Urban Legends Season One DVD review and giveaway
Written by valmg on April 10, 2009 – 7:19 pm
If you’re like me, and most other people that have email, you have friends that forward you stories and warnings of all sorts. Things with subject like “forward this and Microsoft will pay you” and stuff like that. I’ll usually get the same email from like ten people and then I don’t get it any more. For a few months, sometimes even a year. Then the story reappears again. By this point the stories have often become an urban legend and people just forward them without questioning them.
The Biography Channel has compiled a number of these stories and turned it into a television series. Each half hour episode contains three segments, each segment containing a different urban legend that is acted out. I’d heard a couple of the stories, like the one where the man wakes up and his kidney’s been stolen, but most of the stories were new to me. There are also mini myths (sort of a question and answer) in between segments. At the end of the episode viewers are asked to decide which two stories were false, or which one was true.
Season One has been released onto DVD and we got a chance to watch it. What a blast! There are all sorts of stories in there including ones that were funny, creepy and weird. RB and I had a great time spending a lazy morning together trying to figure out which story was true, and then teasing each other if we were wrong. The show got some interesting conversation going between us as well, on other stories we’d heard.
The Urban Legends Season One DVD is a two disc set that retails for $29.95. The set includes 45 mini myths and 15 episodes.
Disc One episodes include:
- It Seemed Like a Clever Idea
- When Animals Think
- What a Way to Go
- Mixed up in Crime
- Cheating Death
- No Excuses for Stupidity
- Fickle Finger of Fate
- Neighbors
Disc 2 episodes include
- The Stuff of Nightmares
- Good and Evil
- Mail Mix Ups
- Marriage and Affairs
- The Dark Side
- The Human Body
- Weird Woundings
The Urband Legends Season One DVD can be purchased online from The Biography Store and other retailers.
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Angel S.
April 11th, 2009 at 3:02 am
Ooooh - this sounds like a good one! Thanks for the chance! I think the legend about the lady who thought her brains got shot out before she realized she got hit in the head with a can of exploding biscuits is my urban legend of choice!
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Dan
April 11th, 2009 at 8:37 am
One Urban Legend I recall from growing up on Long Island was that Lake Ronkonkoma was haunted by an Indian princess and would drown a boy every year because she was supposed to elope with a warrior from another tribe, but he stood her up and now she takes her revenge on unsuspecting swimmers
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judy brittle
April 11th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
The one we always heard as teens was while babysitting the girl entered the kids room and there was a man in a rocking chair holding the babies head. Must have been started from the old Have you checked the children? Made babysitting just a little scary. Thank you!
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Lindsay Benson
April 12th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I’ve always heard the urban legend about the midget hanging in the background of the wizard of oz. Supposedly, one of the disgruntled midgets hung themself back there while it was being filmed.
Janet F
April 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I have heard the one about when you press certain numbers on your phone scammers can then call and they will be put on your phone bill.
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April 12th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
One I used to hear a lot was that the thieve would hide under your car to slash your ankles. I still keep an eye out under my car from that one, LOL.
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Quanda
April 13th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Two young ladies living together. One young lady went go out to the bar against her roommate’s wishes. Later on that night the roommate heard scratching at the door but chose not to investigate it. The following morning she went to door and open it finding her roommate that went out the night before lying on the ground dead. She had her arms chopped off and she was scratching the door with her teeth.
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mindy
April 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am
i always heard the one about the space ship landing in a particular area at night and taking you i still do not drive through that area at night thanks for the giveaway
Becky Grady
April 13th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
There was an urban legend going around a few years back that an autistic child took a penguin home from a nearby aquarium. I was disappointed when I found out it wasn’t true!
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Paula H
April 13th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
My MIL is constantly sending me urban legend emails. Some more recent ones were stickers tainted with meth being passed to school kids, flashing your lights at a car with their headlights off can get you shot as part as a gang initiation, needles tainted with hepatitis being attached to gas pump triggers so that you are stuck and infected and my favorite, nest of snakes being found in fast food ball pits.. I’ve started sending her back the link from snopes.com showing that it’s not true.
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April 13th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
people watching on your computer while you are on if you open the email..
or the one where cash is sent if you answer this and forward
Jason
April 14th, 2009 at 10:41 am
The one about the guy who wanted to dry off his cat so he put it in the microwave
Jennifer
April 14th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I’ve heard that if you are getting robbed at the ATM machine and you type your PIN in reverse it will dispatch the police. It’s not true, but it is kind of a good idea!
Rebecca C
April 14th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
The kid mikey who ate a ton of pop rocks and soda and his stomach exploded.
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CMC
April 14th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
The urban legend that drives me insane is the one about how Swiffer is dangerous to house pets. That couldn’t be further from the truth, yet all of my friends keep sending me the bogus e-mails about it, just because I’m a dog person. UGH!
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kim v
April 14th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I heard that there was so chemical in a lot of products that was dangerous to my health (I forget the chemical’s name it was a long one). Anyway it turns out that the products had been reformulated ages ago and so were not longer a threat.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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beth shepherd
April 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Thank you for a great giveaway! I would love to win. THe urban legend I always think of is someone hiding in my back seat at night when I am alone. I always check! Thank you!
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wendy wallach
April 15th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
One urban legend that always was told to me as a child was the ole ” razor blade in he apple for Halloween” trick…
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