{"id":308893,"date":"2024-02-19T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=308893"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T23:09:48","slug":"vegas-near-myths-stories-so-wild-they-cant-be-true-but-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-near-myths-stories-so-wild-they-cant-be-true-but-are\/","title":{"rendered":"VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Near Myths — Stories So Wild, They Seem Fake But Aren’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today’s “Vegas Myths Busted” edition is different. In the nearly two years we’ve published this weekly Casino.org<\/em> series, we\u2019ve investigated many wild stories that we knew had<\/em> to be myths.<\/p>\n Most of the time, we were right. This is how we put to rest such widely held Vegas beliefs as the bodies buried inside Hoover Dam,<\/a> the casino that Howard Hughes bought<\/a> just to dim its sign so he could sleep, and, of course, the extra oxygen<\/a> that casinos pump onto their floors to keep gamblers awake. (Well, we tried<\/em> putting them to rest, anyway.)<\/p>\n Some such stories ended up, quite insanely, being true. Below are four of those stories, two of which happen to involve Howard Hughes and the Hoover Dam.<\/p>\n Welcome to \u201cVegas Near Myths,\u201d an occasional series spotlighting Vegas stories that are just as true as they are unbelievable.<\/p>\nOne Peach of a Banana Nut<\/h2>\n