<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>I did do a manual search through their categories, and did find something about it. It just didn't come up in a search.<br><br>http://snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/severed.asp<br><br>It's not exact, but it's somewhat similar.<br><br>Paul<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 2/17/09, Saundra Lund <i><sslund_2007@verizon.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Saundra Lund <sslund_2007@verizon.net><br>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Local urban legends<br>To: "'Paul Rumelhart'" <godshatter@yahoo.com>, "'deb'" <debismith@moscow.com><br>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 10:31 AM<br><br><pre>LOL -- there may be nothing on Snopes about this particular urban legend<br>theme, but it's a common one discussed by Jan Harold Brunvand in his
books,<br>which are really great reads for those interested in urban legends. I've<br>got several of his books, and it looks like a few are available through the<br>library. Ahhh -- the wonders of the Internet . . . I just Googled Dr.<br>Brunvand, and look what I found:<br>http://www.janbrunvand.com/<br><br>BTW, I heard the exact same harrowing tale in the mid-1970 in the SF Bay<br>area, only the woman was a foaf -- friend of a friend :-)<br><br>Great stuff, these urban legends, although I think the tunnel story is more<br>than just an urban legend, as Dan & BJ have mentioned. <br><br><br>Saundra Lund<br>Moscow, ID<br><br>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<br>nothing.<br>~ Edmund Burke<br><br>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2009 through life plus<br>70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside<br>the Vision 2020 forum without the express written
permission of the<br>author.*****<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<br>On Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart<br>Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:35 PM<br>To: deb<br>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Local urban legends<br><br>While we've broached the subject, what allegedly local urban legends <br>have people heard around here? Any haunted buildings? Spooky areas? <br>Ancient Indian burial grounds? <br><br>The only one I can think of myself was one I heard of when I was a kid. <br>Supposedly, on some lonely stretch of highway with woods on both sides <br>somewhere around here a lady in a car was almost stopped by a group of <br>individuals in (presumably) Satanic robes who were holding taut a chain <br>across the road hoping that she would stop. She of course floored it, <br>and the chain got wrapped around the bumper. When she made to safety, <br>she went to
the nearest police station which examined the chain and <br>found someone's finger caught in it. They were presumably looking for <br>someone to use in their nefarious rituals or whatever it is that <br>Satanists get up to in the backwoods of Idaho. This was long before DNA <br>testing was a viable option. I did a cursory search on snopes.com, but <br>found nothing.<br><br>Paul<br><br>deb wrote:<br>> Oh, for Pete's sake! This forum has gotten so self righteous and <br>> up-in-arms, one can't even make a joking reference to "urban<br>legend" <br>> without having to provide nine thousand proofs! ROTFL!!!! Stop, Stop, <br>> it's making my ribs hurt!!!! It's like watching a zombie<br>movie--too <br>> stupid to watch, too amazingly ridiculous to ignore!!<br>> <br>> Surely, folks who have been in Moscow a while have "heard about <br>> someone who knew someone who saw the undergound passage between the <br>> building (X) and the
building (y) undergound in downtown Moscow before <br>> they got covered up"? I've only been here about 25 years, and<br>have <br>> heard this urban myth....<br>> <br>> As for the "underground newspapers", what were all these old<br>hippies <br>> (this poster being one) who came to Moscow to finish their lives doing <br>> in the sixties? There were "underground newspapers" everywhere. <br>> Granted, most had a run of two copies before the mimeo machine fumes <br>> put them out for the count, but they must have been in MOSCOW? They <br>> were in PULLMAN....the last bastion of the Ole Hippy cannot go <br>> undefended!!! (That's a joke, Son. Don't sue me)<br>> <br>> Y'all need to get over yourselves, get less defensive, and grow a <br>> sense of humour. No wonder this forum has deteriorated to five people <br>> closing their eyes while slapping each other silly...you look like a <br>> Monty Python skit!!! The
Department of Ridiculous Defense <br>> Postures...."OOOOH, OOOH, Prove it!!!" Maybe it's just the<br>long cold <br>> winter that's got y'all in a lather? Get some full spectrum<br>lights, <br>> some better antidepressants, or a life for Ghod's sake, and stop being<br><br>> so flipping grumpy!!<br>> <br>> By the way, Joan Opyr's newest book is out---some conflation of <br>> characters there look a lot like some Moscovites...From Hell to <br>> Breakfast is a very funny read! and I think some of you could use a <br>> really good laugh......................trust me, you WILL feel better.<br>> Debi R-S<br>> <br>> PS: if there is an iota of sunshine, I suggest y'all go stand in it as<br><br>> long as it lasts....stimulate that seratonin, you dour Moscovites!! <br>> Laugh! Get some fresh air into those stifled and sour nasal passages!! <br>> Cowboy Up, Kids!! Winter is a ending, though not soon enough to keep
<br>> you all from another smack-down, i'm sure.<br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>=======================================================<br><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>