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As we've pointed out before, you can tell a lot about a people from their folklore. Even their ghost stories speak volumes about all of the underlying neuroses that create our nightmares. But then there are some ghost stories that just leave you absolutely freaking baffled. We're talking about spooks like ... #7.
The Shirime
Approximately 100 percent of the people reading this are about to get their Halloween costume idea for next year. You'll see.
The thing is, considering how consistently insane they are, Japanese ghost stories are about as formulaic as an episode of House. Typically, most of them read like this: Some traveler happens upon a mysterious stranger, mysterious stranger reveals that he's some sort of insanely deformed ghost and then the victim runs screaming, or the spirit disappears, or someone gets eaten by something.
Which brings us to the story of the Shirime. In this tale, a samurai warrior is walking around Kyoto late one night when he is accosted by some naked pervert, seemingly the dumbest rapist in all of Japan. Before the samurai can draw steel and carve this guy up, however, the perv bends over and ... ... wait for it ... ... reveals he has a huge eyeball peering out of his ass.
That's about where the story ends. Yeah, Japanese folklore takes the "keep it simple, stupid" approach to spooky bullshit. They just ask you to imagine a samurai staring down at some guy mooning him with an eye up his ass, and make up your own ending.
Variations of the theme might replace the Shirime with a snake-necked woman, or a woman without a face, or a chick with a slit mouth, or that thing from Pan's Labyrinth. Basically, give somebody eyes where they wouldn't usually have eyes, and make them chase a samurai around, and you've got a Japanese ghost story. #6.
The Hantu
Tetek
If you thought Japan had a kinky and disturbing mythology, we'd like to introduce you to Malaysia. Specifically, the Hantu Tetek, whose name is most commonly translated as "breast ghost," but we're pretty sure that "titty specter," "booby phantom" and "gazongular apparition" are all just as acceptable.
As you may have guessed, these female spirits have an impossibly humongous rack, and their entire shtick is to float around, smothering attractive and virile young men with their ectoplasmic unfunbags. And while you might think that doesn't sound like a bad way to go, put away those Ouija boards, gentlemen, because this one just gets weirder.
First of all, the jug spook is said to be a hideously obese old hag, and her triple-Z-cup namesakes are on her back. It seems the Hantu Tetek has been appropriated in Malaysia as a kind of bogeyman story to keep children in line, as a version of the story has the ghost hunting down kids who stray too far or stay out too late, and wrapping them up in her titties so nobody will ever find them again.
Fair enough, but geez, isn't there some less-obscure threat that we can use as a deterrent in this situation? We mean, Occam's razor, people. Even in Malaysia, you're more likely to be attacked by grizzly bears than by marauding ghouls with weaponized bazongas. #5.
Raw Head Bloody
Bones
Many American localities have their own individual roaming-monster stories to bring in the tourists and scare the crap out of them for profit. New Jersey, for example, has the Jersey Devil. Missouri, not wanting to be outdone, vomited out some bizarre story about a pig skeleton with bear claws that reads like a mash-up between Red Riding Hood and Pumpkinhead.
As the story goes, a powerful but more or less benevolent witch lived alone with a pet razorback hog named Raw Head. The hog was able to walk and talk like a man, because hey, magic. Up until now, it sounds like a Disney musical cartoon, but it only gets edgier and less family-friendly from here.
One day, some asshole hunter decided that it was easier to shoot domesticated talking pigs than it was to go into the forest and bag some regular non magic ones, so he snuck into the witch's yard and kidnapped Raw Head, butchering him and making a day's income on the meat. At this point we'd like to stress that we can think of probably a hundred more profitable uses for a talking pig than carving it into regular pork chops, but hey, we're not from Missouri.
The witch, infuriated by the death of her abomination against God, cast a spell over its bones so that they could walk and talk again, but rather than the cute little Disney piggy he once was, Raw Head returned as a bloody, skeletal engine of vengeance. He swore to get his own back against the hunter, but not before suiting up Batman-style with body parts from several other dead animals: the fangs of a panther, the claws of a bear and the bushy tail of a raccoon. When he meets up with his own killer, most versions of the story include this cute but obviously plagiarized fairytale routine.
"Land o' Goshen, what have you got those big eyes fer?" he snapped, thinking the kids were trying to scare him with some crazy mask. "To see your grave," Raw Head rumbled very softly. "Land o' Goshen, what have you got those big claws fer?" he snapped. "You look ridiculous." "To dig your grave," Raw Head intoned softly, his voice a deep rumble that raised the hairs on the back of the hunter's neck. "Land o' Goshen, what have you got that crazy tail fer?" "To sweep your grave," Raw Head boomed. We have no idea what "Land o' Goshen" means, but to cut a long story short, the skeleton hog eats the hunter and then steals his horse and clothes. Legend has it that old Raw Head, still just a pig skeleton with rotting animal bits, can still be seen riding through the Ozark Mountains every Halloween on his stolen horse and wearing presumably ill-fitting man-clothes.
#4.
The Toyol
We're not done yet with Malaysia. Their "toyol" is ... a mischievous fetus-ghost.
We'll stop and note here that, for some reason, all of Malaysia's horror legends seem to revolve around huge breasts, deadly vaginas and evil fetuses, but we're not in the position to explain exactly what that says about Malaysians, as we are not mental health professionals. Anyway, the toyol is said to be the spirit of a deceased human fetus summoned by an evil wizard to enter people's homes and rob them of whatever its cute little fetus-sized hands can carry. Because enslaving the tortured soul of an abortion is clearly the easiest and most convenient way to steal a fucking wallet.
Superstitious Malaysians are frightened of toyols, keeping their money and valuables near mirrors and needles (the spook's biggest weaknesses), but really, the whole story is kind of sad. Imagine your life ending before it has even begun, then finding that your afterlife mirrors the plot of Oliver Twist. Sure, their masters are big enough dicks already for sending ghosts into your house to steal your shit, but won't anybody think of the children? Fortunately, there are many ways to protect your stuff from fetus-ghosts: In addition to avoiding the aforementioned needles and mirrors, it is said that they'll forget all about their master's orders for the chance to play with scattered marbles, sand, rocks or other things that pass for "toys" in poor Malaysian villages. Leave out some Legos or Pokemon cards and you would probably blow their little minds straight back to fetus-hell.
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Editor's note: This story is part of the iReport Weekend Assignment project, in which the CNN iReport community takes on a special-skills challenge once a week. Last weekend's challenge was to link the past with the present in a fun photo project.This weekend, we're challenging you to see how far $10 can go. Head to CNN iReport to join the fun and learn a little something while you're at it.
(CNN) -- Kneeling down, holding up a piece of paper just steps away from the Alamo, a man with a gun and badge drew the suspicion of three guards.
In a crowded scene of tourists milling about and a reenactment in full swing, detective Oren Skurnik was trying to line up a 1930s photo of two boys at the Alamo with the present-day scene. He was snapping the photo of a photo all in the sake of matching up the past and present.
"I'm standing there with this photo in my hand, looking like a weirdo," Skurnik said. "It was kind of funny really, since I'm sure it looked strange to have a guy holding up a piece of paper and taking tons of photos of it. I'd watch me, too."
Skurnik connects Alamo's history to present
People walked through his shot constantly. Guards kept throwing him curious stares. The perfect angle eluded him for 20 minutes, as the monument had been renovated in 1960. Despite it all, Skurnik got a kick out of the first-time experience.
"Aside from the joy of doing this and the humor of trying to find a way of not getting knocked down by people, it was really a cool thing to do," he said. The activity reinvigorated his passion for photography after eye surgery almost four years ago pressed him to put the camera down. In fact, he has plans to go around San Antonio, Texas, snapping more of these photo montages.
The idea of merging the past and present is anything but new. While folks have been photographing in this style for years, many iReporters were newcomers to the practice. Skurnik and more than 100 iReporters tried their hand at lining up historic photos with the current-day scene last weekend. The inspiration for this adventure came from the "Looking Into the Past" group on Flickr, a photo-sharing Web site.
Jason Powell established the group about a year ago after rediscovering the photographic archives of the Library of Congress. He said he was also inspired by Flickr user Michael Hughes' photographs matching souvenirs to popular sites around the world.
Powell started off with a handful of shots in Leesburg, Virginia, lining up old photos with the present-day scene. He posted the photos on Flickr and got enough positive feedback to inspire him to start the group on Flickr, now 2,750 members strong.
Explore history on Looking Into the Past Flickr group
The network engineer took up photography four years ago as a way of getting out of the house, but he says it's his passion for history that's been the driving force behind the hobby.
"I'm the nostalgic type that looks at an old photograph and says, 'Man, I wish I would have been there,' " he said. "This is all about nostalgia and time travel."
The resident past-meets-present expert says he's excited when new photographers bring their personal spin to the project. After taking part in the CNN iReport Weekend Assignment, 50 to 60 new submitters joined the Flickr effort. Powell even took part in the challenge alongside iReporters.
A sunny day in Washington, D.C.
Conrad Steinhauer digitally edited images of his family members into a recent photo of his father's boyhood home in Fresno, California.
His aunt Claudine made the suit she's wearing in a photo taken of her in the 1940s, he said. A small portrait of his family taken a few years before stands as a reminder that the Steinhauers once lived there. Someone else lives in the white-sided bungalow now, he said.
"When I was growing up, I remember them talking about the house on C Street," he said. Steinhauer never lived at the house, but he does go back to visit it from time to time to see how the neighborhood has changed.
Going back in time at house on C Street
"It was a very family-oriented area with rows and rows of houses," he said. "Now it's pretty desolate. A lot of the homes have been torn out."
While Steinhauer saw the change of time first-hand, some iReporters found that the landscape in other parts of the world retained structures from ancient times.
Lining up a Roman archive photo with the ruins of the Coliseum was impossible for Alison Victoria because the original vantage point doesn't exist anymore. It was also difficult to focus on both images at the same time, she said, with a camera in one hand and the photograph in the other.
Victoria enjoyed embarking upon this first-time photo adventure, hopping around the ancient city on the train with Buster, her canine companion. Together, they discovered that Rome has become a lot busier in this day and age.
Cars and tourists cluttered her images, a contrast to the quiet, empty scene in the 100-year-old images. "Rome seemed like a smaller town in those days at the turn of the century when you just saw the locals standing around," she said.
"The surroundings have changed, but the city itself is the eternal city," Victoria said. "The people change, but the monuments stay the same. They're the same as they've been for a few centuries."
Unlocking the rich, hidden past of Bhutan became Deki Dorji's goal in traipsing around the capital of Thimphu. She dug into family photos and images from the British Library and the Bhutan National Library for inspiration.
"It was definitely challenging looking for old photos online and in libraries," the past-present novice said. "In Bhutan, we only started opening doors to the outside world in the 1970s."
A wooden bridge near the Tashichho Dzong fortress stands virtually the same since its photo in 1905 among rolling mountains and lush foliage. Dorji says her country has strived to preserve as much of its culture and historic landmarks as possible.
Bhutan remains unchanged over time
"When I was taking these pictures, I couldn't find drastic change in the surroundings or buildings," she said. "You could go back 100 years and see the same thing. It hasn't changed very much."
The 24-year-old joked that most of the photos were way older than her. "Most of the pictures I used were all taken before I was born, and it was a great way to learn about the past," she said.
For Skurnik, the photography exercise was a way to learn about local history and spend time falling in love with his city.
"Not being a native San Antonian, it gave me an opportunity to reconnect slightly with the excitement one feels when experiencing a city for the first time," he said.
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I read these stories and immediately think MOVIES! I would pay good money to go watch a movie about a killer ghost with back breats or a killer ghost chicken
Can't beleive the Immaculate Conception and JC's Resurrection didn't make the list.
That's because you are a moron. Neither are ghost stories.
True hunger will make people eat ANYTHING. The reason we eat oysters today is because some caveman pulled a black, slimy rock out of the ocean, broke it open, and sucked the salty, squirming loogie out.
Personally, I'd rather eat a human toe I found in a field (with hot sauce, of course).
Either the caveman story or some dude just saw an Otter do it.
I guess either way works.
Soon after this article was posted, someone looked at their chickens and had an idea...
hahahahha lol i'm from malaysia. XD kinda proud that my country got mentioned here. XD not sure if this article is making my country look good tho. Oh and if it helps, ALL our women have massive jugs. XD
I believe that you are from Malaysia.
Lol..I'm from malaysia too..but tbh I don't think our all of our women have massive jugs..maybe some, but not all.
*snicker* Hairy Toe !!!! *snicker* Did it belong to a Camel ???
I always hoped that my country Malaysia will be famous not just in Wikipedia or something
Then this came along....gosh.... oh well, it still beats propoganda websites...
Fret not. Everyone still loves your cuisine.
I had only heard the hairy toe story, and the chicken ghost. In fact, I was told the story of the hairy toe several times while growing up. The closest I came come to understanding why you would put a toe into stew is for flavor. Think Carl Weathers on Arrested Development. "Are going to throw away that toe? That would make a good stew."
my interest in the article was completely derailed by that picture of the awesome orange tripod machine gun thing which is apparently a nerf product and adulthood be damned, i f**king want one.
My mom bought one as a sort of joke christmas gift for my brothers and I a few years back, and let me tell you, even as an adult its the best damn gift ever. Nothing like setting up an early morning ambush for your dad with a fully automatic belt fed nerf gun.
Yes
coolest toy ever
Awesome! Poultrygeist made me blow coffee out my nose.
"It's kind of like the legend of pulling a sword out of a stone to become king, only you're stabbing a headless mule to nail a hooker, so actually, no, nothing at all like that." That was the funniest line I've read all week. Granted, its only Monday morning.
It was totally cheesy but poultrygeist was fantastic. Made my morning!
There's actually a movie called Poultrygeist. It's a Troma film, the same producers of great films like The Toxic Avenger, Pot Zombies and Klown Kamp Massacre.
One of the most awesome words ever!
Where I'm from it's "taily poe" cause it's some kind of beast that wants its tail back. I'd be much more apt to make tail soup than toe soup.
mmmmm Oxtail soup
"Hairy toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!" :D
Man, I really didn't need to see the first picture of the hantu tetek.
Never realised just how ridiculous Malaysia is until you guys pointed it out. As if I didn't hate the place enough. But a hantu tetek? I'm sure we have more than one. At least one has to be attractive if only a bit.
I also think that it is more plausible to get smothered by a ghost in Malaysia than eaten by a bear. People get 'possessed' all the time around here. Of course, it's probably just them freaking out all the time, but hey. And there are loads of things you can play with rocks around here. I do it all the time.
Also, my mum told me to tell you that the ghosts are coming after you. /shrug
The hell with it, why don't we just make a movie just called "Malaysia" and make it about some blonde american with a big rack who can't act trying to run away from an old smelly hag with big boobs on her back while spewing forth demon fetuses from her mangina while hag-man recieves b*****bs from said demon-fetuses so they can steal blondy's purse.
Anyone else think that would make a good movie?
So the chicken stopped haunting once it stopped a canoodling couple from getting it on?! Anyone else think it might have stopped Francis bacon's soul from reincarnating in the resultant baby?!
Oh my god, it's BRILLIANT!
#1 was rather... *shades* Poultry
YEEEEEEAAAHHHH!!!
Mad props to the editors for tossing a picture from the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" series in #2.
I still have those. Well, technically they're my kids' books now.
I'm disappointed with the toyol story. I come from Singapore, and they're pretty real to me. Toyols have to be maintained on fresh blood, and they get stronger and more wicked with each feeding. They don't just steal! Eventually it either gets too hard to feed or out of control, then the toyol has to be passed on to someone else. It's not something to be messed with :/
so your way of getting rid of the insane klepto blood feeding fetus monster is to pass it along? Way to be people from Singapore
No one can mess with Jesus! And even if it's real, it's still ridiculous