THE HOOK: A young couple are making out in their car out in the countryside. Suddenly the music on the radio is interrupted by a broadcast announcing a lunatic with a hook escaped the asylum. Taking it seriously they drive away. Arriving home she starts to scream: there's something hanging somewhere in the car. It's a hook!

EXPLODING BREASTS: Your breast implants can all of a sudden burst out as the result of low air pressures at high altitude. To be true the airport checkpoint procedures would have to be even more awkward.

FLASH YOUR HEADLIGHTS AND DIE: It's nighttime. You're driving and a car comes towards you with their lights off. You flash at them, right? Bad move! They are in fact gangs seeking out victims for their initiation ritual and the first driver to flash their headlights sounds like as good a criterion as any other! The new gang member has then to take you down. Nothing personal.

FIREFIGHTING SCUBA DIVER: A man dressed in his scuba gear was discovered in a clean up of a forest fire. He was accidentally dropped by a fire-combat helicopter tanker that picked him up while refilling in a lake near by, says the urban myth.

GEORGE TURKLEBAUM: "George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn’t say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept much to himself." said his boss Elliot Wachiaski while explaining why none of his co-workers noticed he was dead on his desk for 5 days.

GOOD LUCK MR. GORSKY!: Astronaut Neil Armstrong made a strange remark while on the mission to the moon that was caught in the communication traffic between mission control: "Good luck Mr. Gorsky!". Goes the urban myth that 26 years later he finally conceded a young reporter the explanation. When he was a kid he overheard the neighbors, Ms. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky while playing in the backyard: "Sex! You want sex?! You'll get sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!".