Its time to return to a video that I really enjoyed.
It was an urban legends video but with a lot of truth to it.
The reason I think we all love Urban Legends is because they take us out of reality for
a bit - theyre creepy stories about things that nobody ever sees - but everyone always
hears about - we don't even need to see any evidence for enjoy them.
In this video though, Ill be returning to look at some Urban Legends that really do
have some truth to them - does that make them scarier?
Can we even call them urban legends any more?
Ill let you be the judge.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Urban Legends That Are Actually True - Part
2.
Don't forget, tap up here if you wanna see any of our normal Urban Legends videos - weve
done so many now that Ive lost count - check them out if you havent already and make sure
you have a couple of hours spare …
Starting off at number 10 we have The Woman in Black[a].
If youve ever watched any of my Urban Legends videos - youll know that almost every country
in the world seems to have a creepy story about a woman wandering along the side of
a road and scaring drivers.
Well, in 2014, it really happened.
All along highways in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, people
started seeing a woman in black by the side of the road.
She would always be wearing black willowy robes, dragging a small black back and perhaps
an umbrella if it was raining.
Some people tried to talk to her - to offer her food, water or money - she refused it
all.
Who was the woman in black?
Well, eventually, people found out.
She was 54 year old Elizabeth Poles.
Police took her to an undisclosed location for her safety where they fed her and helped
her find shelter.
She told ABC news that she wished people would mind their own business and that her long
journey was related to her faith and religion.
Sadly, this interview only brought even more attention to Elizabeth although she eventually
dropped out of the public eye and perhaps continued her long journey …
Moving on to number 9 we have The Bodysnatchers.
In the 1960s, there was a rumour going round that governments were removing parts from
the bodies of children and shipping them to secret labs in the US.
It sounds like something straight out of a horror movie - but it was totally true.
When World War 2 ended with the US dropping the worlds first atomic bombs, they wanted
to determine the effects of nuclear radiation on humans around the world - specifically,
children who had been born since the bombs were dropped.
It was called Project Sunshine.
Over 1,500 bodies, many of them babies, were gathered from half a dozen countries from
Europe to Australia in the 1950s for the studies.
At times, the scientists would ship single body parts taken from the babies without the
parents even knowing …
Coming in at number 8 now we have Trick or Treat[b].
For almost as long as Trick or Treat has been a thing - so too have the stories of nasty
tricks - of people putting dangerous things in the bags of little kids in order to cause
them harm on Halloween.
It sounds too horrific to be true, right?
I mean, its Halloween - its supposed to be fun.
In 2017 though, some parents worst fears were confirmed when a mystery person allegedly
dropped a small package of crystal meth into the trick or treat bag of a toddler in Wisconsin.
The Menominee Tribal Police Chief said the childs father was going through the candy
and he found a really small clear plastic packet the size of a quarter.
When the substance was field tested, it was proven that the powder was methamphetamine.
As a response, the local school banned students from bringing any candy to school the next
day while an investigation continued …
Moving on to number 7 we have Colonel Bucks Cursed Tomb[c].
You can find Colonel Bucks tomb in Maine.
He was a famous military leader in the late 18th century but is mostly known for his tomb.
Colonel Bucks was a justice of the peace, a figure tasked with leading the local people
and making sure justice and peace was always maintained.
As part of this role, he is said to have ordered a witch be put to death by burning.
The accused woman, in her dying breath, is said to have put a curse on his tomb that
Buck had prepared for himself years before.
When people looked at the tomb after, they saw a strange stain there in the shape of
a womans leg.
People said this was a sign of the curse and that the leg was the witches.
According to legend, the stone has been replaced many times but the stain keeps appearing.
This Urban Legend is 100% true - except for the stone replacing bit - Im not too sure
about that but yeah, lets go with 99% true actually …
Next up at number 6 we have Le Loyon[d].
For many years, people in Switzerland smoke of a strange figure who stalked the Maules
Forest wearing a camouflage and a vintage gas mask.
The locals began to call him -Le Loyon- and he slipped into Urban Legend.
Then, in 2013, someone snapped an actual picture of Le Loyon.
He was real.
Locals searched for him all over the forest - someone even found a camouflage boiler suit
folded in the forest along with a letter.
The letter said that the man was annoyed that the media had exposed him because his walks
in the forest were part of his -happiness therapy- … he concluded by saying -I have
concluded that the media has had two effects - deprive a person of his harmless outlet
and make others feel insecure- … ever since the letter was found, Le Loyon has never been
seen again.
Poor guy …
Moving on to number 5 we have The Sunken City[e].
All over the world, there are Urban Legends about towns and cities being submerged under
the water - the most famous of course is Atlantis.
Well, there is actually a real life example of this in America - Lake Lanier.
This is an artificial lake in Georgia that spreads out for 59 square miles.
When the army corps began constructing the dam in 1950 to flood the area, people were
already leaving.
For 5 years, the government bought up private land from farmers and townspeople so that
they could be relocated elsewhere.
The final count involved 250 families, 15 business and 20 cemeteries along with all
the bodies buried there.
The water swallowed up fields, bridges, gates, landmarks, a ferry business, roads, forests
and even a racetrack called Looper Speedway.
These days, if you could walk along the bottom of the lake which is 258ft deep in some parts,
youd find a ghost town inhabited only by fish, swimming in the murky depths that humans once
called home …
Coming in at number 4 now we have Catman of Greenock[f].
In the Scottish town of Greenock, people talked for years about a strange man with no hair,
covered in mud and dirt who would be seen eating rats.
If it sounds bizzare - thats because it was - the story spread across the whole area.
People enjoyed it as nothing more than a creepy story - but then - in 2007 - things got real.
Someone uploaded this video of the Catman in real life, chomping down on an actual rat.
This was a shock to many people because stories of Catman had been around since the 1970s.
However, since 2017, no sightings have been confirmed, and Catman and slunk off back into
local Urban Legend …
Next up at number 3 we have ETs Burial Spot[g].
From that title, you might think Im about to tell you that ET wasnt just a movie, it
was real, he died - and I know where he's buried.
If that was true, it would be the story of the century.
Its not that - but this is really interesting.
Legend says that somewhere in the New Mexico desert, Atari buried copies of one of the
worst commercial failures in video game history - ET the Extra-Terrestrial.
Why did it fail?
Well, it was clearly a cash grab deal with Steven Spielberg to make more money from one
of the most successful movies at that time.
They had just 5 weeks to make the game and as such, it was rushed and sloppy and rejected
by the early gaming community.
It also came during the 1983 video game crash.
So - Atari had millions of unsold games and decided to bury them in the desert.
Well, this Urban Legend is 100% true.
In 2013, a documentary team excavated the rumoured dump site and found hundreds of thousands
of Atari cartridges - many of them were of ET the Extra Terrestrial.
Next up at number 2 we have The Medicine Murder[h].
For many years, there have been urban legends going around about murderers breaking in to
peoples houses by climbing through a bathroom cabinet.
Its a creepy thought - a killer just squeezing through into your bathroom in the night.
It became such a popular urban legend that it inspired the 1992 horror film -Candyman-
which includes a scene where the main characters learn that a murderer might be entering apartments
through the medicine cabinet.
This actually used to be a major structural flaw in many American apartments.
Well, the nightmare became true in 1987.
Back then, some housing blocks in Chicago had apartments that were joined with a flimsy
partition.
An actual murder was committed by criminals who used this to climb through a commit a
murder.
The urban legend had become a movie which had become reality …
And finally at number 1 we have Slavemaster[i].
Around the turn of the millennium, many people started receiving chain mail warning them
of an instant messenger user called Slavemaster - a serial killer who lures women to his house
through public chat rooms.
Sometimes he used names like MonkeyMan935 or SweetCaliGuy4evr.
Whatever his name though, the email warned people that he had already killed 56 women.
It seemed like an urban legend, and many of the details might have been embellished - but
there is some dark truth to this story.
In the 90s, John Edwards Robinson was a serial killer from Kansas City who lured people to
their deaths using instant messaging sites.
His username was, of course, Slavemaster.
He remains on death row to this day.
I always start these Urban Legends videos with a lot of excitement and enthusiasm, and
then as I present them, I remember just how gruesome and shocking they can really be.
Im sure you guys feel the same - would you like to change it up for the next video?
Something happier perhaps?
Or is scary and creepy your kinda thing?
Let me know in the usual way - thanks for watching as always guys, my name is Danny
Burke and Ill see you all in the next video.