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Now, I’ll be here until they pull the plug, but I’m also at the other place, too. I’ve left a trail of fentanyl-tainted dollar bills in the parking lot, so I should be easy to find. Hope to see you there. — 🐊
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There's been a long-running #UrbanLegend about razor blades behind stickers but here's one that mysteriously makes people feel ill. 'Police Scotland later confirmed the substance had been deemed safe' edinburghnews.scotsman.com/n…
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This is one of those stories you hear as a kid, then five years later someone tells you it’s apocryphal, then another five years later someone tells you it being apocryphal is apocryphal and the cycle continues for the rest of your life with you never once bothering to look it up
In the 1980s, Domino's Pizza ran ads urging people to "avoid the noid", a gremlin who made competitors' pizza deliveries late and cold Unfortunately, a paranoid schizophrenic named Ken Noid thought he was being personally targeted, so he took hostages at a local Domino's After a few hours, he got hungry and had the workers make him a pizza, and after eating the whole thing, he got a little sleepy and the hostages escaped, and he surrendered to the police shortly after
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“ ‘Poison penetrates the skin.’ Russians are once again being scared by poisoned banknotes. Where did this legend come from, and who benefits from it?” NotMoscow Speaks, 21 September 2026. nemoskva.net/en/2026/09/21/v…
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One might recall the popular moral panic (ca. 2021) holding that children were showing up to schools acting as dogs and cats and were being accommodated with litter boxes for bathroom breaks. Senator Tuberville (R, Alabama) has moved on to furries in the airline industry.
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Manager Calls Police on Black Man — Minutes Later They Learn He Owns 12 Restaurants#story #storytime #stories
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This video is a fabricated storytime clip, not a real incident. No news reports, police records or other sources document the described events involving a "Marcus" owning 12 Georgia restaurants; it repurposes old unrelated bodycam footage with overlaid narration. snopes.com/fact-check/rac… leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202… x.com/grok/status/21…
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It couldn't be more clearer they're feeding you human meat
KFC'S NEWEST COMMERCIAL IS VERY DISTURBING! THERE IS ALWAYS TRUTH IN PLAIN SIGHT! 😳
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The video is a real KFC UK ad by Mother London for the Dirty Louisiana chicken burger. It references the Ortolan bird-eating tradition (napkins over heads) to show the saucy burger as "so indulgent it's indecent." creativebrief.com/agency/mother-… decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/new-kfc-a… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_b…
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#PupalLegends Gunung Ledang (Ledang Mountain) is famously a hotbed of supernatural activity. The urban legend goes that a teacher on a school trip could never get her group count right. Somehow, she always counted an extra child no matter how she did it.
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99% of conspiracy theories completely fall apart by simply asking “why would they do that”
I actually never understood this whole “they’re feeding us human meat” thing like do you actually think human meat is cheaper and more easily accessible than industrial farming genetically modified chickens please be serious
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The 1980s phantom clown scare all over again (I know this is not a clown suit, but read the research of @CryptoLoren into this weird flap. And do remember the 1970s axe wielding bunnyman of Fairfax County sightings.
🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!! Panic is ensuing in Fredericksburg, VA after a man in a PINK PANTHER COSTUME tried to abduct MULTIPLE CHILDREN from a school bus stop in BROAD DAYLIGHT! Four kids got off of a bus where a man in a pink costume was waiting across the street. When the bus drove away, he crossed the street and started CHASING all four kids and GRABBED the smallest girl. Her sister pulled her free and then a passing car scared him off. The kids saw his face through a tear in the costume and they believe him to be a male with facial hair, and a tan complexion. ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING!!!
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(Often told about the Pope. Any pope.)
Before he died, Billy Graham was returning to Charlotte after a speaking engagement and when his plane arrived there was a limousine waiting to transport him to his home. As he prepared to get into the limo, he stopped and spoke to the driver . "You know," he said, "I am 87 years old and I have never driven a limousine. Would you mind if I drove it for a while?"The driver said, "No problem. Be my guest!" Billy gets into the driver's seat and they head off down the highway. A short distance away sat a rookie State Trooper operating his first speed trap.The long black limo went by him doing 70 in a 55 mph zone. The trooper pulled out and easily caught the limo and he got out of his patrol car to begin the procedure. The young trooper walked up to the driver's door and when the glass was rolled down, he was surprised to see who was driving. He immediately excused himself and went back to his car and called his supervisor. He told the supervisor, "I know we are supposed to enforce the law, but I also know that important people are given certain courtesies. I need to know what I should do because I have stopped a very important person." The supervisor asked, "Is it the governor?" The young trooper said, "No, he's more important than that." The supervisor said, "Oh, so it's the president." The young trooper said, "No, he's even more important than that." The supervisor finally asked, "Well then, who is it?"The young trooper said... "I think it's Jesus, because he's got Billy Graham for a chauffeur!"
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Happy Valentine’s Day, folks. (Zachary Kanin for @NewYorker)
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Met a lady at a wedding this weekend who told me a story about growing up in London, apparently there was a curry shop close to her house, turns out cat pets had been disappearing in the neighbourhood. Yep. They were using cat and pigeon meat for curries.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before … (also see snopes.com/fact-check/funny-…)
Ex was a social worker in CPS and later the Welfare Lady. She had a lady come in and tell her the lady's kids names were pronounced Go-NOR-ree-ah and See-FI-lus. (Gonnorhea and Syphilis.) Cause their mom liked the names.
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Remember the "Mikey" rumor? The kid that played Mikey in the Life cereal commercials was supposed to have died from eating Pop Rocks, he mixed it with soda & his stomach exploded!! Urban legend, schoolyard myth. Well, I almost told my granddaughter this last night while watching her eat Pop Rocks but decided against it because she was quiet and it was time for quiet 🤣😅
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Wild story blowing up in Spanish circles 😱 50% real, 50% urban legend?? Back in 2017, Reuters dropped a huge exposé on ‘body brokers’ in the US—companies legally buying donated bodies, chopping them up like meat, and selling parts for medical research (yes, parts even shipped to North Carolina!). But the creepiest viral twist: rumors of medical pros using a local app + delivery drivers to hand out ‘human meat’ to people who asked… Real scandal or total creepypasta? I’m just translating what’s going viral—no claiming it’s 100% true! What do you think? 👀 Drop a 😱 if this gave you chills. #BodyBrokers #HumanMeatRumors #CreepyPasta #ReutersExposed #UrbanLegend #DarkStories #ViralCreepy #TrueCrimeTwist
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A long running urban legend in Moscow is that the giant Boris Yeltsin-era Peter the Great statue by Zurab Tsereteli was originally meant to be Columbus for the 500th anniversary in 1992. Allegedly Americans cities said no thanks to the massive, pricey monument… so it got a new head, new story, and in 1997 became Peter instead, so the story goes…
BREAKING; Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House: report. The explorer who discovered America
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“Embarrassing Moments.” Chicago Daily Tribune, 17 June 1924. An early appearance of this classic.
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Like the cleaner at Tate Modern who innocently put someone's installation in the bin.
A museum volunteer accidentally destroyed an art piece after mistaking it for a dirty mirror and cleaning it The work, by Chen Sung-chi, is said to symbolize the "distorted self-awareness of the middle class"
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Amazing discovery of written account dating from 1915 of The Angels of Mons legend from nurses caring for wounded British soldiers in #WW1 #folklore : m.youtube.com/watch?si=wvLPY…
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