Urban Myths Revealed

Urban Myths Revealed is a television show which is often broadcast on British Sky Broadcasting. The show tells AbOUT scary stories on myths and bizarre encounters. At the end of each story it will be revealed whether or not the story is true or false. Before a commercial, they will ask the viewer a question and give the viewer a break to figure out the answer. An example of one of these puzzling questions during the break is:

• Does swallowing gum take seven years to digest?

The answer to this was false in that it leaves out of the system in several days.

Examples of these bizarre stories are:

• When a man is on a routine air flight, he becomes nervous when he hears a strange noise coming from the window near his seat, he then calls a flight attendant to come and investigate this, when she comes over and listens to the sounds, she is sucked out of the airplane and is killed. At the end it says whether or not this story is true or false

• When a handyman is Laying a carpet for a client in her home, he accidentally lays the carpet over a little pet which belongs to the son of the client. He thinks that he has laid the carpet over something because a large lump is visible, and then thinking it is his packet of cigarettes under the carpet, gets his hammer out and hits the lump down so it is out of sight, instead of pulling up the whole carpet for what he thought to be his packet of cigarettes. When complete, and getting in to his van to leave, and when the client is saying "goodbye", he sees the packet of cigarettes in his van, and then wonders what is was what he hit under the carpet. The client's son comes out of the house and asks his mom where his little pet is. The handyman immediately realizes what he has done and that he has killed the pet. This myth is false.