City Legends That Turned Out to Be True
Today, we’ll look at some city legends that have been confirmed as true after many years. Feel free to share a similar story from your own area if you have one.
‘For centuries, sailors have spoken about single giant waves that suddenly appear and reach heights of up to 30 meters. However, nobody believed these claims because everyone thought such stories were fabricated tales by sailors to impress people on the coast.’
In the 1980s, the Draupner gas field was discovered in the North Sea, and a new type of oil platform was established there. To assess the integrity of the new design, it was equipped with some sensors not found on other platforms, including a wave height recorder.
Finally, in 1995, these sensors recorded a single wave of 20 meters in height hitting the platform, which led to the acceptance of giant waves as a real phenomenon.’
‘For years, it was said that there was an underground shelter beneath our school, but nobody believed it.’
‘Later, in 2009, during excavations, it was discovered that there indeed was an underground shelter.’
‘In West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, there was a haunted house that gradually drove everyone living there mad.’
‘This was due to Datura flowers dropping onto an overgrown water tank hidden in the yard. The people in the house were unknowingly ingesting micro-doses of the plant, causing them to slowly lose their sanity.’
‘In the town where I lived, it was said that a creature appeared at night.’
‘We later learned that it was actually a real person named Raymond Robinson, who had a deformed face and only went out at night to avoid scaring people.’
‘Throughout all these years, sailors have claimed that giant squids were invading the seas.’
‘We later found out that giant squids do indeed exist and occasionally come closer to the surface.’
‘In our town, a woman claimed that a jackal had eaten her baby, but people suspected she had killed the baby and sentenced her to 40 years in prison.’
‘Years later, it was revealed that indeed a jackal had eaten the baby, and the woman was set free.’
‘In our town, there was a house where screams were heard at night, and people thought it was haunted.’
‘In reality, the owners had a monkey, which they kept a secret because it was illegal.’
‘At the university I attended in Texas, there was a legend about a student who got lost and died in the maintenance tunnels beneath the campus. I thought this was a rumor because many ghost stories were associated with it. That was until I found a part-time job at the university during my final year.’
‘It turned out the school had an extensive network of tunnels providing steam to the buildings for heating. Anyone entering the tunnels was supposed to be accompanied by another person to prevent further accidents.’
‘In Canada’s Prairies region, there was a legend about a man who kidnapped natives, stole their winter clothing, and left them in remote places at -30 degrees to die.’
‘This event, known as Starlight Tours, turned out to be real, and the perpetrators were local police. The Saskatoon police would catch natives during winter and leave them outside the city to die.
Even though the indigenous communities said it didn’t make sense for anyone to walk outside in -30-degree weather without proper clothing, the police didn’t investigate and simply said they must have been drunk (as they were the ones responsible for doing this).’
‘It was said for years that alligators lived in the sewers in Florida.’
‘Years later, it was proven to be true…’
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