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

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

That a girl masturbated with a frozen hotdog and it snapped inside her, so they had to take her to the hospital.

 

[Haramburger]

Y2K testing in the military suckkkkkkkeeeeeeddddddd. I had to sit in the cockpit of every fucking T-45 and T-2C the squadron at Meridian NAS had, start the plane and then have the technicians set the date to Jan 1 2000, then turn off, restart and set to some random date after it and make sure it didn't create any errors they could see or that I could see. Being the most junior instructor led to a lot of bullshit tasking

heh, my dad did that, but with tanks.

 

[Assman]

A friend once told me that Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and he saw one of the babies and the baby looked at him.

 

[FuckedUp]

Someone claimed Rowley was going to murder Greg's entire family in the fourth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book.

There was a rumor going around at my school and with some of my friends from extra-curricular activities that Barney the Dinosaur cussed a kid out on live television. Some kids even claimed to have seen it with their own eyes. Of course, that's complete BS, since the show was not filmed live.

I remember hearing that too. Does him stubbing a toe ring any bells?

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

There was a rumor at my that there was a ghost girl who suicided because she hated being at the school so much and now she haunts that building she killed herself in. I remember it freaked me out for a while.

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

A friend once told me that Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and he saw one of the babies and the baby looked at him.

SEX CAULDRON?

 

[verygayFrogs]

Ok this isn’t a rumor but a thing I heard from a couple people who saw it on social media that I don’t have but it’s fucked up none the less.

So at one of my high school’s rival high schools, there was a girl who filmed herself catching a live bird and flushing it down the toilet. So she got sent to the alternative school and on the first day, she got jumped on (no one told me why but I think it was the bird) and the police got involved. It turns out the girl was here illegally and was deported back to Mexico. I shit you not.

 

[Foltest]

that weeman from Jackass died because he ate salt

 

[FuckedUp]

You know the "if the teacher doesn't show up for 15 minutes, you're legally allowed to leave" thing? A couple months into freshman year of high school, as we were waiting in the hall for our math teacher to arrive, one of my classmates said class was cancelled if the teacher didn't show up for 5 minutes. This was actually believable for my high school because you didn't even have to stay on school grounds if you didn't have class; if the teacher for your last class of the day was out sick, you got to go home early, no questions asked.

Eventually, in spring of senior year, I had a teacher take six minutes to show up. The teacher nor anyone else had any idea what I was talking about, but I was confident that the kid told the truth. So I looked up the student handbook on my phone to totally prove the gym teacher wrong and ended up embarrassing myself hard when it turned out it said jack shit about the alleged rule.

 

[CORRUPT🍀]

Jamal bought a gun he got from his brother to school to murder Rizhan.

I was also was highly embarrassed by a teacher. I heard somewhere that weed is totally cool cos it's natural and from nature, just a leaf! But viagra is evil cos old people fucking is unnatural and gross. During some drug education type thing I parrot'd this and got rekt'd. Initially people thought it was pretty funny. The venom from this teacher was do pure. Maybe her husband needed it. She said something about like young people also needing it and did I think I was being funny etc. I wasn't ready for that.

Oh here's a classic, at the local pools they stuck a razor blade in the joint of the slide, like where it connects and some kid got cut.

I'm glad the bird girl was jumped and sent to Mexico. Poor lil bird

That five minute rule is very familiar sounding.

Mew under the truck was a classic. I was told there was some fourth evolution of charizard before there really was and that it involved doing something like walking to the side when you're at the end bit in the hall. Basically something no one would do.

O this is a classic- so kid is on acid and not enjoying it so his friends give him some oranges cos apparently orange juice is a known lsd cure anyway the next thing the kid is catatonic and thinks he is an orange and all he says is peel me I'm an orange.

Also heard the Marilyn Manson one about killing puppies at shows and that he got a rib removed to suck his own dick,

Ah also the guy from blues clues committed suicide violently with a pencil on air

When I was a sophmore in high school, there was the old urban legend going around that gang members were hiding under peoples' cars at the local mall late at night. It was some form of initiation -- they'd slash your ankle, and then when you'd reach down in pain, they'd hack one of your fingers off and take it in as proof.
There was a variation of this. Gangs are doing an initiation where they have to kill someone. They drive around with their lights off and when someone dips their headlights the follow and kill them

(And of course, somebody always said that their friend's cousin's boyfriend's sister had it happen to them, etc etc)

 

[sasazuka]

Ah also the guy from blues clues committed suicide violently with a pencil on air

I can believe you heard in school that but how do people even find that story remotely credible when it's not the sort of show that would be easy to air "live" considering the cartoon dog has to be composited into the scene?

 

[Syaoran Li]

SEX CAULDRON?

I thought they closed that place down!

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

You know the "if the teacher doesn't show up for 15 minutes, you're legally allowed to leave" thing? A couple months into freshman year of high school, as we were waiting in the hall for our math teacher to arrive, one of my classmates said class was cancelled if the teacher didn't show up for 5 minutes. This was actually believable for my high school because you didn't even have to stay on school grounds if you didn't have class; if the teacher for your last class of the day was out sick, you got to go home early, no questions asked.

Eventually, in spring of senior year, I had a teacher take six minutes to show up. The teacher nor anyone else had any idea what I was talking about, but I was confident that the kid told the truth. So I looked up the student handbook on my phone to totally prove the gym teacher wrong and ended up embarrassing myself hard when it turned out it said jack shit about the alleged rule.

Ah yes, the good ol' "if the teacher is late after a period of time you're allowed to leave". Had this happen too only in my case the rule turned out to be an actual rule, we thought it was made up because one class tried it once after the teacher didn't show up for 10 minutes, they all left, but then she showed up 2 minutes later and they all got fucked, so nobody else tried it since. However, I don't know how the 10 minute thing got spread when in actuality the rule was 15 minutes or more. We were waiting for a teacher once and about 20 minutes had already passed, the teacher from the neighboring classroom showed up and asked us to stop being so noisy and where the fuck our teacher is. When we told her that our teacher still hasn't shown up she told us that we were supposed to leave 5 minutes ago.

There was a second urban legend rule we had, which is if less than half the class shows up for an exam, the exam would not be held. This also turned out to be technically true, but it only applied if there was some sort of epidemic going on, usually it would apply only during flu season. One class got fucked by it because the absolute madmen tried getting out of an exam that nobody apparently bothered studying for, the only problem is that they did it in April.

 

[Wraith]

Worst rumor I ever heard was that the teachers actually gave a damn about people.

 

[Broseph]

This was some kid at my elementary school who swore up and down that there was a cheat code that let's you turn blood and fatalities on in Street Fighter.

 

[Syaoran Li]

This was some kid at my elementary school who swore up and down that there was a cheat code that let's you turn blood and fatalities on in Street Fighter.

I remember hearing a similar rumor when I was in First Grade but it was with Darkstalkers instead of Street Fighter. For six-year old me, it was a lot more believable since Darkstalkers was supposed to be the edgy horror movie version of Street Fighter.

 

[A Grey Cat]

there was a rumor among the girls at my high school that if they used coke as a douce after sex the acidity in the coke would kill sperm and keep you from getting pregnant. And people wonder why pregnancy rates in niggo schools are so high

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Back when I was a teenager working in retail I used to always believe whenever some asshole said we'd be getting time and a half.

More because I wanted it to be true.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

My best friend in the first grade informed me once that the guy in the Barney suit was a very heavy smoker, and he stored all his cigarette butts inside the tail of the costume. She learned from some unspecified source that during a "live broadcast" the seams of the costume split open and a huge cloud of cigarette smoke billowed out

To be fair, there was an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air that featured a parodied version of Barney -- a whale named Dougie -- whose actor walked out mid-act to remove the top half of his whale suit and smoke. Either she had that in mind or she made up a truly stupid story.
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When I was in 7th grade, someone started a rumor that the building we used for our gym and cafeteria was going to be turned into an separate school building for the 7th and 8th graders. As far as I know, that was never a consideration and the building was ultimately sold when it became too costly to maintain.

 

[MysticMisty]

To be fair, there was an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air that featured a parodied version of Barney -- a whale named Dougie -- whose actor walked out mid-act to remove the top half of his whale suit and smoke. Either she had that in mind or she made up a truly stupid story.

For what it's worth, the rumor that the actor who played Steve from Blues Clues died of a drug OD has it's origins in a Law and Order episode he had a very brief guest appearance in. His character dies in the opening minutes in the precinct cell of what is initially believed to be a drug OD*, which young kids might've accidentally seen or glimpsed, and took that to mean he was really dead. Or gave older kids the idea to upset their younger sibling(s) with the idea.

*The detectives discover the guy was actually autistic (trending toward the severe end of the scale), and medical examiner later reveals he died from a brain injury from electric stimulation from a questionable autism behavior treatment.