Ever heard of "Fan Death"?

mangajunky · 04.24.2008, 01:40 PM

I hope I'm not repeating a topic here.
There is an urban legend in Korea. Some people believe that if you fall asleep with a fan running, it can kill you.

Here's an actual Korean news report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGluU6SfaU

here's the wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

I'm thinking about this because I just bought a fan and it has a timer on it.

nature scene · 04.24.2008, 02:01 PM

Dude, yes. I heard a report on NPR a few months ago and was fascinated. It's so weird what people will actually believe. I saw a short korean video made by college students about fan death - it was like a warning movie - they actually believed in it.

screamingskull · 04.24.2008, 02:02 PM

HA, what bullshit!

I am going to tell people this at art school tomorrow.

nature scene · 04.24.2008, 02:13 PM

Here's one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0b2vBfSrM

This Is Not Here · 04.24.2008, 02:30 PM

Didn't John Lennon die of Fan Death?

SYRFox · 04.24.2008, 02:49 PM

Hahaha

the ikara cult · 04.24.2008, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here

Didn't John Lennon die of Fan Death?

boom boom

Ironically the last sounds John Lennon ever heard.

MellySingsDoom · 04.24.2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by screamingskull

HA, what bullshit!

I am going to tell people this at art school tomorrow.

Ah, but you won't be able to tell people tomorrow, will you? Y'know why? Cos the teachers are on strike.

Either that, or a fan will come over and fan you to death while you sleep.

MellySingsDoom · 04.24.2008, 03:12 PM

Amazing facts number 23: Everyone under 35 in Bristol has been in Massive Attack for at least 2 weeks.

EDIT: Oh for God's sake, this should be in the random thingy thread.

PAULYBEE2656 · 04.24.2008, 03:13 PM

fucking fanatics......

ha ha ha ha!!! god i am full of shit......................

screamingskull · 04.24.2008, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Ah, but you won't be able to tell people tomorrow, will you? Y'know why? Cos the teachers are on strike.

Either that, or a fan will come over and fan you to death while you sleep.

fan death, maybe, but teachers strike, no way.

the ikara cult · 04.24.2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

fucking fanatics......

ha ha ha ha!!! god i am full of shit......................

better get a move on, pubs closing soon

✌➬ · 04.24.2008, 03:23 PM

This is worse than believing in Christianity.

gmku · 04.24.2008, 03:53 PM

If you put your hands into a running fan, you could die. I imagine if you dreamed that you had to put your hands into a fan and really did it (dreaming), you would die in your sleep. The pain might wake you up, though, no?

Shit, my mom used a fan all the time to lull me to sleep when I was a toddler. There's a fan running in the summer for the air conditioning when the little woman and me's asleep. This is bullshit.

I like the phrase, though. Fan Death. It has layers. A great band name, potentially.

This Is Not Here · 04.24.2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Amazing facts number 23: Everyone under 35 in Bristol has been in Massive Attack for at least 2 weeks.

EDIT: Oh for God's sake, this should be in the random thingy thread.

You know, Massive Attack has only ever consisted of three core members, so as a joke,... I don't get it. The blazin Squad one works better, "they say in a city your never more than 10 meters away from a member of Blazin Squad", or summat like that.

Glice · 04.24.2008, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Amazing facts number 23: Everyone under 35 in Bristol has been in Massive Attack for at least 2 weeks.

EDIT: Oh for God's sake, this should be in the random thingy thread.

This is actually true. I am in Bristol, and under 35, and I played ukelele with them for precisely 17 days. Consecutively, continuously.

atsonicpark · 04.24.2008, 05:25 PM

I sleep with a fan on every night and have for my whole life. Just sayin'.

Rob Instigator · 04.24.2008, 05:28 PM

I think everyone in the souther US states sleeps with a fan on every day

going up north and to th west coast it always strikes me as odd that the homes do not come with ceiling fans

nature scene · 04.24.2008, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

I sleep with a fan on every night and have for my whole life. Just sayin'.

i hate to break it to you...

... you're dead.

MellySingsDoom · 04.24.2008, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

This is actually true. I am in Bristol, and under 35, and I played ukelele with them for precisely 17 days. Consecutively, continuously.

Hey, Glicemeister, I take it you'll be performing with them at the Meltdown Festival, armed mit einem Ukelele?

04.24.2008, 01:40 PM	#1
mangajunky expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Englewood, NJ Posts: 1,247	I hope I'm not repeating a topic here. There is an urban legend in Korea. Some people believe that if you fall asleep with a fan running, it can kill you. Here's an actual Korean news report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqGluU6SfaU here's the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death I'm thinking about this because I just bought a fan and it has a timer on it. __________________ -Franky Don't let yer meat loaf.
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nature scene 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: da souf Posts: 671	Dude, yes. I heard a report on NPR a few months ago and was fascinated. It's so weird what people will actually believe. I saw a short korean video made by college students about fan death - it was like a warning movie - they actually believed in it.
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screamingskull invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: england Posts: 5,580	HA, what bullshit! I am going to tell people this at art school tomorrow.
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nature scene 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: da souf Posts: 671	Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0b2vBfSrM
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MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	Amazing facts number 23: Everyone under 35 in Bristol has been in Massive Attack for at least 2 weeks. EDIT: Oh for God's sake, this should be in the random thingy thread. __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	If you put your hands into a running fan, you could die. I imagine if you dreamed that you had to put your hands into a fan and really did it (dreaming), you would die in your sleep. The pain might wake you up, though, no? Shit, my mom used a fan all the time to lull me to sleep when I was a toddler. There's a fan running in the summer for the air conditioning when the little woman and me's asleep. This is bullshit. I like the phrase, though. Fan Death. It has layers. A great band name, potentially. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	I sleep with a fan on every night and have for my whole life. Just sayin'. __________________
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Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,991	I think everyone in the souther US states sleeps with a fan on every day going up north and to th west coast it always strikes me as odd that the homes do not come with ceiling fans __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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