Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and we are back at this again with the Top 10 Las Vegas
Urban Legends part 2!
You guys loved part one so much – we had loads of views and comments – so we have
indeed made a part 2… and this is fun for me as I have been to vegas and had a pretty
raucous time.
It just….does something to people!
I don’t know!
The Kidney Thieves It is a claaaaasssssic urban legends here!
This old chestnut isn’t specific to just Vegas, although it does seem like the perfect
place for it to happen.
The vegas arm of this legend became pretty popular from the early 90s and continues to
this day.
The story goes that a tourist will go out for a night on the strip – I can confirm
this is the done thing.
Vegas has so many drinks deals it is hard not to get riproaringly drunk and lose your
friends.
In the legend, a tourist gets their drink spiked, loses their friends, wakes up in a
hotel bath full of ice with one of their kidney’s removed.
There is a phone next to the bath and a note that says call 9-11.
That is right – organ trafficking ahoy!
Whether or not this has actually ever happened in Vegas is irrelevant – this story is wideeeely
circulated in Nevada and beyond.
The Fake Roy This one is pretty weird.
So Siegfried and Roy were beloved German performers who emigrated to the United States.
The pair made their name with a tiger show in Las Vegas in the 1980s.
The pair were on and off the strip for over 20 years – notably performing stints at
the New Frontier Hotel and Casino and the Mirage.
Sadly in 2003, Roy Horn was savaged by a seven year old tiger and he was rushed to hospital.
He survived but the show closed never to reopen again in vegas.
ANYWAY….
It seems that a strange urban legend was circulating Vegas that suggested that Roy has already
been dead years before has attack and replaced by a new actor.
The story goes that he was killed by a tiger in training but Sigfried, the marketing team
and the Vegas powers that be didn’t want the show to be over as it would mean losing
a lot of money.
SO instead of closing, they found someone else to be Roy.
They sweep the 2003 attack under the carpet as it happened on stage in full view of the
public.
Hunting for Bambi In the past, Las Vegas hasn’t necessarily
been a great place for supporting women.
Historically, although not exclusively, Vegas has been a place for all vices, which includes
businessmen or otherwise searching to indulge in women…be it scantily clad on stage, or
prostitutes.
Gross, in my opinion, but it definitely happens…and what happens in Vegas, after all… anyway
there is a legend out there that big companies out there would offer Hunting for Bambi trips
– where men would go out with paintballs and hunt half naked women and then capture
them for their own….errr… uses.
This turned out to be a hoax.
The Haunted Tiki Mask We heard all about the cursed Luxor hotel
in part one which seems to have attracted some Egyptian bad juju, but in this list we
have the haunted Tiki Mask of the Tropicana Hotel.
The hotel has a Polynesian vibe about it and on the way in it is lucky to touch the God
of money carving before entering the casino….however you must never touch the tiki mask!
The mask is a hand carved traditional Tiki mask but the rumours say it is haunted.
Very haunted.
A lot of tourists have their picture next to it, but apparently touching it, or even
touching something that has touched it, will lead to you developing a worrying purple rash.
Some have even said that a purple mist distorts the mask in photos taken of it!
Liberace’s ghost Okay, ghosts are scary and everything so I
guess that is why I have put it on this list butttt I have to say….Liberace is my sasspiration!
I LOVE the way he used to dress!
What an ICON!
Liberace loved Las Vegas – he owned a restaurant there and there used to be museum to the flamboyant
pianist.
It is said that Liberace haunts a number of spots in Las Vegas – Tivoli Gardens , his
former home and, when the museum was in action, the museum spo t too.
Good on him.
I hope he haunts in floral and gold!
More famous ghosts at number ** Tupac’s Ghost
In 1996 Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas between Flamingo and Koval.
He was in a car driven by Suge Knight and the assassination came as the men stopped
at a red light.
Tupac’s killer is still unknown to this day and it has gone down as one of the most
dramatic moments in music history.
Paranormalists often say that ghosts are created in dramatic circumstances and dramatic circumstances
were certainly present on that night in 1996.
A lot of people say that they think Tupac haunts that intersection.
Some even swear to have seen him standing there looking over the road.
But then again some people think he is still alive.
Oooh I went to this place and I have to say it was pretty run down and creepy – we have
Whiskey Pete’s So Whiskey Petes in olddddd resort on the
outskirts of Vegas named after a gas station owner whose body was accidentally dug up when
they built the resort.
Also in the resort is the bullet ridden car that Bonnie and Clyde were killed in.
Anyway… the 70s casino is said to be haunted by good old Whiskey Pete himself.
Some even say the haunting screams of Bonnie and Clyde can also be heard on occasion coming
from the car wreck.
All in all it is a weird place.
I stopped for gas there on my way to LA….I had a sub.
It was all very strange.
The Haunted Titanic Exhibition.
Why there is a Titanic Artefact exhibition in the middle of the desert thousands of miles
away from where the ship sank, we don’t know….
But if you can eat fresh seafood in Vegas then anything is possible, right?
We talked about the LUXOR hotel in part one and how it may have befallen an Egyptian curse
of some kind, akin to the curse of the pharaohs.
BUT it seems the hotel may also be haunted by a few of the Titanic victims for good measure.
It seems that on the grand staircase exhibition, a lady wearing black period dress with a white
collar has been spotted, as has a sailor on the reconstructed promenade deck.
Staff and visitors alike have felt hands push and shove them as they walk the exhibition.
HOW strange!
2 - Bonnie Springs Ranch The Ghost Town of Bonnie Springs is in Red
Rock Canyon, just outside of Las Vegas and has been featured on the TV show Ghost Adventures.
The Old Nevada town was very much part of the Wild west in the 1800s.
Some people say that they hear childrens laughter echo on the spot of the old school, some say
they have seen wax work models of old townsfolk wink at them as they walk by.
The most haunted spot in the ghost town is said to be the Opera House, which is a hot
bed for paranormal activity.
You can visit the town as a tourist attraction and they absolutely love the ghostly legends
- they go hell for leather In October for Halloween activities - decking out the whole
town in ye olde spooks!
1- The Stratosphere The Stratosphere is known as the go to place
for suicides in Las Vegas, which already has the highest suicide rates of the country.
I suppose people go to Vegas, lose it all and then are filled with deep regret.
All the vice and drinking doesn't help either.
It is mainly men who end their lives that way, too.
Kind of grotesquely, there are ghost tours that will take you around and point out the
death spots....
Including the Stratosphere tower....
Which has lead a lot of people to imagine that they can see people jumping when they
look at the building.
Is it haunted, or are imaginations running wild
SO that was the top 10 Scary Las Vegas Urban Legends..... comments
Tsusumai said Living in Vegas since I was born (18 years,
19 in two days [August 20th!]), the only legend/story I've heard of was the rotting corpse one.
That's it.
My mom worked at Circus Circus and I've never been told about that urban legend.
It was interesting to hear about the MGM one though, as I didn't know about the one that
burned down since there is one here now that I have passed by a couple of times.
I would love to hear more Vegas urban legends!?
You saw me at Walmart Said: Wait were you that one drunk girl is los Vegas screaming?
Yes, that was me!
Halle Mitch said: When I was about 10 years old I went to circus circus and heard taps
everywhere I was too freaked out to investigate further, this video was hella creepy for me
JD Nation said: Omg when She said fear and loathing in Las Vegas I immediately stopped
doing my hw and just laughed so hard bc I loved the scene and I love Johnny Depp so
I was like waaaaaaa?
I MISS SUMMER ME.