Terrifying Urban Legends That Are Horrifying But True
Everyone enjoys a good urban myth or legend, they're great for telling around campfires or at birthday sleepovers. But what if the scary stories that you grew up with turned out to be true? The horrifying thing is, most of them are! Most of what we hear are exaggerated stories but myths and legends have to stem from somewhere, right?
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Right, so I'm sure your skin will crawl when you read the real incidents that happened to stem some of the scariest urban legends still around today. Read below stories of murder, creepy children, and myths like Slenderman and finally find out the scary truths behind already terrifying stories.
1. The Buckley Children
Susan and John Buckley beheaded their own mother as part of a Halloween joke. They switched the idea of a beheaded dummy for their actual mother and disappeared before anyone realized that the Halloween decoration was a real dead body.
2. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac
Dr. Kotarac was found dead after she suffocated after lodging herself into the chimney of her estranged lovers home. She was discovered by a house sitter after the smell became disturbing, and it took a team of firefighters 5 hours to extract the body.3. Michelina Lewandowska
This 27-year-old woman was buried alive in 2011 by her then-fiance. After 'becoming bored' of her, the man taped her up, tasered her and buried her in a cardboard box. She escaped after over an hour by cutting her way out with her own engagement ring.
4. Kuchisake-Onna
This is the legend of a woman who was mutilated after her samurai husband caught her cheating on him with another samurai. To punish her, he slit her face from ear to ear and asked her "Who will think you are beautiful now?". People now believe that she wanders the streets wearing a medical mask asking people if they think she is beautiful. Whatever your answer after she removes her mask, she kills you.