Anyone have a good urban legends to share?
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Yes, visit this site where you can actually read and do research on urban legends.
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Here are a variety of some of my friends!\nhttp://freaks.monstrous.com/famous_freaks.htm
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Here is a list of some that I find interesting\n\nhttp://www.gawker.com/ -- gossip/news\nhttp://www.gothamist.com/ -- gossip/news\n\nhttp://www.curbed.com/ -- real estate\n\nhttp://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/ -- the arts\n\nhttp://www.vittlesvamp.com/ -- food\nhttp://salli_vates.blogspot.com/ -- food\nhttp://thestrongbuzz.com/brain/brain_view_brain.php -- food\nhttp://eater.curbed.com/ -- food\n\nhttp://newyorkhack.blogspot.com/ -- blogging cabbie\n\nhttp://newyorkhack.blogspot.com/ -- photoblog\nhttp://ixtayul.blogs.com/ -- photoblog\nhttp://www.satanslaundromat.com/sl/ -- photoblog\nhttp://www.rion.nu/ -- photoblog\nhttp://www.alexisrobie.com/ -- photoblog\nhttp://www.travisruse.com/ -- photoblog\n\nhttp://www.newyorkology.com/ -- NYC Travel\n\nhttp://www.blogwaybaby.com/ -- Broadway
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NO!!! Just another urban legend.
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Here is a famous story in my city, almost everyone here knows it\n\nIn the Downtown area, there is a bell tower over 120 years old\n\nOne night only two workers were working on the tower which was still being built. One worker had an accident with one of the large boulders he was working with and got himself killed. the other worker was afraid that people would believe he killed the other worker since no one else was around, so he took the workers body and buried it in the bell tower wall and he left for mexico the next day.\n\neventually, the tower was finsihed, but wierd things would happen in it such as moaning and things moving, no one knew why. A long time passed, and the other worker when on his deathbed told about how he had buried a fellow workers body in a bell tower in Cheyenne, WY after he died. Much later, in the mid 1990's, two local radio reporters got the courage to spend halloween night in the bell tower. They reported live from the bell tower, i listened to it myself,and everything at first was running smoothly up untill midnight. when it was midnight the reporters started to hear a bunch of wierd noises, bangs off in other rooms. Eventually really wierd things started to happen, like equipment moving on its own, moaning noises where heard, and the reporters got so freaked out they ran for the door which was locked and they couldnt get out. Luckily, one of the churche's janitors was listening to the report and drove down and unlocked the door for them. they ran out leaving all ther equipment and everything.\n\nAfter that, the city got curious as to how true the stroy of the body i the wall was, so they took some sort of x-ray machine to the bell tower and sure enough, there were bones in it.\n\nalso after this, all the teachers at my school were talking about it and i listened to them one time during detention\n\nSometimes, at night, when the church is all locked up, people walking by at 4 in the morining or people wh live nearby will here the organ playing.\n\nyou can see pictures of this church in the 1800s here, sometime after construction on it was completed:\n\nhttp://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/cap...\n\nnotice its tall bell tower, in the left of the picture
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I like horror stories, so here are some...\n\n***\n\nAbout six or seven years ago, my family lived along Teays Valley Rd. before the big "industrial boom" of Putnam County. Seems like it went from a farming community to a city right before my eyes. Well anyway, We rented land off of a fellow by the name of Jim Umberger. On this land was an extravagant pre-civil war almost Victorian house. It was simply beautiful. Off to the side of this massive antique sat our trailer. Now I was awful young through all of this and kids will have thier fabled ghost stories, but there was something quite odd about this house. Something was down right sour. \n\nThe story had it (and I know nothing of the truth in this) a family was brutally butchered in the house. Back then, there wasa whole lot of nothing for miles around, so no one even found these folks for a good long time. As a youngster, I had the "creeps" about anything just about, but I've never been quite as frightened of a place as I was here. The place had an eerie air to it. To make things even more insane, my stepgrandmother, Evelyn, died of brain cancer there (in our trailer, of course). My other Grandmothers' entire cancer eaten body siezed up and shut down on her, yet she died oficially in a hospital. Strange things went on at this trailer. Pockets of not cool, but cold air in the middle of July, for example. Once in the winter my mother was out on the town. My younger brother and I were watching some TV when there was a knock on the door. There, on the freshly fallen snow, was nothing. No footprints, no tire tracks, nothing. Needless to say I spent the rest of that night with my head buried under the covers. Speaking of doors, once I heard the doorbell ring, seemed innocent enough, but WE DIDN'T HAVE A DOORBELL!! Pictures falling off the wall, creaky floors and long sleepless nights were only minor nuisences we had to deal with everyday. The most disturbing incidences, however, and the most annoying were when the smoke detectors, located in various parts of the trailer, would take turns going off one at a time. \n\nAfter that, they'd go off simultaneously, quite a ruckus. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who felt a presence, then one night, my mother went completely irate screaming "Show yourself, Evelyn! I'm tired of these f*ck*ng games! Show yourself!" We never saw anything. Things continued as they were until we moved. Mr. Umberger sold the land to someone and it became South Brooke, a ritzy subdivision with $500,000+ houses that wouldn't hear of our humble trailer depriciating thier property. However, I believe they'll get theirs, Although they tore the house down for the project, there was a well and a system of underground streams and springs which probably rendered the whole operation illegal. The thing about the springs and wells may not sound important, but in my own personal research I have found negative forces and spirits can channeol themselves through waterways. I'd like to see how South Brooke likes it's neighbors! \n\nI believe I have some pictures of that house somewhere in the mess that is my apartment.\n\n***\n\nThe story I would like to tell is about an apartment building in Spokane, WA. This building is only about seven years old, if y'all are anything like me you expect a haunted house to be all scary and falling down, not clean with nice landscaping. It really started the day after we moved in, my hubby came in from the deck (I am a cigarette nazi - no smoking in ze house!) scared as heck. I have never seen my ex-marine hubby look so scared. He absolutely would not talk about it! hmmmm. \n\nNot two days later my little year and some odd daughter was supposed to be asleep for the night but instead was talking to someone. Of corse, no one was there when I checked, but I swore I could hear an old lady talking to her. I figured it was my dead grandma, she comes to visit now and t
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That email is going around, and each one says it happened in a different location.  Seems likely that it's an urban legend just based on that.
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show the interesting side of ur life, if u have one
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Yes!I Have!! When I was living in an Apartment Building, At 1280 Humboldt Avenue, In Denver Colorado! When My Husband worked Nights, I went to bed one Night, and was woken-Up by a noise. I then saw a tall Man, Dressed in a Black Outfit, with a Black Cape on,and a Large Black Brimmed Hat on. I asked Him What He wanted, But He Didn't answer! He went from the Bedroom Door,(It was Closed) around to My Bed. I just Covered Myself up, and went to sleep. Nothing really Happened. It was really Freaky, and scary!!
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lemme tell you a story that happened to me. this is no joke, I'll put my hand on a Bible and tell you this really happened.\nI was in this house that was known for being haunted. I was sitting in the floor, leaning on my arm, just chillin. \nThen I felt something, like a bug or something, crawling on my arm. I looked down. A loose penny from the floor was rolling up my arm all by itself. It got about a foot off the floor, up to my elbow, before I noticed it.\nAs soon as I looked at it, it stopped and feel flat on the floor. I jumped up and ran out.
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There are a couple at ninjastories.com.  See the link below.  There are a few cool historical short stories at the second link.
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One time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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I don't have a example, but all you have to do is tell a normal story, than exaggerate the details, like "I was walking through the woods and I met a giant talking frog"  Just make up as much unbelievable stuff as possible, but make sure the main story is believeable.
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Well here's one:\nI took care of this old man in the hospital. After he got his dinner tray he started tearing off little pieces of bread and threw them all over the floor.\nI asked him what he was doing and he said,  "I'm feeding my dogs, they gotta eat too"\nHAHAHAHA....sad, in a funny way, but true
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These, hehehe.\nhttp://www.cryptozoology.com/\nwww.snopes.com\nhttp://www.ghostvillage.com/\nhttp://www.ghost-mysteries.com/\nhttp://www.realhaunts.com/\nhttp://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/\nhttp://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/\nhttp://www.underworldtales.com/\nhttp://www.themoonlitroad.com/\nhttp://theshadowlands.net/home1.htm\nhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com\nhttp://www.sealedair.com/products/protective/bubble/funstuff/game/default.htm\nhttp://www.conspiracyplanet.com/\nhttp://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/bubble_wrap/bubble_wrap.htm\nhttp://www.funsilly.com/voodoo.html\nhttp://www.kwikgames.com/bws.htm\nhttp://www.freethegnomes.com/\nhttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/\nhttp://www.virtual-design.com/default.asp?section=demo\nhttp://www.mmdfactory.com/voodoo/voodoo_game.html\nhttp://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html\nhttp://www.seussville.com/\nHave fun!
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Here is the best one. Snopes - http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp\n\nYou can also try Truth Or Fiction - http://truthorfiction.com/
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What's the flashing headlights one?!?!  I do that to motorists when they don't have their lights on.  Does that mean I'm a freak?!?!  Anyways.. I had fun researching this topic!\n\nURBAN LEGENDS THAT ARE NOT TRUE...\n*Woman calls police because a fast food outlet won't make a cheeseburger the way she wants it.\n*Chewing gum takes seven years to pass through the human digestive system. \n*Hair grows back darker or thicker after it has been shaved. \n*A minister in Disney's The Little Mermaid sports an erection during a wedding.\n*The size of a man's nose, hands, or feet is a reliable indicator of the size of his penis. \n*A Romanian couple named their son 'Yahoo' as a sign of gratitude for their having met over the Internet.\n*A Tootsie Pop wrapper with a picture of an Indian shooting an arrow at a star on it can be redeemed with Tootsie Roll Industries for a free bag of candy.\n*Rice thrown at weddings is dangerous to birds.\n*Possums hang by their tails in trees.\n*The daddy longlegs spider is the "world's most poisonous animal."\n*Human handling of baby birds will cause their mothers to reject them. \n*Multiplying your dog's age by seven will produce its equivalent in human years.\n*A frog placed in water that is brought to a boil through gradual temperature increase will make no attempt to escape.\n*During the December 2004 tsunami, elephants who had broken free from their handlers rescued 42 people.\n*Dr Pepper soda is made with prune juice. \n*Brain-damaged LSD user believes himself to be glass of orange juice. \n*Someone who has taken LSD more than seven times is declared legally insane.\n*Woman dies after visiting too many tanning parlors in one day. \n*Cher had a pair of ribs surgically removed to achieve an ultra-small waist.\n*Young boy dies from eating Pop Rocks candy with soda pop. \n\nURBAN LEGENDS THAT ARE TRUE...\n\n*The design of the California state flag was the result of a mistake. \n*When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic, the silent version of the film The Poseidon Adventure was being screened aboard ship. \n*The Chinese are raising St. Bernard dogs for food.\n*Two men each lose an arm in a grisly tug-of-war contest.