Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed
Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed is an American docudrama about urban legends and re-enacting them and researching their credibility. It aired on TLC from 2002 until 2004. It ran for four seasons. Early episodes were hosted by Natasha Henstridge. Unscheduled edited versions of the show, with new narration and without Henstridge as a hostess, were aired on TLC until 2008. The Discovery Channel had been airing regular re-runs, but now only does so on rare occasions. In the UK it has been shown on Men & Motors and CBS Reality.
Episodes
A young woman is planning on going to a party for Halloween, but she watches a show with a psychic, and the pyschic predicts a mass murder at a local college, and the description matches her college. Scared, the girl decides not to go to the party and she stays home. She hears scratches at the door and quickly locks it, she falls asleep on the couch and wakes up the next morning and opens the door to find her roommate sprawled out on the floor, with her throat slit.
In this episode, a couple entrusts a teen babysitter to take care of their newborn baby. The couple leaves and all is well for a few hours. The baby is asleep and the babysitter decides to brighten up her night. So she pops back a dose of LSD/Acid, after about half an hour she really starts to feel the effects of the powerful drug. Then the phone rings, and still in a wonderful world, the babysitter talks to the mother, the mother asks how everything is and the babysitter says all is well, in fact she had just stuck a turkey in the oven. The mother wonders were she got the turkey because they didn't have one, they decide to come home and check up on the them. When they walk through the door the husband confronts the babysitter and walks in to the kitchen to find their baby in the oven.
Urban myths and legends include a wife who unknowingly serves deep-fried rat, a stolen car being returned with free theater tickets inside and a Doberman pinscher found choking on the fingers of an intruder
Five urban legends are explored to see how much is true, and what is fiction. The stories: 1) Alligators living in the sewers are surviving flushed baby gators once kept as pets. 2) A hard-working janitor accidentally shuts off the life-support eqipment of a patient in critical condition. 3) Headlights from another motorist save the life of a female motorist from a serial killer in her backseat. 4) A lady traveling with her husband in an RV is stranded in the middle of no where when he drives off without her. 5) A couple with a new car are amazed by the 200 miles a gallon they are getting until the manfacturers realize they are drving a misplaced experimental model. 6) A vacationing couple discover the odor in their room is from a dead body hidden under their bed.
Urban myths and legends are featured and examined including a new car that has a stench to it, a hitchhiker who is not as they appear and a babysitter getting an odd call from inside the house
Five urban legends are explored to see how much is true, and what is fiction. The stories: 1) A man with an inoperable tumor attempts suicide, but the attempt actually saves his life 2) A guy enlists his buddy to lose weight with a homemade lipo machine with fatal results 3) Two buddies squirrel-hunting substitute a bullet for a fuse in their truck 4) Special effect engineers discover a real corpse in an amusement park haunted house 5) A woman resorts to radical means to lose weight 6) A toilet explodes on a man after his wive dumps gasoline in it
Episode features and examines urban myths and legends such a large hair-do that becomes a home for spiders, a bride-to-be who cooks her self to death within a tanning machine and a man who arrives at his birthday party without clothes.
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