Really good urban legends to forward?

Question

My fiance sent me a scary message the other day and I was scared to death. So I want to get back at him with a great scary story but I'm kinda fresh out of good ones. What is the scariest story you have EVER heard? I want to get back at him for giving me nightmares. Please help!

Answer 1

PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT

Several different, at times conflicting, versions of the purported experiment have circulated over the years. The following synopsis serves to illustrate key alleged story points common to the majority of accounts.[2]

The experiment was conducted by Dr. Franklin Reno (or Franklin Rinehart) as a military application of a Unified Field Theory, a term coined by Einstein. The Unified Field Theory aims to describe the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity; although to date no single theory has emerged with a viable mathematical expression.

According to the accounts it was thought possible to use some version of this theory to bend light around an object so that it became essentially invisible. This required specialized equipment and sufficient energy. The Navy regarded this of obvious military value and sponsored the experiment.

A destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, was fitted with the required equipment at the naval yards in Philadelphia. Testing began in summer 1943, and was successful to a limited degree. One test, on July 22, resulted in the Eldridge being rendered almost completely invisible, with some witnesses reporting a “greenish fog” in its place. However, crew members complained of severe nausea afterwards. At that point, the experiment was altered at the request of the Navy, with the new objective being invisibility solely to radar.

The equipment was not properly re-calibrated to this end, but in spite of this the experiment was performed again on October 28. This time, Eldridge not only became almost entirely invisible to the naked eye, but actually vanished from the area in a flash of blue light. According to some accounts, the U.S. naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, just over 215 miles (346 km) away, reported sighting the Eldridge offshore, whereupon the Eldridge vanished from their sight and reappeared in Philadelphia at the site it had originally occupied, in an apparent case of accidental teleportation.

The physiological effects of the experiment on the crew were profound: almost all of the crew became violently ill. Some suffered from mental illness as a result of their experience; behavior consistent with schizophrenia is described in other accounts. Still other members, like Jacob L. Murray, were physically unaccounted for—supposedly they “vanished”—and five of the crew became fused to the metal bulkhead or deck of the ship. Still others faded in and out of sight. Sometimes they disappeared, then crewmates would stick their hands into the spot from which they had disappeared and try to grab the crewmate, but, if they did not, that spot would burst into flames. Horrified by these results, Navy officials immediately cancelled the experiment. All of the surviving crew involved was discharged; in some accounts, brainwashing techniques were employed in an attempt to make the remaining crew members lose their memories concerning the details of their experience.

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Answer 2

THE USA! Thats Scary