# Urban Legends/Paranormal Feud \[game over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 28, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959 "2008-07-28T18:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/21 "2008-07-28T20:05:50Z")
1. [The Choking Doberman](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/animals/doberman.asp) (burglar’s fingers stuck in dog’s throat) 2. [Steve](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/bluesclues.asp) from Blue’s Clues 3. Roswell, NM 4. Wife fills husband’s convertible with [cement](http://www.snopes.com/love/revenge/concrete.asp) after affair. 5. [Kentucky Fried Rat](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/friedrat.asp) 6. Amelia Earhart 7. Bigfoot/Sasquatch 8. [Vanishing Hitchhiker](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/bluesclues.asp) 9. Uri Gellar 10. Eddie Murphy Some of these were so easy, but a few were hard. I couldn’t think of a specific person for #8 or #9, so hopefully other people will give my same answer! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/22 "2008-07-28T20:19:22Z")
1. The woman who put her poodle in the microwave after a bath and inadvertently cooked the dog, not realizing that microwaves heat things from the inside out. 2. Paul McCartney 3. Roswell 4. There is a car that runs on water but the gas companies are involved in a vast conspiracy to prevent the car from being manufactured so that we have to keep buying their gasoline. 5. Mikey, the kid from the Life Commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke at the same time. 6. D.B. Cooper 7. Yeti 8. Anne Boleyn 9. John Edward 10. Reggie Jackon 11. _gag_ I actually feel UNCLEAN typing “John Edward”! 12. I wonder if the answers to this will be age-specific. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/23 "2008-07-28T20:20:11Z")
1. Cats will suck the breath out of babies. [Link.](http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/catsuck.asp) 2. Paul McCartney 3. Roswell, New Mexico 4. Flash your headlights and be killed by gangs. [link](http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/lights_out.htm) 5. KFC fried rat 6. Jimmy Hoffa 7. Mermaid 8. The Brown Lady 9. Edgar Cayce 10. Eddie Murphy - supposedly he said “Hit four, lady.” ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/24 "2008-07-28T20:44:35Z")
1. The elderly lady who tried to dry her pet in the microwave. 2. Pope John Paul II 3. Area 51/Roswell 4. Gang initiation involving driving with high beams on and when someone flashes their own at you, the gangbangers run them off the road and kill them. 5. Twinkies have an indefinite shelf life. 6. Jimmy Hoffa 7. Bigfoot 8. The Brown Lady of Raynham 9. John Edward 10. Eddie Murphy ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/25 "2008-07-28T21:15:36Z")
1. Dogs die if you give them chocolate. 2. Elvis? 3. Area 51 4. Sugar in gas tank kills engine 5. razor blades planted in Hallowe’en candy 6. Jimmy Hoffa 7. Bigfoot/North American bipedal primate 8. Um… Christmas Past? 9. John Edward (amusing note: I couldn’t remember his name so I had to google “biggest douche in the universe” to find him 😃 ) 10. Denzel Washington? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/26 "2008-07-28T21:19:55Z")
1. A women once tried to dry her pet poodle by microwaving it. 2. Jerry Mathers was said to have died in Vietnam. 3. Roswell, NM 4. “And there, on the handle, was a hook!” 5. Someone once ordered a bucket of KFC, and there was a deep fred rat in it. 6. Jimmy Hoffa. 7. El Chuppacabra! 8. The Two Princes in the Tower of London. 9. Sylvia Brown. 10. Michael Jordan. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/27 "2008-07-28T21:24:41Z")
1. Febreze is killing pets 2. Generalissimo Francisco Franco 3. Area 51 4. Gang members drive with headlights off, you flash them, they kill you 5. Kentucky Fried Chicken isn’t all chicken 6. Amelia Earhardt 7. Chupacabra 8. La Llorona 9. Sylvia Brown 10. Flip Wilson ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/28 "2008-07-28T21:50:06Z")
1. [Drying pets in a microwave oven](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwavedpet.asp) 2. Pope John Paul II 3. Roswell, New Mexico 4. [Gang members drive around with their headlights off, and if you flash yours, they kill you.](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightsout.asp) 5. [Worms in McDonalds hamburgers](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/wormburg.asp) 6. Judge Crater 7. Bigfoot 8. Jesus Christ 9. Edgar Cayce 10. Michael Jordan ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/29 "2008-07-28T22:08:37Z")
[QUOTE=El\_Kabong] …6. Judge Crater [/QUOTE] Thank god! I was ruing the fact that **Eve** wasn’t playing … ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/30 "2008-07-28T22:13:30Z")
1. Pet alligators flushed down the toilet live in the sewer. 2. Paul McCartney 3. Roswell, NM 4. Ghost kids pushing car uphill over railroad tracks 5. Pop rocks + Coke will kill you. 6. Amelia Earhart 7. Chupacabra 8. Abe Lincoln 9. Miss Cleo 10. Eddie Murphy ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/31 "2008-07-28T22:19:25Z")
1. Dog in the microwave 2. Paul McCartney 3. Area 51 4. JATO car 5. Mikey from the LIFE commercials dies eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke 6. Amelia Earhardt 7. Cupacabra 8. No idea, but as a guess the woman who built Winchester House 9. John Edwards 10. Eddie Murphy (?) ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/32 "2008-07-28T22:27:33Z")
1. The story about the lady who tried to dry off her wet poodle in the microwave and cooked it to death. 2. Elvis Presley (or so some people believe.) 3. Roswell, New Mexico. 4. The one where the gang members drive around at night with their lights off and kill you if you flash your headlights at them. 5. If you douche with Coke after sex, you won’t get pregnant. 6. Amelia Earhart. 7. Bigfoot. 8. The ghosts in the Tower of London. (Can’t remember the names of the boys.) 9. John Edward. (Blech.) 10. Eddie Murphy. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/33 "2008-07-28T22:29:45Z")
1. An old woman tries to dry off her pet poodle by sticking him in the microwave, whereupon he dies. 2. Dick Cheney [Premature CNN Obituaries | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/humor/mediagoofs/cnnobits.asp) 3. Roswell 4. A girl impales herself on the gearshift after being given Spanish Fly by her date. 5. Coke used to contain cocaine. 6. Amelia Earhardt 7. Chupacabre 8. Elvis 9. John Edwards 10. Eddie Murphy ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/34 "2008-07-28T22:42:10Z")
1. [The Microwaved Poodle](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwavedpet.asp) 2. Paul McCartney 3. Roswell, N.M. 4. [Flashing Headlights Gang Initiations](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightsout.asp) 5. The Infamous [Five Second Rule](http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/dropped.asp) 6. Amelia Earhardt 7. Bigfoot 8. Anne Boleyn 9. Miss Cleo 10. Eddie Murphy Thanks **Sternvogel**. This was fun! ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/35 "2008-07-28T22:49:36Z")
1. The Microwaved Pet 2. Paul McCartney 3. Roswell, NM 4. The Vanishing Hitchhiker 5. Coke + Pop Rocks = Kaboom! 6. Amelia Earhart 7. Sasquatch 8. The Tower Princes 9. Jonathan Edward 10. Reggie Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/36 "2008-07-28T22:59:07Z")
This one should be interesting. 1. [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/deadair.asp](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/deadair.asp) The body of a dead pet flying as cargo is replaced with similar pet before owner claims them because the baggage handlers fear they killed it. 2. Paul McCartney 3. Area 51 - Roswell, NM 4. Presenting a rare 1943 copper penny entitled the bearer to a Ford automobile. 5. If you swallow chewing gum it stays in your stomach for 7 years. 6. Jimmy Hoffa 7. Bigfoot/Sasquatch 8. Anne Boleyn 9. Sylvia Brown 10. Eddie Murphy ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/37 "2008-07-28T23:26:05Z")
1. Microwaved pet 2. Abe Vigoda 3. Roswell, NM 4. Axe murderer in the backseat 5. Death by consumption of Pop-rocks and Coke. 6. Jimmy Hoffa 7. Chupacabra 8. Abraham Lincoln 9. Sylvia Browne 10. Eddie Murphy ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/38 "2008-07-29T00:32:54Z")
_Duplicate post sorry_ ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/39 "2008-07-29T00:34:09Z")
1. Woman puts pet dog in microwave. 2. Agatha Christie 3. Roswell 4. Flashing your headlights will cause psychos to run you off the road. 5. Pop rocks + soda = death! 6. Amelia Earhart 7. Yeti (almost went for the diety answer 🙂 ) 8. Bloody Mary 9. Sylvia Brown 10. Michael Jordan ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959/40 "2008-07-29T00:42:36Z")
1. The cleanser used in Swiffer brand wipes and sprays contains chemicals that are _just one molecule from being toxins_ and will kill your pets. 2. Dr. Livingston 3. Roswell, NV 4. That there is a mechanical fault that’s been causing all those cars to slam into buildings. It couldn’t _possibly_ be operator error. 5. Baby Ruth bars were named for the deceased daughter of Grover Cleveland. 6. Jimmy Hoffa. 7. Sasquatch 8. Abraham Lincoln 9. Jon Edwards 10. Reggie Jackson [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urban-legends-paranormal-feud-game-over/457959.md?page=3)