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"They're putting litterboxes in the classrooms for the furry kids. My cousin's rooommates's mom works at XYZ school and she said they're really doing that." I've heard it from 3 different people.

At no point during this Rogan Experience fever dream wherein a child in a fursuit poops in a sand box in class did any of these people stop to think that maybe they are just gullible.

That trickle down economics actually works.

That gay men have to wear diapers because they become "loose" and incontinent.

The kids today don't realize how homophobic the 90s and 00s were.

Gangs drive around with their headlights off and then kill the people that flash headlights at them as an initiation.

I have a weird one that haunted expat circles in China in the '00s and deep into the '10s. It has to do with Santa Claus candles.

No, really.

The story went like this: a group of people were in a "western-oriented" restaurant in which each table had these Santa Claus shaped candles. They were there for their weekly get-together but this time they stayed a very long time and the candle burned down to the end. And what did they see at the bottom of the candle? A little metal box with a grill. A microphone! Someone had planted a microphone at their table to spy on them and they caught them in the act!

Now the thing is, the first time I heard this story I heard it as a first-person story. "We" were in a restaurant and "I" saw the electronic module at the bottom of the Santa Claus candle. I was very new to China at the time so I still had my paranoid schizophrenic glasses on and I believed it.

Then, two years later, while I was travelling in a city in another province, I got together with some local expats. Who told the same story to me. Every detail was the same. It was a Santa Claus candle. They'd stayed later than usual. The candle burned down to the point you could see a little metal box with a grill. I did some checking, and there was definitely no link between the people I was talking to and the people who'd first told me the story.

Fast forward another two or three years ... and I get the story again. And again in the same year, different place. And again the next year.

Each time it was a story told in the first person with identical details, told in the same way, with little to no variance. And at no point could I ascertain any link between these people, so this had to have been a story that had been circulating widely for a very long time. Yet each time I encountered it, the story was identical and told as a first-person story, stretching credulity for a large number of reasons.

That chinese strawberries have needles in them so children would eat them and they will puncture their stomachs, because reasons, even though they were turkish strawberries. Also heard similar one but with razors and different food.

That Chicken McNuggets were made of pink slime, including feet, guts, eyeballs, and beaks.

It got so bad the company had to do PR damage control and hire Grant from Mythbusters to go visit Tyson Foods and report back.

Kentucky Fried Chicken had to change their name to KFC because the meat is lab grown and doesn't come from chickens anymore.

That Prince removed two if his ribs so he could fellate himself.

Also my friends friend was playing a ouija board with people and the glass was moving. He was skeptical so asked it to say his older brothers name and it spelled the wrong name. He told his mum and she burst into tears and said he had an older brother who died as a baby.