You might have heard a tale or two now and then that seem so bizarre and yet could be a real story as well. The best part about urban legends are the factors that make it not very easy to know whether the story is true or not.
You have probably heard at least one or two of the stories on this list and have wondered whether there is any truth to these stories, well this is why we have here a list of 5 urban legends and the real stories behind them:
Familiar with stories of people cooking up dead bodies? Disgusting, right?
Chef David Viens of the Thyme Contemporary Café in Lomita, CA, reportedly killed his wife, Dawn, of 14 years, something he claimed to have been an accident. He later told police he stewed her body for four days in his restaurant.
According to Viens, he used clear masking tape to bound her hands, feet, and cover her mouth so that he could get some sleep. The two had been fighting. He later discovered that she was dead. He made this confession after jumping off an 80-foot cliff, which some say caused him to be in an unstable state of mind.
Those who worked alongside him at the restaurant say that this story was impossible as they would have noticed such a large pot in the kitchen. In the end, the judge sentenced him to 15 years to life after the jury found him guilty of second-degree murder.
Dawn's body has never been found.
This photo was taken during a taping of a Japanese psychic TV show. The girl's head is at an impossible angle, but don't worry. This one is also edited.
There's a common belief that the weirdest things tend to happen in the middle of nowhere. This story says that 27 dead bodies were discovered in rural Iowa in the late 1960s. Police could not find any motive or killer. We could not find any major news sources on this story so it is probably just legend.
The Cooper family, grandmother, mother, and two sons, posed for this photo only to find out later that someone else, a ghost, was in that room that day. Although the original photo cannot be sourced at this time, it is believed to have been digitally altered.
This photo circulated the web along with the caption, "It was Halloween and the Buckley children wanted to make some decorations so they decapitated their mother."
The truth is, fortunately, much less interesting. This photo is an edited version of the original, which featured the children with their mother, well and alive.
Halloween artist Edward Allen was responsible for the transformation and did a fantastic job spooking people out. He calls his version ‘Midwestern Matricide.'
