Urban Legends: From The Vanishing Hitchhiker to Wendy's Wormburgers and Beyond...

My favorite: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon

 

I thought it was McDonald's.

 

I’ve heard Stevie Nicks attached to the stomach pump story as well. The Stewart version apparently traces its origins to him coming out of the Man U locker room and exclaiming something akin to “holy shit, I just saw Denis Law’s cock.”

 

Remember the spider eggs in Bubble Yum?

 

The story on McDonalds that I remember was that they owned a company called “100% Pure Ground Beef” so that they could sell burgers labeled as such despite being full of horse meat, worms, filler etc.

 

I remember hearing it as a kid in the mid-80s. The crazy part with that one is that it was all word of mouth. Kids in Boston and Chicago and California all heard it and passed it on. So it must have originated somewhere and from something, right? I don't know that anything close to that was an actual news story that got twisted. It was just a rumor that somehow went viral before going viral was a thing.

 

Play a record backwards…
Ozzy bites off bat heads…
Bloody Mary and the mirror…
Spontaneous combustion…

 

Wait, Ozzy didn’t bite the head off a bat?

 

Ozzy did bite the head off a bat, although he's always maintained it was unintentional. The story goes that somebody threw a bat on the stage at a concert. He thought it was a rubber bat, bit the head off of it goofing around, and all of a sudden he's a maniac.
He also famously bit the head off a pigeon during a meeting with CBS record executives, which by all accounts was him being a maniac.

 

EDIT: Sorry Batman!

Yeah that was real. He didn’t intend to do it. He thought it was a rubber bat until he bit down and realized it was an actual bat.

 

got it. I thought there was some recent revelation that they faked the whole thing for publicity purposes.

 

I’m shocked this hasn’t come up yet: Marilyn Manson getting ribs removed so he could suck himself off.