Top 20 Urban Legends That Turned Out to Be True
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- These crazy urban legends are true! For this list, we’ll be looking at stories so bizarre that most people would dismiss them as fiction - except that they happen to be real, or at least, based on real events. Our countdown includes Animals in the Toilet, The Bunny Man, Someone Hiding in the Back Seat, Buried Alive, and more! Do you know of another strange urban legend that turned out to be true, despite all the odds? Tell us about it in the comments!
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Dear WatchMojo, we know where British-Columbia is. Most americans may not but the rest of the world does. Yet you mentioned Delaware and California without specifying that they're in the US. Why? Anyway, I thought I'd point that out.
@@OnePieceGuy55 kid. Act your age and grow up
Maybe because WatchMojo is American-centric. So it’s assumed that most Americans will know where the states are, possibly not much else
Yes, I'm from the South, I heard about Boohag in South Carolina, I heard about the Hollywood vampire from the South of Virginia
I don’t know about Urban legends, but related to the critters in the dunny..My Nan had a returning Frog in the toilet! No matter how many times we got it out and took it down the road, it’d find its way back!
I feel so bad for Charlie No-Face. He seems like such a sweet and caring person. It's said he often walked at night because he didn't want to scare people.
@@OnePieceGuy55 ok
I had an overnight shift one time and the security freaked me out unlocking the door so fast and walking in and he was really disfigured, gave me nightmare fuel
@mshilah same
@@OnePieceGuy55 another unemployed virgin
I’m not sure he realised it but he would probably be a lot less scary in the daylight - at night he was far more likely to scare the absolute heebies out of someone - he could have gone walking in the woods for instance where there was no one else around
The Charlie No Face story pissed me off. There's some real scumbag, degenerate people in this world to act that way to the disabled. It's horrifying they beat him; it's downright evil that they'd pick him up and drop him off randomly, knowing he now wouldn't be able to navigate his route.
I wish the absolute worst on you people that would do that
Same here,, I honestly hope karma does it's thing.
I can assure you that they are paying.
Don't. Then that would make you like them...I understand why you feel that way. But don't let yourself sink down to their level.
Ye evil people
Yes
The Charlie guy just made me sad imagine seeing a several disabled person and beating them up for that or taking them somewhere they don’t know. People are so cruel
Someone finally got the story right! The window didn't break. It just popped out of its socket. It was also reportedly in one piece on the ground. So Gary was right.
emphasis on the WAS
@@Carlanga3533 Yep. Too bad he didn't find a better way to prove his point.
@@pundertalefan4391 like to think the last thing he saw was the glass hit the ground and not break
@@pou1219 at least it would give him some satisfaction.
Now that's a man. Dying to prove a point.
In the case of Charlie no face, i think people are scared at first glance, but then never approach him, even though he is a nice guy. It’s so sad how so much is judged by looks.
don't lie if you see him walking at night alone you'd shit yourself too.
The Elisa Lam case about the body in the water tank at the top of the hotel is so bizarre and the footage of her in the elevator will give you chills. The fact that people complained of the water tasting funny only to find their is a body in the tank…there are no words!
On top of that the lid of the tank was closed. No way she could’ve closed it from inside
The show how to get away with murder did a episode on that.
@@kamdevil It's was actually very easy to close the tank from the inside. The idea that it was impossible was a rumor that got out of control. This women's tragic death got completely dramatized when the fact is clear that she died by su*cide. Most of the "evidence" that creates this alternative narrative is completely wrong. The weirdest one is the weight of the lid of the tank being used to justify the gross speculation. It was at most 20 pounds, which she was perfectly capable of moving just enough to give herself access to the tank.
@@kamdevil how not it's not heavy
Yeah that footage is just horrible
14:34 One of the most horrific murders I've heard of was when a group of people buried an elderly couple alive. Absolutely horrifying.
Omg that case is devastating! I know what you’re talking about
Mr. Ballen. One of the saddest, most horrifying stories I heard.
@@sheevpalpatine6466Sick freak
their time has come
@@jere8802execute order 66
The poor man lost his face to an electrocution, and people would pick on him? Thats disgusting
There is a man in my town with no nose. He does not normally mask his face. Just two breathing holes in his face.
I have seen him often at the central train station. I believe enough people know his story to let him alone, but I am not sure.
I live in the skin cancer capital of the world, and having seen the results of other surgeries for this, suspect he has had this and surgery to remove it.
He endures horrible looks from people everyday. I hope my community can accept him enough that he, too, is not subject to a life of abuse.
That's humans...
Ah, I’m sure his face will turn up.
When I was at a prep school, Kents Hill, in Maine, there was a legend about a girl who committed suicide there. The story was she dove from the fourth floor to the marble floor in the student union. The truth is that in the 19th century a 17yo girl named M. Louise Greene was expelled for theft. She never made it home. She got off the train in Augusta, bought poison, and vanished. Her remains were found later that year. In the meantime, it was discovered that the clothes she was accused of stealing had been misdelivered to her room. Her father wrote a book about her, The Crown Won But Not Worn.
Another candidate for this list is the story of people renting a motel room and unknowingly sleeping with a dead body under the bed - something that's happened IRL on a few occasions.
I always check under hotel beds due to this having happened. But not a days the beds don’t usually have space underneath
Or the corpse in the water tank of a hotel. Water that people would bathe in and drink
@@blakeskywindmn the thought must be disgusting.
I once drank a beer with a 🪳 inside, i immediately knew what was.. i feel pretty dumb about it lol
One of my friends had a "secret sharer" - she noticed that food was missing on several occasions, and thought her kids were sneaking into the kitchen at night for a snack. They denied it. Then a neighbour noticed that some of the roof tiles seemed to have been removed and replaced. Police were called, and found clothes and bedding in the roof space - never found the culprit.
Stories like this make me feel sick. Terrifying that a random stranger has just moved into your loft space.
If the culprit comes back, your friend had better have the police on speed dial and hopefully whoever was “sharing” your friend’s house will be caught. I’m glad I have security cameras around my house and signs saying “warning! Security cameras in use! All trespassers will be prosecuted!” So far I haven’t had any “sharers” in my house…
Hell naw. That’s why you need dogs that are extremely protective or something lol
@@dr.bright3081 We got a sign in front of our porch(angled to where you'd really see what it says if you walk up to the porch) that says "Protected by f*ck around and find out surveillance". We have 3 big dogs who are very protective. No one really comes up to our house. 😊
😱
Hold the hell on! Your telling me they found actual giant turtles in NYC sewers in the early 80s? Did they have artists names?
88 is late 80s
This made me audibly laugh 🤣
Was the story reported by an April O’Neil?
@@N8teyrve
Did they also have a giant rat sensai named Splinter?
My mind also went there.
No the toxic lady case didn’t play out like that. It was originally defined as mass hysteria among the staff. It wasn’t until someone else came in and determined that the DMSO that was used to lubricate her medication mixed with the oxygen in her body and all the other medication compounded together making nerve gas and that’s what the staff smelt. It took too long to come to this conclusion from the county.
Additionally, some medical professionals do not believe the levels of off gassing that would be produced would not have generated those effects
@@lemoniefish her body sat at the coroners office for 6 weeks and the gas was still present. I can’t believe that they still denied it at that time.
She also was going through chemotherapy and that is a form of Mustard Gas. Look up WW1 and the effects of Mustard Gas
Bad choice to watch this on the toilet.
There's other acceptable places to watch youtube?
There's other acceptable places to watch youtube?
I would sit on the toilet and see this comment 5 seconds into sitting down
Literally the fist comment I see, while on the toilet lol
6:20 There is a true story of a Brazilian priest called Adelir Antônio de Carli who in 2008 decided to tie himself to party balloons and fly away. He tragically died when strong winds turned him around and he ended up in the middle of the ocean.
Number 20 is the reason why I always look to see what’s in the toilet before I use it
Another one that’s true is people in hotel rooms realising there was a dead body in the bottom part of a bed frame. In one case the person had slept on the bed overnight and it wasn’t until they started to smell something horrible the next day that they realised they literally slept all night while a corpse was just inches away from them. What makes it worse is that the person that died must have been killed and hidden there the day before a new person stayed in the room because the smell of a body decomposing happens a lot quicker than what movies and TV make it seem. It’s also likely the room was cooler than normal which slowed down the decomposition slightly, but still the thought of that is just nightmare fuel.
What gets me so mad about a lot of these murder ones is how the victim would likely still be alive or the serial killer would have killed far less if the police just did the bare minimum their job asked of them. It really hurts to hear.
RIP to all the victims and potentially saved lives lost because of a crazy person and police negligence combined.
No one is talking about turtle in sewers? That couldve turned into ninjas?
I remember #11 being included in a _Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark_ book.
9:33 This show was my childhood. Underrated gem.
i remember this episode, the guy following her is from van damme's blood sport
Same, I miss the old days😭.
This and Twilight Zone were the gateway to my love of all things Horror and strange. I still watch them today when I can catch it on TV.
@@vixxxenfoxxx3660 God bless Filmrise for putting Beyond Belief up on here unedited.
You guys should have mentioned the brazilian Balloon Priest! Same story with the baloons... but it ended worse for the priest... he ended up dying unfortunately. Very sad.
There was also an English guy who went to France using helium balloons strung to an armchair. It’s not as far fetched as it might sound.
Thanks for teaching me a new word
Defenestration: (n)
1) the action of throwing someone out of a window.
2) the action of dismissal of a person from a position of power or authority
Charlie breaks my heart. What is wrong with people?! People can be ruthless. Rest peacefully Charlie 🕊️🙏❤️
his name was raymond not charlie
I've heard urban stories about black market organ trafficking before and some of them were very disturbing to where you might not want to go to sleep alone or without a concealed weapon hidden under your pillow.
Organ transplants require exceptional surgical skills and cutting-edge (see what I did there?) technology. The only "black market" organs I've heard of are those sold to wealthy patients through the darknet by "donors" desperate for the cash a healthy kidney can bring.
Even then, both donor and recipient must be a biological match for the transplanted organ to "take". It's not as easy a process as television dramas make it out to be.
Candyman is the only scary movie that has terrified the living shit out of me I refuse to watch it by myself 😂😂
Same here. I don’t even say his name.
Have you watched the reboot?
@@MrLylebjorn yes
@@MrLylebjorn It's a sequel, not a reboot. It literally references the events of the first movie.
3:55 - "Dord" is a perfectly crompulent word.
the word is cromulent
I have a foolproof way to completely negate any chance of someone being in your backseat. Drive a regular cab truck! No backseat to hide in! Hahaha!
Also, if watching true crime has taught me anything, it's this: It's never a mannequin.
Definitely never a mannequin. Or a doll. I've consciously decided that if I'm somewhere and see a 'mannequin' or 'doll' where one shouldn't be (like the woods), I'm ignoring it until I can anonymously tip off the authorities.
@@hprotz6600 Agreed.
They can hide in your truck bed if you have junk in there so...
@@courtneywimberley5250 I considered that too, and put a hard cover on it. Not today, baddies, not today!
Bodies in Rugs..... my old neighborhood had a version of that. A couple houses down from mine was a house that consisted of a married couple, their kids and the woman's mother. One winter they put a rolled up rug on the side of their house. It was about this time that we stopped seeing the woman's mother. Come spring, a really foul odor started coming from the rug. All the kids believed that the old lady was inside the rug, but it smelled so bad no one would go near it. People complained and threatened to call the county/police so the couple loaded the rug into their truck and took it away to parts unknown. When I moved away there were still people that believed the old lady's body was in that rug.
Where did this happen?? Are there any articles online?
Sad everyone suspected, but no one called /: makes you wonder what happened to her
The mother was gone, there was a foul smell for months and still no one called the police? Why?
@@Wolfspirat No clue. Like I said, I was just a kid at the time (like 8 or 9). I have no idea why none of the adults did anything about it.
For the Betsy Aardsma case, I read about it on Wiki and I think you had it on your previous video from many years back - that no one knew she had been stabbed because she was wearing a red dress.
Bodies in rugs?! I guess they never heard of the murder of Jessie Davis. I mean, her 2 year old son said that she was in the rug
I remember that case :(
I guess not. But a 2 year old wouldn’t be taken seriously by the police anyway because they are “too young to be credible witnesses”. Really sad story
@@ultimatewitcherfan6677 What is the name of the Mormon girl that was kidnapped some years back? Her younger sister kept insisting the guy the cops had in jail had nothing to with it. I think she was something like ten , and they still didn’t believe her.
Or Kendrick Johnson.
@@marianparoo1544 elizabeth smart was the case
Mr Ballen actually covered Ramirez recently it was believed that she went into the ER due to complications for a UTI because of this her kidneys were unable to flush out the toxins of dimethyl sulfate, oxygen was administered in the ambulance converting the dimethyl sulfate into phosphine gas for which her body was a perfect canister for, and it was released in the ER when the nurse went to draw her blood.
I love how much detail Mr Ballen goes into to show that there's more to the story
It's a theory
I feel so awful for Raymond Robinson. Im glad a few people showed compassion.
I was already afraid of elevators before hearing about that elevator incident.
I will never ever go to the bathroom without turning on the light first. I am completely freaked out. Thanks guys!
The elevators at the University of Oklahoma dorms were nightmare worthy
MR. BALLEN COVERED THE RUTHIE RAE MCCOY STORY (TRUE STORY OF CANDYMAN), A FEW WEEKS AGO. PRETTY COOL VIDEO THAT GOES INTO EXTENSIVE DETAIL OF WHAT HAPPENED. R.I.P. RUTHIE 🙏🏻
Dang it, that's why it's a sacred duty for friends and loved ones to be with those that need them. If there were buddies to take walks with Raymond there's WAY less chance of stuff like that happening.
Just a clarification: Willowbrook was a "school" in name only. It's purpose was a repository for disabled children and adults, one where they were brutally neglected and treated like cattle day in day out for (in some cases) their entire lives.
In April 2008 a Brazillian Priest also set flight while tied to ballons. Unfortunatelly, he lost contact and disappeared, with the body being found at sea almost 3 months later, in july.
Omg. My parents live in the south and my sister found a snake in their toilet!! I would have died!!!!
to be honest i wouldn't even know what to do if i was in the situation i'd probably wanna close the lid but i'd be too scared to even move an inch hahah
Damn!! To know that some of these “legends” are actually true is really horrifying.
The body in the rug actually took place right next to an apartment I was living in and I live in Canada.
😱😱
Friends of mine found a make-shift bed surrounded by cigarette butts in the crawlspace under their house!!
True story - when my daughter was in her first semester of college at Southern Arkansas University (SAU) she lived in a dorm that once had elevators. They had been sealed off by the school following the death of a student in one of the elevators. It was rumored that the dorm was haunted by the former student. The student had entered the elevator for a ride to the first floor, but when she stepped in to what she thought was the elevator car she fell to her death. It turned out that the elevators doors opened, but the car wasn't there. It was just an empty elevator shaft.
Also, while my daughter was living in the dorm a student across the hall from her committed suicide and was found by her roommate who was also the sister of the deceased girl. I was with my daughter in her dorm room when this happened. It was one of the scariest and saddest events I've ever witnessed.
Wow. Sounds like a horror film
Many suicides and deaths even murders happened in varsities. Sad for those who choose that way out.
@@travelerforever8849 The gorges in Ithaca, NY have to have nets in certain areas because several students (I've heard primarily from Cornell, which is the closest college) jumping to their deaths.
0:05 - That caught me off-guard.
Someone hiding in my backseat is legit my fear😂
Same. I'm always looking behind me whenever I get in my truck. Lol
Cropsey that is absolutely terrifying. I had no idea that The Burning had some truth to it
Something about the name itself creeps me out.
Joan Crawford starred in the Steven Spielberg directed pilot of Night Gallery about a rich woman who pays a poor man for his eyes to see for just a brief time. Great episode.
And that’s why I always look before sitting down on a toilet
#20 I remember I was watching this show called Neighborhood Wars and this guy was busy removing a snake from this guy's toilet. It was a rat snake, thank God, but that sucker was 5-6 feet long! What's even more crazy, that was the SIXTH TIME IT HAPPENED!!!!
Can you do South Carolina Urban Legends, Virginia Urban Legends and can do more Urban Legends that turned out to be true?
the toxic lady's case was recently covered on Mr.Ballen's show. being a grey's anatomy fan i didn't realize that similar case was covered on the show.
I love his videos!
10:53 OMG-- Kyle Barker from "Living Single".
Final Destination 2
Yikes to all of those, and thank you on the explanation on itch mites that explains so much
Iam from Pittsburgh,my Dad told us about Charlie no face when we were kids .He would tell us stories about him when we would be out at night driving .Everytime we went over a certain bridge he would tell us to watch for him over on the hill side .He would talk in a low deep voice then he would yell ..There he is and turn off the headlights ..We would all scream and he would crack up laughing .I miss my Dad so much.He was the best .
Eric Lynch was the real pioneer of flying with balloons. Rest in peace little buddy
You got the Gloria Ramirez story wrong. It was never proved she was using the cream, it was only theorized. Her family adamantly denied her using any kind of medical cream. Her autopsy didn't reveal anything to disprove mass hysteria.
So what then? How could she get the toxins in her body?
@@dafilmqueen556 idk man i don't have the answers
Before I clicked, that’s just creepy
Growing up in Pittsburgh, we all heard of the Green Man. He lived north of Pittsburgh. He was just a gut that got electrocuted as a kid.
Great video
Glad to see the Bunnyman made this list. We used to go to Bunnyman bridge every Halloween and mess with all the other teenagers that had the same idea. Good times
Such cruelty to someome like Raymond for something he had no control over! May he find more respect in the afterlife. 😢
The fake dead body incident happened in my town and at my friends house everyone thought it was a real dead body but just a good Halloween prop lol Greeneville Tn
Victim #6 , the Penn State librarian, a small syringe needle where 1 pinche laceration can inject a victim With virtually no blood is seen. That might be the work of a medical foreign student from another country.. cold case worth looking into.
Wasn’t there a movie called dark water in 2005 and a little girls body in the water tank. That came out like eight years before what happened at the Cecil hotel.
Charlie’s story just makes me sad. He became disfigured and disabled from an accident and he even went out of his way to not bother or scare anyone, and people picked on him and turned him into a ghost story.
Why did I click on this video while on the toilet.....
😂
My brother got into the back seat of my car at a gas station. To "teach me a lesson". I almost punched him before I realized who he was
At least he was looking out for you lol even if in a traumatizing way 😂
#1 The classroom fan falling and killing someone
While I never lived in Virginia, my highschool sweetheart actually lived in Fairfax just 10 minutes away from what was called “Bunny Man Bridge” inspired by the legend. It’s apparently a hotspot for teenagers to fool around, drink and play pranks on each other.
So glad he got a mention here lol
Yeah! They sure do! I know that place very well! My friends and I would often dare each other to go there at night and see if we could see the bunny man! I know it sounds stupid, but we were teenagers then! 🤣 Unfortunately, 1 of us never came home after being dared to go there at night and his body was never found. My friends and I believe the bunny man got him that night. This happened about 12 years ago when we were 16 and 17 years old. The one who disappeared was only 15 years old, and just days away from turning 16. Since then, we’ve all gone our separate ways, some of us moving to different places. I’ve since moved to Georgia, but I’ve never forgotten that night
I went there when I was younger on Halloween since I’m from the area and most people do just go there to hang out and tell the myth. Great times!
1:27 that's Ghoulies II (1988)
Everything that I thought wasn't true, I was entirely wrong the whole time.
Nice use of Donnie Darko for the Bunny Man segment.
How about a list of supernatural events that turned out to be true ?
Here in Australia you need to check for frogs in the loo
I heard a crazy urban legend once. Apparently at some point in time, there used to be something called "rock music" where people knew how to play something called "instruments", which just sounds crazy. These magical people would get together and 3 or 4 or even more would all play their instruments together and make one coherent block of "music" and call it a "song". Some have said that they would even name these songs 😄 🤣 and put them all together on a disc of vinyl etched with a needle! Oh the stuff people come up with. Next these crazies will say that people used to grind flowers into dust and add oils to it and them smear it on big rectangles of like stretched out canvas or something to make pretty pictures 😄 🤣 kooky talk.
What!!! That's some crazy stuff right there
Yes! Finally, someone else that knows about that! I think they were an ancient instrument called "guitar". I wish they had those nowadays.
@@cheapskatepanic Some say there are ancient scriptures termed "Rolling Stone Magazines" that told tales of these sorcerers who played these "guitars" (what a stupid name too huh?) and "drumkits" and some such other chicanery known as a "bass." Apparently they could play music with fish back then😄 so insane.
I've heard that these so-called "rock bands" would _manually_ create their beats by having someone pound on circular surfaces with a pair of sticks.
The part that scares me is when these sorcerers would gather together days, sometimes weeks before their performances to refine and perfect their invocations.
6:30 There is the Padre do Balão in Brazil and he died.
Gotta love giving myself nightmares
Heard of animals in the toilet, Charlie No-Face, The Bunny Man, flying with balloons, animals in the sewer, Cropsey, someone hiding in the back seat, dead people mistaken for Halloween decorations, secret sharers, dead people in drinking water, bugs living in people and organ trafficking.
The thing about the woman with people coming through her bathroom medicine cabinet, she called the police so many times of things that were just crazy, they thought it was just another false call.
I'm less worried about snakes coming up the toilet pipes compared to spiders/centipedes chilling under the seat 😅...
Rats can swim for days.
The last 2 years a bunch of Uban legends are still being proving everyday.
VIRGINIA MADSEN: SHE'S A 15 OUT OF 10!
I’m from Douglasville Georgia and never heard the carpet story wow that’s crazy.
The corpse/ Halloween decorations thing happened in Houston in like 2011 as well
there has *been people burried alive in the past* there is a *reason for bells on graves*
The people that sat at the graves listening for the bells to ring worked literally the graveyard shift
"Saved by the bell"
Bro. If a snake or spider in a toilet is such an unrealistic prospect, I just don't know what to say to you as an Australian. If you have an outdoor bathroom, snakes and huntsmans are always inside the toilet or on the inside of the lid. That's just a typical latenight thing for us!
I love that half of these are Mr. Ballen stories as well
There is an urban legend about a pregnant woman whose water broke in the grocery store on the pickle aisle. As legend would have it, she dropped a jar of pickles on the floor to disguise her amniotic fluid. I’ve heard about this years ago and low and behold I was shopping when I was nine months pregnant at Crow’s Crossing Kroger‘s in Stone Mountain Ga and my water broke on the pickle aisle so I dropped a jar of pickles where my amniotic fluid was that making the urban legend, true! (It was 30 yrs ago the baby is now an ICU nurse)
My Gramma (Grandma) had a rat come up her toilet once. I'm actually in her house right now, where it happened. XD
You're not going to believe this but I know for a fact #16 is true. How do I know? Because my dad knew the lawyer in question; they were friends!
The story of the lawyer jumping out the window was shown on an episode of 1000 ways to die
the elevator thing reminds me also of that anime 'Another'..
My boss "didn't see" a pair of guys with a body in a rug years ago...He lived in an area of his city that had a high crime rate--drugs, gangs, etc.
I don't remember exactly why he said he was out that night--skateboarding, maybe(?)--and saw a couple guys carry a rug into a place. Later, he saw them carrying it out but there was clearly...something...inside it. He could tell exactly what it was but when the guys spotted him, he minded his own to keep himself safe. He was able to move away a couple years later, but has some interesting stories from the years he lived there...
can you tell about some of the other stories he had?
Donnie Darko😎, AWESOME movie. 👍✌
In Cleveland in the 1970s there was a mentally ill man with a cleft palate who used to chase cars. He was called Rabbit Man.
Why the hell wasn't footage of Resident Evil not used in the Killer Elevator story... What a shame...