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maryl
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Deep in the forest was found the body of a man who was wearing only swimming trunks, snorkel and facemask. The nearest lake was 8 miles away and the sea was 100 miles away. How had he died?
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Re: Swimmer in the Forest
« Reply #1 on: Jun 1st, 2003, 12:37pm » |
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Do you want the urban myth version, or the "Crime Scene Investigation" version ? :p
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Re: Swimmer in the Forest
« Reply #2 on: Jun 1st, 2003, 12:45pm » |
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Actually - this one is not a myth (or not one completely) - an incident here in the USA was reported in the national news either last summer, or the summer before.
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Re: Swimmer in the Forest
« Reply #3 on: Jun 1st, 2003, 12:55pm » |
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Well, it has been an urban myth a long time before in any case..
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.htm (last updated october 2000, so it could have happened since)
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« Reply #4 on: Jun 2nd, 2003, 1:07am » |
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 poor guy. he found out what its like to be on the other end of the fishing line. I just hope he wasn't afraid of heights.
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Re: Swimmer in the Forest
« Reply #5 on: Jun 20th, 2004, 6:25pm » |
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on Jun 1st, 2003, 12:45pm, Icarus wrote:| Actually - this one is not a myth (or not one completely) - an incident here in the USA was reported in the national news either last summer, or the summer before. |
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One of the reasons I love urban legends is that someone always says,"no wait, it really did happen here!"
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Re: Swimmer in the Forest
« Reply #6 on: Aug 8th, 2004, 10:10pm » |
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While it is difficult for me to remember the details now, this was an event to which I have personal witness (at least so far as having seen the news report of it myself). So you are either going to have to call me a liar, or else suppose that a national news crew concocted the story and broadcast it - a highly risky proposition for them with little gain.
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Re: Swimmer in the Forest
« Reply #7 on: Aug 9th, 2004, 1:55am » |
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Those aren't the only two choices.. Memory is quite fallible, and you could remember something that didn't happen, or something similar that happened slightly differently.
F.i. just recently I talked to someone who once saw the BBC tv series of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and swore that there the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything was 43, and not 42 like in the book and the radio version. Of course he was wrong (someone who had the series checked to see).
Memory is a strange thing..
I don't think you're a liar, nor that a national news crew made the thing up (unless it was on april fools maybe). But I also don't think it actually happened, nor that you're crazy to think it has.. 
Of course it'll be near impossible to prove one way or another, there must be some record of it if it really happened. But not finding it doesn't prove it isn't out there somewhere, and finding it may be equally hard..
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