Tag: urban legends

‘Monster or Hallucination? New Jersey’s Mantis Man’ (2015)

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So you’re minding your own business, peacefully fishing in New Jersey’s Musconetcong River; and you’re all alone, of course, because these things never, ever happen when there’s a crowd of 20 people present…

https://leeduigon.com/2015/09/29/monster-or-hallucination-new-jerseys-mantis-man/

And there he is, just on the opposite bank, staring at you, eight feet tall. Mantis Man–trying to give the Jersey Devil a run for it as the Official Haint of our state. My money’s on the Jersey Devil, who’s been at it since the 1700s. But don’t count Mantis Man out. He’s coming on strong.

This is, why do people tell these stories? Why do so many people tell them?

The Werewolf of… Hull?

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Don’t you mean Werewolf of London, starring Henry Hull?

Nope. We mean a werewolf known as Old Stinker, who may be sneaking around and even into the city of Hull in Yorkshire, England–at least according to the British news media ( http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/672636/Fears-American-werewolf-prowling-HULL ).

The werewolf is being sought by “paranormal experts.” I would like to know how you become a paranormal expert. If you or I went schlepping around wooded lots and abandoned factories and a cop asked us what we were doing, and we said, “Trying to catch the werewolf,” I fear it would go but ill with us.

Anyhow, it says here that people in Hull are actually afraid that Old Stinker is getting tired of lurking in the countryside and may have ventured into some of the less salubrious parts of the city.

They don’t fear God, but they’re afraid of werewolves.

If the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, what is the fear of werewolves?

Today’s Howler–Sun-Gazing

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Natural News (May 25) sent us an article that posed the question, “Can ancient ‘sun-gazing’ therapy help reactivate a calcified pineal gland?”

Well, I dunno… I lost interest in that particular article when I saw a link to an earlier article about Ending World Hunger through sun-gazing ( http://www.naturalnews.com/024256_sun_gazing_food_life.html ).

Sun-gazing? Also known as staring at the sun. There followed a Joel Osteen-type urban legend about NASA studying this wise yogi from India whose many years of sun-gazing allowed him to live without ever having to eat. Apparently he’d learned how to photosynthesize, like a plant.

This, said the sage, is how you end world hunger: everybody stare at the sun, and by and by nobody will need any food anymore.

Okay, you don’t just walk outside at high noon and stare directly into the sun until, in a few minutes, you go blind. Oh, no, no! You’ve got to work up to it gradually, until you can keep your eyes fixed on the sun for 44 minutes–not 43, not 45, and don’t ask me ’cause I don’t know–with no ill effects.

WARNING: Please, folks, do not try this! Even if you honestly do think it might End World Hunger. Or Homophobia. Or Income Inequality. It might even be Real Spiritual.

But whatever else it is, it’s a sure-fire way to damage your eyes.

Oh, the crap people gobble up, once they’ve cast away belief in God!