Reddit user u/Only-Carpenter-6689 posed the question: “What’s a local rumor you heard as a kid that turned out to be true years later?” The thread filled with hundreds of shocking stories of whispered rumors and urban legends come true. Here’s what people shared:

Warning: Submissions contain disturbing subject matter.

1.”My neighbor was rumored to have a dead body in his basement. When he moved, a whole bunch of us neighbor kids decided to break into the house via the window. We all went to the basement and found not just one, but two very decomposed skeletons in what was supposed to be the bathroom.”

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2.”This teacher I HATED was rumored to have murdered his wife and then fled west. There was no body, so he hadn’t been charged, and the school hired him. He was the biggest creep, and he was violent and misogynistic towards his students. He once took a sketch off of my desk, crumbled it, and threw it across the room because he didn’t like that I wasn’t paying attention to his daily rant about how Top Gun was the best movie ever. His daughter was in my sister’s grade and she was messed up (justifiably). A totally believable rumor. Well, it turned out to have been true and he was eventually convicted (twice, since the first conviction was overturned).”

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