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Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed is an urban legend debunker show that's been around for awhile. I remember seeing it a few years ago. Nowadays you can find it being broadcast on TLC in the early evening. So, I was channel surfing looking for something to fill the half hour between World News and Simpsons and there it was in it's familiar glory.
One story they had tonight was a young woman dared to sleep at the foot of a statue by two friends. This is a popular legend due to anxieties about death and places for the dead. The first version I heard had the girl dared to plunge a blade into the ground of the grave to prove her bravery and accidently pinning herself to the ground. I was telling my brother of this version and joked with him "Mental Note: if I'm going into a graveyard to do this a nice T-shirt, shorts, and sneakers are perfectly suitable attire to wear!"
Well, would't you know it. Here's how the train of thought goes. I want to post here about an UL show and remembering Beyond Belief but not it's exact title I google "fact or fiction" which leads me to it's IMDB page. At the bottom of that page are the top 5 links for it's message board and a thread Beyond belief: fact or fiction on youtube. Very curious I click to look at the thread and the first post has someone talking about uploading some episodes to YouTube. Sadly those episodes got pulled but you can go to tv-links where there are 4 episodes to watch. User ManchesterManson has four episodes from season 1 on Veoh.
Sorry about that aside, got a bit excited, I LOVE shows like this. They are scary for me but the show's format is great for developing critical thinking. Some of the shorts are true but others are false and deliberately constructed to confuse. So I have episode 1 playing while still working on this post. The very first short reminds me of my adolescence. I've never had a haunted mirror but I don't like running into mirrors in poorly lit circumstances. I have a full length mirror on the interior side of my bedroom door but it rarely bothers me unless I'm up at the wee hours of the morning working by monitor light. It's easy to see things in the periphal vision in faint light because that part of your vision is fine-tuned to catch movement.
For example if I take my glasses off and watch the world as a blurry mass every little movement suddenly is more noticeable. It's kind of creepy actually.
Here's something for Mythbusters to test from the 3rd short: Can unexploded bullets be dislodged from a tree with deadly force via a chainsaw?
At the end of every short the host gives a pun while asking if it's fact or fiction. Mostly True Stories also uses puns giving at least one per story. I think somewhere a rule was written that it's mandatory. If the joke is good it helps break the tension from the twist ending in what is a very serious show. Even when the joke is bad it still breaks the tension with it's lameness.
Now, here are the results for the first episode. If you don't want this information spoiled please stop reading now. You will need to highlight the text to read it because I've colored it white.
Story 1: haunted mirror: true
Story 2: execution woes: false
Story 3: on the road: false
Story 4: wronged wife: true
Story 5: ghost house: true
I mentioned earlier that I don't much like mirrors. When I was young I had a lot of toys and dolls in my room. There was a particular friend of a friend who would come over to RP with us and he swore up and down a couple of those dolls seemed haunted. There was one in particular that I kept leaned against the wall at the foot of my bed and when the door was open it seemed to stare out of the room. I just laughed at him but when I went off to college I left the dolls behind and eventually got rid of them. Not because they frightened me (although his anxiety was infectious and made me doubtful) but because I had nowhere to keep them.
Fast forward four years and I'm out of school. I had my own room again but whenever he came over he didn't want to go near it. I didn't even have any toys at all in there. My room was at the end of the hall next to the second floor bathroom. Hmm, I don't think he ever used that bathroom either come to think of it. I've always been the weird one in my family. LOL, just because I do well when GMing Paranoia..... When someone in my immediate family cracks a joke about me cursing them with magical powers I of course have to chime in with a "Hey if I had magic I wouldn't be brok
e!"Well, would't you know it. Here's how the train of thought goes. I want to post here about an UL show and remembering Beyond Belief but not it's exact title I google "fact or fiction" which leads me to it's IMDB page. At the bottom of that page are the top 5 links for it's message board and a thread Beyond belief: fact or fiction on youtube. Very curious I click to look at the thread and the first post has someone talking about uploading some episodes to YouTube. Sadly those episodes got pulled but you can go to tv-links where there are 4 episodes to watch. User ManchesterManson has four episodes from season 1 on Veoh.
Sorry about that aside, got a bit excited, I LOVE shows like this. They are scary for me but the show's format is great for developing critical thinking. Some of the shorts are true but others are false and deliberately constructed to confuse. So I have episode 1 playing while still working on this post. The very first short reminds me of my adolescence. I've never had a haunted mirror but I don't like running into mirrors in poorly lit circumstances. I have a full length mirror on the interior side of my bedroom door but it rarely bothers me unless I'm up at the wee hours of the morning working by monitor light. It's easy to see things in the periphal vision in faint light because that part of your vision is fine-tuned to catch movement.
For example if I take my glasses off and watch the world as a blurry mass every little movement suddenly is more noticeable. It's kind of creepy actually.
Here's something for Mythbusters to test from the 3rd short: Can unexploded bullets be dislodged from a tree with deadly force via a chainsaw?
At the end of every short the host gives a pun while asking if it's fact or fiction. Mostly True Stories also uses puns giving at least one per story. I think somewhere a rule was written that it's mandatory. If the joke is good it helps break the tension from the twist ending in what is a very serious show. Even when the joke is bad it still breaks the tension with it's lameness.
Now, here are the results for the first episode. If you don't want this information spoiled please stop reading now. You will need to highlight the text to read it because I've colored it white.
Story 1: haunted mirror: true
Story 2: execution woes: false
Story 3: on the road: false
Story 4: wronged wife: true
Story 5: ghost house: true
I mentioned earlier that I don't much like mirrors. When I was young I had a lot of toys and dolls in my room. There was a particular friend of a friend who would come over to RP with us and he swore up and down a couple of those dolls seemed haunted. There was one in particular that I kept leaned against the wall at the foot of my bed and when the door was open it seemed to stare out of the room. I just laughed at him but when I went off to college I left the dolls behind and eventually got rid of them. Not because they frightened me (although his anxiety was infectious and made me doubtful) but because I had nowhere to keep them.
Fast forward four years and I'm out of school. I had my own room again but whenever he came over he didn't want to go near it. I didn't even have any toys at all in there. My room was at the end of the hall next to the second floor bathroom. Hmm, I don't think he ever used that bathroom either come to think of it. I've always been the weird one in my family. LOL, just because I do well when GMing Paranoia..... When someone in my immediate family cracks a joke about me cursing them with magical powers I of course have to chime in with a "Hey if I had magic I wouldn't be brok
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