Wasn't this an urban legend?

[lighthorseman]

A US teen is in a critical condition after becoming tangled in a noose at a Halloween haunted house.

The 17-year-old girl, who was working as an actress at the attraction in St Louis, Missouri, was found unconscious with a prop around her neck about 8.30pm on Thursday night local time, police said

The noose was used for visual effect and it is thought that members of the public may have walked past her thinking she was a scary prop.news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8367100/teen-tangled-in-noose-at-haunted-house

[SimSim]

No, sadly stuff like that does happen. Sometime in the 80s or 90s a woman from my state hung herself from a tree in her yard around Halloween. She was up there for days before people realized she wasn't a decoration.

[lighthorseman]

Oct 29, 2011 7:48:52 GMT -5 SimSim said:

No, sadly stuff like that does happen. Sometime in the 80s or 90s a woman from my state hung herself from a tree in her yard around Halloween. She was up there for days before people realized she wasn't a decoration.

Thats the urban legend I'm talking about. Did it really happen?

[SimSim]

Yeah. snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/halloween.asp The one mentioned in Delaware was the one I was thinking of. I thought it was earlier than that though.

[Shane for Wax]

There's a similar one about a dead body in a haunted house.

[Napoleon the Clown]

Yeah, the accidentally hanging thing actually has happened. More than once. It's not exactly commonplace, but people have been known to fuck up the supports needed to make it look like you've been hanged without actually, well, hanging you.

This one, Shane?

[Shane for Wax]

No not that one. I may be mixing it up with an episode of Bones tho... *frowns and scratches head*

[tygerarmy]

Halloween has helped many people earn Darwin awards.