![]() These include the belief that the movie syncs up perfectly to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd says it doesn’t… they might be wrong), the fact that the falling snow onscreen was actually toxic asbestos ( it was), and the knowledge that star Judy Garland was psychologically tortured through much of the production ( she was). And indeed there are many urban legends surrounding The Wizard of Oz, some of which are even true. The Wizard of Oz‘s status as a legendary Hollywood film along with its surreal technicolor imagery make it a natural target for myths and urban legends. The Wizard of Oz Captures a Suicide On Film In reality, the goons merely accidentally fall into the acid, saving the Doctor Who canon from having one freakishly evil Doctor in its history. The urban legend states that at one point Baker’s Doctor deliberately pushes two goons into an acid bath, condemning them to unimaginably agonizing deaths. The episode in question is season 22 episode 2’s “Vengeance on Varos.” This is already a particularly violent episode to begin with as it takes on Varos, a world where political prisoners are subjected to sadistic torture and execution for the amusement of the public. ![]() Still, one misremembered bit of a classic Doctor Who episode has led to some believing that Doctor #6 played by Colin Baker (1984-1986) is a violent psychopath. But the nature of this list to find only the spookiest urban legends and when it comes to the heavily analyzed sci-fi world of the TARDIS, spookiness can be hard to come by. ![]() In fact, we’ve covered a lot of them already. Sorry!ĭoctor Who Condemns Two Goons to Agonizing DeathsĪs one of the longest running TV series ever, Doctor Who is a rich source of urban legends. Remember that movie Babe? The one about the sweet talking pig and his farmer buddy James Cromwell? Yeah anyway, they ate the pig. Babe Was Sent Straight to the Slaughterhouse The supposed haunted lost episode of SpongeBob is called “Squidward’s Suicide.” The legend finds an ex-Nickelodeon intern recounting the time they screened an episode called “Squidward’s Suicide.” Said episode was deeply disturbing and include Squidward being bullied into despair and clawing at his face while the footage is intercut with images of actual dead children. One such early creepypasta involves a “lost episode” of children’s cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.Īs you’ll come to find out perusing this list, the myth of a “lost episode” is as common an urban legend for television as “cursed productions” are for film. Named after the practice of re-sharing spooky stories from web forum to web forum (copy + paste = copypasta creepy + paste = creepypasta), creepypastas are urban legends that sound reasonably plausible to terminally online audiences. Here we graduate from the usual pre-Internet era of urban legends into the digital age of the creepypasta. There’s a Terrifying Missing Episode of SpongeBob SquarePants Somewhere along the way the story likely grew into the urban legend the still haunts Barney. ![]() Obviously that’s not true but Snopes notes that there have been some instances of drug traffickers hiding cocaine and painkillers inside Barney dolls. It involves the actor who portrayed Barney hiding some cocaine in Barney’s tail, you know – the best place to hide illicit drugs. One urban legend became so popular that Snopes even had to weigh in. Naturally, he is therefore almost universally hated.īarney is a target for urban legends and conspiracy theories and they almost always revolve around something nefarious going on in that immense purple costume. All the rotund purple T-Rex wants to do is teach your kids some life lessons and dole out some big hugs. Or is there… Barney the Dinosaur Was an Unhinged Drug Addictīarney the Dinosaur, titular star of PBS children’s series Barney & Friends is a wholesome force for good in this sad, dismal world. Of course, there is no such thing as a cursed movie so that’s why we’re combining them all into one entry. The so-called Poltergeist curse is believed to have led to the untimely deaths of several members of the film’s cast, most notably the tragic passing of young actress Heather O’Rourke. For our money, however, the biggest one is Tobe Hooper’s 1982 horror film Poltergeist. Some of the most frequent targets for the “cursed film” urban legend are The Exorcist, The Crow, and Rosemary’s Baby.
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