Unmasking Urban Legends: Facts You May Not Know About the Stories You’ve Heard

Over history, society has played with the idea of amazing phenomenons that they think is true. The only reason why we think this is because we have heard it so many times before.
I know we’d all like to believe that all of these mysteries are true and some of them are but, most legends are just stories that have been passed down from generation to generation.

It’s like that game we used to play when we were little called “telephone”. You would tell a friend a secret, they would tell their friend a secret and so on and so forth. The message gets jumbled up and along the way it just gets sillier.

Going to the tanning bed many times in a day will cook your organs.-False-There is absolutely no proof or published evidence that suggests that this is true. It is scientifically impossible to have your organs cooked from tanning. Tanning beds use ultraviolet rays that can severe sunburn. If they could cook your organs, they would use radiation and that is unethical.

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Pop rocks and Soda mixed together can cause an explosion in your stomach.-False-Although evidence has proven that pop rocks and soda mixed together does cause a sort of expansion in your abdominal, it will not blow it up. You may experience an overwhelming amount of gas but, other than that, you’re safe.

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Dying in your sleep due to dreams of crashing: False

Have you ever had a dream where you are falling or even crashing on an airplane. If you die in your sleep due to these events, most likely is was due to some other underlying cause such as a massive heart attack, old age, or even stress.

People who died laughing: True

Alex Mitchell from Norfolk, England kicked the bucket while he was watching his favorite television show. He laughed for 30 straight minutes then keeled over. It was said he died from massive heart failure due to the overwhelming exertion of laughing.