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Does anyone on my flist know someone who knows someone who took LSD and locked a goblin in a cupboard?
I met a girl from Belfast in a bar in Vietnam, and she told me the group of people they'd been travelling with before had bought some mushrooms while they were staying somewhere in Vietnam. They all took some, then most of them decided to call it a night, but one of them finished all of his and everyone else's and wandered out into the night. When they woke up the next morning he was still completely out of it and they asked, "Where were you all night?"
"In the park."
"What were you doing in the park?"
"Talking to a goblin."
"Oh right, where's the goblin now then?"
"Upstairs, in the cupboard."
"What?"
So they go upstairs, and open the cupboard, and inside there's a retarded 10-year-old Vietnamese kid your man had thought was a goblin and brought home with him.
When I was first told this I laughed so hard (I think it was the way Aine told it) I almost passed out. I laughed about it for hours afterwards. I still can't tell it today without cracking up.
But apparently it's an urban legend, and it's usually somewhere in England (especially London), and LSD instead of mushrooms. I only found this out today. I don't care though, I'm still telling it to people because it is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
So I'm wondering, has anyone on my flist heard this story, and have a brother/best mate/uni friend who swears it happened to one of their friends...?
I met a girl from Belfast in a bar in Vietnam, and she told me the group of people they'd been travelling with before had bought some mushrooms while they were staying somewhere in Vietnam. They all took some, then most of them decided to call it a night, but one of them finished all of his and everyone else's and wandered out into the night. When they woke up the next morning he was still completely out of it and they asked, "Where were you all night?"
"In the park."
"What were you doing in the park?"
"Talking to a goblin."
"Oh right, where's the goblin now then?"
"Upstairs, in the cupboard."
"What?"
So they go upstairs, and open the cupboard, and inside there's a retarded 10-year-old Vietnamese kid your man had thought was a goblin and brought home with him.
When I was first told this I laughed so hard (I think it was the way Aine told it) I almost passed out. I laughed about it for hours afterwards. I still can't tell it today without cracking up.
But apparently it's an urban legend, and it's usually somewhere in England (especially London), and LSD instead of mushrooms. I only found this out today. I don't care though, I'm still telling it to people because it is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
So I'm wondering, has anyone on my flist heard this story, and have a brother/best mate/uni friend who swears it happened to one of their friends...?