Wait… The rash is from WHAT?!?!
So I heard this story at work a little while ago and have been meaning to post it here for everyone to read. A friend overheard this from his girlfriend. Where she heard it I can’t exactly remember.
A girl was visiting Cancun recently for her spring break. She was down in the hotel bar the last night before having to fly back the next morning, when a cute guy starts buying her drinks. To be nice she went over and started talking to him. Of course since the guy was in Cancun talking to a cute girl he asked her if she wanted to go back to his room. She of course needing to leave early the next day turned down the invite. Instead she made out with the guy. Partly because he was attractive, partly because he bought her drinks.
Well she went home and after a little bit the girl developed a rash all over her face. So said girl and her mother go to the doctor. While there the doctor expresses concern that they need to know what the girl did in Cancun. Her mother even stresses not to worry about the fact that not to worry and tell them about what happened so they could take care of the problem together.
The girl of course mentions she made out with a guy and that it only went as far as that.
The doctor responds that the rash is something they see in Cannibalism…
YEAH CANNABILISM.
So said girl gives info to the Cancun local authorities on the guy. They then catch him in his hotel room with a couple bodies he had been eating.
Now like any self respectable person that is going to post a story like this coming third hand, I checked Snopes.com. The link can be found here. Also when looking I found no evidence that a rash associated with Cannibals existed.
If you read it on Snopes this is considered a Legend. I of course did not know this till I checked it out before posting and after passing the story to several people. I guess it’s a variation of one about Necrophilia. The other thing it reminded me of is the difference between word of mouth and email. If this had come to my email I would have went immediately to Snopes. Since it came from a friend I did not. Regardless it’s definitely a good story to tell someone before they go to Tijuana or Cancun to make sure they stay away from strangers. It’s also a reminder that in our world people are indeed deranged. I say this because if I hadn’t of done the research about rashes and cannibalism along with checking Snopes I would have and did completely believe this.
Why did I believe it? Simply put, in a world where John Jamelske, Ted Bundy, Victor Zsasz, Jefferey Dahmer, Patrik Kearney, John Wayne Gacy, Patrick Bateman, Aileen Wuornos, Ed Gein, Jonathan Kramer, The Zodiac Killer, Jack the Ripper, The Torso Killer, Josef Fritzl, and Dennis Rader exists or existed, this story moving around doesn’t seem to far fetched.
