Urban Legends

[Scorpion's Sting]

In the Vanasthalipuram Deer Park, a white Blackbuck was born. Yes, white. All park officials have to undergo DNA tests, the mother of the white Blackbuck was unavailable for comments. The entire community is startled by this incident. Some say it was an act of God, some say it's a new breed, remember Darwin (survival of the fittest). Will report as the news unfolds. Signin Off

[akhilis2cool]

dont know abt. urban legends. but one can hear a a lot of bhoot legends...in every galli

[Habitual Perfectionist]

This one is credited to Unsolved Mysteries



The notorious episode of the "Black Hole" of Calcutta furnishes an extraordinary instance of the manner in which narratives are constructed and the place of iteration in historical narratives.



It points equally to the difficulty of ascertaining "truth" in history. In 1756, Siraj-ud-daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, occupied Fort William and Calcutta, then the principal possession of the East India Company.



146 people are said to have been imprisoned, at the orders of the Nawab, in a small and airless dungeon at Fort William. Next morning, when the door was opened, 123 of the prisoners had died. This story was recounted by the survivor John Zephaniah Holwell, and soon became the basis for representing Indians as a base, cowardly, and despotic people.



Innumerable journalistic and historical works recounted the story of the "Black Hole" of Calcutta, but Holwell's account was the sole contemporary narrative. 146 people could not have been accommodated in a room of the stated dimensions of 24 x 18 feet, and it is now almost universally conceded that Holwell greatly embellished his story.



Indian scholars have shown the Nawab had no hand in this affair, and that the number of incarcerated prisoners was no higher than 69. It may even be possible to argue that the episode of the "Black Hole" never transpired. Though for the British it became an article of faith to accept the veracity of the episode in its most extravagant and sordid form, all accounts relied, without stating so, upon the sole authority of the contemporary narrative of Holwell.





This one is credited to Warphead.com



Sudam Pradhana from the village of Bargania in Orissa, India, never went to the local school and enjoyed tending cows and working in the fields. In April 1990, when he was 13, he travelled to the dense Labingi forests in the Angul district, 19 miles (30km) from his village, with his elder cousin Abhay who was looking for a large log to make into a plough. Abhay told Sudam to rest near a makeshift loghouse while he went in search of water. When he returned, Sudam had gone. For several days, Sudam’s parents and their neighbours searched for him without success. His father Gautam Pradhan never reported his disappearance as he kept hoping he would turn up sooner or later – and he did.



On 4 May 2001, Gayachand Muduli and Deb Muduli from the neighbouring village of Gadtaras, collecting firewood in the forest, encountered a wild creature with long hair and unkempt winding fingernails sheepishly gawking at them while sucking mangoes under a tree. “He was wearing torn trousers and carrying an empty plastic bag. Mango pulp was smeared all over his chin,” said Gayachand. “He made no attempt to run away on seeing us.”



They took him back to Garatarasa where he was identified as Sudam because of scars on his skull and feet. “He now behaves like an animal and covers his body with leaves,” said a villager. He greeted questions with blank stares and struggled to utter a word or two in Oriya. He has big, white marks on his skin as if he has been in combat with wildlife. “My son has returned home after 11 years due to the blessing of God,” said his father Gautam Pradhan.



Ganesh Pradhan, the police chief at Bantala, suggested Sudam might have spent the last 11 years in the company of the honey-collecting nomadic Mallar tribe which lives deep in the jungle. “It is also possible that he went across the forest to the villagers of Cuttack or Phulbani district on the other side,” he said. “After having wandered for long he might have found his way back into the forest.”





Added to this, there was the monkey man in delhi, Ganesha drinking milk and more recently, courtesy MM, the rakhi deaths in Gujarat.

[CtrlAltDel]

Last year when i was in Australia i read about an incident in Gujarat where a villager's cow had swallowed a bag of diamonds along with the hey where it was hidden.



the poor villager put it on a laxative diet and kept a watch for more than a day before the bag was passed out intact!

[oneminutecooler]

Last year when i was in Australia i read about an incident in Gujarat where a villager's cow had swallowed a bag of diamonds along with the hey where it was hidden.

the poor villager put it on a laxative diet and kept a watch for more than a day before the bag was passed out intact!

Wow !

[malakpetmasala]

Last year when i was in Australia i read about an incident in Gujarat where a villager's cow had swallowed a bag of diamonds along with the hey where it was hidden.

the poor villager put it on a laxative diet and kept a watch for more than a day before the bag was passed out intact!

IS GUJRATH THE NEW PUNJAB?

[azazel]

This is from the movie Magnolia! The Tom Cruise suck-fest. I hated it but I watched it anyway. Gotcha AZ.

yeap, its actually one of the most popular forensics cases, as HP pointed out. btw, the movie was darn good! PT Anderson is definitely a director to watch out for. his long takes are just brilliant.



this supposedly happened to my bro's friend's gramps: the man was in his twenties back then. he and a friend were coming home after mid-nite after catching a movie. he was riding his bullet, going at a decent pace[60 types..] when all of a sudden, a man came next to them running! he asked them what the time was and ran off into infamy. they, as expected got quite a shock and didnt venture out for quite some time.



p.s: when i first heard this, would always look-out for ppl running whilst riding a bike alone at night.

[Kenny]

he was riding his bullet, going at a decent pace[60 types..] when all of a sudden, a man came next to them running! he asked them what the time was and ran off into infamy.

reminds me of that lame scene in tuxedo where chan runs after jennifer love while she's driving.

[akhilis2cool]

Well here a couple of contbs. from me.



This happened to my uncle.



When they were young my dad, uncle and a few friends of his used to play in an area called Kabutar Khana near our house. One evening when they were climbing a tree a out of no where a hand full of bangles appeared right in front my uncles face. It basically scared the shit out of him. He had to be admitted to a hospital.



Theres another popular story that does rounds in our area. Theres this area called "Bhoot Galli" .

Its so called becoz they say an english generals atma lives there. in the night several residents have said they here noise of the general riding his horse from one point of the galli to other.

[Habitual Perfectionist]

There used to be a bhoot story in Faridabad, where I spent my childhood.



Allegedly, some people (all at different times, but all at night) were accosted by a horse rider near the YMCA, Faridabad bus stand. This guy used to ask them for a comb and when they obliged him, he would remove his head....hold it in his hands.....comb his hair...return the comb and ride away.



The people who had this encounter were said to have been gripped by fever for days together.

[Habitual Perfectionist]

Romeo & Juliet (Courtesy http://www.darwinawards.com



Two students were in love and engaged. Unfortunately all of the parents involved disapproved of the marriage. The parents had threatened dire measures if the students eloped. Caught in an impossible position of choosing between their love and their families, the students decided they would leave the world together.



"Juliet" told her friend, a pharmacist, that she was having trouble sleeping before exams, and asked her for potent sleeping pills. The pharmacist secured for her a small bottle of pills, plastered with warnings, "Danger! Use strictly as directed! Do not operate a moving vehicle!"



The two lovers locked themselves in a friend's dormitory room and tossed the key out the window. They shared a bottle of wine, made love, and then took the sleeping pills and kissed each other goodbye. Half an hour later, they began to feel curious rumblings in their intestines. Soon they realized that Juliet's friend had given them laxatives, not sleeping potion!



There they were, locked in a small dorm room with the key ten floors below, and no toilets in sight! The stench spread quickly throughout the building, alerting other residents. A security guard was summoned, who forced the lock and poked his face 'round the door. He quickly swung it shut, nearly overcome by the fumes. The unfortunate couple had to be rescued by the SWAT team, protected by gas masks. They were taken to the hospital and treated for severe dehydration.



It turned out that the friend at the pharmacy was alarmed by the request for sleeping pills with no prescription. She contacted the parents, who conferred with one another and realized that something had to be done. Thus, the outcome: the marriage was belayed, both students were suspended from college, and both sets of parents were relieved.

[Habitual Perfectionist]

Another urban legend, this time with Indian connotations.



Shammi Kapoor's death

[igiveadamn]

i was told this story by true experience by a friend of min some 10 years back.



my friend's grandfather lives in assam. seems his grandfather had a cousin who used to like him a lot. they used to be good friends from childhood. his grandfather is a civil engineer and he has a consulting office in his house for clients. whenever his cousin visited him, they used to sit and talk for hours together in his office. he has a revolving chair which was his cousin's favorite and she always used to sit on it. one day the grandfather woke up like at 4 in the morning. he was disturbed by some squeaking noise from his office. he got up and went to check it out. when he switched the light in his office on,he saw someone sitting in the revolving chair and swaying, and as soon as he entered the chair turned around and he saw his cousin in it. she looked at him and said, "ramu, i'm leaving now", and disappeared. it all happened so fast that granpa thought he was just imagining things. he went back to bed and woke up later in the day. he got a call at 9 that morning informing him that his cousin had expired at 3:30 that morning!!

[Habitual Perfectionist]

Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba

tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask.



A postmortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clothed diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.



It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the site of the forest fire.



You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next, he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

[Bimbette]

HP, the 'Aweso' of awesome goes to u! The rest to the other contributors. Dunno how I missed this thread. One of the few times when I actually took the trouble of reading each post. Was worth it. Bizzare stuff though.

[Habitual Perfectionist]

HP, the 'Aweso' of awesome goes to u! The rest to the other contributors. Dunno how I missed this thread. One of the few times when I actually took the trouble of reading each post. Was worth it. Bizzare stuff though.

Thanks Bimbette. If you found the previous stuff bizzare, here are some light hearted urban legends for you.



A man making a late-night stop at a convenience store came out and found his car had been stolen. The next day the owner of the convenience store calls him and tells him to come back right away. When he gets there he finds his car is back in the exact space it had been stolen from, on the dash in a note that says "Sorry for any inconvenience, my wife was having a baby and I had to take her to the hospital." Relieved but annoyed, the man phones the police to tell them then returns home. When he gets there he finds that everything in his home has been stolen. On the table is a note that says, "Sorry for any inconvenience, but I have to put my kids through college, don't I?"





A salesman driving along the highway one day saw a hitcher and decided picking him up would be a good way to relieve his boredom. After he did, he immediatley regretted it, the man was large and menacing, and his questions about the salesman's business quickly made him nervous. Ahead he saw another hitchhiker and decided his best bet was to pick this one up too, especially since this one was well dressed and very clean-cut. As soon as the second hitcher got in the back seat he pointed a gun at the two men in the front and demanded their valuables. The front-seat passenger swung his arm back and smashed the robber in the head with his elbow, knocking him unconscious. Before the salesman could even say anything, the large man took the gun and all the unconscious robbers possessions and pushed him back out of the car. As he turned to the salesman, gun in hand, the salesman begged him not to hurt him, he'd do whatever the large man wanted. The large hitchhiker said: "Relax buddy, I'm not gonna rob you, it's my day off."





A couple years back there was a watermelon pach owner living in California. Every so often some kids would come by and eat the watermelons. After a while of this the man got angry and decided to put an end to it, so the next day the man wrote a note and put it one the nicest watermelon he could find. The note said "One of these watermelons has ben injected with Cyanide"



A few days passed and his watermelons were almost ready to take to the market. As he was walking around the field he approached the watermelon with the note on it, when he bent over to take it off he noticed another note right next to it.



It read "Now one more watermelon has been injected with Cyanide"

[Habitual Perfectionist]

BIZZARE ALERT



One morning around 5am 22 year old Susan DeLucci of Kittery, Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain.







It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole. She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard.



In paralyzing pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while she gripped the sides of the toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and the neighbors called the police. When medics arrived they found Ms. DeNucci unconscious lying on the floor of her bathroom wearing nothing but her bath robe.



Running down her leg, was a stream of brown and green syrup. The medic had to transfer her to a stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg which was bent crossing her other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted up. When he lifted her left leg to straighten her body out, he exposed her vagina at which point a creature, no larger than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound.



Shocked, the medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat there on the cold floor gasping for water while flipping itself back and forth.



The horrified medic turned to the toilet as he felt the nausea setting in. When he put his face down into the toilet to puke what he saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet without convulsing.



The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace.



If you think that is bad - wait until you hear how it happened: Ms. DeLucci's death was the result of a combination of shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell, smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor.



It is believed by police that two nights before the accident she had purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub, she gently inserted the creature's tail into her vagina to derive physical pleasure.



At that point, she held a lighter under the creature's face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping motion. The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub.



The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can wrapped in a paper bag.



Traces of Ms. DeLucci's DNA were found on the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves between the lobsters' tail joints. The lobster's face was lightly burned with the same fuel used in lighters.



The lobster's digestive track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings. Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci's vagina when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two days to gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting her period.



Doctors believe that at that point of her menstrual cycle, her womb was the perfect PH balance to grow these mud shrimp which are a much larger version of the popular "Sea Monkey" pets sold throughout the US. Overnight the eggs had hatched and the mud shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes!!!



You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet.........

[CtrlAltDel]

You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet.........

:shock: wow! now thats an urban legend!

[Alexis]

Another urban legend, this time with Indian connotations.

Shammi Kapoor's death

Yeah, I remember that urban legend too.

[akhilis2cool]

The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace.

Yuckkkkk

[Alexis]

The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace.

Yuckkkkk

Yeah seriously! The image of that description is really, really gross! Super disgusting!

[akhilis2cool]

The entire <a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=5&k=toilet%20bowl" onmouseover="window.status='toilet bowl'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">toilet bowl</a> was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace.

Yuckkkkk

Yeah seriously! The image of that description is really, really gross! Super disgusting!

I am gonna email that to my friends

[CtrlAltDel]

The entire <a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=5&k=toilet%20bowl" onmouseover="window.status='toilet bowl'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">toilet bowl</a> was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace.

Yuckkkkk

Yeah seriously! The image of that description is really, really gross! Super disgusting!

I am gonna email that to my friends

i've already done that

[akhilis2cool]

The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace.

Yuckkkkk

Yeah seriously! The image of that description is really, really gross! Super disgusting!

I am gonna email that to my friends

i've already done that

Gods think alike