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URBAN LEGENDS

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2. Denied long-haired men for many years

3. 1 in 3 cast members are security – many video camera – no abductions

4. Matterhorn houses basketball court

5. Three nursery schools ordered to remove Disney characters

6. Song of the South cannot be released do to racist subject matter

7. Michael Jackson has the rights to all the Beatles songs

8. Blood from the band members was mixed with red ink to create the first KISS comic books

9. George Bernard Shaw was forced to change the title of one of his plays to Heartbreak House because the original title, Closed for Remodeling kept patrons from coming to see the show

10. Actor, Jack Nicholson was raised believing that his grandmother was his mother and his mother was his sister to hide his mother’s young pregnancy

JAMES DEAN

James Dean was killed in a car crash on 30 September 1955 when his new Porsche Spyder crashed head on into another car. Dean's passenger was thrown from the car and survived, but Dean was pinned inside. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. After the accident, many fans refused to believe Dean was dead. A story circulated that he was still alive although terribly disfigured, and in true urban legend fashion this tale took on a life of its own.
I won't go into all the James Dean as a cult idol stuff except to say his mystique has staying power. For example, his tombstone was stolen twice in 1983, and in 1985 had to be replaced because of damage done to it by fans. Seems he was still the popular fella despite having been dead for three decades.
Back to the "haunted" Porsche. The following "information" comes from a newspaper article. Make of it what you will:
After the accident the Porsche was sold to a second-hand car dealer who put it on public view (supposedly in support of a campaign for road safety). He charged viewers twenty-five cents each to look at it.
Car designer George Barris next bought the car and planned to sell it for parts. When the car was delivered to his yard, it rolled back off the truck and broke a mechanic's legs.
Troy McHenry, a Beverly Hills doctor, bought the Dean engine and used it to replace the engine in his Porsche. The doctor was killed in a crash the first time he took the car out.
(Troy McHenry died on 22 October 1956 during a automobile race at the Pomona Fairground near Los Angeles. He was driving a Porsche Spyder, but I've yet to determine if Dean's engine was in that car.)
Another unnamed doctor bought the Dean transmission. He too was later seriously injured in a car crash.
An unnamed New Yorker bought two of the Dean tires. His car crashed when both tires mysteriously blew out at the same time.
The shell of the Dean car was being transported to a road safety exhibition in Salinas when the truck skidded and crashed. The driver was killed.
Stolen from the scene of that fatal accident was the shell of James Dean's car. It's never been recovered.
Another version of the disappearance of the shell was reported in a Los Angeles Times article on 30 October 1989. George Barris (the guy who sold the car for parts) was quoted as saying the last time he saw the shell was when he exhibited it in Florida in 1958. The car was loaded on a truck afterwards, but eight days later when the truck arrived at its destination, the car wasn't there. No mention of an accident.
You decide.

WIZARD OF OZ COAT

What definitely did occur on TheWizardofOz -- perhaps the most astonishing thing that did occur -- was dismissed as a publicity stunt. Yet it is vouched for by [cinematographer] Hal Rosson and his niece Helene Bowman and by Mary Mayer, who served briefly as the unit publicist on the picture. "For Professor Marvel's coat," says Mary Mayer, "they wanted grandeur gone to seed. A nice-looking coat but very tattered. So the wardrobe department went down to an old second-hand store on Main Street and bought a whole rack of coats. And Frank Morgan and the wardrobe man and [director] Victor Fleming got together and chose one. It was kind of a Prince Albert coat. It was black broadcloth and it had a velvet collar, but the nap was all worn off the velvet." Helene Bowman recalls the coat as "ratty with age, a Prince Albert jacket with a green look."

The coat fitted Morgan and had the right look of shabby gentility, and one hot afternoon Frank Morgan turned out the pocket. Inside was the name "L. Frank Baum."

"We wired the tailor in Chicago," says Mary Mayer, "and sent pictures. And the tailor sent back a notarized letter saying that the coat had been made for Frank Baum. Baum's widow identified the coat, too, and after the picture was finished we presented it to her. But I could never get anyone to believe the story."

ALIENS

July 4 1947

Mac Brazel a local rancher finds foreign material in a field on J.B Foster ranch where hes working. Brazel takes pieces of it back to the ranch and over the weekend of July 4th shows it to some of his friends and family. Neighbors Floyd & Loretta Proctor look at the materials and advise Brazel he should report it in to the Sheriff since it was unlike anything they had seen before, and might be military property.

July 7th 1947

W.W Brazel travels to town and visits the local Sherifs Dept, where he reports he has found a crashed object out in a farm field. Sheriff George Wilcox calls Roswell Army Air Field, and speaks with Jesse Marcel, who is the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group. It was then that Marcel and either commanding officer William Blanchard or a Counter Intelligence Captain named Sheridan Cavitt traveled to the office to speak with Brazel and the Sheriff.

That evening Brazel was accompanied back to the ranch by the Colonel and Counter Intel Officer where they spent the night. The next morning they traveled back to the crash site to collect debris.

July 8th 1947

On the morning of July 8th an army group was sent to the ranch to collect the rest of the debris. All the material was loaded onto trucks and moved to the Air Force Base. Later that day the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) published a press release claiming it had recovered a "Flying Disc", this article was written by Walter Haut, the RAAF Public Relations officer. Brazel traveled into town to the local radio station KFGL, where he arranged an interview about his discovery. Details from this point become sketchy, and several accounts of the events after vary in great detail.

However it is agreed that a few hours later Brazel returned to the station, where he spoke to the radio operator once again, and explained it was all a mistake, and that it was only a weather balloon. This was followed by a press release only hours later stating the same thing, that the wreckage found was nothing more than an ordinary weather balloon. Initially the Associated Press blamed Walter Haut for making a mistake.

That same day according to Marcel, he was flown to Fort Worth with the wreckage to meet General Roger Ramey of the 8th Air Force. A press conference was called where Marcel displayed a balsa wood frame, weather balloon material, and a radar target. (The famous Roswell Newspaper Front Page). Marcel claims the material he displayed was not the wreckage from the Foster ranch.

What is Area 51?

Area 51 is the base that didnt exist, and still dosnt as of 2004 in some aspects. Area 51 is a place the United States government uses for development and testing of top secret aircraft, and some say even extraterrestrial vehicles. The base which dosnt appear on maps, didnt exist as far as the government was concerned for quite some time. In 1995 President Clinton signed a document excluding the base from enviromental monitoring. With that document, the government at least admitted that something was out there, it reffered to the base as "The United States Air Force operating location near GroomLake".

Location

Area 51 is about 90 miles northeast of Las VegasNevada. A remote location near Papoose mountain in the Mohave desert, part of the Nellis Air Force Bombing Range. The base sits at the edge of a dry lake bed, GroomLake. Other names for the base are "Dreamland, The Farm, GroomLake, and Watertown. While all these names are used for the base, none of them are official. It is believed that just like most material related to Area 51 the names for the base are classified material as well.

The Nellis Bombing Range which was established in 1940 by President Roosevelt with the signing of Executive Order 8578 siezed 3.5 million acres of land, including the dry lake bed, and some mountains to create the range. The range over years has been broken up into sections, which is where some believe the name "Area 51" came from.

What is Area 51 for?

In the Mid 40's Area 51 was just some landing strips, used for training pilots. In 1955 Tony LeVier, discovered the location while searching for a place to test the U-2 spy plane. Shortly after the CIA started work on the location. A runway was built on the southern end of the lake bed, and Lockheed Skunkworks began construction of a facility. This same year President Eisenhower signed documents restricting the airspace above the base. In 1960 the base began to expand when testing of the A-12 or blackbird began. The expansion included lengthening the runway to 8500', a fuel facility that is estimated to hold over 1.3 million gallons of fuel, as well as additional restricted land and airspace making the "groom box" as its called.

Over the years many aircraft were developed and tested at this site. The Have Blue, F117, D-21 Drone, and many other stealth or radar evading/spoofing vehicles. However over the years the secrecy surrounding the base has led some to believe things other than aircraft testing take place at this location.

November 5th 1975

Travis Walton, Dwayne Smith, Allen Dalis, John Goulette, Steve Pierce, Kenneth Peterson, Mike Rogers

Travis Walton and six other workers leave thier job site around 6:00pm to head home for the evening. The crew of seven are working on a contract for the National Forest Service in the Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona,. On the drive home thru the forest, the crew in a pickup truck notices a bright glowing in the distant treeline. The truck continues down the road where they pass a clearing and can see something above the trees.

The workers in the truck comment on how it looked like it could be a crashed plane, or possibly a fire. As the truck came to another clearing they slowed for a better look. Mike Rogers, Travis Waltons boss who was driving the truck slammed on the breaks, and thats when the object came into view. Allen Dalis, yelled "Its a flying saucer".

The truck sat still, engine off, with everyone staring at the object hovering above the trees. Travis Walton decided this was the chance of a lifetime, and exited the truck for a closer look. As Walton started to walk towards the object the men in the truck started asking what he was doing. Walton continued until he was under the glowing objects reflection.

Suddenly a beam of light came down and began to lift Walton from the ground, the six men in the truck began yelling, started the truck and took off. Down the road, Mike stopped the truck, and discussed going back for Walton. At this point they saw the object move away in the distance, and decided to go back together rather than split up. When they reached the site, and pulled the truck up to light the area, they found nothing. The group searched the area but Travis was gone.

The men got back in the truck and started back into town again. In the car they discussed what they needed to do, who they needed to tell. Arriving in town they notified the authorities, Sheriff L.C. Ellison of Heber, Navajo County Sheriff Marlin Gillespie and his deputy Kenneth Coplan. The Sheriff's and Deputy as well as 3 of the six men returned to the site to search for Walton. They gave up and returned to town at 1:30 the next morning.

When Waltons mother and sister were informed that he had been taken by a UFO, they both had calm reactions. In fact Duane, Waltons brother and mother commented on how they had seen UFO's before. The next morning the police returned to the woods but were unable to find any evidence that Walton had been in the area. Some started to think someone in the group of men had killed him and dumped the body in the woods. Two days later all the men agreed to take lie detector tests.

Of the six men, five passed the test. Allen Dalis's test was labeled inconclusive.

November 11th 1975

Sometime after midnight Walton awoke, on the concrete pavement of a filling station "Union 76" in Heber, Arizona. He made it to the payphone, and dialed the operator. The operator connected him to his sisters house, her huband answered the phone. He almost didnt believe it was Walton, but decided he needed to go to the gas station just to check it out. Grant Neff, Waltons Brother inlaw stopped to pickup Duane, Waltons brother, and traveled to the gas station where they found Travis.

Travis too, took a lie detector test a few days after he reappeared. He failed the first test, as he was still unclear what had happened. However several tests were performed later, all of which he passed, one as late as 1993.

What Tavis Walton remembers happening to him while he was gone is another whole story.

CROP CIRCLES

History
Crop circles have appeared all over the world. Primarily, crop circles have been located in England. The earliest sighting of a crop circle was in 1678 in Hertfordshire, England. Crop circles of early times were much simpler and less complex as the ones in modern times. Since then crop circles have continued to appear all over the world. The first modern reported crop circle was in 1966 in Tully, England. During the 1970’s is when crop circles began to appear in significant numbers. Even in the 1970’s the circles’ designs were much simpler than they are in current times. In the 1970’s the crop circles were either designed in clockwise or counterclockwise. The extremely complex designs began to appear in the early 1990’s. These crop circles consisted of straight lines, angles and spiral rings.

Theories
There are many theories and beliefs as to how crop circles are formed. Many of these theories are developed by the Center for Crop Circle Studies (CCCS). The theories are developed by professional researchers, authors, and gifted psychics from all over the world. The following are examples of crop circle theories:

Whirlwind Vortex / Plasma Vortex

Dr. Terrence Meaden developed this theory in the 1980’s. This theory states the patterns of the circles are a product of natural atmospheric phenomena. Meaning that the circles were caused by tornado’s, dustdevils, and the similar. To explain the light that people witnessed Meaden says it can be accounted to friction-generated plasma. Another researcher by the name of Hannes Alfven further explained the plasma vortex theory. He stated that a plasma vortex theory greater explained the appearance of the stalks after the formation because the stalks show no mechanical chafing or damage, which would have happened if they were caused by whirlwind vortex. These theories were believed by many for several years and are still believed today by some researchers.

Earth Energies

Some scientists in the late 80’s and early 90’s concluded that crop circles might have formed from Earth energies. These Earth energies were known as ley-lines that can be explained as currents that flow through the Earth in huge distances. This theory was developed through the research of sacred sites and beliefs in ancient history.

Extra-Terrestrial Origin

This theory is believed by many but has yet to be proved. It states that crop circle formations were a result of UFO’s landing on the Earth’s surface. Many people claim that they have witnessed such things but there is no actual proof or evidence that it is real.