Urban Legends.

blue that is a well known experiment, I trained as a mh nurse and they still teach us about it now. Bloody scary though, being stuck in there.

Started reading these a few days ago - the day before DH and my elder DC were to go away for a night. Strangely that night I was fine. Then last night, with a house full of people, I started freaking out about Stickman and jumping out of my skin at every noise!
Some one asked about Royal Family stories. Has anyone heard about the Glamis Castle (childhood home of the Queen Mother) locked/missing room?
There seems to be a few theories about what it might contain.... Apparently the truth is known only to each Earl.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_of_Glamis
www.castleofspirits.com/glamis2.html

I would have thought the Rosenhan Experiments were urban lengends if I had heard it in the days before the internet! Someone should make a movie of it though!

The summary is that a psychologist instructed 8 people to fake auditory hallucinations (no other symptoms) to gain admittance to mental institutions. All were admitted and diagnosed. As soon as they were diagnosed they resumed 'normal' behavior (many of these normal behaviors were pathologised) and told their doctors they no longer had any hallucinations. The doctors refused to believe them and the length of stay varied from 7-52 days. Part of the experiment was they had to 'get themselves out' unless the situation became dramatic and a lawyer would step in. Most were released with a diagnosis 'in remission' and some with anti psychotic medication.

Another hospital was very offended by the experiment and made a deal with Rosenhan that he would send pseduo-patients to their hospital over the next three months and they would rate each admission on the likelihood of being fake. of 193 patients they rated 41 as fake and 42 as suspect. Rosenhan didn't send anyone.

I thought the documentary, the queens cousins was quite sad. Locked away in an institution because they have LD

Arnt there more stories about royal members locked away due to LD and MH problems.

Also the theory that jack the ripper was the royals doctor, covering up an affair the prince had with a prostitute who had given birth to his first child

Recommendation for a seriously scary movie - The Changeling, 1980, George C Scott.

The best bit is when they do a seance and when they play the tapes back there's a child's voice whispering....gaaaaaaaaah....

changing the subject, has anybody heard any good royal family urban legends?

the ones I've heard are:

• the queen has 4 children by 3 different fathers; charles and anne by philip, then andrew by lord porchester and edward by lord plunkett. andrew is obv the odd one out as he is fat with a round face whereas the other royals are all thin with horse faces.
• andrew is gay and fergie divorced him because she caught him in bed with tony slattery, who has been unable to get work since.
• edward's father is the only non-royal buried in the royal family plot.
• philip was unfaithful to the queen about 10 years into the marriage, with her cousin princess alexandra. as a result the queen and alexandra have barely spoken since.
• philip had affairs with katie boyle and lots of others and has a child with a fnch actress.
• prince charles is tom parker bowles' dad.
• zara and peter phillips' dad is not mark phillips.
• harry's dad is james hewitt. when she died diana still had a ring that belonged to hewitt, she kept this so harry could have something that had belonged to his dad.
• diana used to go for burns around london in her audi at 4 in the morning.
• tara palmer tomkinson relieved Wills of his virginity when he was 16 and she was 27, so there'd be no risk of his losing it to anyone who'd kiss and tell later.
• the other name in this frame for this is tiggy legge burke, but as she was their nanny and 6 years older than tp-t this seems even less likely.

while all these are myths, the funny thing is that much more salacious / loony stuff was rumoured in the press and it all turned out to be true...!

anyone know any more?

Re: 9mm, if it's the film I'm thinking of its Nicholas Cage as a guy investigating the disappearance of a girl in her late teens/early 20's and its all linked to snuff films etc.

Now that RSE would be freaky if they left all that stuff out about them taking their own organs out and having them put back in again

Ah, X-post.

That RSE is horrible! At the risk of sounding like a complete dunce, it's fictional isn't it?

Here it is again and this time the photographer actually says it IS a doll, thank fuck!
www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/29237-Ewell-Epileptic-Colony-(St-Ebbas)

Its sounds like a crappy, badly written horror movie

Of to google St Ebba's Epileptic Colony now

Ok, so I googled St Ebba's Epileptic Colony and now I'm even more uneasy.

Yeah just read it. THANKS FOR NOTHING

It's not true though thankfully. And, crucially, nothing like that has ever actually happened anywhere in the whole wide world EVER.

found this link creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment

What's really creepy about it is that the feet and legs look like its laying on its front, but the face looks upturned, but without any features....

off to Google the RSE...

Has anyone linked to the Russian Sleep Experiment yet? I'm on my phone so can't, but it made me shiver

What the actual?!

That is creepy as fuck.

That's what I'm telling myself, otherwise it's too creepy.

Sorry! It's bloody horrible!

I scrolled past it at first thinking "hahaha look at that scary photo" then remembered that the blog was not about those sort of photos.