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Urban Legends: Miscellaneous
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Oddly enough, there's a truly chilling and creepy movie out right now that subtly features urban legends to much better effect: Urbania. Seek it out. If that's not playing near you, or you want something more traditionally "scary", there's The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen.
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The first two examples cited above are called urban legends or urban myths, even though one is demonstrably false and the other has elements of truth. The third is a scam, pure and simple.
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Since 2003 the Discovery Channel TV show MythBusters has tried to prove or disprove urban legends by attempting to reproduce them. Among the legends proven to be accurate by the program's hosts are the myth of the 'Exploding Jawbreaker' (heating a jawbreaker in a microwave can, indeed, make it explode), and the idea of filling a sunken boat with pingpong balls to re-float it (it is possible, but it takes an enormous amount of pingpong balls and, for the MythBusters crew, a specially-designed 'funnel' apparatus).
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The case creator can use this private area to assemble documents, web links, and other sources to help prove (or disprove) their Urban Legend. A research item can be made public by submitting it as an exhibit. To do this, select the research item and click the "Submit Item as Exhibit" button. The item will be removed from the Research folder and added to the Exhibits folder.
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This urban legend sprung up with guest's trying to figure out why they are not allow to ride in the back of the Monorail. As legend has it early in the WDW property's operation, the Wabco (Westinghouse Air Brake) system failed in one of the Monorail trains, and it crashed into another. That is why to this day no one is allowed to ride in the rearmost area of the Monorail.
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The sad part is, even though the urban legend angle would make this genre film unique, the execution of these death scenes is far from stellar. There is no punch, no shock and no suspense, just your typical and redundant scares with a heavy music cue. Needless to say, the premise is a tremendous waste of a great idea.
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