[Vision2020] Local urban legends

[Saundra Lund]

LOL -- there may be nothing on Snopes about this particular urban legend
theme, but it's a common one discussed by Jan Harold Brunvand in his books,
which are really great reads for those interested in urban legends.  I've
got several of his books, and it looks like a few are available through the
library.  Ahhh -- the wonders of the Internet . . . I just Googled Dr.
Brunvand, and look what I found:
http://www.janbrunvand.com/

BTW, I heard the exact same harrowing tale in the mid-1970 in the SF Bay
area, only the woman was a foaf -- friend of a friend  :-)

Great stuff, these urban legends, although I think the tunnel story is more
than just an urban legend, as Dan & BJ have mentioned.  


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:35 PM
To: deb
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Local urban legends

While we've broached the subject, what allegedly local urban legends 
have people heard around here?  Any haunted buildings?  Spooky areas?  
Ancient Indian burial grounds? 

The only one I can think of myself was one I heard of when I was a kid.  
Supposedly, on some lonely stretch of highway with woods on both sides 
somewhere around here a lady in a car was almost stopped by a group of 
individuals in (presumably) Satanic robes who were holding taut a chain 
across the road hoping that she would stop.  She of course floored it, 
and the chain got wrapped around the bumper.  When she made to safety, 
she went to the nearest police station which examined the chain and 
found someone's finger caught in it.  They were presumably looking for 
someone to use in their nefarious rituals or whatever it is that 
Satanists get up to in the backwoods of Idaho.  This was long before DNA 
testing was a viable option.  I did a cursory search on snopes.com, but 
found nothing.

Paul

deb wrote:
> Oh, for Pete's sake! This forum has gotten so self righteous and 
> up-in-arms, one can't even make a joking reference to "urban legend" 
> without having to provide nine thousand proofs! ROTFL!!!! Stop, Stop, 
> it's making my ribs hurt!!!! It's like watching a zombie movie--too 
> stupid to watch, too amazingly ridiculous to ignore!!
>  
> Surely, folks who have been in Moscow a while have "heard about 
> someone who knew someone who saw the undergound passage between the 
> building (X) and the building (y) undergound in downtown Moscow before 
> they got covered up"? I've only been here about 25 years, and have 
> heard this urban myth....
>  
> As for the "underground newspapers", what were all these old hippies 
> (this poster being one) who came to Moscow to finish their lives doing 
> in the sixties? There were "underground newspapers" everywhere. 
> Granted, most had a run of two copies before the mimeo machine fumes 
> put them out for the count, but they must have been in MOSCOW? They 
> were in PULLMAN....the last bastion of the Ole Hippy cannot go 
> undefended!!! (That's a joke, Son. Don't sue me)
>  
> Y'all need to get over yourselves, get less defensive, and grow a 
> sense of humour. No wonder this forum has deteriorated to five people 
> closing their eyes while slapping each other silly...you look like a 
> Monty Python skit!!! The Department of Ridiculous Defense 
> Postures...."OOOOH, OOOH, Prove it!!!" Maybe it's just the long cold 
> winter that's got y'all in a lather? Get some full spectrum lights, 
> some better antidepressants, or a life for Ghod's sake, and stop being 
> so flipping grumpy!!
>  
> By the way, Joan Opyr's newest book is out---some conflation of 
> characters there look a lot like some Moscovites...From Hell to 
> Breakfast is a very funny read! and I think some of you could use a 
> really good laugh......................trust me, you WILL feel better.
> Debi R-S
>  
> PS: if there is an iota of sunshine, I suggest y'all go stand in it as 
> long as it lasts....stimulate that seratonin, you dour Moscovites!!  
> Laugh! Get some fresh air into those stifled and sour nasal passages!! 
> Cowboy Up, Kids!! Winter is a ending, though not soon enough to keep 
> you all from another smack-down, i'm sure.


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