There was a massive hype at my school about "The Bloody Mary Dare". Basically, these girls told the rest of the class that if you looked into a mirror at midnight and whispered "Bloody Mary" three times, Mary's ghost would come up behind you and tap you on the back...
This petrified me; one girl said that she'd done it and she'd felt someone scratch her all the way down her back. I couldn't ever look in the mirror in the same way again. My friend used to tease me when she came over for a sleepover and start saying it, and I'd always try and stop her! IT WAS SO SCARY!
A childhood belief about ghosts
