Den Spauwer in Brussels, Belgium
Known as "The Spewer," this bizarre fountain has an even stranger urban legend behind it.#urbanlegends #legends #statues #fountains #section-Atlas
Den Spauwer
I'd seen this before, but always love it feel it could use a reshare.
The legend of the black-eyed children emerged in 1996 in Abilene, Texas, when journalist Brian Bethel wrote a newspaper column about an unsettling encounter. Since then, people around the world claim to have had similar experiences with school-aged kids with weird eyes, monotone voices and demands to be let in to houses and cars. Atlas Obscura's Emma Cieslik writes about this urban legend, the people who believe it, and how it connects back to traditional tales from different cultures.
#Culture #History @histodon #UrbanLegends #Halloween #BlackEyedChildren #Texas
It's mid-October, so it's time for your annual reminder that people giving away drugs for free (like, by disguising them as Halloween candy and giving them to trick-or-treaters) are even more mythical than ghosts, vampires, and werewolves.
Drug dealers are trying to *make money* from drugs by *selling* them.
Children notoriously have very little money to spend.
What century do we live in?
Quote from the article:
"29 percent of people surveyed believed they’ve lived in a haunted house"
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Does a Realtor Have to Disclose That a House Is Supposedly Haunted?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/561833/does-realtor-have-disclose-if-house-is-haunted
Got Your Nose
When Uncle Frank's innocent game of "Got Your Nose" takes a terrifying turn, it triggers a darkly comedic spiral into chaos.
My review of The Watkins Book of Urban Legends by Gail De Vos
@w7voa ah yes, the infamous Foaf! (friend of a friend)
#Wissenschaft&Medizin #Bildung #Gesellschaft&Kultur #Skeptiker #ModerneSagen #Legende #Mythen #Mythos #Hoax #Sagen #UrbanLegends #Hamburg #Kultur #ErdeUmwelt #MedizinA sketch for an idea I had for the urban legend/folktale The Green Ribbon. I actually tried drawing this last year for Halloween/spooky season, but I couldn’t come up with a good idea. This is the closest I’ve gotten to drawing an a concept that I like, though I think it still needs some work. I was also thinking of doing an analog piece and collaging actual green velvet ribbon into the illustration, but that’s still up in the air. If anyone has any ideas or feedback on how I can improve this existing sketch, please don’t hesitate to let me know! #thegreenribbon #illustration #sketch #urbanlegends #folktale #folklore #thevelvetribbon #theblackvelvetribbon
I see the pull tab myth is still going on all these years later in Canada. Yes a charity might accept all the pull tabs but they'd get more money from the entire tin...
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/i-just-want-to-help-someone-why-this-winkler-kid-is-collecting-pop-can-tabs-1.6987966
https://theviewfromadrawbridge.com/2015/05/17/the-worst-urban-legend-soda-can-tabs/
The short video shows him crushing the cans so I hope he takes the entire can in for recycling. Aluminium is worth good money.
Striking the Crowd
Today I found myself thinking of Terminator 3, specifically the plotline in which all kinds of random computer crashes are spreading across the internet.
For obvious reasons.
In today’s real world incident, it’s a bug in an auto-pushed update for widely-used security software by CrowdStrike, ironically used to protect mission-critical systems. In the two-decade-old movie (pardon me while I turn to dust), it’s Skynet spreading itself across the internet.
At the time, I thought the nuclear strike would wipe out a lot of internet infrastructure, destroying major nodes and leaving pieces of Skynet disconnected from each other. A commenter remarked that he’d been doing research for a novel and experts agreed that enough of the major nodes and infrastructure would survive the attack to keep the network functioning.
The interesting thing: Neither of us had heard the story that ARPANET (the internet’s predecessor) had been designed for that scenario. These days, it’s pretty much repeated as gospel… but apparently it wasn’t a design goal, and the idea that it was can be traced back to a 1991 article in Network World magazine that conflated ARPANET with a different network design, which was never actually built. (via)
From there it took on a life of its own for the same reason many urban legends (and conspiracy theories) do: it made a better story.
#crash #Crowdstrike #Folklore #InternetHistory #movies #Terminator #UrbanLegends
The Dead Zone is a quarter-mile stretch of Florida's Interstate 4 just north of Orlando. Built over the graves of yellow fever victims, the area is known for an unusually large number of car accidents, plus ghost sightings, floating orbs and poor cell reception. #WyrdWednesday
: Kimi Lee
#Wissenschaft&Medizin #Bildung #Gesellschaft&Kultur #Skeptiker #ModerneSagen #Legende #Mythen #Mythos #Hoax #Sagen #UrbanLegends #Hamburg #Rechte #socialmedia #sozialeNetzwerke #sozialeMedien #Kultur#Wissenschaft&Medizin #Bildung #Gesellschaft&Kultur #Skeptiker #ModerneSagen #Legende #Mythen #Mythos #Hoax #Sagen #UrbanLegends #Hamburg #Kultur#Wissenschaft&Medizin #Bildung #Gesellschaft&Kultur #Skeptiker #ModerneSagen #Legende #Mythen #Mythos #Hoax #Sagen #UrbanLegends #Hamburg #Kultur
