Amusing Accidents

Think of some of the weirdest things that could happen and then put them on a web page. This is the kind of site I came across today. Some of these myths of whatever you want to call them are just flat out funny but try to actually believe in some of them! Some are also very sad.....

A young girl had decided to sneak out of the house to go to a party her protective parents wouldn't allow her to go to. While she was there she hooked up with a guy she liked and they went to a local make-out spot. The guy was drinking heavily and when he got too demanding she insisted on him taking her back to the party. On the way back they crashed into another vehicle. When the girl awoke in the hospital she knew she was dying, she was told that they guy she'd been with had died in the accident and so had the couple in the other car. She begged a nurse to tell her parents that she was very sorry she'd disobeyed them, the nurse just looked at her. After the girl died another nurse asked why she hadn't said anything with the teen had asked her to give the message to her parents. The nurse said, "I didn't know what to say, the people in the other car were her parents." Could you imagine. That would be horrible. This teaches you that you should always tell your parents where your going because you might just run into them later and not know it.

Another story I came across was about tanning. Everyone knows that tanning is bad for your skin yet millions of young boys and girls still enter the tanning booths everyday. A woman decided at the last minute to get a quick tan for a special occasion. When she found out about the limits the salons set on their tanning beds, she signed up at several different tanning salons. A few days later, her husband told her she "smelled funny". She showered and showered but the smell wouldn't go away. When she finally went to the doctor he ran some tests and told her: "I'm sorry, it seems you've microwaved your internal organs, there's nothing we can do for you." Summary of this story is don't go tanning because 1) its bad and 2) you might die.

This next story definitely makes me believe there is a higher power. An atheist who was training for the Olympics had been given special pool privileges at the university he was attending. Late one night he was considering the arguments a religious friend had been confronting him with as he climbed the high-dive for a little late-night practice. He stood on the board and prepared for a backward flip when he noticed the shadow he was casting on the wall formed a perfect cross in the partially-lit room. Shaken, he sat down on the board to think. As he sat there a maintenance worker came into the pool area and turned on the rest of lights and the diver saw that the pool had been drained for maintenance. How scary is that, you could have been dead but because you took one extra second to think are now alive. This story is crazy.

I personally don't like this story but someone might enjoy it so here it is. To help put out a forest-fire helicopters sometimes scoop large containers of water out of lakes and oceans to dump on the blazes. During one such occasion a man enjoying a bit of scuba-diving was accidentally scooped up and dropped into the burning trees. I highly doubt that this is possible but you never know. I wish I could come up with some crazy stories like the ones I find.

Those Myths You Never Want To Hear About

So I search the web each day trying to find new fun facts I can entertain you with. So I come this one website with all kinds of different myths. Bloody Mary, The Concerned Mother and The Hairy Hitch Hiker are just a few of the crazy stories that people have come up with over the years.

The Concerned mother starts out like this. A man and wife were driving late one night when they were flagged down by a woman that appeared to be hurt. She claimed she'd been in an accident and her baby was alive but trapped in the car. The man told her to wait with his wife and he'd see what he could do. He got to the car and found a couple obviously dead in the front seat but a baby crying in a car seat. He cut the baby loose and returned to his own car. When he got there his wife was alone, he asked her where the woman had went and she replied that she'd followed him to the wreck. He left the baby with his wife and went back to the car to find her. When he got there he realized the woman who'd been instantly killed in the front seat had been the one who'd flagged him down. Have you ever seen a ghost before because I sure have not. Although what would you think if you ended up saving a baby because you thought you saw something. That would be extremely heroic. I guess I could believe this story in a sense.

The Graveyard Wager goes something like this...A group of young girls were having a slumber party one night and began to exchange ghost stories. One girl claimed that the old man who had been buried earlier that week in the graveyard down the street had been buried alive. She claimed that if you tried you could hear him scratching at the lid of his coffin still. The other girls called her bluff and told her she was afraid to go there tonight. She eventually accepted their challenge and took a stake with her to drive in the ground to prove she'd been there. She headed off to the grave site right away and never returned, the others assumed she had "chickened out" and went home ashamed. The next morning as they passed the graveyard they saw her there at the old man's grave. She had accidentally staked her nightshirt to the ground and died of fright. First of all why would you ever want to go to a grave yard. That is probably the worst and scariest idea ever. I would never ever have the guts to do that even if it was broad daylight. My question is who actually does these things on a Friday or Saturday night?

The next story I came across was about a POW. It's a horrible story and I'm sorry for sharing it but I think that we should all be grateful for what we have and all those people who are out protecting our country.During the war a soldier faithfully wrote his mother every week so she would know he was all right, until one week she didn't get a letter and immediately began to worry. Within a couple of weeks she got a letter from the Army saying that her son had been captured and was being held in a Prisoner-of-War camp, and they assured her that they had no reason to believe the American prisoners were being mistreated in any way. A few weeks later the woman finally received another letter from her son, it read: "Dear Mom, Try not to worry about me, they are treating us well and I'll be released as soon as the war is over. Make sure that little Teddy gets the stamp for his collection. Love you, Joe" The woman was overjoyed to hear the news, but was confused because she had no idea who "little Teddy" was. She decided to steam the stamp from the envelope and have a look. When she did she saw that written on the back of the stamp were the words: "They've cut off my legs".

Last but not least, Bloody Mary. I think I have heard this myth since I was in fifth grade. If you stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and chant "Bloody Mary" twelve times starting at the stroke of midnight, the face of a hideous woman will appear in the mirror. It's the spirit of a girl who was born with a disfiguring disease and was killed by a cruel joke gone awry. Basically, don't stand in front of a mirror and say Bloody Mary or you will be extremely creeped out.

I babysit for a living and yes I do get scared sometimes. After reading this myth however I think I will make a rule its only legal to babysit during the day when no physco paths are on the loose. A teenage baby-sitter put the kids she was watching to sleep in their beds and went back downstairs. The late night news was on the TV -- the reporter said a psychopath from a local mental institution was on the loose and that police thought he might be in the area. He cautioned residents to lock their doors and windows because this guy was very, very dangerous. Well, the teenager checked the locks on the windows and the doors, but she forgot the door on the cellar bulkhead. Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later, coming up from the cellar, armed with an ax. The children heard some noises downstairs, but thought it was the baby-sitter moving some furniture around. Then it got real quiet. All they heard for the remainder of the night was this noise: "Thump! Thump! Dra-aag... Thump! Thump! Dra-aag..." Evidently, they were too afraid to get up to see what it was. In the morning, their parents came home and were horrified to find the babysitter at the top of the stairs, dead with both arms hacked off at the elbows. She'd been climbing the stairs on the bloody stumps of her arms, pulling her badly injured body along. Was she trying to check on the children? Was she trying to get help? Or in the madness of her tortured soul, was she trying to kill the kids? I personally don't want to answer this question, but I do enjoy reading these stories no matter how weird and creepy they are.