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Originally posted by usaforever
It never happened to me, I think you either have to be at her house or it's just a myth. I'm pretty sure it's a myth, so don't be scared. Delete all the junk e-mails.
Originally posted by Hemlock
This Is About Urban Legends, True Or Not? Well, Im Gonna Say It, I Belive Them But Im Someone Who Will Just Forward An Email If It Sais Something Like 'If You Dont Send This To Atleast 10 People You Will Die' So I Really Want To Know If There Is Any Truth In Urban Legends Or If There Just Really Freaky Coincidences/Storys. Scope.com Sais That There Is A Perfect Explaination For All Of These Things And That They Are Mostly Just Storys, But Some Are Real. Like Do You Know Anyone Who's Ever Tried Bloody Mary? And The Smith Sisters? True?
Originally posted by Hemlock
This Is About Urban Legends, True Or Not? Well, Im Gonna Say It, I Belive Them But Im Someone Who Will Just Forward An Email If It Sais Something Like 'If You Dont Send This To Atleast 10 People You Will Die' So I Really Want To Know If There Is Any Truth In Urban Legends Or If There Just Really Freaky Coincidences/Storys. Scope.com Sais That There Is A Perfect Explaination For All Of These Things And That They Are Mostly Just Storys, But Some Are Real. Like Do You Know Anyone Who's Ever Tried Bloody Mary? And The Smith Sisters? True?
Modern sighting
In February 1935 a large alligator was reported by the New York Times as being discovered in a New York City sewer. According to the story, several teenage boys were disposing of snow into a manhole when they spotted an alligator, allegedly 7 feet (~2.1 m) long, that had gotten stuck in icy water. The male youths then dragged the trapped reptile to the surface. After the alligator snapped at one of them, the teenagers beat it to death with their snow shovels. The report suggested that the alligator had escaped from a ship traveling from the Everglades and had then swam into the Harlem River and then 150 yards (~137 m) up a storm conduit to where it was found.[1][1]
Sewer reports
That same year reports were given to the city's Superintendent of Sewers, Teddy May, that swarms of alligators were thriving beneath the city. May, convinced that the men filing the reports were drinking on the job, took the suggested sightings lightly. It was not until he found that there was no real drinking of alcoholic beverages taking place in the sewer that he followed up the claims. To his shock, he witnessed a large number of alligators, most only about 2 feet (61 cm), to be living within pipes that emptied into the trunk lines below major streets.[2]
Sewer clean-up
All the reptiles were apparently exterminated within a few months, killed mostly using rat poison, flushing them out to sea through trunk lines or even shooting them.