What urban legend turned out to be true?

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[@mymop4422]

i think you meant Hmong. its pronounced with a silent H. like Mongolian but without golian of course (two cultures are unrelated). this was the story that inspired the nightmare on elm street (freddy krueger). Hmong people originally lived in Laos but eventually spread to other countries, primarily China, Thailand, and Vietnam.

[@cheems6193]

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[@codm22712]

@@cheems6193 he does have a damn good voice for KZbin

[@missingnoghost]

If anyone's wondering, the picture in the beginning is of the Green Man AKA Charlie No-Face AKA Raymond Theodore Robinson. He was basically severely injured and disfigured in an accident involving an electrical line as a child, losing his eyes, nose, and arm. Because of his appearance, he stayed inside during the day and got his exercise by going on nightly walks, which is how he became an urban legend. Apparently people who actually met/knew him say he was a nice person, who'd exchange a chat for cigarettes. Unfortunately a lot of other people were cruel to him, more than once hitting him with their cars, which is why it's so important to humanise people like Raymond so they don't get harassed simply for trying to live their lives. He's a really interesting figure, and it's nice to know he kept going on his walks and lived a long life in spite of everything that happened to him.

[@aazhie]

thanks! I couldn't remember his name, but I watched a long video about him and he definitely sounded like a very kind guy

[@itscs1175]

listened to a podcast story about him last month. Dude studied braille to learn how to knit, weave and sew all on his own. Dude made a living and was able to retire in his 40s. I would've just given up then and there after an accident like that but Raymond was a true champ.

[@kathyhorstman7909]

Yeah, he lived a few miles up the river from here. I never met him, though.

[@alexiskuwata]

:(

[@Hypercube2017]

This is the part where I’d say humans are the true monsters, but Raymond was also human. You get my sentiment though, it’s directed at those who harassed him.

[@rabidkoalaz]

Always be careful about entering spaces that have been sealed for a long time. There's potential for dangerous gases to accumulate. These gases may be odorless or otherwise undetectable by human senses especially if it's dark.

[@Masatisan]

Teah, thats the origin of the curse of tuts tomb! And many others like it, though im not sure it was gas in that case, I think it was something in the dust.

[@turkizno]

And especially if it was carved out with no supports as well, they are prone to physical failure as well. PS: I've worked at a dormitory that was a national army base for the wars, and has an escape tunnel underneath that goes for miles. It is coming off of the maintenance basement area, and it was chhiseled out of the ground by hand. The entire thing is barely a person tall and wide.

[@rabidkoalaz]

I learned about this in the navy. Our ships have a bunch of voids (empty, sealed spaces) and every few years we would have to open them up for inspection. Before entering we would have to post "do not enter signs" and then air them out for at least an hour with a fan blowing inwards. These voids typically had the volume of around 2 bedroom closets.

[@Uffda.]

Can have like, dangerous molds or gases. King Tut’s tomb wasn’t the scene of a string of mysterious deaths, though. It was basically false sensationalism that kind of got that going. The financier did die during the trip because he nicked a mosquito bite while shaving, and it lead to an infection. Generally one of the most famous and influential archaeological sites ever, though. 1922 was a wild year in world history, generally, tbh.

[@Hypercube2017]

@@Uffda.wasn’t it a dangerous airborne mold, though? It just took time to kill?

[@InternetStrangerThatCanRead]

Fun fact: a lot of urban legends that include murderers or murderous spirits are from either mental hospitals abusing its patrons or a murderer that was caught. The reason these stories get so supernatural is because people embellished the story and then told it to their children to get them to go to bed and the word spread and the story distorted to unrecognizable proportions.

[@TheCrazyMoparDude68]

That is completely made up. Urban legends are stories that get started to deter someone from doing something or to try and explain the unexplainable.

[@LORDMM.]

On mobile it shows a preview of one of the top comments, and it said "Fun fact: a lot of urban legends that include murders or murderous spirits are from either me" lmao

[@wadwad1222]

Sometimes I think that those supernatural stuff involve in a murders are just a sign or a warning of the ghost that they died there.

[@karliereddfan]

Sometimes it's based on truth. The world most in this country experience is very sheltered and divorced from the elements.

[@zzirfamo24]

That’s not a fun fact kiddo😂 that’s called an opinion right there. Just cuz you don’t believe in that stuff doesn’t mean what you say is say all be all. The stories weren’t made up by some mental patient abusers or some murder. Some of them are real and some are not lol, you don’t know anything!!!!!

[@KaiTheTyrant]

There is a missing person’s case that is rather famous in my area, a 12 year old boy, was walking home about 40 years ago when he was assumed to have been kidnapped by a now known pedophile who was in the area at the time. The legend says that he killed the boy and threw him down a mineshaft (which there are a lot of around here, it’s an old goldrush town). The younger brother of the boy (the parents now having died without knowing what happened) was trying to convince the investigators to search the mineshaft for DECADES, only to be blown off as crazy and obsessed (could you really blame the guy?). More recently, they gave in and FINALLY allowed the brother and a team to search one of the mines. They didn’t find a body (and still haven’t) but what they DID find was a shoe, one that was REMARKABLY similar to the one worn by the kid on the day of his disappearance. The shoe was down the mineshaft wedged underneath, the shoe was the same size, same design, same eyelets used in the era and everything. They have also since found a necklace that belonged to the kid down the same mineshaft. Unfortunately investigators said the necklace was too contaminated to test, though. Tl;dr kid goes missing in the seventies, rumors about him being thrown down a mineshaft proved to be incredibly likely

[@darkpaul1uxgaming269]

I wonder though, who started a rumor about the mineshaft. I understand kidnap and all, but who even got the idea of the mineshaft, was it just a theory of some random person?

[@KaiTheTyrant]

I know what you’re thinking but it wasn’t the killer. They’re pretty sure it was a certain pedo who drove a vehicle matching the description of a witness. The real question was where the kid ended up (hence the still active missing person’s case). As I said, the area is an old goldrush era place so there are MANY mineshafts within this district alone. I’m not sure how they came up with that one specific mineshaft, though. Must’ve been an older guy who knew the mines well that came up with the theory, come to think of it.

[@iluvsomebananamilks3367]

@@darkpaul1uxgaming269 I think how logical it would be. Cops from my encounter don’t like being told what to do or that they’re wrong. It’s more stress on their already chaotic 9-5 shift I understand but it’s not rational especially in this case when it makes sense to check something from a grieving person. Civil servants need to serve civilians.

[@darkpaul1uxgaming269]

Yeah, but I was asking who started the rumor...@@iluvsomebananamilks3367

[@BananaJonesMom]

Cops just love not doing their job

[@iatebambi]

I saw a TikTok of a girl that put her dead dog in a suitcase to cremate him. She was on the subway and someone asked what was inside. She got scared and said she had laptops inside and the guy stole the suitcase. 😭

[@funtime7723]

What was his reaction after he opened it

[@yasininn76]

This is such an old post, is not from TikTok at all and it's just a random tweet/reddit post/4chan post old and old af

[@dangerousadvantage126]

@@yasininn76was just about to comment this! i’m fairly certain it was a tumblr post, but i could be misremembering.

[@rateros9006]

@@yasininn76 Yea I remember seeing a greentext about this ages ago

[@Frooooooo]

I was once part of an urban legend too. I used to stay in a student hostel when I was in the middle school and our laundry locker is located in the basement. I often forgot to take the clothes from the locker and only remember when I had no clean uniform to wear for that day. So I always collect my clothes at around 5 AM in the morning when I get ready to school. However, since the light switch was located at the end of the basement, I never bothered to switch it on when I was there. I had a long hair reaching my back and my uniform was hanged, so I just carry them over my shoulders. My uniform was white blouse over dark pinafore. Some times I can see the security guard was patrolling outside from the window and I guessed she must have seen me too, only I would like like a typical Asian ghost to her (long messy black hair, white dress and floating coz the dark pinafore would cover my legs). My friend told me about the basement ghost and described it to me, I told her that I went there down often but never saw the ghost. She insisted as the guard had seen the ghost, and then I realized that I was the ghost 😂

[@mrnowak2835]

OMG my parents mentioned the black Volga urban legend. Mum mentioned how scary it was to be outside past the (back then soviet) government curfew.

[@LegendStormcrow]

I thought it was weird that the agents were called vampires. Jay Leno talks about him not driving his Volga through Russian neighborhoods.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Beria left a long shadow.

[@fangirl3086]

Why did they take kids?

[@mrnowak2835]

@@fangirl3086 yeah apparently you could get kidnapped.

[@fangirl3086]

@@mrnowak2835 But like, why?

[@chloesibilla8199]

I feel bad for the kid who felt afraid to tell an adult about a serious injury.

[@Thoroughly_Wet]

The urban legend of my town was of a soda machine ghost that was in the basement of the old highschool (later preschool, now public performing arts center/library). Story goes back in the 80's a girl was crushed to death by this soda machine that she managed to tip over on herself trying to retrieve a stuck soda. Supposedly if you went to the basement you'd find the soda machine still there set up in the same place were it tipped on her and that if you stuck your hand into the machine her ghost would grab onto you and tip the machine, crushing you so she could have somebody take her place. Well 2 of my friends and I who went to this preschool in the early 2ks always thought it was a creepy building, and we heard this rumor once we were in Highschool. Well we attended an open gym they held twice a month in that building and during one of those days (in October no less) we decided tonight was the night we'd sneak back in and find the machine. So we took some packing tape and taped over the door latch to one of the "one way out" doors on the side of the building, came back later that night and snuck in through it. We found our way to the basement stairs and climbed over the cage that was blocking them off and descended into the basement. Within short order there it was, an old Pepsi cola machine. Well friend one and I were already wigged out but friend two decided he was gonna stick his hand in it. As he did he tried to pump fake us with a scream, which didn't work but he got up past his elbow when all of a sudden he started freaking out "IM STUCK, F**KING B**CH IS GONNA KILL ME!" And he starts trying to wrench his arm out of the machine as the machine starts to rock back and forth. So friend one and I ran up and held the machine back while friend two ripped his arm free and we just ran as fast as we could up those stairs, over the gate, through the halls, out the door, and all the way to friend two's house, all the while friend two was saying how he could feel her cold grip on his arm. He even had what looked like nail marks in is forearm. So the legend lived on until just this last year when I volunteered to help clean and renovate the building in preparation for the moving of the public library from Town Hall. Well we were cleaning the basement and everyone who had lived in town after the 80s knew the rumor and were all joking about it, until one older man stepped forward and said that girl did get crushed under that machine, but it was because of a faulty Anti theft device inside the machine. Basically if the little door on the bottom where your soda landed was open, it was supposed to trip these two flap just above there to block access to the chute and the rest of the machine. Well those flaps didn't close all the way as intended basically leaving a gap in the top like this / \ so you could easily stick your hand up past it but would act like a Chinese finger trap trying to pull it out. So basically my friend and everyone else before us got their hand trapped by those flaps and just so happened to be lucky enough to get out since they never went alone.

[@simhotpepper9761]

Wow I like this story

[@JasonAizatoZemeckis]

That's a good story

[@maxthompson7107]

What a story! I’m glad I read ‘til the end.

[@elyserhyne243]

I've heard true crime coverage of the guy that was killing in the LGBT community! There's a That Chapter episode about it. His name was Bruce McArthur. The community basically solved it themselves and warned people to stay away from him because the police ignored the cases for so long.

[@amythibodeau3186]

It was so traumatizing for the whole community. I dont live far, am queer, with a sister who lives in TO, and helps run a queer/Trans positive sex shop co op. It really hits home so much harder when you can almost touch the people personally affected you know?

[@bibbobella]

The police ignoring obvious crimes because it was happening to a minority group? Wooooow! How supriiiiising! I am honestly a bit shocked it didn't turn out to be a police officer....

[@mandalorianhunter1]

The Canadian police ignored so many, native American disappearances and more. They don't do shit

[@amythibodeau3186]

@mandalorianhunter1 that's another thing I identify ith so much. Like Manitoba will NEVER search the landfil even though the federal government says it's doable. Were it white women suspected in that duno they'd search, but bc it's my cuzzins? Don't think we'll see that

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@amythibodeau3186 yeah the US is the same, anytime a white person goes missing it's a national tragedy. However, if it's Hispanic or Black, then it's barely nothing

[@picax8398]

that story with the tunnels and preserved rooms is incredible. i really hope its saved if they ever demolish things

[@Mina-wo3nb]

Simple one from a nearby small town: A guy disappeared and rumor started that a cannibal killed and ate him. A few years later cops arrest another guy. Turns out he actually did kill and eat him Also lots of legends about underground bunkers here (I live in Germany so there actually are a lot of them). Some say about a nearby city that the whole city has a basement of tunnels from WWII which are all connected. It's kinda true but not to the extent people claim. It's actually just a few major buildings (like the city hall) that have tunnels underneath and while SOME are connected most aren't.

[@Margen67]

Owls need HUGS

[@Danap-mykaykat]

Yo my dad grew up as an army brat all over Germany in the late 60s and early 70s (mainly K-town, Zweibrucken, Munich and Mannheim), and he tells of the “buyerzell” (not sure how you spell it in German, but it sounds like “Buy Or Sell”) and how it was literal floors of these WWII shelters that as you descended down had people selling different types of black market items, like drugs and weapons. Each floor was specifically designated for what the black market was selling, like a flor for weed and hash, a floor for guns, with some just being rooms where people were getting high and listening to music. He also tells me this one time he was on acid and heard a humming noise from the woods- since he was on acid, he decided to follow the noise. He got closer and found a HUGE (talking van sized maybe bigger) generator in the middle of the forest. He assumed someone was hiding out in a bunker nearby and decided to jet because he felt like he shouldn’t have been there. He’s got some wild stories of Germany, and it’s always made me want to visit that much more

[@LegendStormcrow]

Jay Leno won't drive his Volva through Russian neighborhoods. The old timers know the sound of Volgas and have an almost PTSD reaction to them. It's worse when they are black, and if I recall right, his was.

[@LegendStormcrow]

My city has it's own secret tunnel legends. The part where an evil goatman lives there is false, but the Heaven, Earth, and Hell tunnels do exist. The city used to have an airbase, and they were related to it. The monikers came later.

[@helli1233]

At my school, there might be a tunnel leading to the hospital (not abandoned or anything). Still don’t know if it’s true, but really possible. I’m from Quebec and our school used to be for priests and the hospitals were mostly controlled by the churches. I personally believe it. It sounds real, I guess.

[@BiBiren]

There is this urban legend at my school that there is a ghost of a girl who got murdered at the school auditorium lobby. It was mostly true (maybe except for the haunting one). Our school had some dark histories mostly from WW II, but this one is the most definitely messed up. A student from 80s or 90s was being r@ped and murdered by a guard and hid her body in the building. He is the one who spread the rumor about the ghost, trying to not let anyone find her body there and get caught. Eventually her body was found by a janitor. The guard definitely got arrested as he was the part of the urban legend as to why the girl's spirit lingered in the auditorium. As to why they still believed that the building is haunted even though that was made up.by the murderer himself, idk. Another one was from my sister's college where they believed that building was haunted by the civilian victims of the war. Turns out, (again probably except the haunting) the building was named after one of those civilians. They were beheaded on that spot back when the Japanese invaded our country along with an American POW soldier and another civilian. I work in a publishing house where I read some of the books about our country under WWII, and one incident being listed under Japanese war crimes (specifcally the ones they had beheaded, an act they are infamous for) immediately reminded me of that 'urban legend'

[@GrimCryptid]

TLDR: I found out I was the urban legend at my school. I was bullied and in time became a bit "creative" when it came to defending myself. As well as not being seen untill I wanted people to know I was there(when not in class). It was not really that bad to be honest.I could have done a lot worse... like a lot of kids did to one another there a few had been "unalived" over the past years yet I'm the crazy one. Oddly people were disturbed considering things like seeing someone go in straight it to grip/dig into the neck when the attacker goes for a haymaker. Since I already had what most at the time considered "creepy" and "scary" hobbies and way of dressing. As well as little to no friends there. It was a red flag to them I would not give those up in order to blend better. People's imaginations went a bit wild to say the least. Summer came and a lot of people came and went fast forward. The last year there a newer student was talking to me, then had a "He does exist!!!" Moment. Then asked me to go with her as her friends would never believe it otherwise. Given her reaction would have thought she found the jersey devil or mothman. Seems I was what a friend of a friend/older sibling/cousin told the happened at this school/a local school , but seemed a bit to outlandish to be true.

[@BriggsA]

Sure

[@GrimCryptid]

@@BriggsA That is the fun thing about an urban legend. No one fully believes it but it still seems probable XD That and truth is often less exciting/stranger in a cringe way, than fiction.

[@ghoultooth]

@@GrimCryptidUhuh…

[@GrimCryptid]

@@ghoultooth yeah I know. When people were that deep their own conversations or mental world it is about as difficult as hiding from a Jarrasic park T-rex. "Disappearing" can mean sitting or standing still. They were often oblivious and "jump scared" themselves when eventually noticing someone alone in a room before they entered. From time to time I run into people who actually knew me but were not at the school that long, months at best. They are often kinda confused as to what others were freaked out about, I was "weird but not THAT bad"

[@GrimCryptid]

The bullying I received was not the usual kind in the US. They gave me the gift of permanent nerve damage, a number of scars, head trauma that affected my memory and a lot of mental health issues that still affect me well over a decade later. I was not as bad as they said I was. Most kids did not get to know me due to wanting to avoid the fallout. So they just belived hearsay without connecting a face I like to think the bullies were just young and dumb. Hence really easy to confuse. I hope they gained some sense, moved on and bettered themselves.

[@kacey1029]

Clicked on the video because of the image of Charlie No-Face. I only know about that story because my mom grew up in the area he was from (down near Pittsburgh, PA) and according to her, my grandfather had met him at one point but I don't know much more than that unfortunately. Great video though!

[@AoiLucine]

Yeah, that Toronto situation was awful. The marginalization of lgbtq folks makes it so crimes against them arent taken seriously, same with other marginalized groups, like the indigenous community. It kinda super sucks!

[@survivor3466]

On finding killers on Netflix there are some episodes dedicated to this

[@SeanWinters]

"crimes aren't taken seriously" perhaps it's because Everytime the crimes ARE taken seriously, people complain about said communities being oppressed?!? X group gets properly policed: "TOO MUCH POLICE, IT'S A BIGOTRY!" X group gets fewer police: "Y tHey nO tAkE oUr CriMeS sErIoUsLy!?!" X groups cannot be reasoned with. If you're so concerned, why doesn't the lgbt community of toronto do a better job at policing themselves?

[@elyserhyne243]

The killer's name was Bruce McArthur if anyone is trying to look up the case

[@ktmd23]

With that last story, how sure are we sure that it wasnt just a sex dungeon that some teacher or janitor had set up for personal use thinking no one would ever find it? And then the school was trying to both cover their asses, and also maybe assuage the kids' fears? I mean, c'mon... An equestrian team??? 🧐

[@ASweetShortCake]

Well they said they went to school in a VERY well off area. That’s saying that the area has a lot of money, so perhaps they could have an equestrian team like that.

[@cthonisprincess4011]

The school I attended as a kid had an equestrian team, and I was on it.

[@LunaiCarmen]

The school is pretty old, why would they NOT have a horse riding team. It could be a fancy private school, you never know.

[@kricku]

If horses are so expensive, how can we hicks afford them?

[@filthycasual8187]

@@kricku You can't.

[@confusedcrying986]

there’s a very veryyy small lake in my town which people say is a meteor crater and that’s why it’s such a perfect circle. Lot of people say it’s really really deep, deep enough for a car to sink down it and not even see it. That’s true and and actually, more than just one car can fit in the lake one on top of eachother. Scarily deep....

[@rickwrites2612]

A cars roof is less than 6 ft tall though

[@inayatraana4178]

Lmao u dont get it

[@thedorkknight9684]

my parents started one XD so my parents live right down the street from the local elementary school, like a five minute walk, if that. the line of cars to pick up kids always takes up the whole street, wrapping right around the house. and... my dad is kinda weird XD. both my parents have a morbid sense of humor, really into the gothic and mcabe. so, sitting right in the kitten window, in full view of everyone, is this old, broken, cursed looking head of a baby doll. the thing looks victorian, straight from a horror movie. naturally, the "Creepy Baby Head House" is a bit of an urban legend, between parents and kids alike. the school has a yearly field trip where they walk the kids to a Dairy Queen not far from the school, for the last couple years, if i'm at the house when they pass by, i can hear skittish kids pointing and oogling, "Look, it's the creepy Baby Head house!!!" more than one occasion where i nearly pissed myself explaining to people that it was my house XD

[@InternetStrangerThatCanRead]

that must be very awkward to explain just like kid 1: look it's the creepy baby house I wonder who lives there kid 2: They say that a murderer lived there back in the 80s and anybody who knocked on his door would be captured and buried in is garden they never caught him you: funny story uh.. that's my house my parents are just... eccentric

[@thedorkknight9684]

@@InternetStrangerThatCanRead eh, I always thought it was funny XD

[@InternetStrangerThatCanRead]

​@@thedorkknight9684 I'm happy to hear that I definitely would have had difficulty doing that but I'm happy to hear you didn't have a problem with it

[@yasininn76]

You gon call your parents eccentric with a pfp like that

[@thedorkknight9684]

@@yasininn76 I'm gay, I don't traumatize children

[@Chilcutte]

Nirvanas trip underground The story is that Somehow the band got in a tunnel under the univ The tunnels are real but the story said it was FROM the ART building to the Union building that’s not true The truth is it was Kurt and some students and from the art building you take a sky bridge to the psychology building Under the Far end stairs is an access to the old boiler room tunnels that DID connect almost every building on the Campus…. That said -- only skinny people could slip in. And it was helpful not to be too tall some areas are extremely small it’s a tad claustrophobic in the tunnel so I can see why people say You can’t get there as a small teen I was able to Pass through the small places and there is art and graffiti from Kurt and many others down there.

[@shanewright9735]

I've heard the Giant Catfish near the Dam story in Lake Havasu, near the Parker Dam. A guy that worked at the Dam swore it was true. I wonder if this guy is talking about the same lake/dam, or if this is just a common Dam phenomenon

[@shanewright9735]

@VeraBrightfeather I grew up in Havasu too, but usually kept my head above the water!

[@sincorddnb9155]

@@shanewright9735 Dams are perfect habitat for predatory fish species, and it's documented they grow larger there. Constant flow change dazes/stuns the small pray fish, and turbines even chop some up. Easy and abundant food. This benefits all catfish species, since they are both hunters and scavengers, and they grow really fast.

[@Stephen-ro5jc]

I heard this about the "boils" below Kentucky and Barkley dam. This is the sections of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers where the water comes back up after running through the hydroelectric turbines from the large man-made lakes..

[@WiseWordsbyWiki]

My mother has the same story from South Africa. Apparently the fish would get super big because a bunch of farms were on the edge of the river and if the farmlife got stuck in the river they went down and eventually hit the dam which is what the catfish were feed on giving them way more food than just small fish.

[@GushOnline]

My husband encountered the shoe licker in Tampa. I remember him telling me the story when he got home. So weird.

[@ovni2295]

The university I went to had a few underground tunnels, but only for buildings that were close together, and they were all maintenance tunnels for the water and steam pipes. I got to see the inside of one, it was well lit and the guy showing it to me was one of the workers who made sure none of the pipes were leaking. The buildings which were away from the heart of campus didn't get to share in the combined infrastructure and had to have their own dedicated mechanical rooms in their basements.

[@DominatorLegend]

Ah, school mysteries, I love those and remind me a lot of my old school. Turns out when your school has a rather creepy old theater, with creepy off limits areas, with a creepy basement that so happens to include a sealed entrance to somewhere, in a building that two centuries ago belonged to a count, in an old town in the south of Spain that dates its existence all the way back to the ROMAN era and that it's known to still have hidden undeground tunnels from the medieval era... Well, the legends just arise by themselves. I'm 25 now, don't believe in ghosts or anything paranormal, yet I wouldn't go to that basement alone at night even if they offered me money 😂

[@Slenderlover13]

The urban legend around the lake my cottage is on and in the few surrounding small towns is that some time back in the 1920s/early 1900s before cars/trucks were as common as they are now, there were logging operations going on and the logs were being hauled off by horse-drawn carriages/carts. Since most logging operations take place during the winter, they were hauling the logs across the frozen lake to get to the sawmill/lumber yard. On one of the trips, a carriage or cart full of logs being pulled by two horses went through the ice and sank to the bottom of the lake in about 75 feet of water even though it was dead of winter and the ice in that part of the lake should have been too thick for that to happen that time of year. Supposedly because of the depth and temperatures of the lake, the horse bones and some other items are fairly well preserved at the bottom of the lake to this day. I have no clue if this urban legend is true, but there's a relatively high possibility that it is, given that even to this day, logging is highly prevalent in the areas near my cottage and there are spots on the lake that are known to be around 90 feet deep.

[@Tavera12]

I saw the Cropsey documentary while living on Staten Island and became obsessed with asking every older resident I engaged with about it. A lot of people I spoke to werent convinced they caught the right guy. Such a wild story.

[@TwistyTorque]

In my rural town, a schoolteacher ran an illegal gambling ring and managed the books of a club of adult nature where they exchanged keys and addresses for the night for some .. AHEM… Fun, but to put the icing on the cake it turned out half of the town police were in on all of it so it went under the rug for years.

[@JasonAizatoZemeckis]

Story 15 was wild, that would be so cool to be the only one who knows what happened, poor janitor, schools at night are unnerving as is because a place that usually is bustling with people is all of a sudden quiet, dark, and empty, even if you dont believe in ghosts, they're creepy enough

[@Mossy_Tree47]

Since nobody else has said it, Moistcr1tikal actually mentioned the shoe licking guy in one of his videos where he said that back in college there was a guy who licked the bottom of your shoes and Charles being from Tampa makes it pretty likely for the person that he was mentioning to actually be the Tampa Shoe Licker.

[@TiffanyViotto]

In the early 2010s, a single mom from my home town temporarily left her son with her parents and moved to a nearby city for a really good job. One night she texted her parents that she was running away and didn't want to see them or her son again. Her parents reported her missing because this seemed suspicious . She dotted on her son, had tons of friends in the community, and was making very good money at her new job, so why would she leave? The city's police immediately dismissed her parents' concerns because she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the past. Her parents, son, and other people kept getting texts from her for years. She actually became a wanted criminal in the city she'd disappeared in because she was relentlessly sending harassing and threatening texts to people she knew there. In our town, it was widely rumored that she'd been murdered, and the texts were coming from her killer. Her family especially suspected this, though they desperately hoped it wasn't true. Ten years after she disappeared, the local sheriff's department revealed that they'd been investigating the case and arrested her killer. Some woman who was a friend of a friend of the victim and only briefly met her once had murdered her for fun. The murderer had than texted the victim's friends and family for years because she enjoyed tormenting them. Everyone in town had believed this for years, but it was still shocking to learn that the rumors were true.

[@TheSkilledGamePlayer]

Dude. Case name

[@Calwaii-xk3qt]

Hello! Wisconsinite here, about 40% of our population is actually Hmong, and we have always pronounced it without the h, like "Mong". And yes, Hmong is the proper way to spell it. Hope this helps. 👍

[@atashgallagher5139]

Story 4, thats basically the start of Borassca.

[@Cinnaray]

I’m not surprised about the mountain lion stuff, lots of the big felines can travel for an extremely long time and end up where they usually don’t show up. As for why they do this, many reasons why, they just do it.

[@theviking1359]

For the school dungeon, I figured it was just some kinky teachers….

[@matthewgilfus1640]

Rochester, NY. There are two Catholic colleges, Nazareth (previously women only) and St John Fisher (previously men only). Both had divinity programs for prospective nuns and priests. Upstate NY can get crazy snow storms blowing West to East picking up tons of moisture from Lake Erie so many schools have campuses whose buildings are connected by underground tunnels. It's not really uncommon to move from building to building through these tunnels. Nazareth and St John Fisher were technically one college/campus at one point so there are underground tunnels that connect them. The tunnels can be long so there are bathrooms, janitors' closets, and utility rooms along the way through most of them. One of those janitors' closets was bricked up and walled off and taken out of the "official" blueprints for the campus. Years and years ago, it's said, a group of male students doing research for their divinity degree learned of some advanced history of Christianity and took documents/books from the library and attempted to summon Satan. They hid in a seldom-used janitor's closet and performed the ritual together. It's said that afterwards they changed forever. Mentally and psychologically broken and near hopeless, they confessed to the administration of the school, which was made up entirely of mid-level officials of the Catholic Church. Within a week the books were removed from the library and sent back to the Vatican, the room was exorcised, sealed, bricked up, the tunnel was forbidden to be used, and all the men who participated in the event had all evidence of their enrollment destroyed and were taken away and never seen or heard from again. The administration overseeing the school at the time were removed from the campus and redistributed all over the world by the Church. Both schools began their secularization and eventually became what they are today. Nowadays it's a rumor/salacious story/conspiracy theory/unofficial lore of the schools but my father attended St John Fisher in the 1970's and said some faculty still believed it even then. He was just there to study liberal arts but some professors were eerily religious and vaguely superstitious and would, once-in-a-while, tell the students that the Devil IS real, evil IS real, and to keep faithful in the modern world.

[@ninomitchell2039]

11:30 I've heard of similar catfish stories. For similar reasons, plus I'm just not that dedicated, I've never gotten the chance to see something like that in the wild.

[@1cjl2]

I know EXACTLY where High Rock is in story 5. Though growing up, er called Raven Rock "Site R" . My school was right beside it. Like literally there was a fenced off hill beside my school with a door into the ground. Creepy. During 9/11 they put the school in lockdown bc there was a real fear that Site R was a target. Scary stuff.

[@SedatedSadness]

Story 8 sounds waaaay too familiar…. Some lady told me about these two customers at our store that came in and this is what she said too 😭😭

[@chloesibilla8199]

That story about the school torture dungeon is a moral on why it doesn't pay to lie . The school could've just explained it from the start!

[@leah.preppy.xo888]

I’m not gonna say which, but one of these is where I live. Also I could be wrong but I know that when my dad was a kid some girl in his class and 2 other girls were killed and I feel like I recognize the name of the “legend”. If I’m right, and it’s the story I think, the guy is free

[@envizionproject8092]

Yes, I'm Hmong and am familiar with that. It's crazy. Hmong is just pronounced like Mong. The h is silent

[@JackdawFeathers]

I became an urban legend at school, but unfortunately not the cryptid kind Somehow a rumour spread about me being able to summon and talk to demons. I only found out when a boy came up to me, asking me to put a curse on someone. I don’t think me explaining the rule of three (what you put out into the world comes back at you, threefold) really helped quell the rumour, nor me saying that anyone could summon a demon, but that you shouldn’t. I wasn’t religious and was regarded as a quiet but kind kid, so I have no clue how this started. But eh. Fun story to tell

[@babycakessr.8704]

😑

[@JackdawFeathers]

@@babycakessr.8704 You good, babe?

[@jellysharkbat]

Doubting the dog story. A 50 lbs dog's body is HEAVY. It's definitely not something a couple of kids could just snatch and run off with.

[@thirdfang5050]

Damn. Cropsy? I totally forgot about that one. It was still a thing when I was a kid in the 90's going to camp.

[@Kuhekin]

11:10 I'm sure that Janitor is scare for life

[@soweirdmish]

For the college in valley forge, I also went there and I never knew that was true. Wow.

[@soweirdmish]

Like wtf... but idk... wow... never thought it was...

[@Riceyricericeyay]

Beast from the east isn’t just an urban legend, it was also a mass snow event in the UK

[@tricorvus2673]

Remove the locks from all steamer trunks and cedar chests, and similar. 1968, my dad’s cousin and his 8 kids played hide and seek. The 8 year old went and hid in the attic. Yes he got in a cedar chest. Yes it locked on him. He was beyond saving when they found him. I was 4 and that was the first funeral I attended. It’s real.

[@Chaos_God_of_Fate]

Daaaamn, Story 1 would have been SO awesome to find! My whole life after could be funded restoring and/or reselling the stuff i found there!

[@mistydragonfan1008]

What.

[@martenkahr3365]

Story 12: I mean, obviously the wife didn't tell her husband the truth about what goes on at the parties. Probably downplayed it as just shooting the shit with influential people of the community in a more casual environment, and the group banging being a myth. And then the husband found out somehow, like a coworker that was part of the club assuming the husband knew and bringing it up in a conversation.

[@heatheryoung7539]

This one is a bit supernatural. But in Rapid City SD there's a highschool that's said to be haunted by a janitor ghost in the gymnasium. Well, my Great Grandfather had moved to America from Germany to escape the war. Didn't know a lick of English so it was hard for him to get a job. He finally got a job at the highschool as a janitor but later died at the highschool from a heart attack. The place he died in the highschool was the gymnasium. We didn't know about the rumor until my aunt went to visit the school and talked to one of the staff and pieced everything together

[@zombievomitxd]

1:13 the hospital one is literally right from the book called Asylum, idk if thats where the author got the inspo BUT THAT BOOK WAS ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT HEARING IT

[@nordikkai7185]

The university I went to did actually have an underground tunnel system that connected buildings. It wasn't a secret or anything, it was the main way of getting around and there were even classrooms within the underground. It was neat, especially on cold days where nobody wanted to walk from class to class in the freezing cold

[@gailbennett924]

Whats the name of the game???

[@markduncan7638]

Assetto Corsa I think

[@Guidingsonar]

2:20 I hope you went to a hospital afterwords! The collage here has tunnels as well, but people aren't allowed in, mostly due to ... I forgot.. was it abestos? Just something highly dangerus that is dust like.

[@enzonavarro8550]

Here in Brazil we have houses with asbestos tiles and people don't die like flies because of lung cancer... It's only the miners and the people that tore down or install these that are more exposed, and more so the miners

[@enzonavarro8550]

Also, mining asbestos is prohibited

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

Most likely asbestos. They were used extensively until 1980s when their dangers were known

[@BabalonNuit]

Anyone ever hear the urban legend about a guy in a "Batman" costume? I can tell you where it came from! In around 1990-91, I read an article in our local newspaper (Southern Ontario, Canada) about an incident in a small town (Palmerston, pop. 1200, at the time) about 45 minutes away, involving a couple who had gone to see the Batman movie (the one with Michael Keaton) and GF found Batman "hot". So boyfriend decides to surprise GF and rents a Batman costume. He sneaks it home, takes GF into the bedroom, tell her he's got a 'surprise". He ties her to the bed, leaves the room, puts on the costume, and swoops dramatically back into the bedroom. A few more dramatic gestures then he decided to climb up on the dresser and leap down upon her... he forgot about the ceiling fan and creamed himself on it. He fell on top of her, out cold, and GF being tied up, couldn't do anything...she screamed and screamed until someone heard and called the VOLUNTEER fire department, who proceeded to break down the door and find naked GF tied to the bed with BF on top of her wearing a Batman costume! Now there are LOTS of Mennonites in the surrounding area, and many of those farm boys were part of the local firefighting squad...can't imagine what they made of THAT little scenario! Plus this was a small, small town and VERY provincial; pretty sure the couple never lived it down! And there are two sequels. First, I moved to that area shortly thereafter, and that town had the hospital that served the whole area. We were building a house and I stepped on a nail and had to go to the hospital for a tetanus shot. (This was about 9 months after the incident). I asked the nurse about the incident. She was looking at me with those bright eyes that clearly held the memory of a funny incident, but all she said was: "Nobody came back in the ambulance!" That was good enough for me! Secondly, it was about 10 YEARS later, and I was reading "Glamor" magazine, and I turned a page - and there was a pic of a guy in a Batman costume, and an article about "urban legends"- which actually included an urban legend about "a guy in a Batman costume", which had of course been warped into numerous variants! But, now you have the REAL "Batman" story!

[@DarkSansTV]

background gameplay is too intense and thus is too distracting, I found myself paying less attention to the stories and focusing more on the gameplay which through me for a loop when I realized where I was in the stories, having to backtrack because I missed a bunch of details

[@schwi5425]

10:43 I’ve actually heard of this happening a second time (although way too late to be the origin of the myth). Girl’s dog dies and she has to stuff it in a suitcase and take the metro to somewhere she can dispose of it. She’s not a big woman and it’s a big dog so she’s struggling to get it off and on the train. A man decides to help her and at one point asks “Are you carrying rocks in there or something?” She panics because she doesn’t want to just say she’s carrying around a dead dog in a suitcase and says the first lie to comes to mind; “It’s laptops”. He just looks at her for a second before running off with the suitcase.

[@DarkKnightofIT]

Story 17 is genuinely one of my biggest fears, that there's a predator there that _should not be_

[@psifiusc]

I swear to Christ the shoe licker happened to me several years ago in Ybor near Tampa. Except I’m not sure he got from sniffing all the way to licking and he didn’t reach the sole before I shook him off. (Maybe shoe licker and shoe sniffer were two different guys and Tampa’s full of variations on these foot fetishists?) My dad was sitting right next to me. I’d never heard of other accounts until this video so, yeah… interesting to know this was like this dude’s full-on thing. 😮

[@psifiusc]

Followup: I mentioned this video to my Dad and reminded him of the incident and he said “no he was licking, not sniffing.” He had the better view of it, so… yep: definitely the same situation and (hopefully) the same guy.

[@shhinysilver1720]

The “hidden tunnels under the school” just makes me happy it exists

[@Chilcutte]

Last one for today That some boys broke into an old school and one fell and was impaled on a desk and died the other kids lied about it and the boy wasn’t found for a long time. Kinda true School yes Fell yes Impaled yes Died yes Lied kinda Long time not exactly So it was late at night in the winter the boys went into the school one fell down a Dumbwaiter and did get impaled The others took a while to get to where he was were totally sure how bad it was and did go home to get help, it wasn’t they didn’t tel the adults it’s that the adults doubted the kids and an ambulance came less quickly then it would now. This has more to do with people not listening to young people and young people not listening to adults. ^more to the story is school was haunted they were trying to return a stolen Bible blah blah blah The haunting stories came much later there wasn’t any books etc just some Broken desks in a closet thing that was LONG out of use as a Dumb waiter ****add one I lived in a house that Was once called a mansion- it has a reputation that ever child who lived there died. Sorry I live* Rumor is the child who lived is Haunted and that crazy things happened like some guy they didn’t know breaking in and killing themself in their bedroom - kinda true my life has been weird whole town is weird like steven king actually randomly popped in level weird As for the suicide true but it wasn’t a stranger it was a friend of the family with chronic mental health issues As for everyone who lived in the basement room went nuts and tried to kill people, True Chris Tried to kill a priest John twice* he pushed him down the stairs his head hit the Stained glass window at the landing. My father Also fell down these stairs head first I almost died on them as well, I collapsed when o was very Ill the er said if I had Taken a blow in the wrong place I’d have had my liver rupture. Chris and his brother also tried to kill John on a Ladder up on the third floor - They knocked it out from under him. So I have an early memory of a priest nearly dying twice by the same stain glass window. As for the other basement dweller Kane lived upstairs Able was in the basement Able tried to kill Kane with a Beer bottle went to prison where he became known as shaggy shaggy got loose and broke into a cops car and took the shot gun and opened fire on the officers house lucky for everyone they were way in the back and as Shaggy was Out of ammo my mother happened to walk by and just talked to him, she and he turned him in ^weird things like that happened a lot. The older man who stayed down there got weird too as far as I know he didn’t kill anyone but he transformed… He went from a hippy all but living in the woods as a tree planter and became a nurse - graduated at 60 Was a weird place… And family is still there

[@ErsatzDoll68]

I sat through the whole post about raven rock waiting for the fallout 3 mention

[@bobknee4127]

The polish secret police one is genius lmao

[@Kettvnen]

whahts the game in the background btw?

[@janestewart9608]

My small hometown had a family that with a reputation for more inbreeding than the Hapsburgs, and rumors had already been circulating when my grandfather moved there in the 1920s, but everyone ignored it because the older generations of the family seemed pretty normal. By the time CPS intervened, took 27 minors away across the extended/intertwined family and fostered each of them in different counties, all of the adults were on SSI for mental problems and all of the kids were in special ed classes (several were nonverbal). The thing that finally "brought down the dynasty" was a new special ed teacher getting hired for the 1988-89 school year who wasn't from the area, who immediately contacted CPS at the state level. The main reason it flew under the radar was that the original three brothers who settled in the area assumed different names back before there were good records, but they'd been intermingling the three sets of cousins since the 1850s, Blake marrying Baldwin with their children marrying Baker and so on. So very many outlandish things like this pop up when you're raised by the most normal hillbillies on the mountain.

[@Papersproductions]

It wasn’t an urban legend but something that happened in my town was our police chief selling kids

[@SheenaReine]

i actually had been at one of bruce mcarthur’s places he frequented in Toronto while he was active. it freaks me out i could’ve passed him or seen him and not realized it. also don’t pronounce the second t in Toronto

[@fej426]

what game is this?

[@markduncan7638]

Assetto Corsa I think

[@iainkilcar7463]

When i heard of the 'torture equipment' in the last one I thought it was going to go in a very different direction to the one it did.

[@lohostege]

I never heard from other people, but when looking stuff about my town, we apparently have our own equivalent to the goatman in our town, which you can apparently summon by going on a specific road at midnight, and doing some things.

[@fangirl3086]

Story 14: Yeah cat fish are no freaking joke dude. I remember I lived in a small town in Indiana, we had a natural made dam ran by the army I believe. The dam held in a huge lake and there were rumors of monster catfish in the lakes. No one really took it too seriously until one day, maintenance was being done waaaaaay below the surface of the water on the dam. The scuba diver was foing his thing when all of a sudden, a shadow fell over him. He looked up and almost freaked put because there was a HUGE catfish swimming like 20-30 feet above him. He managed to take a picture of it and that thing was massive! Like a small whale. They posted the picture thwy took online and I'm sure it's still floating around to this day.

[@yasminni485]

My high school had a staircase that ended in a mysterious door. The legend was that there used to be a pool and our school had a swim team, but there was an accident and someone got unalived. Students messing around after hours, or something like that. Allegedly, the school defunded the swim team and the pool was closed forever. I never did find out - this was early 90s and we didn't have internet the way we do today. I never really believed the story, I figured it was probably a boiler room or something like that. I guess I might be able to research it now.

[@IlGreven]

In my junior year of high school, we did a collaborative band concert with another school which was about an hour drive away, long enough that after the concert we would spend the night there. Some of my bandmates looked up the place and found rumors of a large cult centered in the town. We went and we practiced and played, and most of the house hosts were gracious enough (mine was, anyway). But others confirmed, yep, it was true. There was a religious offshoot headquartered in that town called The Way International.

[@Plvsh_fox]

first 5 minutes🗿 how are ya'll doing cus I'm unstable💀 also I love the scary stories, it's my fave genre

[@codm22712]

Aaaa that’s grate yay

[@Chilcutte]

That my land lord was a child rapist but it’s way worse he had a Camera in our bathroom was extremely disappointed I was a girl he preferred boys On top of this the Rumor is His mother is also his sister TRUE but worse It wasn’t just one gen The Grandfather had kids with his kid she then became his “wife” she’s Mother to the landload and his sister Rumor was she had her brother kid (False) she had her Father aka Grandfathers child… But what made this weird was the brother and sister claimed for a long time to be a married couple in one small town and later they claimed not to be related in another…. ***I do not know what happened to the youngest child*** I was told it went to live with the grandmother after being abused by the uncle/brother

[@yasininn76]

Your mother cannot biologically be your sister, in any way shape or form. Maybe step mother

[@tamanegi8985]

@@yasininn76you missed the point. It was incest. Father and daughter had a child. That child is now related to its mother in two ways (mother + sister). It’s disgusting but possible

[@achimsinn6189]

Not an actual urban legend, as it is pretty much common knowledge by now, but the city I live in has a lot of underground tunnels that are reserved for the staff or our hospital and for ambulances. Reason for that is mostly due to our hospital is actually built of several small hospitals that were joined together and that are spread around over different parts of town with a river separating them from each other. The tunnels were built to allow fast tranportation of patients without forcing them to through traffic bottlenecks like brigdes every time saving them a lot of time and likey also many lives as ambulances arrive faster due to that.

[@saxwastaken]

My city had a sort of joke/urban legend about a clown that got on buses and shoved nails into his nose. Turns out it actually happened often.

[@MalahnMoon]

When I was a little kid, growing up in Minneapolis in the early '80's there was an awful urban legend/rumor of a serial killer that only went for Native American women (and naughty little sisters). My sister would tell me awful stories of the victims disappearing and to be good or else... I used to think it was just a story to scare the crap outta me as a little kid. Found out that the story was true, there had been a serial killer who only took Indigenous women back then. (Obviously, I am an Indigenous woman) I don't remember if they ever caught this person, but still, it was terrifying to a 6-7 year old girl.

[@-the-rat-chef-]

For story ten, I heard that one before, and what I remember is they died in their sleep due to stress and some other things, due to moving so quickly to a whole knew nation and habitat, and having no idea how to speak the language, if you know more please tell me :)

[@animesenpai1163]

Fun fact on the Freddy Krueger story... It's not isolated among Hmong people, it's called Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome and is isolated in South East Asia and Japan in the Philippines it's called Bangungot and in there are other names for it as well. A friend of my father died from it.

[@kabo0se_goes_kaboom935]

Ol raven rock it’s the back up for the pentagon. My great grandfather helped build it and years down the road I was stationed there same as my dad

[@jinkibiwi359]

For the first one it almost feels like the cops were also in it and trying to distract from that case

[@Wolfspirat]

What elementary school casually has/has a fullblown equestrian team? Sounds like a dream to me as a horsegirl tbh.

[@samandom8772]

The guys from story 3 had the chance to make a real life marauder's map.

[@anonymous-sus406]

I have an urban legend. I was in the walmart bathroom with a friend and walked into a stall. In the stall was a big ole turd. So i leave the stall to get my friend to show him. But when we went back to look, it. Was. Gone. No toilet flush. Nobody but us were in that bathroom. We think it was toilet faeries. Of course nobody believes us.

[@AprilBytheBay]

2:24 RIT is a college that employs underground tunnels for student use

[@DAFORCEFilms]

Starting the video with a picture of Charlie No-Face. Nice.

[@camilleney7487]

Lol, I never really thought about " Site R/ Ravenrock" being an urban legend. All the locals know about it

[@maineaglexproductions4025]

6:00 sometimes assumptions are just judgemental and rude. Other times, they're just correct.

[@AKZILLA]

What’s the game your playing called?

[@markduncan7638]

Assetto Corsa I think

[@patriciamccormick9321]

Kid who explored the “torture chamber” was probably inspired by the movie Stand by Me.

[@AzureVoltic]

Unless there's another High Rock nearby, I live near High Rock and its not down the road from Raven Rock. It's very close to Fort Ritchie though.

[@Sir_Outsider]

On my first day as a security guard in a hospital, i was told about a patient who lost his mind and broke the back of a nurse. I didn't believe it until i met him as he was trying to hurt me

[@AcousticKitty]

Shoe liquor

[@emo__runner]

That last story did not ends up where I thought it was going when they said the kid confirmed "whips and ropes" and whatnot 😂