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[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago

That and quick sand turned out to be significantly less of a problem than my seven-year-old mind had anticipated.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 days ago

I saw this Documentary, The Princess Bride, where they went to the Fire Swamps. Was really oversold to me as a kid.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago
[-] Not_Dav3@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Rodents Of Unusual Size ? I don't believe they exist.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Ever been to New York?

[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

It was in every movie in the 80s. You were eating a pizza in New York? Quicksand would appear under your feet!

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 9 points 5 days ago

I'd like to add ghosts and witches to the list

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago

Witches went from a fear to a desire.

[-] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I was sure that boats sank the vast majority of the time they were used. Also, I have yet to be on fire.

[-] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah I was worried about spontaneous combustion in my sleep also. I wonder if those people were just smokers who dozed off with a cig in bed.

[-] Jayk0b@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago

Nah, I was worried elevators might go higher as intended, smash through the roof and abduct me.

[-] spooky2092 9 points 5 days ago

You should be safe as long as you don't use an elevator with/owned by an eccentric billionaire inventor.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

Just lay off the fizzy lifting drinks a bit

funnily enough, there is an area in vienna, austria that is unofficially called "bermuda triangle", owing the name to the large concentration of bars.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

sounds like a nice place to get lost for a bit

eh, it was more fun 40 years ago from what i've heard. everything is pretty sanitized these days.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was a simpler kid. I just thought that the sun was going to just disappear and we wouldn't notice for 8 minutes.

I was literally looking at the sky thinking the sun has already be gone.

[-] Onionguy@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah what's up with that btw? Into the bermuda triangle rabbit hole i go...

[-] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

TLDR: the Bermuda Triangle isn't particularly dangerous in any way, it just has a lot of ships that go through it.

[-] Onionguy@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

I watched adoku about it that said that in the 80s someone wrote a book about it which proliferated many false claims about the triangle (they were debunked later on) apparently this boosted the notoriety of the myth even more.

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