What are your favorite Urban Legends?

Question

I am a San Francisco resident. A local one is set in Berkeley in the 1930's. A man in a car saw a college girl with books at a bus stop after buses quit running. He offered to take her home, since it was dangerous to be out so late. She got in back and said her father was a professor who lived at the edge of UC campus. She said no more on the trip. When they arrived at the address she gave, she was gone. Her books were on the back seat, however. The man took them to the house and knocked. The professor came and told him his daughter was killed in a car wreck where the man saw her. Several men had taken her home, and she always disappeared on the way. The books the man found were missing from the prof's bookcase. Miyuki is from Japan. She said there are similar tales there. In medieval times, a man saw a girl on a road between towns and escorted her home. As customary, she walked behind him. When he came to the address she gave, she was gone. He went to the house. The girl's father...

Answer 1

I haven't heard many, but a friend's friend likes funny ones. One tells about a plain-looking Utah girl that never had a date until the football hero asked her to the prom. On that day, she was excited and redid her hair and ironed her gown many times. She hurriedly gobbled chili for lunch, so that evening, she had a bad case of stomach gas. She ran out in the back yard many times to let some go. Her date came while she was fixing her hair the 150th time. Gas had built up while she did that. She tried to figure out a way to be discreet, and soon she did. She put a folding fan in her purse and went to meet her date. He opened his car door for her and closed it when she sat down. She farted so loudly that the car shook, and the license plate fell off. She opened the window and took out her fan to fan all of the gas out of the car. She did that just before the boy opened his door and sat down. He looked at her and told her he wanted to introduce her to his best friend and his date. She turned around and saw a couple in the back seat that seemed to be sick.

Answer 2

My room mate's friends like funny ones. Some are vulgar, and they embarrass her. They love one about a Boston man who loved baked beans. He quit eating them when he married a proper lady, because they gave him severe gas. A few years after the wedding, his car quit when he was some miles out of the city. That was before cell phones, so he started walking. He came to a restaurant and smelled baked beans cooking. He hadn't eaten any for a few years, so he had a double portion. He figured he could get rid of the gas as he walked home. Someone gave him a ride, so he got home earlier than expected. When he came into his home, his wife said she had a surprise for him and blindfolded him. She led him to the big table in the dining room. The telephone in the living room rang, and she told him not to take off the blindfold until she came back. She closed the door and was gone some time. Soon, he felt the need to let out some gas. He farted loudly and fanned with a napkin to disperse the bad smell. In a minute, he did it again even louder. His wife was gone twenty minutes or so, and he farted several times. When she came back and took off his blindfold, he saw that a group of his friends and relatives were sitting at the table, and there was a big birthday cake for him.

Answer 3

My favorite is this one

Once a babysitter needed to take care of two little kids. She put the kids to bed, and then went downstairs to fix herself a sandwich. One kid came down with dilated eyes stammering, "the clown doll is in my room again!". Going upstairs, the babysitter thought the kid was simply imagining, but she saw a life-sized clown doll in the corner of the room. She simply thought it was a just a scary-looking toy, and called the parents to ask if she can cover it up with a cloth. The parents answered that they don't have a clown doll and she should run out with the kids and call the police. Moments later, the police arrived along with the parents. The parents wanted to thank her because they said that their children constantly kept saying a clown kept jumping in their room in the middle of the night, and the parents never believed them.

They later verified that the clown kept wanting to hide from the parents.