<![CDATA[io9: urban legends]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: urban legends]]> http://io9.com/tag/urbanlegends http://io9.com/tag/urbanlegends <![CDATA[Sasquatch Update, Complete With Bigfoot Flower-Picking]]> The latest pair of possible Bigfoot sightings has confirmed our suspicions: The Hendersons' favorite house guest hates posing for pictures. A footprint was discovered in the jungle of Sumatra, and yet another candid was taken in Kentucky.

The Mahoneys of Jefferson County, Kentucky believe they have caught a picture of Bigfoot on their motion-sensitive camera, which they set up to find out where all their vegetables were disappearing to. This is what they caught:


But don't take our word for it, here they are, explaining the whole discovery.


Meanwhile, in the Sumatra Jungle a couple believe they stumbled on the elusive Orang Pendek. Which is more of a smaller Bigfoot, or "Jungle Ape Man" as the stories describe. They didn't get a picture of the creature, but managed to take a shot of its footprint, and grabbed a sample of rattan palm it was chewing on for DNA evidence.


Witnesses have described the beast as being about 5ft tall and say that it walks on two legs.

It is thought to be extremely powerful - with reports of onlookers seeing it ripping apart logs.

Both stories were found at The Sun, so it's gotta be true. But you be the judge — until the DNA evidence comes back.

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<![CDATA[Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff]]> This creepy image was snapped by Google for its Street View map feature. It shows what seems to be a floating Victorian ghost in Cardiff, right near the Torchwood headquarters.

According to the Telegraph, "experts" have been called in to analyze the photograph, because so many unsolved murders happened in this square over the centuries. A medium is quoted as saying the image is clearly a ghost, because no contemporary woman would ever dress like this. So for evidence we have retro fashion, and a blurry area that makes the woman's legs appear cut off. I say call in the Winchester brothers to investigate this one.

What I love about stories like this is how they demonstrate that Google maps have so quickly been woven into urban legends. Remember the story we ran a few weeks ago about the lost island of Atlantis showing up in Google Earth images of the bottom of the Ocean? And there was another story about an alien showing up in a Google maps image from New Jersey. Want to find support for your superstition or fringe beliefs? Just Google for them in Maps! That's all the proof you need.

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<![CDATA[Real Life Gnomes, Or Back-Door Alien Infestation In Argentina?]]> A few months back, the people of Salta, Argentina were being brutally walk-assaulted by gnome like creatures, and this October, there is creepy new gnome footage. I personally believe that this isn't a woodland creature, but instead a tiny alien race slowly taking over our world; to quote my man Casey from The Faculty, "If you were going to take over the world, would you blow up the White House 'Independence Day' style, or sneak in through the back door? " Is David the Gnome finally enacting his vengeance for the human's mistreatment of his animal friends, or an alien master race? Either way our pointy headed friend can do a mean Hammer crawl. Check out the two homemade videos of pointy hatted proof.

The teens that filmed the second footage spoke to The Sun and are now too terrified to leave their houses. According to the interview, this October attack happen very quickly, and the little creature was wearing dark clothes and covered in shadows: “This little thing was barking like a dog - but running sideways on two legs. It headed off towards the football stadium.”

First Sighting:

Second Sighting:

Snopes (the rumor busters) decided that both videos were not real as they followed the common pattern for staged urban legend hoax videos (quick focus and then cut away). If that's true and this whole thing is a hoax, then we have a couple of concerns: one, why hoax a gnome and two, that is some mighty convincing girl shrieking coming out of the camera man.

[The Sun]

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