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

[Monika H.]

That the sexy Math teacher would fuck boys who scored 100 on a test.
I fucking believed that lie and studied Math for nothing.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

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

One kid took the Mewtwo vs. Mew battle and made it sound violent in that Mew kills Mewtwo in the game by pulling out the neck cord. I also believed the "Leave Magikarp at the Daycare for a year for a Mew" rumor.

 

[KingofNothing]

Just recalled there used to be tons of stories about a murderer living in the woods near one of my old schools. Kids would dare each other to go in to them all the time. Never did learn what kicked that story off but I think that story is older than I am.

I also believed the "Leave Magikarp at the Daycare for a year" rumor.

I'm not sure if I heard that one

 

[Niggernerd]

When I was a junior there was a rumor this freshman wannabe Chad was forced by his friends to fuck a dead deers corpse.

It was actually true when the kids were arrested in school and the fake chad moved a month later.

 

[remiem]

One of the substitutes that was very much disliked in my school was nicknamed Cheesy supposedly because they stole a block of cheese.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I heard women and men were equal.

You sniped me, you prick!

 

[nagant 1895]

At a very religious school I was informed that as one of three children my parents had only had sex three times. I continue to wish that were true.

 

[lurk_moar]

One of my classmates in Microbiology said that she heard from somebody that pinkeye is caused by somebody farting on your pillow.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Darwin's theory of evolution.

 

[sasazuka]

I heard that a certain suburban Montreal restaurant (which burned down in 1998.) was owned by the mob (not too unlikely) and would sell you cocaine if you ordered a certain dish with a side of "chickpeas". No idea if the latter part was true.

 

[Queen Of The Harpies]

A kid in my year ate a nugget of shit for $20 and a beer

 

[Tism the Return]

Rumor has it the building right next to the school was a brothel. The only thing that made it believable is that it was always closed during the day.

 

[ForgedBlades]

One of my friends convinced the rest of our group in fifth grade that circumcision was the practice of cutting off the entire head of the penis.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Can't think of any I actually fell for, but I do remember some pretty good ones.

-Women give birth out of their mouths. The doctor has to help physically pull the baby out of the woman's throat. Granted, this one I heard in preschool.

-Cats die upon contact with water.

-If you eat a heart, you get another heart.

- You know those squiggles you see on the horizon on a hot day? Those aren't from heat, it's a sign that there will be a massive earthquake in 40 days.

-I live by a large and distinctive geological formation that every little kid or misinformed adult will swear up and down is a volcano. It looks nothing like a volcano, it's more of a partially melted ice-cream scoop. But depending on who you ask, it's either dormant or about to erupt in a fiery cataclysm and we're all going to die in lava. One of my friends- COLLEGE friend, mind you- was convinced that the rock is open on top and there's a visable caldera of magma viewable from above. There's plenty of arial photography to prove that completly wrong. One more creative theory I heard is that the rock has a huge crystal inside which contains a sleeping giant.

Spoiler: Boring science

The rock is volcanic in nature, as it's actually a volcanic plug. A massive volcano did exist at one point based on geological evidence, and our rock was a active magma channel at some point. All that remains of the volcanic range are a series of nearby peaks and our little outie-bellybutton of a rock. So volcanic yes, a volcano itself? No. Giants trapped in crystals? Maybe.

 

[Mrs Paul]

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.


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

 

[SigSauer]

I do have one interesting story of this crazy girl who went to my school. She once brought a lighter into the bathroom and set fire to the paper towels inside the metal bin, and the fire got so hot that it melted a hole through the wall separating the men and women’s restroom in the school. Another time she brought a sponge to the bathroom and clogged the sink drain and turned the faucet on, so that it flooded the entire upper floor.

 

[2al]

Rumor has it the building right next to the school was a brothel. The only thing that made it believable is that it was always closed during the day.

I did go to a school next to a bunch of nightclubs with bar hoes in them, close enough.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Y2K was the big one I remember from elementary school.

 

[Hakurei Zero]

I once heard from a teacher, while we were studying World War II and the Holocaust, that Hitler's scientists tried to impregnate a woman with dog semen to create a super-soldier. It seemed like something that they would do and it came from an educator, so I fell for it, until doing research later. I can't imagine how many people he's misinformed, as he was a history teacher and loved discussing WWII, and how many of those students are spreading around nonsense. This is why the newer generations look stupid.

 

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

A rumor went around that girls got pregnant by swallowing semen and that the vagina was only used for peeing. We also had the standard mew under the truck and the murder in the woods near the school. I am genuinely surprised by how common the murder one is. We also had the y2k rumors. These were mostly religious in nature. We had one kid who went around constantly preaching spreading rumors about how y2k was when Jesus was gonna come back and how god had revealed it to him personally. Keep in mind I was in like 4th grade. Unfortunately he wasn't relentlessly bullied when nothing happend.