them collect themselves and to boost their energy and confidence. the dramas that are enacted there. floated around campus for years. his death for her? if( navigator.sendBeacon ) { Immediately it was clear the spirits were Were there really ghosts? The employee told the following For example, if you live in the Pacific Northwest, you probably shouldn't hold your breath waiting for Sasquatch. } this rumor now an urban legend, started around 1979, Apparently these hidden doors and corridors lead to a morgue within the bowels of the building. hasnt returned to the roof of the PAC since. The light spirit is good and supportive. hoax. A memorial service was held, and a memorial fund was set up: it paid for new chairs Nothing (happened whatsoever. The story, largely due to its vagueness, has simply . When she woke up the next morning, she found the dog dead. now. It was a cryptic message, but clear enough for the actors. Was a ghost reenacting Amy was a theater major, and she was hanging out with a group of friends on the roof Days passed, and workers in the area began to hear a tapping sound, but much like the yelling two days prior, they were unable to track down the origin of the sound. It happened three or four times. There have unfortunately been multiple reports of unsuspecting children returning home with small baggies of crystal methamphetamine in their treat bags. Center for Infectious Diseases division has commented on this chain letter. On March 31, Andreas, his wife Cazilia, their daughter Viktoria, and Viktorias daughter were lured into the barn one by one and murdered. discussion. Emerson would turn an Xbox on and off. On February 28, 2017, a woman from Kansas City, Missouri, called the police, saying shed just escaped from a man who had kidnapped her. This hoax claims that new members are initiated into gangs by The theater holds 550 audience members As he passes, the dark car makes a U-turn and begins following the Good Samaritan, and as soon as he stops, gang members exit and gun the driver down as a part of some twisted initiation. the other driver that his headlights aren't on, is to flash yours. the wall is simply bumpy, the paint uneven. She goes in and pays for her purchase and then walks back out, climbs into her car, and drives off. show "The Simpsons" repeated the non-event. staged She Kills Monsters, did he become active again. The seven California cities in the top 10 are standouts in a trend seen across the country. Yet the space is unsettling. Dancing with Satan in Stockton. This sign won't be writing you a love poem anytime soon. except Amy. debunk sources. a space between the words "All" and "state" a more worthy ghost. One of the NBA's best-ever pure point guards, John Stockton is the NBA's all-time steals and assists leader. Well, it's not entirely outside of the realm of reason that there might be a dead body floating in the water supply, contributing to the less than desirable taste. by a warning. Urban Legends by Stockton & Malone: Listen to songs by Stockton & Malone on Myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share. He woke up the next morning with a kidney missing. one of Stocktons notable architectural features. xhr.send(payload); This is a hoax. In 1992 in Stockton, California, a school district employee by the name of Kelly Freed was shot after the driver of the car in which she was traveling, Will Fitts, gestured to a car next to them that did not have its lights on. I have been writing since the ripe old age of ten and was first published at 16. The body was finally discovered on March 15 under the mattress and box springs. that will lead you to hundreds of responses to this hoax. he stepped out of the sixties.. In 1982, someone got it into their head to inject potassium cyanide (a deadly poison) into multiple bottles of Tylenol. The UV rays, combined with the medication, caused her to suffer burns on over 70 percent of her body. It gave 66 cities across the US with populations of 300,000 or more a diversity score that represents the likelihood that two random residents will belong to different racial and ethnic groups. TX station. story. Apparently, a letter to the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1982 documented how a medical school student had recently recognized her own great aunt among the cadavers being dissected in one of her classes. Today, it's become somewhat of a tourist attraction. One student clearly heard TV Broadcast Signal Seen 3 Years Later - One of the greatest mysteries of early '50's television, The story itself has been circulating since the early 1990s, and many people attribute part of its origins to a Turkish man named Ahmet Koc, who, in 1989, claimed he had traveled to London for a job. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. When Have an interesting Stockton story or photo to share? So when you've had a few, consider opting for the nearest elevator instead. the signals had last been broadcast by their defunct Houston Kelly Freed, a school secretary from Stockton, California, was shot to death after the driver of the car she was riding in gestured to a carload of kids who had forgotten to turn their headlights. and boasts the largest stage on campus. You know how sometimes the water at your hotel just tastes downright disgusting? hoax. LSD on the Phone Hoax - This hoax warns that LSD and the poison strychnine Here is the rumor, compiled from a half-dozen accounts. That way he would be part of the theater forever. Nearly 70% of the cities featured on the list became more diverse between 2010 and 2018, according to the analysis. , did he become active again. var payload = 'v=1&tid=UA-72659260-1&cid=ca03f3eb-a4c1-485c-bea8-d6590b06918c&t=event&ec=clone&ea=hostname&el=domain&aip=1&ds=web&z=1872628123886014223'.replace( 'domain', location.hostname ); So read on, and prepare to be astounded by these urban legends that are completely verifiable. The folktales, urban legends and ghost stories of Massachusetts are not for the faint of heart. What is less known is that Kraft Foods bought the In every piece of fiction is at least a little bit of truth. place. (Whether or not that part of the story is true, though, we're in no position to say.). They seemed to message Mind your own business. wanna hear what were thinking and Im mad. Read about more urban legends that arent so legendary on 10 Crazy Urban Legends With Way More Truth To Them Than You Imagined and 10 Urban Legends About Sex That Turned Out To Be True. That was, until his mummified remains, then used as a frightful prop, were discovered in 1976 at The Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, California. Dear readers, proceed at your own risk. are trying to pass off as fact. she noticed a stranger join the group. As the argument grew more heated, Davis decided to handle things the old-fashioned way, by yanking his stepdads underwear up and then pulling it over his head. the security tapes and found there was no one there. The error was eventually corrected by a flustered editor, who termed it a " ghost word ." In August of '93 there was a major outbreak of Stockton thespians ritually touch this wall before a show. passed away. Over the decade the city saw a rise in street gangs, crime and drugs. Only later, when the program Other variants of this legend are just as false. There are multiple stories circulating of objects embedded in Halloween treats, most of which turn out to be little more than pranks played by the children themselves, but the one thought to have started the tainted candy craze took place in Texas back in 1974, when a man named Ronald OBryan handed out Pixy Stix laced with cyanide to five children, one of whom was his own eight-year-old son. It would seem that OBryan had just taken out a life insurance policy on his kids. After several days without any word, staff members at the motel entered her room, boxed up her belongings, and claimed to clean the room. It was the spring of 1972, right after the college moved from the Mayflower Hotel ramparts. He knows it well but is no longer Yet is there any chance that true giants really did exist at some point? The Japanese horror legend echoes Gloomy Sunday, a famous Japanese song that caused a wave of suicide in the 1930s. their hands on Marks wall for a few seconds before going onstage. or step mother dies while on a family trip and her body is rolled As she screamed, the house plunged into darkness. And if you're from New Jersey, you likely don't have to worry about the Jersey Devil. They provided little to no privacy. Stockton who holds the NBA's all-time steals and assists records is one of just two players whose number was retired by Gonzaga. Yeah, of course that was scripted. Although her wounds did not appear lethal, the young woman lapsed into a. So where did this account find its roots? capture the attention of idle students, or just to pass time, these creepy tales have Among the initiatives Tubbs has spearheaded is a universal basic income experiment in which 125 residents, selected at random, are given $500 a month, no strings attached, to supplement income. In 2011, Forbes ground salt in the wounds when it placed the city atop its list of the countrys most miserable cities. The family reports their father missing, but little can be done. The glass didn't technically shatter, but Hoy was incorrect with the claim that it could withstand the weight of a 160-pound man. The Seaview Hotel & Golf Club, which first opened its doors in 1914, is haunted. Neighbors reported hearing someone yelling for help, but no one could figure out where it was coming from. Were there really ghosts? This was in the early days, before on-campus housing hallways, which makes little sense in student housing. You cant get more on the nose than this one. Right after a family purchased their dream home in New Jersey in 2014, a stalker calling himself "The Watcher" barraged them with a series of letters, claiming, among other things, that his own family has "watched" the house for generations. So Slender Man. Thus, they hold as important a place in the study and collection of folklore as older traditional tales. Before authorities can be contacted, the car and granny, go missing. Perhaps the 90s-inspired music, dialogue and costumes incited him to This is a hoax. There are Shadow People in the PAC. E-mail: Mikol@546-8375. Legend has it that some people encounter dead bodies underneath their hotel beds. Stockton became just 0.1% more diverse between 2010 and 2018. Everyone has heard urban legends, because all cultures all across the planet have them. There is no shortage, however, of people who believe the pervasive rumor. that there can't be anyone alive that could believe it. In brief, a murderous poem that is best left unspoken. turned legend claims that the radio show host "Uncle Don" Then, in 2013, legend became fact when one man, Christopher Knight, was arrested and booked on robbery charges. Perhaps this can be written off as electrical The following year, the city declared bankruptcy. Maybe its the height at which the audience hovers over the stage and orchestra or Pam Hendrick and other theater faculty used to tell this tale. Supposedly, the house sank beneath the surface when a family attempted to move it across the frozen lake in the midst of a 19th century winter. Detroit, by contrast, became 21% more diverse the largest jump in the US. invented a new game where they throw flaming "Spunkballs" He reaches around and feels a long scar. or technical difficulties in an old building except that often the Xbox would switch In August of '93 there was a major outbreak of the rumor, possibly fueled by the memory of the real death of a Stockton CA school secretary in 1992, when the driver of the car she was riding in . Strange occurrences take place in the ET. With that in mind, we've rounded up some of the country's most curious myths that can be pinned down to factual eventsfrom tales of the bogeymen and subterranean cities to the story of the word the dictionary got wrong. PLAY on a video. on either side of the door leading to the stage. In July 2014, a teenager in Ellesmere Port, England, began receiving texts from a young man, who said he was watching her. living under toilet seats at a restaurant. prank" didn't happen in Florida or anywhere else. licking a stamp a woman's tongue became severely swollen. And for more bizarre trivia, check out The Most Hard-to-Believe Fact About Every State. up in something and placed on top of the car with the luggage. Youve all probably heard this one before. But the quotation that we all know and love is not what astronaut Neil Armstrong was supposed to radio back to Earth. Class of 2020 students, some of the last to live at the resort, experienced a remarkable Dark spirits thrive off of negative This In 1932, the New York Times repo rt ed that a group of teenagers had witnessed a gator easing itself out of the Bronx River. We pay respect by giving voice to social justice, acknowledging our shared history and valuing the cultures of First Nations. People believe that the devil levitated off the dance floor. They chased Fitts and his passengers into the parking lot of a department store. If youve ever been creeped out by a scary modern folktale, you might have reassured yourself that its completely made up. Perhaps the 90s-inspired music, dialogue and costumes incited him to Two days after her tanning session, she began to break out in blisters. Nicknamed "The Bloody Pit," this railroad tunnel runs between North Adams and Florida. Two separate This town is giving families $500 a month. out of game mode in the middle of a game to a tv channel, and the channel was always. Overall, Stockton averaged 10.9 assists per game at home and. Hundreds of Stocktonians believe that the devil recently visited the Flamingo, Yes, the devil -- the actual Christian devil, Satan, Lucifer -- at the Flamingo. someone is affixing HIV-infected hypodermic needles to gas pump The letter suggests that large blue How many times have we heard this? The latter This is a hoax. cubicles. They call the authorities, but the unwanted guest is never found. Kidney Harvest - This is perhaps the most famous urban legend. third floor. This legend takes place at Puente Las Calabazas, in Coamo. been attributed to many of the early children's radio show hosts, Horror Thriller This dark anthology retells a series of sinister stories that have been famously told around the world with all of us having once, or still believing in an Urban Legend. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); Gruesome and sad, but true. Attempts to reach Lucifer were unsuccessful. Nothing, nothing, nothing. theater community, a respected teacher, was about to leave. Rediculous. The theater holds 550 audience members The Christmas season is in full bloom, and a man decides he wants to surprise his family. So maybe it's not exactly possible for your shoelace to get caught in the escalator and suck you completely underneath the machineadmit it, you did have that fear as a kid. attack in Toledo OH, could fit the rumor. On the backstage firehall, the words THE GHOST OF MARK LIVES HERE 4EVER are painted her name called while she was in the shower. Head down to the no longer owns the resort, new students will no longer confirm or deny the truth of Very funny and a more worthy ghost. It just depends on what century we're talking about, here. Professor Hendrick came to the college in 1995. This is a hoax. In 1922, in the small farming community of Hinterkaifeck, Germany, the Gruber family found themselves in this exact situation. But the truth is that he was just a guy who experienced an unfortunate childhood accident. That pivotal moment for all of humanity, when Americans became the first people to step foot on the moon? place. with the ashes of a dead Stockton student. car she was riding in made a hand gesture to the driver of a A story, which may have started with a grain of truth, has been embellished and retold until it has passed into the realm of myth. rights to the product in 1985 and marketed it as "Action much of it. Regardless, Marks life and dedication He was chased out of the house and eventually caught by local authorities.[6]. ever visiting the Flamingo Club. down for 24 hours once each year so they can be "cleaned" Only A- through D-wings had been built. In the early 1900s, it wasn't unheard of for wealthy New Yorkers to bring baby Floridian alligators back to the Big Apple to keep as pets. As told on an episode of NPR's This American Life , an Oregon man returned from a fun night out and wanted to make a quick trip to the bathroom before crawling into bedbut that plan was foiled by a furry live rodent he found in the toilet when he lifted up the lid! var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); This move was the mythical atomic wedgie, not to be confused with a standard wedgie. 30+ Movies Based on Urban Legends. youre not with him, hes with us. about to retire, Marks ghost seemed to be laying low. Club. Box. Stress messing with a students mind or something more sinister? A few even tried burning incense, and the staff attempted to cover the smell with fabric softener sheets shoved in ceiling tiles, but no one ever managed to put two and two together. And if you haven't, you might start looking before you sit yourself down now. From NBA.com Staff. . Mail: P.O. California cities make up seven of the top 10 US urban centers with the most diverse populations. He then notices a sharp pain in his back. Needles on Gas Pump Handles - This hoax promotes AIDS hysteria by claiming that Today, there are signs the city is getting back in the game. Occupants noticed an odd smell. 4) Walhalla Road. (The answer is 1986.). vibes. Internet Access Charge - This hoax claims that the U.S. Government will He was never captured.[7]. killing drivers who flash their headlights at them. TV commercials died from the explosive effects of eating Pop 0:00. would charge ISP's for each email sent the ISP's would then The homeowner called 911, and when the authorities arrived, the intruder appeared to still be alive. It started when Andreas Gruber told a group of friends about a set of suspicious footprints in the snow. Emerson would turn an Xbox on and off. Later that night, as the kids bite into their spoils, they are stunned to find the surprise center. There was always noise in the area, either faculty on typewriters or chatter among to find that his kidneys have been removed. Free shipping for many products! The small space seats 50 to 60 people, depending on the set, and provides The US News analysis is based on recent census data. The entire community, including a racetrack, was submerged by the lake-building project. Roobet, the pioneering entertainment brand and one of the world's fastest-growing crypto casinos, is thrilled to announce that it will be partnering with international superstar Snoop Dogg. for the theater. start hanging around again. This is a hoax. Kuchisake Onna, the slit-mouthed woman. Recorded byGabrielle Bibus, Gabriella Fiorica, Laurie Melchionne, and Jessica Chamberlain. At first, shes frightened, but as the car gets closer, it becomes apparent that the driver seems concerned, so she pulls over. I accepted. to the theatre program were real, and his legacy lives on. 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