CREEPY URBAN LEGENDS
Added on: 3rd Jan 2016
THE TUG-OF-WAR MATCH TO TUG YOUR ARM OFF
In one of the largest tug-of-war matches ever held, 800 people
lined up on each side of a nylon rope to be crowned the winners at
Retrocession Day celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan. Each side pulled as
hard as they could, exerting three times more force than the rope was
capable of withstanding, causing the rope to snap along with the arms
of the two men in front. Yang Chiung-ming and Chen Ming-kuo each
had their arms ripped apart between the shoulder and elbow due
to the force of the rebounding rope. Thankfully, they were rushed to
hospital where doctors spent seven hours reattaching their limbs.
DEATH BY CHIMNEY
Santa Claus somehow manages to make it down millions of chimneys
every year without a hitch – and that’s real magic. Humans aren’t so
magical, as a Californian doctor with relationship problems found out.
In an attempt to infiltrate her boyfriend’s house. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac
tried to climb down the chimney but got stuck in its confines.
Three days later, a house sitter saw fluids dripping down the fireplace
and smelled rotting flesh, soon discovering the decomposing cause.
THE CHEF WHO COOKED HIS OWN WIFE
A truly accomplished chef can turn even the toughest meat into a
tender, satisfying meal. Chef David Viens must have really thought
himself skilled when he tried cooking some tough meat – his wife.
After an argument, Viens duct-taped his wife up and found her dead
the following morning. Trying to destroy the evidence, he cooked her
in a massive pot (yes, her whole, intact body) for four days.
FLESH-EATING MAGGOTS IN YOUR HEAD
British national Rochelle Harris had a wonderful time on her hiking
trip in Peru – until she got back home. Initially ruled as an ear
infection, doctors soon found a “writhing mass of maggots” feeding
on the flesh of Harris’s ear. A New World screwworm fly had laid eggs
in her ear canal which soon caused seething pain down her face
and a strange discharge from her ear. Doctors successfully
removed the maggots and Harris made a full recovery.
EATING NAILS FOR BREAKFAST
In a serious lesson on food safety, a Galveston, Texas, girl showed
up to the emergency room with severe pain in her throat. After
x-raying her oesophagus, doctors found a piece of metal wire
lodged therein. What had happened? Some days earlier, her
father was cleaning the barbecue grill with a metal wire brush.
Since he didn’t wipe the grill down with a cloth afterwards, shards
of metal remained and lodged themselves into the next meal
the family cooked, which the girl ate.
SLEEPING ON THE DECEASED
One of the urban legends which is often shockingly true is the
dead body under the hotel bed. On multiple instances, including
2003 in Kansas City, 1994 in Miami, and 1996 in Pasadena, hotel
guests complained to staff about a foul, noxious odour emanating
from the room. After hotel staff checked (most times they already
smelled something foul and ignored it), they found a dead,
decomposing body under the mattress frame.
FUNNY-TASTING WATER
When visiting a foreign city or country, it’s natural to think the water
tastes a little funny. This feeling was stepped way up when
vacationing families at Los Angeles’s Cecil Hotel noticed black
water coming out of the tap. A maintenance worker went to
investigate the source, discovering the decomposing body of a
missing twenty-one-year-old Canadian student in the water tank.
It’s not sure how her body ended up in the tank but we’re sure
those guests won’t be staying at the Cecil anytime soon.
THE REAL, DEAD MUMMY
As Jimmy Fallon would say, dead bodies are “ew”. Though some
people like to get nasty with dead bodies (necrophilia), we generally
shy away from them except during the haunted house craze which
pops up every Halloween. It’s a good thing they’re made out of
papier-mâché and old bandages, right? Nope. The movie crew of
“The Six Million Dollar Man” found out via the accidentally-breaking-
a-limb-off kind of way that a prop mummy was no prop at all.
In fact, it was the handy-work of an embalmer who, so proud
of his work, displayed the corpse in a funeral home, charging
visitors a nickel to see it (which they would drop in its mouth).
The mummy, train robber Elmer McCurdy, was claimed by his
“brothers” a few years later. His “brothers” were actually
carnival promoters who showcased the body all over the USA.
A DEAD BODY IN A CARPET
Three Columbia University students looking to cheaply redecorate
their place found an unwelcome surprise in their dumpster carpet
after they got it home. Unrolling their new carpet, the boys found a
dead body with two bullet wounds to the head inside.
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