Ooo, scary!

[brigdh]

Gacked from catesith18: Tell me your favorite urban legend. I love urban legends. I love all horror stories, really, and when I was younger I used to memorize as many as I could so I always had one to tell on sleepovers or at camp. Come on, tell me your favorite, and I'll .

This is one I just learned recently, and probably doesn't actually count, since it's a true story. But I figure it's close enough. You know how, every Halloween, people go crazy about poisoned candy and razorblades in apples? There's news segments about it, warnings all over the place, and every kid gets told not to eat *anything* until his/her parents have checked it out.

Well, it's all paranoia. Never happened. The razorblades in apples myth is so old, it appears to a derivation of Snow White and her apple. And the random poisoning stories became popular after the still unsolved Tylenol Murders of the early 80's, which is what they're probably based on. Except for one time: when a little boy got cyanide in his Pixie Stix and died. But the investigation into the case reveals that this was not candy being handed out randomly by a psycho serial killer, but was given to the boy by his own father. To make it appear random, he had also given the Pixie Stix to his other kids and their friends, though thankfully none of them died. And where'd he get the idea? From the urban legend about it, of course!

Now there's a story of life imitating art.


Also, I want to rec olympia_m's untitled fic. Muraki and Oriya discuss Hisoka. It's very creepy, and I think has a fascinating portrayal of Muraki. Warnings for rape.

mclachlan returns to the Yami fandom with the prologue of her new fic, Cassandra's Cry. She's the one who wrote the (sadly unfinished) Seven, under the penname Rae, if that helps you remember her.

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[lucifrix.livejournal.com]

My favorite urban legend: "A friend of my sister decided to stay home rather than go to the mall with her parents. She told them that she would be OK. And, besides, she had the dog for company. After watching TV for a while, she decided to go to bed, but was startled awake by a loud noise. She reached under the bed for the dog and felt her hand being licked. Satisfied that everything was OK, she fell back to sleep. The next morning she found the dog dead the bathroom. There was a note that read, 'Humans can lick too.'"

Just sent you a song via yousendit.com as you suggested last week. Feel free to do the same if you get the urge. :)

[catiechu.livejournal.com]

I've heard that before! But it went differently. I've never seen the movie Urban Legends, but I think someone said this variation came from the movie. In the story, the girl would go to bed every night with her arm dangling over the side of the bed and wake up to the dog licking her hand. She woke up one morning, and everything seemed normal, until she saw the dead body of her dog before her dresser, and, "Things aren't always what they seem..." written in blood on the mirror.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Creepy! *shudders*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oooo, yes! That's a good one.

And thank you; it's so pretty. I'm sending you one, too.

[lucifrix.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the send...I love that song, and Aimee did a great job with it. I've also got some vids to that song, it seems a popular choice.

Have you heard the newest UL, about the clown statue (http://snopes.com/horrors/madmen/statue.asp)? It's REALLLLLLLY creepy. There is a Snopes.com RSS feed on here that you might enjoy, that's where I found out about this one.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Dude. O.o That *is* a creepy story. I especially like the version about it being a catonic midget.

And Snopes has a RSS feed? Yay!