[Vision2020] Local urban legends

Tue Feb 17 14:26:39 PST 2009

Note Dr. Brunvand is cited in the Sources  J  Seriously, for those
interested in urban legends, I highly recommend his books because this stuff
is just fascinating.

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

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From: Paul Rumelhart [mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:22 PM
To: 'deb'; Saundra Lund
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Local urban legends

I did do a manual search through their categories, and did find something
about it.  It just didn't come up in a search.

http://snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/severed.asp

It's not exact, but it's somewhat similar.

Paul

--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net>
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Local urban legends
To: "'Paul Rumelhart'" <godshatter at yahoo.com>, "'deb'"
<debismith at moscow.com>
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 10:31 AM

LOL -- there may be nothing on Snopes about this particular urban legend

theme, but it's a common one discussed by Jan Harold Brunvand in his
 books,

which are really great reads for those interested in urban legends.  I've

got several of his books, and it looks like a few are available through the

library.  Ahhh -- the wonders of the Internet . . . I just Googled Dr.

Brunvand, and look what I found:

http://www.janbrunvand.com/

BTW, I heard the exact same harrowing tale in the mid-1970 in the SF Bay

area, only the woman was a foaf -- friend of a friend  :-)

Great stuff, these urban legends, although I think the tunnel story is more

than just an urban legend, as Dan & BJ have mentioned.  

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do

nothing.

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-----Original Message-----

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]

On Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart

Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:35 PM

To: deb

Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Local urban legends

While we've broached the subject, what allegedly local urban legends 

have people heard around here?  Any haunted buildings?  Spooky areas?  

Ancient Indian burial grounds? 

The only one I can think of myself was one I heard of when I was a kid.  

Supposedly, on some lonely stretch of highway with woods on both sides 

somewhere around here a lady in a car was almost stopped by a group of 

individuals in (presumably) Satanic robes who were holding taut a chain 

across the road hoping that she would stop.  She of course floored it, 

and the chain got wrapped around the bumper.  When she made to safety, 

she went to
 the nearest police station which examined the chain and 

found someone's finger caught in it.  They were presumably looking for 

someone to use in their nefarious rituals or whatever it is that 

Satanists get up to in the backwoods of Idaho.  This was long before DNA 

testing was a viable option.  I did a cursory search on snopes.com, but 

found nothing.

Paul

deb wrote:

> Oh, for Pete's sake! This forum has gotten so self righteous and 

> up-in-arms, one can't even make a joking reference to "urban

legend" 

> without having to provide nine thousand proofs! ROTFL!!!! Stop, Stop, 

> it's making my ribs hurt!!!! It's like watching a zombie

movie--too 

> stupid to watch, too amazingly ridiculous to ignore!!

>  

> Surely, folks who have been in Moscow a while have "heard about 

> someone who knew someone who saw the undergound passage between the 

> building (X) and the
 building (y) undergound in downtown Moscow before 

> they got covered up"? I've only been here about 25 years, and

have 

> heard this urban myth....

>  

> As for the "underground newspapers", what were all these old

hippies 

> (this poster being one) who came to Moscow to finish their lives doing 

> in the sixties? There were "underground newspapers" everywhere. 

> Granted, most had a run of two copies before the mimeo machine fumes 

> put them out for the count, but they must have been in MOSCOW? They 

> were in PULLMAN....the last bastion of the Ole Hippy cannot go 

> undefended!!! (That's a joke, Son. Don't sue me)

>  

> Y'all need to get over yourselves, get less defensive, and grow a 

> sense of humour. No wonder this forum has deteriorated to five people 

> closing their eyes while slapping each other silly...you look like a 

> Monty Python skit!!! The
 Department of Ridiculous Defense 

> Postures...."OOOOH, OOOH, Prove it!!!" Maybe it's just the

long cold 

> winter that's got y'all in a lather? Get some full spectrum

lights, 

> some better antidepressants, or a life for Ghod's sake, and stop being

> so flipping grumpy!!

>  

> By the way, Joan Opyr's newest book is out---some conflation of 

> characters there look a lot like some Moscovites...From Hell to 

> Breakfast is a very funny read! and I think some of you could use a 

> really good laugh......................trust me, you WILL feel better.

> Debi R-S

>  

> PS: if there is an iota of sunshine, I suggest y'all go stand in it as

> long as it lasts....stimulate that seratonin, you dour Moscovites!!  

> Laugh! Get some fresh air into those stifled and sour nasal passages!! 

> Cowboy Up, Kids!! Winter is a ending, though not soon enough to keep

> you all from another smack-down, i'm sure.

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