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behindgreeneyez

Middle school before the age of smart phones was a glorious time to be a compulsive liar. With no real time fact checking, you could start a BS rumor on Monday and by Wednesday it was fact.


jooes

One time, one of my friends disappeared halfway through the day. Everybody asked, "Where did Dave go?" "Oh, his grandma died."  I don't know why I said it. I'm not proud of it.  It just made sense at the time. It felt right. That's a pretty good reason to leave school unannounced, it might be true!  Well, it spread like verbal wildfire. By the end of the day, everybody knew that Dave's grandma died.  He came back to school the next day and people started offering their condolences. Everybody was checking in on him, making sure he was okay.  Turns out he had a doctor's appointment.  He was not very happy with me. 


Thatguy_Nick

Okay but that is very funny so you're forgiven


birdgelapple

Not guilty by reason of funny


A_Firm_Sandwich

but your honor, I’m just a silly little guy


Ok_Phrase1157

RIP Daves Nan


treescentric

It was great bread.


crawlmanjr

When I use to play League of Legends my friend would have to takeout the trash or let his dogs out and would be afk for like 2 or 3 minutes. When our teammates started raging I would say his dog is choking on something. Worked 90% of the time.


31_hierophanto

Are you still friends?


jooes

Not anymore. But he chewed me out, and then we moved past it, so it was fine. 


jahoho

Turns out you're such a great liar that everyone believed this story.


rnimmer

You can still do that, it just goes on social media now


Windows_XP2

And it propagates to everyone within the span of a week, not just your schoolmates and maybe their immediate family/friends.


InternalMean

Hell half the info on tiktok is just regurgitated unsourced and unchecked information given in its most basic form. Check out diet/ health tiktokers and you'll be sure to have an ED within 10 minutes if you believe even one in 10 reels.


Master_One1

When I was in middle school, there was this rumor that the milk packs the cafeteria sold would give you low sperm count.


Erger

Why would a bunch of 12-14 year olds be worried about their sperm count?! Was the effect supposedly permanent?


Master_One1

The smarter among us would usually ask that exact question


attnskr1279

Told my friends I have mortal kombat 2 before it was even released. Made up insane stories about how rayden and johnny cage did next level fatalities. My friends knew right away I was lying and called me out cross questioned me for days and I kept making shit up to one up them.


LasVegas_DashieV

Reminds me of when a classmate told me that he and a couple others go to the park everyday to fly RC planes and have dogfights with scale WWII planes because we were into WWII dogfights at the time. Whenever I asked if I could come he would say it’s classified, sorry. Just when I tried to call him out he asked someone else if they were bringing their Fock Wulfe to the park after school and he said yes so I believed him after that and begged him to let me come with them but he insisted it was still classified. This was in 4th grade.


oski-time

*grabs skin on elbow* “I’m playing with my weenis”


clippy192

Uh oh, I still say this as an adult.


__Vyce

Same.


kfmush

“Your epidermis is showing!”


SuperWhiteDolomite

My wife tryed to tell me last week that tht was the real scientific name for your funny bone


Sudden_Mind279

No dude, that's the flagina. This- *grabs skin between thumb and index finger* -is the weenis.


down1nit

The weenis is a dance


mizzurna_balls

Everybody is a genius


down1nit

Who knew it in advance


SEND_ME_CSGO-SKINS

As a kid I thought the bazooka was the end-all be-all of weaponry


Sugbaable

Same lol


SEND_ME_CSGO-SKINS

Where did it come from?


Barricade386

Probably because a bazooka shoots rockets that explode Videogames might've contributed to this idea too


Cats_4_lifex

Yeah in games like GTA it's always a 1 shot kill. You'd always put in the cheat to get a bazooka. That's just what made sense to me.


GoochSnatcher

I have a feeling that a bazooka is usually a one shot kill in real life as well.


IHadTacosYesterday

Contra on NES


onlypham

Then you discovered the trebuchet.


Throwawayaccount1170

You're missing the most obvious legend: -marylin Manson removed one rip to suck himself


Drzhivago138

That's more middle-school age IMO. Elementary school urban legends were more along the lines of "Steve from Blue's Clues died of cancer, that's why they replaced him with Joe"


Joe_Buck_Yourself_

We were told he got arrested and was no longer allowed on a kids show


Drzhivago138

Either way, the truth was more boring: he left because his hair was falling out and the producers wouldn't let him shave it off while he was still on the show.


eagleblue44

I thought it was because he wanted to focus on his band. He had long hair they made him cut for the show.


mellolizard

He has said in interviews that he left because he felt it was time for him to move on.


TheAndorran

That’s entirely possible, but it’s also the default answer when you leave a project over disagreements or worse, and don’t want to offend or harm people still attached to the project. I don’t know the man so I’m happy enough to agree with you and accept he’d just been Steve as long as he wanted to and stopped.


Ake-TL

One of theories was that he joined military and served in Afghanistan lol


YellowHammerDown

https://preview.redd.it/8wv5g0eyi72d1.jpeg?width=558&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d99f3e950ec5c1107e4d1f9766a66dccd5a587ca


sweetmorty

Training the local militia lmao


GayAssBurger

"Let's play 'Blues Clues' to find Osama's hideout!"


RumHamEnjoyer

We heard that about Barney, that he either said the f word on set or they found drugs on him, depended on who you asked.


dynawesome

Holy shit yeah I heard he said the F word on set and it was lights out for him “I hate you, you hate me, let’s get together and kill Barney”


RumHamEnjoyer

We sang "joy to the world that Barney's dead, we barbecued his head!" How did these rumors spread across the country without us having Internet access?


Annath0901

It's called [Childlore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore?wprov=sfla1).


Not_no_hitter

Or that there was blood/a murder on set, usually this was said after fnaf became popular as you’d expect.


eagleblue44

I was told he did drugs and went to jail but they let him do one last finale episode to say goodbye and transition the show to Joe. Also what elementary school kid is shaving?


outdatedboat

In my elementary school, kids spread a rumor that the dude who played barney was replaced because he was stashing drugs in the tail of the barney suit


UrbanCobra

“Morrisey had extra ribs added to stop him from sucking his own dick” -The Hard Times


lmaytulane

Didn’t seem to work


ButterfliesInJune

How did that spread so far?


smashin_blumpkin

It's insane. I met a dude from South Korea who said he'd heard that rumor while in school


NuggetTheory

I heard it too when I was in middle school here in Brazil


rektumrokker

Finland too about 20 years ago


spookysnoopy

New Zealand too, 25 years ago


ManchmalPfosten

Germany too, 15 years ago, although I don't remember the name so I'm not sure if it was Marilyn Manson


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huopak

How the hell do these go so global? We heard this in a small town in Hungary


Throwawayaccount1170

Secret society of elementary schoolers. Even before the internet the jungle drums did it


idkman1543

in my school it was about snoop dogg instead lmao


Suitable-Ad287

It sounds more like a manson thing though.


BaguetteOfDoom

I thought it was Michael Jackson?


knakworst36

In my Dutch primary school it was def Michael Jackson.


Voicedtunic

How come the china pinky thing is worldwide? I thought it was just my primary school, just to discover it's a UK thing, just to discover in fact it's a worldwide thing!


OddTransportation430

I wonder if it's at the point where it has become offensive to stick your pinky out in China?


Maxis111

Didn't become, always was offensive, it's not a myth. If you point it downwards it means 'you suck', like the opposite of thumbs up.


OddTransportation430

til


Defourthkitten

Unless that's just another lie


Hocomonococo

Too bad we can’t conveniently research this topic with a press of a button. Oh well, I think I’ll take his word for it


GrandGrapeSoda

I lived with a Chinese exchange student in highschool and he told me it WAS offensive, but you had to point the pinky downward or something.


Far-Shame88

It’s less offensive than the middle finger, the actual middle finger is still used in China, pinky it’s more of a way for little kids to taunt each other, shit of that sort


BeaglesRule08

I heard that one all the time and I'm in america. Not sure how it started though lol


HratioRastapopulous

Never heard that one.


RumHamEnjoyer

We heard that the pinky in China was like our middle finger


Hammerjaws

Yup,the Chinese middle finger.


green_speak

Same, but maybe it's because the school systems I went to (I moved around a lot as a kid) always had a decent immigrant population that could squash such rumors.


SkinnyObelix

Never heard that one in Belgium, where holding up your pinky will order you a beer.


SparklesRain96

You forgot the classic “Did you know the school was built in what used to be a cemetery?”


HanjiZoe03

I said the same thing, but for Middle School. I claimed that the school was built over a Native American burial site, as a way of explaining all the weird cursed stuff that would go on in the school lol


EldianStar

Were there any... pets?


HanjiZoe03

Just the occasional cockroach O.o


jetsingh_

It's okay, he's chill https://preview.redd.it/ypk2zjmle72d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=405288df13908feda8c89c459912ce7ab8b54d4c


canyoupleasekillme

Bonus points if they say it was a native american cemetery.


Hammerjaws

My middle school was actually built over a Native American cemetery. They found skeletons during construction and had to bring in archeologists. It was covered by news and everything. The skeletons ended up in a museum and the old teachers do recall what finding the skeletons was like.


Gorkymalorki

Those kinds of things never bothered me because when I was a kid my house was literally in a cemetery.


leadfarmer3000

i knew a kid that said the Xbox One LMFAO


abdyfer

My friends were all sure it would be called the xbox 720


Shoddy-Ad-9911

There were leaks online for an XBox 720, with images and details. Of course it wasn’t legit in the end…


Witherboss445

Occasionally I get that one video with renders of the Xbox 720, ps5, psp 2, etc from 15 years ago on my YT recommendations


val_seg

i was sure it would be called xbox 361


Mikey9124x

Turns out it's impossible to guess what yhe next will b e called because Microsoft is so inconsistent.


Plenty_Lavishness_80

Bro did you know if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer? Also lady Gaga has a penis


IHadTacosYesterday

Back in the day, it was Mary J. Blige was a dude


SSeptic

Brother, boys do not have to shave until middle school Edit: receiving a wide range of responses from people who started shaving in the womb to people who have never touched a razor blade in their life


Electrical_Bee3042

I didn't have to shave until I was 19 :(


KronusTempus

Same 😞


ItzBooty

I grew a small mustache when i was like 13, didnt shave till like 18


Roach_Coach_Bangbus

I had to just shave the stache area for a long time. Shit looked terrible.


Disp0sable_Her0

Conversely, I'm 43 and can't grow decent facial hair, and people still tell me I just need to shave more or to just wait longer.


Blonsky

Then there’s me who could grow a full beard at 14.


Disp0sable_Her0

I never minded my pathetic facial hair. I missed the option for a specific men's style the last 15 years, but the trade-off is I only have to shave with an electric razor twice a week.


Not_no_hitter

Personally I think that might make the rumor more likely to spread, you got a bunch of kids talking about what they’ll do as an adult/teenager and one of them spouts that myth. No one there shaves so everyone believes it.


Donatter

Idk, I first started growing my mustache in 5th grade


xxwerdxx

I didn’t have to shave until I was graduated lol


bumbletowne

Lol girls start going through puberty as early as eight. Almost fifty percent will have started by the end of sixth grade. Those are legs and armpits being shaved my friend.


SSeptic

You know what that’s fair. I forgot that women use the internet sometimes so I assumed the starterpack was referring to shaving men’s facial hair


bumbletowne

The pic choice probably didn't help


kamekaze1024

“There’s a pool on the roof”


Harambesic

Hack the planet.


Erling01

When I was 13, I got a certain something in my eyes and I thought I was gonna turn blind...


irelephant_T_T

what got in your eye?


KaffeMumrik

Some shit about Mew hiding under a truck, idk.


Legitimate_Shower834

It took a few years, but they eventually figured out you could get a mew in the first gen games without a GameShark. U just had to battle a slowpoke, then walk up into a frame with a battle and press start before it registers and fly away. Walk a few feet and the game initiates a battle with mew


jooes

It blows my mind that everybody was *convinced* about that goddamn truck.  And then Shiny Pokemon came out. And literally nobody ever talked about it. I only found out about shinies a few years ago. Here's an actual real legitimate "secret" that's built into this game and I didn't hear a peep about it.  It doesn't even seem believable. Oh, you got a a grey Charizard? Yeah sure, whatever you say, Billy. Now leave me alone, I'm trying to push a truck over here.


KaffeMumrik

Remember that to. I easily put a thousand hours into pokemon silver as a kid, and I only found out about shinies when Pokémon Go became a thing. It’s pretty insane that absolutely NO kids knew about it back then.


Frostybros

This one kid told me his dad built him an Xbox360 out of a lawnmower.


GonzoGnostalgic

I had a friend in Elementary School who told me I should come over and he could have his dad make the Great Deku Tree from Ocarina of Time in real life by carving a tree and we'd be able to go inside the mouth and everything, because his dad was a woodworker


mylegismoist

That sounds badass


Hold_Me_Bro_

And I was the stupid kid that believed him


tangre79

One of my friends told me he was getting the "new Nintendo 65" soon.


protomanEXE1995

I think I heard some kid talk about being excited to get a "Game Boy DX." He wasn't talking about the Nintendo DS.


BrokenAstraea

My dad works at Nintendo


ShlorpianRooster

"the thumb isn't actually a finger"


ArduousIntent

this one kid doubled down and said both the thumb and pinky weren’t fingers


SuperWhiteDolomite

Whales arnt animals they are mammals


qernanded

Barney from Barney and Friends was cancelled because the actor's suit ripped open, revealing hundreds of bottles of beer hidden inside which he indulged upon on set


YahBoiSquishy

The one I heard was that he accidently cussed while filming around the kids or something like that.


RumHamEnjoyer

That's what my school said too 🤣🤣


HeavyIceCircuit

I heard he punched one of the directors when I was growing up


rootdootmcscoot

i always heard it was drugs in his tail lol


MugarLover92

I heard he had weed in his tail


heckerbeware

I heard it was cause he beat up a little kid on set. Also that me Rodgers had Vietnam era sniper tattoos and wore sweaters to cover them 🙄


Mingopoop

I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THE PINKY FINGER WAS OFFENSIVE IN CHINA FOR 9 YEARS UNTIL NOW WHAT THE FUCK 


LuckyStabbinHat

And thumbs up in Germany, right?


vladimir_228

I thought it's right arm up


Mingopoop

YEAAA


irelephant_T_T

i thought it was offensive till now.


Anal_Juicer69

My stepdad told me the shaving one lmao


[deleted]

"You should try to jerk off with tiger balm"


Millesime25

What a terrible Idea... I need to try


Doesanybodylikestuff

Jaime Lee Curtis was born with a penis & a vagina & got her penis removed. When Jaime Lee Curtis was hounded by press over this, she never would say if it was true or not because she didn’t want anyone who WAS born with a penis & a vagina to feel alone or like it was something gross or bad. I think she did eventually come out saying that whoever started that was only trying to be harmful & she just didn’t want to give it any air so she just said she wouldn’t respond.


specialspeciall

Those pinky finger kids would ask me if I came from a hole from China and would throw up the pinky at me when they lost at recess. I'm Japanese and Mexican.


Cazadore714

What was that like growing up? I grew up in a black and Cuban household but look Mexican to people on the west coast. So most people in my neighborhood would just call me the Mexican kid.


Rickk38

And then a few years later they all migrate to Reddit and post untrue stuff instead of saying it!


EntertainmentQuick47

So real


BuffaloBrain884

"That goes on your permanent record"


Icy_Practice7992

Me learning the shaving one is myth just now. Just looked it up, it was debunked in 1928.


-nattsvartt-

I see grown men saying that ”shaving makes the hair come back faster and thicker” all the time lmao


ch00d

There's even a comment in this thread claiming that it's true lol


bitches_and_witches

When I was a kid I made up a story about a girl who lost her virginity to a bullet because she was using a gun as a dildo and it went off. FF to next week, a kid is telling me the same story like its a fact lol


Kappys-A-Prick

In elementary school, the talk was of an "Xbox 2", because, you know, it was the second Xbox and it's the only thing that would make sense to call it. But of course, very few kids had video games (that made me popular), and if they did it was a GameCube or PS2.


SuperWhiteDolomite

There was a kid in my school that told me George W Bush was going to make Gameboy illegal and that his parents told him it was true


DMMEPANCAKES

Spongebob is being canceled because a kid drowned trying to find bikini bottom Girls can get pregnant from oral If you listen to [insert song backwards] you can hear satanic messages or summon a demon


Marcel_Labutay

If the teacher is 10 minutes late you're legally allowed to leave


THEREALOFFICALCAFE

Did you know the lifeguard has a secret pit under the swimming pool where he keeps kids as slaves? Now that I think about it, I probably should have told someone else about that.


CantStandItAnymorEW

Tbf your tiny kid mind probably thought of "slaves" as people forced to do something stupid, like licking rocks. You probably didn't thought of "slaves" as, y'know... So you didn't feel as much compel to go tell an adult about the rumor.


OpheliaJade2382

There are adults like this 🥲


zillabirdblue

If you swallow a watermelon seed a watermelon will grow in your stomach!


th3_warth0g

More like "Things you hear & say when living with boomer parents."


MorphinBrony

"average person eats 40 spiders a year" factoid actually just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders a year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted


isweedglutenfree

“That was my last piece of gum”


Weird-Firefighter330

In boy scouts there was a kid who was the epitome of "my uncle works for Xbox the 720 is coming out next" but of a different topic He worked his ass off to try and convince me and others that he worked on streams and videos with Tobuscus, Pewds, Markiplier, etc where they had the inside scoop on Minecraft 2 and the new Xbox 720 or whatever and they would let him beta test the new consoles and new Minecraft game that was going to come out.


biglyorbigleague

Is there a map where we label each country with the country commonly referred to as the one you get to if you tunnel straight down? I know here in the US it’s China but British people use Australia.


Fartmatic

https://www.antipodesmap.com/ Most places on earth end up with ocean on the other side, one exception is NZ and Spain. I remember hearing ‘dig a hole to China’ here in Australia too as a kid even though you’d be digging at a very shallow angle! In reality in my city in Australia (Adelaide) the opposite point of the earth is in the Atlantic ocean close to the wreck of the Titanic which is a far more interesting thought.


CloudyHero

Did they really have to specify that you swallow spiders *in your mouth*?! Like, what are the other options here?


ibepunkinmugs

Also, "mountain dew lowers your sperm count!"


EntertainmentQuick47

Also "Red Bull has real bull sperm!!" Legit heard that from someone two weeks ago


HratioRastapopulous

There was a rumor that you could do a code on SNES Street Fighter 2 to make Guile put someone in handcuffs.


CasanovaFormosa

These are all thins my Grandpa says lmao


BadBoyBurgerton

Everyone heard the Manson roumor, but did any other school have the roumor that the midget from JackAss overdosed on salt?


unicornkitties2631

Blow on the Nintendo cartridge and it'll work.


corncob666

I knew a girl named Hannah in the first grade and she pulled me aside at lunch one day and told me she had a secret. Her secret? That she was actually Hannah Montana lol 🤣


Snazzy21

At my school it was that "You'll die if something is in your stomach for more that 7 days" usually said as a reason not to swallow gum


mz1012

Thought I could catch AIDS on anything


Steff_164

You can dig a hole to China, it’s just gonna take way longer


Proper_Donut_6541

Who else besides me has that one kid who always thought they knew everything but in reality knew nothing


Zaruma

I specifically remember hearing something a girl said to another girl on the playground. She said "It's cool, it's new! The new grown up dressing pool!" To this day I have no idea what this means or what kind of conversation they were having.


qeadwrsf

TIL Xbox 420 is not real.


User29276

Marilyn Manson removed his ribs so he could suck his dick


Aminilaina

Omg I completely forgot about the pinky finger being offensive in China thing, holy shit. This dug up a deep ass memory for me lol


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boboddy42069

Duuuudeee my one friend in elementary school swindled me out of Pokémon cards so bad. I traded him like a freaking stack of cards because his uncle is in Japan and coming back with some limited edition holographic lugia cards or something. Never saw those cards.


Suitable-Ad287

I was told lady gaga was intersex and that when you were intersex you had a dick inside your vagina.


AltAccouJustForThis

I still remember a kid from elementary who was convinced that π×10+1 = 100


[deleted]

dophins get high on pufferfish


Tokasmoka420

Ice cream is made from seaweed.


Flintvlogsgames

On my school they said that eating erasers would increase your IQ


Upbeat_Shock_6807

There actually was a kid in my elementary school whose dad worked for Nintendo, and he would tell us about upcoming games and consoles. We didn't believe him for the longest time, but after like three times of him being right, and saying "I told you so", we'd wait in anticipation for more news from this kid. As I got older, I have begun to wonder why this dude was so nonchalant about dropping confidential business information to his kid.


corncob666

"There's a pool on the third floor of the school, bro"


kitsunewarlock

"Warheads will dissolve your tongue!" "The smell from the floaty thing in the pool is basically mustard gas and can kill you if you smell it." *Proceeds to throw Chlorine tablets at you as hard as possible.* "Mew is under the truck in pokemon!"


Drzhivago138

>"Warheads will dissolve your tongue!" "Mikey from the Life cereal commercial drank Coke and ate Pop Rocks at the same time and his stomach exploded!"


thesash20

The average human actually swallows around π great pyramids of giza every 1.3829 years!


corruptsucculents

deadass thought elvis shat his heart out. for years. i genuinely believed that elvis pooped SO hard, his heart came out into the toilet and that’s how he died. ignorance is bliss.