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From a body under the bed to being buried alive we countdown 10 creepy urban legends
that are actually true.
#10 The Urban Legend: Someone checks into a hotel and the room has a terrible odor.
They sleep overnight and then complain about the smell the next day. After the hotel investigates
a dead body is found under the mattress. The True Story: on July 10th, 2003 a man checked
into the Capri Motel in Kansas City and started complaining about a foul smell in his room.
After spending 3 nights in the room, he checked out because he could no longer stand the smell.
On July 13th, hotel staff came in to clean up the room and lifted the mattress to find
a man’s body decomposing
#9 The Urban Legend: A teenager decides to pose as a hanging victim as a prank for Unfortunately
something goes wrong and the teen actually dies.
The True Story: In 2013 Jordan Morlan decided he wanted to prank his little sister by pretending
to be hanging from a noose decoration he had put up for Halloween. The coroner claims after
the teen put the noose around his neck, he became disoriented and had cut off oxygen
to his brain. His younger sister found him unconscious, and the teen died a few hours
later in the hospital.
#8 The Urban Legend: A Houston doctor was decapitated by a faulty elevator
The True Story: On August 16th, 2003 Dr Hitoshi Nikaidoh , a surgical resident at Christus
St Joseph Hospital stepped onto a second floor elevator. The doors closed and pinned his
shoulders and The elevator then moved upwards and severed the doctor’s head. A woman who
worked at the hospital was already on the elevator and witnessed the incident. Because
of the malfunction, she was trapped on the elevator with the severed head for 20 minutes.
#7 The Urban Legend: A patient is killed when their hospital gurney rolls away.
The True Story: This is a case of an urban legend coming true long after it began. In
1991 a 76 year old man died after the ambulance stretcher he was strapped to rolled down a
small hill and flipped. During the incident, the man injured his head and died from his
injuries.
#6 The Urban Legend: A woman is left for dead and buried in a shallow grave. She wakes up,
and digs herself out. The True Story: In 2013 a 13 year old Pakistani
girl was buried alive by 2 men who had raped her. In a remote area in the Punjab region
of Pakistan, the assailants had thought the young girl was dead so they buried her. After
they had left, she regained consciousness and managed to dig her way out and recover
from her horrific ordeal.
#5 The Urban Legend: Insects can crawl into your ear, and lay their eggs inside your head
The True Story: Rochelle Harris had returned from a vacation in Peru and started to develop
severe headaches. The headaches got worse, and Rochelle started hearing noises in her
head and started to have fluid leak from her ear. She visited her local emergency room
where doctors discovered eight large maggots that had hatched from eggs laid by a Screw
Worm Fly.
#4 The Urban Legend: A family moves into a new home and the water from the shower or
sink is completely black and smells disgusting. The black water is caused by a liquefied decomposing
body. The True Story: In 2013 guests of the Cecil
Hotel In Los Angeles complained about the tap water’s taste and color. Because of
the complaints, a maintenance worker checked the rooftop water tank and found the body
of 21 year old Elisa Lam. Her death was cited as being accidental, and her body had been
sitting in the water tank for 2 weeks.
#3 The Urban Legend: Constructions works renovating a building find a human skeleton in the wall.
The True Story: In 2011 Abbeville national Bank decided it needed more room, and hired
a general contractor to do the work. While in the process of removing a metal shield
covering a fireplace, he found small bones and clothing. After an investigation, it was
discovered a body had been there for 27 years. Police figure the man had climbed down the
chimney to rob the bank, but had gotten stuck
#2 The Urban Legend: Someone who lives alone feels like they’re being watched in their
own home. They later find out a stranger has been living in the attic.
The True Story: In 2012 a woman from Rock Hill South Carolina started hearing thumps
from her bedroom ceiling. She said something didn’t feel right and had her adult son
investigate the issue. To their surprise, they found an adult male sleeping in the back
of the attic.It turns out the stranger was actually an ex boyfriend she had broken up
with 12 years earlier The man had just been released from prison 2 weeks earlier and was
using her attic to spy on the woman as she slept.
#1 The Urban Legend: Someone who was thought to be dead is actually buried alive. The family
exhumes the body and find scratch marks on the lid of the coffin.
The True Story: Before advances in modern medicine premature burial happened fairly
often. This lead to the sale of safety coffins, which was a coffin that was fitted with a
mechanism to allow the occupant signal that they had been buried alive.