Who knows how they start out, but we’ve all heard a fantastic Melbourne urban legend.
Maybe it’s real, perhaps it’s obviously proven to be wrong… maybe it’s such a petrifying urban legend that you’re just unsure what to make of it. We’ve heard about them all – ghosts, graveyards, bizarre happenings from Melbourne’s past coming back to spook us…
Reckon you’ve heard a fantastic Melbourne urban legend from a mate – the kind of thing you’d read about on the Snopes website? Let everyone know here, and, ah… spread the misinformation!
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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)
Johnny ‘Shakespeare’, the infamous Melbourne poet, apparently sawed his own leg off while crazed on acid.
How many deceased people had their ashes buried at old VFL grounds and their souls still haunt the area surrounding the grounds.