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Civil War Bullet Baby

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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Human’s Can Lick Too

Once there was a beautiful young girl who lived in a small town just south of Farmersburg. Her parents had to go to town for a while, so they left their daughter home alone, but protected by her dog, which was a very large collie. The parents told the girl to lock all the windows and doors after they had left and she obeyed her parent’s wishes, but there was one window in the basement that would not close completely. She tried as best as she could and she finally got the window shut, but it would not lock. She went back upstairs, but just to make sure that no one could get in, she put the dead-bolt lock on the basement door. She had some dinner, watched a … Read entire article »

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The One That Got Away

A boy and his sister had to stay home alone one night. Their parents were out at a fancy party for their father’s job and they warned the children not to open the door for anyone under any circumstances. The kids were distracted by TV and weren’t paying attention to their parent’s warning. A couple of hours after the parents left, the children were both in bed asleep when they were woken up by a knock at the door. The knock came again and they began to think it must be an emergency so the sister went to answer the door. Her brother lay awake on his bed, listening for her to come back to her room – but he didn’t hear her return. He got nervous and decided … Read entire article »

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Frightened and Fearless

There are two girls; Sandra who is totally fearless and Marie who gets frightened when you tap her on the shoulder. Though they are very different, they are good friends and Marie has agreed to spend the night at the Sandra’s house for one full weekend. Though Sandra loves to watch horror movies, Marie is too scared to watch them with her so they decide to tell each other ghost stories. Sandra is the expert on any type of frightening story and she really wants to scare Marie. She tells her stories of babysitters hacked to death, children eaten alive and all sorts of terrible happenings. After some time, many stories and lots of drinks and snacks, Sandra has to pee and excuses herself to the bathroom. Minutes pass … Read entire article »

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Shitai and O’lwa

This is a story of darkest woe. In ancient Japan there lived a vicious husband called Shitai who by his actions, turned his wife into a ghost. His unfortunate wife’s name was O’lwa and he murdered her because he desired another woman. His wife had barely risen from child birth when her deceitful husband Shitai poisoned which caused her hair to fall out in bloody handfuls, her eyes to bulge from their sockets and her pretty mouth to blacken. With certain death overcoming her she realized to her utter horror that her husband had poisoned her. In her despair, she killed her newborn and herself. Shitai felt no remorse, for now he could do as he wished, or so he thought. He soon found that his dirty deed had … Read entire article »

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No More Nursing, Baby

No More Nursing, Baby

Metropolis, TN – A new mother had just decided that it was time to wean her year old daughter and stopped breastfeeding her. Although this had been her first child, she had friends that had children and they all told her that weaning was a very difficult time and that the longer she waited the harder it would be. However, she found weaning to be easy. In fact, it seemed almost TOO easy. Her daughter … Read entire article »

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La Llorana

In the early 1500′s, La Llorana was the prettiest girl in a small town somewhere in Texas. Every man in town wanted to marry her but there was one lucky man she hoped to marry. He befriended the family and courted her for a few years before they were married. In 3 years of marriage they had two sons. One day before the oldest boys birthday, La Llorana’s husband went out to "buy a present.” He said goodbye to his wife and children and left for town. He was never seen again. There were rumors in town saying that he had left his wife for a young mistress. Some say that he was murdered, but no one ever knew the true reason why he left his family. Eventually, she … Read entire article »

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The Hanging Tree

In Brazoria, TX two slaves were unjustly hung by the neck from the limb of an old sturdy tree until they died. The ghosts of the slaves have haunted that area ever since. In the past, drivers of horse pulled wagons they said that their horses would just stop below the tree. A man who didn’t believe the tales coaxed his horse under the tree and the animal stopped in its tracks. He had to force his horse to leave the spot. Now they say that a car driven under the branches of that old tree will stall every time. There is a church not to far from the tree and one night a woman was walking home from the church when she heard a noise. She turned and … Read entire article »

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Abigail Come Play

A little girl named Abigail who lived in Plymouth, Massachusetts was brutally murdered back in the 1800′s. Her father was a fisherman and was away a lot of the time. Abigail never had a good relationship with her mother, but when he father left things got much worse and her mother became very abusive. Abigail always feared her father leaving because she was afraid of what her mother might do. A few years went by when one day her fears became a reality when her father didn’t return from one of his fishing trips. Abigail’s mother blamed the poor girl for her father’s dissappearance and took her anger out on the child. One night, in a fit of rage, she stabbed the little girl and murdered her. Legend has … Read entire article »

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Subject: The daughter of the new CIA director

CIA Director’s Daughter I wonder if any of this will come up during her father’s confirmation hearings. Linda Panetta the daughter of Leon Panetta, who was recently named to be the new CIA director. Linda is a supporter of all the anti-American regimes in this Hemisphere. Here she is with Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega, two sworn enemies of the United States. She is a radical anti-American activist who wants to close the School of the Americas, considers that American soldiers are criminals and is against any aid to the government of Colombia, our main ally in the region. See some of her websites: http://www.soawne.org/ http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php Brandy Pappas Posted via email from Urban Legends Online … Read entire article »

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