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The 5 Creepiest Urban Legends (That Turned Out to be True)

So many urban legends are just legends that I was starting to lose faith in the weirdness of the world.. Until I read about these...


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The Funhouse Mummy


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The Myth:


A prop at a carnival was discovered not to be made of the usual combination of papier mache and carni spit, but human skin and bone. All the little kiddies at the haunted house had been poking and giggling at a real, mummified dead body.



The Truth:


Apparently the smell wasn’t just coming from the convict manning the corndog stand. Back in 1976, a camera crew filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man began to set up in the haunted house at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, Calif.As they were moving aside a "hanging man" prop, they accidentally knocked off its arm and discovered human bones inside. Bionic, this poor sap wasn’t.




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