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The Dog Boy

This Arkansas-based urban legend about a werewolf-like dog man roaming around the town of Quitman merely embellishes a true tale. In 1954, a boy named Gerald Bettis was born. The rumors around town held that he was cruel and sadistic, and that he liked to capture stray animals and do twisted experiments on them. His…

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The Puebla tunnels

Citizens of Puebla City, located in the southeast of Mexico, told folktales about a mysterious network of tunnels hidden beneath the city. For hundreds of years, no such tunnels were ever found, so people assumed that they were nothing more than the stuff of legends. But then in 2015, a construction crew discovered a very real tunnel…

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Helltown Ohio

Helltown

Helltown, known formally as Boston, Ohio, is an area in Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. Local legend associates the area with Satanists and hauntings. These stories are generally considered fakelore, resulting from the empty buildings that stood as a result of a mass eminent domain seizure of homes in the area during the designation of the…

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INDIANA: Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis

The Indiana Medical History Museum is located in the oldest surviving pathology building in the country. The Indianapolis museum recreates amphitheaters and laboratories that were once used by the Central State Hospital, which treated a variety of different mental health-related illnesses from 1848 until the late 1990s. The site is allegedly haunted by former patients.

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01 Of The Spookiest Urban Legends From Every State

Alabama: Huggin’ Molly

The legend of Huggin’ Molly is clearly a tool used by parents to get their children to obey the rules: The story, native to Abbeville, tells of a phantom woman who appears to children if they stay out late at night. She grips the lingering child tightly and screams in their ear—she’s not meant to…

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The Phantom Patient

“The ambulance company that I used to work for had a ‘haunted’ ambulance: rig 12,” recounts Reddit.com user Zerbo. “A lot of EMTs had stories about it, but I never put much stock in paranormal stuff. That is, until I had my own experience with rig 12. “My partner and I were working in a rural community at…

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