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We'd like to live in hotels (just so we can order room service), but we don't. Sure, we'd like to look like showgirls, but we don't. And yes, there is life beyond the Strip. Lots of life. Just like in any other "normal" city, Vegas has schools, government buildings, parks, playgrounds, supermarkets (but with slot machines), community centers and all that stuff that makes a city function. Plus, we have more urban myths than sequins on a Liberace suit. Here are our top 10 (for now) Vegas urban legends:
1. Hoover Dam bodies: It is a widely repeated story that during the construction of the Hoover Dam from 1931 to 1936, as many as seven workers were buried in the structure as 4,400,000 cubic yards of concrete was poured. While officially 96 dam workers died during the construction of the dam, no one was permanently buried in concrete. Fact is, the concrete was poured in relatively small batches (about a 1,000 cubic yards at a time), and each of these slabs was allowed to cure (dry) before the next one was added. If someone had indeed fallen in during this pouring process, he would have easily been pulled out by others.
2. Kidneys on the black market: In 1996, rumors began circulating about a man who, after having drinks with an attractive stranger at a Las Vegas bar, blacks out and later awakes in a hotel bathtub, covered in ice. A phone is resting on the floor beside the tub with an attached note, "Call 911 or you will die." The story continues with this "victim" being rushed to the hospital, where the doctors inform him that one of his kidneys has been removed, apparently by a gang selling human organs on the black market. A shocking story, but just that, a story. The tale first surfaced in 1991 and has "reportedly" happened in several cities including New York, New Orleans, Houston and Las Vegas. To dispel this rumor, the National Kidney Foundation asked anyone who claims to have had his or her kidneys illegally removed to notify the foundation. So far no one has come forth.
3. Aliens at Area 51: The top-secret Air Force facility located 110 miles northwest of Vegas always has been, well, a secret. It wasn't until 1990 that the U.S. government finally acknowledged the base even existed. Contrary to thousands of believers who claim to have seen UFOs, little green men, grayish creatures with almond-curved eyes and many more incredible things, the Pentagon says there are no aliens in Area 51. However, this shouldn't stop you from driving the Extraterrestrial Highway (Highway 375) just in case the government is lying.
4. Hunting for Bambi: In 2003, Las Vegas promoter Michael Burdick finally came clean, admitting to city officials that "Hunting for Bambi" was a hoax and that his company never actually conducted "hunting expeditions" in which wealthy male patrons stalked naked women with paintball guns. "It was all staged," Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman told The Associated Press. "The purported 'Hunt for Bambi' was a scam. There were actors and actresses, and there wasn't even the real shooting of paint balls."
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