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Bigfoot, chupacabra, Area 51—who doesn’t love a good urban legend? As fun as they are to entertain, though, most of them lack any credible proof.
Most, however, doesn’t mean all. Some legends, like the Potato Salad Massacre, the Funhouse Mummy, and the Green Man, have Redditors convinced they actually happened.
Could their eerie accounts be the exception to the rule? It’s up to you to decide.
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#1
The Great Potato Salad M******e back in 1976. Small Alabama town. Middle of July. Soaring temperatures. Southern Baptist Church summer picnic. Some husband put the potato salad in the back trunk the night before - didnt know it needed to be refrigerated. At the picnic he puts it on the food table. Everyone eats it. These are Southern Baptists after all.
An hour later the fuse was lit so to speak. Nay, a hundred fuses were lit. The men were playing softball. the women were trading pie recipes. the kids were swimming in the pond. Mayhem ensues. Gastro-Explosions erupt in every last one of those that ate the salad.
The m******e is what happened in their britches and to the outhouses the lucky few got to use. Everyone else either decimated and desecrated the bushes, the trees or their car seats as they foolishly thought they could make it home in time.
How do I know it's true? My grandpa is the man that was in charge of the potato salad. he didnt eat any. But my grandma reminds him all the time since they were excommunicated from the church.
ravenswood1000 11 months ago
What is with Bored Panda and all the starred out words? I see m******e and it interpret it as "motherfucke"
Glen Ellyn 11 months ago
I was thinking "mudslide." Which turns out to be quite appropriate in this situation. 🤭
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Beth Wheeler 11 months ago
Ohhhh my! They kicked them out of the church. I bet Grandma was pissed off at him!
Panda Kicki 11 months ago
I was at a similar mishap but with seafood. I hate seafood. My colleagues and the 100+ people we had arranged a bus trip for ate it. Poopastrophe ensued. Nearby senior home gave us diapers when I called and asked for it. Bus driver livid.
Bob Brooce 11 months ago
This is wildly different than the massacree that happened at Alice's Restaurant
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#2
The “Angel Glow” after the Battle of Shiloh. It was reported wounded soldiers would glow with a bluish-green hue. Many of the soldiers with this glow miraculously recovered from their wounds. The recovery was attributed to angels, healing the soldiers.
Researches later discovered the battlefield was full of a bioluminescent bacterium that aided in healing wounds.
Karina 11 months ago
We have no proof to say otherwise, so I second your assumtion. That would also explain my grandmothers stories of how angels walk among us, and are gone in a blink of an eye. Other people must have absorbed or dispersed them :p
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Disgruntled Panda 11 months ago
A tale as old as time. Can't explain something? Must have a divine reason
glowworm2 11 months ago (edited)
This one may actually be a modern myth as accounts of this one don't go back any further than 2001. See link for more details: https://www.promegaconnections.com/the-battle-of-shilohs-angel-glow-fact-civil-war-legend-or-modern-myth/ I also asked my father if he ever heard of this one, him being a huge civil war buff and all. He had not.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 11 months ago
that sounds kinda beautiful to see ngl. not the part where they were wounded, the part where they would glow
Dragons Exist 11 months ago
The entire point of the post is about how it wasn't religious?
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In my college town there was one homeless guy who everyone kind of knew of. He stood out because he always wore a black suit with no shirt and walked around barefoot with no baggage or shopping cart or anything.
A rumor started going around that he was actually a famous painter whose work sold for thousands, that he had a patron that took care of him, and he just lived like a vagrant out of preference (and schizophrenia).
Most people called b******t, including myself, until I met someone that knew his name: William Laga.
ocean todd 11 months ago
There’s even a documentary https://patch.com/california/centurycity/westwood-homeless-man-who-became-celebrated-painter-subject-of-new-documentary
The question posed by user Ghost7579ox, known more simply as Ghost, is what brought out some truly fascinating stories from other Redditors.
But why did so many people feel compelled to join the discussion? The answer is simple—our brains crave stories. We love hearing them, we love telling them, and they help us make sense of the world around us.
In fact, a 2010 study by Princeton researchers found that storytelling creates a unique synchronization between the speaker’s and listener’s brain activity. The effect was so strong that listeners didn’t just mirror the speaker’s neural patterns—they even began predicting what would happen next.
#4
The Funhouse Mummy. Elmer McCurdy was a bank and train robber killed in a shootout in 1911. His body was embalmed and put on display. It ended up going on tour, even being used in a couple of films. His body went missing in the 1960s. It turned up again in a fun house that was going to be used for the filming of an episode of the $6 Million Dollar Man. The crew were removing mannequins. When the arm fell off one of the mannequins, and they noticed a bone sticking out, the police were called. McCurdy’s body was buried in Guthrie, Ok.
Renegade 11 months ago
This was also an episode of 911 their Halloween episode.
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Lupita Nyong'heaux 11 months ago
same! i hate that show got cancelled. did we ever find out why?
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Wendy 11 months ago
But embalming only helps the body not rot for a number of days, not years.
Shadow 8 months ago
Mummification, dried out the body and it lasts for centuries.
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Zero Costa 11 months ago
the constant podcast has a fun episode about this! "the forty six dollar man".
#5
Christopher Thomas Knight was an urban legend in Maine - someone who lives in the woods and was sneaking around people’s summer cabins… Until he was captured in 2013 after living in the woods for 27 years.
Karina 11 months ago
If you have the right tourist card in norway, you can do this legaly and stay in beautiful cabins all around norway, one a half a day marsh from the next. Just saying.
DC and S 11 months ago
And which tourist card is the right one? Just out of curiosity (bags are already packed)
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Panda Kicki 11 months ago
I read about him. He never lived in the cabins, he had a rought camp set up in the woods and looted the cabins for food. He found a lot of candy and had a lot of tooth deacy. Eventually caught by a presistent officer.
Upstaged75 11 months ago
I think there's a novel based on him that I read. Something like Stranger in the Woods?
#6
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 from his stash! Here’s the news article about it. His name - Carl Gugasian.
Stories also affect our brain chemistry by releasing oxytocin—sometimes called the “bonding hormone”—which heightens our empathy and strengthens our sense of connection. This might explain why Ghost appreciates them so much.
“I often read about urban legends, true crime cases, or just weird and funny stories,” he told Bored Panda. “I share them with my physical therapy group at my local gym, and they always encourage great conversations.”
The Reddit thread, it seems, gave Ghost enough material to keep those conversations going for a while. “I especially loved the Potato Salad Massacre story,” he laughed. “That one had me cracking up for ages.”
#7
The very sad story of Pennsylvania’s “Green Man”.
“Raymond “Ray” Robinson (October 29, 1910 – June 11, 1985) was a severely disfigured man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend in western Pennsylvania. Robinson was so badly injured in a childhood electrical accident that he could not go out in public without fear of creating a panic, so he went for long walks at night. Local tourists, who would drive along his road in hopes of meeting him, called him The Green Man or Charlie No-Face. They passed on tales about him to their children and grandchildren, and people raised on these tales are sometimes surprised to discover that he was a real person who was liked by his family and neighbors”.
Brian Droste 11 months ago
Seen like as time went on with modern technology and face reconstruction, they should have done something for him.
#8
I always mention this one, because it's so famous it got a Snopes page back in the late 90s.
Close to where I live there's a drive-in, and in 1996 that drive-in was hit by tornado, and the tornado just happened to go through a screen that would have been showing Twister that night. That's the true part.
What everyone seems to fabricate (and I remember it being a thing when I was a kid, several people I knew claimed to be there when it happened) is that it happened *during* the screening of Twister. Some claim that they thought it was an elaborate special effect. This part never happened, as the tornado went through the screen *during the day time*. Usually, outdoor movie theatres operate at night, so I'm not sure how anyone could have been watching a movie at the time the tornado rolled through. On top of that, there were no reports of injuries or deaths, and if a tornado was powerful enough to destroy a screen at a drive-in, and there were people there, you'd think there would be at least a few reports of injuries, among other things. Instead, the only report was damage.
So, to recap, true parts:
- Drive-in hit by tornado
- Screen destroyed would have been showing Twister that night
Untrue part:
- Tornado happened at night during the actual screening of Twister.
MJ95B 11 months ago
I was living on Ft. Leavenworth, KS when "Twister" debuted. My mom was visiting from Hawai'i and we went to watch the movie. When we left the theater the tornado sirens started going off and my mom was BEYOND scared and freaked out. I could barely get her in the car since I was wheezing with laughter and we drove home with her screaming/crying. She still doesn't think it is funny...
#9
Have you heard the story of the robber who fell through the skylight, sued the homeowners and won? It’s true, but it was a business, and it wasn’t a robber, it was a j****e jumping from one adjacent building to the next, and landed on the skylight that gave way. He’s lucky to be alive. He fell 2 stories. Also, the insurance company settled, so I wouldn’t say he “won” a court case per se. It was my dad’s family business.
ANGEL BABY 11 months ago
Thank you, panda is getting ridiculous with these censors!
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Karina 11 months ago
I remember this story. It was 1997 or something. We talked about it as proof of everything that was wrong with the litigation system in America. Then we segwayed into fantasies about suing our school, as teenagers do :p
Marnie 11 months ago
Someone above said "junkie", which makes sense to me.
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Yeah, this may very well be a different event all together, because none of the elements are actually the same.
Load More Replies...But while Ghost enjoys all kinds of entertaining tales, he’s especially drawn to the real ones.
“True stories are always better,” he said. “A conspiracy theory takes a bit of faith and imagination to wrap your head around—like the giants in the mountains of Afghanistan or the commercial airplane that disappeared, only to reappear 10 years later, making a perfect landing at its intended airport but filled with skeletons.”
Ghost is also a fan of little-known stories about celebrities before they found fame. “Like how Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter in the Hollywood Hills despite never taking a carpentry course in his life, literally reading Carpentry for Dummies while building someone’s patio,” he added.
“Or how Clint Eastwood survived a plane crash, swam for hours through shark-infested waters, and eventually washed ashore to find help.”
At Bored Panda, we share Ghost’s love for incredible stories, and it’s been a pleasure bringing them to you. So don’t keep them to yourself—pass them on. Until next time!
#10
For the last several years in Toronto, gay men have gone missing in the Village. The community was convinced it was a serial killer on the loose, but the Police said no. These murders disappearances are unrelated.
Turns out that’s totally the case and the guy was killing gay men, dismembering them and burying them in and around the properties he was working at as a groundskeeper/landscaper.
Huddo's sister 11 months ago
This happened in Sydney too, from 1970-2010, but it turned out to be multiple gangs killing them.
marcelo D. 11 months ago
yeah, police ignoring murders cause they are gay people is how many serial killers manage to do so many murders.
Lupita Nyong'heaux 11 months ago
or black or brown people in the states, especially if they're women, and especially especially if they're s3x workers and, therefore, poor.
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JayWantsACat 11 months ago
I'm sure if they were straight white people they would have gotten the same treatment from the police, right? /s
Brian Droste 11 months ago
There was a homeowner who owned quite a few acres of land. He would either pick up a hitchiker or come across men. If he found out if they were gay, he would killed them and bury them on his property. This happened over a period of time. This happened in Indiana. I can't recall how the authorities found out. I think he died and his property was sold and the new homeowners were digging on the propery band dug up part of a body.
#11
The Subtropolis. The underground city. No one thought it was real until the 1970's. Now, it still catches people off guard, even people who have lived nearby their whole life.
In Kansas City, there's a massive mostly man made cave system. It started as a government facility (and part of it remains guarded by the military to this day) exact dates are still not known. But in 1947, it was sold to a mining company, who, rather than collapse the whole thing and strip mine it, kept expanding it. In the 1960's the Hunt family (billionaires from Texas oil, also the owners of the Kansas City Chiefs) bought it, and spent a decade developing it. In the 1970's they started renting out warehouse and office space. These days it's almost entierly warehousing, but there are some businesses that still operate out of it. You can go drive through it, I think it costs a few bucks. It's very easy to get lost down there. It's upsetting how far underground you can go. It's a very large facility, 1,100 acres.
Caffeine72 11 months ago
It has like the largest collection of original movie prints because of constant temperature and humidity and geological stability. They're all old limestone quarries and there are actually a couple in Kansas City, both on the East and West sides.
cadena kuhn 11 months ago
Just recently found out the rumor about tunnels under my home town of Mt Dora Florida is true. They are condemned and disgusting but they are real
Eric Knapp 11 months ago
One of the tenants is the US Postal Service. They use it for stamp storage and distribution across the country
Sahitya Madhavan 11 months ago
Yeah.. doesn't 1960's show possession and 1960s refer to the period 1960-1969?
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Ten years ago I used to laugh at all the crazy people who thought the government listens to all your phone calls....
turk 11 months ago
Well, your phone certainly listens to you. I can't count how many times I have said something (but never typed it into my phone or computer) and I get an ad or something in my newsfeed about it, often in the wrong context.
DC and S 11 months ago
I have neither talked about not live my life like a 60+ year old who likes to exercise. But lately I've been inundated with ads for "how women over 60 stay fit! Best workout for 60+;", etc. So my phone clearly doesn't listen to me not does it understand me in the slightest, despite all the time we spend together!!!!!
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Hidalgo 11 months ago
The US government is the least of your worries. They likely won’t unalive you or steal your id. The big tech companies are also listening are listening and would do either
Tim Douglass 11 months ago
Well, I'm a bit afraid that you are right and wrong. The US govt. will do and has done both, but big tech definitely will as well.
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El Dee 11 months ago
If you're in the US then the UK's GCHQ listens to your phone. If you're in the UK then the NSA listens to your phone. This overcomes both countries laws on spying on your own people. They exchange the information. Both organisations operate in the 'other country' alongside their opposite numbers (who they pass the information to) And everyone has all their data scraped and used by almost everyone else, including the Chinese..
#13
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.
Neb 11 months ago (edited)
This story is about times 30-40 years before the very first Prius.
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john doe 11 months ago
Similar to the US government and using fabricated stories about aliens at and around area 51 so Soviet spies wouldn't believe that anything was actually happening there, the reality was they were testing top secret air craft and once used a nuclear device to attempt to frack natural gas, that didn't work exactly radio active natural gas isn't so great, and now we have alien weirdos because of a counter intelligence operation 60 years ago.
#14
There used to be a rich hippy cult in the woods (nearish) my town in the 60s. Ultra rich, but think, drum circles and c*****e. So, so much c*****e.
One day, they just... Disappeared. Abandoned the compound, nobody knew why, they just all left overnight. Assumptions ranged from d**g raid incoming, to a m****r in the compound, you name it.
Most don't think it was real anymore, or it was just some weirdo eccentric dude, and the story took a life of its own.
I know it's real, cuz I've been to the compound. Noticed some (many) years back a weird road when driving past the area for work. Overgrown, and not on Google maps. Took my lunch/ciggy break right there and then, and went to check it out.
The place was massive, with stables and several large houses (now kind of caved in). Inside, everything was still like it was back then; furniture, dining wear, clothes, magazines. Like someone had just left for store - I mean, minus 30+ years of mildew and moss.
Not a single car in the garages tho.
Edit: since people seem curious, I'll try and recover the photos from the phone I had back then (gotta do some digging in the barn to find it first. Been over 10 years). No promises of success, but I'll post the photos, if there's anything left that ain't corrupted.
Edit 2, update; the phone with all the photos & charger from days of yore have been found. Didn't wake up even after 12 hours of charging. Not found when hooked on computer. Now it's sitting in rice, for round two. I can't remember if the pictures are in the phone memory, or the SD card - but not like I have anything to slot the card into anyhow, except for this phone. So hopefully, a rice bath will make it feel better.
Multa Nocte 11 months ago
I know. I am losing my interest in these because it's too much work to figure out what the person actually said.
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Skara Brae 11 months ago
Click the credit name at the lower left "MLockeTM" for the uncensored article.
Gracie Mae 11 months ago
ok, i got murrrder and druuugs, but someone please tell me wtf the 1st two censored words are??? Concubine doesn't fit but it's the best I can do...I feel like I need to take a course in code-breaking to be on this site any more!
Lyone Fein 11 months ago
Coke is more of an 80s thing, not the 60s. In the 60s people were doing LSD, weed, heroin.
#15
Ok, this isn’t a known urban legend per se but once when I was 14 years old I was staying at my grandmas. The house was surrounded on 3 sides by woods/forest. I was walking up to the back door when something caught my eye. Sitting on a fallen tree at the edge of the woods was a woodpecker that was at least 5ft tall. It legit was Woody Woodpecker! I stared at it for a few seconds then ran inside the house.
Now, what makes this better is about 10 years later my step dad and I were talking randomly about things and the giant woodpecker came up. Before I could finish my story he interrupted me and said he had seen a 5ft woodpecker sitting in the same spot a couple years before. He thought he was crazy and never told anyone about it.
So the legend of the 5ft. Woodpecker was born.
Sven Grammersdorf 11 months ago
Yep they get pretty damn big. I've seen some in Indiana at least 2 or 3 feet tall.
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Kerry Palmer 11 months ago
Pileated Woodpecker. We have them in Louisiana on the endangered list. Big suckers.
#16
It isn’t a legend yet, but as long as Old Bridge NJ exists, there will be the story of the mysteriously large dump of pasta next to a river that was labeled a terroristic act.
Beak Hookage 11 months ago
The Mafia's scare tactics against its enemies have gotten pretty damn lame.
Lee451 Henderson 11 months ago
A man was cleaning out his deceased mother's house: https://6abc.com/old-bridge-new-jersey-pasta-dump-spaghetti-mystery-nj-charges/13302928/
Cydney Golden 11 months ago
It was a guy cleaning out his mother's house. Why he didn't put the pasta in the garbage is the mystery.
#17
The "Construction Clown" in Cincinnati, Ohio. I lived in Roselawn and Bridgetown as a kid and started to hear stories from friends about a middle aged man with a clown collar/ruff, hard hat, clown suit, and a construction worker's metal tool box riding the public transit "all day" without purpose, or milling around constructon sites. There's no way that's true, I thought, until one day I took a bus to a local Kroger grocery store for something. As I walked through the parking lot to the store I saw him standing outside the front doors, tool box in hand, hardhat, white ruffed collar, bright red sweatshirt, overalls, and work boots painted yellow. It was terrifying. I milled around the parking lot for what felt like forever and noticed that most people coming and going from the store were avoiding the guy. He just stood there, not moving, in the middle of the entry/exit doors of that Kroger.
Suddenly though, he was gone. I didn't see if he walked away or got into a car, or went inside, but I had lost my nerve completely and went back to the bus stop. As soon as I paid the fare and looked up to find a seat, there he was...just sitting in the middle of the bus. I realized the bus had also stopped right in front of the grocery store so he must have gotten on there. Anyway, I sat one row back from him and he didn't move or say a word until it was time for me to exit. I saw him again a few more times in the neighborhood, almost always in passing while he was riding the bus again or standing at various bus stops. He was always dressed in the red sweatshirt and overalls or a full-on clown suit. One time he had a shovel. Then one day he was just gone and people stopped talking about him.
Probably twenty years later when I was in my 30's I was visiting home and running around the city with my mom. We ended up in Covington, Kentucky doing something or other and were stuck in traffic on MLK Boulevard. As we inched up the road I looked over and saw a silver bust statue of the guy! It was in front of the Hellmann Creative Center. I completely lost it...nobody including my mother had ever believed me when I told stories of seeing this guy when I was a kid but there's a f*****g statue of him right there on the side of the road!!
Anyway, meet Raymond Thunder-Sky, Cininnati's "Construction Clown."
#18
Remember when they said E.T. On the Atari 2600 was so bad a game that it crashed the entire games industry, and then they took all the unsold cartridges in a New Mexico landfill? Well that isn’t true. The game is ok, just a little broken, but multiple factors led to the games industry crash, but one thing that is true is that they did find that landfill site several decades later, with many E.T cartridges, but also several other games that they later auctioned for charity.
Bacon Tentacles 11 months ago
I played the game as a kid. It wasn't that horrible, TBH. Weird, but not horrible. I also remember reading about the landfill thing.
Flo 11 months ago
Correction: the game IS absolute dogsh*t. Atari took way too much time to finalize the deal with Spielberg and thus just had about 5 weeks (!) for design and programming since they wanted the game to be in store for Christmas '82. Out of the ~5m cartridges only ~1.5m were sold. In 2014 a lot of the remaining cartridges were found in a landfill in New Mexico.
Rinso The Red 11 months ago
Good lord, I played that stinkburger when I was a tyke. It was impossible to figure out what you were trying to actually do and you'd get stuck falling down these holes that were everywhere, for some reason.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 11 months ago
The computer nearest us appears to be an Amstrad CPC6128 with a green screen monitor and a 3" (not 3.5") disk drive. I'm not sure what's next to it with the cassette drive, but the one beyond that is an Amstrad CPC464. They look like they might have been rebadged, possibly as Schneider. Just thought I'd share.
#19
I grew up hearing about an abandoned psych ward in the woods of Tallahassee. Some versions had it as an abandoned pediatric psych ward. This was the legend in the 70's. Sometime in the 2000's, when they built the Blairstone extension, there it was in all its abandoned horrifying glory.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
Or they just extended that psych ward to include the entire state.
Kabuki Kitsune 11 months ago
It was called "Sunland" and opened in 1967. Within just a year, the hospital started to suffer from a shortage of funds and overcrowding conditions. These forces caused a variety of problems to form within the hospital from poor and inadequately prepared food, overcrowding of the cottages, inactivity of the children, unsanitary conditions, the inadequacy of dental services, to unacceptable hygienic practices. A group sued the hospital on behalf of the patients for gross neglect and abuse in 1978. By 1983, the hospital had lost the case, and was shut down, with patients being moved to other hospitals for better care, or being returned to their families and community care.
#20
I’ve seen the Illinois Thunderbirds on three occasions: once in grade school, once in my late teens and once at the age of 30.
Wendy Miller 11 months ago
I recommend the Seth Breedlove documentary "Terror In The Skies". It's got a good bit about the IL Thunderbirds. Great history and videography. Seth treats the subject very well. None of the schlocky gunk you get sometimes with cryptozoology.
Dogcat vet (retired) 11 months ago
looks like a turkey vulture: https://www.britannica.com/animal/turkey-vulture
#21
A local urban legend is that there is a series of tunnels that connect the universities, prominent buildings, etc, in our city's downtown. My apartment is in an old house built by a wealthy businessman in the late 1800s. There is an entrance in the basement. It's spooky as hell and sealed off, but my landlord has confirmed that's where it leads.
Cindy Brick 11 months ago
This is actually pretty common in a lot of big cities, especially where there's a university. Husband is an HVAC engineer, said they were used for heating/cooling. I know of tunnels in Boulder, CO; Denver, CO and Ann Arbor, MI, to start.
Tim Douglass 11 months ago
This is true in a lot of US (and maybe elsewhere) cities. I've been all over under Seattle, Washington, and Spokane, Washington in the tunnels.
Kabuki Kitsune 11 months ago
These are called "steam tunnels", and many major universities and outlying buildings have them. Typically, you have a single central steam plant that provided steam heating to the other buildings. These steam tunnels carried the pipes, and allowed workmen from the steam plant to monitor and repair the pipes as needed, without having to dig up roads and sidewalks to do it. Nothing nefarious there, just old tech.
Glen Ellyn 11 months ago
Not that unusual on university campuses located in places that experience extreme cold and snow. Tunnels allow students to walk between buildings on campus regardless of the weather.
David 11 months ago (edited)
In my alma mater university there is a sealed tunnel under the quad that connected two of the last four original campus buildings (others were demolished over time for bigger newer buildings) from the 1800's. Those buildings are from a former orphanage that was there before the college. There are several theories to why they were built and at one time was a network that connected 5 different buildings before the other tunnels were filled in. But no records exist to explain why, it is just rumors. But given before the University was there it was an orphanage complex, most rumors tend to go very dark in nature.
Christine M Quigley 11 months ago (edited)
There was a tunnel system under Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.I went to the nursing school there. Creepy as hell. You never walked through them alone.
Bacon Tentacles 11 months ago
OK, in Boston, Northeastern University has tunnels connecting the main buildings on campus, but it's limited to the college itself. Awesome, though, especially when the weather is awful out. Not sure if it connects to the local T station, however. That would be handy (I went to school there in the late 80's and haven't been back since so I don't know if it's been expanded).
#22
Cropsey. Sort of like “the boogeyman” of Staten Island. During the 70’s and 80’s kids on the island would go missing and the urban legend would attribute it to “Cropsey”. As it turned out there really was a crazy kidnapper and serial killer who was responsible. He was caught and convicted. There is a great documentary about it (used to be on Netflix, not sure if it still is) called Cropsey, check it out if you get a chance.
Leg less In Minneapolis 11 months ago
I grew up hearing about Cropsey as a scary story. S**t a brick when I found out it was true
#23
There’s tunnels in my town that lead from the an old residential school (yes the one where they raped and tortured First Nations children) to a big church. We can’t pave our main road due to them (they filled them with concrete fast so not all is structured well) and everytime the town brings it up there’s always some excuse not to do it.
#24
[The North Pond Hermit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight) things would go missing in this little vacation community and people attributed it to some mysterious dude. Turned out there was one, he lived out in the woods for 27 years without ever talking to anyone.
Neb 11 months ago
He probably followed 20-20-20 rule. "To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest."
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#25
I saw a Bigfoot when I was around 6 in the deep, back woods of Maine. I was playing in my little tikes tent (the red one with the yellow and blue piping that has a telescope coming out of the top) about 10-15 feet from the lake we had a camp on. I remember looking out the of the telescope and seeing what I thought was a person swinging from branch to branch along the trees by the water. I thought it was weird and I realized this ‘person’ had arms longer than a normal human and had it legs curled up under neath it almost like it was sitting Indian style. I just closed the telescope and sat down for a while and then booked it back to my grandpa and great uncle, who were in the cabin.
For context too, this cabin was only reachable by sea plane or a 30 minutes boat ride. Cabins have no electricity, running water etc. so it’s not like someone could have just been out walking in an ape suit. It would have taken a lot of effort to pull that off to scare some random 6 year old. .
Julia Mckinney 11 months ago
I saw him back in summer 1978. I was in the YCC (Youth Conservation Corps) and was in a crew fixing trails and clearing out creeks in a Washington state park by Olympia. I was the person chosen to walk the trail we'd built one last time. I came to the end of the trail (nice meadow, lots of ground cover plants) looked up and saw Bigfoot on the other side of the clearing. Sure looked real to me, didn't look at all like a suit or make-up. I took a couple of steps back, turned around and just booked it out of there. My crew chief said that when I came running out of the woods that I looked like I'd seen a ghost. I must have been in shock because I just remember pointing up the trail and stuttering Bigfoot but I don't remember part of the crew going to check it out. They came back, said that part of the clearing was disturbed but no footprints. What bothered me was I had a camera in my shirt pocket and never thought to take a picture.
john doe 11 months ago
That's the first time I've heard of a big foot swinging through trees, if he is the way he is commonly represented more ape like then this would not be possible, also big foot doesn't exist, if he did some deep backwoods hunter would have shot one by now, also large fauna need a large range and would be spotted by more people, if bigfoot was a legend from deep in the Amazon in an area where hardly anyone ever has been then it would be more plausible, but if it lives in the Pacific Northwest or the central range of north America the it would have been confirmed by dozens of bodies and even live captures. He simply doesn't exist, the poster of this is either a) totally fabriting the story for attention (most common reason) or b) mistaken about what they saw, they are an unreliable witness anyway being only 6 and using a telescope to see it from great distance. So use some scrutiny when people claim these unbelievable stories.
LNB87 11 months ago
I implore you to do more research and listen to some podcasts. Bigfoots absolutely exist.
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LNB87 11 months ago
I implore you to do more research and listen to some podcasts. Bigfoots absolutely exist.
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#26
The legend: "A girl was shot from her bike because she didn't greet them properly."
Half true, but not really. She did get shot but it was technically an accident, yet it was entirely possible it was not. Let me explain.
This was literally decades ago and the myth was spun because it was a combination with many other horrendous crimes this family did. M****r, incest, r**e... You name it. They killed a 2 year old baby, burned down houses, smashed someone's head in, raped family members... It was insanity. Thankfully the clan disbanded several years ago...
So the girl drove by while they were doing some backyard shooting "training" and she got caught in the crossfire...
So while the story is technically not true, at least the official version, I can totally believe where it came from. And it's not the only true crime story of this region... Or the worst...
TiNaBoNiNa 11 months ago
The OP says on the Reddit thread it occurred in Austria. The original print story is in German, but he would post the link for anyone who wanted it.
Lyone Fein 11 months ago
What's really crazy is that people used to wear those crocheted tops in the summer! They were hot and itchy, and made a definite fashion statement.
#27
I saw Champ, the Lake Champlain monster, in 1994 from Lone Rock Point in Burlington VT.
Bob Brooce 11 months ago
That was actually me floating on my back. I don't float very well so most of me was submerged. And I was naked. I am highly flattered that people grossly overestimate Champ's size though.
#28
There was an urban legend that the Texas Chainsaw M******e happened in my home town. It’s only partially true as the MOVIE had some shots filmed at a house that used to be there but was torn down after falling into extreme disrepair.
#29
I stopped flashing my brights at people with their lights off after dusk due to increased g**g violence in my area.
Don’t know if that one is actually true, but not willing to risk being a target of some initiation.
Maartje 11 months ago
That one is actually NOT true but because of this people stopped flashing brights. Coincidentally I flashed mine for the first time in a long time today at a car that was bloody well invisible in the rain.
marianne eliza 11 months ago (edited)
Doesn't it seem like it's always vehicles the same color as the mist thrown up by tires? There's a law here in CA., not sure about other states that requires headlights on when wipers are on. But there's always the folks who think it doesn't count if you're using your intermittent setting or just don't think it's worth wearing out their wiper blades for some law.
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I live in the US, and I stopped interacting with other people in cars because of, you know, guns
Glen Ellyn 11 months ago
Maybe it was "glug?" Who hasn't heard of glug violence?? 🤭 I'm surprised they're not censoring "violence."
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Rachel Hall 11 months ago
What is the censored word please? The only one that makes sense in the sentence is Gang- but why would that be censored?
Cara Vinson 11 months ago
This has been going around since there have been gangs and cars with headlights.
Mark Karol-Chik 11 months ago
There was a short window of time in the autumn of 1993 in the Denver Metro area when this did happen.
#30
In the 1970’s there was a homeless man begging for change on the Vegas strip, a high roller tossed him a $10 chip and walked away.
The homeless man went in a casino and sat at a roulette table to place a bet.
The d****r didn’t want to deal with a homeless person so asked the pit boss to get rid of him.
But the pit boss took pity on him and said he could play until he lost, which he agreed to.
Over an hour later the pit boss came back to the table, surprised to see that the homeless person was still there, and without looking at the table he demanded to know why he was still there?
The d****r simply said “you said he could play till he lost a bet, he hasn’t lost one yet”.
The pit boss looks at the table and is immediately shocked to see the enormous pile of chips that this homeless man has won.
At this point he accumulated over $20.000 and he was still winning.
The homeless man only left the table to use the bathroom and kept ordering food to be brought to the table as well as ordering top shelf liquors. He played through the whole night and never lost, it got to the point where the casino couldn’t cover his bets, at that point he finally stopped. When he got off the seat to collect his winnings he suffered a massive heart attack and dropped dead before he could spend a dime.
Hippopotamuses 11 months ago (edited)
Thanks. I honestly wondered what a d r u g dealer was doing operating tables in a casino
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Bartlet for world domination 11 months ago
We were listing urban legends that turned out to be true, did you forget halfway through BP?
Sven Grammersdorf 11 months ago
"it got to the point where the casino couldn’t cover his bets" Yeah, right
Robin Mills 11 months ago (edited)
Whats wrong with using the word dealer? Has a woke-head at Board Pander automatically associated the word with d-r-u-g-s and not with this story. Should have used Croupier instead.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 11 months ago
The what? The dicker? The drugger…. Who is it that deals the cards at a casino?
What do you think ?
Becky Samuel 11 months ago
The censorship on this site is now officially out of hand. Since when was 'déaler' a word that's too sensitive to use? Why is it okay to discuss the murder and dismemberment of small children, but seeing a word like 'mássacre' is too much for our tiny brains to cope with?
Amy Lee 11 months ago
Narcotics merchant... Is how I'll be referring to them because of this website
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Atom Bohr 11 months ago
Back in the early 90s my mum and I were visiting my nan in rural Wales. I was about 6 or 7 and was out in the garden. My nan had two gardens: a small field where the dogs and I were allowed, and a more decorative garden surrounded by hedges and closed off by a gate, but you could see into it from the terrace and living room window. You had to pass the garden to get to the field. One day I was coming back in when this ENORMOUS black-spotted tan cat came through the hedge and sauntered down the side of the garden. I froze, then legged it and shut the back door, but then watched this thing through the window until it disappeared. I tried telling my mum, but was told it was nothing and I was imagining it. When we went back a few months later, the neighbours (a few miles down the road) and people in the local town warned us about it. It was apparently caught a few years later. Despite what my mum said, it was a leopard, and it was less than 3m away from me when I saw it
Robert Cosgrove 11 months ago
Urban Legends that were proved true ? Like Bigfoot ?? Some of these may be true but there are too many 'it happened to me, honestly'
Joshua Russell 11 months ago
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Becky Samuel 11 months ago
The censorship on this site is now officially out of hand. Since when was 'déaler' a word that's too sensitive to use? Why is it okay to discuss the murder and dismemberment of small children, but seeing a word like 'mássacre' is too much for our tiny brains to cope with?
Amy Lee 11 months ago
Narcotics merchant... Is how I'll be referring to them because of this website
Load More Replies... Atom Bohr 11 months ago
Back in the early 90s my mum and I were visiting my nan in rural Wales. I was about 6 or 7 and was out in the garden. My nan had two gardens: a small field where the dogs and I were allowed, and a more decorative garden surrounded by hedges and closed off by a gate, but you could see into it from the terrace and living room window. You had to pass the garden to get to the field. One day I was coming back in when this ENORMOUS black-spotted tan cat came through the hedge and sauntered down the side of the garden. I froze, then legged it and shut the back door, but then watched this thing through the window until it disappeared. I tried telling my mum, but was told it was nothing and I was imagining it. When we went back a few months later, the neighbours (a few miles down the road) and people in the local town warned us about it. It was apparently caught a few years later. Despite what my mum said, it was a leopard, and it was less than 3m away from me when I saw it
Robert Cosgrove 11 months ago
Urban Legends that were proved true ? Like Bigfoot ?? Some of these may be true but there are too many 'it happened to me, honestly'
Joshua Russell 11 months ago
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