The Licked Hand: Where did I hear this?

2025-12-22

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In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa discusses "The Licked Hand" folklore story.I was thinking about this awful story I heard at a slumber party one time when I was a kid--and it was about a girl who had friends over for a slumber party and there was a killer on the loose. So this girl and her friends went to bed and they were in their sleeping bags and the girl had a dog sleeping with her. During the night, the girl would reach down to get a reassuring lick from her dog and all night long her dog would reassure her. When the girl...

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa discusses "The Licked Hand" folklore story.

I was thinking about this awful story I heard at a slumber party one time when I was a kid--and it was about a girl who had friends over for a slumber party and there was a killer on the loose. So this girl and her friends went to bed and they were in their sleeping bags and the girl had a dog sleeping with her.

During the night, the girl would reach down to get a reassuring lick from her dog and all night long her dog would reassure her. When the girl woke up in the morning, her friends had all been killed and so had the dog. Written in blood on the wall or mirror --didnt't remember was something like "Killer lick also".

So, I'm thinking of this awful story and also how much fun slumber parties are and I'm thinking I'll cover this for the podcast but where did I hear this story?? And have others heard this story??

I proceed to ask all the ladies in my family, all of my lady friends, all my friends on Facebook and only 1 actual person has heard this story...I do proceed to google and find I'm NOT crazy, nor did I make this up...so here is the episode about variants, possible times when this story came up and more scary stories along the same line.

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References for this Episode:

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/humans-can-lick-too-how-urban-legends-spread

https://www.mentalfloss.com/culture/folklore-mythology/how-urban-legends-licked-hand-are-born

"Killer Under Bed Licks Girl's Hand" Jan Harold Brunyand-The Spokesman-Review-Wed. Sept. 23, 1987

"Scary Tale: :'The Licking Hand' never really explains who is under bed"-Jan Harold Brunyard-The Winston-Salem Journal-Wed. Jan. 29, 1992

https://youtu.be/xm2NP_dttKE?si=NbJRqWqIlWdhVu22--The Licked Hand Story

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https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

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