Urban Legend ....
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One of the more elaborate urban legends of all-time was confirmed this week when a previously sealed NASA file was unclassified to Worth1000. The moon landing was FAKED to beat the Russians to the moon!
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Legend: A lovelorn actor portraying one of the munchkins hanged himself on the set during the filming of The Wizard of Oz
Poor Poor factory worker. It has been told many a generation that a factory worker putting the pickled food through the pickling process lost his hand in an acident with a machine. The hand was never found but was said to have made its way to one of the outgoing jars... sick eh?
As the urban legend goes, if you look for them, you will find alligators in new york city sewers. Let me know what you think.
We were all amply warned by e-mail at the time: last August 27th the planet Mars would make its closest approach to Earth in the past 5,000 years, and on that night it would become the second brightest object in the sky, looking as large as the full Moon to the naked eye. What the e-mails failed to mention was that it would only appear like that just after sunset in the Middle East. As in the previous time Mars came so close, only the Egyptians were able to fully document this rare event... -
yeah there were many people who suspected the landing on the moon to be fake as well.
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The Bonsai Kitten is all the rage. Get one for that special cat lover in your life.
Heck, get all three!
Look at Bar....
In the spring of 1982, Jose Ramon Carillo, owner of a little grocery shop in Teacapan, Mexico, is rudely woken from his afternoon nap by a piercing scream. He is on his feet in a heartbeat, grabs his baseball bat and runs over to the back of the shop, where he finds Lucilla Maria Rodriguez, pale as a ghost and staring at the stacks of preserved foods. Following her gaze he finds himself looking at a jar containing a human foetus, neatly stacked in between the pickled vegetables.
Elephants are afraid of mice.
The Myth: Pantene brand shampoo contains an additive that when injected will get the user high. http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/pantene.asp -
PADERBORN, GERMANY - Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly — and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop!
an untrue legend says Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide.*
According to urban legend, Cuban leader Fidel Castro was once given a tryout by the Washington Senators baseball team. Snopes.com says its false, but look what I found while going through a bunch of old baseball cards!
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She needs your blood to maintain her youth....
Bloody Mary
Never do an autopsy alone in the morgue, scary things may happen.
The terror is all in his eyes.
I heard that Chinese food is made of cat..meouw.
Lead in the Lipstick? Why not?!?!
With new Hot Lead Lipstick you'll have the look all the girls are dying from... I mean for.
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Say "Bloody Mary" thirteen times in front of a mirror, and the blood thirsty queen will come and rip your face off...
You Never See a Mirror in the Dark
Despite expert opinions to the contrary, Melissa discovered that breast implants DO indeed explode at high altitudes.
The Kidney Heist.
Guy gets picked up by a woman at a bar.
She takes him back to her hotel room.
Fixes him a drink. Boom! Knocked out.
When he wakes up,
he's in a bathtub full of ice...
and he realizes that one of his kidneys has been removed.
Supposedly they sell them
on the black market.
From the true legend of the early formulas of Coke containing cocaine... -
"How odd... a puzzle of myself?" She mused as she placed another piece. But what was that face outside her window?
Claim: M-16 rifles used by American soldiers in Vietnam were manufactured by the Mattel toy company.
http://www.snopes.com/military/m16.htm
"The meat Arby's uses is made from a
paste, gel, liquid, or powder."
One day someone will poison or place a razor blade in Halloween candy, just so this legend will finally be right.
it's a genetic modification made by KFC.
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The average person swallows eight spiders per year.
Just keep repeating to yourself...this is not true, this is not true...
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/klingerman.asp
Did a woman have live man-meatroaches crawl out of her tongue as a result of cutting her tongue while licking an envelope?
Yes, she did - as you can see - yuck...never gone lick those envelopes again i tell you
Go to the Darwin Awards Legends page,
Click on "Gun-Totin' Granny" and read about how she blew the man-meat off two guys who raped her granddaughter.
Caution: may not be suitable for those sensitive souls who wish no harm to any creature...
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http://www.snopes.com/critters/mishaps/gate.asp
Nessie
John Denver once served as a U.S. Army sniper in Vietnam.
Zurich -- A Swiss couple fled home from Hong Kong after their pet poodle, Fluffy, was cooked and served to them garnished with pepper sauce and bamboo shoots at a Chinese restaurant.
As you can see it really did happen that a woman swimming swallowed some octopus eggs and gave birth to a most unusual looking child... -
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As the story goes, an impatient golfer decided to play ahead of his foresome, and his clubs were found on the 7th green. Ole Mose, a 15 foot croc which frequents Palm Beach occasionaly, was spotted in the water hazard just 30 yards from the 7th green.
I guess Ole Mose didn't see the 'do not eat the golfers' sign...
Hypodermic
"Chewing gum containing spider eggs? Nah, that's just one of those urban legends."
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For those that don't know, the legend is that Kentucky Fried Chicken changed to KFC because they were raising mutant little chicken things that were so disfigured the board of health wouldn't let them use the word "chicken" anymore in advertising. I wonder if it's true
3 eyed, 7.8 lbs Orange Emperor caught on Lake Springfield by General 'Blinky' Sherman. 06/12/02 one year ago... today
Never swallow watermelon seeds!
Legend has it that during the lead up to the Gulf War, fighters training over Britain got missile lock on a Police officer with a traffic radar gun. The missile's "brains" thought the officer was a SAM missile site attempting to track the fighters.
My favorite legend, was that the Post office
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Overburn,TN. - A unknown female who fell asleep while tanning in a booth with a faulty timer learned to late that you always use a higher rated sunscreen then recommended.
Mermaids?
...A Stray doggie adopted by tourists turns out to be sewer rat.
Elvis Lives -
my cousin tim crawled off into the woods when he was just a baby and was raised by wolves!
The PETA banquet was going well, untill the special was served.
It turns out David Duchovny is actually an alien!
Now I know why he was always chasing aliens on X-Files, he was looking for his buddies
"Oh hi, Honey!... I'm in my office, of course, where else would I be?... Why, what's wrong?"
Alan picked the right morning to visit his mistress, at least until his wife called.
Hope this doesn't offend anyone; it *is* a great urban legend.
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walt disney has been cryogenically frozen myth
Most people think that frozen Walt is just a story, but that's only because they move his chamber three times a year.
this is proof of the urban legend about the cow that was dropped off a plane flying near canada. The cow happened to land on a boat, killing three people. The people in the plane weren't allowed to take the cow home, so they had to dump it, and they didn't see the boat. Hilarious!
I swear this is true: a friend of my friend breeds rabbits, and one day they left the cat in the rabbit hutch to see what would happen, a couple of months later the rabbit had babies that looked just like cats but had the ears and tail of a rabbit! These Crabbits would be in pet stores now but Southern Baptists declared they were evil and burned the house down, then went on to fight the "Scooby-Doo Menace". True story
The legend of the snakes coming out of the toilets is true, and I got a picture of one -
The president has a trapdoor in the oval office.
Its true.......
Of all the urban legends, nothing scared me like the one about the spiders exploding out of the cactus.
Albert Einstein, guest-starring in Gunsmoke.
why you should never let your mother flush animals you bring home down the toilet. -
never like coke... i'm safe YES !!!
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Nick Cage is actually a woman . look at her! So hot!Originally posted by newcomer: