Urban Legends

Do you know what an urban legend is? There are many urban legends in the world. Some urban legends frighten people, some make you laugh, or some are just plain ridiculous. The urban legends that came up during research are funny because when you think about how many people randomly will make up a story just to creep people its crazy and you wonder if they have anything better to do. One of the three supernatural urban legends that I found have been proven to be true on snopes.com. Poltergeist Deaths, Amityville Horror, and Calls from the Dead are the supernatural urban legends that I came a crossed.

One of the three supernatural deaths that I found on snopes.com is of the Poltergeist Deaths. The poltergeist deaths seem to really interest me because at least one of the cast members would die after or a little before one of the films came out. It turns out that these deaths were just simply coincidental. Altogether while filming the trilogy four of the cast member died. Fans were all intrigued by these mysterious deaths. Even though these deaths were proven to have nothing to do with the deceased being involved in the filming of the poltergeist people were still astounded because only two of the deaths were expected and the other two were just fatal deaths that occurred between the other two cast members. Before assuming that things are true you should look them up a on a website such as snopes.com.

Calls from Beyond is another one of the eerie supernatural urban legends that have occurred. Apparently a man that was supposed to be in the train wreck that occurred on September 12, 2008. Members of this man family and his loved ones claimed that they were getting calls from his cell phone. When they would answer the phone they wouldn’t hear a response all they would hear is static noises. The man calling his loved ones after he died most people thought that things was just another false story, just another hoax to try and creep people out. Snopes.com proved that this was indeed a true story. They also gave some eerie facts about what happened and about how it’s true.

The one urban legend that popped up over research was the one about the Amityville Horrors. This one seemed very interesting. This urban legend is about a family who was murdered by there son and the son ended up going to prison. After the murder of the family they sold the house to another family and this family claimed that this house was haunted. A cording to snopes.com this is the type of urban legend that tricky to identify if it’s true or false. It turns out this is false. The only part about his urban legend that was true was the part where the son murdered his family. But snopes.com helped us identify this urban legend.

In conclusion researching urban legends or anything for that matter is a good thing to do. You should always make sure things are true before posting them on a website or sending it in an email. Always remember that people take thing seriously and urban legends may frighten of confuse people.

When i was doing a web search about pictures that lie i came across a few pictures that stuck out to me. One of the pictures that stuck out to me in particular was the one of Katie the news anchor. Katie was on TV and she was obviously photo shopped she is a decent sized person and what they did was make her look even skinnier and kind of unnatural. There was also a few other odd pictures such as the the one where there is a shark in the most random place ever, the one picture with OJ Simpson, the one with the soldiers and the one with Hitler you can tell that they were all photo shopped.

Media violence in our daily lives is a normal thing. Three reasons of why media violence seems normal to us and it doesn't really affect us at all is because...

1. We have been desensitized by the media and by what goes on around us because its seems like all that goes around in the media and out in reality is violence.
2. The media also makes violent activities or wars mare extreme looking then they really are and we now that some of the time so what we see on the media is most of the photo shopped.
3. Also we have also learned not to care we just think who cares i have my own problems to deal with i don't need to worry about anyone else's.