What is the best URBAN LEGEND you have heard? And was it based even slightly on truth.?

The one about the guy who goes motorhoming with his wife. She goes to bed early one night and he sits beside the beautiful lake they are ptiched at, getting slowly drunk and comtemplating the beauty of his surroundings.

He staggers off to bed deciding he will get up at dawn and swin naked in the lake to cure his hangover. He strips off and passes out, he wakes with a jolt the next morning and dives out of the van naked and ready to swim, slowly it dawns on him he is in a busy high street with people all around. The motorhome has stopped at a red light and that is what the jolt was. His wife packed up early knowing he was p*ssed and began the drive home leaving him to sleep off the booze. As his predicament dawns on him he runs for the Motorhome door just as the lights turn to green!

I have no idea if it's based on truth!

THis story I have is an urban legend here in the philippines and it's very true...

My grandmother was raped by grandfather's brother who was believed to be an "aswang" and my grandfather was dead because he was lead into a dark forest by a "santilmo" and died of hunger and thirst..

when my father was born, he was pure white skinned, llightbrown hair and had greyish-brown eyes... after my mother married my father and when I was born, up until now, I still look like my great grandmother and grandmother Ambrosia and Ambrosia II..

weird huh? and there's more to they story...they said my brother (who is the seventh child) looks alot like my grandfather's brother, Rio...the "aswang"

we are from a spanish-filipino descent...Me and my brother sometimes and are usually the ones who get approached by spirits, monsters, etc.

but it still get scarier...just to lazy to type it all here now..

My favourite is the Richard Gere/ gerbil one. Have no idea if it's remotely true, but I suspect not.

If you don't know what I mean just Google Richard Gere gerbil and it should come up. I am MUCH too much of a lady to elaborate here.

check out www.snopes.com for loads of urban legends and to see if they are true or not!!!

it's not really a story, but i know that everyone always jokes around when something gets stolen or something that john parsons stole it, or that he was hiding out around here.