Myths?

[chmilo24]

hello good people of TPR. Just recently I started watching Mythbusters and really got into it. I know that there are a lot more than the ones on Mythbusters and I want to get an idea of some of the myths other people might know.

 

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[Kingmatyas]

Well, I saw a two pictures of ghosts that were taken at my church. Pretty creepy, haven't slept so well since then.

[WillMontu]

Magnum is sinking: Plausible...or is it confirmed?

Elissa eats only plain pasta and McDonalds: Busted - She eats skinned hot-dogs too

Vekoma rides hurt a lot: Confirmed

Robb is the real father: Busted

[phazan]

Magnum is sinking

 

So is Top gun and at leased 15 other coasters!!!!

 

A roller coaster sinking seems like a popular myth. I used to belive them not too long ago, untill I found out how many coaster are supposedly "sinking"...seems like there are quite a few.

[cfc]

One of my favorites is that if they ever drain the sub lagoon at Disneyland, the Matterhorn, Innoventions, or both would collapse due to an enormous sinkhole!

 

Yeah, right.

[GMAN962]

Wasn't there a myth with a guy that got his head kicked off on Top Gun?

 

Apparently his ghost stands at the bottom of the drop, and when you get off, your foot hurts. I don't believe it, but I remember reading about it recently.

 

-Mike

[chmilo24]

Wasn't there a myth with a guy that got his head kicked off on Top Gun? Apparently his ghost stands at the bottom of the drop, and when you get off, your foot hurts. I don't believe it, but I remember reading about it recently.

 

I do belive it. Once when I rode it, we were going up the lift when I saw a man who looked like he was looking for something. I thought it was a costume because it was close to holloween, but as I got off mt foot hurt. And when I watched the video they film on the ride, once we hit the end of the helix above the water, I flinched and a ghostly orb flew up.

[phazan]

I stubbed my tow when I got off Top Gun...IT MUST BE THE GHOST!!!!!!

 

Seriously though, that just doesn't sound possible at all. No one dies by getting kicked in the head by a coaster and goes unnoticed. I think people want to belive there is a ghost that haunts Top Gun, so they feel like making up stories that they actually belive....sorry if I sound like a jerk, ghost stories have always made me kinda laugh at their silliness.

[Wes]

^ Someone DID get kicked in the head and killed at Top Gun. It happened in 1998. I don't really believe the ghost stuff, but the accident did happen.

 

(Monday, September 7, 1998) - At Paramount's Great America Theme Park in Santa Clara, California, a 24-year-old man was killed after he was struck in the head by the foot of a passenger riding a roller coaster train. The victim entered a fenced area underneath the track of the Top Gun roller coaster to retrieve his wife's hat which she had lost while riding the same ride earlier that day. The area which the man entered was a restricted area. "Do Not Enter" signs were posted around the perimeter of the ride, however the man did not understand English.

 

The passenger whose foot struck the man, a 28-year-old woman, broke her right leg and was hospitalized.

 

The victim's family has hired a lawyer, and will explore legal action against the park.

 

A similar accident occurred in Wildwood, New Jersey in 1995. A maintenance worker was killed when the foot of a passenger riding the Great Nor'Easter roller coaster struck him as he was walking underneath the ride's track. The Top Gun and Nor'Easter roller coasters feature cars which hang from an overhead track. Riders' legs hang below them during the entire course of the ride.

[phazan]

^Oh, I didn't know that it actually happened. I did a search on google, and I thought if it happened that it would come up, but all I got was stuff about the movie. Does anyone know where the guy was standing? I didn't even think Top Gun comes close enough to the ground for that to happen.

 

EDIT:Thanks for that quote.

[Wes]

^ If I remember correctly, it was where it sweeps down near the water after the corkscrew.

 

http://www.rcdb.com/ig80.htm?picture=3

[DATman]

^Did they ever sue for that?

[IceDragon]

apparently no way out's haunted... i admit, i have been touched on the shoulder. there was nobody sitting next to me and i was at the point that leaves the station first (is it the front oe the back? )

[Chadley]

Didn't this same thing happen on an invert at one of the SF parks 3-4 years ago too? I seem to remember an employee who was mentally challenged entered an area around one of the inverted coasters that wasn't locked down. Same type of incident, he was kicked in the head by a girls foot in a passing train.

 

Wasn't there also an employee at Magic Mountain who was struck by a passing train on Scream?

 

Man, why do I remember this stuff?

[chmilo24]

(Friday, April 8, 2004) - At Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, California, a 21-year-old park employee was struck by a roller coaster train after she entered a restricted area and walked onto the ride's track. The accident happened on Scream, a steel floor-less roller coaster which reaches a top speed of 65 miles per hour. There were no passengers aboard the ride when the victim was struck.

A spokesman for Six Flags says that the woman was performing a routine safety inspection when she was struck during a test run. Investigators believe that she walked across the ride's track instead of using an exit gate. She was rushed to a local hospital where she died.

 

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health found no problems with the ride and cleared it to reopen.