Scary Urban Legends You Didn't Realize Are Based On Real Stories
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Humankind has been passing along legends and folklore since we’ve been able to communicate. The good news is, while many contain kernels of truth, the majority of the creepy legends shared in hushed tones over roaring fires aren’t true. Most are just exaggerated stories meant to scare listeners and sometimes impart some sort of life lesson. Urban legends wrap up society’s fears in an attention-catching narrative that can be safely enjoyed for thrills, all the while knowing that it's all just a tall tale.
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My grandparents met Charlie when he was alive. A very nice, but misunderstood man. He actually was a child when the accident occurred.
Is that a true story?
@@btetschner Yes, Raymond was a real guy. He was a very nice man who was misunderstood. I don’t think the ghost stories are true, but he was electrocuted as a child which left his face disfigured. The man existed.
@@emilyshafer4128 Very interesting! Thank you for sharing that.
I had to ask if it was true because there are a lot of people who gain pleasure off of messing with people on the internet.
@@emilyshafer4128
When I 1st start coal mines it was good family owned like 15 to 20 mines they try keep there injured but could & wanted to work employees on payroll. I seen some badly injured guys. I felt so sorry for them. Family sold out to huge corporation. Company never was the same afterwards.
@@Milkman4279 Which part of the comments would make you believe that I didn't?
You're such a worthless person.
I feel really bad for the poor guy who lost his face.
Poor guy needed a hug.
: (
Supposedly he was a really nice guy, even being given rides during his walks sometimes.
Amazing to hear you start with Charlie no-face. I'm a resident of Beaver Falls, Pa, where Ray Robinson lived. He often hitchhiked or took walks in the evenings. Back in the late 70s my parents gave him a ride more than once. By all accounts he was a nice guy.. Unfortunately, some people in the area were known to abuse or take advantage of him.
Which is why he walked at night plus people feared him. I would be afraid at first but I think after a while I'd be ok. It's human nature to fear the different but not to be mean about it.
My Dad and his high school friends knew the guy well...used to go to beer parties at his property.
I seen a substation get hit by lightning at night. Talk about heat & A brite fire ball. I was in heavy equipment & still got welders eye burn & I was a good 100+ yards away. Thank God I happen be only 1 there at that time. Poor guy.
reminds me of the guy in the film Under the Skin who also walked at night to avoid everyone.
I'm in Murrysville, grew up in Plum Boro 1970s, I remember the green man.
It's awesome that The Phantom Killer was part of this story. My grandad was a Texarkana officer in 1946 and was a part of the task force to try to catch him.
@SzwegorzGwajn-lz2twyes he was
Raymon Robinson is said to be a really nice man and is more than happy to stop, talk and take pictures with polite people who pass by. A Man living in an attic happened to a family in Hawaii a few years ago, luckily the family survived and the man was arrested
Well, was said to be friendly, Seeing as how he died in 1985
The "Man in the Attic" story reminds of an actual case that occurred in Los Angeles (I think) back in the 1920s-'30s. I saw this story dramatized on "A Crime To Remember," a series from the I.D. (Investigation Discovery) channel on Cable TV. (This show can be found on the Tubi streaming service.)
Anyway, I don't remember the names of the people involved, but what happened was that a wealthy woman claimed that her husband had been shot to death by a burglar, but the police were sceptical because only a few minor items were stolen and because the victim's wife told them that to protect herself from the burglar, she locked himself in a closet. Yet, it was found that the closet could only be locked from the OUTSIDE, NOT THE INSIDE.
The suspicions by the police became even more heightened when the dead man's widow said that her husband had told her about strange things happening in the house, like food mysteriously disappearing from the kitchen and weird noises being heard throughout the place.
Soon, the authorities began to believe that the wife herself may have shot her own husband in a fight. To start with, there were rumors that the husband had been abusive towards his wife. Also, they suspected that she was having an affair with her lawyer. These two facts may have given her a motive to murder her husband, but the police had no real evidence to prove their theories, so they dropped a case for a while.
It was years later that the woman's lawyer came forward with a rather bizarre story. He told the police that his client, the widow of the dead man, HAD BEEN CHEATING ON HER HUSBAND, BUT NOT WITH HIM, THE LAWYER!
The woman's lover was a man who had no place to live, so unbeknownst to her husband, she sneaked her paramour into the upstairs attic, which she'd converted into a complete living quarters, with a bed, a table and chairs, a radio, a bookshelf, etc, and he had been living there for many years, and he and his mistress would often make love while her husband was away on business. She had been sneaking food to him all that time, which was why food kept vanishing from the kitchen. The noises that the husband kept hearing were probably the boyfriend walking about in his little "home."
The police found the man still living in the attic. He eventually confessed that on the night of the shooting, he heard the sounds of screaming and a fight, rushed down to the first floor of the house, and found his lover in a violent quarrel with her husband (who probably suspected his wife of fooling around when he wasn't home), and to protect her, he pulled the husband away from his wife, and tried to wrench a pistol out of the man's hand, and in the struggle, the gun accidentally went off, killing him. The wife and her boyfriend then had no choice but to cover up the truth by arranging the evidence (like disposing of a few items that were allegedly "stolen") to make it appear as if the victim was killed by an intruder.
The "Man in the Attic" (as the press dubbed him) and his paramour were later charged with manslaughter, but the charges were dismissed on the grounds that, under California law, the statute of limitations on manslaughter had run out, and the two defendants went free.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 i actually watched the show, what a crazy story it was!!!!
@@michaelpalmieri7335 I watched all the episodes of "A Crime to Remember." I love that show. Thinking about going back & bing-watching it again, but now all the endings are spoiled for me. 😂
That happens a lot. There’s tons of cases where people find out that there’s a stranger living in their home. Squatters mostly. They’re harder to get rid of cause they’re treated like a tenant instead of an intruder
When I was about ten years old, I was over a friend's house and was left alone in his room because his mother needed to have a talk with him (to her credit, she didn't want to embarrass him because it was about him forgetting to flush the toilet again. But I digress...) I was looking out the window and saw a figure in the reflection. Startled, I spun around and saw an elderly woman with long grey hair down past her waist dressed in a white gown. She outstretched her arms and slowly stepped towards me. I stood there completely paralyzed by fear as she approached. She wrapped her arms around me, kissed me on the cheek, softly laughed, then backed away, still staring at me. I remained standing there, frozen in terror. A few moments later, I saw my friend walk by and go down the hall and heard, "You ok? All right. Love you." and then the sound of a door closing. He then entered the room and asked, "Did my grandma come in here?"
So after that encounter with what I thought was a ghost, I became a lot less skeptical about the validity of urban legends. No matter how unlikely or fantastical, I never rule out the possibility that there is some degree of truth to them.
Savannah, GA is one of the most haunted places on earth because of the allowance of the horrible act of slavery in the US and it's storied history in the US Civil War.
The night doctors section reminded me of what I had heard during a late night ghost tour, but there were doctors in town who would experiment on slaves and wounded civil war troops as they came in. The worst part is that people weren't harvesting organs or parts for others that needed them for money, this was for pure speculation and fascination with some macabre intent a lot of times. People (i.e. drunks) were often "Shanghai'd" from bars/brothels in the area and found their way to the worst practitioner's basements for experiments.
Quite terrifying...
5:55 Tell me I'm not the only one who immediately went "Man door hand hook car door"
I love starting the day with some Weird History!
Dude, I burst out laughing at the Hook Hand title card because I thought of the same thing
Came to convents look specifically for this lmao
You have one hook and one hand. Which would you use to open a car door? Think about it.
The Midnight Society! Are you Afraid of the Dark? That show's intro alone scared me as a kid haha. Thanks for this!
Bruh, FR! This reference gave my chills.
OMG Same
My fave episode was the porcelain doll and dollhouse
The opening still makes my hair stand on end
@@guesswhat-chickenbutt my fav are dead man's float and the graveyard shift and any episode with Dr vink in it
My grandfather use to tell me the green man was living in his attic to keep me out. Which didn't work because I wanted to meet him.
You could do a two hour special just on the Cecil Hotel.
Netflix already did
A true and horrible history is that early gynecology was studied by white doctors on African American women slaves including all manner of surgery without any anesthesia. That is scarier than all this. I learned it in a women in US history class. One reason for this was anything having to do with female sexuality was taboo and doctors wanted women to practice on but it was considered improper for women to submit to any examination of the genitals. So slave women were experimented upon usually outdoors behind a shed without anesthesia.
Oh. So in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Charlie's "green man" character now makes sense
I literally just watched the episode where Charlie gets dosed on acid while tailgating for the Eagles try outs lmfao
@@kw2519 is that what all those little pieces of paper were?!?
@@recluseren haha so good. Sooo much acid. Fucked up thing is that actually happened to my friend. He never took acid but had played with mushrooms a few times. He was chillin in a friends work dorm between shifts and he drank what he thought was his beer. Nope, it had like 4 hits of acid in it from earlier in the day. (Line cooks are savages lol)
He didn’t know he had taken acid until his friend found him curled up in the bathroom 6 hours later. He said it was pretty scary not knowing what was happening.
What about the “Night Man”? Is that based on a demon who sneaks into bedrooms at night there to take a boy’s hole to pay the troll toll?
@@Dan_Ben_Michael you should probably stop sharing that inner monologue of yours
"Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society" 😂Love it!
I think the Bloody Mary myth was also inspired by the fact(?) that people were sometimes accidentally buried alive if thought to be dead. I was told that she was bloody because she tried to claw her way out of her coffin and the splinters made her bleed.
I heard it was from clawing at the coffin lid, but also that it tore her fingernails off
I was wondering if the Hinterkaifeck murders would make the list!!! (man living in the attic) This story is so so much more than this channel goes in-depth on it’s seriously one of the scariest old true crime stories I’ve ever heard. Whoever butchered that family was terrorizing them on purpose.
Yep. And the killer didn't steal any of the valuables or money. It was personal. The patriarch was unbelievably evil.
@SzwegorzGwajn-lz2tw Who even are you? 👀
Elisa Lam dealt with mental issues and was not taking her meds like she was supposed to.
Another case of the guy living in the attic was the Velisca Axe Murders
It's a little exasperating how often Elisa Lam's case is presented as some sort of mystery or something nefarious when there's an obvious, rational (and very sad) explanation.
The velisca axe murderer didn't live in the attic. He HID in the attic waiting for them to go to bed. It's one thing to hide for a few hours than actually living in someone's attic for weeks.
@@scheru It's been a little since I looked into it but wasn't one of the "mysteries" how the lid got closed? I think it was said that it was heavy and with the water so deep she'd have no real leverage to pull it closed, but the staff had to open it to do the inspection.Not saying there is anything supernatural but just that there is that question of how? Did someone close it before the inspection without ever looking in the tank? was she stronger than she looked? Was there someone actually chasing her that locked her in?
@@soshiangel90es, that was the real mystery. The rest of her behavior is explained by her mental illness, but not the water tank’s lid
One of the scariest things I've ever seen is human experimentation.
Makes my skin crawl what some people will do to other human beings against their will.
Not just humans. Animals as well. A quote that burns my soul is "if animals could talk, humanity would cry forever".
@@guesswhat-chickenbutt If there is a god he must be powerless to stop evil or complicit in it.
Look up Unit 731. The Japanese made Mengele look like a General Practitioner.
@@WastedTalent- They were both horrible.
And animals.
As someone who celebrates Halloween year round, thank you for this pinch of summer spooky 😂🎃!
Halloween is my favorite holiday of all!!!!
It's the perfect way to boost the spirit til Spooky season comes.
I loved Halloween so much I got married on the date. that was some time ago. my childhood was during the height of Halloween fun. everyone we knew trick or treated on beggar's night, 10/30, but I never hear about that anymore. I think 10/31 was for the adult parties or something.
My daughter, now 23 was so petrified after a sleepover in 4th grade after the Bloody Mary story. She was in tears. When it got dark I went in the bathroom and closed the door and did the “ritual”. Came out and told her absolutely nothing happened. She told her friends I did it and it was never brought up again. 😂
I've done it a few times and always chicken out. I'm scared enough of the dark as is oTL
You’re brave
@@cornfarts Nah. Just realistic. Haha.
I was really disappointed when I learned Polybius was a hoax, I had been interested in that story since the 90s
Yeah that Gruber family....uhh....the history behind them is really messed up.
Rorschach is such a great character too.
The Watchmen graphic novel is THE BOMB.
9:05--"Once she appears, there's a whole host of things she might do."
I was always told that Bloody Mary would reach out through the mirror and, if she got a hold of you, she'd drag you into it and you'd have to spend eternity trapped with her, made to watch as she tormented other victims.
My area has an urban legend about a bridge called "Bunnyman Bridge". In the early 1900s a bus full of inmates from an insane asylum were being transported to a new facility when their bus crashed. The authorities were eventually able to track down all but two of the inmates. For years the only evidence they could find was skinned rabbit carcasses upside down. Eventually they found one of the inmates skinned just like a rabbit.
The real story is completely different. In 1970 a newlywed couple were lost and looking at a map when a man dressed either in a bunny costume or a KKK outfit attacked their car with an ax. 10 days later a security guard saw a man in a Bunny costume chopping at a piece of wood with an ax. The man told the security guard that he was trespassing. Neither of these incidents took place anywhere near the bridge.
If you know them, tell them I’m sorry, I was just coming back from a burning and it was so dark so I thought they was a couple black demons
my state also has a Urban Legend involving a Bridge. ours is "Cry Baby Bridge".
@@Matt-md5yt every city in the world has that legend lol. The mother threw the baby off the bridge so it crys?
Is it the one in Virginia? I live just 20 min away or so from a Bunny Man Bridge but I’ve heard there’s 2 in the US
@@MikaelaKMajorHistory Yep, the one in Clifton.
“The only lives that truly matter are those who respect the lives of others”.
Fax
It's always a good day whenever Weird History uploads
Love this video! I’d love to hear more urban legends.
Blood Mary is based on Queen Mary and what was called her bloody reign.
False!
@@rileyfuckingrifle Do you know the real story? Honestly curious, I've never heard any explanation or background on this.
Well, Courtney, it would appear ole Riley is talking outta his ass here so I'm gonna assume you know what you're talking about. 😉
The Hinterkaifect murders are mostly unsolved because if how the crime scene was treated. There is a wonderful episode of Lore on the subject.
The Midnight Society nostalgia drop was marvelous! Weird History is certified awesome.
"Tempest" "Polybius" kind of sound similar and could easily get changed around like that after a game of telephone
Always interesting!
And some of these were also morbidly fascinating.
A+ video!
Amazing stories!
I didn't sleep for weeks when I first heard about the Hinterkaifeck murders as a kid
your voice is so soothing thanks to the rapid pace at which timelines has been nostalgic to me
Thank you for this video! ☺🌷
Growing up in the 1960s, probably every boy in small town America heard the story about the hook hand.
I grew up in the late 90s-2000s and the hook man story was STILL very popular at camp and sleepovers. The version my friends told me when I was 12 ends with the cops telling the girl not to look up, but she does anyway and her boyfriend is gutted like a fish on the car roof
Glad this came on so early in the morning... Not a bedtime vid, this.
Oh no, I'm watching it in bed ready for sleep!!
@@annettajensen6751 check your attic....
I couldn't help but think of Delphine LaLaurie when you mentioned the night doctors. Perhaps her story spread all over the south after she was found out.
TEMPEST! OMG I have been trying to remember the name of that game for weeks! What great timing, thank you so much I can tell my husband and my brain can rest now.
Man, this is something. I heard some of these stories from before. Especially from other channels. You know, this make me feel like watching Thoughty2, Scary Mysteries, Seriously Strange, Matthew Santoro, and They Will Kill You.
I think I'm subbed to all of these youtubers. 😂 You seen MrBallen yet?
Lazy Masquerade
BUN
We used to look up stories on Snopes, great times!
I love this! Please do more 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Already watched the video twice, such great stories!
How about possible reasons why certain folk archetypes-such as dragons, witches, angels and dwarfs/imps-seem to appear in radically different cultures in far away places that weren't aware of each other?
Bro could talk about famous poeple in the 1900s and I’ll still be interested.
Love this channel. 😻
That night doctor one is a real shocker, wow!
So many great references in the first 42 seconds!
The cave of forgotten dreams, the skeleton costume, Are you Afraid of the Dark?
This is COOL!!!
Thanks for the effort!
I feel bad fod Charlie, though ... and the young Woman who somehow wound up in a water tower tank.
Great video. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
These are legendary stories indeed!
It's just the middle of the year but I'm already getting the spooky vibes.
Tempest was one of my favorite arcade games! :)
I grew up very close to "Green Man Tunnel." The story I always heard was that he was struck by lightning while working on a power line, never heard about his face melting off. The actual tunnel is off the main road, only accessible by walking. I think it's now used mostly for salt storage.
These are some very fascinating stories.
Always crazy listening to these stories. As a youth, my sibs and I would scare our friends (3 of us within a year of one another, so we’d get some big groups) with renditions of terror by the Goat Boy. While camping on our property.This was in the late 80’s. Even caused a group to run full force and into shock wire. 😂😂😂😂 felt bad after I finished laughing.
Thanks!
I love watching your videos while I’m doing other stuff 😅
In first grade, I got really terrified of Bloody Mary. When I finally told my mom what was bothering me, she told me about Queen Mary (the older half-sister of England’s Elizabeth I). She said that Bloody Mary wasn’t real, but inspired by Queen Mary and that she was just some crazy lady who loved killing people who were a different religion than her. It made me feel a lot better AND Bloody Mary stopped being so frightening. So I like to think that’s where Bloody Mary came from.
More spooky video please guys ❤️
That Bloody Mary one was all kinds of inaccurate lol
The best part of this video is when the narrator uses the Nickelodeon TV show's Are You Afraid of the Dark introduction. It took me back to my childhood! 😂
I'm from Texarkana, and the Phantom has become a boogie man for that area
I actually grew up in quitman Arkansas and I can’t believe such a small town legend would make it on this list!
I loved Polyb-- I mean Tempest. I dropped so many quarters into that game. I also was addicted with the Space Ace game as well. I finally beat Space Ace after who knows how many quarters. I don't even want to think about it now. Haha.
Really? How old were you when it came out?
Born and raised in GA. Been here my entire life and never heard of "the Night Doctors". 🙄
In the suburbs of St. Louis MO near Sinks Road lived a family in a big house out in the country. It was reported that several of the older children were intellectually challenged and had large heads and who would chase people away if they came close to the house. They were known as "Bubble Heads" to teenagers back in the '80s. We would drive out in the secluded wooded area at night on the windy hilly roads to maybe catch a glimpse of the Bubble Heads. As we approached the Bubble Head house it was great fun to pretend that we'd run out of gas to scare the young ladies with us. I believe there was a plan to make a move about them.
6:35 I graduated nursing school on June 12th, the same day Can't Hardly Wait was released (which has Jennifer Love Hewitt as Amanda Beckett).
I wish your channel would do a video on culture-bound syndromes aka folk illnesses.
Like Fan death, Amok syndrome, Dhat syndrome, Hwabyeong, and Koro.
0:43: 👻 Urban legends that are based on real stories, including the tale of Charlie No Face and the family with a deranged lunatic in their attic.
2:58: 💀 Three chilling urban legends: The Gruber Family Murders, the Polybius arcade game, and the Night Doctors.
5:22: 🔪 The passage discusses urban legends, including the practice of grave robbing for medical students, the Hook Man legend, and the Dog Boy legend.
8:06: 😱 The passage includes a description of a disturbed man named Gerald Bettis, the urban legend of Bloody Mary, and the Alice Killings in Japan.
10:41: 🔍 The X urban legend includes the playing card killer and the black water legend, both of which have real-life occurrences.
Recap by Tammy AI
Did you really just make an are you afraid of the dark reference… awesome
I always loved AYAOTD as a kid. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is such a great film, it's a modern day classic.
Quitman, Arkansas is in Cleburne County. My mother's family and five of my seven siblings was born and raised in Cleburne County. I have never heard of this Dogboy but I am going to ask my cousins about it. Maybe I can visit Quitman the next family reunion. 🤞🏻
In the 1840s, the Alabama physician James Marion Sims (The father of modern gynecology) conducted infamous experimental gynaecological surgery exclusively on black women, bound to the surgical table by chattel slavery, physical force and opium. The drug did not allay their pain, and some historians think that they became addicted to it.
I want to learn about Marie Antoinette That story always freaked me out
WH never disappoints ✌️
Wow! An Are You Afraid of the Dark reference!
Based loosely on true stories.
Thanks for this! 😯 #WeirdHistory #UrbanLegends #BasedInTruth #Scary
Nice midnight society reference lol
I came to the comments to see if anyone else recognized that reference 😊 I loved "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" as a kid! ❤
@RLR117 heck yeah! That crawled so goosebumps could run haha are you afraid of the dark was amazing
I'm from Pittsburgh pa. Never heard of Charlie no-face. Until now.
@WierdHistory
I know this a long shot, but last night I was watching your timeliness video on 1974 and an ad for some song came on and I can't remember the name of it.
It was like a rock country song and it opened with a guy smoking a cigar
I can’t help but feel this would’ve been a better Halloween episode
The Alice Killings beat goes hard 😮
Yes lets see the urban legends
On the part with the people hiding in the attic I would’ve loved to hear your try in pronouncing Hinterkaifeck, the place where the murderers happened
Awesome
Hey!! Pittsburgh, we're in this one! 😅
Please make a video about Emma Goldman!
Wow. I didn't know.
Bloody Mary is based on Queen Mary I of England, daughter of Henry VIII.
And Elisa Lam's murder at the Hotel Cecil is a really crazy do mystery.
was hoping he mentioned the namesake person but was bummed he didn't
It’s not a mystery or a murder. Bi polar and psychotic girl climbs into a water tank and dies .
@@cd5433 There was no ladder.
@@HabrenOdinsdottir what?? That’s not even true
@@cd5433 It is.
I call this story... *throws magic dust on the fire* The Tale of the Weird History 🤣👻 Love ths!
AVGN did a great video about Polybius
3:33 I've waited for this reference.
...the moment I read the Hook Man prompt.
Wait so we're supposed to light a candle before calling bloody Mary? No wonder we couldn't get it to work
I can't believe you did a whole thing on Charlie no-face without any images of Charlie's Green Man from It's Always Sunny.
I loved the video game Tempest. I think it was my all-time favorite. I guess you could say I was addicted!