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[ QUOTE ] Actually, i'm pretty sure this is true as my cousin worked at Arby's and said the meat comes in liquid form and when heated turns into solid. I'm calling her as we speak. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] You can typically see the beef being sliced at Arbys. Which is delicious. [/ QUOTE ] How does this prove that it doesn't come in liquid form and turn to solid when heated? |
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as a kid there was a rumor about a place in france, where the naked ladies dance. true? [/ QUOTE ] I also hear there is a hole in teh wall where the men can see it all. verifiable? |
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Mr. Rogers being some sort of US special forces guy with over 20 confirmed kills was something I had always thought was true, but recently found out it's not given any credit or considered true, because he was filming during the Vietnam war, however, the anti-true people neglect to comment on what he was doing during the Korean war or before the official start of the Vietnam War. [/ QUOTE ] I heard that about Captain Kangaroo..Bob Keeshan An internet rumor purports that Lee Marvin appeared on "The Tonight Show" and said he had served in the Marine Corps fighting alongside Keeshan at the Battle of Iwo Jima. There is no truth to this tale. Marvin never told the story, never served on Iwo Jima (having been invalided out after the battle of Saipan months earlier), and Keeshan never saw combat in any form, having enlisted just before the end of the war. |
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"Bloody Mary" - Which probably spawned the CandyMan
movies: Stand in the dark in front of mirror (usually in the bathroom) and repeat "Bloody Mary" 3 times and she will appear...to this day I haven't tried it. The Syringes found in the Coke/Pepsi cans were big legends maybe a decade ago...similarly, like in only ONE case on Earth did a razor, etc. actually ever get found in Halloween candy! There are many, many local legends involving Salem (Mass), The Lynn Woods, Danvers Mental Hospital, etc. The local legends always scare the kids the most! -ZEN |
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The 10% of our brain myth- http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html [/ QUOTE ] amusingly enough, the fact that I used to think this probably helps confirm it... |
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When i was younger everyone claimed that Paul Pfeifer from the wonder years was played by marilyn manson and that the kid who played jaime on small wonder was billy corgan from the smashing pumpkins. Conveniently snopes had an article disproving both.
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/marilyn.asp I really wanted this to be true. |
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The 10% of our brain myth- http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html [/ QUOTE ] The how come I can have like a full-on vivid dream with lots of plot twists in like 30 seconds? (I've fallen asleep watching TV and woken up knowing it was only 30 sec. later.) Hmmmm? I think our brain slows down and partially shuts down during conscious hours to keep us from going insane. |
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The legend of Ollie North fingering OBL years before the 9-11 attacks. I get this email at least twice a month, sometimes from people I thought would know better.
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putting on socks soaked in vinegar draws a fever out- when i was little and had measles i had to wear them for days.
playing with yourself can make you go blind-- i wear glasses sitting too long can give you hemroids-- i used to have that problem |
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The legend of Ollie North fingering OBL years before the 9-11 attacks. [/ QUOTE ] That's just gross. |
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As a kid I was really scared by the typical ones like "some people put razor blades in Halloween candy" and "drug dealers give kids stickers soaked in LSD/PCP/etc. to get them hooked." I realize those actually did probably happen in an isolated instance or two, but we were made to believe they were very widespread phenomena.
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Richard Gere and the gerbil
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As a kid I was really scared by the typical ones like "some people put razor blades in Halloween candy" and "drug dealers give kids stickers soaked in LSD/PCP/etc. to get them hooked." I realize those actually did probably happen in an isolated instance or two, but we were made to believe they were very widespread phenomena. [/ QUOTE ] When I was a kid, there was a local news segment about some stamps w/ LSD on them got loose, and there was an actual statement from the post office guy saying to use a sponge just in case. |
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I read a story on the Internet about a cave, and how these guys expand a small hole, go through the hole, and strange things happen. I don't remember where it is, but I thought it was at least a compelling read, and it was long (by Internet standards). [/ QUOTE ] I've read this as well. It was actually a pretty interesting story. Wish I could find it again but the original link is dead now. There is this, which I think the story we've both read is based on. It's a good read. There's a couple of other I have a hazy memory of that have this sort of internet provenance. The first is about some sort of supernatural ritual involving holding a mirror underwater and staring into it for a certain amount of time, the end result being that some sort of spirit from another dimension 'adopts' you and never leaves you alone ever again. Secondly, there's one about a disused Mental Asylum known locally as the gates of hell - there are 7 gates and no one has ever got any further than the 4th without having to turn back. This one's been investigated and they found the location on which it was based (they think.) It got pulled down by the local authority to stop kids tooling around in the area. |
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[ QUOTE ] I read a story on the Internet about a cave, and how these guys expand a small hole, go through the hole, and strange things happen. I don't remember where it is, but I thought it was at least a compelling read, and it was long (by Internet standards). [/ QUOTE ] I've read this as well. It was actually a pretty interesting story. Wish I could find it again but the original link is dead now. There is this, which I think the story we've both read is based on. It's a good read. There's a couple of other I have a hazy memory of that have this sort of internet provenance. The first is about some sort of supernatural ritual involving holding a mirror underwater and staring into it for a certain amount of time, the end result being that some sort of spirit from another dimension 'adopts' you and never leaves you alone ever again. Secondly, there's one about a disused Mental Asylum known locally as the gates of hell - there are 7 gates and no one has ever got any further than the 4th without having to turn back. This one's been investigated and they found the location on which it was based (they think.) It got pulled down by the local authority to stop kids tooling around in the area. [/ QUOTE ] There is a gates of hell here in mo, Im sure a lot of different states that have them. There are a bunch of spots around st louis, that have "urban legends" surrounding them, a street with a kid that got hit by a bus (true), you can see him run across the street at certian times fo the night, a house in webster groves with a crazy ghost of an old man that appears at night, the screaming wall is down a long dirt road (you cant turn around and have to back out because of the forest) at the end of the road there is a wall where if you turn your lights off you will hear kids screaming from a house out in teh woods whre a bunch were killed, there is a house in illinois w/ a well where a family and a bunch of niehgboorhood kids were killed in the 1880s. Every year around halloween we hire some kid to drive us around all over the city, get drunk and have fun seeing these places, the road of screams is the only time I actually got pretty scared becuase it sounded like there were kids right ouside teh car. |
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I read a story on the Internet about a cave, and how these guys expand a small hole, go through the hole, and strange things happen. I don't remember where it is, but I thought it was at least a compelling read, and it was long (by Internet standards). [/ QUOTE ] I've read this as well. It was actually a pretty interesting story. Wish I could find it again but the original link is dead now. There is this, which I think the story we've both read is based on. It's a good read. There's a couple of other I have a hazy memory of that have this sort of internet provenance. The first is about some sort of supernatural ritual involving holding a mirror underwater and staring into it for a certain amount of time, the end result being that some sort of spirit from another dimension 'adopts' you and never leaves you alone ever again. Secondly, there's one about a disused Mental Asylum known locally as the gates of hell - there are 7 gates and no one has ever got any further than the 4th without having to turn back. This one's been investigated and they found the location on which it was based (they think.) It got pulled down by the local authority to stop kids tooling around in the area. [/ QUOTE ] There is a gates of hell here in mo, Im sure a lot of different states that have them. There are a bunch of spots around st louis, that have "urban legends" surrounding them, a street with a kid that got hit by a bus (true), you can see him run across the street at certian times fo the night, a house in webster groves with a crazy ghost of an old man that appears at night, the screaming wall is down a long dirt road (you cant turn around and have to back out because of the forest) at the end of the road there is a wall where if you turn your lights off you will hear kids screaming from a house out in teh woods whre a bunch were killed, there is a house in illinois w/ a well where a family and a bunch of niehgboorhood kids were killed in the 1880s. Every year around halloween we hire some kid to drive us around all over the city, get drunk and have fun seeing these places, the road of screams is the only time I actually got pretty scared becuase it sounded like there were kids right ouside teh car. [/ QUOTE ] My wife grew up near the Pinies, these people believe in the New Jersey Devil. Anyone who drive on the Garden State Parkway down to Atlantic City drives through the Pine Barrens. The New Jersey Devil haunts the Pine Barrens. http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm |
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Edit your post, I think you meant they believe in teh new jersey devil right?
we have the momo monster that scared teh [censored] out of us as kids, mainly becuase they covered it on teh news, so as little kids you see this on your local news and WTF!@! |
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Thanks dude..I edited it. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
I have to say the Garden State Parkway at night doesspook me out sometimes. Especially after a heavy night of partying in AC. |
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I think the best ones are the legend of Kiki Farnum (the ghey):
http://www.wildutah.net/7-21-00/htmldocs/KikiRaggot.htm and having a great time at college: http://www.forwardedfunnies.com/havi...ge_001646.html |
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The how come I can have like a full-on vivid dream with lots of plot twists in like 30 seconds? (I've fallen asleep watching TV and woken up knowing it was only 30 sec. later.) Hmmmm? I think our brain slows down and partially shuts down during conscious hours to keep us from going insane. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure that my brain has concocted dreams that supposedly lasted about 5 minutes, in about 5-10 seconds. This sometimes occurs when your alarm goes off, and it just so happens that the noise coincides with something that happens at the end of a 10 minute dream. It's too coincidental for that too happen, so I conclude my brain retro-manufactured a dream that concludes with an alarm durign the several seconds it took for me to awake. I'm not sure my brain worked at super high speed though. It might have just given me the impression that it was a 10 minute dream. Time might not "play" the same way necessarily as in real life. It's possible that a sequence of events could be encoded as a single "snapshot". |
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As a kid I was really scared by the typical ones like "some people put razor blades in Halloween candy" and "drug dealers give kids stickers soaked in LSD/PCP/etc. to get them hooked." I realize those actually did probably happen in an isolated instance or two, but we were made to believe they were very widespread phenomena. [/ QUOTE ] The truth of this one is actually more disturbing than the legend. The myth was just that it was random psychos poisoning candy, so parents would check your candy, etc. Turns out that never happened. However, there are a few different real cases of parents using the myth to try to kill their own children, by poisoning their kids' halloween candy and blaming it on the mythical random psychos. |
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The Rocket Car http://www.rocketcarstory.com/ [/ QUOTE ] So how about that one? Snopes doesn't mention it, is it just second level leveling? |
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You can notify police if you are being robbed at an ATM by putting your PIN in backwards order. [/ QUOTE ] what if ur pin is 1221? |
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As a kid I was really scared by the typical ones like "some people put razor blades in Halloween candy" and "drug dealers give kids stickers soaked in LSD/PCP/etc. to get them hooked." I realize those actually did probably happen in an isolated instance or two, but we were made to believe they were very widespread phenomena. [/ QUOTE ] How the [censored] is a kid gonna know where to go once he's hooked on a drug? For that matter, how does he know he's hooked on a drug? |
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[ QUOTE ] The Rocket Car http://www.rocketcarstory.com/ [/ QUOTE ] So how about that one? Snopes doesn't mention it, is it just second level leveling? [/ QUOTE ] This guy say he is "99% sure" his exploits started the rocket car legend. http://www.crazydave.org/rocketcar/ It's long but a good read. Doesn't get into too much action til page 5 or so. |
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The Rocket Car http://www.rocketcarstory.com/ [/ QUOTE ] So how about that one? Snopes doesn't mention it, is it just second level leveling? [/ QUOTE ] This guy say he is "99% sure" his exploits started the rocket car legend. http://www.crazydave.org/rocketcar/ It's long but a good read. Doesn't get into too much action til page 5 or so. [/ QUOTE ] That's the exact same story stagger lee linked. |
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I had a conversation with a friend of mine about this post and he shared this urban legend with me.
A family goes away on vacation and when they get home they find their house broken into. Things are taken things are broken. Someone has vandalized their home. A week later the family finds a tape in the vcr. The vandals recorded themselves performing file acts with the family's tooth brush, and cosmetic devices. Has anyone ever heard that one? |
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I had a conversation with a friend of mine about this post and he shared this urban legend with me. A family goes away on vacation and when they get home they find their house broken into. Things are taken things are broken. Someone has vandalized their home. A week later the family finds a tape in the vcr. The vandals recorded themselves performing file acts with the family's tooth brush, and cosmetic devices. Has anyone ever heard that one? [/ QUOTE ] Ya, i heard that one, toothbrush up the ass, or whatever. |
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just edited your post a bit if thats ok, it was longggg. my fav. is the common misbelief that water in the southern hemisphere spirals down the drain the opposite direction than in the north. http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp definitely a 'wtf' moment when you realise you were sold a complete lie as a little kid. [/ QUOTE ] The thing that amazes me is how many people believe the water down the drain thing because a teacher, parent or other authority feature told them so when simple observation is all that is necessary to debunk it. Watch the water going down a drain a few times. You will see that it sometimes rotates clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, regardless of which hemisphere you are in. |
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You can notify police if you are being robbed at an ATM by putting your PIN in backwards order. [/ QUOTE ] I guess if your PIN is something like 4224 you're SOL. |
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or 6969 Hahahah [/ QUOTE ] no...not really. |
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The thing that amazes me is how many people believe the water down the drain thing because a teacher, parent or other authority feature told them so when simple observation is all that is necessary to debunk it. Watch the water going down a drain a few times. You will see that it sometimes rotates clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, regardless of which hemisphere you are in. [/ QUOTE ] I believed it because I watched the water flush down my toilet 6 times in a row after I heard it, and it always went the same way. It's not random - it has to do with the design of the toilet (I suppose with some designs it might be random or almost random.) |
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I had to look this one up today, which I was recently told.
Guy has 25k worth of cigars and files a claim with the insurance company because the cigars burnt. He wins the claim Cigar company gets him tried criminally for arson and he spends a year in jail. http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp |
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[ QUOTE ] The thing that amazes me is how many people believe the water down the drain thing because a teacher, parent or other authority feature told them so when simple observation is all that is necessary to debunk it. Watch the water going down a drain a few times. You will see that it sometimes rotates clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, regardless of which hemisphere you are in. [/ QUOTE ] I believed it because I watched the water flush down my toilet 6 times in a row after I heard it, and it always went the same way. It's not random - it has to do with the design of the toilet (I suppose with some designs it might be random or almost random.) [/ QUOTE ] I believed this one as a kid not because of the toilet, I could see they were designed to flush in a certain direction, but because of the bathtub. It always spun out in a clockwise direction. When I spun the water in the opposite direction, it reversed itself and insisted on spinning out in a clockwise direction. Never occurred to me to try it on other drains, I figured one was proof. |
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[ QUOTE ] As a kid I was really scared by the typical ones like "some people put razor blades in Halloween candy" and "drug dealers give kids stickers soaked in LSD/PCP/etc. to get them hooked." I realize those actually did probably happen in an isolated instance or two, but we were made to believe they were very widespread phenomena. [/ QUOTE ] How the [censored] is a kid gonna know where to go once he's hooked on a drug? For that matter, how does he know he's hooked on a drug? [/ QUOTE ] The most obvious reason its a myth is that LSD is not addictive. My favorite LSD related myth is the one about the kid who has a sheet in his pocket and is outside in the rain and the acid soaks through his pocket and into his leg. He believes he is a cup of orange juice and when you come near him he tells you not to tip him over. In my teenage years I had at least three separate people from different locales tell me that story one swore they were at the party when it happened. |
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just edited your post a bit if thats ok, it was longggg. my fav. is the common misbelief that water in the southern hemisphere spirals down the drain the opposite direction than in the north. http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp definitely a 'wtf' moment when you realise you were sold a complete lie as a little kid. [/ QUOTE ] well, my gf went to Australia, and she swears its true now i'm confused |
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