Urban Legends

vinitjain · vinitjain

In the vault of a Los Angeles bank lies a silver ring set with a semiprecious stone. It is not a particularly pretty ring or even a very valuable one, and chances are that no one will ever dare to wear it again. The ring lies in the vault because it bears one of the most malignant curses in the history of the oc...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Brandon Lee, son of the famed martial arts star, Bruce Lee, was shot and killed during the making of his breakout film, The Crow. Although his death was deemed accidental, many other speculations have arisen. What if his death was not an accident, but murder? There were many similarities between bot...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The May Day Mystery refers to a series of cryptic ads which have been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the newspaper of the University of Arizona, every May 1 since 1981. (In 1983, 1988, 1999 and 2005 the ads technically ran on April 29, April 27, April 29 and April 29, respectively. May 1 first fell o...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area with it's points being at Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and San Juan Puerto Rico. In this area, over the course of time, many different aircraft and boats have mysteriously disappeared without a trace, leading many to believe that the triangle ha...

wolf_girl554 · Anonymous

Two dormmates in college were in the same science class. The teacher had just reminded them about the midterm the next day when one dormmate let's call her Juli got asked to this big bash by the hottest guy in school. The other dormmate, Meg, had pretty much no interest in going and, being a diligent stud...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The SS Ourang Medan was a Dutch cargo ship that sent out a distress call, but by the time help arrived the entire crew were dead with their eyes open, staring ahead with a look of incredible horror on their faces. As she was about to be towed to land the ship exploded, and sank to a watery grave refusing to gi...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Was it the IRA? Or the Mafia? Or even Colonel Gadaffi? The abduction of the Derby-winning racehorse remains one of the great unsolved crimes of the twentieth century The kidnapping of champion racehorse Shergar remains one of Britains most baffling whodunnits. For two decades, the disappearance...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Hope diamond has intrigued people for centuries. Its perfect quality, its large size 45.52 carats (9.10 g), and its rare color (fancy deep blue diamond) make it strikingly unique and beautiful, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The legend around this painting is as grim as it gets. The stories began around 1985, when several mysterious fires occurred all around England. When the debris was sifted through the only item that remained un-charred was a painting of a little boy with a tear rolling his cheek in every fire. Could th...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Juba II was the monarch of a North African kingdom known as Mauretania, comprising most of modern Morocco and western Algeria. After Emperor Caligula murdered his son in A.D. 39, the Romans invaded Mauretania to seize his golden fortune. But they never found it. Nearly 2,000 years later, a buried tr...

vinitjain · vinitjain

A conspiracy is a secret agreement among a group of people attempting to conceal something. The two biggest conspiracies in our lifetimes, if true, are the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the cover-up of the presence of extraterrestrial beings on earth. Kenn Thomas, author of a book titled MAU...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Superman curse refers to a series of misfortunes that have plagued creative people involved in adaptations of Superman in various media, particularly actors who have played the role of Superman on film and television. The curse basically states, If you intend to play the strongest man on Earth...

vinitjain · vinitjain

THROUGHOUT the past 100 years, the myths surrounding John 'Babbacombe' Lee's story have taken on a life of their own. Urban legends, ghostly sightings and tales of supernatural intervention have grown far beyond what anybody in 19th century South Devon could have imagined for the lowly manservan...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The faltering prosecution of an antiquities dealer in the James ossuary case underscores problems in authenticating biblical artifacts. Israeli authorities called it "the fraud of the century": fakes passed off as archaeological finds with biblical ties. The most notorious objec...

vinitjain · vinitjain

"Paul is dead" is an urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney of The Beatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. The legend hinges on supposed hints among the Beatles' many recordings and presumed to be deliberately placed by The Beatles or others. Hundreds ha...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Secret Societies have been present in the history of man for a very long time. It all started thousands of years ago with the "Brotherhood of the Snake", a secret society set up by an alien named Ea or Enki. This story is very carefully told in the Sumerian scriptures, which go back at leas...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. But journa...

vinitjain · vinitjain

If you fear Friday the 13th, then batten down the hatches. This week's unlucky day is the first of three this year. The next Friday the 13th comes in March, followed by Nov. 13. Such a triple whammy comes around only every 11 years, said Thomas Fernsler, a math specialist at the University of Delaware wh...

Anonymous

Also known as: Mary Worth, I Believe in Mary Worth, Mary Worthington, Mary Jane, Mary Whales, Hell Mary, etc. As told on the Internet, Dec. 21, 1997: Some of my friends, five of us, cramped ourselves into a small bathroom in my friend Cathryn's House. We ended up saying Bloody Mary (more like chanting i...

Anonymous

For more than 15 years, amateur and professional code-breakers have been baffled by Kryptos, a sculpture at the CIAs headquarters in Langley, VA, that features a nearly 12-foot-tall, copper scroll inscribed with four long, coded passages. The coded passages remained unsolved for eight years, u...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Twelve-year-old Hasnah Mohamed Meselmani produced razor-sharp glass crystals from her eyes, Share International reported at the end of 1996. Nabil Matraji, our correspondent in the Lebanon, contacted the Meselmani family to find out more about the amazing unexplained phenomenon, which last...

vinitjain · vinitjain

At just 1ft 11 in tall, she is dwarfed by her neighbour's baby, but Jyoti Amge is 15 years old. The teenager, who is the world's smallest girl according to the Indian Book of Records, has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia. Now fully grown, she weighs just 11 lb. Far from being unhappy about her tin...

vinitjain · vinitjain

What is a Triad? Triads are the asian equivalent of the Italian Mafia; however, they are greater in numbers and are more powerful, controlling much of the world heroin drug trade. History of the Triads Before their criminal enterprising, the Triads actually began as a resistance movement to the Man...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Queen did it. Or maybe it was M.I.6, the British secret service. The motive: to prevent Princess Diana from marrying Dodi Fayed, bearing his child---step sibling to a future king--- and becoming a Muslim. Or maybe the motive was to protect the new world order from an activist princess with inconv...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Some people believe that we were created by God. Still others believe that we evolved. But can they co-exist? Could we have been created and then evolved into what we are now? Or maybe we did evolve. If that was the case what did we evolve from and how did the first creature exist?

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	The Cursed Ring (Preview) In the vault of a Los Angeles bank lies a silver ring set with a semiprecious stone. It is not a particularly pretty ring or even a very valuable one, and chances are that no one will ever dare to wear it again. The ring lies in the vault because it bears one of the most malignant curses in the history of the oc...	vinitjain	1	605	November 25th by wolf_girl554
	Conspiracy : Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee Death Curse (Preview) Brandon Lee, son of the famed martial arts star, Bruce Lee, was shot and killed during the making of his breakout film, The Crow. Although his death was deemed accidental, many other speculations have arisen. What if his death was not an accident, but murder? There were many similarities between bot...	vinitjain	1	2713	November 25th by wolf_girl554
	The May Day Mystery Newspaper Ads (Preview) The May Day Mystery refers to a series of cryptic ads which have been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the newspaper of the University of Arizona, every May 1 since 1981. (In 1983, 1988, 1999 and 2005 the ads technically ran on April 29, April 27, April 29 and April 29, respectively. May 1 first fell o...	vinitjain	1	445	November 25th by wolf_girl554
	Top 10 Bermuda Triangle Theories (Preview) The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area with it's points being at Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and San Juan Puerto Rico. In this area, over the course of time, many different aircraft and boats have mysteriously disappeared without a trace, leading many to believe that the triangle ha...	vinitjain	1	223	October 31st by wolf_girl554
	Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light? (Preview) Two dormmates in college were in the same science class. The teacher had just reminded them about the midterm the next day when one dormmate let's call her Juli got asked to this big bash by the hottest guy in school. The other dormmate, Meg, had pretty much no interest in going and, being a diligent stud...	Anonymous	5	2301	Aug 16, 2011 by wolf_girl554
	The Mystery Of The SS Ourang Medan’s Dead Crew (Preview) The SS Ourang Medan was a Dutch cargo ship that sent out a distress call, but by the time help arrived the entire crew were dead with their eyes open, staring ahead with a look of incredible horror on their faces. As she was about to be towed to land the ship exploded, and sank to a watery grave refusing to gi...	vinitjain	1	1284	May 26, 2011 by wolf_girl554
	Conspiracy : Shergar and a 25-year-old mystery (Preview) Was it the IRA? Or the Mafia? Or even Colonel Gadaffi? The abduction of the Derby-winning racehorse remains one of the great unsolved crimes of the twentieth century The kidnapping of champion racehorse Shergar remains one of Britains most baffling whodunnits. For two decades, the disappearance...	vinitjain	0	596	Apr 13, 2011 by vinitjain
	The Cursed Diamond (Hope Diamond) (Preview) The Hope diamond has intrigued people for centuries. Its perfect quality, its large size 45.52 carats (9.10 g), and its rare color (fancy deep blue diamond) make it strikingly unique and beautiful, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is...	vinitjain	0	540	Dec 14, 2010 by vinitjain
	Unexplained Mysteries - The Cursed Painting of Crying Boy (Preview) The legend around this painting is as grim as it gets. The stories began around 1985, when several mysterious fires occurred all around England. When the debris was sifted through the only item that remained un-charred was a painting of a little boy with a tear rolling his cheek in every fire. Could th...	vinitjain	0	904	Oct 25, 2010 by vinitjain
	The Lost Treasure of King Juba (Preview) Juba II was the monarch of a North African kingdom known as Mauretania, comprising most of modern Morocco and western Algeria. After Emperor Caligula murdered his son in A.D. 39, the Romans invaded Mauretania to seize his golden fortune. But they never found it. Nearly 2,000 years later, a buried tr...	vinitjain	0	1219	Aug 31, 2010 by vinitjain
	UFO and JFK Assassination links Conspiracy (Preview) A conspiracy is a secret agreement among a group of people attempting to conceal something. The two biggest conspiracies in our lifetimes, if true, are the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the cover-up of the presence of extraterrestrial beings on earth. Kenn Thomas, author of a book titled MAU...	vinitjain	0	1671	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Superman Curse (Preview) The Superman curse refers to a series of misfortunes that have plagued creative people involved in adaptations of Superman in various media, particularly actors who have played the role of Superman on film and television. The curse basically states, If you intend to play the strongest man on Earth...	vinitjain	0	1627	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	'Man They Could Not Hang' (Preview) THROUGHOUT the past 100 years, the myths surrounding John 'Babbacombe' Lee's story have taken on a life of their own. Urban legends, ghostly sightings and tales of supernatural intervention have grown far beyond what anybody in 19th century South Devon could have imagined for the lowly manservan...	vinitjain	0	1268	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Hoaxes from the Holy Land (Preview) The faltering prosecution of an antiquities dealer in the James ossuary case underscores problems in authenticating biblical artifacts. Israeli authorities called it "the fraud of the century": fakes passed off as archaeological finds with biblical ties. The most notorious objec...	vinitjain	0	1471	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Urban Legend - Paul Mccartney is dead !! (Preview) "Paul is dead" is an urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney of The Beatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. The legend hinges on supposed hints among the Beatles' many recordings and presumed to be deliberately placed by The Beatles or others. Hundreds ha...	vinitjain	1	2310	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Secret Socities - Brotherhood of Snake (Preview) The Secret Societies have been present in the history of man for a very long time. It all started thousands of years ago with the "Brotherhood of the Snake", a secret society set up by an alien named Ea or Enki. This story is very carefully told in the Sumerian scriptures, which go back at leas...	vinitjain	0	2344	May 31, 2010 by qrs521
	Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved' (Preview) Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. But journa...	vinitjain	0	1299	Oct 1, 2009 by vinitjain
	Friday the 13th (Preview) If you fear Friday the 13th, then batten down the hatches. This week's unlucky day is the first of three this year. The next Friday the 13th comes in March, followed by Nov. 13. Such a triple whammy comes around only every 11 years, said Thomas Fernsler, a math specialist at the University of Delaware wh...	vinitjain	0	1467	Feb 13, 2009 by vinitjain
	Bloody Mary (Preview) Also known as: Mary Worth, I Believe in Mary Worth, Mary Worthington, Mary Jane, Mary Whales, Hell Mary, etc. As told on the Internet, Dec. 21, 1997: Some of my friends, five of us, cramped ourselves into a small bathroom in my friend Cathryn's House. We ended up saying Bloody Mary (more like chanting i...	Anonymous	0	1419	Jan 15, 2009 by Anonymous
	CIA Sculpture Continues to Baffle Cryptographers (Preview) For more than 15 years, amateur and professional code-breakers have been baffled by Kryptos, a sculpture at the CIAs headquarters in Langley, VA, that features a nearly 12-foot-tall, copper scroll inscribed with four long, coded passages. The coded passages remained unsolved for eight years, u...	Anonymous	0	1993	Dec 17, 2008 by Anonymous
	Mysterious white knight visits crystal-tear girl (Preview) Twelve-year-old Hasnah Mohamed Meselmani produced razor-sharp glass crystals from her eyes, Share International reported at the end of 1996. Nabil Matraji, our correspondent in the Lebanon, contacted the Meselmani family to find out more about the amazing unexplained phenomenon, which last...	vinitjain	0	2032	Aug 27, 2008 by vinitjain
	1' 11" tall Indian teen is the world's smallest girl (Preview) At just 1ft 11 in tall, she is dwarfed by her neighbour's baby, but Jyoti Amge is 15 years old. The teenager, who is the world's smallest girl according to the Indian Book of Records, has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia. Now fully grown, she weighs just 11 lb. Far from being unhappy about her tin...	vinitjain	1	2164	Jun 4, 2008 by Krish
	Unexplained Mysteries of Triads Society (Preview) What is a Triad? Triads are the asian equivalent of the Italian Mafia; however, they are greater in numbers and are more powerful, controlling much of the world heroin drug trade. History of the Triads Before their criminal enterprising, the Triads actually began as a resistance movement to the Man...	vinitjain	1	1928	Apr 1, 2008 by iloveufo
	Princess Diana Death Conspiracy (Preview) The Queen did it. Or maybe it was M.I.6, the British secret service. The motive: to prevent Princess Diana from marrying Dodi Fayed, bearing his child---step sibling to a future king--- and becoming a Muslim. Or maybe the motive was to protect the new world order from an activist princess with inconv...	vinitjain	0	2437	Mar 3, 2008 by vinitjain
	Evolution Vs. Creation (Preview) Some people believe that we were created by God. Still others believe that we evolved. But can they co-exist? Could we have been created and then evolved into what we are now? Or maybe we did evolve. If that was the case what did we evolve from and how did the first creature exist?	vinitjain	0	1246	Oct 24, 2007 by vinitjain
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