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  by missbobetier / on Jan 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “urban legends”

 

• Friday Blogging Experience: Favorite Urban Legends

  
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  Send to Kindle We’ve all heard them: those stories that are told about scary and horrifying things that supposedly happened in our neck of the woods. But under more scrutiny, it turns out that most of them never happened, and most of them are being told in other localities as well. All areas have their own ...
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• La Muerta Blanca–The White Death

  
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  Once, there was a little girl in Mexico who hated life. She hated her life so much that she wished she could obliterate any trace of having existed. So she committed suicide. Her family mourned, but not for long, because a few days later their bodies were found in the family home, torn apart as if by a wild animal. ...
  6 days ago

• The Unknown Woman of the Seine

  
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  Unfortunately, in large cities the world over, the sight of a body floating down a river is not all that uncommon. People could end up in a watery grave for any number of reasons, be it a simple slip off a high place, foul play, or suicide. It has been that way for a long time, probably since the first cities were ...
  1 week ago

• Toronto Urban Legends: Len Koenecke’s Flight Into Infamy

  
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  The circumstances surrounding outfielder Len Koenecke’s death in the skies above Toronto seem almost too crazy to be true. The truth behind the tales people tell about Toronto. Photo by fotograf.416 , from the Torontoist Flickr Pool . For a major-league baseball player, getting sent down to the minors ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Haunted Island of the Moai

  
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  As I type this, the blank eyes of a moai statue stare at me from my computer monitor. A friend and I discussed moai yesterday, mostly about their appeal in the paranormal community. They feature in in the so called “ World Grid Theory “, which posits that Earth is latticed in a grid of energy lines that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vampire Legends FREE GAME

  
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  Vampire Legends Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova Collector’s Edition is an incredible adventure based on the true story of the first documented case of vampirism ever! Who or what is killing the townspeople of Kisilova? You and your partner are sent on an improbable journey by the Imperial Court in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Hunt for E.T. Begins

  
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  It’s a game so bad it’s almost legendary: “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” for the Atari 2600 tops every critics list for the worst game of all time.  It was so bad, in fact, that it caused a massive crash among the gaming industry, resulting in the bankruptcy of multiple companies and the end of consoles such as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Documentary filmmakers to excavate infamous Atari E.T. landfill

  
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  A planned excavation will soon give closure to a long-standing video game urban legend, and may provide new insight into the industrys crash in 1983. Canada-based film production company Fuel Industries has obtained permission from the City Commission of Alamogordo, New Mexico to excavate a landfill containing a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Urban legend Atari E.T. game to be dug up on its 30th anniversary

  
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  If you know your video game history, the very mention of the Atari 2600 E.T. game will make your eyes light up as you reach for your tinfoil hat. The game is said to…
  2 weeks ago

• The Legend of the Hookman

  
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  A boat hook. Possibly similar to the hook the Hookman grafted in place of his missing hand. Credit: Hannes Grobe Night has fallen over a small town in the US (perhaps the next town over?), and a pair of teens are headed up a dusty, rutted country road, to the local “Lover’s Lane”. Date night has gone well, and ...
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• Urban Legend (1998)

  
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  You would have thought, given the stuff I write about on this blog, that I would have reviewed this movie a long time ago. It turns out that I’ve only ever seen it once, and pretty well forgotten about it until about last Friday, when it occurred to me that I hadn’t seen Urban Legend in ages and ought to give it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yeti Amigurumi Pattern

  
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  Hot, summer days are nearly upon us, but that doesn’t mean we have to solely embrace swimsuits and suntan lotion.  We can hold onto that last little bit of winter. . .by making a cuddly, cute yeti friend. I wrote this pattern because I saw plenty of adorable yeti patterns online and yet not a single one of ...
  3 weeks ago

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