Top 30 Creepiest Urban Legends That Turned Out To Be True

• published: 10 May 2015
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grudg3: https://www.youtube.com/user/Renizize Paradox Noctis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQFMFe1EY8NjFmWdLgtYaWA Althentik: https://www.youtube.com/user/althentik My Channel: www.youtube.com/user/blameitonjorge Top 20 Disturbing Moments in Kid Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktydw9hXAZ4 Cartoon Trivia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIh4yWuipk An urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true, and often possess horror implications that are believable to their audience. And just like creepypastas, the scariest urban legends are the ones that actually happened to real people. Some live to tell the tale, while others weren't so lucky. So today, I'm going to countdown the creepiest urban legends that turned out to be true. Despite its name, an urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban area. Rather, the term is used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore of pre-industrial times. For this reason, sociologists and folklorists prefer the term "contemporary legend". Because people frequently allege that such tales happened to a "friend of a friend" (FOAF), the phrase has become a commonly used term when recounting this type of story. Sometimes urban legends are repeated in news stories, or distributed by e-mail or social media. Examples include the news story of an alleged mass panic in America in 1938, after a radio drama describing a Martian invasion, or a repeated claim dating from 1972 that a large percentage of people have a biological father who is not their assumed father and are therefore illegitimate. Some urban legends have passed through the years with only minor changes to suit regional variations. One example is the story of a woman killed by spiders nesting in her elaborate hairdo. More recent legends tend to reflect modern circumstances, like the story of people ambushed and anesthetized, who awaken minus one kidney, which was supposedly surgically removed for transplantation (a story which folklorists refer to as "The Kidney Heist") 1) http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/12/the_human_grease_murders.html 2) http://whofortedblog.com/2011/09/26/green-man-true-pennsylvania-legend/ 3) http://cropseylegend.com/ 4) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2365158/Horrified-woman-27-discovers-headaches-scratching-sounds-inside-head-FLESH-EATING-MAGGOTS.html 5) http://www.oddlyhistorical.com/2014/04/25/strange-true-story-legend-bunnyman-bridge/ 6) http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/03/how-shrunken-heads-were-made/ 7) http://www.ranker.com/list/the-15-craziest-cannibal-attacks-in-history/michael-gibson?var=2&utm;_expid=16418821-98.mZzE1CJ2QUSlmjhPjOznAQ.1&page;=2&utm;_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F 8) http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24889337/ns/world_news-weird_news/t/homeless-woman-lived-mans-closet-year/#.VU6_y_lVhBc 9) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235692/Inside-body-farm-corpses-left-outside-decompose-forensic-researchers-study.html 10) http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-crime-bodies-odd-idUSTRE7A742Q20111108 11) http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2007/oct/28/legend-dog-boy-20071028-0/ 12) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-water-did-have-a-funny-taste-body-is-found-in-water-tank-at-cursed-cecil-hotel-8504729.html 13) http://www.oddee.com/item_98883.aspx 14) https://www.michigandaily.com/content/teen-accidentally-hanged-while-trying-make-hayride-scary 15) http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Chef-Wife-Cook-Murder-Trial-David-Viens-Verdict-171566011.html 16) http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp 17) http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/10/27/hanged-woman-mistaken-for-halloween-prop/ 18) http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bodybed.asp 19) http://www.inquisitr.com/608778/teen-crushed-to-death-in-garbage-truck-as-workers-looked-on/ 20) http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/kidney_thieves.htm 21) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/31/dr-jacquelyn-kotarac-dies_n_701355.html 22) http://www.unexplainable.net/ghost-paranormal/call_from_beyond_urban_myth_rings_true.php 23) http://www.unexplainable.net/simply-unexplainable/the-ice-woman-of.php 24) http://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-dies-pool-boy-reports-drowning-lifeguards-fall/story?id=13984017 25) http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Carol:DaRonch.html 26) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/406/transcript 27) http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/30/nyregion/3-students-discover-corpse-in-a-carpet-found-on-street.html 28) http://discovermagazine.com/1995/apr/analysisofatoxic493 29) http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/doctor-decapitated-by-faulty-elevator-at-st-joseph-hospital-in-houston.78807/ 30) http://www.truecrimereport.com/2012/09/a_murder-suicide_in_the_florid.php