Urban legends are a lot less scary now, thanks to websites like
Snopes, MythBusters, and Urban Legends & Superstition. It takes
only a few seconds to find out whether forwarding emails will raise
money for the Red Cross (it did, but not anymore), or whether kids ever
died from falling on knives sticking out of open dishwasher doors (they
have), or whether a serial killer ever lured female victims from their
homes by playing a recording of a crying baby (nope).
But I'm
sure many of us remember urban legends about kids that we found
completely believable and utterly terrifying. Here are my top 10:
10. A drawbridge keeper had to choose between saving his young son or a train full of passengers.
False.
OK, I'm guessing not too many people have ever found this Jesus parable
- which has been circulating since the late 1960s - completely
believable. In it, a man decides to let a train run over his son
rather than derail the train and save his son by sacrificing all the
passengers - just like God sacrificed his son to save mankind. Still,
it gets credit for the gut-wrenching way it asks us to imagine the
absolutely worst thing that could ever happen.
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