Three Men and a Homicidal Boy?

[Jade]

So today I'm in class and my government professor decides to dedicate the entire period to creepy supernatural happenings in everyday life. Since we're approaching the halloween season he felt this was appropriate. He got everyone a little freaked by telling stories about his boarding school days and student's experiences with Oigi boards. Then he plays some Led Zepplin backwards and then finally dims the lights to show us a clip from the film Three Men and a Baby.
The story goes that the apartment that the movie was filmed in was the same apartment where a boy killed his father with a rifle and then he killed himself. When the movie came out the mother, who survived, watched the movie and saw a rifle and her son in the scene where Ted Danson's mother comes to see the baby. The mother calls the director (or someone who could answer her questions) and accuses him of being a sick jerk. But the twist is he denies there ever being a rifle or a boy on the set.
Spooky? Not really. In class from a distance it does appear to be a rifle and a boy. But on closer analysis it's clearly just a card board stand up of a boy behind a curtain.
Watch it and take away from it what you will. But I would hardly call it supernatural or the work of Satan. The only thing weird is that there would be a cardboard stand up of a boy in their apartment.
-Jade
p.s. my apologies for the long winded post.

[Hucklebubba]

Ah, the old Three Men and a Baby Ghost Boy.(tm) That's a classic. There're a couple different iterations of who died in that apartment and how. And by "a couple" I mean "upwards of fifteen."

As far as long-windedness goes, I'm pretty sure we encourage it. I know I do. So, long-wind away.

Now somebody needs to mention the Wizard of Oz Hanging Munchkin, and/or Pink Floyd synchronization.

[Der Germ]

The story _I_ heard about the Three Men and a Baby thing was that it was a kid who just killed himself, with a rifle no less. I saw the movie, and being naive I was like "WHOA! COOL!" But, yeah, it's not a ghost. Boo hoo, oh well.

What's this about the Oz munchkin? I heard that on the tracks of one of the songs, I don't remember which but it was on the Wizard of Oz, that you can hear screams of some lady getting murdered if you listen hard enough.

And speaking of listening hard enough, does anyone know that in Aladin (the cartoon, I don't know if there's a live action thing, or whatever, but better safe than sorry) that when he's a prince and he goes up to Jasmin's balcony, and the tiger gets all protective? He says "Goood tiger, good tiger!" but if you listen close, the last time he says something along the lines of "good teenagers take off their clothes." Usually I wouldn't believe this, but I DID hear him whisper something similar to this when I tried it out, so I believe this one.

[Uber]

So far as the Hanging Munchkin, you might want to check out this link. It's a very popular urban legend, but like most urban legends isn't true.

[DocD83]

I just wanted to pop in and say that you should take snopes.com with a grain of salt, especially if you use the search feature or just look at the little colored dots on the index pages...there's a section of entries they entirely made up, and the dots don't always apply to what you think they do. Plus a couple entries I found dismiss claims out of hand that should have been investigated.

Fun reading though.

[dajaymann]

Snopes.com is some good reading. I wasted many a work afternoon here checking it out. And yelling at my fellow employees after they recieved an email telling them to delete that teddy bear iconed program (whatzit called, jdgmanager.exe or something?).

-Jay-

[PoolMan]

Ah, the famous "java debugger" virus. I've gotten that email from no fewer than THREE people up the chain of command from me in my company, one of whom was my boss, and another was HIS boss. Always good fun.

[Jade]

In conclusion to my anecdote, I showed my professor some of the info I got off-line and he is STILL skeptical that it's not a ghost. I just wanted to say to him, "Dude, I have a lot of respect for you don't blow that by buying into urband legends everyone else knows aren't true!"
Alas, he simply said he would watch it again at home, where the pause on his VCR is better. *sigh*.
-Jade
p.s. I read the munchkin thing is actually just a peacock flying around. But I really just don't know.

[neutral]

Just a quick note on Alladin, he actually says "good Tiger, take off and go!" however, it does sound like "good teenagers, take off your clothes!"

My favourite is still the Dark Side / Wiz of Oz connection. Watched/Heard that twice and it truely is strange beyond coincidence.

[Der Germ]

What's the Dark Side/ Oz connection? Never seen Dark Side, and don't plan on it anytime soon, so go ahead and spill.

[dajaymann]

Play 'em both simutaneously. Start Dark Side of the Moon at the third growl of the MGM lion, get yourself some hallucinogens and illicit substances (outdated milk will suffice if nothing else is available), and note the crazy coincidences. Never done it myself, but the music and lyrics apparently coincide with events of the film in an uncanny manner.

I've just never figured out how a 45 minute album is supposed to work with a 90-120 minute film. But hey, I think too much.

[gregslagel]

You young wippersnappers. I thought EVERYONE new about Pink Oz! Even I did (though without any illicit substances. I'm pure like snow.)
I think after the album ends, you just cry and either watch the rest of Wizard of Oz as is or sit around and talk about how cool those 45 minutes were. There are a lot of pretty great moments; I remember dorothy turning her head back and forth to look between two other characters, and it was Right in sync with the music on every turn.

[Hucklebubba]

My favorite part is when the line, "The lunatic is on the grass." plays during the Scarecrow's cornfield romp.

The weird thing is, I don't even like Pink Floyd. In fact, I'm just this side of despising them. However, bored, poor college-age guys are required to witness the Floyd/Oz thing, under pain of citizenship revocation.

[Der Germ]

I'm poor! I'm bored! I'm a college aged guy! I must experiment with this. Now I just need a copy of the Wizard of Oz, 'cause I have the Pink Floyd thing I do believe.

[PowerBum]

Why is this the first I'm hearing of this?

Nevertheless, the Bum will definitely do some investigation into this Pink Oz phenomenon.

Oh yeah, and apparently it also works with a Reel Big Fish album, Turn the Radio Off.