Famous urban legends

[jeffnc]

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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.

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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".

[Stagger_Lee]

The Rocket Car

http://www.rocketcarstory.com/

[cbloom]

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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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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.

[jeffnc]

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The Rocket Car

http://www.rocketcarstory.com/

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So how about that one? Snopes doesn't mention it, is it just second level leveling?

[Nicholasp27]

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You can notify police if you are being robbed at an ATM by putting your PIN in backwards order.

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what if ur pin is 1221?

[Khaos4k]

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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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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?

[suzzer99]

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The Rocket Car

http://www.rocketcarstory.com/

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So how about that one? Snopes doesn't mention it, is it just second level leveling?

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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.

[jeffnc]

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The Rocket Car

http://www.rocketcarstory.com/

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So how about that one? Snopes doesn't mention it, is it just second level leveling?

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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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That's the exact same story stagger lee linked.

[suzzer99]

tl;dr

[Mike Gallo]

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?