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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.

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Beware: Babysitters can cook too!

As far as urban legends go, I usually ignore them but this stayed with me for a long time. I heard it while my friend and I were cooking dinner for our sleepover at her place. Since I’m considered strong enough to handle anything and this one legend freaked me out, I thought it’ll be fun to test your limits as well! So here it is, listen up now.

There was a newly married couple who were deeply in love. More

Urban legends: Fear no more–just turn around and run!

For all those people who say they don’t believe in urban legends, I say that you haven’t heard this one yet. I happened to hear of it during a night stay I had with my friends from university in a hostel when I was skiing in italy, long time back. We were circulating legends and wondering whether there are actually any of them related to hostels since that would be the scariest option considering our setting. One of my More

The Fascination Of Urban Legends

Human beings, from time immemorial, are attracted to stories that are mysterious, uncanny, bizarre, dark and preternatural. Urban legends or contemporary myths wield a similar fascination because they directly appeal to our sense of wonder and superstition.

We cannot help but be affected by such experiences because we feel that they are not beyond the realm of probability. We know that certain tales that were apocryphal at one time are documented truths, at present. We know that people were actually More

Ghostly Gravity

What goes up must come down; the old saying is referring to gravity, a nice simple way for the non-scientific masses to understand the pull from an object with mass. The scientific explanation developed by Einstein is considerably more complex and involves references to the space time distortion caused by an objects mass. But what if there is a place where gravity does not apply. How would Einstein and his fellow scientists explain the odd situation?

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Legend Of The Thunderbird

The Thunderbird: sighted for hundreds of years, the stuff of legend. But is it legend? Or is there something more to the mysterious sightings of a giant bird in Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas?

Regardless of the time period in question, the bird is described, in almost all accounts, as follows: six feet tall, brown / black feathers, enormous wings; a large and sharp beak and almost humanoid in movement when on the ground. The name comes from the Indian More

Death By Gold Paint!

A friend was talking to me about films recently and we tried to figure out which was the greatest James Bond movie? He suggested Moonraker but I was firmly in the Goldfinger camp. It was then that he told me that the actress Shirley Eaton had died during filming of the movie as a result of being painted gold! Well I had to investigate further.

There are many memorable things about the movie of course: Sean Connery at his roguish More

Strange Things Happening!

So we of all people know that a lot of strange things go on in the world today, we also know that what people write on the internet is even stranger that that! So here at E Cat China (Eating Cats in China) we had the genius idea over eating Chinese food in London (yes, that’s where the name came from) that we should try and put together all of the strange and wonderful Urban Legends and generally weird stories that we have heard over the years! So welcome and we hope you enjoy this monstrosity that we are putting together!  

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