Which urban legends do you think are impossible?

I think that the Baby-sitter and the Man Upstairs is impossible. Since You would need two phone lines in the house.
2.The parents leave on vacation and leave baby in high chair one.

I feel like the second one is realistic, people that can be THAT dumb to forget their baby in a high chair while they leave for vacation or something xD

Gosh that reminds me of this one time, I once forgot about my little stepsister when we walked to the Walmart. So I walked out of the walmart (she went to look at some toys on her own) and started walking home, and like halfway through walking (about a mile and a half) I realized I brought her with me. So, i came running back as fast as possible and when I saw her, she was sitting in front of the Walmart balling her eyes out. Then she saw me, and came running at me.

Of course then, I had to yell at her for leaving the building. Because in case if you guys don't know, (which everyone above the age of 2 should ) never leave the building if you're lost, because then it's easier for someone to kidnap you. She clung to me the whole walk home. I'm a horrible brother.

ANYWAYS, I definitely think the first one is quite impossible. Unless of course, it's a house that has multiple phone lines. (which there are, my friend has one )

well I was thinking about the fact for number 2 is that the baby is d-e-a-d in highchair when the parents is returned from vaction. Since the baby-sitter couldn't get in because of a chain reaction that occurred because parents left opened a window or something that was out of their control (Nanny killed by vehicle well trying to get to place)

but number 1) couldn't happen unless there was more than one phone line in the house. Since try calling a phone from an upstairs phone well the house has only one line.. it can't happen.

I think both are possible.

1) with cell phones now-a-days, it'd be very easy for this UL to be a reality. Plus...some families have two separate lines in the house if they have teens or mom and dad have a lot of phone calls to make. So with that in mind, I think this could be a possibility of it being a reality.

*taken from wikipedia:
When he calls again, she manages to keep him talking for a few minutes, and when the police call back, they tell her that the call is coming from a second line inside the house

2) some parents are so focused on getting ready that they could very much accidently be soo rushed in getting ready, and more focused on their vacation, that they forget the baby in the high chair (believe it or not, there are people out there that make you wonder why they had a baby if they weren't that responsible).

Although, I think at some point they would realize (granted that the parents weren't stupid or that into themselves) they had left the baby in the high chair and eventually get it together before leaving. Being that brainless that they are more focused on going on their vacation that they leave their baby in the high chair the whole time is unrealistic to me...although there are some people out there that would make you wonder...

well its not that they were focused on their vacation. But where would you put the baby if you were late for your plane and the sitter was late herself? (In the later version with Nanny. The Nanny's car broke down and she was going to walk to the (house?).

The only time I saw this "Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs" that mentions a 2nd line in the house. Is the one where there are two baby-sitters.

What other legends do you think are impossible.

MadameChung wrote:well its not that they were focused on their vacation. But where would you put the baby if you were late for your plane and the sitter was late herself? (In the later version with Nanny. The Nanny's car broke down and she was going to walk to the (house?).

The only time I saw this "Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs" that mentions a 2nd line in the house. Is the one where there are two baby-sitters.

What other legends do you think are impossible.

Oh I don't know the UL of the parents that go on vacation, so I was just assuming that that was their reasoning for leaving the baby.

The UL about the babysitter I got that second line from had only one baby-sitter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babysitter_and_the_Man_Upstairs

A teenage girl is babysitting at night. The children have been put to bed upstairs and the babysitter is downstairs, busying herself with homework. The phone rings, and she hears at the end of the line either silence, a strange voice laughing, or heavy breathing. She at first dismisses the calls as a practical joke, but as she prepares to hang up, a sinister voice asks her to "check the children." When she asks who it is, the caller hangs up. Rather than checking on the children, the teenager decides to ignore the call and goes back to her reading. The stranger calls back several times, each time becoming more aggressive.
Eventually the girl becomes worried and calls the police, who ask her to wait for the man to call again, and they will trace the call. When he calls again, she manages to keep him talking for a few minutes, and when the police call back, they tell her that the call is coming from a second line inside the house, and to get out immediately, as they have already sent some officers over.
As she runs to the door she sees a man with a bloody axe running down the stairs, and just manages to avoid his blow. She runs outside into the waiting arms of police, who quickly arrest the man. They then search upstairs and find out that he had already killed the children. He was waiting on the girl coming upstairs, as she was his next target.

The hook in the car door UL is impossible to me. If it were possible I'd probably laugh and think Captain Hook was on the prowl.

The Bloody-Mary UL---tried it many times myself and nothing ever happened.

The killer hiding in the back of the vehicle who kills the driver. Hello, driver---tunnel-vision much????? (I still check my back seat though... )

I know what you mean the hook one..one of the first ones I was "told" (well kind of..from Arthur..only heard the ending of it.."and stuck to the car door handle was a big book". Arthur: "Hey I heard this one before its was a hook, not a book") at the beginning of the "Who scared Sue Ellen? episode of Arthur

brunettesimgirl wrote:
The Bloody-Mary UL---tried it many times myself and nothing ever happened.

Yeah, there is a Lady GaGa song called Bloody Mary. She said Bloody Mary three times in the song. Every time I listen to the song in my room through my computer, that ghost will come out of my mirror if that urban legend is true.

To the number 2 one - I heard of a true story (the mom told it herself on tv) where a mom were very stressed out, and busy with her day routines. So she forget her baby in the car. When she remembered it, it was already too late, and the baby had died, because the car got really hot. So I think it's possible.

But I don't really know what a urban legend is... so yeah... I can't come up with some I think is impossible

Bimle: An entertaining story or piece of information of uncertain origin that is circulated as though true.

the gender-flipped wedding one where the groom has I think under the chairs, or dishes(?) at the reception hall pictures of the bride sleeping with the Best Man.

^That one is hilarious.

well the groom wouldn't have been able to leave the pictures well they were found and if it was left up to the staff..well some staff would be a bit too curious..

He would have been able to pull it off. Even if the staff was instructed to do so, they would've had to follow the instructions from the groom without question since they were paid. He could have had the catering service place the pictures under the plates/chairs the morning of the wedding or the day before.

BSG: Thanks! ^^ I don't think I know any...? o__o

the hook one is well known, as well as the baby-sitter one, and the wedding one.., and the killer-in-the-backsteat one.

BimleSim wrote:BSG: Thanks! ^^ I don't think I know any...? o__o

Never heard of "Bloody Mary"? that's one.

brunettesimgirl wrote:

BimleSim wrote:BSG: Thanks! ^^ I don't think I know any...? o__o

Never heard of "Bloody Mary"? that's one.

Yeah, but that one was already mentioned... and that is the only one

Baby-sitter and the Man Upstairs
A young couple living in an isolated house had gone out to a dinner party one evening and left the baby-sitter in charge of their two children. The children have been put to bed and the baby-sitter was watching TV when the phone rang. She answered but all she heard was a man laughing hysterically and then a voice saying "I'm upstairs with the children, You'd better come up." Thinking it was "one of those phone calls" or a practical joke she slammed down the receiver and turned up the sound up. A short while latter the phone rang again and she answered it the unmistakable laughter and the voice once again said "I'm upstairs with the children, you'd better come up." Getting more scared she called the operator and was advised that they would notify the police and, should he phone again could she keep him talking in order to give them time to trace the call and have him arrested. Minutes after he replaced the receiver and when the voice said "I'm upstairs with the children, you'd better come up" she tried to keep him talking. However, he guess what she was trying to do and he put the phone down. Only seconds later the phone rang again, this time it was the operator who said "Get out of the house right away the man is on the extension." The baby-sitter put down the phone and just then heard something coming down stairs. She fled from the house into the arms of the police. They busted into the house and found a man brandishing a large's butcher's knife. He had killed the two children and was going to do the same to the baby-sitter.
(According to Snopes..Its a moral to baby-sitters not to watch TV)

Label Fable
When Geber starting selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packing as in the U.S., with the beautiful Causian baby on the label. They later learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures of what's inside on the label since most people can't read.

Keep your Fork
Shortly after he married Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth), Prince Phillip was on a tour of Canada and as part of the tour, he went up north to one of the Inuit communities. The women of the village for all the visitors at the community centre as they were clearing plates, one middle age woman said "Hold on to your fork, Prince, there's pie.

All the ULs I will write come from Snope's website

BimleSim wrote:

brunettesimgirl wrote:

BimleSim wrote:BSG: Thanks! ^^ I don't think I know any...? o__o

Never heard of "Bloody Mary"? that's one.

Yeah, but that one was already mentioned... and that is the only one

O I C.

brunettesimgirl wrote:

BimleSim wrote:

brunettesimgirl wrote:

BimleSim wrote:BSG: Thanks! ^^ I don't think I know any...? o__o

Never heard of "Bloody Mary"? that's one.

Yeah, but that one was already mentioned... and that is the only one

O I C.

O I C?

O I C = oh I see....

@Bimble I gave some Urban Legends in a thread which is some rows underneath this thread.

BSG: Oh gawd stop aking me feel so stupid hahaha

Anne: I've read a few form you yeah... I didn't knew any of them untill now

I remembered that a simmer on the officals wrote a version of the "Clown" legend:

A couple with children were trying out a new baby-sitter. About an hour after they left for the town, they relaized they had forgotten to give her their cellphone number. So they called her.

After she wrote down the number she asked if she could watch satellite TV in their bedroom. She had just put the children to sleep and wanted to watch a particular show (The parents didn't want the children watching too much garbage so the living room TV didn't have satellite channels). They said yes she could watch the TV in their room. The baby-sitter had one other request: Could she put a sheet or blanket over the clown statue that was in the bedroom? It kind of made her nervous.

Go and take the children to the neghbiours we'll call the police. said whichever parent was talking to her. We don't own a clown statue.


Killer in the Back-Seat
A city woman was driving home and the road was terrible and it didn't help that her gas was low and she didn't know when the next town was. Just as she thought she was going to have to pull over and sleep till morning a gas station appeared. The gas station attend appeared and seemed distracted when she was asking him to fill the car up. He asked her to come into the office since the car needed a tow. When they were in the office the gas station attendant said that there was a man crouching in the backseat of the woman's car and didn't want the man to know that he had seen him.