The world is full of urban legends,
remarkable stories that spread like viruses around the planet,
mutating and evolving until no one can remember
which ones are true and which ones are urban legends.
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In this episode called Stolen Dreams, you'll see
three stories of deep desires that turn into
dark nightmares.
First up, Tasmidah Ganief falls into the clutches of
a thief who wants to steal a lot more than money.
Then, a dream vacation in Ireland ends with a
hangover no one can believe.
Original Air Date on May 13, 2011
And finally, a wealthy family dreams that their
name will last for generations but cruel fate
has other plans.
Watch all three stories and decide which ones are
true and which ones are false.
Find out if you guessed right at the end of the show.
First, it's a story we like to call Pregnancy Predator.
Tasmidah Ganief seems like any young woman.
She does like to be pampered.
It's hard to believe she was involved in one of the
most shocking stories in South African history.
Back in 2000, sixteen-year-old Tasmidah
was seven and a half months pregnant.
Then one fateful day, she meets a woman who will
change her life forever.
Lazerene is also pregnant and the two girls
hit it off.
A week later, they meet at Tasmidah's to hang out.
Tasmidah asks again about Lazerene's
pregnancy but she doesn't want to talk anymore.
Instead, Lazerene suggests that they go to the mall.
The girls head out.
On the way, Lazerene tells Tasmidah she wants to
go home and get her bank card.
It's a small detour that seems innocent enough.
But inside, Lazerene announces she has a surprise.
Get up!
Please don't hurt me!
Shut up!
But Lazerene has other ideas.
It's the stuff of nightmares.
Incredibly, Lazerene isn't pregnant at all.
She recently had a miscarriage and is
terrified her boyfriend will leave her if he finds out.
She's been disguising the fact with padding and now
Lazerene is going through with a horrifying
solution, passing off Tasmidah's baby off as her own.
Against all odds, both mother and baby are alive.
Despite her shocking injuries, Tasmidah manages
to follow Lazerene outside.
But the nightmare isn't over.
Lazerene attacks again.
Passing in and out of consciousness,
Tasmidah can do nothing but despair.
in the dark.
Against all odds, Tasmidah survives
her horrific injuries.
Even more amazing, her baby boy also lives.
Lazerene is caught and arrested but this gruesome
attack will haunt Tasmidah for the rest of her life.
So is this story of a baby stolen from his
mother's womb terrifyingly true, or did we pull the
wool over your eyes?
We'll let you know at the end of the show.
But before then, check out this mini myth.
Mini myth number Weight Drop.
A Swedish diet group was holding their weekly
weigh-in but had to change venues at the last minute.
The twenty fatties made it up the stairs to the new
second storey location but before they could weigh in
the floor collapsed under the extra heavy load.
Was that a true story or a big fat lie?
We'll let you know after the break.
Welcome back to Urban Legends.
Before the break, we showed you a mini myth
about the weight loss group that fell through the floor.
Is this story true or false?
It was...
true.
Fortunately for our chubby friends, no one was
injured and they've made a meal of the story ever since.
On Urban Legends, we show you three stories.
You have to decide which ones really happened and
which ones are merely legends.
So far, you've seen the twisted tale of a pregnant
predator who steals a baby right from his mother's
womb, but is it real or fake?
We'll let you know at the end of the show.
Now it's time for our next story.
It's called Beer Goggles.
Thirty-two-year-old Malcolm Warings is always
looking for his next adventure.
In 1998, that meant backpacking across Ireland
with his best friend Jeremy.
But like many eighteen year olds, the two plan to
check out more than just the scenery.
It's always been kind of our goal to sew
our wild oats and everything and that's sort
of the purpose of the trip.
Little did they know that just one night
in Ireland would change their lives forever.
Their journey began in an out of the way corner of
Cork County.
Their B&B's owner wants to show off her dolls and
doilies but these horny hitchhikers have
other priorities.
Is there like a pub around here?
Drankin' and skankin'.
The pub looked completely authentic.
It looked like something right out of a movie.
When we actually went into the pub itself we were
pretty surprised.
It seemed like the youngest person in there
was probably about fifty years old.
We're obviously quite disappointed because we'd
shown up to actually pick up ladies.
We figured we might as well make the best of it.
Two of your finest Irish ales.
The boys aren't afraid to pound back pints
with pensioners.
Cheers.
I got up to my old tricks and ordered a
couple pints for a couple of the gentlemen that were
around the bar.
Just wanted to start, you know, keep some of the
momentum going.
After four hours, the old-timers have
nearly drunk them under the table.
Jeremy and I both pretty much had our
body weight at this point and uh and all of a sudden
the barmaid starts to look really, really good
and that was around the time where we figured it was
probably time to pack it in.
I still don't really know how we made it back.
All I know is that both of us were kind of supporting
each other, trying to make it back, trying to
remember where we were staying that night.
So by the time I actually got down to breakfast the
next morning I just had a massive headache, really
didn't feel too well.
Good morning.
Jeremy seemed a little bit out of character.
It's like he seemed really, really anxious and
had barely even touched his breakfast and he
seemed to really want to go.
Just finish your coffee and let's get out of here.
I just figured he was just hungover.
I hope you've had a very nice time now.
Oh thank you very much.
She gave Jeremy a big, big hug and uh and
asked him for his address and I just figured it was
to send like an invoice.
Okay.
Thank you.
Bye.
Five years later, the trip is a
distant memory and the two friends have drifted apart.
We both got jobs that took us in slightly
different directions and it became harder and
harder for us to keep in touch.
But one day, Malcolm gets a special
delivery that changes everything.
I decided that I should get in touch with
Jeremy and we can sort of work out what we were
gonna do about the situation.
I'm glad you called me man.
So we had the usual chitchat for a while.
Then Malcolm makes an incredible announcement.
By the way I got a letter from the B&B in Cork.
She just left me one million dollars!
I've just inherited a million dollars.
A million dollars!
Why would she do that?
I don't know. I mean...
Malcolm shows Jeremy the letter but
there's something he hasn't told him.
I found this all kind of weird.
The note at the very bottom said, said thank
you for the night of passion lover.
It was from the proprietor of the establishment and I got
to thinking to myself like how drunk was I that night?
I just wanted to know what happened.
Do you have any idea what this is about?
I've never seen anyone look so sick to his
stomach in my entire life.
Then, the penny drops.
About that night, I uh...
And um and I started to put the pieces together.
You know, Jeremy not coming to bed right away,
his behaviour at breakfast the next morning, the fact
that she asked him for his address.
Malcolm is beginning to think the unthinkable.
You slept with the old lady from the
bed and breakfast? Dude.
Okay.
But if Malcolm slept with the old lady,
why did Jeremy inherit her money?
And then it occurred to me he gave her my address.
Jeremy was so embarrassed about giving it
to grandma that he gave her Malcolm's name and address.
It's been a bad day for Jeremy.
He did all the hard work but got none of the cash.
I'd been the receiver of it.
I could have kept the whole thing to myself and
kind of sailed off into the sunset.
But Malcolm decides his buddy has suffered enough.
They split the million.
Five hundred thousand.
It seems the luck of the Irish has
blessed these bawdy backpackers.
But did it really happen?
Or have we seduced you into a lie?
You'll have to wait to the end of the show to find out.
But before then, take a look at this mini myth.
Mini myth number Wrong Number.
Between 2004 and 2008, Boris Tishenko,
Ania Marenenko and Tatiana Kuchin shared two things.
They'd all been given the same cell phone number
and, within a year of getting that number they
all died, all from different causes but
always while speaking on the phone.
Once news of the coincidence spread,
the number was withdrawn from service.
Was this a true story or just another phone scam?
We'll let you know after the break.
Welcome back to Urban Legends.
Before the break, we showed you the mini myth
about the killer cell phone number.
Was it true or false?
This tale is totally false.
Hopefully you didn't buy this nonsense number.
On Urban Legends, we show you three incredible stories.
Your job is to sort the terrifically true from the
farcically false.
So far, you've seen the story of Tasmidah Ganief,
the victim of a brutal baby snatcher.
And the story of a horny hitchhiker who gave an
old lady an unforgettable night, only to have her
remember him in her will.
But which of these stories are the real thing?
All will be revealed at the end of the show.
Now it's time for our final story.
We call this one Dust to Dust.
Former paramedic Jerry Gray is not the type of
guy who lets anything spoil his chi.
But there is one tragedy he'll never forget.
I've not heard of anything like
this before, no.
This is a tragic tale of some of southern
Colorado's most famous residents, a family named Ford.
They were successful in community.
They were successful in business.
They were uh the first to go out of
their way to help other people that were in need.
But in 1998 disaster strikes.
Lenore Ford dies in a mysterious car accident.
But for the Fords, the tragedy wasn't to end there.
A month later, Jerry gets a cal.
The page came across on the pager that
there'd been a plane crash at the Pearl Lakes Club so
I began responding from north of town.
When paramedics arrive at the scene,
they can't believe what they find.
All of the remaining Ford men have been killed in the crash.
In the space of just five weeks, the family has been
almost entirely wiped out.
But the tragedy is also a mystery.
What brought down the plane?
There's a report of people seeing a
cloud pass behind the airplane and moments later
the airplane went into a flat spin and then cart
wheeled into the trees.
These reports provide a possible solution.
They found a tan and gritty to the
touch powder distributed universally over the
inside of the cabin.
Some of my responders thought that it was a fire
dispersal system.
An aircraft fire prevention system
used too late?
That's what everyone believes ...at first.
Then it turns out that there was no such
fire suppression system in place.
The cause of the crash is still a mystery,
and a bigger question remains.
Why were all the Ford brothers on a plane at the same time?
The answers will defy belief.
The family had Lenore cremated and
the purpose of this flight was to scatter the ashes
at the family homestead.
But scattering their mother's ashes while
flying at one hundred kilometers per hour is no
simple matter.
Ashes can blow back in a moving
airplane very much like when you try to throw
something out the window of a moving car.
The puff of smoke or the cloud that
passed behind the airplane that witnesses stated may
well have been the ashes of Lenore.
It's very likely that ashes blew back inside the
cockpit, disorienting and disabling the pilot just
long enough to cause the plane to stall.
In seconds, all of Lenore's sons meet
their final end.
The loss of those four particular
family members to this clan basically wiped out
a generation of the Ford family.
An act meant to honour their dead mother
claims the lives of all her sons.
But did it really happen?
Or did we just blow smoke in your eyes?
Find out the truth about all three stories after the break.
Welcome back to Urban Legends.
It's time to reveal the truth about our three
incredible stories.
First up, it's the tale of the pregnant woman who
fell prey to a twisted baby snatcher.
But did it happen?
Hi, I'm Tasmidah Ganief.
This is my son Tariq and this is a true story.
Miraculously, both Tasmidah and her son
survived this gruesome assault.
Her attacker was found unfit to stand trial.
Next, it's the story of drinking buddies Jeremy
and Malcolm who inherit a million dollars after one of
them has an unforgettable romp with a retiree.
But is it true?
Inheriting a million dollars is a real
dream come true...
but I wouldn't know.
It's fake.
This myth has been around for ages,
probably because we want to believe drunken
stupidity can pay off.
But usually all you get is a horrible hangover.
And finally, there's the story of the
Ford family ironically taken down by their
mother's remains.
But now that the dust has settled, are you convinced?
My name is Jerry Gray.
I'm Hinsdale County coroner and this is a true story.
Tragically, that plane crash of 1998
wiped out a generation of Ford family men.
That's the end of our episode called Stolen Dreams.
Were you able to separate the righteously right from
the ridiculously wrong?
Don't worry if you couldn't.
You'll get another chance to separate fact from
fiction in the next installment of Urban Legends.
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