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Some Things are Not Responsible For China’s Rise

Global policy analysts really love to explain just how much they know about China’s rise. But it’s not that hard to make wild predictions about what’s responsible for China’s crazy rise to the top, because so few people have enough experience to truly understand the socio-political context in which China exists. Take these examples of some things that are (satirically) responsible for China’s rise in order to really understand how wrong so many analysts are.

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Your Ammunition Against False Urban Legends: Snopes

There are just thousands of urban legends that float around. These stories are tales that you’ve heard from many people, all of whom tell it as “a friend of a friend’s uncle” or some similarly long connection, just enough that you don’t know them. Usually this is actually the person that told them the story, but of course the person telling the story helps add legitimacy to the story that’s supposed to be a true one by claiming that it More

Urban legends – that happen to be true

Let’s face it; all the best camp fire horror stories either start or end with the words “This is all true…” Of course, most of the time people say those words, they’re talking a load of rubbish; like the story about the hook handed killer or the guard dog with the human finger in his throat. All great spooky stories – enough to give you nightmares – but not a shred of truth in any of them.
So why tell More

Brain Or Reality?

Like UFOs, Cryptozooological animals and other paranormal/supernatural-related things, urban legends have fascinated human beings ever since language has been around. One of the most intriguing things about them, of course, is that as the years go by and our world changes, so do the urban legends, morphing and becoming updated with the times but seemingly never losing that edge that means they seem so realistic.

While some put this down to a psychological effect that all human beings experience, others More

Oujia Board: The Ideomotor Effect

Of all the creepy things that we remember from our childhood, there is possibly nothing more unsettling than the idea of messing with a Ouija board. Originally just a game, created by a businessman named Elijah Bond at the end of the 1890s, it then went on to be adopted by a man named Paul Curran, who, during the World Wars, made it famous by insisting it was more than just a game… To this day, little explanation can be More

Dead Dog Suitcase

OK, so, living in London, you do get to hear the occasionally wacky story usually they are about vw camper vans for sale or silly things that uni students end up doing. Like the time my sister tried to take an armchair on the tube, but they wouldn’t let her so she took it on the bus instead. But this story really takes the cake.

It’s a while ago now, but still within the last couple of years, that my More

Urban Legends

As children we often lent a patient ear to folk tales and legends. Some were easily forgotten while some left deep etches in our memories for the longest time. Let’s delve into the world of urban legends.

1) Honey we are sleeping over the dead body!

How many times have you checked into a hotel and looked under your mattress? Almost, never! A young couple did just that. Legend says that, they checked into a hotel and spent the entire More

The rustle in the house at Russel Street

The incident dates back to quite some years. Set back in the “City of Joy”, Kolkata in India, when it indeed was one. Like many settlers arriving from the suburbs in search of better pastures of progress the family of the Bhattacharjee’s moved into the city. They left their ancestral property back in their village under a lease agreement with another of their relative.

The family of five consisting of Mr Bhattacharjee and his wife and three children all More

The Lady in Lace

Ever heard of the Lady in Lace? Be careful not to walk down the Seventeen Mile Drive in California, USA during a cold night. In fact, you should avoid it at all costs if you don’t want a spooky encounter with the Lady in Lace. She is said to lurk along the Seventeen Mile Drive and there has been tons of sighting of her every year.

There are few people who claim the ghost is that of Dona Maria del More

Urban Legend: Resurrection Mary

The urban legend of Resurrection Mary is unique to the Chicago area, and is considered the area’s most famous ghost story. It tells the story of a female hitchhiker (Mary) who is wearing a white dress, and had blonde hair and blue eyes. Some reports have said that Mary was wearing a shawl, and carrying a hand bag, while others are less detailed. She is usually thought to be young possibly in her late teens or early twenties.

The myth More