‘What are your most memorable pre-internet playground urban myths?’ – 28 crazy rumours that can’t be blamed on Facebook
15.
Jake in the other class, uh, his cousin had an aunt, um, and her teacher’s grandson knew someone who went all the way around on the swings. So it is possible if you just try harder.
PrincessVibranium
16.
That there was a Tomb Raider nude cheat for the first game.
JimmiWazEre
17.
The Drama Teacher spread a rumour that one of the Maths teachers was an android and had to be recharged by plugging in to a wall socket . It seemed fairly feasible, he seemed to be free of all emotion except anger and stood near walls a lot.
They must have hated each other.
Sil-Lavellan
18.
Original Snake on Nokia. Get 1000 points and get £10 credit. I was sat at a high score of 999 and was always frustrated I missed out.
Sketch_x
19.
If you undo your belly button your arse falls off.
Blakeyonabike
20.
That someone had seen a blue dog poo and stacks of people paid extra to go two stops further on the bus home so that they could see said poo – only to find it wasn’t there. I still regret spending that extra 15p.
Okimprovement4150
21.
my primary school was right next to a graveyard. People would always say our school was on top of a native american burial ground and was therefore haunted a la poltergeist. We lived in London.
Ikkekkths
22.
The black and orange ladybirds were dangerous & bad but you shouldn’t step on them to neutralise the threat because “the acid would burn through your shoe”.
IvyFernMoss
23.
Peter Andre had died from potassium poisoning after eating too many bananas.
Andrewdarb
24.
Helpful-Activity7147
If you walked over 3 drain covers in a row, you would have ginger haired children!
25.
A ghost called the green lady haunted the toilets in school. And to summon her you have to say “green lady” 3 times while in a cubicle.
Adventurous-Emotion9
26.
One from my time in school was if you said the Lord’s prayer backwards in front of a mirror, at midnight ,you would see the devil appear in the mirror.
Fragrant-Sherbet230
27.
That Neighbours was going to end soon with a hurricane killing everyone in Ramsay Street.
Ok-Berry-7654
28.
That Tinky Winky was the dad of a girl in the year above.
Roozierooo
As if this scene weren’t already utterly traumatic, Ser_VimesGoT shared this myth.
The horse in the Neverending Story actually died in that scene by accident.
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