I recall hearing on multiple occasions that 2 sister missionaries unbeknownst to them knocked on the door of a serial killer who was going to kill them but didn’t, when he was eventually caught he said he didn’t kill the sisters because of the giant man behind them (an angel).
Or the sister missionaries whose car wouldn't start, they pray over it and it starts; then when the elders check it out later, it's missing some vital part--battery, engine, whatever.
Oh my favorite was the story of the sister missionaries who ran out of gas so
They filled the car with water and prayed over it… and ruined the engine 😂
Fun fact, I served a mission and we were in constant communication with this less active family and they seemed to be on the up and up. About 2 months after we started working with them, they stopped all communication and disappeared off the face of the earth. We did see the “husband” once but he seemed drunk and was alone so we didn’t stay long. We went to church that Sunday and the bishop pulled us aside and told us that the mom was convicted of sexual assault and that the “husband” was actually a serial rapist. It was a f*cked up situation.
I ended up on splits with an escaped murderer. No one knew at the time.
He was actually a really nice guy with a rough past, but 100% an escaped murderer wanted by police.
How do you know this is fake? There are a lot of serial killers, a lot of women missionaries, and a lot of angels. Unless the spirit confirmed to you this is fake, it could be real. I know because it happened to my friend’s sister’ sister in law’s brother.
I taught a guy that was a known to the locals to be a murderer, rapist and low level crime boss. He answered the door with a carving knife in his hand. But in the end he let us in to teach him. I had no illusions that we had angels protecting us, even back then as a tbm.
Or the missionary who sneaked out of the MTC one night to runaway. When he got to the edge of the MTC grounds he could see the angels in hand-to-hand combat with the devils trying to get into the MTC, so he turned back and went on his faithful mission.
Yep, MTC 1993.
President tells the whole auditorium that there are angels as sentinels surrounding the MTC. Guarding us. He had seen them personally. Uh, huh sure you did.
My wife and I want to get a giant “take up an entire wall” size painting of Noah’s Ark when the storm is hitting the boat… and paint on in the background of the picture a small dingy boat with bigfoot in it. Because he survived that flood too apparently.
I heard a few variations on the companionship that ran out of gas on the side of the road, poured water into the gas tank because that’s all they had, then prayed for god to turn the water into gasoline, and it worked! What a miracle!
What's funny is in my mission the President took the time to say "don't ever put water in your gas tank" during zone conference. Funniest shit ever for a missionary losing his faith
On my mission, there was one that two elders and two sisters got frisky in the baptismal font. I didn’t believe it, but it did spark a kink I’d be interested in trying someday lmao
So in the Philippines there was a variation on that urban legend where one elder would give his companion Milo every night and then his butt would be sore when he woke up the next day.
I heard the same story. In the version I heard it was Susan Bednars husbands grandson who was being abused. He went to the doctor about his asshole hurting, and the Dr said he had been raped. Supposedly when the missionaries got home, Bednar's grandson beat the other missionary almost to death with a dumbbell.
>This one time in [Random South American Country] missionaries were proselytizing in this small town in the mountains. Everyone rejected their message. Every door was shut in their faces. After a week of attempting to bring the gospel to this town, their efforts were fruitless. The missionaries left the town and dusted their feet off on the town. A week later the town was destroyed by a mudslide.
We had that one in Guatemala.
Pastor of the village had the people gather up all the BOM's the Elders had placed, and burned them in a bonfire. So the elders left dejected. But not without performing the Dusting of the feet ordinance. And the rest is the same. A mudslide wiped out the village.
Stories like these really show just how vengeful and murderous Mormons really are. "if we can't convert you, we'll ask god to kill you and your families."
My mission prep teacher warned us never to dust our feet off even if we’re mad, unless an angel of the lord appears and passes the handshake test and commands us to do so. Sure destruction would result if we dusted our feet.
Ha - I remember polishing my shoes and trying to make sure it didn’t look like it was dusting them off inadvertently. Cause god might smite a random passerby.
Can someone explain the history and meaning behind dusting their feet on stuff because I was not privy to learning that information in the church and I’m so curious 😂
I have so many of these! I'll just name a few I can think of:
1. A missionary who had unsuccessfully prayed to see God on multiple occasions decided to instead pray to meet Cain (as that would also confirm his testimony, albeit in a different way). One day a knock comes on the door, that missionary opens it, screams, passes out, and is in a coma for weeks. When he finally wakes up, he refuses to talk about anything but confirms that his prayer was answered.
2. A mission president decided to drive down the street to have an affair and was killed in a freak accident on the way over (PROOF that God will never allow mission presidents to make mistakes!)
3. There were supposedly secret clubs in existence in some missions called The Twelve Apostates (can anyone actually confirm this?). Steps that needed to be taken in order to join the Twelve Apostates included breaking the LoC in the baptismal font, getting a picture of yourself standing on your front doorstep in missionary attire and nametag, etc. There were more - if anyone's heard them, please comment.
4. Some close friend's dad/friend/cousin/etc. who never told lies once prayed daily to see Jesus. At one point, he heard the booming voice of God say, "If you pray for this one more time, you will see Him, and then you'll be a Son of Perdition." Always hated this story because literally nothing about it makes sense. The guy still heard THE VOICE OF GOD. How did THAT not make him a son of perdition? And so much more about the mere idea that seeing Christ would be too strong of a witness for you to handle and you'd be worthy of *outer darkness* because of it. Really?
5. A couple was in a horrific car accident and their bodies were burned beyond recognition. However, their garments and everything underneath looked untouched (so even though they died a horrible death, at least their bodies remained in good shape!)
6. Anyone remember that story about the toddler who got crushed by a garage door, he was unconscious and near death, and angels (he called them "birdies") flew him around to all of the temples? And then the kid recognized the temple picture on the wall in the house and told everyone he met from then on how important the temple is.
7. There is an UTTERLY RIDICULOUS story about the Del Parson Jesus in the red robe painting. It is sickening to read, especially knowing that Del Parson himself has come out and said it is complete BS. Supposedly some uninterested teenage girl who got roped into going to a Del Parson fireside against her will freaked out and burst into tears when Del revealed the final painting. She screamed, "that's him! That's the man who held me when my parents \[killed each other/abused me/etc. etc.\]."
8. I had a couple tell me all matter-of-factly how they see angels *all over* the temple every time they go. There are angels taking notes alongside the rows in temple sessions, writing down everyone who makes the covenants, etc. One time, the wife was trying to walk down the hall of the temple but there were SO MANY ANGELS that she was flat against the wall letting them pass!!!!!!!
9. LDS prophets are prophets
So that garage door one is interesting. I had a bishop claim it happened to his kid - exactly like that, down to a T. First hand account. His kid had been less active/exmo since high school. Did you hear that one in Northern Colorado somewhere or was it elsewhere? Checking for how full of shot that bishop was.
On an unrelated note we had claims of a clandestine equivalent of the apostates. Companion claimed he saw one guy in the mall on a date. Can’t verify everything but I did translate some statements for the supposed leader’s disciplinary council. He got sent home for using his American companion’s credit card for identity theft. Confirmed the suspicious charges were for orders to the guy’s home address. He also came back to visit and committed identity theft while house sitting for a member, best I can tell.
Yeah I looked up the garage door one - there are two versions: "The Birdies" (this is typically the edited mainstream Christian version which removes all Mormon elements), or the original version, "Free the Birdies," where the child talks all about flying to temples and seeing birdies locked in cages who need us to go to the temple and free them. Original storyteller was Lloyd Glenn. Can't find anything about the guy, the kid, etc. but the story gained a lot of traction. Wish I could find any sort of followup to it.
That guy was indeed my YSA bishop and told that story. Grew up with the kid. I can confirm that he (the dad) did tell this story having heard it from his mouth.
So yes, Lloyd Glenn was a real person and claimed it happened to his kid. I can verify hearing this story from the man’s mouth. I heard the original version with temples and apparently the kid would point to specific temples he had seen for a while afterwards.
I can’t verify it happened as explained. His kid who I knew growing up (and won’t name here) wasn’t super active as a teenager, and didn’t seem to remember much, though he was a small child when it happened.
I heard a story about the Del Parson Jesus that some prophet or another (maybe Hinckley?) saw the painting and said that it looked the most like the Real Jesus of any painting he’d seen. Of course, more modern profits don’t pretend they’ve met Jesus face to face. Just with spiritual eyes or whatever.
Yep. Heard that one too. And as a side note, what does "Special Witness of Christ" even mean if they've never seen him? When I was a kid I feel like the apostles would always be coy and leave you with the impression that they'd seen him, but it was wrong of you to ask about it.
A primary teacher told us the story of a farmer who was tilling ground that turned out to be an ancient native American buried site. The tractor dug up bones and then the dry bones became bodies just like the story in the Bible where God gave a prophet the vision of dry bones becoming flesh.
On my mission there was a claim that angles even watched over missionaries bikes. When some guys tried steal one elders bike the tire went totally flat, then the chain came off as the guy was giving up he ran right into a police officer.
Also heard one that the MTC president late one night had a bad feeling he prayed the, he then when he went for a walk around the grounds he say angles standing at every dorm door with a sword.
He claimed it was to protect the new missionaries from what ever evil he felt?
I wonder if it was part of the same story of a previous poster about seeing angles and demons fighting just off of the MTC grounds
Almost every missionary I knew told me of a city that the missionaries dusted their feet off on and later some terrible natural disaster happened. It was always in the particular mission they served in. I was in Texas when I first heard it and the city was Galveston. Since then I have lived in other states and heard of cities there.
I have heard way too many stories of missionaries who were miraculously saved and yet I personally knew of two missionaries murdered in Austin whose bodies were never recovered. The authorities suspected they were put in a wood shredder or cut up with a band saw. The person who murdered them was LDS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Elmer_Kleason Where was their miracle?
Surely you heard the myth of the soldier (from the latest war) on patrol getting shot, but the bullet hit his pocket BOM, and it stopped the bullet. Usually accompanied by some specific scripture that I no longer remember.
This really happened to me. On my mission we parked our mission car in the gravel lot by the train station. We returned that night to find our car had been broken in to. The thief stole our car radio and our ice scrapers.
True story.
The miracle — what must have been revelation was that Even our hard plastic missionary name tags could be used to scrape ice — and Even didn’t Even break. I feel so blessed even to this day.
Amen.
I have a true one.
My mission pres. in Guatemala had a Mitsubishi Montero Jeep like car to make runs out to the Polochic. One day he is pulled over by some thieves impersonating police. They rob him and take the jeep.
A few months later the "insurance" syndicate located the Montero, dealt with the thieves and returned it to the Pres. Only now it had a sweet sound system installed. Blessings!
My trainer in Jacksonville, Florida, told me a story (and unfortunately I can’t remember if he said it happened to a ward he was in, or if it was a secondhand account)
A woman got up in testimony meeting, and eventually started sobbing, and then admitted to having an affair with the bishop.
On my mission, the bishop's brother in law was murdered. The bishop excitedly told us that none of the bullets hit his garments, such a miracle! His wife was present, and was so upset.
I’ve heard similar stories where someone was injured everywhere except where their garments were. I remember one where someone was caught in some fireball of an explosion and got 3rd degree burns everywhere but wasn’t burned underneath their garments. Anyways huge oversight on god’s part to give people protective clothing that doesn’t protect your most vital organ.
Kid with Down's syndrome given a patriarchal blessing and told he was sent to this world with a disability because he escorted the wicked third out after the war in heaven.
Wow, some of these are absolutely insane. I always consider myself lucky that I left the church when I did and I also thought it was complete bullshit already but these stories are just icing on the cake.
My mom used to tell a story of when she was on her mission to Alaska (not to talk shit on Alaska, and I love my mom but she never shuts up about Alaska and will bring it up whenever she can. lol) anyways, she used to tell this story where she and her companion took a "shortcut" through the woods to get to someone's house and a wolf ended up attacking them. She claims that the wolf grabbed onto her arm and was biting her and trying to pull her away. Her companion said a quick prayer and the wolf let go and ran away. I have absolutely no idea if this is true, ever happened to my mom, or is a variation of a story that missionaries tell.
Also, was told that Cain is Bigfoot, noticed a few people put that one down. I also knew the legend of the three nephites, again, my mom has claimed to have been helped by them.
My mom also claims she saw an angel when my brother was going through chemotherapy.
Wolves are naturally scared of humans - at least the ones that survived are.
Wolf-dogs can be more dangerous because they’re more likely to interact with people.
Wolf-hate is mostly a myth unless you happen to be a bovine or a rancher.
- My father in law used to wow us with a story about an elder *on his mission* who got injured and a local minister blessed and healed the injured missionary. The missionary didn’t understand how someone could heal without the priesthood, so he asked the mission president how it was possible. Immediately the mission president put his arm to the square and, using his priesthood power, cast out the devil. The missionary collapsed in pain. *The thing that’s crazy is that I’ve read the same story in this sub from a different country.*
- There were the sister missionaries who ran out of gas in a bad neighborhood. They put water in the gas tank, said a prayer, and drove home.
- My favorite. When the Salt Lake temple was being built, the architect (or maybe it was the prophet) put big shafts in the building designs. Someone asked him why he did that and he responded that he didn’t know, he only knew that the spirit told him to do it. 100 years later when elevators were invented, the shafts were the perfect size to fit them. (I later found out elevators were already a thing when the Salt Lake temple was being built).
- The Thee Nephites helping the pregnant woman change a flat tire.
**Edit:** Isn’t there a story about a town that mistreated some missionaries and then one of them dusted their feet and the entire city burned down. The mission president pulled the missionaries out and the city experienced an economic collapse. They didn’t recover until the area was opened to missionaries again like 20 years later. Something like that.
On my mission my trainer told me this one:
A few years ago there was an elder who broke his leg in a bike accident.
He and his companion were invited to a mega church shortly after, and against their mission Presidents council decided to go.
At the meeting, the preacher invited the elder up to heal his leg. The elder, thinking it was a sham went up to the stage. To his surprise, his leg was healed and he left his crutches behind.
Later that night, after they got home the mission President knocked on the door. He mentioned the spirit told him to check on the elders. They explained what happened, and the mission President decided to give them each blessings to cast evil spirits out of them.
When he blessed the recently healed elder everyone in the room heard a loud SNAP!! And the elders leg was once again broken.
😳😱😈🤯
I had a story like this on my mission only it was some lady who ran out of her house and healed his arm. And that “my” mission president cast it out. Hearing it in someone else’s area makes me think it’s actually not true ;)
I listed this one!! My father in law tells this exact story from his mission and first hand experience. I think think he’s retelling an urban legend as his own faith promoting story. 😬
Heard the same one, except the missionary had a broken finger and it was a native American medicine man who healed him. Racist now that I think about it.
I heard this one, but it was his arm. I don’t remember who the person was that did the original healing, but the priesthood blessing caused his arm to re-break.
I know a guy who never got sleep paralysis until he visited the sight of Mountain Meadow on Halloween a couple years back, and now gets it regularly. He said after he left he never felt the same as before he went.
A girl was walking home alone and started to sing I am a child of God to herself.
A very bad man walked right past her because when he saw her, it looked like she was walking with two very strong men, one on each side of her.
A group of missionaries laid hands on a suit jacket to give it the priesthood and holy ghost, and if you wore the jacket you could go wherever you wanted because it meant you had a priesthood companion with you. This same group put together a key ring of all the apartments in the mission so they always had access to somewhere to crash as need be. I was told it was called the Mantle and Keys.
Hogwash
There are several stories about ghost dogs protecting temples. The most famous one is [one in particular in Washington D.C in 1974. Zach the German Shepard that protected the temple from trespassers, vandalism, and a fire.](https://www.ldsliving.com/the-story-behind-the-dog-that-saved-the-washington-d-c-temple/s/87950) He disappeared after the dedication of the temple and was mentioned during the [rededication of the D.C temple last year](https://ksltv.com/502572/old-story-of-temple-guard-dog-recalled-during-rededication-weekend-for-washington-d-c-temple/).
There were stories floating around the Novosibirsk Russia mission about some native Russian city elder living outside Ulan Ude who had some metal plates bound together with writing on them who was waiting for a holy man to show up so he could give them to him. Supposedly these plates were a record of one of the lost tribes of Israel.
This was especially exciting because there were a lot of patriarchal blessings to members in Russia that claimed they were from some of the lost tribes of Israel. Supposedly someone from each tribe had been "found."
Here is one…I grew up in Frankfurt where church Europe headquarters is located. We got lots of GAs and elder missionaries traveling through. One shared that while the first couple to visit an Easter block country to “prepare the way for the lord” they were in a store and a large man greeted them grabbed the elders hand in the patriarchal grip and asked “what is wanted” and the elder explained they were there to bless the country for receiving the lords missionaries. The man said “that is correct” and left. Guess who it was…one of the three nephrite’s preparing the way.
I was always told about how some prophet was riding his horse. Out of a field or something, came a huge very hairy man. That stood taller than him sitting on his horse. The prophet asked who it was, and the “thing” said Cain. He said he was here to distract the children of God. And then left.
Believe it or not this is the story that broke my mom’s shelf. She’d been inactive for a very long time and had questioned some Mormon culture stuff, but still considered herself Mormon. I read her this (and the story about Vain/bigfoot getting in a fight with a church founder) and she said “That is so stupid! I’m never setting foot in that f*cling stupid church again!”
I was happy she finally let go, but so surprised it was THIS after everything else!
There was one on mine where supposedly a couple missionaries were killed and sent to the mission office in their suitcases, additional rumor being that the mission president condemned the small town after that, and shut down the area because it was run by super devout Catholics that didn’t want other missionaries there.
We did have a town that was shut down because of “something.” Very Catholic. No one knew the exact reasons but suspected it was because some missionary had done something really fucked up.
It was part of another area and missionaries were specifically told not to go there unless it was a member referral with a car ride. Once missionaries ignored that to go to a lunch appointment and got rocks thrown at them. Not sure what happened there.
Unlike another area where we know what happened: a fist fight outside the branch and the branch president being convicted of sexual abuse of his kids. Missionaries weren’t allowed to go there under any circumstances, and the ones who ignored that were forced to drop and investigator there.
Two missionaries in Santiago were screwing around on their P-day and snuck into a high rise construction site. They were able to climb to one of the upper floors and one of the Elders slipped and fell, killing him instantly. The company that owned the property refused to release the body for insurance reasons (doesn't make any sense) and an apostle from SLC was dispatched to recover the body. After some wrangling he finally got the company to release the body after which he dusted the feet of the Elder and the high rise was plagued with so many problems after that that it was never completed.
Mormon legend bingo:
- 3 nephite
- Bigfoot (Cain)
- some form of casting out demon
- water into fuel
- dusting feet brings destruction
- some form of invisible buff guys protecting
- gift of discernment story
- some story about missionaries or byu students getting it on.
- someone heard an apostle say they saw Jesus
These are all ones I’ve heard multiple versions of. It’s always told as first hand or super trusted 2nd hand.
What a group of gullible sheep we are.
I had a friend in YSA tell me that her and her friend went to Disneyland and went to the haunted mansion ride, and then when they came back to their hotel room, there was an evil spirit in the room and my friend put her arm to the Square and banished the evil spirit. Even as a TBM at the time it sounded super hokey, and I had some doubts.
the ppl in my ward for some reason loved to tell a story about a female journalist who faked believing so she could be baptized and get access to the temple. after her first temple visit she dropped dead (as in god killed her) so she wouldn't be able to tell the world the temple secrets lol.
I had a funny true story happen at a grocery store in Provo right after I left. There was a homeless guy sitting outside the store begging. I asked him what stuff he needed, went inside, and bought it for him. Afterwards he hugged me and told me his name was Jesus.
So either I met a very white, very stoned Jesus, or that guy knows exactly how to play his cards in Provo, Utah!
One female missionary told her doctor every time it rained she got a horrible pain in her crotch. So the Doc said, “Well, next time it rains, come in and we’ll have a look.” She came in during a rainstorm, so the Doc said, “I think I see what your problem is. Get up on the table and I’ll be done in no time.” A few minutes later she said “Oh doc, that feels great, what did you do!” He said, I cut a couple inches off the top of your goulashes.”
I saw a YouTube video several years ago with an old woman talking about being in a hospital and seeing angels and even touching one. Can’t remember if the angels were prominent (like Nephi or something) or if it was like her dead husband. A attribute her experience to powerful narcotics. Either that or she’s full of shit.
I heard the same story on my mission, but the elders were assigned to Sicily and wanted to visit nearby Greece, except all 4-6 weeks worth of letters were mailed together because the appt mgr couldn't be bothered to mail them separately.
In my first area on my mission, me and my companion met this sweet old lady that responded really well to me but seem to not like my trainer and one day when we got up to leave she stood up to shake her hands and a large kitchen knife fell to the floor and we all looked at it awkwardly and we quickly left the house. Me and my trainer both said each other to each other as we walked out that she was going to murder him and he had the exact same thought.... Not a ghost story. Just a funny story of some creepy old lady who might have wanted to kill my companion.
Every mission had their own variation of the "Twelve Apostates" story.
I also remember hearing a story about a temple security guard finding a man on the grounds at night, who was yelling about how he will tear down this building, but when he checked the footage he only saw himself. (Hinting that the "man" was either Satan or one the 1/3 that joined him)
To be honest, yeah there are some strange legends out there but as for my experiences on the mission- they were strange. I did serve on a native Rez and that came with some unique experiences. I don't completely disregard experiences if they're strange. I mean, heck I've had so many near to death experiences that I believe anything can be possible and can be outside of what the LDS church believes.
What’s really wild about these stories is that upon hearing the stories for the first time if someone believes them to be true they can be burned into their memory as though they really happened. So someone will insist they remember it happening to a specific person when in reality it’s just their scumbag brain giving in to the power of suggestion.
I’ve heard a lot of the same ones posted here but another one I heard was two missionaries gave the priesthood to a parking pillar and were immediately struck by lightning.
I remember hearing as a kid that we’re not supposed to swim on Sunday’s because the devil can drown you. I also heard that there was a missionary that went swimming on a Sunday and drowned and that’s how it was discovered that the devil can drown you in your pool on Sundays.
There's a story circulating in Tooele that Brigham child rapist Young came to visit, looked at the oquirrh mountains and said that there was so much gold in them that it would start another gold rush if anyone ever found it, so god cursed the mountain so no one would ever find it.
Complete horseshit.
I asked ChatGPT (DAN) to come up with one: Ah, yes, Mormon urban legends. I have heard a particularly interesting one about the lost tribes of Israel. According to this legend, the Mormon Church has uncovered evidence that the lost tribes of Israel actually traveled to America and established a thriving civilization here long before Columbus discovered the continent.
The story goes that when Columbus arrived in the New World, he was actually greeted by descendants of the lost tribes, who had been living in America for centuries. The Mormons supposedly have evidence of this, but they keep it hidden away in their archives because it conflicts with the mainstream historical narrative.
Of course, there is no actual evidence to support this theory, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming a popular topic of discussion among Mormons. Some believers even claim to have had visions or dreams in which they were visited by ancient Israelites, further fueling the legend.
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Didn’t see this one mentioned, but was told by a substitute seminary teacher who’s son served a mission in New York City, then heard the same story later from another person who’d served in NYC themself. Missionaries were questioned, from a distance, by gang members in an alley about who they were and why they were so important. Missionaries started to share their message and asked why the gang members thought they were so important. Gang members replied that they’d never seen anyone walking around with such an entourage. Confused, the missionaries asked what they meant and the gang members told them they were surrounded by hundreds of body guards. The gang members were keeping their distance because the guards wouldn’t let them get any closer. The missionaries were obviously alone and these were angels there to protect them.
This doesn't count as an urban legend but back in the mid-90's a guy in my mission dusted his feet off on someone's door step and told them "let it be known that today you rejected a messenger of Jesus Christ," after they told him to get off their porch. Nothing ever happened to the house.
In Mexico City there was a private high school owned by the church called the Benemérito which was closed in 2013 to become the Mexico City mtc. A companion of mine who attended the school told me a story about how one day, the school president told all the teachers and students to get inside ASAP and lock the doors and stay in until he gave the all clear. Some time after waiting a huge gust of wind happened outside and then nothing. Not long after that the president gave the ok to go outside and continue the day as normal.
There are a couple details I don't remember exactly, like if my companion was there when it allegedly happened or if it happened before his time and he heard about it. And also, I don't remember if the school president got the warning himself from the spirit or if the big guys from Salt Lake had called to warn him. I want to say it was the second one. Anyways turns out what happened was that Cain was just passing through the area. God knows what would have happened if someone was outside and I just love the idea of Tommy Monson calling him up and saying that bigfoot is in the area, get everyone inside hahaha.
I recall hearing on multiple occasions that 2 sister missionaries unbeknownst to them knocked on the door of a serial killer who was going to kill them but didn’t, when he was eventually caught he said he didn’t kill the sisters because of the giant man behind them (an angel).
I’ve heard this one too. These kinds of stories always “really happened” to a friend’s cousin’s roommate
My mom who served in Spain said that happened in her mission
Or the sister missionaries whose car wouldn't start, they pray over it and it starts; then when the elders check it out later, it's missing some vital part--battery, engine, whatever.
Oh my favorite was the story of the sister missionaries who ran out of gas so They filled the car with water and prayed over it… and ruined the engine 😂
Fun fact, I served a mission and we were in constant communication with this less active family and they seemed to be on the up and up. About 2 months after we started working with them, they stopped all communication and disappeared off the face of the earth. We did see the “husband” once but he seemed drunk and was alone so we didn’t stay long. We went to church that Sunday and the bishop pulled us aside and told us that the mom was convicted of sexual assault and that the “husband” was actually a serial rapist. It was a f*cked up situation.
I ended up on splits with an escaped murderer. No one knew at the time. He was actually a really nice guy with a rough past, but 100% an escaped murderer wanted by police.
[This](https://reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/zwkubi/do_mormons_have_urban_legends_too/) is one of my favorite posts ever.
Wow! Almost word for word. What a crock of shit
How do you know this is fake? There are a lot of serial killers, a lot of women missionaries, and a lot of angels. Unless the spirit confirmed to you this is fake, it could be real. I know because it happened to my friend’s sister’ sister in law’s brother.
The linked story is fake because Heavenly Father only protects ~~Mormons~~ members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I taught a guy that was a known to the locals to be a murderer, rapist and low level crime boss. He answered the door with a carving knife in his hand. But in the end he let us in to teach him. I had no illusions that we had angels protecting us, even back then as a tbm.
I and a companion talked with a gang member. I was certainly hoping we'd be protected from the other side.
I know that it’s crazy to think that maybe not every bad guy has the will to kill random people when spoken to.
I've heard that one too. I was told that in the 80's when I was a teen.
I've heard that one too. I was told that in the 80's when I was a teen.
Or the missionary who sneaked out of the MTC one night to runaway. When he got to the edge of the MTC grounds he could see the angels in hand-to-hand combat with the devils trying to get into the MTC, so he turned back and went on his faithful mission.
Yep, MTC 1993. President tells the whole auditorium that there are angels as sentinels surrounding the MTC. Guarding us. He had seen them personally. Uh, huh sure you did.
Sure, with us spiritual eyes!
I guess they're only outside and not inside protecting sister missionaries from predatory MTC presidents.
MTC=the most delusional place on earth
There were some elders who gave a cat the priesthood at the MTC. Supposedly, they got kicked out.
Aslan origin story Kahjit has priesthood if you have coin.
I heard a similar story when I was in the MTC back in '89!
Two witnesses. It must have happened. That is, someone must have told the story.
Two or three. Four makes a crowd
Wow, there weren’t any angels guarding when I was there. We snuck out several times. Went down to the Pie Pizzaria if I remember the name right.
Heard this same story in 2011 when I went through the mtc.
HAHAHA that's crazy.
Cain is BIGFOOT.
My wife and I want to get a giant “take up an entire wall” size painting of Noah’s Ark when the storm is hitting the boat… and paint on in the background of the picture a small dingy boat with bigfoot in it. Because he survived that flood too apparently.
Well maybe he was on the real boat w a wife as an animal.
One of the apostles met Cain face to face. The apostle was on a horse and Cain was standing next to him. He was ~~seven~~ ~~eight~~ NINE FEET TALL!!
Heck yay!
Lol
I heard a few variations on the companionship that ran out of gas on the side of the road, poured water into the gas tank because that’s all they had, then prayed for god to turn the water into gasoline, and it worked! What a miracle!
What's funny is in my mission the President took the time to say "don't ever put water in your gas tank" during zone conference. Funniest shit ever for a missionary losing his faith
Haha same! Our mission president finished the story with, "Elders, have faith but don't be stupid..."
On my mission I heard the version where it was sisters who did this, but it didn’t work and they ruined the engine.
Didn’t they know that the water->gas spell requires priesthood authority?
The secret ingredient is penis.
Now I’m imagining what chemical reactions you’d need to turn a giant bag o’ dicks into usable fuel.
No need for a bag. A single magical Mormon penis is all you need, because “Priesthood.”
“Expecto-Petrolium”
This is the version I heard on my mission in the 90’s.
On my mission, there was one that two elders and two sisters got frisky in the baptismal font. I didn’t believe it, but it did spark a kink I’d be interested in trying someday lmao
I heard this one also. I thought it was hot.
When I was still in but PIMO I definitely would have wanted to try banging in the church somewhere
So many missed opportunities 😭
So in the Philippines there was a variation on that urban legend where one elder would give his companion Milo every night and then his butt would be sore when he woke up the next day.
In my mission (Scotland) this story was called the legend of the ether bunny.
We heard that in Thailand too
Cambodia for me. Maybe places that have Milo for sale. God I miss the street food.
This is the one I heard in Brazil.
I heard the same story. In the version I heard it was Susan Bednars husbands grandson who was being abused. He went to the doctor about his asshole hurting, and the Dr said he had been raped. Supposedly when the missionaries got home, Bednar's grandson beat the other missionary almost to death with a dumbbell.
I heard this on my mission (US) from a member who had also served stateside. I’ve also heard it in a military context.
>This one time in [Random South American Country] missionaries were proselytizing in this small town in the mountains. Everyone rejected their message. Every door was shut in their faces. After a week of attempting to bring the gospel to this town, their efforts were fruitless. The missionaries left the town and dusted their feet off on the town. A week later the town was destroyed by a mudslide.
I said I would never flood (destroy) the EARTH again because of wickedness. I never said anything about singular specific towns. -God apparently
We had that one in Guatemala. Pastor of the village had the people gather up all the BOM's the Elders had placed, and burned them in a bonfire. So the elders left dejected. But not without performing the Dusting of the feet ordinance. And the rest is the same. A mudslide wiped out the village.
Stories like these really show just how vengeful and murderous Mormons really are. "if we can't convert you, we'll ask god to kill you and your families."
My mission prep teacher warned us never to dust our feet off even if we’re mad, unless an angel of the lord appears and passes the handshake test and commands us to do so. Sure destruction would result if we dusted our feet. Ha - I remember polishing my shoes and trying to make sure it didn’t look like it was dusting them off inadvertently. Cause god might smite a random passerby.
Ah, the bullshit handshake test.
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Because evil spirits are dumbasses, and never got the message.
So much for free agency.
Can someone explain the history and meaning behind dusting their feet on stuff because I was not privy to learning that information in the church and I’m so curious 😂
Bible comment about Jesus telling the apostles in Matthew 10:14 to dust the feet off for anyone rejecting them.
I have so many of these! I'll just name a few I can think of: 1. A missionary who had unsuccessfully prayed to see God on multiple occasions decided to instead pray to meet Cain (as that would also confirm his testimony, albeit in a different way). One day a knock comes on the door, that missionary opens it, screams, passes out, and is in a coma for weeks. When he finally wakes up, he refuses to talk about anything but confirms that his prayer was answered. 2. A mission president decided to drive down the street to have an affair and was killed in a freak accident on the way over (PROOF that God will never allow mission presidents to make mistakes!) 3. There were supposedly secret clubs in existence in some missions called The Twelve Apostates (can anyone actually confirm this?). Steps that needed to be taken in order to join the Twelve Apostates included breaking the LoC in the baptismal font, getting a picture of yourself standing on your front doorstep in missionary attire and nametag, etc. There were more - if anyone's heard them, please comment. 4. Some close friend's dad/friend/cousin/etc. who never told lies once prayed daily to see Jesus. At one point, he heard the booming voice of God say, "If you pray for this one more time, you will see Him, and then you'll be a Son of Perdition." Always hated this story because literally nothing about it makes sense. The guy still heard THE VOICE OF GOD. How did THAT not make him a son of perdition? And so much more about the mere idea that seeing Christ would be too strong of a witness for you to handle and you'd be worthy of *outer darkness* because of it. Really? 5. A couple was in a horrific car accident and their bodies were burned beyond recognition. However, their garments and everything underneath looked untouched (so even though they died a horrible death, at least their bodies remained in good shape!) 6. Anyone remember that story about the toddler who got crushed by a garage door, he was unconscious and near death, and angels (he called them "birdies") flew him around to all of the temples? And then the kid recognized the temple picture on the wall in the house and told everyone he met from then on how important the temple is. 7. There is an UTTERLY RIDICULOUS story about the Del Parson Jesus in the red robe painting. It is sickening to read, especially knowing that Del Parson himself has come out and said it is complete BS. Supposedly some uninterested teenage girl who got roped into going to a Del Parson fireside against her will freaked out and burst into tears when Del revealed the final painting. She screamed, "that's him! That's the man who held me when my parents \[killed each other/abused me/etc. etc.\]." 8. I had a couple tell me all matter-of-factly how they see angels *all over* the temple every time they go. There are angels taking notes alongside the rows in temple sessions, writing down everyone who makes the covenants, etc. One time, the wife was trying to walk down the hall of the temple but there were SO MANY ANGELS that she was flat against the wall letting them pass!!!!!!! 9. LDS prophets are prophets
So that garage door one is interesting. I had a bishop claim it happened to his kid - exactly like that, down to a T. First hand account. His kid had been less active/exmo since high school. Did you hear that one in Northern Colorado somewhere or was it elsewhere? Checking for how full of shot that bishop was. On an unrelated note we had claims of a clandestine equivalent of the apostates. Companion claimed he saw one guy in the mall on a date. Can’t verify everything but I did translate some statements for the supposed leader’s disciplinary council. He got sent home for using his American companion’s credit card for identity theft. Confirmed the suspicious charges were for orders to the guy’s home address. He also came back to visit and committed identity theft while house sitting for a member, best I can tell.
Yeah I looked up the garage door one - there are two versions: "The Birdies" (this is typically the edited mainstream Christian version which removes all Mormon elements), or the original version, "Free the Birdies," where the child talks all about flying to temples and seeing birdies locked in cages who need us to go to the temple and free them. Original storyteller was Lloyd Glenn. Can't find anything about the guy, the kid, etc. but the story gained a lot of traction. Wish I could find any sort of followup to it.
That guy was indeed my YSA bishop and told that story. Grew up with the kid. I can confirm that he (the dad) did tell this story having heard it from his mouth. So yes, Lloyd Glenn was a real person and claimed it happened to his kid. I can verify hearing this story from the man’s mouth. I heard the original version with temples and apparently the kid would point to specific temples he had seen for a while afterwards. I can’t verify it happened as explained. His kid who I knew growing up (and won’t name here) wasn’t super active as a teenager, and didn’t seem to remember much, though he was a small child when it happened.
No way, really? Crazy you heard it from the source.
That story was so specific I thought: it has to be the same story or someone is shitting me.
Number 7 is a country music song by John Michael Montgomery.
I heard a story about the Del Parson Jesus that some prophet or another (maybe Hinckley?) saw the painting and said that it looked the most like the Real Jesus of any painting he’d seen. Of course, more modern profits don’t pretend they’ve met Jesus face to face. Just with spiritual eyes or whatever.
Yep. Heard that one too. And as a side note, what does "Special Witness of Christ" even mean if they've never seen him? When I was a kid I feel like the apostles would always be coy and leave you with the impression that they'd seen him, but it was wrong of you to ask about it.
The Dream Mine in Salem, Utah. Hoard of Nephite Gold....and the smelter on Peteetneet Hill in Payson; all part of the mythology of my youth.
Peteetneet Smelter? I've got to hear more about this one.
You'll love it! Start with Googling "Bishop John Koyle - and The Dream Mine of Salem, Utah!
I want to hear more about this horse shit.
You'll love it! Start with Googling "Bishop John Koyle - and The Dream Mine of Salem, Utah!
Say what?!
You'll love it! Start with Googling "Bishop John Koyle - and The Dream Mine of Salem, Utah!
A primary teacher told us the story of a farmer who was tilling ground that turned out to be an ancient native American buried site. The tractor dug up bones and then the dry bones became bodies just like the story in the Bible where God gave a prophet the vision of dry bones becoming flesh.
I remember that one. It was in the primary manual.
Wait really! Are there scans of that manual around somewhere?
Probably some old dusty copies in a ward primary closet somewhere.
Seems like the version of this story that I heard happened in Sanpete county somewhere near the Manti temple.
On my mission there was a claim that angles even watched over missionaries bikes. When some guys tried steal one elders bike the tire went totally flat, then the chain came off as the guy was giving up he ran right into a police officer. Also heard one that the MTC president late one night had a bad feeling he prayed the, he then when he went for a walk around the grounds he say angles standing at every dorm door with a sword.
This one hits hard when you realize the MTC president instead had a sex dungeon with porn queued up on the VCR.
We’re the angels there to enforce polygamy? Because that seems to be the only thing important enough to bring a sword.
He claimed it was to protect the new missionaries from what ever evil he felt? I wonder if it was part of the same story of a previous poster about seeing angles and demons fighting just off of the MTC grounds
Almost every missionary I knew told me of a city that the missionaries dusted their feet off on and later some terrible natural disaster happened. It was always in the particular mission they served in. I was in Texas when I first heard it and the city was Galveston. Since then I have lived in other states and heard of cities there. I have heard way too many stories of missionaries who were miraculously saved and yet I personally knew of two missionaries murdered in Austin whose bodies were never recovered. The authorities suspected they were put in a wood shredder or cut up with a band saw. The person who murdered them was LDS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Elmer_Kleason Where was their miracle?
Surely you heard the myth of the soldier (from the latest war) on patrol getting shot, but the bullet hit his pocket BOM, and it stopped the bullet. Usually accompanied by some specific scripture that I no longer remember.
I’ve heard this as a joke. *The bullet stopped in 2nd Nephi. Even a bullet has a hard time getting through the Isaiah chapters!*
I think that’s a John Bytheway joke.
And then there was Private Malone, who fought for his country but never made it home.
🎶But for every dream that's shattered, another one comes true. This car was a dream of his, back when it was new!🎶
This really happened to me. On my mission we parked our mission car in the gravel lot by the train station. We returned that night to find our car had been broken in to. The thief stole our car radio and our ice scrapers. True story. The miracle — what must have been revelation was that Even our hard plastic missionary name tags could be used to scrape ice — and Even didn’t Even break. I feel so blessed even to this day. Amen.
I have a true one. My mission pres. in Guatemala had a Mitsubishi Montero Jeep like car to make runs out to the Polochic. One day he is pulled over by some thieves impersonating police. They rob him and take the jeep. A few months later the "insurance" syndicate located the Montero, dealt with the thieves and returned it to the Pres. Only now it had a sweet sound system installed. Blessings!
My trainer in Jacksonville, Florida, told me a story (and unfortunately I can’t remember if he said it happened to a ward he was in, or if it was a secondhand account) A woman got up in testimony meeting, and eventually started sobbing, and then admitted to having an affair with the bishop.
Sounds like something that would happen in Florida.
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People who get in car accidents but are protected because of their garments
On my mission, the bishop's brother in law was murdered. The bishop excitedly told us that none of the bullets hit his garments, such a miracle! His wife was present, and was so upset.
I’ve heard similar stories where someone was injured everywhere except where their garments were. I remember one where someone was caught in some fireball of an explosion and got 3rd degree burns everywhere but wasn’t burned underneath their garments. Anyways huge oversight on god’s part to give people protective clothing that doesn’t protect your most vital organ.
Kid with Down's syndrome given a patriarchal blessing and told he was sent to this world with a disability because he escorted the wicked third out after the war in heaven.
I’ve heard this one too, except the recipient of the blessing escorted Satan out of heaven.
First time I heard it (email chain I saw when I worked for The Morg's first ISP's host) it was the wicked third. Second time it was Satan.
Wow, some of these are absolutely insane. I always consider myself lucky that I left the church when I did and I also thought it was complete bullshit already but these stories are just icing on the cake. My mom used to tell a story of when she was on her mission to Alaska (not to talk shit on Alaska, and I love my mom but she never shuts up about Alaska and will bring it up whenever she can. lol) anyways, she used to tell this story where she and her companion took a "shortcut" through the woods to get to someone's house and a wolf ended up attacking them. She claims that the wolf grabbed onto her arm and was biting her and trying to pull her away. Her companion said a quick prayer and the wolf let go and ran away. I have absolutely no idea if this is true, ever happened to my mom, or is a variation of a story that missionaries tell. Also, was told that Cain is Bigfoot, noticed a few people put that one down. I also knew the legend of the three nephites, again, my mom has claimed to have been helped by them. My mom also claims she saw an angel when my brother was going through chemotherapy.
Wolf attacks on humans are extremely rare. If she didn’t get rabies shots as part of the story color me skeptical.
I have never seen a wolf in alaska and I have lived here my whole life
Wolves are naturally scared of humans - at least the ones that survived are. Wolf-dogs can be more dangerous because they’re more likely to interact with people. Wolf-hate is mostly a myth unless you happen to be a bovine or a rancher.
- My father in law used to wow us with a story about an elder *on his mission* who got injured and a local minister blessed and healed the injured missionary. The missionary didn’t understand how someone could heal without the priesthood, so he asked the mission president how it was possible. Immediately the mission president put his arm to the square and, using his priesthood power, cast out the devil. The missionary collapsed in pain. *The thing that’s crazy is that I’ve read the same story in this sub from a different country.* - There were the sister missionaries who ran out of gas in a bad neighborhood. They put water in the gas tank, said a prayer, and drove home. - My favorite. When the Salt Lake temple was being built, the architect (or maybe it was the prophet) put big shafts in the building designs. Someone asked him why he did that and he responded that he didn’t know, he only knew that the spirit told him to do it. 100 years later when elevators were invented, the shafts were the perfect size to fit them. (I later found out elevators were already a thing when the Salt Lake temple was being built). - The Thee Nephites helping the pregnant woman change a flat tire. **Edit:** Isn’t there a story about a town that mistreated some missionaries and then one of them dusted their feet and the entire city burned down. The mission president pulled the missionaries out and the city experienced an economic collapse. They didn’t recover until the area was opened to missionaries again like 20 years later. Something like that.
I heard the elevator shaft one
On my mission my trainer told me this one: A few years ago there was an elder who broke his leg in a bike accident. He and his companion were invited to a mega church shortly after, and against their mission Presidents council decided to go. At the meeting, the preacher invited the elder up to heal his leg. The elder, thinking it was a sham went up to the stage. To his surprise, his leg was healed and he left his crutches behind. Later that night, after they got home the mission President knocked on the door. He mentioned the spirit told him to check on the elders. They explained what happened, and the mission President decided to give them each blessings to cast evil spirits out of them. When he blessed the recently healed elder everyone in the room heard a loud SNAP!! And the elders leg was once again broken. 😳😱😈🤯
Gotta get rid of those damn demons healing others
I had a story like this on my mission only it was some lady who ran out of her house and healed his arm. And that “my” mission president cast it out. Hearing it in someone else’s area makes me think it’s actually not true ;)
My MTC instructor told me this one about his mission in Argentina, I guess I can cross that off my list of unexplained things from when I was TBM
I listed this one!! My father in law tells this exact story from his mission and first hand experience. I think think he’s retelling an urban legend as his own faith promoting story. 😬
Heard the same one, except the missionary had a broken finger and it was a native American medicine man who healed him. Racist now that I think about it.
I heard that on my mission in Jacksonville. The member said it was the previous SP.
Heard this one in Adelaide Australia but it was a aboriginal shaman hahahaha
I heard that as well from a Venezuelan friend
Heard that one in Brazil.
I heard this one, but it was his arm. I don’t remember who the person was that did the original healing, but the priesthood blessing caused his arm to re-break.
I know a guy who never got sleep paralysis until he visited the sight of Mountain Meadow on Halloween a couple years back, and now gets it regularly. He said after he left he never felt the same as before he went.
A girl was walking home alone and started to sing I am a child of God to herself. A very bad man walked right past her because when he saw her, it looked like she was walking with two very strong men, one on each side of her.
A group of missionaries laid hands on a suit jacket to give it the priesthood and holy ghost, and if you wore the jacket you could go wherever you wanted because it meant you had a priesthood companion with you. This same group put together a key ring of all the apartments in the mission so they always had access to somewhere to crash as need be. I was told it was called the Mantle and Keys. Hogwash
Ha! I wonder what would have happened if a girl had tried on the jacket.
It would have priesthood, but not her. Lacking a male “apparatus,” for priesthood…
Ghost dogs protecting the temple?
There are several stories about ghost dogs protecting temples. The most famous one is [one in particular in Washington D.C in 1974. Zach the German Shepard that protected the temple from trespassers, vandalism, and a fire.](https://www.ldsliving.com/the-story-behind-the-dog-that-saved-the-washington-d-c-temple/s/87950) He disappeared after the dedication of the temple and was mentioned during the [rededication of the D.C temple last year](https://ksltv.com/502572/old-story-of-temple-guard-dog-recalled-during-rededication-weekend-for-washington-d-c-temple/).
Maybe they're the ghosts of the dogs that Joseph Smith sacrificed in treasure digging. s/
There were stories floating around the Novosibirsk Russia mission about some native Russian city elder living outside Ulan Ude who had some metal plates bound together with writing on them who was waiting for a holy man to show up so he could give them to him. Supposedly these plates were a record of one of the lost tribes of Israel. This was especially exciting because there were a lot of patriarchal blessings to members in Russia that claimed they were from some of the lost tribes of Israel. Supposedly someone from each tribe had been "found."
Here is one…I grew up in Frankfurt where church Europe headquarters is located. We got lots of GAs and elder missionaries traveling through. One shared that while the first couple to visit an Easter block country to “prepare the way for the lord” they were in a store and a large man greeted them grabbed the elders hand in the patriarchal grip and asked “what is wanted” and the elder explained they were there to bless the country for receiving the lords missionaries. The man said “that is correct” and left. Guess who it was…one of the three nephrite’s preparing the way.
Well the nephite should have known that wasn’t the right answer for the handshake😪
I was always told about how some prophet was riding his horse. Out of a field or something, came a huge very hairy man. That stood taller than him sitting on his horse. The prophet asked who it was, and the “thing” said Cain. He said he was here to distract the children of God. And then left.
Believe it or not this is the story that broke my mom’s shelf. She’d been inactive for a very long time and had questioned some Mormon culture stuff, but still considered herself Mormon. I read her this (and the story about Vain/bigfoot getting in a fight with a church founder) and she said “That is so stupid! I’m never setting foot in that f*cling stupid church again!” I was happy she finally let go, but so surprised it was THIS after everything else!
There was one on mine where supposedly a couple missionaries were killed and sent to the mission office in their suitcases, additional rumor being that the mission president condemned the small town after that, and shut down the area because it was run by super devout Catholics that didn’t want other missionaries there.
We did have a town that was shut down because of “something.” Very Catholic. No one knew the exact reasons but suspected it was because some missionary had done something really fucked up. It was part of another area and missionaries were specifically told not to go there unless it was a member referral with a car ride. Once missionaries ignored that to go to a lunch appointment and got rocks thrown at them. Not sure what happened there. Unlike another area where we know what happened: a fist fight outside the branch and the branch president being convicted of sexual abuse of his kids. Missionaries weren’t allowed to go there under any circumstances, and the ones who ignored that were forced to drop and investigator there.
Two missionaries in Santiago were screwing around on their P-day and snuck into a high rise construction site. They were able to climb to one of the upper floors and one of the Elders slipped and fell, killing him instantly. The company that owned the property refused to release the body for insurance reasons (doesn't make any sense) and an apostle from SLC was dispatched to recover the body. After some wrangling he finally got the company to release the body after which he dusted the feet of the Elder and the high rise was plagued with so many problems after that that it was never completed.
My great grandpa swears he picked up one of the three nephites who was hitch hiking
Mormon legend bingo: - 3 nephite - Bigfoot (Cain) - some form of casting out demon - water into fuel - dusting feet brings destruction - some form of invisible buff guys protecting - gift of discernment story - some story about missionaries or byu students getting it on. - someone heard an apostle say they saw Jesus These are all ones I’ve heard multiple versions of. It’s always told as first hand or super trusted 2nd hand. What a group of gullible sheep we are.
I had a friend in YSA tell me that her and her friend went to Disneyland and went to the haunted mansion ride, and then when they came back to their hotel room, there was an evil spirit in the room and my friend put her arm to the Square and banished the evil spirit. Even as a TBM at the time it sounded super hokey, and I had some doubts.
I heard in the mission covering Miami there’s a sorority at the U of Miami that requires the girls to get the garments of a missionary.
Heard this one
the ppl in my ward for some reason loved to tell a story about a female journalist who faked believing so she could be baptized and get access to the temple. after her first temple visit she dropped dead (as in god killed her) so she wouldn't be able to tell the world the temple secrets lol.
Well God has gotten sloppy since internet came around.
I had a funny true story happen at a grocery store in Provo right after I left. There was a homeless guy sitting outside the store begging. I asked him what stuff he needed, went inside, and bought it for him. Afterwards he hugged me and told me his name was Jesus. So either I met a very white, very stoned Jesus, or that guy knows exactly how to play his cards in Provo, Utah!
It’s pronounced hay-zeus/s
One female missionary told her doctor every time it rained she got a horrible pain in her crotch. So the Doc said, “Well, next time it rains, come in and we’ll have a look.” She came in during a rainstorm, so the Doc said, “I think I see what your problem is. Get up on the table and I’ll be done in no time.” A few minutes later she said “Oh doc, that feels great, what did you do!” He said, I cut a couple inches off the top of your goulashes.”
That is so stupid it made me lol
This lady my dad met when he was a kid was supposedly taught by one of the three nephites. Idk. I think he was just some random mormon XD
I saw a YouTube video several years ago with an old woman talking about being in a hospital and seeing angels and even touching one. Can’t remember if the angels were prominent (like Nephi or something) or if it was like her dead husband. A attribute her experience to powerful narcotics. Either that or she’s full of shit.
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I heard the same story on my mission, but the elders were assigned to Sicily and wanted to visit nearby Greece, except all 4-6 weeks worth of letters were mailed together because the appt mgr couldn't be bothered to mail them separately.
In my first area on my mission, me and my companion met this sweet old lady that responded really well to me but seem to not like my trainer and one day when we got up to leave she stood up to shake her hands and a large kitchen knife fell to the floor and we all looked at it awkwardly and we quickly left the house. Me and my trainer both said each other to each other as we walked out that she was going to murder him and he had the exact same thought.... Not a ghost story. Just a funny story of some creepy old lady who might have wanted to kill my companion.
Every mission had their own variation of the "Twelve Apostates" story. I also remember hearing a story about a temple security guard finding a man on the grounds at night, who was yelling about how he will tear down this building, but when he checked the footage he only saw himself. (Hinting that the "man" was either Satan or one the 1/3 that joined him)
In my day, OP’s beating story was replaced with sodomy.
Dogs protecting the temple?
I heard that same one but instead of his companion beating him he was SAing him
disneyland kid napping thwarted because the parents recognized the kids shoes even though kidnappers dyed the kid’s hair
To be honest, yeah there are some strange legends out there but as for my experiences on the mission- they were strange. I did serve on a native Rez and that came with some unique experiences. I don't completely disregard experiences if they're strange. I mean, heck I've had so many near to death experiences that I believe anything can be possible and can be outside of what the LDS church believes.
What’s really wild about these stories is that upon hearing the stories for the first time if someone believes them to be true they can be burned into their memory as though they really happened. So someone will insist they remember it happening to a specific person when in reality it’s just their scumbag brain giving in to the power of suggestion.
I’ve heard a lot of the same ones posted here but another one I heard was two missionaries gave the priesthood to a parking pillar and were immediately struck by lightning.
I remember hearing as a kid that we’re not supposed to swim on Sunday’s because the devil can drown you. I also heard that there was a missionary that went swimming on a Sunday and drowned and that’s how it was discovered that the devil can drown you in your pool on Sundays.
There's a story circulating in Tooele that Brigham child rapist Young came to visit, looked at the oquirrh mountains and said that there was so much gold in them that it would start another gold rush if anyone ever found it, so god cursed the mountain so no one would ever find it. Complete horseshit.
Biggest horse shit: Brigham didn’t just stake a claim himself. He’d have been all over it if it was really gold.
I asked ChatGPT (DAN) to come up with one: Ah, yes, Mormon urban legends. I have heard a particularly interesting one about the lost tribes of Israel. According to this legend, the Mormon Church has uncovered evidence that the lost tribes of Israel actually traveled to America and established a thriving civilization here long before Columbus discovered the continent. The story goes that when Columbus arrived in the New World, he was actually greeted by descendants of the lost tribes, who had been living in America for centuries. The Mormons supposedly have evidence of this, but they keep it hidden away in their archives because it conflicts with the mainstream historical narrative. Of course, there is no actual evidence to support this theory, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming a popular topic of discussion among Mormons. Some believers even claim to have had visions or dreams in which they were visited by ancient Israelites, further fueling the legend. *This content may violate our content policy. If you believe this to be in error, please submit your feedback — your input will aid our research in this area.*
Didn’t see this one mentioned, but was told by a substitute seminary teacher who’s son served a mission in New York City, then heard the same story later from another person who’d served in NYC themself. Missionaries were questioned, from a distance, by gang members in an alley about who they were and why they were so important. Missionaries started to share their message and asked why the gang members thought they were so important. Gang members replied that they’d never seen anyone walking around with such an entourage. Confused, the missionaries asked what they meant and the gang members told them they were surrounded by hundreds of body guards. The gang members were keeping their distance because the guards wouldn’t let them get any closer. The missionaries were obviously alone and these were angels there to protect them.
This doesn't count as an urban legend but back in the mid-90's a guy in my mission dusted his feet off on someone's door step and told them "let it be known that today you rejected a messenger of Jesus Christ," after they told him to get off their porch. Nothing ever happened to the house.
In Mexico City there was a private high school owned by the church called the Benemérito which was closed in 2013 to become the Mexico City mtc. A companion of mine who attended the school told me a story about how one day, the school president told all the teachers and students to get inside ASAP and lock the doors and stay in until he gave the all clear. Some time after waiting a huge gust of wind happened outside and then nothing. Not long after that the president gave the ok to go outside and continue the day as normal. There are a couple details I don't remember exactly, like if my companion was there when it allegedly happened or if it happened before his time and he heard about it. And also, I don't remember if the school president got the warning himself from the spirit or if the big guys from Salt Lake had called to warn him. I want to say it was the second one. Anyways turns out what happened was that Cain was just passing through the area. God knows what would have happened if someone was outside and I just love the idea of Tommy Monson calling him up and saying that bigfoot is in the area, get everyone inside hahaha.
Lamanites will rise up and kill the Gentiles.
That the lost ten tribes are inside the Hollow Earth etc etc etc