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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Angrygrape1337's special annual Urban Legends article, where we will cover four urban legends each year. The author claims no authenticity for these alleged stories or photos. Remember, I do this each year on October 31st. Now without further ado, let's go.







1. The Toxic Lady

In 1994, Gloria Ramirez was rushed into the hospital in Riverside, California due to side effects of advanced cervical cancer. The medical staff tried to administer drugs for treatment, but to no avail, so in an effort to revive her heart using electricity, the doctors ripped off her shirt only to discover an oily sheen on her skin that shouldn't be there, and discovered some weird coloration in her bloodstream when they drew her blood. The nurses also detected a weird garlic-like smell coming from her mouth.


Not too long afterward, all of the medical staff that were near her died suddenly due to mysterious circumstances. The hospital was closed down due to the mysterious event, and a decontamination unit was brought in. The event made headlines. Not too many experts knew what killed her, and not enough data was present to determine what exactly it was. Could it be a disease we didn't discover until recently? Could it be a biologically engineered agent from the former Soviet Union? Who knows?







2. Spyder





When James Dean crashed his car in a collision with another car and died shortly thereafter in 1955 at 24 years old, a lot of things that formerly belonged to him were sold to others, including the parts to his car, but some say the parts to his car were haunted. It is said that since people used the parts that were in Dean's Spyder in other cars, the owners end up either dead or critically injured.


  • Two doctors and racing enthusiasts, Troy McHenry and William Eschrid, raced their cars with Little Bastard parts in them. McHenry’s car spun out of control and crashed into a tree, killing him instantly due to the blunt force. Eschrid was seriously injured when his car rolled out of control in the race.
  • A Mechanic purchased the car itself, and housed it into a repair shop. However, the car itself slid off the trailer, breaking the mechanic's legs
  • A young man in New York purchased the Tires from the Spyder, but they both blew up simultaneously, causing the young man to die in a fatal accident.
  • The Steering Wheel was sold to William Clanton in Indiana in 1971 when he needed to replace his own car's steering wheel. Within 9 weeks, while driving in the middle of the night, he lost control of his steering wheel when it mysteriously broke off, causing him to swerve into a nearby ditch, killing him instantly.



  • Coincidence? You decide.







    3. Three Men and a Baby


    Three Men and a Baby was a movie released in the year of 1987, starring Ted Danson, about three housemates who have to take care of a baby girl. The film does seem innocent enough, all it is is just a sub-par movie about taking care of babies, it was basically the 80's equivalent to Cheaper by the Dozen, but there is a more sinister story behind it.


    According to Urban Legend, there was a shooting in a residential area in California back then, and a homeowner's 10-year-old son was killed. 9 weeks later, after the place was sold and the family moved, the studio rented out the same residential home for the filming, but an unexpected visitor shows up.




    Some believe that the ghost of the 9-year-old boy stands behind the actors. Skeptics, however, disprove it by claiming that it's just a cut-out of Ted Danson wearing a suit and a top hat for the next scene. If that's the case, then how come the cut-out is too small to actually be Ted Danson size? Could it truly be a ghost, or an optical illusion?







    4. The Shower Curtains


    Okay, this one isn't really in popular culture or anything because this was a personal event that happened in childhood, not exactly a major thing, it's short, but freaky.


    Okay, imagine if you will, in the early-mid 2000's, in the outskirts of Jacksonville, FL. I was, like any preteen in those days, huge into anime before they became a staple of lower nerd culture that it became today. That's enough of me lamenting quality in a once-respected medium, onto what happened. I was taking a bath one time, and when the bath water stopped running after I turned it off, I was lounging around like I like to do. My bathroom window was open, so the wind was blowing inside. Not too long afterward, I saw the curtains move a bit. I was on the side of the tub away from the window, and the curtains looked as though it was being pulled towards the window. In fact, here's a sketch I did in photoshop for reference.





    So then the curtains to my bath tub moved quickly towards the window, as if someone grabbed the curtains. The thing was that no one was there, or it seemed no one was. I was face-to-face with an unseen entity. I dashed out of the bathroom and wanted to get the fuck away as quickly as I can. The even more disturbing thing is that it happened at a house that wasn't even close to 100 years old, not even 10 at the time. The house was built in 1996, so it was a little more than 5, and a house should at least be 100 years old to be haunted.






    Thanks for reading. If you have any suggestions for next year's Urban Legends, just send me an email with your ghost pic, stories, or urban legends no one has ever heard of, feel free to email me. . See ya next year

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