3 urban legends that turned out to be true

In all cultures there are urban legends that do not know where they originate.Most of them, if we analyze them in depth, we realize that they explain impossible stories .On this occasion, however, we want to explain 3 urban legends that turned out to be true.

3 urban legends that turned out to be true

A dead man under the bed

One of the best-known urban legends is the one that tells us about a couple staying in a motel .Upon entering the room Note a strange smell but they don't give it any importance.They open the windows and ventilate the room.After a few hours the smell reappears and it is getting stronger.They decide to find out where it comes from: they look in the closet , in the drawers...and finally they bend over to look under the bed where they find the cause of the unpleasant aroma. There was a corpse decomposing.

3 urban legends that turned out to be true

This urban legend seems to be that is true .This case, surprisingly, has occurred several times, in 1994 in Miami, in 2003 in Kansas City or in 1999 in New Jersey , when guests, some German tourists, complained about the foul smell that emanated from somewhere in the room in the one they had spent all night.The hotel staff, trying to fix the problem, found a dead man under the bed.

HIV infection from a robbery with an infected needle

I think we will almost all have heard this story.A person walks down the street and is approached by a robber wielding a syringe with a bloody needle.Although the person delivers everything he takes, the assailant pricks him with the needle while saying "welcome to the world of AIDS" , is infected and dies after a while.

3 urban legends that turned out to be true

Although this has never happened, if something very similar happened.Graham Farlow, an inmate from the Long Bay prison in Sydney attacked one of the prison guard with an infected needle..The attacked, Gary Pearce, was infected, tested positive for HIV and died because of the complications arising from this 7 years later.

The dead in the chimney

The urban legend speaks of a father or a thief dressed as Santa Claus , who to surprise or steal, slides through the chimney pipe is fitted, dies and is not found or until a long time later when trying to light the chimney and the shot does not swallow the smoke.

3 urban legends that turned out to be true

Something similar happened to Dr.Jacquelyn Kotarac in Bakersfield California in 2010. The woman had broken up with her boyfriend but he showed up at his house to see him.He didn't want to know anything about her and angry left home for a few days .Jacquelyn tried to force the back door and not getting it, climbed to the roof , removed the lid of the chimney and slipped through it .I am stuck and probably because of the heat, since it was at the end of August, he died.3 days the boyfriend returned.He began to smell bad and called some technicians who found the corpse stuck in the fireplace.

As you can see, reality often exceeds fiction, do you know any na another urban legend that is real?

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