Top 20 Urban Legends That Turned Out to Be True



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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37 thoughts on “Top 20 Urban Legends That Turned Out to Be True”

  1. Holly Anne Hughes was my cousin #12 that pos scumbag did horrible things to her before murdering her. The whole drooling and nodding off was do to medication and him pretending. He writes coherent letters and speaks just fine. He had a dl and drove and a job. It destroyed my family my uncle was never the same after that. First Korea war effected him then this happens abd they were poor and Holly was known around the neighborhood as a poor kid so when she went missing nobody cared and even after only a handful of police searched unlike the other kids. If they had tajen it seriously she might have lived. Thats why my cousin her brother became a homicide detective in nyc.

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  2. Scary dairy, a old dairy/meat packing factory that was next to mental hospital where the employees where the patients, the ones who passed away where made into feed for the cattle. We used to break in at night and explore until the sheriffs started kicking us out everytime, it is and was the creepiest place ever 😂 super haunted.

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  3. I remember the story of the secret sharer in Japan. Apparently, she'd snuck out whenever the house was empty and would go about her day normally, keeping herself healthy and clean, just undetected. I was a teenager at the time, and I was both impressed and creeped out by the story lolm

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  4. I thought urban legends meant people…. How in the world is jumping out a window a urban legend or a man flying in the air in a chair 💀 the title is misleading cause all im seeing is “Movies That Were Based From Real Life Situations”

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  5. 6:19 as soon as they mentioned Up I knew that Lawnchair Larry was going to be on this list!!! first heard about that guy after reading the Darwin Awards book when I was a kid. hilarious story!!

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  6. I had one of these things happen to me once. I went to a friends late at night one time and forgot to lock my car door. When i came back back out and got in i noticed stuff had been gone through in the dash and middle console. It didn't register until the woman in the backseat said "don't scream". I about had a heart attack and flew backwards into the inside of the windshield. I yelled at her to get out, and she did. My heart was pounding for a bit after that experience. Note to self: lock all car doors all the time. lol

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  7. The no face one remembers me about a man who lost his facedetails after an accident with high voltage cabels. But I have a memory of seeing a documentary about him getting a face transplant so he got a mouth, nose and eyes and even plausibilites to grow a beard and a moustache. Slowley he even got able to control his new face bit by bit. Was very cool. I think he couldnt see tho but still. If my spelling or grammar is a bit of somewhere is it because of that english isnt my native language. But feel free to teach me about my mistakes then I write english 🙂

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  8. I dont know if it exict an urban legend around it but it does exist a man who lost his lungs as a 6 year old due to polio in 1952 and have survived without them since then. He is still alive today and is a retierd lawyer 🙂 His name is Paul Alexander. I think it is really cool how much he have done, including survive, without lungs.

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  9. Oh I believe the elevator one for sure. A year or so ago I was trying to stop an elevator door from closing so a last second rider could get on. I tried holding my hand in front to trip the sensos and then physically tried holding it, but it just closed without struggle. Obviously Iremoved my hand in time but unnerving.

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  10. The US legal system is NUTS!!! How can they arrested someone and charge him with kidnapping and murder without any evidence whatsoever???? This is the US for you guys, Margate guys. You are being brainwashed.

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  11. The US legal system is undemocratic, crazy, and basically absolutely NUTS!!! How have they arrested someone, accusing him of kidnapping and murder without any actual evidence!!!!? What's was the formal charge:
    "'We think it's you because we are unequal and it is easy for us to arrest someone with mental health who won't get a decent lawyer"????

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  12. "Number 20: Animals In The Toilet." Shows SNAKE popping out of the toilet like a jack-in-the-box.

    Me:
    "Ok. A bit WEIRD but doesn't sound harmfu-"

    ALSO the snake:
    Bites the guy while he pees.

    Me:
    "OK!, NEVERMIND THEN! OWWWW!"

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