‘What was your school rumour?’ – 22 crazy tales that were passed down through the generations

13.

‘A girl leant back on her chair, fell backwards and hit her head and her eye fell out. No one questioned her two perfectly functioning eyes when she was in school on Monday, she fell on the Thursday before.’
–Gloomy_Pastry

14.

‘My junior school was a big old Victorian building. It had a cellar with a massive old boiler for the heating. Of course, there was a homeless guy that lived down there that would never let you leave if you opened the gate and saw him.’
–zoltan_g

15.

‘Rambo lived in the woods and would appear as a crow near the school gates. I didn’t even know who Rambo was so I was extra confused.’
–tomtink1

16.

‘I actually started ours. Kid left to go to another school and coincidentally somebody had left blood on the mirrors in the toilet (from a nosebleed or something).

‘Obviously this meant that I’d been in the toilets with him then he said Candyman into the mirror three times, the mirror had opened and the Candyman had dragged him in.’
–Tested-Trio-Father

17.

‘That one of the history teachers was frightened of elastic bands and if you put one on the door handle he wouldn’t enter the classroom.’
–KaranDash24

18.

‘I was the rumour and genuinely didn’t know for seven years. I moved areas so primary school the last few months of my final year in the 80s. My parents had divorced and I moved there with my mum. I was instantly nicknamed ‘Psycho’ and was told seven years later everyone thought I murdered my dad so had to move away. It still makes me laugh 30 years later.’
–h_pur

19.

‘Grew up in Cheltenham, general rumour was that if you said ‘bomb bomb bomb’ on the phone, GCHQ would be at your door and you’d be arrested because all our phone lines were tapped.

‘The irony being that many of us already had GCHQ in our houses, thanks to our parents working there. Remember saying it twice and chickening out at the last minute on the third.’
–Longjumping_Bar_6128

20.

‘I’ve told this one before but a supply teacher at my daughter’s school was let go and the rumour was because he was dared to do a backflip off a desk by one of the year 6 classes so he did and accidentally kicked a kid in the balls.

‘The alternative explanation was that he kept smoking outside the designated smoking area. He also lived on a boat and produced either The Prodigy’s first album or one of Whitney Houston’s albums.’
–schmoovebaby

21.

‘It was an old building and it was supposedly haunted but only in one specific part of the building and the path behind it. It was quite unnerving as a child as my house overlooked the school and I hated being able to see the haunted part from my bedroom window at night.’
–BeanOnAJourney

22.

‘That ‘Piggy’ Robinson got bogwashed because his mum was the headmistress. His mum was not the headmistress, and I don’t think he got bogwashed. Did anyone ever actually get bogwashed?’
–20127010603170562316

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