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45 Things Folks Online Thought Were Just Rumors Only To Find Out They Were Real All Along
Every good story starts with an “it’s true what they say.”
Every good story can be even better when it is a long-considered local rumor that everyone wrote off as being just that—a rumor and nothing more—but many, many, years later it turns out that it was actually true. With mixed results.
Folks on Reddit are sharing stories of local rumors that may or may not have sent chills down their spines, but ones that definitely maybe sent some chills after finding out that the rumor was definitely a thing.
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#1
Grew up in a rural area of the southwest in the 80’s. There was an older woman with a thick European accent, she lived alone in a small house and was always nice to us kids. She was the only person who gave out full size candy bars during Halloween (that was a big deal back in the 80’s). But she also drank…heavily, like crashed her car a few times around town but not at fast speed (an old huge Ford LTD and not at fast speeds), and the sheriff’s always just took her home.
Rumors spread amongst us kids that it was strange the way our parents/ adults acted around her. One day in the small local store I was standing in line with my dad and she was standing behind us, I was about 8, I looked back and said to my Dad “that’s the lady that gives out full size Hersey candy bars on Halloween!” She smiled, my father turned and thanked her and looked at her arm, he looked spooked, then he quickly offered her to go ahead of us in line thanking her again. Side note my family’s Catholic.
When we got in the car I asked him about the woman, he then explained “those numbers tattooed on her arm,” he paused “what have you learned about WWII?” He then tried the entire ride home and later at home to explain the horrors of the holocaust to a 8 year old kid. It made sense why all the adults always treated her with a different type of respect. Even the Sheriffs, I always thought it was cool. Later I remembered people would volunteer to help her with her yard work, drop off groceries, get her packages, etc. me and my friend would mow her yard for free.
Corrsfan 1 year ago
I love that the unusual treatment from parents/ adults turned out to be kindness and compassion
TheElderNom 1 year ago
I agree that it is great but they took it too far when they didn't do anything about the drunk driving. She survived literal hell and I have no idea what that is like, but driving drunk is still not okay.
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Multa Nocte 1 year ago
I am happy to say that this went in a different direction than I was expecting.
Leigh 1 year ago
I saw a tattoo on a woman's arm from a concentration camp. To paraphrase Weisel I will never forget the horror of seeing a human being branded like a cow even if I were condemned to live as long as God.
David 1 year ago
Actually only 1 camp did that, Auschwitz. People forget it was a labor camp and a death camp depending which parts, not to mention is was a transit station for other labor camps. The numbers means she passed through Auschwitz at some point.
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Jamie 1 year ago
I grew up rural in the northeast. Fond memories of running barefoot across my Grandfathers farm and the neighbors farm. Neighbor was a tall quiet man who let me run thru his fresh tilled dirt and catch fireflies after dark. My brother tried to scare me and told me he was actually a monster at night and actually Frankenstein. Eventually he passed and years later as a teen- The Munsters played on Nick at night. I was startled. My mom laughed and verified the sweet man I called growing up “Mr Fred”- was Fred Gwynn.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
I used to work with Esther, the sister of Bill Graham (shown with Janis Joplin in 1967) at one of his clubs in San Francisco. (She didn't have to work but she liked making the hors d'oeuvre trays for the bands.) She still had her Auschwitz number tattoo. She usually wore long sleeves but when washing up pushed them up and when I saw it I knew immediately what it was.
I later learned that Bill was a refugee who escaped from Paris when the N@zis invaded in 1940. 19654_01_l...c36847.jpg 
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#2
US Midwest. Rumor has it that way up the old road out of town, somewhere in the woods, was a satanic cult that held seances and other mystical rituals by firelight. Scared the w*****s out of us kids, and our parents wouldn't let us ride our bikes anywhere on that road. Decades later I was working on a commissioned history project for the town and talked to the old man who owned the oldest homestead in the county--way back in the woods along that road. While photographing the creek that ran through the stone foundation basement of the home, which the settlers used for water generations ago, I noted the burned out tea candles everywhere. Guy lit up and said yeah, back in his younger days he and his wife used to host elaborate costume parties at the property, often by candlelight for the fun of it. He'd heard the rumors of the satanic cult and thought it was hilarious, so he and his friends ran with it and held parties in monks robes and had bonfires and lived it up. He still laughs about it, and now, so can I!
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 1 year ago
And that’s about as real as Satanic rituals get. Satanic panic is just the stupidest thing.
Surenu 1 year ago
There's this dude in my town who's a card-carrying member of the Church of Satan. His satanic act? He... regularly donates huge amounts to local homeless aid initiatives. I volunteer for one, that's how I know him and got to talk to him over a smoke lol
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
This is hilarious! Nothing like tea lights and robes for satanic ritual!
Swiss_David 1 year ago
What is ‘’w*****s’? I speak three languages and can’t figure out a swear word in any of them…
Caitlin Davenport 1 year ago
I'm starting to enjoy the censorship: what word could it possibly be?! Use random words and censor them, just to keep people guessing!
Bec 1 year ago
Midwest - there was a patch of woods near our house known by kids on the bus as Satan's Hollow. I don't know what all people get up to there but coming across various skinned animals laid out in patterns over the years suggest it's not just a place for teens to drink and hang out.
#3
Rumour about a local businessman who tried to end it all and was rescued. Some weeks later he ran into a burning building and rescued two young children, sustaining severe burns in the process.
A few months ago I saw him in the pub on the green, all of the skin in his face and hands had melted and he had skin grafted everywhere.
Happiest man in the pub. What a hero.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My brother had severely low self esteem. He truly felt worthless. He died in a stupid accident. We donated his organs, and that "worthless" young man saved or improved the lives of many.
Sara Anne 1 year ago
I'm so sorry for your loss , I hope he somehow knows what a hero and man full of worth he truly was. Thank you for making the difficult choice to donate his organs. I hope you and your family have been able to find some peace.
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Šimon Špaček 1 year ago
When you get so low that you don't care anymore, becoming a local hero is definitely a good turnaround. I wonder what he thought in the moment. "Screw it, either I will save them or die too, win-win" maybe? Still, huge round of applause for this guy, he is a hero.
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#4
I have two. Both about elderly men.
First, there was an elderly man that could be seen walking all over town. Long gray beard. Usually seen in tattered clothes. "Walking Man" or the "Silver Bullet" were nicknames for him. The rumor was he was actually really wealthy but lots of people just assumed he was homeless because he was always walking, carrying groceries or whatever. Well, about a year before he passed, it came out that he was actually one of the wealthiest residents in our town when he donated millions to local youth programs and schools. Turns out, he just liked walking a lot and placed no value on material things like clothes and cars.
Second, there was an elderly man who was actually homeless . The rumor was that he drank himself crazy some years back and just never got help. He was in and out of jail a bunch but always seem to be given some slack by law enforcement. This truth is tragic. He did drink himself crazy out of necessity. He was a paramedic. One night he responded to a wreck that turned out to be his wife and daughter had been hit by a distracted driver speeding on a narrow road. Neither survived. Understandably, he was never ok after that. He would sometimes check the pizza shop I used to manage for spare slices. Broke my heart that all I could do was offer him some free pizza. Hope you can rest in peace now, Red.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
It would be hell enough to lose your wife and child that way. To be the first responder? I can't even imagine.
les 1 year ago
i know a paramedic this happened to. he ended up lost in the bottle for a while but seems to be managing better now.
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David 1 year ago
The first story is weirdly close to a man I know in a nearby town. His name is Walter. When I lived / managed apartments downtown (late 90s / early 2000s) I would see him walking around the downtown core all the time. A few times walking other places. His clothes are clean but 'subdued'. Like tan or beige slacks, similar color long sleeve sweater over a light colored shirt, tennis shoes that didn't stand out. Basic haircut that was not quite a bowl cut (but might have been?). Almost always carrying an empty plastic grocery bag. Like the thin single use ones. We never got past an eye contact / nod if we passed on the sidewalk except one time he gave me a used book. Just randomly offered it to me on the sidewalk. A nearby book store puts ones they don't want out front for free. I think it was one of those. He was not dirty/smelly but he was always walking the streets like some other homeless so I thought he was as well. (Out of space - see reply to myself...)
David 1 year ago
(Continued) Anyway, last year I was talking to a long time friend since the early 70s. Somehow this guy came up in conversation. My friend knew exactly who I meant and said, "Oh, that's Walter. He actually has a home and a lot of money but he's a bit eccentric and likes to walk around a lot." I guess the guy could be staying home or driving around if he wanted to but instead walks all over town pretty much all the time. I still don't know what is up with the plastic bag or why he doesn't put it in his pocket when it is empty. Or maybe once in a while he does - a couple of times I saw him but no bag visible. I have lived out in the county since 2003 but still see him from time to time - the last time I saw him walking around was earlier this year so I guess he is still at it.
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That's a bit of a misrepresentation. Lots of people walk places in the US and we don't assume homeless. Being seen out in the elements all the time - wearing "tattered clothes" paints a bit different picture. As does seeing someone walking around at all kinds of hours when other people are likely at work - if the person isn't of retirement age. I know not all people are employed - but I'm saying it is the whole package together - not just seeing someone walking.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
We had a millionaire like that in the Gold Coast growing up, he would walk up and down collecting random leaves and sticks and feathers from garden beds, he sometimes would wait with me after shifts for my bus cos it was midnight and I was only 15-18 etc. sometimes if you got really lucky he was in the ‘Quest’ nightclub in Broadbeach qld (aus)
#5
I grew up where there were some signs of Native Americans. I started believing that this one particularly beautiful spot had to be sacred, and probably was a burial ground. I’d convince my friends to hold hands in a circle and try to commune with the dead. After I got a bit older I was super embarrassed that I’d ever done such things.
A few years later a Native American came but and told us how sacred the land was that we owned, and asked permission to hold peyote rituals with his tribe and others on our land. To this day they still come out and set up a teepee and drum all night, absolutely flying on hallucinogenics.
Turns out I was right
Sue User 1 year ago
Except the fact that somebody owned sacred lands and the Native Americans had to ask permission to be there.
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Breadcrumb. 1 year ago (edited)
Native burial grounds and sacred locations do hold a sense of gravity. The air feels heavy, so you slow down and choose to speak with more intention..
Leigh 1 year ago (edited)
I had the privilege of meeting Chief looking horse, spiritual leader of the Lakota tribe. He is the keeper of the sacred bundle and pipe. My friend died and his Lakota friends wanted to give him an honorary funeral. He flew all the way to Portland and let us smoke out the peace pipe. Sitting bull smoked out of it! He told me white Buffalo women gave them the pipe and told them if they smoked to the north, east, west, south she'd come to the tribes aid. It wad nice meeting a Native who can speak their language.
Midoribird Aoi 1 year ago
Wish I could have been there. My mom has Lakota Sioux ancestry.
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UpupaEpops 1 year ago
There are places/things in life which are so special, you just *know*. When I was in SA, I was absolutely fascinated by an animal called "giant eland". There's just something about them. Turns out, they are sacred to the Khoisan, who believe that the Eland is God's favourite animal.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
Hahaha the spirit of the buffalo was literally flowing through you 😂
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
Point Mugu State Park in S. California is rich with Chumash lore and history; lots of ghost stories. I experienced some first-hand. Respect the natives!
Gardener of Weeden 1 year ago
Thank you for showing respect, even though you did not understand.
Emie N. 1 year ago
Because we still respect the fact that the Natives were there FIRST. It IS their land after all. And the only time we make fun of religion is when it's warranted. Like when certain christians make fools of themselves by trying to spread hatred.
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#6
Okay so this wasn't one that I heard as a kid but there was rumor around the college my wife works at that the chemistry professor was actually the father of the literature professor's baby.
A couple of the students asked her about it and she admitted that yes, the father was the chemistry professor. The students were scandalized. Until she explained to them that said chemistry professor was her husband and this would be their second kid. Apparently, it never occurred to the kids at this small Midwestern college that couples didn't always share a last name.
Pheebs 1 year ago
Lol. I’ve found that to be common in academia. People put a lot of work in to get their higher level degrees. PhDs especially, many are known under their birth name (or some chosen variation), and a name change could have an impact on their career. It’s not unusual for women in high level careers to either keep the name they built their career under, or to continue using it in their professional life even if they do change it for marriage.
Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
In Holland female teachers usually are preferred to use their maiden name, because of divorces and changing names etc.
The amount of storytelling in this thread could be enough to write several mystery books with all of its talks of cults in the woods, football fields built on cemeteries, heroic business people with a dark past, being struck by lightning, dating teachers, you name it, it’s probably here.
#7
kid in my third grade class was ALWAYS late to school. i’m talking he once showed up to school 5 minutes before classes were released to go home. the rumor among parents & teachers was that his mom was an alcoholic & the dad lived a couple towns over so he often had to wait for his dad to take him or take care of his mom until she was well enough to drive (this was a private school with no bus). she died of liver failure a few months ago according to facebook. makes it so much more f****d up that everyone knew, including the teacher, and didn’t have any sympathy for him. i distinctly remember the teacher telling him on multiple occasions that it was “his responsibility to show up on time.” he was 8, was he supposed to drive himself??? makes me so sad & i hope he’s doing okay now.
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
Had a kid like this in a 3rd grade class. Law enforcement was sent for welfare checks multiple times when he missed too much school. He was clearly neglected and nothing was done. He eventually changed schools, I think (and hope) he and his mom moved in with other family.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I was like this a lot as a kid, I just ended up waking up earlier and walking two hours etc and then I would get yelled at by one less person that day 😂 I really genuinely feel for this kid, and hope he’s happy and and adjusted like I managed to become
René Sauer 1 year ago (edited)
This " own responsibility to show up" is annoying. That´s usually the rule in professional jobs as well, and understandably so. I mean, You are an adult, you should be able to get up on time. But what if there is something you have no power over? Like strikes in the public transport sector? Are people supposed to walk from one end of town to the other for a couple of hours? Or shell out over 100$ for a taxi (back and forth), without getting the money back?
Gardener of Weeden 1 year ago
Adults did not care or try and help me either. Luckily I only lived a couple of blocks from all my schools. I was also alone with an alcoholic. I raised myself, I am a bit messed up, but i actually did pretty good ( No addiction nor legal issues ever). I think many of us neglected ones end up working hard to make our lives "normal". And as bad as things got (life is fckn hard) I knew i could always count on myself to pull me through.
Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
My mom had a stroke and died in the car in the parking lot of my jr hs. I was in car w/her. Like this kid I got no help or sympathy from anyone at this school. It was not even communicated to teachers why I was absent for a month - most gave me F’s. I was 12. FU General Wayne, Jr HS, Paoli, PA. Hate you all still.
#8
This is a little more lighthearted. But when I was in elementary school. Probably like 3rd grade? All the kids in my class would joke about how our primary teacher and our Spanish teacher “liked” each other. We were all little kids, so of course it was just dumb little kids joking about around.
That is, until a few years later when I was in middle school and I found out my old teacher and Spanish teacher recently got married.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
In high school my sister and her friends somehow figured out that the guidance counselor (attractive young woman all the boys had a crush on) was "dating" another teacher (I knew him by sight, but not name) and discovered they called each other "Lois" and "Superman" - she must have left her email open or something when one of the girls asked to use her computer... I once jokingly said, "You got it, Lois!" when she asked me to do something (mundane, not at all inappropriate) and she went pale and had me sit down to discuss. I thought it was funny, she was understandably mortified. I never said anything, not just because it's none of my business, but because everybody loved her. Lois and her Superman were married with two kids by our 10th reunion and all laughed about it.
Ari the Queer (He/Xim) 1 year ago
same thing with my teachers in first, we always thought they looked at each other funny and... when i went into 5th grade they were getting married
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
In 4th grade we were sure that our teacher was involved with a 5th grade teacher. Some time later, when we were in high school it was somehow revealed that he was gay and because this was the Dark Ages (the early 60s) he was fired. I've always wondered about both of them.
#9
There was a teacher at my school that kids would claim was insanely rich. Like he lived in a giant mansion near the oceanfront and he only taught because he just genuinely loves being a teacher. He was pretty private so he would always say you shouldn't ask people about their finances when kids would just ask him. So senior year he has the seniors over for a year-end awards ceremony and superlatives type dinner deal Yup, super rich and lived in a huge mansion by the ocean. Said he inherited all his money from his parents and I think he said a sibling or two got written out of the will for being s****y so he didn't have to share it. Became a teacher out of college, then when his parents died and he inherited everything he just kept teaching because he liked it.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
My HS social studies teacher was a Bataan Death March survivor. His stories still make my hair stand up.
Because chaos is a natural part of life, it’s only appropriate to learn something out of the ordinary about rumors, and that is how to start one.
First up is crafting a compelling rumor. Figure out what you want to achieve with this rumor. Classics include humiliating someone to deflate their ego or exact karma for being a jerk, but it can be more elaborate, like breaking up a couple.
#10
The local homeless guy who was always friendly and happy was actually a super successful lawyer. The truth was that he *was* a successful lawyer but one day cracked under the pressure, sold all his things and just started living the vagabond life. He said he was happier looking for where his next meal was coming from than money ever made him. I think it was the first seed planted in my brain of "don't k**l yourself for a company". I don't remember his name, but I hope he's still happy.
LAWLAWLAW 1 year ago
I wish I could just live in a cave "with wi fi" next to a stream and some apple trees and just chill and eat fruit all day
Max Fox 1 year ago
Living off a fruit only diet gives you the shits, so you'd also need a comfy toilet.
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Ru Bee 1 year ago
This reminds me of trainspotting as an addict life is easy you're just thinking about your next hit. It's all consuming but simple. When you quit you have to think about a lot of other stuff and it gets complicated.
Sara Anne 1 year ago
I say this all the time I've got six year clean seven come July but I swear life was so much easier when I was using. Now I feel like I do nothing but struggle to pay bills and give my children a better childhood then I had and it's great I love being a mom and being present for them but sometimes it's so hard to smile and be okay when I'm choosing between gas to get to work or food for me for a day. I won't give up and I refuse to use I know life couldn't have been as easy and great as I think it was but sometimes it just seems insane.
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Pheebs 1 year ago
Used to talk to some of the homeless people around my area when they’d stop by where I worked. Worked a a chain bookstore near an older, somewhat rough neighborhood, so we were petty laid back about people. Homeless were allowed in if they were polite, and we didn’t have issues giving them water and ice when needed. One came in every couple months for a book. Told me he was a vet who chose to live homeless, as it was too stressful to maintain a “normal” lifestyle. He collected checks monthly from military retirement, and just lived his life. Nice guy. Another pair, mother and son, we had to stop letting in. The mom was awful to other people. Sad too, as they were homeless because the son was severely autistic and she had to care for him 24/7. I’m sure some people treated them bad in the past, but in store people left them be and she lashed out regardless.
#11
When I was a little kid like 7 and roaming around the neighborhood with my gang of little rascals (this was in the 50’s when kids could safely play outside all day with their pals without parental worry) there was a rumor that in the house two doors over from mine that the parents had locked their mentally handicapped kid in the attic and that he was one of my gang friend’s older brothers. We played with him, but he always denied that he had any siblings. We were never allowed to enter his house which was strange because we were always stopping at our other pals homes during our days roaming to drink water or use the bathroom. About 2 years later the boy and his family moved away never to be seen again, but when they moved it was discovered that, yes, an older brother did exist and that he was kept locked away in the attic. It was a very creepy discovery! Mental health awareness and acceptance was in the dark ages in the 1950’s.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
Sadly, not that uncommon. The people a few doors down from my Mum when she was a kid in the 50s had a daughter in a back bedroom. None of the local kids were allowed to go near that locked door, and the windows were curtained all the time. Mum doesn't know why, her friend just said her sister wasn't normal and didn't talk about it further.
Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
Maybe things weren’t as free and easy as we thought.
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Jeremy James 1 year ago
It's so weird that people have this impression that the world is less safe for kids today than it was in the past. At least in the US, child abductions have fallen steadily since they peaked in the 80's. And now we have the ability to be in constant contact and track locations in real-time. Aside from all the gun violence and school shootings, there has never been a safer time to be a kid.
RageOfAquarius 1 year ago
Because of the awareness that we now have of what was going on back then, parents work to keep kids safer, and it works. Kids can't roam freely without supervision for days at a time, because that isn't safe, it never was.
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Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
I don't believe this at all. Stopping into a house to get a drink of water? They would have drunk from the hose! 😉
Ru Bee 1 year ago
Not sure but didn't one of the American presidents have a child they did this to?
Kate 1 year ago
No, it was his sister, Rose Kennedy. Their father... was not a nice man.
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Growing up (1960's), my mother talked about how one of our neighbors was lucky his parents sent him to a special school. She explained that it was not uncommon for children born with downs syndrome ( fairly common at the time ) to be "hidden" from view. they were considered to be an embarrassment and a shame on the family.
#12
This older kid had this lightning streak scar all over one side of his neck and down his body. The rumor was he was throwing stuff at the power lines behind our neighborhood.
Turns out he was. He was throwing copper wire at it, and it arced. He's lucky to be alive.
Hyde and Seek 1 year ago
I see watt you did there. Kid probably got grounded for it.
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#13
When I was a child *shakes cane* we had the legend of The Baroness. Supposedly, she lived in a haunted house and drove around a pink hearse! When I was old enough to drive and explore on my own, I finally saw her! In her pink hearse! She also did live in a house that would have coded as spooky or haunted to a small child. It was just an old house with neat architecture.
David 1 year ago
We had a guy who used to drive a blue hearse around town. Younger - 20s, 30s tops. Less of a 'legend'. I had more than one person tell me he sold drugs. I'd see him parked various places downtown, often sitting in his hearse. I'm pretty sure it was his "office' and the vehicle was distinctive enough he was easy to spot.
Jesha 1 year ago
Look, if someone's got enough steez to show up in a pink hearse, I'd probably trust them with personal style and make-up enough to buy some of their lipstick.
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#14
The community I grew up in had an abandoned hospital in it. The place was spooky as hell. The story was that the hospital had a maternity ward where they would steal babies from Indigenous women and then make the mothers disappear. They also said they would experiment on people and perform surgeries with no anesthetic.
Turned out it was true!
They say that place is crawling with ghosts and you could see the ghosts of the women walking around the hallways looking for their babies. I can not confirm that one. I always stayed away from that place it was too creepy.
They ended up trying to redevelop the building into condos and holy s**t you could not pay me enough to ever live in there.
FeelingFrisky 1 year ago
It would make a great hotel. people are really in the that kind of thing!
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With that history, the only acceptable development would be a museum... There's a building in my hometown that was the headquarters of the State Protection Agency (think FBI but for an oppressive regime). Many people were tortured, imprisoned or killed there. Many more have disappeared without a trace. Today it's a museum explaining the horror's of those wretched years so that we may never end up making those mistakes ever again.
Gardener of Weeden 1 year ago
I agree - unfortunately it is starting to seem that if we try and immortalize the places where men did atrocious things - the world would be a museum. And yet here we are making more sickening history.
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Rostit. . 1 year ago (edited)
Canada? And not as a dig at Canada, just wondering if it's about the residential 'schools' that the church sent kidnapped first nations children to.
Katie Fink 1 year ago
Probably Canada. It's not a dig. It's the darned truth. There's a reason we have truth and reconciliation day. If you're Canadian and have the time and inclination, or can get your company to sponsor you, there's an excellent course about indigenous cultural safety. Google "San'yas". Very worth the time!
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JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
If this was in the U.S., it is also likely the indigenous women were involuntarily made sterile after they gave birth, usually with a hysterectomy. Given the atrocities visited upon them, I wouldn't blame them for being very angry ghosts.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
We had one in my big city, it was haunted, used to lock up mentally ill indigenous people for life. So creepy, used in Hollywood movies. They looked for graves but haven't found any. Being converted to condos since the concrete structure was so well built it was hard to dismantle.
Gardener of Weeden 1 year ago
Faster and easier to do a mass cremation probably. Really disgusting that the "powers that be" have to make a profit on the suffering of those peoples. I know it is not right, but for these people who did this - I pray there is a G*D and she is p11sed
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Always heard rumours that this kid who I rode bmx with, his dad was a high ranking member of the Hells. One day we’re over there, years later, chatting s**t around the fire in his backyard and about 70 patched members arrived at the house for a meeting. They bought us a s**tload of beer and told us to find a park to drink it in for a few hours while they had their meeting.
Cat Palmer 1 year ago
One of my sister's first jobs was working in a pub that was the favoured hangout of two rival motorcycle gangs who had mutually declared the place neutral territory and bought their partners and kids there. It was probably the safest pub in the county, as anyone causing trouble would have two gangs after them, so no-one did.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago (edited)
I worked with a biker who rode with a "club", nice guy and really friendly. He had some pictures on his toolbox of a backyard bbq at his house and one face really stood out and I asked him a out it and he said, "yeah that was Uncle Sonny", his wife's uncle. Sonny Barger, founder of the Oakland chapter of Hells Angels in the 50s and later president of the international Hells Angels. Author Hunter S. Thompson called Barger "the Maximum Leader" of the Hells Angels. Google "Sonny Barger", interesting bio.
Catpawsarethebest 1 year ago
I think most pf the comments misunderstands what a biker gang vs a biler club is... one is criminal and the other wholesome. Big difference in what they do...
KnightOwl 1 year ago
Biker gangs are so funny, they have a tough image but most are actually really wholesome. My bf's stepdad is a founding member of one of the biggest biker gangs in Europe, they have been Involved in a lot of crime but mostly just like to meet up and party. They hold rallies a few times a month, the 'rallies' basically consists of meeting up in a secluded field and camping out for a few days while they drink and take loads of drugs. I've been to a few rallies and never once felt unsafe, in fact despite crazy things happening everywhere I've never felt safer!
Needless to say, the rumors have to be simple and believable, so making all the details overly complicated and the multitude to which the rumor extends beyond the immediate reality is not a good idea. Keep it grounded.
Once all that is sorted out, start spreading. And it’s not just talking about—it’s convincing others to spread it too. Hire all the bigmouths to do the job.
#16
There was a rumor at my high school that that the building down the way was a cult. It wasn’t unheard of to dare people to go over there and then you’d end up being followed or sometimes invited to dinner.
Turns out, it was the HQ of the cult the Duggars were in, IBLP. I was watching that documentary and my mind was blown, because all the high school rumors had been true!!
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
Omg I watched that Duggar documentary. I hate that woman and anyone who is in that church with children should be locked up. She laughingly admitted to playing "the blanket game" for hours on end with her babies. 2-3 hours a day, she sat the baby on a blanket, set a favorite toy outside the blanket, and every time the baby reached for the toy or even moved SHE WOULD HIT IT WITH A SWITCH. F*****g insane child abusers
Sonja 1 year ago
Why do people do such things? I will never understand. They have no gain from that.
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LAWLAWLAW 1 year ago
I lived in Enfield UK growing up and we all knew about "the haunted ghost house" I even had to walk past it on my way to school but because it was just a regular non creepy house on a regular street it really didn't bother us but then like 40 years later there's all Films (The Conjuring) and documentaries about the Enfield haunting, more scared of that house now than when I was a kid, glad I moved away years ago
Gin 1 year ago
From what I've read the two sisters involved admitted to hoaxing some of the activity and there wasn't much in the way of evidence. Some investigators believed it but many did not.
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PinkLadyEmpress 1 year ago
The oldest Duggar girl hasn’t been married yet; which is weird as many of her younger sisters are married with kids. I remember reading somewhere that she (Jana) had a love interest but the father didn’t approve so they couldn’t get married.
#17
The park we used to play football at used to be a cemetery, they exhumed all the coffins and moved them years before I was born. We’d freak each other out especially at night saying there were still bodies buried there. One day we were playing and they were doing some grounds keeping work and they found a coffin, the state came out and found 30 more. We were actually playing on top of hallowed ground.
David 1 year ago
If one is to assume a dead body (or its lingering spirit) has any cognizance of the world above it, I think having children playing above you would be kind of nice. 24/7 of just the occasional squirrel running over head would get pretty boring I'd think.
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
I agree to an extent, but I think we need to remember that there are grumpy old grumpy people that die, too. Can’t you just envision an old man ghost rising up in the middle of the football field shaking his fist and shouting “Hey you damn kids, get off my lawn!”.
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Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
If my friends don't have a bbq on my grave, were we ever really friends?
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
If human bodies are nothing more than trash, and flowery, tree-lined parks are nothing more than sand and refuse.
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Scott 1 year ago
That sounds a lot like Washington Park in Denver. It was a cemetery that was bought by the city to convert into a park. They went to exhume and reinter the bodies but, being a government contract, went with the lowest bidder who wound up just tossing caskets around, even breaking some of them into pieces and neglecting to bring them all with. The contract wound up being cancelled and the park built over top the remainder (or something similar, been a bit since I learned about it).
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
Given the age of this Earth, it is likely there are remains all over the place, that we will never know about.
#18
In middle school there was an urban legend one of the teachers was in playboy. She was very attractive and every 12 yr old hetero boys fantasy. One day a friend down the street found a huge stash of his dad’s old playboys from the 60 and 70s. He started going through them all until he hit one issue from the 70s. It was a compilation piece on college women. To his surprise, and the rest of us when he confirmed with our little group, it was our teacher. No one believed it but it was her name, college and face. The good thing was we agreed to never show, nor tell, anyone else in our class. Though it was very tempting to tell her a*****e son who was in our grade that we knew the truth.
Nina 1 year ago
Really good they didn't share that with others. Things we did when we were younger shouldn't haunt us.
S. K. 1 year ago
...and it's nothing to be ashamed of anyway. It's an achievement.
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Emie N. 1 year ago (edited)
Nice that the op distinguishes hetero boys. People never say the same thing when talking about girls for some reason. And I'm sure gay girls liked her too.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The reason may be that middle school boys in those days sometimes didn't know who the gay girls were, let alone what their taste in women was.
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Der Kommissar 1 year ago (edited)
Many decades ago, I had an English teacher in high school, Harriet, who was very good looking. Not voluptuous, but as the Brits say, fit. She was also very intelligent and strict. There was a rumor she had posed for Playboy. We found the issue.
Duuuuuuude 1 year ago
Good on them. I hate it when people porn shame. Those folks should be allowed to have a life outside of what they do/did. Especially since most of the people that do the stigmatizing are also the people watching.
Social media and the internet in general might prove to be very helpful with the level of anonymity that it provides. Fake accounts will be your best friend, both as a means of spreading and as a means of leaving deliberate evidence around. You know, breadcrumbs that make the whole thing sound legit. But don’t go overboard as it should also keep your tracks hidden.
#19
We had a rumor about there being a white horse in the woods behind the movie theater in our town. There were a couple homeless people living there though, so no one went and checked it out. Well, before seeing a movie one day, me and a couple of friends decided to make the trek. We stumbled passed the makeshift camp, and found a small path that led to a fence. We stood there for a couple seconds, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, a majestic white steed came trotting towards us. We snapped a quick pic on an early 2000's cell phone of our friend and the horse, and got the hell outta there. The pic looked absolutely fake, and no one believes us about it to this day.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
If I’m imagining what phone it was, everything looked either grainy and photoshopped badly or grainy and blurry 😂
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
Now YOU are convinced, but nobody wants to believe you. Same with ghost hunting.
#20
When I was in jr high in the early 2000s there was a rumour about one of my female classmates and the male gym teacher. Of course we all thought it was a rumour but a few years later it came out that he was sleeping with multiple students. Watching everyone’s face as they realized the rumours we heard were true was pretty wild. That girl also ended up just disappearing after it all came out, probably dropped out or moved schools, I feel bad for her, she was a victim but no one talked about her like she was.
James Howell 1 year ago
There was a female teacher who slept with the "stud" of our class. Everyone knew, no one said or did anything about it. Today she would called a pedophile and jailed. My how times have changed. Think 1983....
Melanie Filmer 1 year ago
We had a rumour a female student was seeing one of the teachers, once she left school (16 in UK) they got married. Still are 30 years later.
LargeMarge 1 year ago
My brother said the same thing happened when he was in middle school. One of the gym teachers were sleeping with one of the students. I would not be surprised if it were true. I did know a school bus driver who was sleeping with one of the students on the bus, and she got pregnant. Lol, I never did like her.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
We had a hot girl's gymnastics coach in HS that had a thing for some of the football players. Didn't seem to be any lasting trauma from the experience as one became a state's AG, another an NFL standout and the rest successful businessmen and tradesmen.
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago (edited)
Corporate success is no indication of lack of trauma. Compartmentalizing is a defense mechanism many trauma survivors use that could explain that. Also, people who manage to work through their trauma can become successful, but that doesn't mean the trauma did not exist or that its effects do not linger.
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Sassy Frass 1 year ago
Same with my gym/gymnastics coach in the 80s. He had to have been in his 30s at the time, had a "favorite" since her freshman year (9th grade). They got married and announced a pregnancy right after she graduated HS.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
The problem is the adult preying on the children. That is the be all and the end all in these situations.
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#21
There was a taco truck in town that sold w**d if you asked for a side of lettuce.
Bored something 1 year ago
After you had some of the wëëd you would want the taco.
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Becky's Display Name 1 year ago
There was a pizza place in our state's Capitol city that would put shrooms on the pizza if you asked correctly.
Bored something 1 year ago
A certain Tim Hortons, in Halifax from memory, would add some wëëd to a cup of Tim Bits if you asked for a certain number which wasn't a standard portion of them.
Phoenix 1 year ago
Wind. It was the wind passed by their customers after eating their tacos. They caught it in a jar.
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Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
The most successful taco truck in my town is parked 6 steps outside of the weed dispensary door.
iseefractals 1 year ago
When i was 16, nearly 25 years ago .our weed guy had a day job at the deli of an A&P. Whenever we'd hit him up while he was working, he'd say "come to my office" which meant...the deli counter, we'd place our order and he would weigh it out using the deli scales, and bag it up using the deli bags. Absolutely no one gave a s**t. best time4
Speaking of which, covering your tracks is a huge part of spreading rumors.
So, make the rumor hard to disprove. Include details that are impossible to track down, like someone making a mistake and it affecting someone who nobody knows about and can’t find to confirm it.
#22
One grade school teacher (m) had married another (f). Did not last, think weeks not months or years. Rumours were 1) he was gay. 2) he threw up on the wedding night in the middle of the attempted consummation.
Both turned out true.
Leviathan 1 year ago
or forced, It wouldn't be the first time someone's parents were so overbearing that they "married" to make them happy
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I feel so very sorry for both of them. :( Can't even imagine the despair you must feel to fake a whole relationship and have sex with someone who might even repulse you, nor can I imagine the pain and shame you must be feeling when the realisation hits at what is supposed to be one of the happiest days in your life.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
Hahahab funny but at the same time, poor guy, my cousins first marriage was to her ballroom dance partner (early 90s) and I was flower girl (5-6) and when it came to her walking the aisle, the groom and best man grabbed hands and skipped out of the church 😂 I’ll never forget it, as a kid I was like ‘hahahah linsey is so funny ‘ not knowing he wasn’t coming back etc. linsey is still with that man today and my cousin is friends etc.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
How in earth would you confirm the second part of that rumor? He publicly admitted it?
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
In and Out. Great movie with Joan Cusack playing the devastated bride.
Emie N. 1 year ago
Throwing up because of nervousness at not wanting to go through with it. Poor guy. I'm sure many women and men in the closet have done the same thing.
My O My 1 year ago
Or throwing up because of being very very drunk on your wedding night. Also happens alot due to various reasons
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A vagrant looking man used to collect cans from local parks and whatnot (imagine someone pushing a shopping cart in tattered clothing). Rumor was he was generationally wealthy and when he passed away he left a fortune to the park and rec department to update facilities. Apparently this happens in a lot of places which is awesome to hear. His name was Nick and this was in Wisconsin back in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
In my city we've got Ziggy The Bagman. The rumours around him are that he's actually immensely rich, and he's immortal. I give more credence to the latter than the former, cos when I was a child he was ancient, and 40 years later he's still going strong and looks exactly the same.
I’ve Seen Things 1 year ago
I’ve met Ziggy, can concur definitely immortal.
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#24
When I was a kid (in the late 70's) there was a rumor that an old weird family were retired circus folk and kept an elephant in their barn, we all thought it was just an urban legend, until one day there was news reporters and all kinds of police activity at the residence and the elephant was taken away in a truck lol
David 1 year ago
That's kind of sad. they likely honestly cared about the elephant and were trying to give it a decent retired life. I'm glad I got to see a couple of "real" circuses when I was a little boy but I'm also glad that circuses have mostly moved away from caged animals. As a little boy I was unaware of the sad life many of them lived.
Lexekon 1 year ago
So much this... the elephant likely felt a part of that family, and would have chosen to remain with them.
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Can we talk about the elephant in the room. This one should be ranked higher, a haunted house and an illicit affair could happen anywhere. But not many people keep an elephant their barn.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Hopefully it was moved to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, place that accepts former zoo and circus elephants and lets them live out their final years on their huge refuge. (I've donated $25 a month to them for over 10 years) 3206a0dac1...99-png.jpg 
It also goes without saying that keeping the list of accomplices to a minimum is an advantage because that would also minimize the chances of the rumor leading back to you. It also helps to make sure that whatever that you’re spreading a rumor about doesn’t automatically leave you as the only suspect, i.e. if you’ve been entrusted with a secret and you’re the only one who knows about it.
#25
One of the teachers in my school got pregnant by a student but they didn't know which one (she had slept with 7).
Captain Kyra 1 year ago
Disgusting I understand but why would you say ambitious?
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#26
That if you rode bikes or four-wheelers down this certain trail an old man would come after you and attack you. A few years later, some kids were riding four-wheelers down that trail and an old guy shot and k***ed them both. Damnedest thing, they had already left his property before he caught up to them, and he k***ed them on public land. I'm pretty sure he died in prison a few years ago.
Ru Bee 1 year ago
I read it as knobbed .... Yeah I know it's too many letters.
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François Carré 1 year ago
Would he get away with killing them if it had occured on his property ?
PlsDo NotDelete 1 year ago
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/1df8a9ab54585eb0a660f7a591e3eca5/city-confidential-s3-e10-chattanooga-dangerous-trespassing
#27
Everyone at my school knew someone who knew someone who told them that this one house just down the road from the school was owned by a locally known drug dealer and it was his emergency hide out house. Years later I was driving past and laughed at how ridiculous the story was. 2 weeks after that the house was on the news with armed police surrounding it. Turns out it really was this drug hideout and the guy was involved in way more stuff than just that. They found drugs, weapons and evidence of a human trafficking ring in there. The house got mysteriously burned down while his court case was going on and has been a burned out empty lot ever since.
Obligatory PSA: keep in mind that spreading rumors is frowned upon and in some cases can be very, very illegal, so proceed at your own risk, i.e. keep it harmless and fun. Or, if anything, to teach someone a lesson about spreading rumors and ruining people’s lives because humans can be cruel sometimes.
#28
One persistent rumor that went around during highschool was that one of our biology teachers was having sex with students. We all thought it was a joke because the guy was rather ugly looking and we all knew his wife (a fellow teacher) was always around.
Years pass and I find out that the male teacher was found having several relationships with underaged students. He got arrested, divorced, put on the SO registration, and lost custody of his kids.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
We had a teacher like that, not married though. That was in the 90s and then about 4 years ago there was a newspaper report about him because one of the kids he was grooming went to the police at long last.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
3 priests from my high school went to prison for similar reasons.
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#29
A kid at my school who’s mom disappeared when he was a baby was rumored that she was k***ed by Ted Bundy. Decades later researchers think it’s true.
yeeyee 1 year ago
It's starting to get on my nerves too.... I just don't understand, they realize those two words are like the top picks for every news outlet? It's in almost every single movie, tv show.... I mean honestly if you asked me I'd say they're pissing in the wind.
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Donna Sempek 1 year ago
I’m 73 years old and these censored words by Bored Panda are hilarious!
Luke Terrill 1 year ago (edited)
Hm. Let's run a quick test. Will this word be censored? Murdered Killed Assaulted Let's find out. I don't know what the rules are anyways.
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
Some of his victims were in their mid 20s, so it is possible.
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#30
Doctor in town (who was a huge football booster) gave prescription painkillers to high school kids.
He passed away before it all came to light so he never saw justice.
Lots and lots of kids through the years unsurprisingly became addicted.
parmadillo 1 year ago
Genuine question.. is there a relationship to football here, or is that just an added detail?
Tameeza Joyce Lightowler 1 year ago (edited)
From what I can gather after a quick Google search, a football booster is someone who supports the local high school team, donates money etc. Chances are he treated the various injuries but then started with dealing drugs on the side.
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So, heard any juicy rumors lately that you wish becomes true? Why not share them in the comment section below!
But if that's not something you'd be into, then mayhaps take your virtual self to check out some conspiracy theories people actually believe in, despite them being over the top ridiculous!
#31
It was a local urban legend that this huge, old, and abandoned house was haunted because like a century ago there was a m****r there. Kids would freak each other out over it, tell ghost stories, sneak onto the property, whatever. I thought it was just that, an urban legend about an abandoned house. Nope - in the early 1900s the husband and wife were found dead in the house, it was never solved, but the son was suspected because he was missing and never found. No one moved into it after that and it’s sat empty since. I only found out because they planned to tear it down to build apartments on the property 2 years ago but the local community rallied to preserve it.
Sara K 1 year ago
Ooo bet the sons spirit comes back .. reliving that fateful night ... waiting for the moment when someone finally catches him ... so he can kìll once again...
Sue User 1 year ago
I was expecting them to find the sons body ( skeketon ) on the property. He was murdered too but managed to get away a bit before succumbing.
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My dad’s childhood home was the location of a murder/suicide (previous owners). Immigrant couple. No one knew why, but the husband came home one day and killed the wife with a hammer, then killed himself. Oddly, my mom’s dad was friends with a local cop, and went with him to do a wellness check on the couple - only to find the bodies. This was years before either of my parents were born. Mom had lots of stories of weird things happening in the house - like things in plain sight going missing suddenly, never turning up again.
#32
Our local China Buffet was using illegal immigrants as wait staff and then trafficking them across town to a massage parlor they owned that gave the ol rub n tug. Huge scandel when it happened but it was hushed up pretty quickly. The restaurant reopened some months after under new management.
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
The rumor was ours was cooking cats for meat and then they got shut down for that reason. Really disturbed me. Then it was turned into a tanning salon that got shut down because the pervo owner was video recording teenage girls tanning naked
Sue User 1 year ago
I never believe this. Stray cats dont have alot of meat. And the labor cost would be too high given chicken is so cheap ( wholesale chicken is less dollar a pound ).
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Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
I'm outraged that "the ol rub n tug" was not censored!! I'm scarred for life!!
My O My 1 year ago
They really served cat? I don't want to say "cool" but it somehow pleases me that, in some cases, the rumours are true
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Anna Chandler 1 year ago
I remember that one. I ate there a few times, but stopped eating at any buffet after that news came out. 😬
Sleepy Panda 1 year ago
At my husband’s favourite Chinese restaurant in Melbourne Australia, they were proven to be using cat meat, they were shut down.
Minus One Marble 1 year ago
I remember something similar to this in a town I lived in near Phoenix, AZ. Now I'm wondering.
#33
I’ve heard about two different teachers at my highschool being creepy and they both have been fired for inappropriate contact with students
Pudgy Panda 1 year ago
Unfortunately, any job around kids (clergy, teachers, sports coaches, Scout leaders, etc.) will attract pedophiles.
#34
There were rumors that there were bodies that were dumped into a pond at a park. Turns out it was true. They drained the pond to clean it and found over 30 bodies. I used to run right next to there for Cross Country.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Seriously? They found 30 bodies and somehow the rest of the public hasn't heard about it to this day? Hmmmmm . . . .
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Texas Killing Fields. Not only does the public know about it, Netflix made a movie.
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Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
Even the link to the original Reddit article is very vague. Newspaper headline or it didn't happen... Though there are horror stories like that from Cartel areas.
#35
Back in the late 80's, a local Principal and his wife went out fishing. There was a storm and she fell out of the boat and sank before he could grab her. The story always seemed odd. 20 years later on his deathbed, he finally confessed that he did m****r her and dumped the body out of the boat
Spittnimage 1 year ago
They're not looking for it they found it, that's why there are asterisks instead of letters.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
This is what I feel like the Natalie woods drowning is, and Christopher walken is waiting for the guy to die too before he comes out
#36
Girl in my high school was rumored to have been dating one of the teachers who was married.
This was probably true because after graduation, the teacher had retired, divorced his wife and married the girl.
#37
The two women (in their late 40's) were actually homosexual, everybody on our street believed them when they told everybody that they were sisters. I used to run errands for them maybe 3 times a week and they always gave me a shilling every time.
David 1 year ago
This is one aspect of the 'good old days" I'm glad has changed. At least in most of the USA. When I was a boy in the 60s this would have been a secret. Similar for lack of acceptance of an interracial couple. Modern me knows some gay couples living openly. As long as it is consenting adults - people should be able to love who they want.
SlightlyTarnished 1 year ago
Unfortunately, many of us had to disguise our relationships; confirmed bachelors, spinsters, etc.. In the US, the current GOP far right would rather us go back to the days of hiding in the shadows.
#38
A priest was rumored to be way too friendly with some of the girls in our grade school. It came out years later in an investigation that he had in fact gotten a teenager pregnant.
Ronnie Beaton 1 year ago
On the other hand, at least the priest wasn't too friendly with the boys....
#39
That our neighbor was a p**o. Married with kids. One day, he drops dead of a heart attack. When the family started going through his stuff, they were so disgusted apparently just sold the house as-is with the furniture and everything.
Awkward lady 1 year ago
This is bloody stupid, all this censorship of common words! Who are they trying to protect? Get a grip, BP!
LadyVischuss 1 year ago
It's like we're on a copulating game show. Guess the excrement word and win a lord be cursed prize from some born on the wrong side of the blanket imbecile.
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Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
Wouldn't selling the house as-is mean you wouldn't have any idea or control over what the buyers might find? I wouldn't want to risk the additional publicity and embarassment...
#40
As a kid, I heard rumors about a hidden treasure in the nearby woods. Years later, during a construction project, they unearthed a time capsule, proving the rumor had some truth to it!
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Probably a stale Twinkie, some gum, a decayed cassette tape with the Monkees on it, and if you're lucky, a Joe Schlabotnik baseball card.
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#41
That tight biking turn at the bottom of the hill everyone called, 'dead mans curve' because someone died there? Someone did, indeed, die there.
Zaach 1 year ago (edited)
In Montana they put up little white crosses where people die while driving - some corners have lots of crosses
Astro 1 year ago
I don’t think that’s just Montana, I’ve seen that in many states and provinces. So sad.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
When I was a kid, they told me what those crosses stood for. I wondered why Christians were such bad drivers.
Donteatme666 1 year ago
California around the beach area the St not the actual beach that area has claimed to many lives it's really sad
#42
There was this a*****e in my junior high gym class, real bully type. And when he would act out everyone would ridicule him for his mother being a c***k w***e and we would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. Well, it turned out it was true - there was a public confirmation in the paper, and his bullying made a lot more sense bc it turned out his home life was what you would expect from someone having a c***k w***e mother, and no one talked about it anymore, and we did not laugh so much anymore. Ironically, I think he felt so ashamed when everyone found out, that he actually stopped being such a d**k head.
Alison Hell 1 year ago (edited)
Took me a bit but I think its crack* whore*
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David 1 year ago
I think the stereotype image of the bully having a sh..t home life is based on a lot of reality. Abused kids feeling frustrated and powerless and being a bully makes them feel like they have some power. Also often not getting the best examples functional social interaction at home.
2WheelTravlr 1 year ago
In many cases, fetal alcohol syndrome makes things even worse for the kid because it saddles them with lifelong mental health issues and poor impulse control.
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This is just asking for a thread in which people substitute their own options. I'm going for crock whale.
Christina B 1 year ago
Am I the only one who thinks the words 'and we would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.' makes the poster of this a bully as well? I'm not condoning the other kid acting out - but this is just written in a really sad way that I feel more for that kid and not the OP
#43
Wasn’t a kid and nobody will believe this, but I have friends in production that told me about Kevin Spacey at least 6 months before the allegations went public.
3 Trash Pandas (She/They) 1 year ago
I’m not familiar with that name, would anyone care to enlighten me? (No, I can’t look it up because my school monitors what I search and I’ll get in trouble if anything that isn’t “school appropriate” shows up)
Little Wonder 1 year ago
An american actor, who used to be very well respected until accusations of indecent behaviour (to put it lightly) against very young men.
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#44
That there was an unmarked graveyard in a field across the road (rural Canada). The oldest guy in the area talked about there being one somewhere in the area, but he wasn’t sure where.
Maybe 10 years ago, an older gentleman, maybe 70’s came over to our house when I was home from college and asked who owned the property across the road. He said his family lived in the area over 100 years ago and he was looking for the family burial plot. He asked for permission to search and spent some time with dousing rods in the field (maybe 75 acres total, but he was focused closer to the road).
He marked over 15 spots that he said were places where bodies were buried underground. That he could tell by the way the rods moved if it was male, female or a child. He even showed us how the rods would be still, but when you walked over the spots he marked, they would cross, or move away from each other.
He came back the next year and spent some money getting a big stone and a nice custom plaque made to mark this spot. He probably spent $1000 or a bit more on that, including renting a backho and operator.
Then, we never saw him again.
We used to play hide and go seek at night but we’d never go to that area where he placed the markings, because it felt eerie and sometimes would be foggier.
After he showed us the dousing that one day, I told my younger cousin to lay on the ground so I could try it on him. Walked over him with the dousing rods and nothing happened, so I said, “well, I guess you ain’t got no soul,” and walked back to the house.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 1 year ago (edited)
I wonder if the dousing rod didn’t work on the cousin because dousing rods are just sticks wiggled by fools and charlatans? 🤔
LadyVischuss 1 year ago
Old family cemeteries should be saved, not dug up and moved. Gee I hope we got everyone. Ohare airport had to move graves when they put in a runway. I saw the picture in the paper about one grave that they either couldn't find any family or the family said no. So this leads up to a headstone laid flatter in the
LadyVischuss 1 year ago
Tarmac and no longer will there be quiet rest for them. We also have Yorktown Mall with a private family cemetery in the parking lot, just off the Niemon Marcus store. It's still a active cemetery. Lincoln Park. In Chicago was a potter's field. No reliable records as to who was where so they just started to dig and move, dug and move. I have heard that from time to time they find one that they missed, otherwise come to play play in this beautiful new park. Come to Chicago, where our dead are everywhere.
Load More Replies... Donteatme666 1 year ago
I think dousing rods u have to have a little bit of power in yourself for them to work to any degree im not saying people are like Superman or anything but a little bit of a gift maybe
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There was a teacher who was rumored to walk a great distance to and from work each day due to prior cardiac issues that stemmed from weight. Years later, while at work, I saw that teacher walking home each day, and the time I saw that teacher coincided with the time they would've left school and started walking. Blew my mind!
Phobrek 1 year ago
So... someone was rumored to walk to and from work... and they DID! AMAAAAAZING
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Some of my kids classmates made fun of the civics teacher when he ran (he DID have an unorthodox running gait, looking like he was falling forward, arms down, etc..). So I told them "he is out there doing it, and your excuse for not being out there doing it is...?"
Kathrin Pukowsky 1 year ago
It kinda is. Almost everything in the USA is planned to accomodate car traffic, you can't even find a sidewalk in some areas. This is something that annoys me with new store buildings here in Europe: They have big parking spaces with a nice, wide entry/exit for cars, but if you want to get to the store on foot, you have to walk into the path of the cars or walk through a flower bed.
Load More Replies... Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
We had a teacher who lived in the next town over and ran to and from school everyday.........he was a big marathon competitor.
What do you think ?
Charlotte Sandoval 1 year ago
In kindergarten, our teacher vanished halfway through the year and we had a replacement. I remember being really sad bc she had been the only one to help me learn English and the replacement was less than kind to me. Rumor was the original teacher had had to go into witness protection bc she found out her fiancé, the 6th grade teacher, had murdered his previous girlfriend and changed his name and she had found out and he'd tried to kill her too. I always assumed I'd misunderstood, since I was so young and didn't speak English well. Well. Turns out not only it was true, but my parents were the ones who had suspected something was off, helped her get to the police, and covered for her when he asked around. Guy ended up taking his own life when the police closed in. I only found out everything years later. Wild.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
The big one when I was a kid was the nudist colony, which people had heard about but no one knew where it was. Big house somewhere was all we knew. One day a real estate agent rang my mother (local historian) to ask if a certain address had been a nudist colony and she said Yes that was the one. So, sorry to my school friends, I could have answered that question years earlier if I'd thought to ask my mother.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
After soliciting additional rumours, Bored Panda puts this caution in the middle of this article: "Obligatory PSA: keep in mind that spreading rumors is frowned upon and in some cases can be very, very illegal, so proceed at your own risk, i.e. keep it harmless and fun. Or, if anything, to teach someone a lesson about spreading rumors and ruining people’s lives because humans can be cruel sometimes." This is true. People are easily fooled by rumours and false rumours can ruin lives. When repeating a rumour we all have a duty to make sure that the "rumour" isn't going to hurt someone. Spreading rumours is another form of shaming and/or bullying. I am guessing that a large number of these entries never really occurred, so please pass on info like this cautiously.
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
Teachers at my middle school were having an affair. We all talked about it and it came to a head when one's wife showed up at an event the threw down. The teachers eventually got married after his divorce. No one ever understood because the lady teacher involved was awful, though I wasn't fond of the guy either. They both kept their jobs through it all too.
scott armstrong 1 year ago
We had a teacher who always wore the same clothes and would smell like booze but everyone turned a blind eye. Now my grampa was in WW2 and he approached everyone he met on equal terms. He never spoke up to or down to anyone. One morning Gramps and me were eating at the local diner when my teacher walked in, dressed in the same clothes. As we were leaving my grandpa sat down and spoke to the man. Through the whole conversation my grandpa was a different person. He called the man sir(same age),shook his hand for a long time and payed for his breakfast. When we got in the truck I gave my grandpa a quizzical look and he only said, "That man survived the Bataan Death March.". Nuff said.
Charlotte Sandoval 1 year ago
In kindergarten, our teacher vanished halfway through the year and we had a replacement. I remember being really sad bc she had been the only one to help me learn English and the replacement was less than kind to me. Rumor was the original teacher had had to go into witness protection bc she found out her fiancé, the 6th grade teacher, had murdered his previous girlfriend and changed his name and she had found out and he'd tried to kill her too. I always assumed I'd misunderstood, since I was so young and didn't speak English well. Well. Turns out not only it was true, but my parents were the ones who had suspected something was off, helped her get to the police, and covered for her when he asked around. Guy ended up taking his own life when the police closed in. I only found out everything years later. Wild.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
The big one when I was a kid was the nudist colony, which people had heard about but no one knew where it was. Big house somewhere was all we knew. One day a real estate agent rang my mother (local historian) to ask if a certain address had been a nudist colony and she said Yes that was the one. So, sorry to my school friends, I could have answered that question years earlier if I'd thought to ask my mother.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
After soliciting additional rumours, Bored Panda puts this caution in the middle of this article: "Obligatory PSA: keep in mind that spreading rumors is frowned upon and in some cases can be very, very illegal, so proceed at your own risk, i.e. keep it harmless and fun. Or, if anything, to teach someone a lesson about spreading rumors and ruining people’s lives because humans can be cruel sometimes." This is true. People are easily fooled by rumours and false rumours can ruin lives. When repeating a rumour we all have a duty to make sure that the "rumour" isn't going to hurt someone. Spreading rumours is another form of shaming and/or bullying. I am guessing that a large number of these entries never really occurred, so please pass on info like this cautiously.
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
Teachers at my middle school were having an affair. We all talked about it and it came to a head when one's wife showed up at an event the threw down. The teachers eventually got married after his divorce. No one ever understood because the lady teacher involved was awful, though I wasn't fond of the guy either. They both kept their jobs through it all too.
scott armstrong 1 year ago
We had a teacher who always wore the same clothes and would smell like booze but everyone turned a blind eye. Now my grampa was in WW2 and he approached everyone he met on equal terms. He never spoke up to or down to anyone. One morning Gramps and me were eating at the local diner when my teacher walked in, dressed in the same clothes. As we were leaving my grandpa sat down and spoke to the man. Through the whole conversation my grandpa was a different person. He called the man sir(same age),shook his hand for a long time and payed for his breakfast. When we got in the truck I gave my grandpa a quizzical look and he only said, "That man survived the Bataan Death March.". Nuff said.
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