30 Totally true urban legends

In each piece of fiction, it is at least a little truth.


Everyone loves a good urban legend. And yet, in many cases, these word of mouth stories are totally false. For example, if you live in the northwestern Pacific, you probably should not hold your breathWaiting for Sasquatch. And if you are from New Jersey, you probably do not have to worry about the Devil Jersey. But while many urban legends are pure fiction, some are absolutely true.

In this spirit, we have collected some of the most curious myths of the country that can be pinned to factual events - tales of beautiful and underground cities in the history of the word that the dictionary was wrong. So, read it and get ready to be amazed by these totally verifiable urban legends. After all, even the wildest tales are rumors to have a grain of truth, right?

1
The story of Charlie No-Face

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The Charlie NO-FACE tale is an example of one of these true stories that squirms wildly in every break. Here are the facts: in the early 1900s, aBoy of Pennsylvania appointedRay RobinsonHas been electrocuted by a trolley thread, resulting in a disfiguration of all life - more precisely, most of its melted facial characteristics. After that, it was ostracized and stories about its unclearing more and more absurd because the rumor mill started to turn.

Today, the inhabitants of the Western Pennsylvania insist on the fact that Charlie No-Face - whose nickname remains a mystery - has become a silhouette of the man type radiophonic green that repels an abandoned freight tunnel. But the truth is that it was only a guy who experienced an unhappy childhood accident.

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Recurring tombstone stain of Colonel Buck

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The passers-by are often eager to signal the brand strangely fit, resembling a leg, which stains the grave of this former justice of the peace. It's because the rumor has thatColonel Jonathan Buck Ordered that a young woman is put to death to practice witchcraft. His leg was headed with burning fire and, in retaliation, the witch puts an eternal curse on the final resting place of Buck in Bucksport, Maine.

Although we can not confirm any of that, of course, the tombstone haswould have been cleaned Completely many times, but the leg-shaped stain continues to reappear. Today, it has become a bit of a tourist attraction.

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Reptiles living in city sewers

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It depends on what century we are talking about here. In the early 1900s, it was not unforgettable for the new ----------------------- to bring back the baby alligators to Floridian to the great apple to keep likepets. When they decided that their animals were not as cute as they hope, they supposed them to rinse the toilets.

In 1932, theNew York Times REPO RT ED that a group of teenagers had attended a Gator sit out of the Bronx River. But do not worry, there is a chance that there is a band of reptiles of teeth that are currently swimming through the wastewater of your city these days are zero.

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Neil Armstrong Bungling The Moon Landing Speech

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This moment pivotally for all humanity, when the Americans have become the first people to walk on foot onthe moon? Yes, of course, it was scripted. But the quote we all know and that we love is not what astronautNeil Armstrong was supposed to radia back on earth. We all know the sentence like ", a small step for man, a giant jump for humanity". But he was supposed to say, "A little step fora Man, a giant jump for humanity. "Apparently, after listening to the recording of himself, Armstrongadmitted to miss the line.

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Government stealing dead children for science

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Type of. In the burst of tests afterThe Second World WarAfter the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb, scientists wanted to determine the effect of nuclear radiation on human flesh. In a series of tests called "Project Sunshine", the test topics weredeceased- Specifically, the dead babies, whose parents were probably not notified about how their children's bodies were experienced. Macabre and sad, but true.

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A corpse rotting the water supply of a hotel

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Do you know how much the water in your hotel sometimes has tasted downright disgusting? Well, it's not entirely outside the area of ​​why there could be a floating corpse in water supply, contributing to less than desirable taste. At least that's what happened at a hotel in Los Angeles in 2013. After several days of guests complaining of a terrible smell emanated at any time, they lit the shower, not to mention the taste Terrible when they tried to brush teeth management. water tank on the roof of the hotel andfound the body21 years oldElisa Lam floating inside. His body would have been estimated in the tank for two weeks.

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Murderers entering apartments via medicine cabinets

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The 1992 horror movieCandyIncludes a scene in which the main characters learn that a murderer could enter apartments via theMedicine Cabinets-And apparently, it was once a legitimate structural flaw in some apartments complexes. Drug cabinets in apartments adjacent to Chicago were connected by a fragile partition andA real murder was committed by criminals entering this low structure. And for more crazy life events, checkThe biggest theories of the plot of history that take us back.

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A mysterious "supervisor" hammers the new house of a family

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Just after a family bought their dream home in New Jersey in 2014, a stalkerRelying "The observer" interrupts them with a series of letters, claiming, among other things, that his own family has "looked at" home for generations. The letters also asked when the family would fill the house with "young blood". Although it is not clear if there is a truth about what has been justified in the letters, it was enough to scare parents and their three young children to move in the house.

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Kids kidnapping Bogeyman

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Parents often reassure their children that the Bogeyman does not exist, but on Sten Island in the 1980s, it was too real. "Cropsey" would slide children from their beds; Wear a bloody ax in the hollow of his arm. In reality, the captions surrounding the culture can probably be found to a man by the name ofAndre Rand. Rand worked as a concierge in Willowbrook State School, specializing in the provision of services to children with disabilities. He was then suspected of removing several children andofficially found guilty To remove two.

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The city under the city

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Although the theories of the conspiracy on the underground city under the Denver International Airport have been carefully demystifiated, another of the cities of America (Las Vegas) has its own underground city, but it's less of aconspiracy and more effort on the part of the tourism industry to maintain the call of the city ". With strict limits of the police preventing the homeless to create a camp on the Vegas Strip, this population had trouble finding anywhere to go and end up in theUnderground flood channels of the city.

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The house at the bottom of the lake

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Resting in the disturbances of Lake Gardner Connecticut is a fully intact house; so much is confirmed-by theCURRENT HARTFORD, Not less. So-called, the house sank under the surface when a family tried to move it through the frozen lake in the middle of a 19th century winter. The really narrow part is that, to date, fishermen report stripped music notes on the surface of the lake surface, so-called the piano of the hall room. (If this part of the story is true, however, we are in no way to say.)

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And theAll City At the bottom of the lake

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It's not Atlantis, but it's probably as close as America will come to the underwater town of Myth. In the 1940s, a totality (evacuated)city ​​in Georgia was intentionally flooded with water to build what is now known as Lake Lanier. The whole community, including a race track, was submerged by the lake construction project.

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Medical students recognizing a corpse

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Apparently, a letter to the publisher of theAMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL In 1982 documented how amedecine studienthad recently recognized his own great aunt among the corpses that are distinguished in one of his classes. Fortunately, this situation does not seem to occur very frequently.

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The "black woman" hautaine the south

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The situation is not toohorror-scary movie as indicated by his name. In 2014, a woman dressed in black head to foot, including a trailing black veil and black dresses at the trash, was spotted in the highways of the South and a series of rumors mounted on what it could possibly be at the height. The truth was that the woman, a US veteran of the army, describedThe self-imposed pilgrimage as having to do with his faith and his religion.

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The man who has become a pair of shoes

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George ParrotAlso known as Big Nose George, was hanged in the 1880s to be a raug with a penchant for the flight of horses. So-called, a doctor was responsible for studying George's brain to tell the cause of his criminal activity. And Bizarrie, he decided to use George's skin for a number of gross ends, including a new pair of shoes. Today theShoes are exposed At the Carbon County Museum in Montana.

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Rats living in the toilet

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Be honest, you probably still hosted a secret fear of what could possibly hide in the toilet while you turn down on the seat, right? And if you did not do it, you could start looking before sitting now. As said on an episode of NPRThis American lifeA man from the Oregon returned from a fun evening and wanted to make a quick trip to the bathroom before crawling in bed - but this plan was foiled with a rodent living in fur that he found in the toilet when 'He lifted the lid!

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Candy Halloween being a lacette with drugs

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It is recommended that parents exercise some caution and check the candies of their children after an evening ofdeception-And for good reason. Unfortunately there was beenSeveral reports Children without distrustive home with small baggies of crystal methamphetamine in their trading bags.

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And on the counter-drugs being the water with poison

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Have you ever wondered if the drug to be made conscientiously as prescribed includes additional ingredients? Thanks to the adviolable seal of modern day, you can make sure your medicine is mixed as the ordered doctor. Unfortunately, this package has been developed for a reason. In 1982, someone had it in the head to inject potassium cyanide (deadly poison) into multiple Tylenol bottles. After several people died in what came to be known as theTYLENOL MURDERSThe Federal Drug Administration progressed on the plate and came out of the regulations requiring all medical manufacturers produce seals that have been inviolable.

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Coca-Cola recalled a "suggestive" poster

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Yes, Soda's society everyone knows and loved has experienced its fair share of public relations issues. The poster in question was sufficiently benign, at least with the intention of society. Issued in the 1980s as a means of promoting the new bottle design, the poster bearing the slogan "feel the curves!" was quickly recalled after an observer of bright eyes noted an inappropriatesexual image in one of the ice cubes.

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The Webster dictionary made a mistake

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From 1934 to 1947, Merriam-Webster inadvertently included an entrance for a word made: "Dord," defined as "density". The error was finally corrected by an annoyed publisher, who described it to "ghost word. "It's nice to know that one of the most authorized sources of the English language makes mistakes.

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Midwest Black Jais Squirrels

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These squirrels are the possible possession of the arcane powers (similar to black cats on Halloween) remaining a source of discord, but the existence of these rare and black jet creatures is irrefutable. These black squirrels are confined to the Midwest, concentrated in particularly important clusters in Michigan.The story continues that Kellogg cereal guruIn water kellogg Imported black squirrels with the aim of eradicating red squirrels, a species he hates.

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Mechanical stairs inducing injury

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So, maybe it's not exactly possible for your Shoelace to get caught in the escalator and suck you completely under the machine-admit, you have had this fear like a child. But the mechanical stairs are more dangerous than you do not expect. A study published in the newspaperWestern Jemant In 2013, the United States reported that the United States experienced approximately 10,000 emergency staircase injuries each year. Unsurprisingly, alcohol generally plays an important role in these accidents. So when you had some, instead plan to choose the nearest elevator.

23
The man who fell through a window

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Although this existed as an urban legend for a while, this story of a lawyer falls through a window to prove how much the glass was "unbreakable" in the center of Toronto-Dominion is indeed true. As said byTorontoin July 1993,Garry HoyA partner of the Holden law firm, day, Wilson, was trying to prove how strong the glass was in the building (on the picture above) to a group of articulated students.

However, when he fled to the window using his total weight, the whole window came out of the frame, sending stories from Hoy 24 to his death. The glass does not break technically, but Hoy was incorrect with the claim she could bear the weight of a man of 160 pounds.

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The man who created a balloon lawn chair

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While the balloon stolen lawn chair is a trolpurized in cartoons, it also has roots in reality! The first person to create a flying lawn chair wasLarry Walters, who made a homemade airship using a turf chair and 45 weather filled with helium. He explained with this flight vehicle made house on July 2, 1982, from San Pedro, California and flew into the sky for 45 minutes before becoming entangled in power lines and descending safely, according to theNew Yorker. Since itssemi-sufficient flightMany imitators surfaced, trying to recreate this historic moment - and all had the same amount of unsuccess.

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A corpse have proven to be a real corpse

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Although it can be read as an urban legend, the corpse ofElmer McCurdy, a thief and a train thief in the early twentieth century, became somehow a frightening clip of the Carnival of Travel and the circuit of Sidehow for more than five decades. It was, until its mummified remains, then used as an appalling accessory, were discovered in 1976 at the Pike Fun area in Long Beach, California. Now doubled "The bandit that would not abandon", the remains of McCurdy were finally sent to their final rest in 1977, at the top of Guthrie Cemetery, Oklahoma.

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The case of the accidental adult movie star

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If you were still resident of the Grove Council, Kansas, it is likely that you know an urban legend that details the accidental exploits of a sheriff of a city that made a pre-Internet viral erotic strip. As it turns out, the legend actually checks. As indicated byABC NewsThe Sheriff of the Grove Council, Kansas, accidentally returned an intimate sequence containing VHS and his wife - at the local video rental shop. After the slip-up has been made, many people around the city quickly learned the most intimate details of their lives of the local sheriff. Whoops!

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The body under the bed of the hotel

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Legend has for some people to meet corpses under their hotel beds. Although it looks like a childhood fire story, in fact, a dozen newspapers have detailed stories about this salaried occurrence - a couple in Atlantic City sleeping on amattress that contained a corpse To the guests of the Motel Budget de MemmphisFind the corpse ofSony Millbrook, a missing person, just under their bed.

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The hermit of Maine

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For 27 years, citizens and tourists in the North Maine pond area would come home to mysteriously find goods, clothes, tools, toiletries. And an urban legend was worn: there was a hermit in the woods.

Then, in 2013, the legend became made when a man,Christopher Knight, was arrested and reserved on flight charges. According toGqHe has committed more than three dozen flights a year. As for how investigators have attached three decades of crime? When the knight was asked "How long" He lived in the woods, he paused and retorted asking when the mass of Chernobyl occurred. (The answer is 1986.)

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There are extraterrestrials buried in the southwest

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Despite the great stories that swirl perpetuallyNevada Region 51, the only extraterrestrial presence in the southwest that we can confirm positively is the "burial field" of the mass for the E.T. video game,E.T. The extraterrestrial. The video game, based on the Seminal film 1982 Disney of the same name, has encountered such a widespread warning that Atari has decided to literally bury all unsold games in the sands of a new Mexico discharge. A lot dramatic?

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The madman hanging from the dead rabbits of bridges

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Even if you were not resident of Virginia in the 1970s when thaturban legend It has become a preferred tale in children and adolescents, it is likely that you are at least familiar with some aspects of history. As the legend goes, a patient from the escaped mental institution had taken roaming around the Virginia campaign, killing rabbits and suspended their corpses of bridges in the region. And, although this exact story can not fully check, there are very real relations of a crazy man in the region, which was seen by many people in October 1970. According towitnessesHe was dressed in a white combination and rabbit ears, sometimes even throwing a hatchet in cars filled with people. And for more trivia weird, check The most difficult thing to believe on each state .

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