Grim's Hall

Somebody hasn't been fact checking again, I think.

This morning, this item on the BBC caught my eye:

Builders who drank a barrel of rum at a house in southern Hungary had a nasty surprise when they got to the bottom and found a pickled corpse.

--Uh, guys, this is an old urban legend, variations on which, you can see here at Snopes.com.

I remember reading about this one in college in Jan Brunvand's book, "The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends."

My in-laws send me stories like this all the time. Cheap enough entertainment, I suppose.