Urban Legends

[Javen]

Have you heard or someone told you a story that just wasn't true, past or present?

Example:Coke dissolves pennies, nails overnight.This is defnitley an urban legend, because why hasn't my insides dissolved?I mean Orange Juice has acid in it to.

[Darth Vegas]

If you eat pop rocks and drink pepsi your stomach will explode........

[Rogue_0009]

Originally posted by Javen@Mar 10 2003, 09:42 AM
Have you heard or someone told you a story that just wasn't true, past or present?

Example:Coke dissolves pennies, nails overnight.This is defnitley an urban legend, because why hasn't my insides dissolved?I mean Orange Juice has acid in it to.
No, this one's true I've seen it done in God knows how many science projects. The reason why stomach hasn't dissolved is because of the acid lining on the inside of it.

[Darth Vegas]

Originally posted by Rogue_0009@Mar 10 2003, 08:11 AM
The reason why stomach hasn't dissolved is because of the acid lining on the inside of it.
Eh hem, you mean mucas lining in the stomach. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Rogue_0009]

I'm 15, were you expecting an answer from medical expert?

[Darth Vegas]

No it was honest mistake. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Whisper]

Originally posted by Rogue_0009+Mar 10 2003, 11:11 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rogue_0009 @ Mar 10 2003, 11:11 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-Javen@Mar 10 2003, 09:42 AM
Have you heard or someone told you a story that just wasn't true, past or present?

Example:Coke dissolves pennies, nails overnight.This is defnitley an urban legend, because why hasn't my insides dissolved?I mean Orange Juice has acid in it to.
No, this one's true I've seen it done in God knows how many science projects. The reason why stomach hasn't dissolved is because of the acid lining on the inside of it. [/b][/quote]
It doesn't happen overnight though. The Carbonic Acid in Pepsi (ugh) or Coke (GOOD) is only around 6ph. To desolve a penny over night you'd need...i dunno...at least a 3.5ph. Talkin straight Hydrochloric there.

[Krogenar]

A truck driver ends up in a head on collision with another huge truck. The two trucks smash their front ends together so badly that both cars are scrapped. Both drivers are slightly injured, but basically alright.

When they bring the trucks to a junkyard, they notice a horrible smell coming from it a few days later. As they pull the two trucks apart, they discover a Volkswagen "Bug" was crushed completely flat in between them, with someone inside it. I'm not talking about the "new" VW Bug - I mean the old style.

[Javen]

Originally posted by Rogue_0009+Mar 10 2003, 11:11 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rogue_0009 @ Mar 10 2003, 11:11 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-Javen@Mar 10 2003, 09:42 AM
Have you heard or someone told you a story that just wasn't true, past or present?

Example:Coke dissolves pennies, nails overnight.This is defnitley an urban legend, because why hasn't my insides dissolved?I mean Orange Juice has acid in it to.
No, this one's true I've seen it done in God knows how many science projects. The reason why stomach hasn't dissolved is because of the acid lining on the inside of it. [/b][/quote]
It's not true. YOu could put a fly in some Coke and it will not dissolve.

[Aurra Sing]

Watch the movie "Urban Legends"

I went to a site with a bunch of them like...

If you warn someone with their headlights on they will turn around and chase you off the road at night.

Headlight initiation or something...

There are a bunch of stories.

[QuigonWindu]

Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com)

[Justin]

I like the one about the hitchhikers who wake up in buckets of ice with their kidneys missing because the people who pick them up are selling organs on the black market, or something.

[The Prism]

Originally posted by Justin@Mar 10 2003, 10:01 PM
I like the one about the hitchhikers who wake up in buckets of ice with their kidneys missing because the people who pick them up are selling organs on the black market, or something.
Shaggy from Scooby Doo entertained that idea in Jay's nightmare in "Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back".

[Das_Funked]

This was an urban legend in the town where I grew up.

There is a huge water tower and it's surrounded by trees and a park. At night you can't see a thing and the legend goes that there is a police car the picks kids up for riding without a helmet, but then the kids are never seen again.

It's pretty scary, eh? :0.......maybe not. But it's an urban legend that still exists today.

[Rogue_0009]

Originally posted by Justin@Mar 10 2003, 09:01 PM
I like the one about the hitchhikers who wake up in buckets of ice with their kidneys missing because the people who pick them up are selling organs on the black market, or something.
yeah, that one is so popular the National Kidney Foundation set up a hotline for people who've had this happen to them, calls recieved thus far: 0.

[Aurra Sing]

It's called the Kidney Heist I believe.

[Darth Badly]

Any more stories?

This is a cool thread.

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[cj790]

What about the Russians training dogs in WW2 to blow up enemy tanks by strapping bombs to them...
...trouble was they had practiced on their own tanks, so when they tried them out in the field they all ran right back to their own lines style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hehe.gif

[Handothrawn]

Macabre Maryland; The Goatman (http://w3.mivlmd.cablespeed.com/~rringeisen/mmdurban.html)

Ever here the Goatman urban legend? Sorry, but I've been taken in by this one. The one I was raised on was a baby was dumped off Crybaby Bridge in Prince George County Maryland, and the baby crawled away and ended up living among a flock of farm sheep and goats for weeks before he was found, and adopted by the farming family. Years pass, and the guy still has nightmares from time to time about being thrown from the bridge and living among goats. Now he becomes a scientist at the National Agricultural Research Center in Maryland and one day there is a fire in the building he worked in and he loses his mind trying to escape, he breaks down a fire ax and cuts his way free, accidently killing several coworkers and getting himself mangled badly in the process. He escapes into the woods, insane, and the only thing he can process anymore is that people through him off the bridge and made him live with goats, he grows to hate mankind and will attack cars, kill and eat pets, and even attack people.

[Darth Badly]

Thanks Handof, I hadn't heard that one.

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[Handothrawn]

Don't mention it, now go and spread the word of the Goatman!

[Darth Badly]

Originally posted by Handothrawn@Jan 31 2004, 04:51 PM
Don't mention it, now go and spread the word of the Goatman!
Spread the fear!

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[Handothrawn]

Baaaaa-aaaa

[stormtrooper9]

Originally posted by TK-007@Mar 10 2003, 11:57 AM
If you eat pop rocks and drink pepsi your stomach will explode........
Not true olny if you eat too much with pop when I say too much I mean over 29 some it was on a cable tv show called "Myth Busters"

[STar war spUNK]

there was a story about some guy who suffocated to death at his bachelor party because the stripper's boobs were too big. hahahaha! so many people were fooled that even yahoo had the article in its news page.



the story about the girl who killed her parents in a car accident after sneaking out of the house to go to a party is an urban legend. i'm sure a lot of people have heard that one too. well its not true!

[Greedo Boy]

Originally posted by TK-007+Mar 10 2003, 11:13 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TK-007 @ Mar 10 2003, 11:13 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-Rogue_0009@Mar 10 2003, 08:11 AM
The reason why stomach hasn't dissolved is because of the acid lining on the inside of it.
Eh hem, you mean mucas lining in the stomach. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif [/b][/quote]
Bond is correct.

[general grievous]

Originally posted by Handothrawn@Jan 29 2004, 08:19 PM
Macabre Maryland; The Goatman (http://w3.mivlmd.cablespeed.com/~rringeisen/mmdurban.html)

Ever here the Goatman urban legend? Sorry, but I've been taken in by this one. The one I was raised on was a baby was dumped off Crybaby Bridge in Prince George County Maryland, and the baby crawled away and ended up living among a flock of farm sheep and goats for weeks before he was found, and adopted by the farming family. Years pass, and the guy still has nightmares from time to time about being thrown from the bridge and living among goats. Now he becomes a scientist at the National Agricultural Research Center in Maryland and one day there is a fire in the building he worked in and he loses his mind trying to escape, he breaks down a fire ax and cuts his way free, accidently killing several coworkers and getting himself mangled badly in the process. He escapes into the woods, insane, and the only thing he can process anymore is that people through him off the bridge and made him live with goats, he grows to hate mankind and will attack cars, kill and eat pets, and even attack people.
i heard this so many times and its always great
i acualy saw a show about urban legends and that was the episode i caught
but they said that it was bowie maryland
they even an interview with some guy claiming he saw it

[mazzy]

On the London underground a friend of a friend was sitting late at night in a carriage. Opposite her were two men with a woman in the middle, they were the only other people present. She noticed that the woman was sitting very upright and had these strange wide open eyes and wouldn't stop staring at her. At the next stop another man got on and sat down next to the friend of a friend, after a while he whispered in her ear "Get off at the next stop whether it's your stop or not..." Both of them got off leaving the staring woman and two men behind. The man said "I didn't mean to scare you but I am a doctor and that woman was dead, those men were holding her up."

I really believed that this had happened to my friend's friend until the other day I was telling someone and they had heard it before. Urban myth.

[Darth_Badman]

There's that one where you go into a room and shut off the lights and stand in front of a mirror yelling "Bloody Mary!" three times. It was pretty scary because like this chick was supposed to burst through a mirror and slash you or something. Pretty fun when your home alone with friends back when you were six. Pretty sucky when your twenty three and trying to take a leak in the bathroom.

[Lord Rocha]

Originally posted by mazzy@May 28 2004, 07:34 AM
On the London underground a friend of a friend was sitting late at night in a carriage. Opposite her were two men with a woman in the middle, they were the only other people present. She noticed that the woman was sitting very upright and had these strange wide open eyes and wouldn't stop staring at her. At the next stop another man got on and sat down next to the friend of a friend, after a while he whispered in her ear "Get off at the next stop whether it's your stop or not..." Both of them got off leaving the staring woman and two men behind. The man said "I didn't mean to scare you but I am a doctor and that woman was dead, those men were holding her up."

I really believed that this had happened to my friend's friend until the other day I was telling someone and they had heard it before. Urban myth.
That one really sounds interesting, such as the popular known fact that the orange juice containers and machines of McDonalds easily become an excellent place where flies and cockroaches can hatch their eggs when those containers are not cleaned correctly (I suppose most of the times). An insider of McDonalds told me that one....

...and the one of his hairy friend who cooked fries while wearing a simple tank top, and all his chest hairs fell into the fries...... style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/barf.gif

[cj790]

Originally posted by Darth_Badman@May 29 2004, 05:03 AM
There's that one where you go into a room and shut off the lights and stand in front of a mirror yelling "Bloody Mary!" three times. It was pretty scary because like this chick was supposed to burst through a mirror and slash you or something. Pretty fun when your home alone with friends back when you were six. Pretty sucky when your twenty three and trying to take a leak in the bathroom.
Yeah, I've heard that.
It's like the Candyman film, which is actually an urban myth too - the real story is that you call his name thirteen times though. The producers of the film cut it down to three to speed the process up.

[stormtrooper9]

There scary, there fun, They may make places well known. For some reason I have an interests in them. Feel free to share local stores, but first I have a few questions for poeple who live in NJ and VA.
For people living in NJ, What are your thoughts on Clinton Road and Shades Of Death Road, if you have been there did you experance anything? Also What are some of the stories that gos around with this road? Did you ever see any of the pictures that are suppose to be on Shades of Death Road? If you did what did they look like?
For people living in VA, What are your views on Bunny Man's Bridge? Again have you been there? Did you experance anything? Oh is it true now they are building houses around that bridge now?

Detroit which is north of me has a few http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=133&category=life

[Tovor]

What's a ledgen?

[Kam Solusar]

A mix between a ledger and a legend?

[stormtrooper9]

What's a ledgen?
*sighs* I thought we were passed that stage, :p
I thought it was spelt right *kicks Firefox's Spell check*

[ForceFlow]

lets see there is the Jersey Devil

its about this lady who had a drunk for a husband and was always getting her pregnent on her last child her 13th she said "let this one be a devil!" and it is said the boy was born with strange deformities and raised terror in south jersey and people say he looked like what a devil would and thats the expanse of my knowledge if anyone knows anymore add to what i have put
XD

-Fangs

[RollaFett]

There scary, there fun, They may make places well known. For some reason I have an interests in them. Feel free to share local stores, but first I have a few questions for poeple who live in NJ and VA.
For people living in NJ, What are your thoughts on Clinton Road and Shades Of Death Road, if you have been there did you experance anything? Also What are some of the stories that gos around with this road? Did you ever see any of the pictures that are suppose to be on Shades of Death Road? If you did what did they look like?
For people living in VA, What are your views on Bunny Man's Bridge? Again have you been there? Did you experance anything? Oh is it true now they are building houses around that bridge now?

Detroit which is north of me has a few http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=133&category=life

I've lived in Jersey my whole life and have never heard of the roads you're referring to.
I too, however, know of the Jersey devil, but details are fuzzy at the moment, so I cannot offer anything further on that, Forceflow.

[ForceFlow]

Stormtrooper9 never heard of those roads either

My neighborhood has an urban legend well kinda two.
I live in a farm town in north jersey and up until 6 years ago my neighborhood was a hay field. we have a horse trail in the woods that is said that revolutinary war brits and yanks marched on. anyway on with the story the trail had a train on it and it is said that the family that owned the hay fields were walking on the tracks picking the wild berries there in the woods and they were killed by a train and you can hear there screaming. I swear when i first moved here i heard it but i dont hear it but i dunno ppl say they still hear the screaming its eerie!

the second is just about my neighbors who are probably vampires i came up with the theroy and its become a legend circulating around town. I have facts! they have a parapiph custom built house so it looks caslty. they only and i mean ONLY come out at night! there son is 16 barley two years older then i am and he never leaves the house plus he has a freaky interview with a vampire look going on. creepy red lights come from the tower part of the house at night. and when you go trick or treating at there house you take candy from a bowl on the steps and people swear they hear strange sucking sounds i for one have never heard hear it myself. Its become a story the fourth graders tell the first graders to scare them to death lol. So i created an urban legend. lol

[Krogenar]

You guys all know the story of how Mister Rogers', the famous children's television show actor, was also a Navy SEAL sniper, and that he always wore long sleeves on the show in order to cover up his numerous tattoos?

Completely true. :wink:

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp