Silly wabbits...
SA, on her own...
Urban Myths - Watchtower Style
by Dogpatch 20 Replies latest jw friends
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OnTheWayOut
I read the first two, more later.
A DIRT DEVIL!
I had a JW friend in the cleaning business. He wouldn't use a Dirt Devil even though, at the time, they were one of the best lower-cost vacuums- didn't want to stumble anyone. He also had bucket of floorwax and wanted to know if it was a big deal that the name on the bucket had "Wizard" in it and the emblem included a wizard waving his wand- you know.... bcause it's got magic on the label.
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OnTheWayOut
There was a story going around years ago about a Sister who lived in Tennessee, worked the night shift, and walked through a cemetery as a short cut to work. One night, she encountered a "worldly" woman who approached her and asked the sister if she'd escort her through the cemetery, since she was afraid of walking through it alone after dark. The sister replied "Why yes, I'll be happy to walk with you. You know, I used to be afraid of cemeteries too, when I was a part of the world." Whereupon the "worldly" woman fainted unconscious to the ground.
That is such a good one. Ha Ha. I am going to use it at an ex-JW meetup sometime.
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Darth plaugeis
Thanx those were awsome...
just a few I haven't heard before...
Like BrotherDan many of these happened to people I knew LOL.
I wanted to put symbols on my Child Support checks for the Ex.... knowing she would be panicking I was trying to allow Demons access to the house.
I guess I left lots of Demonic things at the house when I moved out! LOL
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Terry
The Assistant Congregation Overseer (circa 1971) told a group of us while out in service that he and another brother called on a house with the Magazine presentation.
The householder directed them to the backyard. The man of the house instructed them that his mother might be interested.
They went around to the back gate and called out. An older woman answered instructing them to open the gate latch and come back into the yard.
The brothers rounded a hedge and saw an old lady holding a chain. The chain attached to a collar. The collar was worn by a.....um.....Goat-shaped demon in human clothes sitting in a rocking chair! (His exact description!)
The old lady told them she had brought a Ouija board into her house and her son had started playing with. Inside of a month her young son had become......this......goat..thing.....!!
She asked them if they could help her.
The brother telling this story said he just turned to his companion and said, "Let's get out of here!" They promptly left.
Great story of Christian heroism and the triumph of Jehovah's power over Satan, eh?
Actually, the story must be true ON SOME LEVEL or else it really would have had some kind of bogus heroic ending.
I think the two brothers probably saw some freak of nature and concocted a scenario out of their discussion with the woman which led to
the unlikely story above told.
The brother's name was Wally Coulter and he was a totally no-bullshit kind of guy. Big fellow. Plumber by trade and a darned fine fellow.
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St George of England
These are funny but what enhances the stories is the 'spelling'!!
FOUL - for chickens
ANGLES - the men standing behind the sister
etc
George
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Ice cream
Crazy!
I've got one. An elder's sister in-law from my last hall bought a second hand ornament from a market stall. She apparently had a 'bad' feeling about it. When she got home she put the ornament down and went upstairs to use the toilet, when she got there staring back at her was Kate Bush's face in the toilet bowl. Apparently Kate Bush is a spiritualist. The woman threw out the ornament and never had any 'problems' since. Hilarious!
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teel
"Why yes, I'll be happy to walk with you. You know, I used to be afraid of cemeteries too, when I was a part of the world."
This is not so much an urban legend, one JW (ex) friend of mine heard something similar from actually the "brothers" who did this. Not sure if they did it on purpose though, if yes, they must be a rather cool JW bunch.
The difference was that they were passing next to a cemetery, where a group of drunken youngsters asked for a light for their smoke. The "brother" said "Sorry, we don't smoke, we're not part of this world".
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LongHairGal
DOGPATCH,
I also heard local stories about demonized second-hand furniture that had to be gotten rid of. Even though I don't want to believe that 'things' or objects are haunted, I suspect they could possibly be and this is why I would rather have something new in my home - or at the very least know who it came from.
Also, I was amused about the story of the very outspoken sister who the disturbed elder waved a shoe at. She didn't listen to their shit and spoke out, so therefore she must be 'demonized'. Whatever.
TERRY,
That is an interesting story about the ouija board. I wasn't raised a JW, by the way. We had one when I was younger (a girl in high school told me she had one and I convinced my Mom to get one). Anyway, me and my Sis played with it a while and then - I never saw it again. I think my Mom threw it out because it gave HER the creeps. She didn't like crucifixes either and took them down when I would put them up. I think they might have reminded her of death because of the image of Jesus.
After hearing your story about what supposedly happened to that guy, I am glad I didn't play with the ouija board for an extended period of time!
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tenyearsafter
These stories remind me of a 1975 TV movie, Trilogy of Terror, that was really creepy. The show was VERY scary at the time I saw it. This movie starred Karen Black and featured a homicidal doll that chased her around the house at night trying to kill her (a la Chuckie). She finally ended up throwing it in the oven as it screamed demonically as it sizzeled. I remember some in my congo (of those who would admit watching it) claim it was based on a true story of demon possession! The sad thing was that I bought it hook, line and sinker!...