Unknown Armies
Here's some funny rumours and actual facts form the game Unknown Armies (note that I take no credit for these):

"The interstate highway system was actually laid out as a giant magikal glyph to enable the summoning of a demonic legion in case of a Soviet attack."
Actual Spontaneous Combustion (ruling out cigarettes, cashmere sweaters, and questionable testemony) is the result of an infection of a bacteria that produces a flammable byproduct. The odds of a person getting enough of a build-up to catch fire is one in ten million.
"In Memphis, there's a phantom Piggly Wiggly. It's where the local ghost's buy their groceries."
A way make a zombie was actually practiced in Haiti. It involved poisoning a man so that he appears dead (but is actually alive) and won't wake up until he's been buried. The witch-doctor (and his assistants) would then dig up the coffin and beat the person into submission (being buried alive and brutally beaten would probably be enough to break anyone). Afterward, the newly-made zombie was fed a plant called "zombie cucumber" to keep him obedient and complacent.
"Brendan Behan's pint glass sits behind a bar in a Dublin Pub. Any who drink from it have words flow from them, but at what price?"
"Bigfoot has a Social Security Number."

10 karma points if you can tell me what is fact and what is fiction.
100 karma points if you can tell me what their explaination for Elvis is.
(lothric, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 7:34, Reply)