The Guardian [UK]
10 October 2019
The Hudson River is full of
urban myths
We West Side boys used to swim in the Hudson River off
Gansevoort Street pier, across the road from what is now the High Line. […]
Even then – 60-plus years ago – it was frowned on. What the grown-ups warned us
about was not the genuine risk we ran of typhoid. Rather, they regaled us with
the story of the boy who dived in the river and got his head stuck in a milk
can and drowned. […] If all the boys we were told of who drowned with their
heads in milk cans were at the bottom of New York’s rivers there wouldn’t have
be much room for the shipwrecks and the gangsters in cement galoshes.
Patrick Carroll
Helston, Cornwall
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Rolling Stone
11 October 2019
‘Paul Is Dead’: The Bizarre Story of Music’s Most
Notorious Conspiracy Theory
[…] It was more than just a rock-star rumor—it
inspired ordinary fans to turn into detectives, and permanently changed the way
people consume music. “Paul is dead” walked so “Tupac is alive” and “Stevie
Wonder can see” and “there are 12 different Avril Lavignes” could run. […]
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell, MT]
6 October 2019
‘Paul
is Dead’ hoax threatens woman
A woman called the Kalispell Police
Department to report a man who had called to tell her, falsely, Paul McCartney
is dead. She told the police it was a “threatening phone call,” but she
couldn’t explain how the false celebrity gossip was a threat to her. […]
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KTVB-TV [Boise, Idaho]
9 October 2019
Idaho Life: A strange shoe
situation
[…] Along a straight stretch of Kuna Mora Road you
start to see them. A high heel here, a bottoms-up boot there. But before you
know it you're rolling right along side thousands of feet, of what used to be
on somebody's feet, now affixed to the top of fence posts. And there's all
kinds in this collection. […] As of now, the shoes remain one of those unsolved
mysteries. One of the landowners tells us he has removed the shoes from time to
time but they have always returned. […]
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