The narrator shares 10 urban legends that turned out to be true, including:
1. "The Body in the Wall" - a man's remains were found in a bank's chimney 27 years after his disappearance.
2. "The Old Woman Buried Alive" - premature burials were common in the 19th century, with over 200 documented cases of people being buried alive.
3. "The Quietly Dead Guy" - a man's friends took him to bars while he was dead, using his credit cards and money.
4. "Brain Bugs" - a woman returned from Peru with a pain in her ear, which turned out to be caused by flesh-eating maggots nesting in her ear canal.
5. "Calls From The Dead" - a man's family received 35 calls from his phone after he died in a train crash.
6. "Creatures In Your Toilet" - a rat came up through a man's toilet and bit him in the buttocks.
7. "The Girl In The Shadows" - a homeless woman lived in a man's cupboard for a year, sneaking out to steal food and take showers.
8. "The Killer Policeman" - a serial killer, Ted Bundy, posed as a police officer to lure a woman into his car.
9. "Don't Drink The Water" - a hotel's water tank contained the liquefying body of a Canadian student.
10. "Kidney Thieves and Ice Baths" - an Indian construction worker was kidnapped and had his kidneys removed, highlighting the reality of the illegal organ market.
The narrator shares these stories with a mix of dark humor and shock value, warning viewers to be careful and aware of their surroundings.
Here are the key facts from the text:
1. In 2011, workers renovating the Abbeville National Bank in Louisiana discovered the bones of Joseph Schexnider, who had been missing for 27 years.
2. Joseph Schexnider is believed to have gotten stuck in the chimney while attempting to break into the bank in 1984.
3. Schexnider was already being looked for by the police for stealing a car.
4. Premature burials were common in the 19th century, with over 200 documented cases of people being buried alive.
5. In 2011, Robert Young and Mark Rubinson took their dead friend Jeffrey Jarrett on a night out, using his money and credit cards, without realizing he was deceased.
6. In 2013, a 27-year-old woman named Rochelle Harris returned from a vacation in Peru and discovered she had eight flesh-eating maggots nested in her ear canal.
7. In 2007, a man in Portland, Oregon named Ian Meyer was bitten by a rat that had come up through the sewer system and gotten trapped in his toilet bowl.
8. In 1974, a woman named Carol Daronch was approached by serial killer Ted Bundy, who was posing as a police officer.
9. In 2008, a Japanese man discovered that a homeless woman had been living in his cupboard for an entire year, sneaking out to steal food and take showers.
10. In 2013, the Hotel Cecil in L.A. discovered a liquefying dead body in one of their water tanks, which had been distributing water to the hotel through the taps and shower systems.
11. The body found in the Hotel Cecil's water tank was that of a Canadian student, but it is still unknown how he ended up there.
12. In 2008, an Indian construction worker named Mohammed Saleem was drugged and had his kidneys removed, highlighting the reality of the illegal organ market.
13. Ted Bundy, a serial killer, posed as a police officer in 1974 to try and trick a woman into going with him.
14. In 2008, a train crash in the United States killed 25 people, including a man named Charles Peck, whose phone continued to make calls to his family members after his death.