I don't know about the fake verdict on Lavender Town. There's a lot of info pointing to it's truth. While it could be coincidental, fake, or possibly real is anyone's guess, however. And the hands and buried alive were interesting, OP. I've heard a lot about Lavender Town's myth, but nothing ever on that. I did hear though that a developer with a pretty low reputation was hired by GameFreak during Red and Green's development, because he supposedly knew something that would revolutionize gaming. It is believed that he contributed to the suicides because of what he did, and when police entered his home to investigate, he killed himself. Crazy right?