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Urban legends and the strange folk stories

Urban legends and the strange folk stories

We are all heard strange stories, what is bothering our mind. some of those stories are funny, sometimes scary and in some cases utopistic. When we are thinking about those stories like the story of the family, who left their house or flat empty for holiday, and when they returned all the furniture was stolen.

They came in the empty house, and sometimes this case, what origin remains unknown is used as an example of the unusual crime, and in some versions that family washed money and set up the stealing. They just took illegal money, and then bought furniture. Then that family gave the furniture to bandits and took good profits from the insurance company. That thing could be a good way to wash money, but that thing could be done only once.

Another version of this kind of case, where the killer sits in the backseat and tells about murders. In that case, the person takes the cab, and then says to visit in some places and asks the driver to wait, and then the cab driver starts to hear the murders, what is happening in the addresses, where that cab has been visited. The origin of that kind of tales are probably taxi drivers, who are driving in the big cities, and in those cities lives many kinds of people, and some of those customers, who take a cab in the night time might used drugs, and the tale is very old. And maybe there is real origin in real life.

When we are thinking about urban legends, there is always some kind of source for those tales. That means that there could happen something strange in those areas. And have you heard one of the most famous urban legends in the world? The crocodiles, what are living in the sewer system of New York City.

The origin of that legend might be that those sewers are very long and complex network under the city. In those sewers might live many kinds of people, from the homeless to mentally ill. And maybe some people, who lived in those places would make some illegal stuff in those places.

Those things might be the drug laboratories or storages of illegal weapons. The list of possibilities is extremely long. There are rumors about the government recon robots, what are looking like crocodiles. The stories are telling that those robots are equipped with hydraulic clamps, what is looking like the jaws, and also there are stories of microwave and another kind of exotic weapons, what is installed in those robots.

One of the most horrifying urban legends is connected to nazi-concentration camps. The origin of that legend is basing the thing, that allied forces transferred captured German officials to Dachau concentration camp waiting for the Nurenberg trial. And in that case, the urban legend tells, that the extermination camps continued their work behind the allied lines or even in peacetime. The thing behind those stories is that some of the Nazi prison camps were used as prisons after the second world war, but the rumor that some fanatic SS-guards continued the gassing in the allied controlling areas is without evidence.

But there is another version of this very horrifying urban legend, and in this version of that quite little known story tells that some guards of those camps lost their mind and fell the cyanide to the homes of the people, who they didn't like. The story might be without counterpart in real life, and I certainly hope so, but the thing is that the world is full of legends and in the time of fake news we must realize, that everybody can make own urban legend and if right persons are delivering that thing. Those rumors and stories, what is straight from the imagination might become new urban legends like crocodiles in the sewer system, what people are telling each other.

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