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WEIRD URBAN LEGENDS

Added on: 8th Jun 2016

 

THE DEAD BODY OUT FOR A SWIM

If you think public pools are gross due to little kids peeing in the pool,

that will be the least of your worries after reading about this urban

legend which turned out to be true. Two days after her disappearance,

Marie Joseph was found by a passer-by, limp and lifeless at the bottom

of the pool. The cause of death? Drowning, two days earlier.

Joseph had gone down a slide with her neighbour’s son. Upon landing

in the pool, she began to sink. Her neighbour’s son reported it

immediately but the lifeguards ignored the claims, not even noticing

the dead body at the bottom of the deep end for the next two full

days as locals swam above.

 

 

THE REAL-LIFE GREEN LANTERN

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The Green Lantern may be just be a comic book superhero (though

we hope he’s real and out there somewhere), but an urban legend

of a green man wandering Pennsylvania turns out to be true. Also

known as Charlie No-Face, Raymond Robinson was a normal boy

who took on a friend’s dare to climb a trolley bridge. Reaching

the top, he accidentally touched an electricity line which sent

22,000 volts of electricity through his body, severely disfiguring

his face. To avoid being seen by the locals (many of whom were

scared by his appearance), Robinson took walks late at night,

sometimes meeting teenagers or others who would drive along

Route 351 in an attempt to grab a glimpse of him. It’s unknown

if his skin was a pale shade of green or if he was just frequently

seen in his favourite-green shirt.

 

 

BURIED ALIVE (IN 2011)

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It has become well-known in recent years that, before medicine’s

understanding of comas, humans were buried alive; to combat this,

a string was attached to the deceased’s wrist and connected to a

small bell above ground which a caretaker would listen for.

Well, this 2011 case proves love can make us blind and crazy.

Polish woman Michelina Lewandowska found that out when she

awoke in an old TV box, with hands and feet duct taped up,

after being tasered by her (now) ex-boyfriend, but Lewandowska

was the most clever one, using her sharp engagement ring to

break the tape before digging her way out through the earth

piled above her.

 

 

FROZEN ALIVE (AGAIN, IN 2011)

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If being buried alive isn’t enough of a shock for you, how about

dying in another type of box for the dead? A morgue locker.

Eighty-year-old Maria de Jesus Arroyo was (incorrectly)

presumed dead after a heart attack in 2011 and taken to the

morgue. Funeral workers later came to pull her body from the

frigid lockers to prepare her for the funeral. Rather than a normal

dead body, they found an unzipped body bag and a corpse

filled with bruises, evidence that she awoke in the locker

and tried to escape.

 

 

THE NEARLY-EXPLODING, ENGORGED SHIP

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After a fire broke out in a freighter’s cargo of lumber, the crew

continuously doused the smouldering wood with water over the

next 3.5 weeks to keep it from reigniting. What they didn’t

consider was other cargo which could be affected. Fifteen hundred

tons of tapioca (enough to serve a million eaters) in the cargo

hold slowly simmered (due to the heat and water) and

expanded so much it nearly burst the ship.

 

 

THE REAL-LIFE ACCIDENTAL HANGING

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Sparta, Michigan, was rocked by the startling death of fourteen-year-old

Caleb Rebh choked to death. While acting at a Halloween experience,

Caleb replaced a skeleton hanging from a noose to scare hayride

visitors. Though his feet were still on the ground after letting go of

the rope, the line was pulled so taut that he soon suffocated as

his fellow workers looked on in amusement at what they

thought was acting.

 

 

THE ESCAPE ARTIST'S ROUTINE THAT

WENT ALL WRONG

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Though they look dangerous, escape artists’ stunts are far-from-it.

Whether it’s being straight-jacketed at the bottom of a pool or

locked in a burning, run-away car, escape artists always make it

out just in time – almost. Joseph “Amazing Joe” Burrus, in going

for the biggest stunt of his career, was locked up in a

transparent plastic coffin seven-feet (2.1m) down. Above him

was three feet of dirt followed by four of concrete, the weight of

which came crashing down on him, killing him in another

wild but true urban legend.

 

 

WAKING UP IN AN ICE BATH WITH A KIDNEY MISSING

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One of the most fraudulent urban legends out there relates to

waking up in a bathtub filled with ice; after drinks with a stranger

the night before, you read a note saying you’re missing a

kidney and need hospital care. Though this exact reading of the

urban legend is false, there have been hundreds of true stories

like it. From 2000-2008, about 500 Indians were caught up in

an illegal kidney-transplant ring run by four doctors, five nurses,

twenty paramedics, and three private hospitals. Many of the

victims were day labourers picked up on the streets with the

promise of work. Naseem Mohammad was one such man who

had his kidney removed in early 2008.

 


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