I dunno if this exactly fits, but I think it might be.

There are a lot of Urban Legends out there.. not all of them true. I'm wondering which ones have any credibility to them.

I know that the "Call is Coming From Inside The House" one actually DOES have some truth to it.. it was apparently based off something that really happened in the 1970s.. I believe the "Razor Blades On The Water Slide" is also true.

I know that the "Needle with AIDS In The Phone Booth/Ball Pit" has been disproven, or at least never reported to authorities.

??? I've never heard of any of those!  :o Or is it just that I have been living under a rock?

I know that the "Call is Coming From Inside The House" one actually DOES have some truth to it.. it was apparently based off something that really happened in the 1970s.. I believe the "Razor Blades On The Water Slide" is also true.


I know that the movie Black Christmas uses the "killer is calling from inside the house" motif, and that was in 1974. I would be intrigued if it was based on some actual case though.

A great resource for urban legends are the Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com

I know that the movie Black Christmas uses the "killer is calling from inside the house" motif, and that was in 1974. I would be intrigued if it was based on some actual case though.

A great resource for urban legends are the Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com


Yes, I've used snopes many times... however, some, like the "Razor Blades On The Water Slide" aren't listed, but seem believeable.

I think the "Killer inside the house" comes from the late 60s or early 70s... when was the call-tracing technology like that invented?

Yes, I've used snopes many times... however, some, like the "Razor Blades On The Water Slide" aren't listed, but seem believeable.

I think the "Killer inside the house" comes from the late 60s or early 70s... when was the call-tracing technology like that invented?


I have no idea. In Black Christmas, the police try to track the disturbing phone calls being made to a girl's sorority house. They have to make several attempts at it throughout the movie, though, and it's only at the end that the main female protagonist stays on the phone with the caller long enough for his call to be traced. My memory of how they do it is a little sketchy... But I recall that some guy has to run around searching for some signal or other in a rather large room at the telephone company; she has to stay on the phone with the psycho long enough for the telephone guy to find what he's looking for. I don't know. It seemed kind of complicated. The technology has definitely improved since then. ;)

It was the same way on "When A Stranger Calls", that recent re-make of an old movie.. they had to keep him on for a minute to trace it. You never actually SAW the cops in that movie, though, she just had them on her cell phone.

http://www.snopes.com

This site is a pretty good examination of urban legends being propagated today and their origins.

http://www.snopes.com

This site is a pretty good examination of urban legends being propagated today and their origins.


A great resource for urban legends are the Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com

I sincerely believe that there is a grain of truth to all legends.. Be they of the anchient variety or of the urban variety.