The Licked Hand

[PPI Tim]

Hey Guys,
Does anyone remember the urban legend of the Licked Hand?
The story goes that
A young girl is left home alone with only her dog to protect her. When night approaches, she locks all the doors and tries to lock all the windows, but one in the basement won't close.
She decides to leave it open, but locks the basement door and goes to bed. Her dog takes its customary place under her bed.

In the deep of night she awakens to a dripping sound coming from the bathroom. The girl is too scared to go check so she reaches her hand under the bed. She feels a reassuring lick from her dog and falls back to sleep. She reawakens to the dripping sound, reaches her hand down to the dog where she feels the reassuring lick and falls back to sleep. Once more, she awakens to the dripping sound. She reaches her hand down and feels the lick of her dog.

Now curious about the dripping sound, she gets up and slowly walks towards the bathroom, the dripping sound getting louder as she approaches. She reaches the bathroom and turns on the light. She is greeted by a horrific sight; hanging from the shower nozzle is her dog with its throat slit open and its blood dripping into the bathtub.

Something on the bathroom mirror catches her eye; she turns around. Written on the bathroom mirror in her dog's blood are the words "HUMANS CAN LICK TOO".
:o

[PPI Jason]

I haven't heard this one, but it sounds similar to some of the other ones I have heard. It's interesting to note that almost all urban legends have some type of cautionary moral to their story. The stories where kids go off necking in the woods usually results in one of them getting killed, the moral being "don't go out and neck in the woods." This story has a similar moral: Lock your doors.

Another interesting similarity I've noticed among many urban legends is that the person violating the moral is usually not the one that gets killed or suffers the most. But that person usually has to watch others that they care about suffer for their mistake. For example, the urban legend about the babysitter who is downstairs alone watching television and keeps getting creepy calls from a stranger. The calls get creepier and creepier until the babysitter calls the cops who trace the call to an upstairs bedroom where the stranger and his murdered victims are. The victims in this legend are the innocent children. The violators are the inattentive babysitter and the parents for leaving the children in her care. All these stories are completely false, of course, but it's interesting to wonder why it is that we as a society tend to come up with such tales and even more interesting to wonder why we sometimes buy into them.

[PPI Tracy]

Thank you, Tim.  That was such a heartwarming story to go with my morning coffee.

[bertalikewhoa]

They did a play on this in the Supernatural episode Family Remains.

(you can watch it here) --->http://0123456789xyz0123456789.blogspot.com/2009/01/supernatural-season-4-episode-11-family.html

The daughter gets a "reassuring lick" from the dog, only to see the dog walk into the room minutes later. Pretty creepy episode actually.

I will slowly convert everyone into being a Supernatural fan. 

[PPI Tim]

I'm already there.
I love the show.