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Author's Note: I
decided to change this story up a bit. In the original story, Dressed
to Kill,
a woman bought a very nice dress from a department store to wear to a
banquet;
she and her date smelled a funny odor all night and she felt ill. Her
date took
her home and called the doctor. She fainted and died before the doctor
made the
house call. The doctor recognized the funny smell and did an autopsy.
He found she
had formaldehyde in her veins! Turns out the dress had embalming fluid
on it
and it soaked through her veins. The dress had been returned to the
store from
a funeral home, where it had been worn by a corpse.
Naturally this urban legend has also been
proven false. This urban legend and many
variations of it have been around since the 1940s.
All of the legends have locations and
narrators to make the story seem plausible. There
have since been television shows that copy the basics of the Dressed to
Kill
urban legend, most notably CSI: New
York where a wedding dress
soaked in embalming fluid killed a woman. Urban legends make the
perfect
settings for all types of fictional stories!
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