The Horrifying Reality Behind 20 Popular Urban Legends

10. Body Rolled Up In Carpet

Legend: People either find or purchase a rolled-up floor carpet, only to discover a corpse once they unroll it.

Reality: In 1984, three students at Columbia University picked up a carpet from a Manhattan sidewalk, only to find upon returning home that the cadaver of a dead black male with two bullet wounds in his head had been wrapped inside the carpet. A similar case occurred with a rolled-up gym mat in Georgia in 2013. (source1) (source2)

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11. Penis Stuck in the Pool Drain

Legend: A man attempts to have sex with a pool drain, only to lose his penis.

Reality: Although he didn’t lose his penis—only his dignity—a 33-year-old man in Florida was found attempting to penetrate his motel’s swimming-pool drain in the middle of the night. The pool’s pump was turned off in attempts to rescue him, but his penis had become so swollen during his attempts to make love to the pool drain that it took over forty minutes to extricate him from the algae-ridden drain hole and rush him to the hospital. (source)

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12. The Elevator-Door Guillotine

Legend: Attempting to rush in or out of an elevator while the doors are closing, a person gets trapped and is decapitated.

Reality: In 2014, young Russian mother Olga Tilinina became wedged between the doors of an old Soviet-era elevator and was decapitated while her two-year-old son watched in horror. (source)

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