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The Twelve (12) Days of Christmas
There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won’t come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas? This week, I found out. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two … Read entire article »
Clark Road Mental Facility
Emily was a beautiful woman who lived at the Clark Road Mental Facility in Sarasota, FL since she was 7 years old, admitted there by her parents who knew Emily to be disturbed at a young age. Since she was a long time resident, hers was a life well-known. She had long, river-like, marble white hair that was barely tinted blonde and dark, beckoning eyes. This patient was difficult to say no to. If she … Read entire article »
Filed under: Children, Ghost Stories, Medical, Pictures and Video
Choking on Ink
My grandmother told me when she was in high school an old math teacher in his 60′s named Harold Davidson was teaching math and one of his students wouldn’t stop tapping his pen during class. The teacher went berserk and lost his mind. He snatched the pen and attacked the kid, lodging the pen down the child’s throat while his classmates looked on screaming. While struggling, the kid kicked the teacher in the chest with … Read entire article »
Medical Records and Concealed Carry Info
I didn’t have this happen, but then I wasn’t at a VA doctors office. I did run into a little of this when I had to visit a doctor other than my regular doctor when my doctor was on vacation. One of the questions on the form I had to fill out was: Do you have any guns in your house? My answer was None of your damn business! So it is out there! It is either … Read entire article »
Filed under: Government and Military, Medical
Trash Baby Con
While out walking in the city one day with some friends, a man heard a baby crying as he passed by an alley. The friends walked down the alley to investigate and found a newborn baby in a dumpster. They rescued the child and headed straight to the hospital with the infant to make sure it was ok. Authorities discovered shortly afterward that the child’s father was a criminal who lured victims into the alley … Read entire article »
Filed under: Children, Scams and Cons
10 Biggest Myths about Christmas Trees
Myths, urban legends, misperceptions and sometimes outright lies. We know there are some crazy things that people have been told about Real Christmas Trees over the years. And this has led to a large number of confused consumers. While many of these myths can be traced back to the fake tree industry, many are like urban legends … they just sort of exist and nobody really knows how they started. Now, NCTA is launching the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Holidays
Stone Soup – An Ancient Legend
Once upon a time, somewhere in post-war Eastern Europe, there was a great famine in which people jealously hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from their friends and neighbors. Three soldiers trudged down a road in a strange country. They were on their way home from the wars. Besides being tired, they were hungry. In fact, they had eaten nothing for many, many days. “How I would like a good dinner tonight,” said the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Government and Military
The Smith Sisters: Murdered Anonymously
This is a story about the Smith sisters who were murdered anonymously while they slept in their bedroom. Its an urban legend about a boy named John Smith who was very fond of scary emails and pop-ups. Every day, he would find new ones and post them to everyone he knew. He even started making some himself and sending them to strangers. He loved to scare people on the Net. John lived in Plainfield, Wisconsin. One day in … Read entire article »
Gobblesquatch
“As with the Sasquatch, Loch Ness Monster, balanced federal budgets and other elusive entities, legend and speculation must necessarily take the place of fact,” wrote Professor (Ret.) Wesley Wimscott in a 2009 paper entitled ‘Gobblesquatch: Giant Drumsticks or Dumb Shticks?’, submitted to the international symposium on Paranormal History, Sightings, Stories and Wonders (PHSSAW). His lengthy report centred mostly on the oral history of Native American tribes of the area now known as Virginia. “It’s the logical … Read entire article »
New Message From SunTrust Online Banking
Dear SunTrust Online Customer, We have recently determined that different computers have logged onto your Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the login. It is now necessary to re-confirm your account information to us. If this is not completed until November 16 2011, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this matter. To confirm your Online … Read entire article »
Filed under: Emails, Scams and Cons
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