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		<title>Motorcycle Miracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--CusAds1--><p><strong>Tulsa, Oklahoma</strong>    <br />The cops were traveling down the highway at around 1 o&#8217;clock in the morning near Tulsa, Oklahoma when they found this on the road.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image001.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image001" border="0" alt="image001" src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image001_thumb.jpg" width="304" height="402" /></a>&#160; </p>
<p>Another patrol car stopped a truck some miles down the highway and were struck with the following image.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image002.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image002" border="0" alt="image002" src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image002_thumb.jpg" width="404" height="271" /></a>     <br />The truck driver said he thought he felt the impact, but it took him almost 4 miles down the road before he thought he&#8217;d better pull over and check out his rig.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image003.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image003" border="0" alt="image003" src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image003_thumb.jpg" width="404" height="271" /></a>     <br />Notice the driver has no shoes on from the impact or from being drug all that distance. Ouch!</p>
<p><a href="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image004.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image004" border="0" alt="image004" src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image004_thumb.jpg" width="404" height="271" /></a>     <br />Side view of Motorcycle Driver caught up in the trailer of the Semi.    </p>
<p><a href="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image005.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image005" border="0" alt="image005" src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/image005_thumb.jpg" width="404" height="271" /></a>     <br />Witnesses and State Police say the Motorcyclist was traveling at 120 mph when he ran into the back of the moving semi-truck.</p>
<p>It pays to have a good quality helmet when riding a motorcycle.</p>
<p>Now for the rest of the story!   </p>
<h3><font color="#800040">THIS GUY SURVIVED.</font></h3>
<h3><font color="#800040">AMAZING!</font></h3>

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		<title>Broiled Diver</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The body was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive tank, flippers and face mask. A post-mortem examination revealed that the diver did not die from burns, but from massive [...]]]></description>
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<p>Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The body was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive tank, flippers and face mask. </p>
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<p>A post-mortem examination revealed that the diver did not die from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. They found that, on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast &#8211; some 20 MILES away from the forest. </p>
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<p>The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest fire and emptied. The diver was scooped out of the ocean, into the bucket and dropped over the fire. </p>
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<p>Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5&#8217;10&quot;) of the fire. </p>
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		<title>Bride and Seek</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the wedding reception of a young couple, the guests decided to play a drunken game of hide and seek. It was decided that the groom was &#8220;it&#8221; and he eventually found everyone except his new bride. The longer he searched the more frusturated he became and he was soon furious thinking she had left. [...]]]></description>
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During the wedding reception of a young couple, the guests decided to play a drunken game of hide and seek. It was decided that the groom was &#8220;it&#8221; and he eventually found everyone except his new bride.</p>
<p>The longer he searched the more frusturated he became and he was soon furious thinking she had left. He decided the game wasn&#8217;t funny anymore and went home without his bride. As weeks went by, he accepted that she&#8217;d had second thoughts and went on with her life so he did the same.</p>
<p>A few years later a cleaning lady dusted off an old trunk in the attic of the building where the reception had taken place, out of curiosity she opened it. </p>
<p>Inside the trunk was the rotted body of the missing bride who&#8217;d apparently became locked in the trunk she&#8217;d chosen to hide in. Whether she&#8217;d suffocated or starved was unknown, but her face was frozen in a scream.</p>
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		<title>Baby in the Chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 9.0pt; line-height: 16.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">A young couple were waiting impatiently to leave on their first vacation since the baby was born. The young mother&#8217;s aunt had promised to babysit but was thirty minutes late. The young woman called her elderly aunt to find out what was going on, the old woman apologized for her forgetfulness, and said she&#8217;d speed right over. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 9.0pt; line-height: 16.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Since the aunt was only a couple miles away, the couple decided they&#8217;d go ahead and go rather than wait for her and risk missing their flight. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 9.0pt; line-height: 16.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Two weeks later when the couple returned they were horrified to find the baby still sitting in the high-chair where they&#8217;d left it, except now it was dead and bloated, and covered with flies. The aunt really had sped, and unfortunately crashed and died before she made it over. </span></p>
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<p style=""><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Should Have Waited</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 9.0pt; line-height: 16.8pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">A couple getting ready to go on vacation became late for their flight while waiting for the arrival of the baby sitter they secured for their newborn. The mother called the babysitter who promised that she would be at their house in no more than 5 minutes. The couple raced out the door to make their flight, leaving the baby home thinking it will only be alone for a few moments. Two weeks later when the couple returned they found the baby still in the crib, dead. The couple were devestated to discover that the babysitter got in a car crash while rushing to the house. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 9.0pt; line-height: 16.8pt;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Olivia from PA </span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"></span></p>
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		<title>School Bus Railroad Tracks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day, on their regular route home from school, a school bus full of children was crossing over the railroad tracks on their way to the next stop when something went wrong and the bus stalled straddling the tracks. As the driver struggled to restart the bus, the train alarm signal started to sound and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/schoolbus.jpg"><img src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/schoolbus.jpg" alt="School Bus Railroad Track Legend" title="schoolbus" style="width: 300px; float: left; margin: 0 15px 10px 0;" border="0" /></a>One day, on their regular route home from school, a school bus full of children was crossing over the railroad tracks on their way to the next stop when something went wrong and the bus stalled straddling the tracks.  As the driver struggled to restart the bus, the train alarm signal started to sound and the children saw a speeding locomotive coming quickly toward them. By the time the driver opened the doors and evacuate the children, the train had arrived, and the children’s screams were drowned out by the screaming whistle and brakes of the deadly train. None of the children on the schoolbus survived that horrible accident. </p>
<p>A few years later, a man was driving down the same road and stalled on the tracks, in much the same way as the bus full of children. Again, the driver struggled as the alarm started to sound, the lights began to blink and the guard bars lowered in front and behind the man’s passive car. Just before impact, the driver could feel the train bearing down on him. He ceased to struggle and squeezed his eyes shut, anticipating the explosive collision. Suddenly it was as if time stood still and everything became quiet. He felt his car somehow move and it was as if he was being pushed to safety, guided off the tracks by an unknown force.  When he and his car were out of danger from the oncoming train, suddenly sound and time came back to life and the locomotive barreled past him, just inches from the bumper of his vehicle.</p>
<p>To this day if you put your car in neutral on those tracks and sprinkle some baby powder on the back bumper of your car the children from the bus accident will push your car to safety off of the railroad tracks where they met their untimely fate. You will see small hand prints in the powder of the ghosts of the poor children who died that day.</p>
<h3>Variations:</h3>
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<li>2 more users submitted the same story telling us the tracks are in San Antonio, TX.</li>
<li>There is a park in San Antonio (Espada Park) where you can experience this. You don’t park your car on the tracks, but a few feet from the tracks. You must have your car turned off, but in Neutral. Also, behind Espada Park is a subdivision. All the streets in that subdivision have the names of all the children who were killed in that accident. It is said that if a child is in the car, your car will be pushed a lot faster.</li>
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		<title>The Tale of the Hookerman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long ago, when the trains were still the main commerce transportation in the state, an accident occurred on the tracks of Budd Lake. Now these tracks, which run through Netcong, Flanders, and Budd Lake, were said to carry coal, and other industrial fuel sources. One night, while repairing a railroad track, one man had the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/train-at-night608x446.jpg"><img src="http://urbanlegendsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/train-at-night608x446.jpg" alt="" title="train-at-night608x446" style="width: 300px; float: left; margin: 0 15px 10px 0;" border="0"></a>Long ago, when the trains were still the main commerce transportation in the state, an accident occurred on the tracks of Budd Lake. Now these tracks, which run through Netcong, Flanders, and Budd Lake, were said to carry coal, and other industrial fuel sources.</p>
<p>One night, while repairing a railroad track, one man had the extreme misfortune of getting his arm, shirt, skin and all, stuck on the tracks. In this hand he held the latern that was helping to light his way.</p>
<p>And although the trains were not supposed to be running at this time of night, one did, and the conductor of this very train did not see the trapped man struggling by the side of the tracks, nor did the conductor see the faint glow of his latern. Within a matter of minutes, but what surely seemed like hours for the trapped man, the train had passed and made its way towards the next town. But with this train went the man&#8217;s hand and lantern.</p>
<p>He died that evening from blood loss and shock, his body found later the next day by town locals. But to the dismay of everyone, his hand, and his latern, were missing. Some say that it was swept up with the force of the train, others say an animal took it as dinner.</p>
<p>But if you stand on the tracks in the middle of the night, close to the time when the unfortunate man lost his hand, you will see a green light hanging above the tracks, bobbing up and down the same stretch of land.</p>
<p>And that green light is no other than the man&#8217;s latern, being held on to fastly by the man&#8217;s hand, searching and searching in vain for it&#8217;s body.</p>
<p>Now, for all intents and purposes, there actually is a green light that seems to hang over the tracks in this area &#8211; but unscarily enough it is supposedly due to chemical deposits in the soil, either due to pollution or natural mines. Still, the sight of the green light on the tracks in the middle of the night will always recall the tragic tale of the Hookerman.</p>
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