Comments on: The Quick 8: Clarifying 8 Horror Myths

By: Marebear

Marebear — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:21:24 +0000

#2 is bullshit. It was the act of a random madman, because a fellow nurse who worked with my mom and lived in that area at the time, which is 15 mins from where I grew up, wrote a book about it. The guy was trying to kill his son inorder to cash out on the life insurance, he had taken out for him. He gave them to the other kids, to hid what he was doing so people would think it was someone else.But it’s a shame it happened. I remember growing up in the 80′s, there were years we couldn’t go trick or treating out here because of it. Check your history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O‘Bryan

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:02:22 +0000

#3 actually happened in Salem Oregon, I don’t remember the year. My health teacher had another student who’s mother was a victim. It was done as a kind of gang initiation. It was probably 20 years ago or so though.

By: ZORK

ZORK — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:55:25 +0000

whats a dishwasher, is it slang for (wife)

By: Eirn

Eirn — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:20:58 +0000

Going back to the silverware thing… I always make sure that the dishwasher in my house has the silverware rack IN the door–like Nutmeag (although these types of washers are getting harder to find). It makes the silverware take up less space in the dishwasher, and is clearly much safer! I didn’t think about the falling thing, so now I’ll be paranoid…lol.

By: James

James — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:33:02 +0000

Thank god most of these aren’t real!

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:26:49 +0000

that was really cool, good job

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:25:22 +0000

I saw a short film/commercial once where a guy talks to the camera about “You know the story: Guy gets picked up at a bar, goes back to the girl’s hotel room, wakes up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidney gone.” He then proceeds, in a very matter-of-fact way, to explain that it was bunk because kidneys are the cheapest organs, so why not just kill the guy and take the whole shebang? And the whole time the camera is slowly panning back to reveal that he’s sitting in a motel room, putting organs into plastic bags, while his hot accomplice works at cleaning up in the bathroom. It all turned out to be a call for video submissions; the winner got a walk-on part in a horror film. You can see it at YouTube if you search for “urban legend Ziddio.com”

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:44:46 +0000

My Grandmother told me about the kidney thieves- my uncle picked on her about it because he knows it’s an urban legend,

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:12:48 +0000

I want to say that earlier this year or maybe the end of last year there was a big story about some foreign surgeon who was hiring poor or out of work people to help “clean” in his offices and then would later bride them for their organs. I think in a few cases he was charges with drugging these poor people and just taking an organ or two. He didn’t slash ‘em and leave them in a bathtub but he was using repulsive means to sell organs on the black market. I seem to remember seeing it on a legit news site, but maybe the spooky season is messing with my memory. Anyone else remember that story??

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:03:12 +0000

I was about to mention the story about a woman hanging herself in a tree on Halloween in 05- but you got to it. It happened in lower Delaware and scared the sh1t out of me. I’m from north DE, so I didn’t see it or anything, but its seriously crazy.