The Myths Gen X Spread!

Myths and rumors are as old as the human race itself. There were many of them that were spread by Generation X and people accepted them as truth. Back then it was a lot more difficult to research and it was much easier to just repeat the information. Today these tall tales are quite funny to relive. In this video we will have a look back at the myths Gen X spread! Do you remember any others?
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[@samuelschick8813]

" If you swallow a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow out of your belly button" Heard that one a lot. But my aunt on mom's side took the cake. We were at her house eating fried chicken and I had a leg that had a skin tag at the top. Aunt noticed the tag and waited for me to start eating it, " Sam, you know if you eat that, you will grow another pecker." Now here I am 60 years old and still have not decided if that would be a good or bad thing. LOL

[@joeyvindictive3552]

I'd say that could only be a good thing, at least while you are a teen/young adult. Imagine all the action you'd get from curious girls? 😂

[@TH-hy9kr]

My mom told me this was how babies were made. I stopped eating watermelon and still have food aversion to it.

[@shannondore]

Your aunt was a hoot.😆 And yeah my grandpa told me the watermelon myth, he also said it of apple seeds and grape seeds.

[@KennyRider137]

Fred Sanford had a joke about that, but he said he wouldn't be able to shave anymore, he would have to be plucked.

[@kellysouter4381]

Where would it grow? You might not want one on your face.😊

[@METALHEAD550]

I'm so glad I was born in 1972...and I would live it again...

[@efogg3]

75 hell yes!🤘

[@tomy.1846]

71 Absolutely!

[@jaysw9585]

I was born in 76, and the 80s were only surpassed by the 90s. I feel sorry for the kids today. They don't even have Saturday morning cartoons.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching METALHEAD550!

[@METALHEAD550]

Anytime my friend!@@RhettyforHistory

[@Rob-rx3jw]

I stand by the Nintendo Cartridge rumor. It worked miracles.

[@kenb2671]

It did especially with my favorite game Double Dribble.👍🏾🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@floyd27860]

DEFINITELY!

[@floyd27860]

Also, alcohol & a Q-tip

[@dougied3449]

Still got my old nintendo and games. I always blow into it when it wouldnt work and it would start working again.

[@hellman9655]

I’ll echo that. It did work despite the science

[@davidgray1967]

Another was if you stood in front of a mirror with the lights off and held a flash light under your chin with your eye's closed, and said Bloody Mary 3x and opened your eyes you would see her ghost in the mirror.

[@floyd27860]

Everyone heard this

[@pommiebears]

Yep…I’m English, and we had this too. lol.

[@elementalargon7597]

@pommiebears Well I would expect you'd have heard of "Bloody Mary," as it's name is derived from the moniker of Queen Mary Tudor.

[@sophiesoprano]

We had it Sweden and it was ”true”, we believed it.

[@mark34535]

@@sophiesoprano Same here in Canada, I was too scared to try it!

[@egrintarg230]

I remember the one about lead pencils. If you stabbed someone with a pencil the lead would kill them. In reality pencils had no lead, but graphite. And the amount of lead needed to kill someone was much higher than what that would have amounted to. Still, many kids had stabbed a bully in hopes of never being picked on again, only to get detention and some extra education.

[@D-Fens_1632]

My mom just turned 75 and still has a scar on her calf near her ankle from when she put a pencil in her sock in like 1962 and forgot and stood up and it somehow jammed into her calf and broke. I think they just left the tip in there. But I've never asked her if there was any fear of the "lead" killing her. I wonder how far back that one goes?

[@katie7748]

Lead: another thing we've been l i e d to about.

[@GymbalLock]

I hear that in my classroom all the time. I tell my students that pencil "lead" hasn't had real lead for over 150 years.

[@Speeddemon3]

I still being told you couldn't swim for an hour after you ate or you'd cramp up and possibly drown. Our parents were gullible and paranoid yet we could drive around in the back of a pick up. 😀

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I read a few years ago in a myth busting article that you are actually more likely to cramp up on an empty stomach than a full one. Someone's parents thought that up to not have to let their kids swim I'm betting, lol.

[@RogueReplicant]

Good one. I fell for that one until I was 25, lol

[@randquadrozzi1280]

At family picnics We played lawn darts cause we couldn't swim for 30 minutes after eating.Safe option.I'm 5 ft tall I can't drown in a 4 ft pool.Parent's made little sense in the 70s surprised we survived.

[@Speeddemon3]

@@randquadrozzi1280 My sister and I would fire them over the cottage trying to hit the ring on the front and back lawn and literally stand there watching them sail right over the roof. We drank from hoses, played on steel jungle gyms, rode bikes without helmets. I think Gen X truly had the last great childhood generation. I wouldn't trade it for anything!

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@Speeddemon3 I didn't get in any trouble but we partied a lot and I wouldn't want my parents tracking my movements with a cell phone.

[@GeemailMailboxx]

I once stepped on a crack, then promptly ran home and asked mother how her back felt. 😮🤫

[@unlimitedcosmicspeed]

Remember going to the bank and taking your passbook/bankbook to transact? Remember people saying that ATM's will never be adopted/accepted? Remember penny candy? hahaha

[@EclecticDD]

And the magnetic stripe on the bank book

[@pommiebears]

Yes. I remember getting 25p for sweets. I’d run up to Chris’ corner shop, and buy 50 1/2p sweets! It was awesome. 🤩

[@maryyoung4046]

3 for a pennuy *penny

[@JenSell1626]

I remember printing my social security number on my checks because it took so long for the cashier to write it off my drivers license

[@waynechernick3526]

Used to get 10 cent Coke bottles That was alot of candy. 10 pieces.

[@Plan9-3127]

I remember the proper way to fold a note to pass to your girlfriend or boyfriend in school... It was kinda like folding the American flag, and you were left with a perfectly square little folded paper.... I wouldn't trade growing up in the 80's for anything. There's no way to really explain it to kids nowadays. It was just a really magical time...

[@jasondashney]

Yeah, you had to put the security seal on it

[@Plan9-3127]

@@jasondashney 😂😂.. 👍

[@leesashriber5097]

This was great!! Yes. My parents checked our Halloween candy every year. Amazingly a lot of my Reese's cups disappeared!!😂

[@norwoodwildlife9849]

Another rumor I remember hearing was, that if you did a certain thing ( With yourself) you would go blind.

[@g.t.richardson6311]

I remember that one

[@mickieg1118]

or grow hair on your palms

[@JustMe99999]

That's older than GenX though.

[@g.t.richardson6311]

@@JustMe99999 ha ha yea like 1850s

[@floyd27860]

Eddie Murphy actually put that in his stand-up

[@glennso47]

On the tv show Hee Haw, there was a clip where some women would sing “We don’t go around repeating rumors, so you have to listen close the first time. “😊🎵

[@jaysw9585]

In Living Color had, "I aint one to gossip, so you didn't hear it from me."

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a memory of the show!

[@KayBeeAustralia]

Again, it never fails to amaze me that in the 1980s nearly all these exact same rumours were here in Australia, despite no internet being around to spread them from the US. I always wonder how that could be. We were told of the razor blades in the water parks, satanic messages, Dungeons and Dragons fears, KISS (Knights in Satan's Service we were told), pop rocks and coke, and bubble gum rumours were all the same ones as we had! I'm sure our local media must have heard them in the US and just presented them as news stories here!

[@williamwright9079]

The power of propaganda is world wide friends!

[@sebastienbolduc5654]

There is some truth behind the AC/DC one. It's, "Anti-Christ, Devils Child." That's why Angus Young plays the character of a school boy wearing a school boys uniform with devil horns. It's all in good fun btw. So yes, it's voltage in reference to amplification as well. That's the wonderful world of art. But once again, all in good fun. Then we grew up and realized that the lyrics were very sexual in content. 😂 At least those lads had class to write the lyrics cryptically, in order to protect children from understanding them. Nowadays many musicians are right up in your face with that kind of content.

[@dougied3449]

The internet was there, it was dos based but it still worked the same. Just no junk ads. My mom had a pc and i had a ti99 computer. Ah the days when you could call a pentagon server and there was no defense software.

[@missmadelinesadventures3278]

I still hear word of mouth as fast as Facebook. I'm not on it and people always ask me how I know what's going on so quickly

[@jcbulldog533]

​@@missmadelinesadventures3278I'm actually proud to never have had Facebook I have a a perfect excuse of not being in the know of things!! We don't miss what we've never had!! Plus I'm pretty opinionated,so I'm sure I'd be in Facebook jail most of the time Lol 😆😅😂

[@jvon3885]

Blowing into the nintendo cartridge was to clear any dust or debris so the connection would be better. So yeah that why we blew into them.

[@koobs4549]

What we didn’t know is that all that moisture caused the contacts to rust over time

[@Lewis-me7jr]

Now I blow into my iPhone charger port. I don’t know why.

[@jasondashney]

@@koobs4549 The contacts didn't rust. The problem was that the acids in our mouth would get on the metal and form a patina that had to be cleared off with rubbing alcohal.

[@uarbor70]

That Mr Rogers myth is still going around he's up to 56 confirmed kills now

[@RhettyforHistory]

Keeps growing huh? Thank you for watching!

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

No one could slow their heart rate and breathing to a standstill like ol' "Steady Freddy the Ice Man" Rogers. I heard all the notches on his gun stock were in the form of little heartfelt apologies🤔. 😂

[@gempalm2003]

wtf iv never heard that one im pissin myself thats hilarious @@FurtiveSkeptical

[@katemiller7874]

Mr rogers was great keep quiet

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

@@katemiller7874 Shh, we're only foolin'... Fred Rogers could kill you with kindness and that's about it. Humor and such.

[@taissalada]

If you played the game “light as a feather, stiff as a board” you would get possessed. If you owned a pager it meant you were a drug dealer. If you ate cookie dough it would explode in your stomach.

[@g.t.richardson6311]

The raw cookie dough one i remember was you’d get worms

[@Speeddemon3]

Oh cookie dough would give you worms!

[@lainiwakura1776]

The pager one is funny, because my parents had a pool cleaning business when I was a kid, so my dad had a pager so my mom could get a hold of him.

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

I've eaten raw cookie dough since I was a child and never once got sick lol XD

[@METALHEAD550]

That stuff was so good!@@RedRoseSeptember22

[@lesliehackney7519]

This one brought back some funny memories. I am the parent of Gen X kids and more than once I had to assure them that a rumor was just a rumor. Sometimes they would believe me and sometimes they wouldn't. You make the best videos, I always look forward to them.

[@pinksparkle258]

Lol this was great 🤣🤣 A huge rumor around our school was that if you smoked dried banana peels you could get high...trust me it DOESN'T WORK!! 🍌 🥴

[@RhettyforHistory]

I remember hearing that too but I never tried it. Thank you for watching!

[@nessiewolfe95able]

I used to work I'm a jail where people would attempt to smoke those peels it smelled awful!

[@roonboo96]

My mom doubled down on the razor blade one. We have a cousin with a scar on her upper lip and were told it was from eating Halloween candy that had a razor blade in it. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t true…

[@melindakathriner4148]

My sister DID actually find a straight pin in a candybar.

[@thorstambaugh1520]

This rumor was started by parents so they could grab the best candy

[@elementalargon7597]

​@melindakathriner4148 I'm guessing she lied, was misremembering, or did it herself for attention. Or a friend did it as a prank. Or you could be lying right now. Many more plausible explanations than a dastardly stranger did it.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

Ha ha ha! I remember a local store would give us a free Tootsie Pop if we turned in a wrapper with that picture on it. 3:39 😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Jennifer!

[@Justin-ts2dw]

Same for me😂😂 my brother and I once stole one of moms checks and bought candy with it filling it out with a pencil😂 the store accepted it and contacted our mom! We got so busted😅😅😅

[@sideburn]

I still keep my distance from the microwave 😂

[@jdsalinger73]

You should. I have checked radiation with a Trifield and it's too high for safety up to about 4ft away.

[@devilsoffspring5519]

@@jdsalinger73 If there was enough microwave energy outside of the oven to be really harmful, it would warm you up standing in front of it. You'd notice it: Your skin, and the meat underneath, would get hot.

[@jdsalinger73]

@@devilsoffspring5519 Doesn't have to cook you to do cellular damage or cause cancer. People get cancer from cell towers, high voltage lines, blue tooth earbuds, cell phones...etc. It's probably worse than we know and just because it doesn't get any press, doesn't mean it's not a concern.

[@dougied3449]

​@@devilsoffspring5519low level microwave radiation doesn't work like that. That's for inside the box. Jd is talking about the ambient radiation that escapes. That damages dna and can cause cancer.

[@jamessullivan4391]

Me too.

[@NASCARFAN93100]

It's always a good day whenever Rhetty For History uploads

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for always watching and commenting my friend!

[@breathedeep2060]

Actually my great aunt worked for a Radiology office as a technician and one Halloween my mom took all of our candy to the office and they X-rayed it. Of course there was nothing in it. All of the candy we got would also be looked over for any punctures or tears. This how seems like the good old days to me! This was a great video. I have heard all these stories over the years. Thanks Rhetty!

[@basshead2003]

Mmm, irradiated candy. 🤤😂

[@breathedeep2060]

@@basshead2003 Everything a growing girl needs!! 😂

[@radwolf76]

When Cinn-A-Burst & Mint-A-Burst gum hit shelves in the 90s, there was a story going around that the wrappers were also made of gum, simply pressed really thin, dyed with the appropriate logo, and then folded. Because of this, so the story went, you didn't have to unwrap it. A lot of kids ended up chewing on wax paper with their gum because of this.

[@monicahendricks8563]

I was told that about Juicy Fruit Gum. Don’t know how many wrappers I chew till if figured out it was not true.

[@gingerman5123]

I’m 45 and still turn on bathroom lights before going in because of Bloody Mary lol

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching gingerman5123!

[@Lewis-me7jr]

Good!! I’m almost positive she’s still in there waiting.

[@user-wh5ir4fo4r]

Ginger, 45, and with a whimsical sense of humor....you single, honey?

[@katemiller7874]

We had so much fun with that

[@heraldomedrano1417]

😂😂😂😂👍🏾

[@NextRomana]

The lady who went to tanning salons many times a day for a wedding who started to smell bad because she was cooking from the inside out. Happened to my friend’s mother’s coworkers’s cousin.

[@Richard-or2km]

Didn't she play Magda in There's something about Mary? 😉

[@pjesf]

😂😂😂

[@jayalexander3356]

If you cross your eyes and someone startles you, they'll stay that way. Heard that one tons.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing another one Jay!

[@pommiebears]

Or, if you pull a face and the wind changed, you’d stay like it. Don’t eat the pips from apples, or a tree could grow! 😂

[@22lilacsky]

😂😆

[@LarsonPetty]

I had an older sister that was messing with a ram decades ago, bending down like she was going to headbutt it, when she was around twelve. The thing reared up on it's hind legs and hit her square, knocking her unconscious for hours. At the hospital, when she awoke, her eyes actually were crossed and stayed that way for around six months, even having a school picture day as the evidence. As a result, she had migraines for the rest of her life, with a particularly severe one causing the stroke that took her out. Seriously.

[@LISA.R.2112]

This was a great one Rhett !! Spider eggs 😅 hope you have a great weekend 👍 thanks as always !!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Lisa and I hope you have a great weekend as well!

[@tonycollazorappo]

I'm a "before" Gen X , I was born in 1961. The best eras for kids to grow up in were the 50s, 60s and 70s! The best music and movies. It was great to be a kids during those times.

[@aixpress7665]

Grew up in New England and we heard all of these …thanks for the reminder a Rhetty I had forgotten about most of them !

[@stanford-nf4jk]

@aixpress7665 I grew up on the West Coast and heard all of these too. It’s hilarious that we all heard the same myths, no matter what part of the country we lived in!

[@jackiedje]

Did anyone hear the myth about holding your breath when you passed a graveyard or you would die? 🤣

[@Kinikia95]

Yep

[@22lilacsky]

Yes but not until I got older.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

No, but that's hilarious!

[@GenXfrom75]

I still do! And while crossing a bridge!

[@user-rx3us4md8o]

There is a really long cemetery in Syracuse that goes up a hill on the way to the hospital. We always would hold our breaths for the whole length of the cemetery. But it wasn't that we thought we would die. It was kind of just to see how long we could hold our breaths.

[@pjesf]

I remember “Xray the candy” but all I needed to know is that it was a Snickers full-size. 😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

Haha! Thank you for watching pjesf!

[@matts1978]

Ok wow, I'm 44 and still thought people who know karate or other martial arts had to register their hands as deadly weapons 😮

[@kenb2671]

Thanks Chuck Norris.😆👍🏾

[@Kinikia95]

Me too!!!!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching matts1978!

[@synthoelectro]

you never stop believing it :D

[@jriamyou8156]

Oh man, the Rod Stewart picture got me. Lol.

[@travishendrix7026]

Hahahaha right. We all know that rumor. It is in my mind everytime I hear one of his songs. All these years.

[@D-Fens_1632]

Just last week I had to explain the Richard Gere story to my 75 year old mother who had somehow never heard it. I told her "I'll tell you about Rod Stewart some other time."

[@cordeliabuffy6419]

I remember making a girl,cry in biology class with the Rod Stewart one,lol!

[@whiterabbit-wo7hw]

Hey Rhett, these were great !! Right after the LSD craz of the candy, I remember the rumor going around about postage stamps being laced with Acdid or LSD. I remember once on a Halloween night, I was called to a house where a mother suspected her kids' candy being tampered with. I was a reserve deputy. When I arrived, the mother quickly got the cany bag and made me and another deupty go through it. We did and found all wrapers and packages in good condition. She thanked us, and that was that.

[@jasondashney]

Wow. What what a strange appeal to authority. You did exactly what she could've done but because it was done by an authority figure, it was good enough for her.

[@vistalite-ph4zw]

My local hospital x rayed the Halloween candy, I never had it done. We heard the rumor about contaminated HIV needles left in movie theater seats. You had to check your seat before sitting. We couldn't sit close to the TV, but lights off were ok. I still don't stand in front of the microwave when it's cooking...😂😂

[@faeriefire78]

I'm starting to doubt myself now because I have a really clear memory of an airport style x-ray machine being brought to the mall to scan candy on Halloween night in my midwest town. Honestly, the most dangerous thing about Halloween night were those horrible plastic masks that simultaneously suffocated and partially blinded us while we navigated the streets at night. 🎃

[@robertshawiv1513]

I’m a baby boomer and I remember almost all of these :)

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Robert!

[@FromSagansStardust]

Me too!

[@maryyoung4046]

me alssso

[@karenmiller2642]

I remember one about a chocolate shortage at easter. So to offset it, the candy companies added rabbit poop. And one that said, if boy's/men wore their jeans to tight, it would make them sterile.

[@RhettyforHistory]

I haven't heard about the rabbit poop one but I do remember the one about tight jeans. There was a lot of tight pants in the 70s and 80s. Thank you for watching Karen!

[@jasondashney]

The jeans one does have an element of truth. Having the jewels right up against your body, does increase the temperature and can affect what's inside. That's why when it's cold out, they suck right up against your body and when it's really hot they hang low. Our bodies have a way of regulating that temperature.

[@emmyali920]

We had to let my mom and very disinterested father check our candy before we could eat it. We absolutely hated that. I grew up in Chicago and the Tylenol murders happened right in the prime of my childhood. That certainly didn't help when it came to my mom being any less neurotic.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us emmyali920!

[@TaaxiCaab]

Parents, myself included, still check our kids' candy for "safety." In reality, we are looking for the good stuff we want and secretly "taxing" the kids' stashes. Hence why parents don't check it in front of the kids, but wait until they go to sleep.

[@monicahendricks8563]

Parent’s did this to get the good candy. My Snicker’s bars always had pins in it.

[@synthoelectro]

yep my parents in 80s always checked the bag.

[@reginakeith8187]

The needles and razor blades in candy thing was perpetuated by the media and society in general. I remember the news in the 80s reporting that kids could bring Halloween candy to the hospital to have it xrayed for free to check for dangerous substances. What a waste of time and resources that was!

[@dasilvadeb]

I juSt discovered your channel... lemme tell ya I haven't laughed THIS hard in well, awhiLe. Thanks no really thanks #1971❤❤❤❤❤

[@FirstComments]

Another rumor was "Cheat Codes". Press your controller buttons in a certain way, or do so and so in a game to unlock something cool.

[@RhettyforHistory]

There really were some cheat codes for the original nintendo. I don't know about systems after that. Thank you for watching!

[@The_Fat_Controller.]

@@RhettyforHistory Super Nintendo had certain controller button sequences to press to enable cheating.

[@NateB1976]

There were many cheat codes on the original Nintendo. There are 2 I remember perfectly. In Akari warriors after you die you press A-B-B-A and you get unlimited continues every time. The other one is commonly called the “Konami Code” but was mostly used as the Contra code in the game Contra. You press up,up, down, down, left, right, left, right B, A then START. and you get 30 lives in Contra. It also worked in other games made by Konami for Nintendo.

[@jasondashney]

@@NateB1976 there was a cheat code for Akari Warriors!?!? I really wish I still had it

[@KattMurr]

Maybe the candydots were confused with LSD called "Micro dots"....?

[@maryyoung4046]

or the ssesame sstreet ones lol

[@topofthepalm]

So true....I think every (or most) middle school and high school had an alleged "nympho" teacher all the football players had been with

[@bobmartin6055]

And somehow we survived! How many popcorn balls (made by sweet little grandmas) got thrown out of your trick or treat bag?

[@taissalada]

Or if you gave out crappy candy your house would get egged

[@TH-hy9kr]

We had a really nice neighbor who made delicious homemade caramel popcorn

[@ct3po776]

Ate my popcorn balls, course I think my Mom knew the lady that made em! My uncle would drive 3 hrs to our house to trick or treat with me, (bringing the grandparents also.) cause we'd get 2 big bags worth of candy to dump all over the floor, and he got a lot of good candy himself, course all my cousins were older, and they weren't going out anymore, so being the last one till 2nd cousins were born, is why he came to take me out as well.

[@mikeseier4449]

Wow!… Thanks for that throwback,.. I forgot about most of those myths…😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Mike!

[@Black_Patriot-Veteran-1970]

I'm Gen X (born 1970). I heard of the razor blades/needles in candy rumor during Halloween, but I never encountered any. So for all I know I probably just ate them with the candy, and didn't know. I gotta iron stomach, so my parents used to tell me......😂

[@synthoelectro]

1977 we heard that endlessly back then.

[@ct3po776]

Yea, 1970 kids rock, cause it helps to remember our age as we get older!😁🤭 2024, yep, I'm 54!

[@jaysw9585]

Blowing into the Nintendo cartridge worked and wasn't a myth. That's one people tried to point at as some sort of thing we were ignorant to of. The Nintendo NES had very had contacts in them and they would collect dust and grim. Blowing was moderately effective because it displaced some of the dust. To really get it to work, you use a q-tip or in my case, wet toilet paper on a butter knife to clean the contacts. At one point, Nintendo sold a cleaning kit that did juat this. The paper would always come back covered in black grim, proving the blowing was warranted, if only slightly effective.

[@matts1978]

The moisture from your breath would dry only to cake on more dirt and dust over time. This trick would get it to play temporarily, but ultimately ended up making the problem much worse. So, it was a myth in the sense that this would fix your game, but in reality, the process was adding to the problem.

[@BIGBamBam86]

Great story bro

[@vistalite-ph4zw]

I had friends that would blow out the cartridge then wave it by their ear, and then it would work. I didn't get the wave the cartridge by the ear thing...😂😂

[@JustMe99999]

It's an urban legend. Google it.

[@noahpartic7586]

Actually... Blowing dust off did work, for awhile anyway.

[@michelleperry-weidner7298]

Blowing in a Nintendo cartridge absolutely worked......

[@heraldomedrano1417]

😂😂😂😂👍🏾💨

[@jamiegoguen7384]

Michael Jackson broke his neck doing the headspin , that I'll never forget

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Jamie!

[@jayalexander3356]

This was a fun one. The razor blades and needles in candy was false, never happened. There was one child poisoned by a pixie stick, but sadly it was his own father who did it for the insurance money.

[@DanielleWhite]

I remember the Pixie Stix story being told as O'Bryan had claimed. It was fascinating to learn the truth years later

[@noahpartic7586]

I remember that story from Adam Ruins Everything last decade. The Dad was tried, convicted & executed for murdering his son.

[@chadhumphries1445]

They are the all false that's the point of the video.

[@jayalexander3356]

​@@chadhumphries1445yes I know that. I only mentioned that the razor blade story was false as that rumor originated out of the pixie stick case, which was in fact true.

[@deacongowan117]

I had it happen to me in Wichita Kansas as a kid in 87 or 88. Made Kake channel 10.

[@AltimaNEO]

Oh man, most of these myths made me laugh thinking about them now. Its been years since Ive heard a lot of these.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching AltimaNEO!

[@andyhaines3062]

This video reminded me of hearing that if you made a rude or funny face too long then your face might stay way. Also if you crossed your eyes then there was a chance they might stay crossed and need surgery to fix it. I also remember that if you chew aluminum foil in the dark you would see sparks.

[@jasondashney]

Somebody had to slap your back when you made that face.

[@WinterInTheForest]

I've been legally insane for some time now

[@synthoelectro]

I have so many memories of early 11 - 15 back in 88 up to 90s

[@nicolerm]

The pee in the pool one, I can confirm, is true! My friend and I were at a pool when we were like 13 or something. We were standing still talking with one another and I had to pee, so I peed. She looked down and then looked at me funny. When I looked down, there was a yellow area in the water around my bottom half. I was so embarrassed! I, honestly, still think about that incident to this day!

[@TM_Stone]

I'm so thankful we have KZbin, Facebook, and the US government to tell us the truth 🤔

[@Richard-or2km]

My sister was so scared to eat maraschino cherries for fear they would stay in her stomach for years 😁 I asked her how that could happen well everything else was digested. I still haven't got an answer yet.😀

[@TammieR-B]

Ahhh. Memories 😂😂😂

[@therewillbecatswithgwenhwyfar]

There's a reason we're not ok. 😅

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Tammie!

[@synthoelectro]

our gen is so warped :D @@therewillbecatswithgwenhwyfar

[@rdaj12]

My Mom was an X-ray technician growing up and I can confirm that parents would bring their kids Halloween candy to have it X-ray'd first. I don't think anything was ever found but the panic was real enough. LOL!

[@ZillaGeek]

My mom was a nurse and we never heard of the x-raying candy myth.

[@rdaj12]

@@ZillaGeek yeah, I'm sure it wasn't everywhere and probably wasn't widespread but our local hospital definitely did. LOL

[@honkytonkinson9787]

Sounds expensive. I wonder if they were just pretending to X-ray the candy

[@rdaj12]

@@honkytonkinson9787 very possible.

[@ChrisRoth1972]

I musta lived under a rock as a Kid to a Teen in the mid 80’s,I remember rumors of Halloween Candy with Poison & The Apples with needles you mentioned,playing a album Backwards,& Bloody Mary which I didn’t have the guts to try. Other than that I never heard of the other.I found it entertaining & interesting. Thank You Rhett!!!!!!!!

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

I always thought the razor blade in the apple had to have come from a true story, but I never saw it happen. I remember as a kid hearing that someone lined a slide in a playground with razors, but I was band from investigating.

[@TheDealRonaldTrump]

That’s literally what he said. The whole point of the video. 🙄

[@jaysw9585]

I was told they were laced with drugs and so never take unsealed candy. Handing out fruit was banned. This one has a basis in reality. When my mother was a teenager, she'd inject alcohol in apples.

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

@jaysw9585 Why would your mother do that?

[@tinastanley4444]

And fill a small pool with alcohol after sliding down razors.

[@floyd27860]

I heard of the Apple. That was around 1988

[@shannondore]

I'm glad I never heard of the spider egg myth with the bubble gum. I really liked that gum.🕷😬 And when I was a kid, there was this old house that everyone said was haunted and a witch lived there. When ever we would come up on it we would run past it in fear that she would get us. It was the only house in the neighborhood that would be completely dark during Halloween. I'm sure she just didn't want to give out candy but as a kid it just reaffirmed the myth making it look like the scariest house on the block.

[@andrewosborne7544]

Your videos bring me so much joy, Thanks for making them! I was laughing good at this video, I remember almost all of these especially the needles in coin slots and D&D being a demonic game

[@JB-gw8ee]

Some of that stuff was what my parents told me just to get me to quit being a pain in the butt.

[@travishendrix7026]

The picture of the microwave I think was taken at my house. This was our first microwave. It was amazing!!

[@RhettyforHistory]

It really was a tough one. Thank you for watching Travis!

[@dozer101308]

Great video. I remember most of these. Nothing has changed. The internet is full of lies. People see memes and assume they're true.

[@inconnu4961]

the best part is: you dont even know what is true and what are lies! LOL

[@girlgamergear3260]

We heard Kings in Satan's Service. Don't forget razor blades or hypodermic needles in the coin return on pay phones.

[@glennso47]

Now there are devices that people can place in the card slot of gas pumps that they can skim your credit card information. Is that a true thing?

[@glennso47]

But people have green hair because they dye it green.

[@girlgamergear3260]

@@glennso47 There has been news reports about the same thing at the Walmart self checkout.

[@ericswires8534]

Teachers and the principal could paddle kids in the 80s and we used to tell other kids the principals paddle had spikes on it. 😂

[@kenb2671]

My elementary school principal’s did.😆👍🏾

[@inconnu4961]

We said our principals paddle had holes drilled in them so they would go faster!

[@ericswires8534]

@@inconnu4961 yeah. Now that you mention that I think that’s what we said as well. Haha

[@RhettyforHistory]

It was always fun to mess with other kids like that. Thank you for watching Eric!

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

​@@inconnu4961Our principal's really did have holes in it. I got paddled on more than 1 occasion with it. I don't think the holes made a difference though. The force was the deciding factor I'm sure.

[@jmcvay12]

the glass/needles in candy goes around every year. One person had a picture of glass in a wrapper, but turned out the candy bucket was near a glass that broke and a piece ended up in the folded part of the wrapper.

[@grumpyoldwizard]

Dang. I heard all of these when I was a kid.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching grumpyoldwizard!

[@Flight777WFS]

Oh my goodness, I flat busted up laughing at several of these. Especially the one about the Satanic cult doing sacrifices in the cemetery outside of town. I remember my cousin telling me that when I went to visit her, and she lived across the street from the cemetery! Your videos always make me want to go back to the 80s. It really was the best decade to grow up in.

[@swansfan6944]

This was great 👍 Rhett. We definitely heard all those rumours here.❤️Jodie 🇦🇺

[@paulstan9828]

👋😁🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and commenting Jodie!

[@whiterabbit-wo7hw]

Hey Jodie, Ralph here. 😊

[@swansfan6944]

@@whiterabbit-wo7hw Hi 👋 Ralph.

[@Madness832]

Maybe not razor blades, but one Halloween, about 40 years ago, I got an apple w/ 50¢ embedded in it. There was a quarter inserted on each side, but I didn't notice the slits 'til I was about to take a bite.

[@RhettyforHistory]

That would have been bad. I haven't heard of that happening before. Thank you for watching!

[@StevesTreasure]

I'm a GenX kid and I've never heard of most of these. lol

[@TeddyStrongBear]

I remember all of the urban myths that the media used to pump out on a daily basis… like the loch ness monster, the goat man, and big foot!!

[@thelorriesweeneyable]

In new england they activate candy and yes, needles were found in apples and chocolate and that was in the nineteen seventy

[@BadWolfWhovian-jx8sp]

I remember most of these! 😂😂😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching BadWolfWhovian-jx8sp!

[@Sarika38]

I remember all of these!😂😂😂 I always thought that it was hilarious that they didn’t think we’d notice razor blades sticking out of our apples and candy!😂

[@plaztik767]

Man you summed up a ton of em. (Memories)

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching plaztik767!

[@ericesquivel5485]

I actually never heard of the black belts having to register their hands😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrSpider182]

I heard that when I was kid in 80’s, 😅😅

[@elultimo102]

I recall it being an option for egomaniacs. Of course, a hand to hand fight could be classed an an ADW and get them jail time.

[@Kdschaak]

What is that KZbin Only annoying graphic supposed to do?

[@MAGronemeyer]

I tend to agree with you! That graphic was getting annoying! That was the first time I noticed it.

[@jbrou123]

There are some low life 'tubers that will steal another's video, redub it in another voice, and repost it to their own channel. That image serves as a water mark to prove that this is Rhetty's video in the event someone steals his content.

[@deheerdeheer]

I was going to ask that. It's very annoying.

[@rob1788]

To keep from copyright strike

[@RhettyforHistory]

Just to keep you all updated. There are some people that are uploading my content on facebook and pretending it is me. I am not on facebook. They are also uploading on Tik Tok and pretending it is me as well. They are also stealing content from my friend over at Recollection Road. It's happening on several accounts and they are asking for money, support or selling cheap chinese products that definitely wouldn't be from me. If these videos appear on anything other than KZbin then it isn't me!

[@paulstan9828]

Ha!!!! All good rumors that I remember hearing. I wonder if they were world wide or just in the US? Hi Jodie!👋😁🇦🇺

[@swansfan6944]

Hi Paul 👋 🇺🇸 The rumours definitely made it all the way to the land Down Under. 😁🇦🇺

[@paulstan9828]

@@swansfan6944 I was wondering. 👋😁🇺🇸

[@RhettyforHistory]

It's very interesting to hear about these making their way into other countries prior to the internet. Thank you for watching Paul!

[@Marinegrunt0311]

I’m a boomer born in 1964 the last year of the boom. Gen X started in 1965 so I consider my borderline.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

To calm my little sister I did the Bloody Mary bit, of course I got killed :-) She never did it at a sleep over to my knowledge, but she wasn't afraid after 9 years old.

[@VickiCampbell-1216]

Hahaha!! Oh boy, do I remember some of these crazy rumors. 😄Many rumors being told were made up by my best friend's older sister. It was always fun to hear what she would reveal b/c it scared us or made us feel grossed out, hahaha!! 😅Thanks, Rhett. Always great content.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Vicki! Sounds like your friend's older sister was a prankster.

[@LouJuan]

Good times!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching LouJuan!

[@monikameza4107]

Always enjoy your great and interesting videos. Thanks Rhetty ❤️

[@RhettyforHistory]

You are welcome and thank you for watching Monika!

[@P-Funk69]

LOL those girls in the Duran Duran outfit was was literally me and my sister. We looked EXACTLY like that.

[@jdsalinger73]

Bless your heart. Yeah, I remember those hats too in about '84. How can a band so cool, have fans so dorky? = )

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching P-Funk69!

[@Tony32]

@@jdsalinger73 It wasn't dorky at the time, it was cool, like wearing jackets with rolled up sleeves Miami Vice style 🤣🤣

[@P-Funk69]

what we were awesome! it was because Duran Duran all wore fedoras, they sold those at the concerts! @@jdsalinger73

[@tabooandexile]

Don’t swim right after eating ‘cause you’ll get a cramp and drown! I heard most of these, or variations of growing up. Hilarious looking back on it now.

[@synthoelectro]

I still believe it, don't swim after eating. But seriously it can give you cramps of some kind.

[@geraldslade2237]

WOW. I forgot about so many of these. Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood❤👍

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Gerald!

[@EclecticDD]

As a GenXer I've heard most of these. I didn't hear the Mr. Roger's one until I was an adult though.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching EclecticDD!

[@samanthab1923]

It’s funny you mentioned the Rod Stewart & Richard Gere ones. They were the first I thought of 😮 I still make my kid watch TV with a light on & tell him not to sit too close. Often heard Coke could remove paint from cars.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Coke has had a lot of uses and rumors about it as well. Thank you for watching Samantha!

[@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653]

Wow I only ever heard 3 of them but I did have a couple of friends over the past 10 years who still think microwave ovens are unsafe I used to stand right in front of the microwave and wait for my food so the next family member wouldn’t have to wait to use the microwave to heat up their dinner

[@salemslotandmore8278]

Thanks for the Video (and memories) 😀

[@FNHot]

The difference is now the "myths" on the internet are truth, and they want to feed you lies. I miss the days when the myths were made up.

[@johnlopez3996]

What about Al Capone's vault? Yes, I remember how some communities would have record album burnings because some artists had specific art or lyrics.

[@TH-hy9kr]

I remember watching Geraldo Rivera and the empty Al Capone's vault with my dad

[@cindyeisenberg3273]

I’m 61 and remember those rumors.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Cindy!

[@robertzenniful]

I remember my mom telling me about sand pockets. If you climb up any mountains in the construction sites, you can fall into a sand pocket.!!!

[@RhettyforHistory]

I haven't heard of that one. Thank you for watching Robert!

[@barb-jm7990]

I think I heard every one of those myths in the middle school that I taught in at the time. lol. There was one more about razor blades- people wearing boots were going to put a razor blade in the front of the toe and kick people with them.

[@radrickdavis]

This one became infamous from the movie Road House with Patrick Swayze. The villain had a hidden blade in the tread of one boot that extended with a click. Why not both?