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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Nov 25, 2009 9:34:33 GMT -5
Post your favorite urban legends here. I'll start! Clown Statue
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Post by Johawn on Nov 25, 2009 10:06:52 GMT -5
Post your favorite urban legends here. I'll start! Clown StatueThat is hella creepy.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Nov 25, 2009 10:32:19 GMT -5
Post your favorite urban legends here. I'll start! Clown StatueThat is hella creepy. I prefer it over the "babysitter gets a call from upstairs". It just comes off as much creepier. And for those wondering about the "babysitter gets a call from upstairs", here you go: The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs
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Post by leapinglambert on Nov 25, 2009 15:47:54 GMT -5
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Nov 25, 2009 16:18:45 GMT -5
Post your favorite urban legends here. I'll start! Clown StatueThat is hella creepy. Made even worse by that creepy clown picture in the scopes article. One of my favorite urban legends is the "Aren't you glad that you didn't turn on the lights" story. Just because it's kind of creepy of how close a call the girl who's not murdered had. There's also the "Humans can lick too" legend that is very similiar in tone.
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Nov 25, 2009 16:19:18 GMT -5
Wasn't there a movie about some babysitter who calls the police and the cops say the call is coming from inside the house?
Like a 1970's movie? Sounds real similar.
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Post by Brother Coyote on Nov 25, 2009 16:36:49 GMT -5
Wasn't there a movie about some babysitter who calls the police and the cops say the call is coming from inside the house? Like a 1970's movie? Sounds real similar. Yes there was but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called.
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Post by Young Game on Nov 25, 2009 16:42:13 GMT -5
Wasn't there a movie about some babysitter who calls the police and the cops say the call is coming from inside the house? Like a 1970's movie? Sounds real similar. Yes there was but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called. "When A Stranger Calls"
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Post by andrew8798 on Nov 25, 2009 16:42:45 GMT -5
Wasn't there a movie about some babysitter who calls the police and the cops say the call is coming from inside the house? Like a 1970's movie? Sounds real similar. When A Stranger Calls came out in 79 and a remake in 06
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Nov 25, 2009 17:03:36 GMT -5
Melonheads: it's creepy because it's local. I used to live no more than five minutes (by automobile) away from the Allegan Woods (between Holland, MI, and Saugatuck, MI) where the Melonheads live. Creepy .... Oh, and the Felt Mansion mentioned in that article? Totally haunted. And creepy to even drive past, to be honest.
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Post by Lick Ness Monster on Nov 25, 2009 20:04:25 GMT -5
I absolutely love urban legends. They're modern-day incarnations of that long-ago staple/rite-of-passage known as the campfire scary story. In general, I also love any story that taps into the current world's most basic fears, and that's why urban legends form and continue to evolve.
My favorite urban legend of all time has to be the legendary "alligators in the sewers of New York City" story. There's an old New York Times article that seems to verify its truth, although it's obviously come under fire from more than a few debunkers. I personally don't know whether the story (from the 1920s at its origin) is true or false, but the notion that there are colonies of alligators thriving under the mightiest city in the U.S. is fascinating. Back when I used to religiously follow the show, I always thought that an X-Files episode centered around this urban legend would have been dynamite. Hell, they did one for the Jersey Devil.
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Nov 26, 2009 1:52:27 GMT -5
Jayne Mansfield being decapitated in the car crash that killed her. I know it's been debunked but I refuse to let this one go.
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Post by The Charismatic Enabeler on Nov 26, 2009 1:55:45 GMT -5
According to legend theres a railroad overpass called Trowbridge here that many people were murdered at or commited suicide on and if you go there and look over the side you'll die a violent death.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Nov 26, 2009 2:02:50 GMT -5
Jayne Mansfield being decapitated in the car crash that killed her. I know it's been debunked but I refuse to let this one go. It's only debunked because it wasn't TECHNICALLY a decapitation. Decapitation means the head comes off. Only part of Mansfield's head came off.
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Nov 26, 2009 2:06:15 GMT -5
Jayne Mansfield being decapitated in the car crash that killed her. I know it's been debunked but I refuse to let this one go. It's only debunked because it wasn't TECHNICALLY a decapitation. Decapitation means the head comes off. Only part of Mansfield's head came off. In my world her whole head came off. I can't hear you. LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
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