If you are an open minded person, you may be open to the suggestion that crystal skulls are in fact real, and not just a myth made up by an attention seeking madman. Many people think that the idea of there being anything on this earth that posesses strange and unusaul powers is just stupid and untrue, but the more research you do on these topics, the more difficult it becomes to argue with the huge number of unexplainable occurances.
Golden age Hollywood was pretty much a hot-bed for spooky urban legends. Tales of wild parties, vanishing starlets, criminal cover-ups and on-set antics abound from the 1910s through to the 1950s. It was a heyday for movies and a heyday for… well pretty much anything you could get up to in a newly rich desert town with the police on your side.
Before the advent of such uninspiring modern inventions as PR people, health and safety and… I don’t know, online recruitment software, urban legends about the movie business spread like partially truthful wild fire.
One of the most famous Hollywood urban legends concernsThe Wizard of Oz. For years it was believed that at one point in the movie you can see one of the Munchkin actors hang himself. If you look carefully (very carefully!) during the scene when Dorothy and Scarecrow meet the Tin Man a shadowy movement in the background does look oddly like someone hanging from a tree. The myth gained momentum and detail: it was suggested that the suicide hung himself from a broken heart, caused by unrequited love for another one of the performers.
For a long time it was suggested that the studio had dodged answering questions about the supposed suicide, and this added fuel to the fire. However, this was never the case. They’ve always maintained that the unusual shadow was one of the live birds they hired in from Los Angeles zoo to decorate the techni-coloured set. The most likely culprit is a crane or pelican! This does seem more plausible- I can’t imagine Judy Garland et al happily acting away whilst someone meets their demise behind them! You’d think they’d pause filming at least.
Of course, this won’t convince the most hardened urban legend fan. There are a whole range of clips of this scene on youtube for you to check out yourself- in black and white, in colour, mastered, unmastered… Have a look and see- is it an unchecked suicide or a bird stretching its wings?
We all enjoy our food and occasionally, like to try out different cuisines. Often when we are pressed for time or just want to eat out, it is the perfect occasion to try something innovative. Recently I decided to make a career change and was looking for primary teaching jobs as I felt that would be more fulfilling. In the melee'of applying and attending interviews, I found I was indulging myself rather frequently. A friend noticed this and remarked that More
In terms of horrible urban legends that are a little too close-to-home, the old “wash your mouth out with soap” saying is one that I know only too well. Not because I’ve done it, of course, but because a friend of mine – a moron, too – has. I was there at the time and I suppose you could blame me. If I hadn’t have said what I said…
“You can’t wash your mouth out with soap,” I told my friend Dan. It was a mistake.
As well as working for some 24 hour fuel oil suppliers and spending much of his working life in a porta-cabin…
The best way I can describe it is suds poisoning…the same symptoms you might get if you ate raw chicken…
my friend Dan is also one of those people who will do anything. Thing is, before the soap incident I had drawn a line somewhere and assumed that even Dan had a limit…which was also a mistake, as I should have known that no line can ever be drawn where Dan is concerned.
So that was when he did it. He just ran up to my bathroom and grabbed the soap of the sink and shoved it in his mouth.
Within a few seconds the first sign of frothing appeared. It was a good job nobody else was in the house or they’d have seriously questioned how close Dan had recently been to a rabid dog (he’d be nowhere near as it happens, thanks to his hating dogs, rabid or otherwise).
Soon he started to choke and splutter. The next time he opened his mouth it was absolutely FULL WITH SUDS AND IT WAS DISGUSTING. Then he burped and out came, you guessed it, bubbles.
So Dan did it all right. He clearly wasn’t prepared for what happened next, though. If he had of know what was coming then he’d have never attempted it…
The best way I can describe it is suds poisoning…the same symptoms you might get if you ate raw chicken.
The vomiting lasted for about 48 hours if I remember correctly. In the end he finally, sensibly, took himself to the doctor’s where he was promptly told he had to be “one of the most stupid men alive ever.”
Funny and horrendous, that’s Dan all over.
I suggest you don’t try this at home. Not unless you want to be blowing bubbles and having them come out of ever orifice – and I do mean EVERY – for the foreseeable future…
Until recently, I thought the whole people-eat-road-kill-thing was some kind of a morbid joke. Something that was on par with the “my friend did Bloody Mary in the mirror 5 times and she got attacked…” legend that we all grew up with.
The thing is, though, some people really do eat road-kill. As I witnessed last week. Now is the time to turn away if you want to, and don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Whilst in a Travel Agents to book my holiday to Lanzarote I got talking with the branch manager Dawn about the many rumours and urban myths that exist around the world. She began telling me about something that had happened to several people who had been on holiday to Lanzarote that quite frankly terrified and excited me at the same time.
Whilst we were browsing through Lanzarote Villas, Dawn began to show me one villa that was apparently haunted. More
Legends are as difficult as waiting for the results of DNA Testing but sometimes easy to believe especially as kids. For many kids who grew up in some parts of Africa, they had a unique legend about the city of London as shared by the numerous African course mates I have. The one that struck me the most is the one about the gold plated streets of the ancient city. You really don’t have to go back to read that More
We’ve all heard this infamous urban legend, but how many of us have actually come across conclusive evidence to suggest that this has ever really happened?
Well, I haven’t, but I’ll tell you a story now and it might just change your mind and make you think twice the next time you chew gum…
I was 15 when it happened. I was eating M&Ms. Now, as anyone who loves the chocolate ones will tell you, few things are as highly More
The legend of the Mothman goes way back. I’m not a historian, unfortunately, so that’s as accurate as I’m going to be, but the fact is that the film The Mothman Prophecies (which is an awful waste of time I wish I could erase from my brain, featuring Richard Gere in a role that takes some influence from a real story that allegedly happened) is not wholly fiction. Reports of a strange man-sized flying bird (body, that is, with enormous More
You know the legend: say “Bloody Mary” in a mirror at midnight, and the child murderer will come through the mirror to get you. Notice I didn’t state a number of times you had to say her name. That varies from story to story, as does the origin of Bloody Mary.
Some say that Bloody Mary was a child murderer, while others say it’s none other than Queen Mary the First herself. In a way, the origins of the story More
