urban legend – Paul Weatherhead

Blinded by the Light: Kids on LSD stare at the sun until they go blind

Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun But mama, that’s where the fun is (Manfred Mann’s Earthband) I heard about this guy once. Took LSD, lay down in a field and stared at the sun until his eyes melted… He was discovered later by friends staggering round the fieldContinue reading “Blinded by the Light: Kids on LSD stare at the sun until they go blind”

Scared… to Death!

A bizarre pastime emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth century: ‘playing the ghost’. This usually involved a prankster donning a white sheet, perhaps with a scary mask and some devil horns and then cavorting in a spook like manner at a creepy location such as a dark lonely road or grave yard at midnightContinue reading “Scared… to Death!”