Stupid rumors/stories/"facts" you heard at school - And which you were naive enough to believe

[TheImportantFart]

Since your critical faculties haven't fully developed at school, you likely ended up believing a lot of stupid bullshit your classmates fed you, even if only for a short while. Here's some of the stuff I heard at school:

• Someone said that Clémence Poésy (who played Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films) was a porn star. I think this might have been wishful thinking on their part looking back.
• A rumor went round that one of the Chemistry teachers (who was a quiet, diminutive guy) was a former Rage Cage fighter whose stage name was Bunsen Burner. The teacher actually cultivated the rumor because he knew how unlikely it was.
• The classic story about Marilyn Manson throwing labrador puppies into a crowd and refusing to start playing until they'd been trampled to death made the rounds. Also the one where he took a shit on the stage and said someone could have his guitar if they ate it.
• The bottle bank urban legend also circulated. I actually didn't twig this was bullshit until I saw the story repeated on an episode of The Inbetweeners. I felt pretty stupid, especially since the episode proceeded to break down in detail why it was utter nonsense.

What were some of yours?

 

[RetardedCat]

That we'll run out of oil in 2020. Thanks science teachers.

 

[Damn Near]

there was a rumor when I was a freshman in HS that the vice principal had a prosthetic leg. For the record, I don't believe he did

 

[RG 448]

That the earth is round and revolves around the sun.

 

[Superman93]

If a girl gets fuck a lot her pussy turns into wizard sleeve

 

[morbidly-obese-steven]

I remember when we were like at the REALLY YOUNG age where we just learnt what sex is (but didn't quite get all social rules and shit tied to it or how it worked, it was like small kid's idea of sex), there was some rumor about how during sex ed classes that we would get on last year, teacher would force two students to demonstrate how sex works. I didn't even remember the rumor or pay attention to it at that time, until one pal of mine brought it up later after elementary school and how it freaked him out at time.

 

[KingofNothing]

I think we all remember that Mew under the truck bullshit that got passed around to who knows how many schools. It's crazy how far that spread pre-internet shitposting

 

[Clop]

Years ago I was talking with my then-girlfriend about her high school years, and she told me her school's textbooks claimed oral sex caused pregnancy.

I was apparently the first person to tell otherwise to an adult woman.

 

[oldTireWater]

There are going to be 12 Star Wars movies according to playground knowledge. In 1980 this seemed like a great thing, not so much now though.

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

That we'll run out of oil in 2020. Thanks science teachers.

Hey, man, you don't know. We still got a whole year.

 

[The Fifth Waltz]

That Foxes are dog/cat hybrids.

 

[PL 001]

Kid in high school fucked a cat. Everyone called him Cat Fucker. From the jocks and preps, to the weebs and geeks, everyone called him that. Don't know if it was true or not, but pretty much everyone believed it was.

Rumor started about me being a Satanist and practicing black magic. Pretty much no one believed that since the rumor was started by some christfag girl that had a history of sperging out at people.

 

[Vampirella]

We had a lot of the classic ones, and some about video games that spread around.

• Cher/Marilyn Manson had ribs removed for reasons
• There was a way to get to a secret level in Super Mario Brothers, if you could get into the top pipe at the end of 1-1.
• There was a road just outside of town where you could find a hitchhiking ghost
• The classic a bus full of kids died when the bus broke down on rail road tracks. If you stopped on them, their ghosts would push you off the tracks.
• Some how the story of the San Antonio donkey lady traveled down to our area.
• One of my friends would swear up and down that her Uncle's friend saw a La lechuza

 

[UQ 770]

My school district was under the distinct impression that they were revelant and well-respected on both the state and national level. Truth was that even the locals hated them and wanted to cut funding for their pretentious crap basically all the time.

 

[Womanhorse]

My group of friends were convinced that sex meant drinking eachother's piss by the older kids at elementary school. I think was like 4th grade or something so we were just learning sex ed, so we were completely impressionable. We also told the rest of our class about this and even convinced these two kids that really liked eachother gave bottles of their own pee to one another to drink because "real couples have sex" or something. We learned about actual sex in the next health class and I think they refused to talk to eachother afterwards.

Wouldn't be shocked if either of those kids went on to have a watersports thing

 

[SugarSnot]

You haven't lived if you never met that kid who was an expert in all martial arts and had knowledge of this one technique in particular that can be used to knock people out instantly, but never demonstrates it for some reason or another.

 

[Lez]

My sister thought her classmate absorbed their twin in the womb.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I heard women and men were equal.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

A couple kids in my elementary school, mostly girls, had this idea that, instead of a boy sticking his meat rod inside the fish taco of the girl he loves very much, sex involved the girl cutting off the guy's dick and penetrating the still bleeding stump with her clit. Sometimes I like to think they were just trying to troll the smaller boys, but some of my childhood peers were seriously idiotic. I've already made a post about this in another thread a couple years ago, but there was also a lass who at the big girl age of 14 thought she got pregnant from a broomstick.

There was also this exceptional rumor around a local talk show host when I was 12 that he had a secret gay affair with Michael Jackson, and that his sponsors were so appalled by this they've had said showman's anus sewn shut so poor Jacko couldn't express his love to him anymore.

 

[Spunt]

One of my classmates convinced me that he was taking tapdancing lessons, but (get this le epic troll guys!) he wasn't. He spent the rest of the term trying to convince me that I had been thoroughly owned without much success.

So the following year he tried to convince me that his mother was a prostitute and that his father was the father of another kid in the class who was also her client. This time I didn't believe him (as the saying goes, never trust a man who lies to you about tapdancing) but I did tell a few other kids what he'd told me, including the kid he was now claiming as his half brother, who did in fact believe me and told his mum...

All hell broke loose and he ended up being made to write a letter of apology to the other kid's parents. A few days later he proudly confronted me with his opinion that he had "got me good this time" and I was gullible and he had totally owned me.

I don't think he really understood how this works.