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Man With No Face
One of the most famous intravenous drugs for generating stories about bizarre behavior was phencyclidine: "angel dust," or "PCP." Although little is heard anymore about angel dust, it was well known for its ability to both addle and confer superhuman powers upon its abusers, or so the stories went. Tales of "some guy who was dusted" going berserk and beating up six cops before fifteen more managed to subdue him abounded. In my work in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Medical, Pets, UrbanLegendsOnline
Mercritis
In Mississippi there is a story about a disease called Mercritis that slipped over from Europe. Men who catch it emit an odor that when inhaled by a beautiful woman, will make her homicidal. There was a riot in the 1950′s during a Mercritis outbreak that swept the southern states and was covered up by the government and the medical community. Growing up in the south, people were always saying “Oh yeah, it’s true, my … Read entire article »
Filed under: Medical, UrbanLegendsOnline
Lead in Lipstick
Recently a lipstick brand called "Red Earth" decreased their prices from $67 to $9.90 because it contained lead. Lead causes cancer and the lipstick brands that contain lead are: CHRISTIAN DIOR LANCOME CLINIQUE Y.S.L. ESTEE LAUDER SHISEIDO RED EARTH (Lip Gloss) CHANEL (Lip Conditioner) MARKET AMERICA-MOTNES LIPSTICK The higher the lead content, the greater the chance of causing cancer. After doing a test on lipsticks, it was found that the Y.S.L. lipstick contained the most amount of lead. Here is the test you can do … Read entire article »
Filed under: Medical, UrbanLegendsOnline, Warnings
Kidneys On the Black Market
The crime begins when a business traveler goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day. A person in the bar walks up as they sit alone and offers to buy them a drink. The last thing the traveler remembers until they wake up in a hotel room bath tub, their body submerged to their neck in ice, is sipping that drink. There is a note taped to the wall … Read entire article »
Filed under: Medical, UrbanLegendsOnline
ABC-TV Owners WANT YOU DEAD!
This morning, March 23, 2010, at 8 A.M. Eastern Time, ABC-TV’s "Good Morning America" show presented an outrageous in-depth hit piece — a foolishly ambitious presentation of orwellian inverted logic — on the growing movement of healthy eating, or eating healthy. ABC-TV’s first exhibit was one of those in-the-home interviews with Kristie, a woman who had been on the brink of death due to healthy eating. ABC-TV launched their ludicrous lie from the pompous platform … Read entire article »
Filed under: Food, Medical, Scams and Cons, UrbanLegendsOnline
Roadside Dinner in Australia
Roadside Dinner in Australia These pictures were taken by one of the road crew at Cloudbreak Mine, Australia last week. It took a total of 5 hours for the Black headed Python to finish off the Goanna (Argus Monitor Lizard). As you can see, they put some signage up so it wouldn’t be run over. NOW THAT’S A MEAL. Looks like he is finally FULL! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bugs and Snakes, Emails, Food, Pictures and Video, UrbanLegendsOnline
A Church Turned Into a Home
A couple purchased an old church in Kyloe, Northumberland. They invested a lot of money on the interior but the exterior remained almost completely intact. They did more of a restoration, rather than a renovation, which would have cost them 3 times less. Had they not purchased the old church who knows what would have happened to it, as it was in very bad shape. The couple however adapted very well to the interior while leaving … Read entire article »
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Jasmine the Greyhound
A True Story. (unverified by http://urbanlegendsonline.com, this statement was part of the original, submitted email) In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. The dog had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had quite clearly been abused In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a female greyhound, to the Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, which is run … Read entire article »
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Deadly Dress
A new consignment boutique opened in town and a woman went shopping there and bought a dress. She wore it that night to a party. Sometime during the party the woman began to feel sick. She had had a few cocktails, so she thought it was just a reaction to the alcohol. She said her goodbyes and headed home. That night, alone in her apartment she felt worse and worse and by morning she had … Read entire article »
Filed under: Horrible Accidents, Medical, UrbanLegendsOnline
Civil War Bullet Baby
The article is from THE AMERICAN MEDICAL WEEKLY, 1(19):233-234 (Nov. 7, 1874) ATTENTION GYNECOLOGISTS! –NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF A FIELD AND HOSPITAL SURGEON, C.S.A. by L.G. Capers, M.D., Vicksburg, Miss. How common it is now-a-days, and how natural, too, for men to tell wonderful stories about "the war"; their desperate charges; hair-breadth escapes; numbers who have fallen victims to their feats of personal valor, etc., etc. Then every surgeon has performed any number of wonderful operations … Read entire article »
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