Reddit person u/Solely-Carpenter-6689 posed the query: “What’s an area rumor you heard as a child that turned out to be true years later?” The thread crammed with a whole bunch of stunning tales of whispered rumors and concrete legends come true. This is what individuals shared:
Warning: Submissions include disturbing subject material.
1.”My neighbor was rumored to have a lifeless physique in his basement. When he moved, a complete bunch of us neighbor youngsters determined to interrupt into the home by way of the window. All of us went to the basement and located not only one, however two very decomposed skeletons in what was imagined to be the lavatory.”
—u/Pussykiller-893
2.”This instructor I HATED was rumored to have murdered his spouse after which fled west. There was no physique, so he hadn’t been charged, and the varsity employed him. He was the largest creep, and he was violent and misogynistic in direction of his college students. He as soon as took a sketch off of my desk, crumbled it, and threw it throughout the room as a result of he didn’t like that I wasn’t taking note of his every day rant about how Prime Gun was the most effective film ever. His daughter was in my sister’s grade and he or she was tousled (justifiably). A completely plausible rumor. Properly, it turned out to have been true and he was finally convicted (twice, because the first conviction was overturned).”
—u/Consultant-Low23
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3.”The park we performed soccer in was once a cemetery. They exhumed all of the coffins and moved them years earlier than I used to be born. We’d freak one another out, particularly at night time, saying there have been nonetheless our bodies buried there. At some point, whereas we have been enjoying, they have been doing a little groundskeeping work and so they discovered a coffin. The state got here out and located 30 extra. We have been truly enjoying on prime of hallowed floor.”
—u/Telrom_1
4.”It was an area city legend that this large, previous, deserted home was haunted as a result of a century in the past, there was a homicide there. Youngsters would freak one another out over it, inform ghost tales, sneak onto the property, and many others. I assumed it was simply an city legend about an deserted home. Nope. Within the early 1900s, a husband and spouse have been discovered lifeless in the home. It was by no means solved, however the son was suspected as a result of he was lacking and by no means discovered. Nobody moved into it after that, and it’s sat empty since. I solely discovered as a result of they deliberate to tear it right down to construct residences on the property two years in the past, however the local people rallied to protect it.”
—u/Mat_ Cauthorns_Hat_
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5.”The neighborhood I grew up in had an deserted hospital in it. The place was spooky as hell. The story was that the hospital had a maternity ward the place they might steal infants from Indigenous girls after which make the moms disappear. In addition they stated they might experiment on individuals and carry out surgical procedures with no anesthetic. Turned out it was true! They are saying that place is crawling with ghosts, and that you may see the ghosts of the ladies strolling across the hallways on the lookout for their infants. I can’t affirm that one. I at all times stayed away from that place — it was too creepy. They ended up making an attempt to redevelop the constructing into condos. You could possibly not pay me sufficient to ever dwell in there.”
—u/russelljonesya
6.”I lived in a very small city, inhabitants round 200 individuals, tops. Once I was a child, I’d discover the city. There was a railroad monitor that went by the sting of city, and for those who adopted it a very good bit, it crossed a small creek/river. That bridge was referred to as Useless Girl Crossing. The story was {that a} girl had killed her toddler youngster there after which jumped off the bridge into the water, and that typically at night time, you could possibly hear the child cry. Allegedly, there have been ‘sightings’ of a girl there. It freaked me out, so I didn’t mess with it. It was actually eerie. Years later, some individuals messing on the market reported discovering human stays within the creek close to the bridge. The stays have been a younger girl, however they didn’t discover something of an toddler, if I keep in mind appropriately.”
—u/Lone-Beetle
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7.”As a young person, my buddies and I used to speak about this haunted previous mansion. I believe a few of my buddies had damaged into it, or so that they claimed. The story I keep in mind individuals saying was some stereotypical horror film story of individuals whose automobile had damaged down had sought assist after which the proprietor ended up killing them. There was an enormous greenhouse/conservatory inside it, so we imagined them being chased by this indoor jungle by a maniac. The place was rundown and regarded like an establishment — bars on the home windows and all. I later discovered a information story on-line about it. The proprietor was some wealthy jerk again within the Nineteen Eighties who used to go choose up younger male intercourse employees within the metropolis and take them residence, after which he’d roughly hold them prisoner in his home and get them to carry out all kinds of degrading acts.”
“A few them received collectively at some point and determined they weren’t going to do that crap anymore. They wrecked his greenhouse/conservatory, then waited for him to come back residence and stabbed him to dying as he got here in. The newspaper had these previous photographs of blood throughout. I assure that only a few individuals even know or keep in mind this story, particularly individuals who weren’t round then. However, that home coloured my adolescence. I drew it for artwork class. The household had a tough time coping with the home, therefore it being rundown, I suppose. They’d individuals dwell in it rent-free simply to take care of it and stuff. It was arduous to promote on condition that it was a hideous place and had had a homicide. Finally, it received torn down and became condos, and I am certain these condos are haunted, lol.”
—u/macphile
8.”This older child had this lightning streak scar throughout one facet of his neck and down his physique. The rumor was he was throwing stuff on the energy traces behind our neighborhood. Seems he was. He was throwing copper wire at it, and it arced. He is fortunate to be alive.”
—u/WhyEvenTryEver
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9.”Once I was in center faculty, I needed to switch to this actually shady faculty for a pair weeks. There was a forest behind the recess space, which no person would go close to since there was continually this sturdy, disgusting stench that gave the impression to be coming from inside. There was a rumor {that a} assassin who received launched from jail secretly used the forest to proceed satisfying his pleasure of killing issues, and he supposedly killed animals within the plenty, like deer and squirrels. I transferred to a different faculty after a pair weeks and forgot about it. Quick ahead to my sophomore yr of highschool. They have been supposedly renovating the center faculty, which got here with a elaborate new playground they might construct within the woods. Apparently, the employees have been clearing out the bushes after they discovered dozens of corpses of animals, together with deer, birds, raccoons, and foxes. They cancelled your entire renovation and closed the varsity completely after that.”
—u/CauliflowerSure3228
10.”That the massive, empty area barely outdoors of city with nothing however a shed and an AT&T signal was a nuclear bunker. My dad and mom thought I used to be nuts after telling them I heard this rumor someplace, and I stored bringing it up each time we drove previous, however they might at all times reply, ‘No, it is not.’ Seems, it completely is a nuclear bunker. It was crammed with phone switching gear and was designed to be nuke-proof in order that the phone community would hold working within the occasion of an all-out nuclear conflict, and it even included somewhat space for the crew. There was once a web site that had some photographs of the within whereas it was beneath development, however I can not seem to discover them anymore.”
—u/bbbbbthatsfivebees
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11.”I grew up in a seashore city in California, and one yr, these Christian hippie varieties began rolling round, passing out pamphlets and welcoming individuals to the brand new restaurant they have been opening. I checked out my pal after they walked away, and I stated, ‘Thats a cult for certain.’ It grew to become a working joke. We ended up going to the restaurant a number of instances. They’d actually good meals and a pleasant ambiance, and it grew to become sort of a staple restaurant for locals. They by no means pushed any agenda on their patrons. Lower to a decade later. I used to be dwelling in Las Vegas and assembly a coworker who was from the identical space I grew up in. Seems she grew up in that cult and escaped when she was 23, a number of years earlier than I met her. We ended up changing into sort of shut, and he or she shared a few of what it was like.”
“Once I was 13 and working across the seashore, getting approached by these dudes, she was working on the restaurant, with out pay, beneath strict guidelines. Seems the cult is understood for youngster labor violations, has been accused of abuse a number of instances, and makes everybody work in for-profit enterprise totally free. And I am certain she simply barely scratched the floor for me.”
—u/DJ-spetznasty
12.”That there was an unmarked graveyard in a area throughout the highway (in rural Canada). The oldest man within the space talked about there being one someplace within the space, however he wasn’t certain the place. Possibly 10 years in the past, an older gentleman, in all probability in his 70s, came to visit to our home once I was residence from school and requested who owned the property throughout the highway. He stated his household lived within the space over 100 years in the past and he was on the lookout for the household burial plot. He requested for permission to go looking and spent a while with dousing rods within the area (possibly 75 acres whole, however he was targeted nearer to the highway). He marked over 15 spots that he stated have been locations the place our bodies have been buried underground. He stated he may inform by the way in which the rods moved if our bodies have been male, feminine, or that of a kid.”
“He even confirmed us how the rods could be nonetheless, however whenever you walked over the spots he marked, they might cross, or transfer away from one another. He got here again the following yr and spent some cash getting an enormous stone and a pleasant customized plaque made to mark this spot. He in all probability spent $1000 or a bit extra on that, together with renting a backhoe and operator. Then, we by no means noticed him once more.
We used to play cover and search at night time, however we’d by no means go to that space the place he positioned the markings as a result of it felt eerie and typically could be foggier. After he confirmed us the dousing rods that at some point, I informed my youthful cousin to put on the bottom so I may attempt it on him. I walked over him with the dousing rods and nothing occurred, so I stated, ‘Properly, I suppose you ain’t received no soul,’ and walked again to the home.”
—u/jamiezero
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13.”There was a rumor that began whereas I used to be in highschool that our principal, who had not too long ago come to us from one other state, was a assassin. Most individuals blew it off as simply that: a rumor. A couple of years after I graduated, it turned out the man truly was a assassin. He had been the first suspect for murdering his spouse (horribly, with a baseball bat, then chopped up and hidden in containers), however the regulation did not have sufficient proof to prosecute. DNA finally received him. Nobody ever discovered how the (true) rumor began, however I would suspect somebody in regulation enforcement from his former hometown tipped somebody off.”
—u/fulthrottlejazzhands
14.”There was a dude who lived about two streets over from me. Different individuals in my neighborhood would speak about how they received packages along with his identify however their tackle, and joked about it being a bomb (because the components in there have been actually bizarre, like gunpowder, a clock, and candle wicks). Any individual who had moved in additional not too long ago (thoughts you, this was about six years in the past) caught wind and did not understand it was a joke. He referred to as the police and informed them that someone had a potential bomb and he wished somebody to test it out and ensure it wasn’t actual. Finally, the police got here and searched his home. Seems, they discovered at the very least seven improvised explosives simply sitting on his front room sofa. He was arrested shortly after, and, if I keep in mind appropriately, sentenced to twenty years with out parole.”
—u/lego_reverse_flash
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15.”There was an previous, tall dude in a trench coat who at all times wore a hat with two large feathers in it. We heard he was a rocket scientist, so we referred to as him Rocket Man. He at all times had tremendous wild, far-fetched tales. Seems he truly was a rocket scientist. He labored in a number of the greatest labs all over the world. We actually simply thought he was off his rocker!”
—u/Cheap-Law1998
16.”As a child, there was this neighborhood delusion about ‘The Hatchet Man’ lurking in our woods that my brother helped unfold. All of the youthful youngsters have been terrified. Then, at some point, we have been out enjoying kickball and a police automobile and an ambulance zoomed by our recreation, sirens blaring, coming from my nearest neighbor’s home. Our avenue was often so quiet and was off the crushed path It turned out a man had been hanging out within the woods and spying on my neighbor for weeks. That day, she was alone and he broke in with a knife. My brother actually had seen a man lurking within the woods.”
—u/Jayseek4
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17.”I used to listen to from some youngsters in my hometown {that a} dude was murdered by a person (who accused him of stealing some issues) with a machete while on a horse at night time. When you went there, you’d see him and his ghost horse. Flash ahead 10 years and my mother and I have been wanting by her reminiscence field and I discovered a information clipping with the story and her identify in it. It was her previous boyfriend and her horse.”
—u/Last_Tuesdays_Beans
18.”At my main faculty, there was a rumor {that a} man was dwelling beneath one of many buildings and was killing and consuming the native wildlife to outlive. Now and again, individuals would declare they noticed one thing beneath the constructing. At some point, we received to highschool and noticed police pulling a sleeping bag, a knife, and a bunch of animal skins out from beneath the constructing. Seems it was true in spite of everything, however I do not know what occurred to him.”
—u/Torterran
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19.”There was a rumor at my highschool that the constructing down the way in which was a cult. It wasn’t remarkable to dare individuals to go over there, and you then’d find yourself being adopted or typically invited to dinner. Seems, it was the HQ of the cult the Duggars have been in, IBLP. I used to be watching that documentary and my thoughts was blown as a result of all the highschool rumors had been true!”
—u/_curiouschloe_
20.”Everybody at my faculty knew somebody who knew somebody who informed them that this one home down the highway from the varsity was owned by an area drug vendor and that it was his emergency hideout home. Years later, I used to be driving previous and laughed at how ridiculous the story was. Two weeks after that, the home was on the information with armed police surrounding it. Seems it actually was this drug hideout and the man was concerned in far more stuff than that. They discovered medication, weapons, and proof of a human trafficking ring in there. The home was mysteriously burned down whereas his courtroom case was happening, and it has been a burnt-out empty lot ever since.”
—u/Ordovi
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21.”{That a} quiet and well mannered dude we knew rising up was a murderous and ruthless gang chief. We used to go to his events, we noticed him out in town, and at all times exchanged pleasantries. We’d see him on the bar, and there was little indication he was to not be messed with, till at some point we ran into him in a car parking zone. We have been exchanging pleasantries when a truck pulled up a few spots over. He stated, ‘Only a sec,’ and calmly walked over to speak to the man. A brief dialog ensued, and he opened the driving force’s door and began pummeling the man. He was on prime of him within the driver’s seat, punching down.”
“We have been surprised. After a short time, he received out of the truck and walked again, calmly end his dialog with us like nothing occurred. We noticed the truck draw back, so we expect the man lived. A couple of years afterwards, extra rumors surfaced about him and it made sense that they have been true. At some point, his arrest made worldwide headline information. He obtained a heavy sentence for a ton of various crimes. He probably will not ever be free, and his associates are nonetheless doing enterprise.”
—u/GreenWeiner
22.”There have been rumors that there have been our bodies dumped right into a pond at a park. Seems it was true. They drained the pond to scrub it and located over 30 our bodies. I used to run proper subsequent to there for cross nation.”
—u/Xeblac
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23.”There was a secret cult in one of many neighborhoods. Turned out to be NXIVM.”
—u/laurhatescats
24.And, on a lighter word: “There was an aged man who may very well be seen strolling throughout city. Lengthy grey beard, often seen in tattered garments. ‘Strolling Man’ or the ‘Silver Bullet’ have been nicknames for him. The rumor was that he was truly actually rich, however numerous individuals simply assumed he was homeless as a result of he was at all times strolling, carrying groceries or no matter. Properly, a few yr earlier than he handed, it got here out that he was truly one of many wealthiest residents in our city, and he donated hundreds of thousands to native youth packages and colleges. Seems he simply preferred strolling quite a bit and positioned no worth on materials issues, like garments and vehicles.”
—u/Spo_Ofzor
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