URBAN LEGENDS
1. Club 33 – New Orleans Square – 7500 start up 2500 annual – 2-3 year wait
2. Denied long-haired men for many years
3. 1 in 3 cast members are security – many video camera – no abductions
4. Matterhorn houses basketball court
5. Three nursery schools ordered to remove Disney characters
6. Song of the South cannot be released do to racist subject matter
7. Michael Jackson has the rights to all the Beatles songs
8. Blood from the band members was mixed with red ink to create the first KISS comic books
9. George Bernard Shaw was forced to change the title of one of his plays to Heartbreak House because the
original title, Closed for Remodeling kept patrons from coming to see the show
10. Actor, Jack Nicholson was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother and his mother was his
sister to hide his mother’s young pregnancy
JAMES DEAN
James Dean was killed in a car crash on 30 September 1955 when his new Porsche Spyder
crashed head on into another car. Dean's passenger was thrown from the car and survived, but
Dean was pinned inside. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. After the
accident, many fans refused to believe Dean was dead. A story circulated that he was still alive
although terribly disfigured, and in true urban legend fashion this tale took on a life of its own.
I won't go into all the James Dean as a cult idol stuff except to say his mystique has staying
power. For example, his tombstone was stolen twice in 1983, and in 1985 had to be replaced
because of damage done to it by fans. Seems he was still the popular fella despite having been
dead for three decades.
Back to the "haunted" Porsche. The following "information" comes from a newspaper article.
Make of it what you will:
After the accident the Porsche was sold to a second-hand car dealer who put it on public view
(supposedly in support of a campaign for road safety). He charged viewers twenty-five cents
each to look at it.
Car designer George Barris next bought the car and planned to sell it for parts. When the car
was delivered to his yard, it rolled back off the truck and broke a mechanic's legs.
Troy McHenry, a Beverly Hills doctor, bought the Dean engine and used it to replace the engine
in his Porsche. The doctor was killed in a crash the first time he took the car out.
(Troy McHenry died on 22 October 1956 during a automobile race at the Pomona Fairground
near Los Angeles. He was driving a Porsche Spyder, but I've yet to determine if Dean's engine
was in that car.)
Another unnamed doctor bought the Dean transmission. He too was later seriously injured in a
car crash.
An unnamed New Yorker bought two of the Dean tires. His car crashed when both tires
mysteriously blew out at the same time.
The shell of the Dean car was being transported to a road safety exhibition in Salinas when the
truck skidded and crashed. The driver was killed.
Stolen from the scene of that fatal accident was the shell of James Dean's car. It's never been
recovered.
Another version of the disappearance of the shell was reported in a Los Angeles Times article
on 30 October 1989. George Barris (the guy who sold the car for parts) was quoted as saying
the last time he saw the shell was when he exhibited it in Florida in 1958. The car was loaded
on a truck afterwards, but eight days later when the truck arrived at its destination, the car
wasn't there. No mention of an accident.
You decide.
WIZARD OF OZ COAT
What definitely did occur on The Wizard of Oz -- perhaps the most astonishing thing that did
occur -- was dismissed as a publicity stunt. Yet it is vouched for by [cinematographer] Hal Rosson
and his niece Helene Bowman and by Mary Mayer, who served briefly as the unit publicist on the
picture. "For Professor Marvel's coat," says Mary Mayer, "they wanted grandeur gone to seed. A
nice-looking coat but very tattered. So the wardrobe department went down to an old secondhand store on Main Street and bought a whole rack of coats. And Frank Morgan and the
wardrobe man and [director] Victor Fleming got together and chose one. It was kind of a Prince
Albert coat. It was black broadcloth and it had a velvet collar, but the nap was all worn off the
velvet." Helene Bowman recalls the coat as "ratty with age, a Prince Albert jacket with a green
look."
The coat fitted Morgan and had the right look of shabby gentility, and one hot afternoon Frank
Morgan turned out the pocket. Inside was the name "L. Frank Baum."
"We wired the tailor in Chicago," says Mary Mayer, "and sent pictures. And the tailor sent back a
notarized letter saying that the coat had been made for Frank Baum. Baum's widow identified the
coat, too, and after the picture was finished we presented it to her. But I could never get anyone
to believe the story."
ALIENS
July 4 1947
Mac Brazel a local rancher finds foreign material in a field on J.B Foster ranch where
hes working. Brazel takes pieces of it back to the ranch and over the weekend of July
4th shows it to some of his friends and family. Neighbors Floyd & Loretta Proctor look
at the materials and advise Brazel he should report it in to the Sheriff since it was
unlike anything they had seen before, and might be military property.
July 7th 1947
W.W Brazel travels to town and visits the local Sherifs Dept, where he reports he has
found a crashed object out in a farm field. Sheriff George Wilcox calls Roswell Army
Air Field, and speaks with Jesse Marcel, who is the intelligence officer of the 509th
Bomb Group. It was then that Marcel and either commanding officer William
Blanchard or a Counter Intelligence Captain named Sheridan Cavitt traveled to the
office to speak with Brazel and the Sheriff.
That evening Brazel was accompanied back to the ranch by the Colonel and Counter
Intel Officer where they spent the night. The next morning they traveled back to the
crash site to collect debris.
July 8th 1947
On the morning of July 8th an army group was sent to the ranch to collect the rest of
the debris. All the material was loaded onto trucks and moved to the Air Force Base.
Later that day the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) published a press release claiming
it had recovered a "Flying Disc", this article was written by Walter Haut, the RAAF
Public Relations officer. Brazel traveled into town to the local radio station KFGL,
where he arranged an interview about his discovery. Details from this point become
sketchy, and several accounts of the events after vary in great detail.
However it is agreed that a few hours later Brazel returned to the station, where he
spoke to the radio operator once again, and explained it was all a mistake, and that
it was only a weather balloon. This was followed by a press release only hours later
stating the same thing, that the wreckage found was nothing more than an ordinary
weather balloon. Initially the Associated Press blamed Walter Haut for making a
mistake.
That same day according to Marcel, he was flown to Fort Worth with the wreckage to
meet General Roger Ramey of the 8th Air Force. A press conference was called
where Marcel displayed a balsa wood frame, weather balloon material, and a radar
target. (The famous Roswell Newspaper Front Page). Marcel claims the material he
displayed was not the wreckage from the Foster ranch.
What is Area 51?
Area 51 is the base that didnt exist, and still dosnt as of 2004 in some aspects. Area
51 is a place the United States government uses for development and testing of top
secret aircraft, and some say even extraterrestrial vehicles. The base which dosnt
appear on maps, didnt exist as far as the government was concerned for quite some
time. In 1995 President Clinton signed a document excluding the base from
enviromental monitoring. With that document, the government at least admitted that
something was out there, it reffered to the base as "The United States Air Force
operating location near Groom Lake".
Location
Area 51 is about 90 miles northeast of Las Vegas Nevada. A remote location near
Papoose mountain in the Mohave desert, part of the Nellis Air Force Bombing Range.
The base sits at the edge of a dry lake bed, Groom Lake. Other names for the base
are "Dreamland, The Farm, Groom Lake, and Watertown. While all these names are
used for the base, none of them are official. It is believed that just like most material
related to Area 51 the names for the base are classified material as well.
The Nellis Bombing Range which was established in 1940 by President Roosevelt with
the signing of Executive Order 8578 siezed 3.5 million acres of land, including the
dry lake bed, and some mountains to create the range. The range over years has
been broken up into sections, which is where some believe the name "Area 51" came
from.
What is Area 51 for?
In the Mid 40's Area 51 was just some landing strips, used for training pilots. In
1955 Tony LeVier, discovered the location while searching for a place to test the U-2
spy plane. Shortly after the CIA started work on the location. A runway was built on
the southern end of the lake bed, and Lockheed Skunkworks began construction of a
facility. This same year President Eisenhower signed documents restricting the
airspace above the base. In 1960 the base began to expand when testing of the A12 or blackbird began. The expansion included lengthening the runway to 8500', a
fuel facility that is estimated to hold over 1.3 million gallons of fuel, as well as
additional restricted land and airspace making the "groom box" as its called.
Over the years many aircraft were developed and tested at this site. The Have Blue,
F117, D-21 Drone, and many other stealth or radar evading/spoofing vehicles.
However over the years the secrecy surrounding the base has led some to believe
things other than aircraft testing take place at this location.
November 5th 1975
Travis Walton, Dwayne Smith, Allen Dalis, John Goulette, Steve Pierce, Kenneth
Peterson, Mike Rogers
Travis Walton and six other workers leave thier job site around 6:00pm to head
home for the evening. The crew of seven are working on a contract for the National
Forest Service in the Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona,. On the drive home thru
the forest, the crew in a pickup truck notices a bright glowing in the distant treeline.
The truck continues down the road where they pass a clearing and can see
something above the trees.
The workers in the truck comment on how it looked like it could be a crashed plane,
or possibly a fire. As the truck came to another clearing they slowed for a better
look. Mike Rogers, Travis Waltons boss who was driving the truck slammed on the
breaks, and thats when the object came into view. Allen Dalis, yelled "Its a flying
saucer".
The truck sat still, engine off, with everyone staring at the object hovering above the
trees. Travis Walton decided this was the chance of a lifetime, and exited the truck
for a closer look. As Walton started to walk towards the object the men in the truck
started asking what he was doing. Walton continued until he was under the glowing
objects reflection.
Suddenly a beam of light came down and began to lift Walton from the ground, the
six men in the truck began yelling, started the truck and took off. Down the road,
Mike stopped the truck, and discussed going back for Walton. At this point they saw
the object move away in the distance, and decided to go back together rather than
split up. When they reached the site, and pulled the truck up to light the area, they
found nothing. The group searched the area but Travis was gone.
The men got back in the truck and started back into town again. In the car they
discussed what they needed to do, who they needed to tell. Arriving in town they
notified the authorities, Sheriff L.C. Ellison of Heber, Navajo County Sheriff Marlin
Gillespie and his deputy Kenneth Coplan. The Sheriff's and Deputy as well as 3 of the
six men returned to the site to search for Walton. They gave up and returned to
town at 1:30 the next morning.
When Waltons mother and sister were informed that he had been taken by a UFO,
they both had calm reactions. In fact Duane, Waltons brother and mother
commented on how they had seen UFO's before. The next morning the police
returned to the woods but were unable to find any evidence that Walton had been in
the area. Some started to think someone in the group of men had killed him and
dumped the body in the woods. Two days later all the men agreed to take lie
detector tests.
Of the six men, five passed the test. Allen Dalis's test was labeled inconclusive.
November 11th 1975
Sometime after midnight Walton awoke, on the concrete pavement of a filling station
"Union 76" in Heber, Arizona. He made it to the payphone, and dialed the operator.
The operator connected him to his sisters house, her huband answered the phone.
He almost didnt believe it was Walton, but decided he needed to go to the gas
station just to check it out. Grant Neff, Waltons Brother inlaw stopped to pickup
Duane, Waltons brother, and traveled to the gas station where they found Travis.
Travis too, took a lie detector test a few days after he reappeared. He failed the first
test, as he was still unclear what had happened. However several tests were
performed later, all of which he passed, one as late as 1993.
What Tavis Walton remembers happening to him while he was gone is another whole story.
CROP CIRCLES
History
Crop circles have appeared all over the world. Primarily, crop circles have been located in England. The
earliest sighting of a crop circle was in 1678 in Hertfordshire, England. Crop circles of early times were
much simpler and less complex as the ones in modern times. Since then crop circles have continued to
appear all over the world. The first modern reported crop circle was in 1966 in Tully, England. During the
1970’s is when crop circles began to appear in significant numbers. Even in the 1970’s the circles’ designs
were much simpler than they are in current times. In the 1970’s the crop circles were either designed in
clockwise or counterclockwise. The extremely complex designs began to appear in the early 1990’s.
These crop circles consisted of straight lines, angles and spiral rings.
Theories
There are many theories and beliefs as to how crop circles are formed. Many of these theories are
developed by the Center for Crop Circle Studies (CCCS). The theories are developed by professional
researchers, authors, and gifted psychics from all over the world. The following are examples of crop
circle theories:
Whirlwind Vortex / Plasma Vortex
Dr. Terrence Meaden developed this theory in the 1980’s. This theory states the patterns of the circles
are a product of natural atmospheric phenomena. Meaning that the circles were caused by tornado’s,
dustdevils, and the similar. To explain the light that people witnessed Meaden says it can be accounted to
friction-generated plasma. Another researcher by the name of Hannes Alfven further explained the plasma
vortex theory. He stated that a plasma vortex theory greater explained the appearance of the stalks after the
formation because the stalks show no mechanical chafing or damage, which would have happened if they
were caused by whirlwind vortex. These theories were believed by many for several years and are still
believed today by some researchers.
Earth Energies
Some scientists in the late 80’s and early 90’s concluded that crop circles might have formed from Earth
energies. These Earth energies were known as ley-lines that can be explained as currents that flow through
the Earth in huge distances. This theory was developed through the research of sacred sites and beliefs in
ancient history.
Extra-Terrestrial Origin
This theory is believed by many but has yet to be proved. It states that crop circle formations were a result
of UFO’s landing on the Earth’s surface. Many people claim that they have witnessed such things but there
is no actual proof or evidence that it is real.
Hoaxes
Hoaxing of crop circles is a belief by many. This means that the crop circles were deliberately created to
fool people into thinking that some unexplained force or object created them. Two men admitted one
occurrence of hoaxing on September 9, 1991 by the names of Doug Bower and David Chorley. These two
men confessed to hoaxing 250 circles over the past several years.
LOCH NESS MONSTER
Loch Ness is 23 Miles long, 1 Mile wide and averages 700 feet deep, with some parts going down to
754 feet. Visibility is almost zero, due to the peat content of the water.
There either is a "Monster" or there is not. To prove there is no monster is more difficult than
proving there is one. Think about it. If there is no monster, how do you prove this? Searches that do
not get any results can be dismissed as being unlucky. They searched too small an area, they did not
search for long enough, the way they searched frightened the monster off. Just because the search
gets no results, does not mean there is no monster. Thus, the continuation of the Loch Ness
phenomenon is assured
Although I would like to be proven wrong, and still hope some good evidence is found, I'm 90%
sure the Monster does not exist. At various times there may be large fish, seals, otters or
Sturgeon, which have been mistaken for a monster. It would take a book to explain why I don't
think there is a monster. The fact is that over recent years all of the major evidence has been
explained. The surgeons picture, the flipper picture, the head and neck and gargoyle head
pictures, Tim Dinsdale's film, the 1982 sonar contacts, the 1987 operation Deepscan contact. The
SONAR evidence has taken so long to find false because the unique shape of the loch (sides and
bed) does strange things to SONAR that doesn't happen in many places. Not to mention the
rotten vegetation on the bottom releasing methane gas bubbles that look like strong moving
SONAR contacts. According to Roy Mackel in his book "The Monsters of Loch Ness" 85% of
"good" eyewitness reports take place in early morning, just the time when the weather conditions
make visibility the most deceptive on the loch, making common wildlife look larger.
One piece of evidence that is not mentioned very often is way in which the number of sightings
seem to go down the more the Loch is watched and visited. With many more people carrying
cameras nowadays, we would expect the number of pictures of Nessie to rise in proportion to the
number of visitors. In fact the reverse is true. We have less pictures in recent years than were
presented in the early years. After the A82 was opened in 1933, giving much easier access, the
number of sightings increased, and this is when the whole story really begins. The Chairman of
Eagle star insurance, Sir Edward Mountain, was so interested in all the sightings that he hired 20
men to watch round the circumference of the loch in July 1934 for 5 weeks. None of the
photographs showed anything conclusive. Sir Edward eventually hinted that the Monster was
probably a gray seal. In the Sixties when the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau maintained a
constant look out over the summer months, the number of sightings and photographs were less
than for any 10 year period before this.
The still photographs taken above water are all quite different, and it would be difficult to see how
the best of them could show the same creature. We would have to believe in a variety of
creatures of different size and shape who take turns to come to the surface.
The strongest evidence by a long way is the eyewitness reports. In his 1976 book "The Monsters of Loch
Ness" Roy Mackal claimed there were 10,000 reported sightings, of which 3000 had been recorded. Mackal
studied these and concluded 251 of them were "valid" meaning they could not be accounted for by any
other explaining. Lets look at an example of this: The reported sighting on land by Mr. and Mrs. Spicer on
22nd July 1933. this is one of the most famous early sightings, it was unusual, because it was on land. It is
mentioned in all of the books and several web sites. Most accounts are edited to suit the opinion of the
author. To get a proper view of the story it has been necessary, as with lots of evidence, to read all the
published accounts as well as the full reports from newspapers concerned.
BIGFOOT
Is it possible that a reclusive man-like creature inhabits the remote areas of our planet? Why not
? Isn't it arrogant of us to assume we know of all the species on this huge planet ? Scientists will
tell you that we don't. Only a few years ago, a unknown animal now named the Okapi was
discovered. What about creatures we know of , but are thought to be extinct ? The coelacanth
was thought to be extinct for 70 million years until they were discovered alive and well in 1938. So
is it really that hard to believe that a hair covered, man-like creature could exist on the verge of
discovery ? In many remote areas of the world there have been sightings of just such a creature.
Known by many names such as Sasquatch, Yeti, Almas and many more. Is this an unknown
primate, the "missing link" or some other yet unknown species ? There is evidence to support the
existence of just such a creature in the Northwestern United States as well as other remote
areas.
There are still numerous sightings every year. The descriptions of the creatures are very similar
from sighting to sighting. There are discrepancies in some of the details but the mind does play
tricks on us when frightened. Exaggeration and hoaxes do account for some of the discrepancies
in the descriptions as well. The height is the most varied detail. Witnesses have reported the
creatures to be from 5'6" to 8' +. This is easily explained if you take into account the possible age
difference of the particular creature. Did they see and adult or juvenile ? There would be a
noticeable size difference depending on the age.
There have been numerous names given the bigfoot over the years. “Bad Idians", “Mountain
Devils”, "Omaha Bushman”, "Sasquatch", "Yeren" and "Yeti" just to name a few.
A more scientific name shared by some scientists is the Gigantopithecus Blacki, an extinct
primate that lived in Asia some 3000,000 years ago and could have found its way to other parts of
the world via the land bridge before Asia broke off the mainland.
Dr. Grover Krantz a well known and respected Cyptozoologist, feels the Sasquatch is indeed
Gigantopithecus. He has studied all aspects of the creature for many years. He is convinced of its
existence and is one of the scientists who has studied the Patterson film footage and is certain it
is genuine. In his book, Bigfoot Prints, Krantz shows a jawbone of what he believes a whole skull
would have looked like and using it, was able to construct a skull of what he believes a whole
skull would look like. There have only been a handful or teeth and jawbones of Gigantopithecus
found throughout the world. The first tooth was found by in 1932 by a Dutch paleoanthropologist,
G.H.R. Von Koeingswa1d in a Hong Kong apothecary shop. Since that time only a few jawbones
and thousands of teeth have been found.
Is it possible this species that walked Asia some 300,000 years ago, did not die out, but survived well into
the 20th century? Perhaps. A species of fish, the coelacanth, thought to be extinct for 70,000,000 years
turned up in South Africa in 1938. Another fish, completely unknown to the world, was discovered in 1976.
It was called the megamouth shark. Other animals thought to be myth have turned up in this century. The
okapi, mountain gorilla, and the giant panda. If Bigfoot is indeed Gigantopithecus Blacki, he may one day
be rediscovered and the mystery will finally be solved.
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