Urban Legend fuel...
 

I have an idea. lets come up with stories and try to pass them off to co-workers, family, so on as "real", but just off enough that they seem like a plausible urban legend. Start it if with "I heard" or something like that. OR, just state it as fact and let them try to look it up :).

DO NOT post actual urban legends, or actual facts (unless you are referencing them)
Here are some from me:

Frank Sinatra provided the voice for Woodstock in the old Peanuts cartoons. He asked not to be credited.

A cotton ball fired out of a rifle can penetrate the skin.

Brown Recluse spiders get into houses through toilets and sinks. the same evolutionary "fluke" that made them so poisonous also allows them to hold their breath for 20 days.

Gerald Ford is descended directly from the barbarian Hannibal.

A man in Pennsylvania had a psychotic episode where he believed he was the sole survivor in a "Night of the Living dead" style apocalypse. He injured 6 neighbors from his roof with a hunting rifle because he inssisted they were zombies.

a little girl went missing in Michigan. a diver was sent to check a local lake incase she may have been dumped. the rural lake had been overrun with pirrahna. apparently someone had a pair as pets and decided they didnt want them anymore. unfortunately populating the water with the deadly meat eaters. the diver was attacked shortly after entering the water, his partner was able to pull him and what was left of his legs back into the boat.


something like that?

Exactly :)

Good one too, btw. :D


Pool filters in Connecticut were recalled after it was found that some of the parts were made of dried Box Jellyfish eggs. The eggs have unparralelled filtering abilities, but they filters were recalled after concernas were raised about the eggs potetially hatching. Box Jellyfish are the world's most poisonous animal.

(the last part is true)


One out of every 7 used cars sold in the US has been used in a homocide.

The letter Y didnt exist in our alphabet before 1492. It was invented to avoid confusion between words conatining I and E when being translated from Arabic into English and French.

Michael Jackson is a man.

in a pinch, vegetable oil can be used for motor oil

on the back of quaters minted 2002, there is a small tribute bearing "we will never forget" on the back, bottom right

buffalo have two penises

In the olympics the less competitors a country has, the more lenient the judges are to score in order to "even the playing field"

ok here's this
 

yellow 5 can lower a mans sperm count, also lowering the risk of getting pregnant while having unprotected sex.

(true) the disney company has been putting sexualinuendos in their children films for over 75 years.

last year a man was in australia surfing when a great white bit off his second(lower) half almost off,just below the genitals, a couple going by in their boat saw the man and pulled him aboard. luckily the man was alive. the couple quickly went upon shore getting medic help and in enough time the man was saved. he is now doing well, and is currently going in for reconstructive surgery. he hopes to get some of his lower bodyparts back, but its not too likely.

in florida after hurricane charley left hundreds of people without homesthe people had nowhere to turn, now they are in threat of another hurricane, francis, and are doing nothing about it. they say its not likely the hurricane will hit us from the east coast.

a girl in denver was living her life as if she didnt belong in her body. she never wore dresses and always played how the boys did. in her later years she went ot a doctor and asked if she could "change", the doctor replied yes, and she underwent breast removal, and is now having a synthetic penis put in/on(??), she hopes everything goes right and soon becomes the man she knows she truly is.

:D hows that for urban legend!!!;)

you stole the first one (yellow 5 aka mountain dew)

not to mention the last one (sex change) happens in real life

pretty often, in fact. i work with 2 men that were once women.

Sorry george.

well duh!! yellow 5 is in md but i never knew it was tru!?:confused:

and the sex change thing is tru, i work with someone like that, but it didnt go over too well!? :eek: but shes still nice(man to woman)

The Lincoln Memorial holds the actual remains of Lincoln

If a human being were to fart, sneeze, burp, and cough at the exact same time, their head would implode.

It is impossible to keep your eyes open while sneezing. No one knows why.

Siamese twins are always the same sex. This is because the 'Siamesing' only happens in identical twins.

Hotels do not have a 13th floor. Even if they are 30 stories tall.

The Special Sauce in a Big Mac contains a mixture of mayo, 1000 Island Dressing, and a Malaysian salamander excrete.

Yawns seem contagious, but they actually are not. They mean your horny.


(Some of mine are true, some are not. See if you can guess which?)