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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 7, 2007 23:20:33 GMT 2
When you browse internet chat sites or (inferior) discussion boards or sites like Youtube you can't help but notice some warning akin to "if you do not post this message to 100 people in an hour your brother will rape your dog", after telling you some grisly, far-out story about a girl seeking vengeance after being murdered or something. A bit like this one I found..
in 1932 a girl was raped and then had the words "LUATAKULU" carved into her back. Now that you have read this, you must Send this message to thhe three scariest movies on this site before she comes by your bed on the next full moon with glowing eyes and do the same to you
From 1932? Jeez. You think this chick would have, I dunno, gotten over it by now.
Anyway, you type in "LUATAKULU" on Google and see what you get - the same stupid "story" on about 1000 sites. Where do these things come from? And who the hell posts them?
The stupid thing is - I have books and books of GENUINE urban legends and they wipe the floor with this schoolgirl drivel - some of them are genuinely chilling, interesting and funny - the sort of thing you DO repeat to people. But who in their right minds would buy into this stuff?
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Post by trashcanman on Jun 8, 2007 22:15:23 GMT 2
One word ,my friend: snopes.com/Now for the biggest urban legend ever: In the 80's America was terrified of satanic cults. There were news stories, police testimonials, talk shows, books, magazine articles,church services and everything else. America was under attack by devil worshippers who stole children, mutilated pets, put hidden messages in our evil rock music to brainwash us, conducted human sacrifices, and all that good stuff. I grew up under these conditions, terrified that satanist who hated my beliefs were going to kill my family and sacrifice us to Satan. Eventually, this became so widespread that the FBI and CIA got involved and conducted a nationwide investigation, looking to put a stop to these sick crimes going on in our own back yard. Know what they found? NOTHING!!!! Goddamn nothing. It was all a huge media-induced bunch of bullshit brought on by the post-"Exorcist" prevalence of satanic-themed films which led pastors and priests to sermonize about the threat of the Devil and his followers and the urban legends just spread from there. To this day I meet respectable middle-aged people who swear that their brother's ex-fiance's babysitter was murdered by satanists for some ritual or another, or when they were on the police force their partner's ex-partner busted a cult that were kidnapping and sacrificing babies and whatnot, etc. etc. This phenomenon went largely undocumented, but I remember it well. Nobody will admit it happened and if they do, they still believe it's going on, just on a smaller scale. It's amazing the way people will just go along with whatever the media tells them; and then forget about it as soon as it stops being talked about every day. Sometimes, people just mutilate animals because they are assholes; Satan has nothing to do with it. |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jun 9, 2007 12:06:08 GMT 2
I've looked through the Snopes website a few times in the past - some good shit on there (it's basically like the books I've read - on the net). Strange, I can't find anything about those "send this e-mail or you will be killed" types of urban legends. And there's an awful lot of them too.
I tend to be a bit of a cocky dickhead when it comes to hearing people tell me about stories they INSIST are true, but its something I've read about or heard about. Example - this girl I know told me in all seriousness about a friend of her cousin (what the books call a FOAF - "Friend of a friend") who went to a university that was in the middle of some horrific AIDS plague.
Seems that, during parties, people were being stabbed in the back by AIDS infected needles, and then (somehow) having messages stuck to their backs saying "Welcome To The AIDS club".
Not only is this story utterly stupid, I'd heard it before in about 10 different ways: needles on the backs of cinema seats, needles behind petrol pumps, an AIDS infected woman scrawls the message on your mirror with red lipstick (red lipstick=whore, you see?) but the basic premise was the same.
Yet when I told her this she got totally pissed off, and swore blind that, while it "may have been" an Urban Legend elsewhere, it really, really did happen to her cousins friend. Moron.
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Post by xFiruath on Aug 7, 2007 20:44:06 GMT 2
I had a friend like that too. She absolutely insists that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre happened about five minutes from where she lived when she was just a wee little baby, and that she's even seen the house with the white pillars, just like in the remake. I've tried explaining, over and over, about how the Texas Chainsaw Massacre didn't really happen, the original director (Tobe Hooper) just added in that "based on a true story" stuff to make it sound more scary. He has admitted on the record several times that he made the idea up while standing in line at a hardware store and thinking that the easiest way to get to the front of the line would be to fire up one of those chainsaws over on the wall. It has also been confirmed that the "real footage" at the beginning and end of the remake was fake. Then there was the issue of time - the original came out in 1974, so the absolute earliest that the events could have occured would have been 1972 or 73. Since she was born in 87 she couldn't have possibly been living by it.
Like the girl you knew, she would get monumentally pissed off if I brought any of this up when she would inevitably exclaim "I lived right by where that happened! Those kids who were murdered could have been me!"
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 7, 2007 21:27:52 GMT 2
Hey, welcome to the site.
What you need to do is sit this dumb broad in front of the TCM commentary, where Tobe Hooper SAYS he made the whole thing up.
And then print "IDIOT" on her head with a branding iron.
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