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The original Darwin Awards were fictitious. Both were contained [clarification needed] in a 1990 version of the JATO Rocket Car urban legend [citation needed] [3] posted to the rec.models.rockets Usenet newsgroup. When this urban legend was debunked, it was specifically pointed out that the mentioned Darwin Awards were fictitious.
The Death of James Dean in a car accident spawned many urban legends related to his Porsche 550 nicknamed "Little Bastard". The most common one (often described as a "curse") states that any individual who took a part from Dean's car after the accident later died in an accident of their own.
Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, ... While at least one classic legend, the "Death Car", has been shown to have some basis in fact, [23] ...
According to legend, if you throw your car into neutral near the top of the rural hill (just after the slope begins to decline), then the car will naturally roll uphill instead of downhill. The ...
The car is among four “get-away cars” featured at Alcatraz East, along with John Dillinger’s 1933 Essex Terraplane, the Bonnie and Clyde "death car" from the 1967 film and Ted Bundy’s ...
Rudolph Fentz (also spelled as Rudolf Fenz) is the focal character of "I'm Scared", a 1951 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which was later reported as an urban legend as if the events had truly happened.
Move over Gray Man and Boo Hag, the Lizard Man has been proclaimed as the scariest urban legend in ... Davis said he got out of his car to fix a flat tire in the dead of night near the swamp and ...
The 1998 film Urban Legend begins with this scenario. [8] In a 1998 episode of Millennium, "The Pest House", Frank Black chases a doctor from a mental hospital after one of its patients escapes into the back of her car and tries to kill her. When she pulls over at a gas station, the attendant saves her by taking her inside.