10 Great Urban Myths (1/10)
 

We’ve all heard them and we are all probably guilty at some point of perpetuating a story which we believe to be true. Urban legends are those stories that are handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation and passed off as fact. Regardless of their truth, these rumours, hoaxes, popular misconceptions, fallacies and myths just keep on persisting.

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  • Lived in New York and heard the rumors back in the sixties. Was not that hard to believe as I had grown up in New Orleans and on the corner close to my home small alligators used to emerge from the storm drain on a regular basis.
    So while it may not be true in New York, let me assure you that in New Orleans in the '40's and '50's alligators inhabited the storm/sewer systems.

    iskandhar 6th Mar 2013
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  • How's this for a great myth. It is rumoured that Einstein married his cousin, who according to legend, was well endowed, and thus the theory of relative titty.

    Gozoborn 7th Mar 2013
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  • Amazing how many people will simply believe what they are told on the internet or in emails. They have the internet , and the truth is so easy to find, but hey don't even try to look for it.

    RCbeastly 8th Mar 2013
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  • The proof would be in the photos taken from orbing spacecraft. I haven't seen any yet.

    RCbeastly 8th Mar 2013
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  • Coke myth was disproved by Mythbusters. Fact is, I have been drinking Coke for 40+ years and my teeth are fine.

    RCbeastly 8th Mar 2013
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  • I can vouch for the fact that Einstein was rubbish at maths when he was at school. His maths teacher was my great grandfather and he passed on Einstein's maths work to his son and then he passed it on to my father. My father placed the books in a safe deposit box in New York but died without giving anyone the information required to have the box opened. The legal battle goes on.

    jamesbanville 10th Mar 2013
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  • Urban Legend .....Daddy-Longlegs are one of the most poisonous spiders, but their fangs are too short to bite humans.

    puterwiz 21st Mar 2013
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  • I can vouch that jamesurbanville is a world class spoofer, check above for all the proof you'll ever need.

    Redbud 24th Mar 2013
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  • No rats in Alberta and province is 4x size of UK!

    Bobski154 21st Apr 2013
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JFK: "I'm a Jelly Doughnut"
Legend has it that John F Kennedy stood beside the Berlin Wall in 1963 and declared to the German crowd, "Ich bin ein Berliner" and referred to himself not as a "citizen of Berlin" but as a "jelly doughnut". In fact Kennedy was speaking in a figurative sense as he wasn't literally from Berlin so his use of the indefinite article 'ein' (which normally would be omitted when speaking of your residence) was in fact correct. However the story has been perpetuated by German cartoonists, the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times and many more and so now legend it has that JFK was practically laughed off stage when he told everyone he was a jelly doughnut.

This image is from the very moment JFK declares, "Ich bin ein Berliner". A lot of people do seem to be laughing but the truth is everyone knew exactly what he was talking about.

Film: JFK's "I'm a Jelly Doughnut" speech