Urban Legends

Humans Can Lick Too

This is a scary urban legend called "Humans Can Lick Too" or "The Licked Hand". It is about a beautiful young girl who was left home alone one night but protected by her dog, which was a very large collie.

The parents told the girl to lock all the windows and doors after they had left. But there was one window in the basement that would not close completely.

Trying as best as she could, she finally got the window shut, but it would not lock. So she left the window and went back upstairs. But just to make sure that no one could get in, she put the dead-bolt lock on the basement door.

Then she sat down and had some dinner, she fed her dog and then decided to go to sleep for the night. Settling down, she snuggled up in her bed. She reached her hand down and let her dog lick it as she said goodnight.

But during the night, she woke up with a start. The girl lay there wondering what had woked her, when suddenly she heard a noise. It was a dripping sound and seemed to be coming from the bathroom. She must have left the water running, and now it was dripping into the drain of her sink. So thinking it was no big deal, she decided to go back to sleep.

But she felt nervous so she reached her hand over the edge of her bed, and let the dog lick her hand for reassurance that he would protect her. Again at about 3:45, she woke up hearing dripping. Again she reached down and let the dog lick her hand. Then she fell back to sleep.

At 6:52, the girl decided that she had had enough... she got up just in time to see her parents were pulling up to the house. "Good", she thought. "now somebody can fix the sink... 'cause I know I didn't leave it running."

She walked to the bathroom and there was the collie dog, skinned and hung up on the curtain rod. The noise she heard was its blood dripping into a puddle on the floor. The girl screamed and ran to her bedroom to get a weapon, in case someone was still in the house... and there on the floor, next to her bed she saw a small note, written in blood, saying: "HUMANS CAN LICK TOO".