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[scottobear]

I have a writing task that I'd like to throw out to the LJ gang.

What I would like are rumors, lies, and heresies. The sort of stuff that people tell each other in the occult underground. It's meant to completely muddy the waters and cause wacky urban legends.... a story seed for something a little (or a lot) weird.

Each bit should be no more than three or four sentences, and as short as one. Some examples:

• There's an old man in Kansas who can only tell true stories, even if they haven't happened yet.


• Bill Gates is putting magickal formulae into the code for Windows XP. It's tied to a specific date, like a virus, and when it activates the world is going to change.


• The world is secretly ruled by pre-verbal children. When they start to become verbal, they forget all about their early months of abstract domination.

I'd like a bunch of these, so feel free to go nuts. So many wonderful creative people and writers on my friend's list...I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

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[laurak.livejournal.com]

There is this old abandoned church tower in New Jersey. If you go there on a night of a full moon and drive your car backwards around the tower 13 times, the ghost of a nun who was killed in the tower will appear.

(check out this website Weird New Jersey (http://www.weirdnj.com). i think i may have read what I just wrote on that site - they have lots of 'em.) :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Nifty! thanks!

[artemii.livejournal.com]

The Wicked Good Guide to Bizarro Boston (http://www.boston-online.com/bizarro.html) probably has some as well.

The UN has plans to take over America. The troops will be directed by the numbers on the back of stop signs.

Give me time and I'll come up with some original ones.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Whee! :)

I look forward to hearing more!

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Every Athlon and Pentium chip can be activated remotely by the government to read all input, as well as self-destruct, taking your data with it.

Stories of elves, fairies and hobgoblins are based on a race of small people who still exist in a labyrinth of caverns underground.

Cats are powerful alpha-wave generators (OK, so we know this one to be true) and are being used by secret government agencies as a renewable source of energy.

Recently, someone developed an engine that ran on water-- harnessing certain properties of it while not actually using much in the process. This person is in hiding from all the governments of the world, while seeking financial backing. When he finally reveals this secret engine, economies will collapse, governments will be overthrown, and the world will be a very different place.

We do not exist in this life as we know it; it is merely a game-- like an online MUD come to life. When we die we will meet up with our friends and laugh over the little trials and tribulations we experienced in this game, and possibly give it another go (if it's not too late).

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Oh, I knew you'd come through for me!! :)

*hug*

feel free to toss more at me as they come to you.

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Germ theory is a lie. Sickness is caused by invisible rays that nobody can explain. They are suspected to be of alien origin.

There is a man who lives behind a trap door in the sporting goods section of a Walmart in S. Dakota. If you ask him for a lemon, he will accurately predict your future for you.

Dolphins evolved from humans millions of years ago.

Planes do not actually fly. It is a very elaborate hoax created because the general public does not understand or trust quantum physics.

Two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar a day will extend your lifespan by as much as 25%.

By the way, the last one might be true. Still investigating. ; )

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

beautiful!

I like them all!

[cath555.livejournal.com]

my bro came up with this false conspiracy theory at 15 (he and his friends did something similar, but tried to pawn it off on classmates): the blue tinting at the top of car windshields is there so that, as the ozone layer thins, we won't notice any change to the tint of the sky.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hey, that's pretty clever! :)

[cath555.livejournal.com]

the reason there seems to be a sudden increase in children with peanut allergies is because peanuts have evolved to emit toxins as a defense mechanism. people of previous generations were exposed to lower levels of the toxin as it developed, and thus actually developed an immunity to it.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

ooh... another good one! I likey!

[gingerninja.livejournal.com]

There was an old woman in New Orleans who kept and cruelly mistreated over a hundered slaves. After being convicted of the death of one of them (she publically pushed him off the roof), her house was searched. About twenty slaves were found in the attic, most dead, some disfigured. One dead woman's mouth had been sewn shut. When they opened her mouth, it was full of feces.
Have a nice day!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

very interesting...
thanks!

how'd you find me?

[dorkgirl.livejournal.com]

Two of my paranoid grampa's random theories:

All the Russian immigrants in Alaska will take the state back for Russia at a pre-determined date and time.

UNICEF is a front for a child pornography ring.

You know, I watched the movie Conspiracy Theory, and half the stuff Mel Gibson rants is stuff my grampa is always spouting off. We think he's amusing.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

dandy!

and Yikes!

As long as he's happy!