urban legends

A new warning is circling around social media warning Louisianians to not touch or pick up any piece of fruit found sitting on a gas pump. Is this actually a thing or is it the start of new Urban Legend?

A grave that glows at night? This is a great local urban legend.

Is the practice limited to kids just horsing around or do those dangling shoes denote areas for illegal activity? Here's what we found out.

The Only Swamp Monster Restaurant in Louisiana

Many universities around America have urban legends about tunnels. That's certainly the case with Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.

The real truth behind Fentanyl tainted candy rumors and why some political types hope you believe the wrong message.

The discrepancy has bothered so many of us for so long and now we know why buns and dogs are sold in different numbers.

There is at the very least some twisted truth in the telling of the Missouri doctor who allegedly stole corpses and at one time owned Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal.

WTF?

If you go inside, you'll reportedly go insane or worse; the devil will appear and take your soul.

As Louisianans, it's no shock to us that we have probably the most urban legends of any state in the country. We have so many, that I've lived here my entire life and still stumble across stories I've never heard. Today I came across the legend of "The Grunch" and it's just as strange as it sounds.

The Legend of the Loch Ness Monster dates back to the 1870's. "Nessie was first referred to as a monster in 1933. Skeptics have dismissed sightings as anything from alcohol induced hallucinations to weather anomalies. There are those who believe. A man was walking a dog along the shore of the Loch over the July 4th weekend when he came across some curious remains.

So, does anyone have any information about this grave? Is it really a pirate that was buried there, or is that just an urban legend in Iberia Parish?

One of my Facebook friends posted a link titled "Two Giant Underwater Crystal Pyramids Discovered in the Center of the Bermuda Triangle", and after some research, I believe it to be a hoax.

When you decide to forward an email, or 'Share' something on Facebook, or "ReTweet", please verify the validity of the subject matter that you are forwarding/sharing.  One picture (and the comments with it saying it was from a local restaurant) circulating on Facebook right now could hurt a business here in Acadiana.

I want to do a follow-up to this post, but only after I get your feedback.  Do you know the story behind this picture?

Here's the scene:  you are driving home from work, and, just a few hundred yards from your driveway, you notice a construction crew clearing a field.  "A new subdivision must be coming up" you think to yourself as you take the kids and the groceries from the car. Then, weeks later, you see this: