13 People Share The Creepy Urban Legends That Ended Up Being True

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Oct 7, 2018 11:00 AM EDT

It's a crazy world we live in, folks. 

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    Text - roscoewatson. 124d When I was about 12 years old a friend and I were playing in the woods that were known for being "creepy". While building a fort, a strange man snuck up behind us and yelled at us to get off his land and never come back yadda yadda. It really startled us as we knew the land was a public area and had never been threatened by an adult before. Several years later we found out he was an actual bank robber, wanted by the FBI for years. We were building our fort a few feet fr
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    Text - md28usmc 124d Girls at LSU would wake up thinking they were being watched & snuggled up against while sleeping. Turns out a guy broke in 12+ girls homes and snuggled them, ate their food etc and would slip out their windows. He was dubbed the serial snuggler.
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    Text - Not Your Average Tomato 125d Black Volga. In the 60s and 70s, there existed and urban legend in poland, that vampires in black limousines were kidnapping people, preferingly little children. It was a tale parents told their kids who would then tell their friends etc. Turns out it was a rumour that was spread by the polish secret police who actually used black cars to kidnapp people. The aim was that no one would believe someone who would report they had witnessed a kidnapping.
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    Text - slyzxx 124d I'm. Always late to these things. In Kenya mombasa there was a story about a woman with long black hair and a white dress who would be seen around the beach at night and it was to stop people from being at the beach swimming in the ocean. Turned out to be true was older lady would sleep walk on the beach in her nighties even she didn't know until locals found the courage to follow her home.
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    Text - itsfish20 125d The Asylum Lake tunnels in Kalamazoo are real! There is a small lake and wildlife area just off of WMU's campus and for a long time there were rumors going around that they were still there and accessible! Well turns out that was true and there was an old set of stairs that was partially buried that lead to a walled up tunnel entrance. A few people used hand tools and ended up breaking part of the wall down and got inside only to find the tunnels fully intact albeit a bit d
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    Text - RyokoKnight 124d live near a lake and there was an urban legend that there were huge lake monsters near the Hydroelectric dam. Most people thought it was just some fishermen's tall tales, we all guessed it was just a twist on the classic 'the one that got away' Turns out divers went into the water behind the dam for a routine inspection to see if there was any damage after months of heavy flooding in the area. Apparently one of the divers got too close to what he originally thought was a
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    Text - DorkJedi 125d Ours was mild. there was an eccentric guy who ran a used bicycle shop. he also built these super tall artsy bikes and rode them all over town. Legend had it he uses that to look over fences and plan which bikes to steal Years later, he was arrested on hundreds of counts of theft and selling stolen goods. Edit: Amarillo, Tx, late 70's to early 80's for those guessing. I can't remember his name, was going to see if I could find a newspaper article on it but no luck He usually
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    Text - bigfrojo1 124d Not really a legend, unless you didn't believe it My town and surrounding area has multiple old pirate smuggling tunnels under it, going from towns to beaches. Most of the tunnels are under pub or shop basements. Also when I say pirate I do mean arrrrr pirates. Penzance, UK
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    Text - Ghost_In_The_Valero 125d The Griggstown Cow A supposed ghost-cow that wandered New Jersey. It was said to only appear on foggy days, and would disappear soon after. Local authorities discounted reports of the ghost-cow of course, as there had not been any dairy farms in that area for decades and no one was missing any cattle nearby. Then in 2002, a very old and arthritic bull, which matched the description of the ghost-cow, was found stuck in a ravine. The old bull was unable to climb out
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    Text - Stereotypy 124d we've got a dude in milwaukee dubbed the "milverine," the milwaukee wolverine. he looks sort of like a midwestern logan from the x-men, and he's sighted all over downtown briskly walking around with his shirt off. like, no matter what he's doing, rain, shine, blistering heat or freezing cold, he's got his shirt off. turns out he's just a scruffy construction worker who's pretty ripped and vaguely looks like the superhero. apparently he's a nice guy and locals often tell pe
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    Text - childish_enzino 125d Raymond Robinson: The Green Man. Dude lost his eyes and nose and wandered the streets at night in Pennsylvania because he couldn't go outside in the daytime because of how he looked. People saw him and an urban legend in PA was born
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    Text - JFMX1996 125d That there's "something" making people disappear in our area in Nevada. As a kid it was more so they were hinting at aliens. Then as we grew up the disappearances have been a little too eerie and its been suspected that there's investigations that have been going on as to whether or not there's a serial killer in our area. Here's an [article] (http:// www.lasvegasnow.com/news/iteam-is-a-serial- killer-hunting-motorists-in-northern-nevada/ 75100498) on it. I carry a firearm w
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    Text - Mr-Thrasher 125d When I was young living rural Ontario we were told as children not to wander too far into the forest saying that a monster would get us and we wouldn't come home. If anybody knows who Roch Thériault is, that actually turned out to be painfully true.
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