Who knows how they start, but everyone’s heard a great Melbourne urban legend.
Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s clearly been proven wrong… maybe it’s such a scary urban legend that you’re just not sure what to think. We’ve heard them all – ghosts, graveyards, strange happenings from Melbourne history coming back to haunt us…
Reckon you’ve heard a corker Melbourne urban legend from a mate – the kind of thing you’d read about on Snopes? Let everyone know here, and, er… continue the misinformation!
That the plans for Flinders St Station got mixed up with another building which wound up being built in India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Street_Station#Current_building
Probably the one about the giant black cats roaming around wild in the suburbs. LOL. I’ll admit to being irrationally afraid.
Any of the old Squizzy Taylor Legends, from underground tunnels in his Fitzroy house, to undergrounds tunnels in his Holiday house on the Mornington peninsula. Will try and think of a few more ones from the 80′s.
While I was at RMIT, it was thought that they filmed the movie “SAW” in the basement of the RMIT city building.
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I believe they filmed a 10 minute short there along the same lines, which they used to get the funding.
I think Lee did media arts at RMIT.
Yeah, that’s the rumour but they filmed the 9 minute short in a hospital basement near Leigh Whannell’s house in Melbourne. Leigh and James Wan were media studies students at RMIT where they became friends. The bottom floors of RMIT remind me the low budget foreign horror films they play on SBS.
More info here.
The South Car Park of Melbourne Uni was used for the garage scenes in Mad Max 1. George Miller studied there. (this is true)