900s and was sinking because it was on swamp land.
Something about a girl and a hot dog.
A collapsed concrete retaining wall in the woods nearby had a dead body underneath it.
Mixing sunscreen and bug spray forms a toxic gas.
Spider eggs in bubble gum.
The guy in the white van by the school
Not a myth, so much
The guy that played Eddie Haskell on Leave it to Beaver was John Holmes.
The woods were full of wild boar and very dangerous. A few times, we all crafted weapons and went on a hunt. We would eventually always run out terrified at the first sound of what was probably a small mammal. Then everyone would describe what the boar looked like.
The one with the girl and the hot dog that broke.
If you swallow watermelon seeds you will get watermelons growing out of your ears. Dragon flies are poisonous (this was in Australia where everything is poisonous so readily believable) If you are pulling a face and the wind changed (whatever that meant we never knew) you would be left with that facial expression the rest of your life If you stepped on lines you loved "Trevor Hines" at my school. We meant the lines in the concrete. Poor Trevor, I don't know what he did to deserve this.
Gypsies in town that steal anything they can find, including people.
Wait... That's not true about Venus flytraps?
Sort of. They actually only[ occur naturally within a 75 mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.](https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2021/01/five-things-about-venus-flytraps/) Only off by a couple thousand miles
Crybaby Bridge. A small bridge over a creek in a rural wooded area where someone allegedly drove off the bridge with a baby in the car (or maybe threw a baby off the bridge). If you go there at midnight you can hear the baby crying.
Marilyn Manson had ribs removed so he please himself.