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- apikoros, on 10/27/2007, -0/+199we've tracked down five of the creepiest tales and urban legends that really happened. == we went on snopes.com and checked for the ones with a green jpeg next to them
- d3so, on 10/24/2007, -1/+185Hell, people get buried alive on Digg all the time.
- egroeggnik, on 10/22/2007, -1/+75Dug because Cracked.com finally got it right and had it all on one page! Good reading too.
- dunnylovehun, on 10/23/2007, -0/+47Agreed, great article.
Not sure if you were being literal saltywings but the fact that "saved by the bell" originated with premature burial is itself an urban legend. According to Wikipedia "An urban legend circulated by e-mail, The Bad Old Days claims that the English idiom 'saved by the bell' originated in medieval rope systems to alert surface dwellers in the case of accidental burial. In fact, the phrase originated in the sport of boxing" - JJCDAD, on 10/20/2007, -5/+41I think you're referring to "dead ringer". "Saved by the bell" is something else entirely.
- ostracize, on 10/20/2007, -1/+27I would like to be buried with a cyanide pill in my pocket.
Can never be too careful. - theballdredge, on 10/22/2007, -0/+23um, necrophiliacs leave something else.
- NeoCortex, on 10/20/2007, -2/+24Zack and Kelly
- thugok, on 10/20/2007, -0/+18FTA: "In fact, the odds are pretty good that at least once a guy has killed a prostitute, tried to stuff her under the bed, only to find there was already a body there."
cracked.com does it again. - saltywings, on 10/20/2007, -21/+38Vary good article and the last one brings into light the true meaning of "saved by the bell".
- ZacEfronFan, on 10/20/2007, -0/+15Wow. Waking up during your own autopsy. That's scary.
- Hobofuzz, on 10/22/2007, -0/+15It's "hanged", not "hung" >.<
- c0ldfusi0n, on 10/20/2007, -2/+17Once again, Cracked finally understood to have all of their annoying top 10/5/50/100 on a single page. Kudos for that. It was about time.
- Pimpalicious316, on 10/20/2007, -1/+16i found it funny that the last linked-to story about the alive autopsy happened in Caracas. I read it as carcass at first. but alas, the irony was not meant to be.
- ambrosious, on 10/20/2007, -1/+14"Here’s a tip for anyone trying to thrill kids on Halloween in the future: You don’t need to hang yourself. Just give out full-sized chocolate bars instead of those not-so-fun "fun-sized" ones."
hehe. - antitab, on 10/22/2007, -0/+13Cracked is ***** brilliant.
"In the town of Frederica, Delaware, a 42-year-old woman, perhaps distraught by the fact that she lived in Delaware, hung herself from a tree near a busy road on a Tuesday night.'
"Now we’re just thinking aloud here, but if we were standing on a gallows, fake or not, with a rope around our necks, we’d want to take a few precautions. For example, and again just blue-skying, maybe don’t use a real rope that is tied into a real noose that is wrapped around your real neck in a way that could really kill you." - ThinkBox, on 10/20/2007, -0/+11No he is just a vampire
- cresswga, on 10/20/2007, -0/+8I went on one of the Haunted Walks around Savannah and our tour guide trotted out this old chestnut. She also managed to say that this practise also originated the phrases "Dead Ringer" for someone who rang the bell and "Graveyard Shift" for the person who stood watch in case any of the bells rung.
Incorrect etymology always annoys me. - nlatimer, on 10/19/2007, -0/+9I've been afraid of getting buried alive ever since that arc on Days of our Lives. I was like 5 and my babysitter watched it, big mistake on her part.
- krnldmp, on 10/20/2007, -0/+9That would be an interesting call.
- Zipp425, on 10/22/2007, -0/+8That's not irony... that's coincidence.
- 171ContriteArc, on 10/21/2007, -0/+8Welcome to the world of journalism!
- MerryMortician, on 10/19/2007, -0/+7you'd hit it.
- sovereign3, on 10/19/2007, -1/+7I didn't see any ghosts on that list...
- chrismgtis, on 10/22/2007, -0/+6Seen that Tales from the Crypt episode? The guy was alive, but couldn't move and they couldn't detect that he was alive due to the potion-like stuff that he took. So they started sawing away at his skull..... well, you know the rest. After seeing that I informed my family to cremate me if I die so I couldn't feel myself rotting away in a grave.
- chrismgtis, on 10/20/2007, -0/+6As opposed to your avatar which no one can see?
- scrimaxinc, on 10/19/2007, -1/+6boxing
- jtorkbob, on 10/20/2007, -0/+5They are referring to the fact that the run time of House (an 'hour long' show) without commercials is 42 minutes. I might have learned that with a stopwatch. Or I might have learned it from the front of my DivX DVD player. I can't remember...
- thedo0od, on 10/20/2007, -4/+9You misspelled the very first word. Ha Ha!
- Schmapdi, on 10/20/2007, -0/+5That accidental Haunted House hanging thing happened in Champaign Illinois a few years ago too. Some 16 year old kid was playing a corpse for some sort of Haunted thing and ended up really hanging himself.
- RxDaniel, on 10/20/2007, -0/+4Damn dude I'm at a Baptist college and they don't have it blocked.
- yfguitarist, on 10/20/2007, -0/+4Site is blocked at my university. Can someone post a mirror?
- MerryMortician, on 10/19/2007, -5/+9That last guy was a dead ringer for my brother.
- GawtMilk, on 10/20/2007, -0/+4What's yours? A paragliding US flag?
You can see his when you enlarge it in his profile. - RichGC, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3Very scary, especially if they have started cutting. Reminded me of the TV series Heroes.
- Aticper, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3That's fine - if you want the internal combustion engine to use up your air supply in five minutes.
- burstaneurysm, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4If anyone hasn't seen 'Four Rooms' go rent it right now.
I don't wanna give anything away, but this list reminded me of it. - spawnfree, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3you can escape by wiggling your big toe or something.
- Lapper, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3"Now, this may seem ridiculous, but keep in mind this was an era before doctors such as the esteemed Dr. Gregory House gained the ability to solve any ailment within 42 minutes." Now now, this isn't "24". It's usually days that pass before the diagnosis is correct. But it's always going to be someone else mentioning something barely applicable that will instantly blow the whole case wide open. The episodes seem to be getting more template-based....
- Aticper, on 10/20/2007, -1/+4Listen man, I can't get a signal ABOVE ground.
- Pilomotor, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3Dugg down for capitalizing the U in "Dugg".
- krnldmp, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3And some extra air?
- hoopadoo, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3That mummy story was pretty interesting! Nothing like dropping a nickel in a body after taking a look! Necrophiliacs leave a fifty.
- DMan928, on 10/19/2007, -0/+3
That spleen was the splitting image.... - sputt87, on 10/20/2007, -1/+3Not only that, but paraphrasing the snopes article. Do yourself a favor and head to snopes.com instead of this plagiarism.
- RxDaniel, on 10/22/2007, -0/+2Not trying to be mean but I think that is called natural selection.
- SiNN4R, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2I wouldn't have reported the hanging woman to the police either. Sounds like a perfectly appropriate halloween decoration.
- grantmoore3d, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2Pai Mei would just laugh until the coffin and dirt moved from his way.
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