Grew up in a rural area of the southwest in the 80’s. There was an older woman with a thick European accent, she lived alone in a small house and was always nice to us kids. She was the only person who gave out full size candy bars during Halloween (that was a big deal back in the 80’s). But she also drank…heavily, like crashed her car a few times around town but not at fast speed (an old huge Ford LTD and not at fast speeds), and the sheriff’s always just took her home.

Rumors spread amongst us kids that it was strange the way our parents/ adults acted around her. One day in the small local store I was standing in line with my dad and she was standing behind us, I was about 8, I looked back and said to my Dad “that’s the lady that gives out full size Hersey candy bars on Halloween!” She smiled, my father turned and thanked her and looked at her arm, he looked spooked, then he quickly offered her to go ahead of us in line thanking her again. Side note my family’s Catholic.

When we got in the car I asked him about the woman, he then explained “those numbers tattooed on her arm,” he paused “what have you learned about WWII?” He then tried the entire ride home and later at home to explain the horrors of the holocaust to a 8 year old kid. It made sense why all the adults always treated her with a different type of respect. Even the Sheriffs, I always thought it was cool. Later I remembered people would volunteer to help her with her yard work, drop off groceries, get her packages, etc. me and my friend would mow her yard for free.

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US Midwest. Rumor has it that way up the old road out of town, somewhere in the woods, was a satanic cult that held seances and other mystical rituals by firelight. Scared the w*****s out of us kids, and our parents wouldn't let us ride our bikes anywhere on that road. Decades later I was working on a commissioned history project for the town and talked to the old man who owned the oldest homestead in the county--way back in the woods along that road. While photographing the creek that ran through the stone foundation basement of the home, which the settlers used for water generations ago, I noted the burned out tea candles everywhere. Guy lit up and said yeah, back in his younger days he and his wife used to host elaborate costume parties at the property, often by candlelight for the fun of it. He'd heard the rumors of the satanic cult and thought it was hilarious, so he and his friends ran with it and held parties in monks robes and had bonfires and lived it up. He still laughs about it, and now, so can I!

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Rumour about a local businessman who tried to end it all and was rescued. Some weeks later he ran into a burning building and rescued two young children, sustaining severe burns in the process.

A few months ago I saw him in the pub on the green, all of the skin in his face and hands had melted and he had skin grafted everywhere.

Happiest man in the pub. What a hero.

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I have two. Both about elderly men.

First, there was an elderly man that could be seen walking all over town. Long gray beard. Usually seen in tattered clothes. "Walking Man" or the "Silver Bullet" were nicknames for him. The rumor was he was actually really wealthy but lots of people just assumed he was homeless because he was always walking, carrying groceries or whatever. Well, about a year before he passed, it came out that he was actually one of the wealthiest residents in our town when he donated millions to local youth programs and schools. Turns out, he just liked walking a lot and placed no value on material things like clothes and cars.

Second, there was an elderly man who was actually homeless . The rumor was that he drank himself crazy some years back and just never got help. He was in and out of jail a bunch but always seem to be given some slack by law enforcement. This truth is tragic. He did drink himself crazy out of necessity. He was a paramedic. One night he responded to a wreck that turned out to be his wife and daughter had been hit by a distracted driver speeding on a narrow road. Neither survived. Understandably, he was never ok after that. He would sometimes check the pizza shop I used to manage for spare slices. Broke my heart that all I could do was offer him some free pizza. Hope you can rest in peace now, Red.

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I grew up where there were some signs of Native Americans. I started believing that this one particularly beautiful spot had to be sacred, and probably was a burial ground. I’d convince my friends to hold hands in a circle and try to commune with the dead. After I got a bit older I was super embarrassed that I’d ever done such things.

A few years later a Native American came but and told us how sacred the land was that we owned, and asked permission to hold peyote rituals with his tribe and others on our land. To this day they still come out and set up a teepee and drum all night, absolutely flying on hallucinogenics.

Turns out I was right

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Okay so this wasn't one that I heard as a kid but there was rumor around the college my wife works at that the chemistry professor was actually the father of the literature professor's baby.
A couple of the students asked her about it and she admitted that yes, the father was the chemistry professor.

The students were scandalized. Until she explained to them that said chemistry professor was her husband and this would be their second kid. Apparently, it never occurred to the kids at this small Midwestern college that couples didn't always share a last name.

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kid in my third grade class was ALWAYS late to school. i’m talking he once showed up to school 5 minutes before classes were released to go home. the rumor among parents & teachers was that his mom was an alcoholic & the dad lived a couple towns over so he often had to wait for his dad to take him or take care of his mom until she was well enough to drive (this was a private school with no bus). she died of liver failure a few months ago according to facebook. makes it so much more f****d up that everyone knew, including the teacher, and didn’t have any sympathy for him. i distinctly remember the teacher telling him on multiple occasions that it was “his responsibility to show up on time.” he was 8, was he supposed to drive himself??? makes me so sad & i hope he’s doing okay now.

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Had a kid like this in a 3rd grade class. Law enforcement was sent for welfare checks multiple times when he missed too much school. He was clearly neglected and nothing was done. He eventually changed schools, I think (and hope) he and his mom moved in with other family.

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This is a little more lighthearted. But when I was in elementary school. Probably like 3rd grade? All the kids in my class would joke about how our primary teacher and our Spanish teacher “liked” each other. We were all little kids, so of course it was just dumb little kids joking about around.

That is, until a few years later when I was in middle school and I found out my old teacher and Spanish teacher recently got married.

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There was a teacher at my school that kids would claim was insanely rich. Like he lived in a giant mansion near the oceanfront and he only taught because he just genuinely loves being a teacher. He was pretty private so he would always say you shouldn't ask people about their finances when kids would just ask him. So senior year he has the seniors over for a year-end awards ceremony and superlatives type dinner deal

Yup, super rich and lived in a huge mansion by the ocean. Said he inherited all his money from his parents and I think he said a sibling or two got written out of the will for being s****y so he didn't have to share it. Became a teacher out of college, then when his parents died and he inherited everything he just kept teaching because he liked it.

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We don't pay teachers enough, for their work to not be equivalent to a charitable donation. Wanting to be a teacher, is not enough, if you are responsible for financially supporting others.

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The local homeless guy who was always friendly and happy was actually a super successful lawyer. The truth was that he *was* a successful lawyer but one day cracked under the pressure, sold all his things and just started living the vagabond life. He said he was happier looking for where his next meal was coming from than money ever made him. I think it was the first seed planted in my brain of "don't k**l yourself for a company". I don't remember his name, but I hope he's still happy.

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When I was a little kid like 7 and roaming around the neighborhood with my gang of little rascals (this was in the 50’s when kids could safely play outside all day with their pals without parental worry) there was a rumor that in the house two doors over from mine that the parents had locked their mentally handicapped kid in the attic and that he was one of my gang friend’s older brothers. We played with him, but he always denied that he had any siblings. We were never allowed to enter his house which was strange because we were always stopping at our other pals homes during our days roaming to drink water or use the bathroom. About 2 years later the boy and his family moved away never to be seen again, but when they moved it was discovered that, yes, an older brother did exist and that he was kept locked away in the attic. It was a very creepy discovery! Mental health awareness and acceptance was in the dark ages in the 1950’s.

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This older kid had this lightning streak scar all over one side of his neck and down his body. The rumor was he was throwing stuff at the power lines behind our neighborhood.

Turns out he was. He was throwing copper wire at it, and it arced. He's lucky to be alive.

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When I was a child *shakes cane* we had the legend of The Baroness. Supposedly, she lived in a haunted house and drove around a pink hearse! When I was old enough to drive and explore on my own, I finally saw her! In her pink hearse! She also did live in a house that would have coded as spooky or haunted to a small child. It was just an old house with neat architecture.

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The community I grew up in had an abandoned hospital in it. The place was spooky as hell. The story was that the hospital had a maternity ward where they would steal babies from Indigenous women and then make the mothers disappear. They also said they would experiment on people and perform surgeries with no anesthetic.

Turned out it was true!

They say that place is crawling with ghosts and you could see the ghosts of the women walking around the hallways looking for their babies. I can not confirm that one. I always stayed away from that place it was too creepy.

They ended up trying to redevelop the building into condos and holy s**t you could not pay me enough to ever live in there.

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I completely agree, I would never live there, not for any money, creepy!!

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Always heard rumours that this kid who I rode bmx with, his dad was a high ranking member of the Hells. One day we’re over there, years later, chatting s**t around the fire in his backyard and about 70 patched members arrived at the house for a meeting. They bought us a s**tload of beer and told us to find a park to drink it in for a few hours while they had their meeting.

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One of my sister's first jobs was working in a pub that was the favoured hangout of two rival motorcycle gangs who had mutually declared the place neutral territory and bought their partners and kids there. It was probably the safest pub in the county, as anyone causing trouble would have two gangs after them, so no-one did.

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There was a rumor at my high school that that the building down the way was a cult. It wasn’t unheard of to dare people to go over there and then you’d end up being followed or sometimes invited to dinner.

Turns out, it was the HQ of the cult the Duggars were in, IBLP. I was watching that documentary and my mind was blown, because all the high school rumors had been true!!

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Omg I watched that Duggar documentary. I hate that woman and anyone who is in that church with children should be locked up. She laughingly admitted to playing "the blanket game" for hours on end with her babies. 2-3 hours a day, she sat the baby on a blanket, set a favorite toy outside the blanket, and every time the baby reached for the toy or even moved SHE WOULD HIT IT WITH A SWITCH. F*****g insane child abusers

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The park we used to play football at used to be a cemetery, they exhumed all the coffins and moved them years before I was born. We’d freak each other out especially at night saying there were still bodies buried there. One day we were playing and they were doing some grounds keeping work and they found a coffin, the state came out and found 30 more. We were actually playing on top of hallowed ground.

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If one is to assume a dead body (or its lingering spirit) has any cognizance of the world above it, I think having children playing above you would be kind of nice. 24/7 of just the occasional squirrel running over head would get pretty boring I'd think.

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In middle school there was an urban legend one of the teachers was in playboy. She was very attractive and every 12 yr old hetero boys fantasy.

One day a friend down the street found a huge stash of his dad’s old playboys from the 60 and 70s. He started going through them all until he hit one issue from the 70s. It was a compilation piece on college women. To his surprise, and the rest of us when he confirmed with our little group, it was our teacher. No one believed it but it was her name, college and face.

The good thing was we agreed to never show, nor tell, anyone else in our class. Though it was very tempting to tell her a*****e son who was in our grade that we knew the truth.

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Really good they didn't share that with others. Things we did when we were younger shouldn't haunt us.

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We had a rumor about there being a white horse in the woods behind the movie theater in our town. There were a couple homeless people living there though, so no one went and checked it out. Well, before seeing a movie one day, me and a couple of friends decided to make the trek. We stumbled passed the makeshift camp, and found a small path that led to a fence. We stood there for a couple seconds, and then, seemingly out of nowhere, a majestic white steed came trotting towards us. We snapped a quick pic on an early 2000's cell phone of our friend and the horse, and got the hell outta there. The pic looked absolutely fake, and no one believes us about it to this day.

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When I was in jr high in the early 2000s there was a rumour about one of my female classmates and the male gym teacher. Of course we all thought it was a rumour but a few years later it came out that he was sleeping with multiple students. Watching everyone’s face as they realized the rumours we heard were true was pretty wild. That girl also ended up just disappearing after it all came out, probably dropped out or moved schools, I feel bad for her, she was a victim but no one talked about her like she was.

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There was a taco truck in town that sold w**d if you asked for a side of lettuce.

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But what if you just wanted lettuce lol

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After you had some of the wëëd you would want the taco.

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Then you’d ask for weed

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Well...you do get the Devil's Lettuce. :)

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a 'side of lettuce' not just adding lettuce. this is not that uncommon. back in the 90s we used to go to 'variety stores' in west philly and buy fat dimes of weed. they would have a rack of chips, maybe some snapple and a big bullet proof window with a small hole to push the weed through. got to know a few of the guys who worked there. interesting times.

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There was a pizza place in our state's Capitol city that would put shrooms on the pizza if you asked correctly.

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What was correctly? Lol

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And you know this how?

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Weed. The word you're looking is weed.

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A certain Tim Hortons, in Halifax from memory, would add some wëëd to a cup of Tim Bits if you asked for a certain number which wasn't a standard portion of them.

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What were they selling? Wrong answers only

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Wind. It was the wind passed by their customers after eating their tacos. They caught it in a jar.

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Wood. The out of state kind that's illegal in some places. (To prevent the spread of tree diseases)

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Wand. They would capture any wizards who came through the area and brutally kill them. They ground up the wands and sold them. Snorting it made you float!

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The most successful taco truck in my town is parked 6 steps outside of the weed dispensary door.

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When i was 16, nearly 25 years ago .our weed guy had a day job at the deli of an A&P. Whenever we'd hit him up while he was working, he'd say "come to my office" which meant...the deli counter, we'd place our order and he would weigh it out using the deli scales, and bag it up using the deli bags. Absolutely no one gave a s**t. best time4

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One pizza shop around my area you ask for extra "for" pizza they stash it under the pizza

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I fantasized about starting a pizza/video tape/weed all-in-one deliver service in the 80s

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I knew some pizza delivery boys and batistas that sold weed similarly.. oh its like super legal here now

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One grade school teacher (m) had married another (f). Did not last, think weeks not months or years. Rumours were 1) he was gay. 2) he threw up on the wedding night in the middle of the attempted consummation.

Both turned out true.

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A vagrant looking man used to collect cans from local parks and whatnot (imagine someone pushing a shopping cart in tattered clothing). Rumor was he was generationally wealthy and when he passed away he left a fortune to the park and rec department to update facilities. Apparently this happens in a lot of places which is awesome to hear. His name was Nick and this was in Wisconsin back in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s.

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In my city we've got Ziggy The Bagman. The rumours around him are that he's actually immensely rich, and he's immortal. I give more credence to the latter than the former, cos when I was a child he was ancient, and 40 years later he's still going strong and looks exactly the same.

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When I was a kid (in the late 70's) there was a rumor that an old weird family were retired circus folk and kept an elephant in their barn, we all thought it was just an urban legend, until one day there was news reporters and all kinds of police activity at the residence and the elephant was taken away in a truck lol

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That's kind of sad. they likely honestly cared about the elephant and were trying to give it a decent retired life. I'm glad I got to see a couple of "real" circuses when I was a little boy but I'm also glad that circuses have mostly moved away from caged animals. As a little boy I was unaware of the sad life many of them lived.

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One of the teachers in my school got pregnant by a student but they didn't know which one (she had slept with 7).

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That if you rode bikes or four-wheelers down this certain trail an old man would come after you and attack you. A few years later, some kids were riding four-wheelers down that trail and an old guy shot and k***ed them both. Damnedest thing, they had already left his property before he caught up to them, and he k***ed them on public land. I'm pretty sure he died in prison a few years ago.

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I keep reading k****d as kicked

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Everyone at my school knew someone who knew someone who told them that this one house just down the road from the school was owned by a locally known drug dealer and it was his emergency hide out house. Years later I was driving past and laughed at how ridiculous the story was. 2 weeks after that the house was on the news with armed police surrounding it. Turns out it really was this drug hideout and the guy was involved in way more stuff than just that. They found drugs, weapons and evidence of a human trafficking ring in there. The house got mysteriously burned down while his court case was going on and has been a burned out empty lot ever since.

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When rumors become rumors because the truth reads like something that could only be ... a rumor

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One persistent rumor that went around during highschool was that one of our biology teachers was having sex with students. We all thought it was a joke because the guy was rather ugly looking and we all knew his wife (a fellow teacher) was always around.

Years pass and I find out that the male teacher was found having several relationships with underaged students. He got arrested, divorced, put on the SO registration, and lost custody of his kids.

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We had a teacher like that, not married though. That was in the 90s and then about 4 years ago there was a newspaper report about him because one of the kids he was grooming went to the police at long last.

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A kid at my school who’s mom disappeared when he was a baby was rumored that she was k***ed by Ted Bundy. Decades later researchers think it’s true.

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Killed. The word you're looking for is killed.

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Doctor in town (who was a huge football booster) gave prescription painkillers to high school kids.

He passed away before it all came to light so he never saw justice.

Lots and lots of kids through the years unsurprisingly became addicted.

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It was a local urban legend that this huge, old, and abandoned house was haunted because like a century ago there was a m****r there. Kids would freak each other out over it, tell ghost stories, sneak onto the property, whatever. I thought it was just that, an urban legend about an abandoned house. Nope - in the early 1900s the husband and wife were found dead in the house, it was never solved, but the son was suspected because he was missing and never found. No one moved into it after that and it’s sat empty since. I only found out because they planned to tear it down to build apartments on the property 2 years ago but the local community rallied to preserve it.

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Ooo bet the sons spirit comes back .. reliving that fateful night ... waiting for the moment when someone finally catches him ... so he can kìll once again...

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Our local China Buffet was using illegal immigrants as wait staff and then trafficking them across town to a massage parlor they owned that gave the ol rub n tug. Huge scandel when it happened but it was hushed up pretty quickly. The restaurant reopened some months after under new management.

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The rumor was ours was cooking cats for meat and then they got shut down for that reason. Really disturbed me. Then it was turned into a tanning salon that got shut down because the pervo owner was video recording teenage girls tanning naked

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I’ve heard about two different teachers at my highschool being creepy and they both have been fired for inappropriate contact with students

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Unfortunately, any job around kids (clergy, teachers, sports coaches, Scout leaders, etc.) will attract pedophiles.

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There were rumors that there were bodies that were dumped into a pond at a park. Turns out it was true. They drained the pond to clean it and found over 30 bodies. I used to run right next to there for Cross Country.

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Seriously? They found 30 bodies and somehow the rest of the public hasn't heard about it to this day? Hmmmmm . . . .

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Back in the late 80's, a local Principal and his wife went out fishing. There was a storm and she fell out of the boat and sank before he could grab her. The story always seemed odd. 20 years later on his deathbed, he finally confessed that he did m****r her and dumped the body out of the boat

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Murder. The word you're looking for is murder

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Girl in my high school was rumored to have been dating one of the teachers who was married.

This was probably true because after graduation, the teacher had retired, divorced his wife and married the girl.

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The two women (in their late 40's) were actually homosexual, everybody on our street believed them when they told everybody that they were sisters. I used to run errands for them maybe 3 times a week and they always gave me a shilling every time.

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This is one aspect of the 'good old days" I'm glad has changed. At least in most of the USA. When I was a boy in the 60s this would have been a secret. Similar for lack of acceptance of an interracial couple. Modern me knows some gay couples living openly. As long as it is consenting adults - people should be able to love who they want.

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A priest was rumored to be way too friendly with some of the girls in our grade school. It came out years later in an investigation that he had in fact gotten a teenager pregnant.

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That our neighbor was a p**o. Married with kids. One day, he drops dead of a heart attack. When the family started going through his stuff, they were so disgusted apparently just sold the house as-is with the furniture and everything.

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As a kid, I heard rumors about a hidden treasure in the nearby woods. Years later, during a construction project, they unearthed a time capsule, proving the rumor had some truth to it!

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What was in it?

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That tight biking turn at the bottom of the hill everyone called, 'dead mans curve' because someone died there?

Someone did, indeed, die there.

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In Montana they put up little white crosses where people die while driving - some corners have lots of crosses

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There was this a*****e in my junior high gym class, real bully type. And when he would act out everyone would ridicule him for his mother being a c***k w***e and we would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. Well, it turned out it was true - there was a public confirmation in the paper, and his bullying made a lot more sense bc it turned out his home life was what you would expect from someone having a c***k w***e mother, and no one talked about it anymore, and we did not laugh so much anymore. Ironically, I think he felt so ashamed when everyone found out, that he actually stopped being such a d**k head.

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Ugh what are those words!!!?

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Wasn’t a kid and nobody will believe this, but I have friends in production that told me about Kevin Spacey at least 6 months before the allegations went public.

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I believe you. He's a prick.

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That there was an unmarked graveyard in a field across the road (rural Canada). The oldest guy in the area talked about there being one somewhere in the area, but he wasn’t sure where.

Maybe 10 years ago, an older gentleman, maybe 70’s came over to our house when I was home from college and asked who owned the property across the road. He said his family lived in the area over 100 years ago and he was looking for the family burial plot. He asked for permission to search and spent some time with dousing rods in the field (maybe 75 acres total, but he was focused closer to the road).

He marked over 15 spots that he said were places where bodies were buried underground. That he could tell by the way the rods moved if it was male, female or a child. He even showed us how the rods would be still, but when you walked over the spots he marked, they would cross, or move away from each other.

He came back the next year and spent some money getting a big stone and a nice custom plaque made to mark this spot. He probably spent $1000 or a bit more on that, including renting a backho and operator.

Then, we never saw him again.

We used to play hide and go seek at night but we’d never go to that area where he placed the markings, because it felt eerie and sometimes would be foggier.

After he showed us the dousing that one day, I told my younger cousin to lay on the ground so I could try it on him. Walked over him with the dousing rods and nothing happened, so I said, “well, I guess you ain’t got no soul,” and walked back to the house.

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I wonder if the dousing rod didn’t work on the cousin because dousing rods are just sticks wiggled by fools and charlatans? 🤔

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There was a teacher who was rumored to walk a great distance to and from work each day due to prior cardiac issues that stemmed from weight.

Years later, while at work, I saw that teacher walking home each day, and the time I saw that teacher coincided with the time they would've left school and started walking.

Blew my mind!

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So... someone was rumored to walk to and from work... and they DID! AMAAAAAZING

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