The Horrifying Reality Behind 20 Popular Urban Legends

6. Dead Body Under the Bed

Legend: Tenants at a motel complain that their room has an unbearable smell, only to discover that a rotting corpse is lodged underneath their bed.

Reality: Gruesomely enough, there are several real-life instances of this occurring: in New Jersey in 1982 and 1999, Maryland in 1987, New York in 1988, Virginia in 1989, California in 1996, Missouri in 1993, and two different cases in Florida in 1994. (source)

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7. Dead Body at the Bottom of the Pool

Legend: Due to either negligence or cloudy pool water, lifeguards and swimmers fail to notice that a corpse lies at the bottom of the public pool’s deep end.

Marie Joseph (left). (YouTube)
Marie Joseph (left). (YouTube)

Reality: In 2011, a nine-year-old boy in Massachusetts tried notifying lifeguards that an adult woman named Marie Joseph had sunken underwater without coming back up. One lifeguard informed the boy that she was on break, while another lifeguard reassured him that they’d be doing a pool check in a minute or two. While people continued swimming in the pool’s cloudy water, it wasn’t until nearly two days later that the corpse of Marie Joseph was found lying at the bottom of the pool’s deep end. (source)

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