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- "And it turned out that the killer was Canadian.
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"Mwahahahaha!," said no Urban Legend ever.
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So, we've all heard an Urban Legend
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at some point in our lives and if you notice
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they either always sound far-fetched
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or exaggerated but these stories are
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designed that way for a reason
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and usually that reason is to scare
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the crap out of the person that you're telling it to.
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But, what happens if the story isn't just a story?
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What if it really happened?
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Well, as it turns out, some of the most well-known
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Urban Legends aren't legends at all,
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so I gathered up some of the most disturbing ones
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to share with you guys.
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So, here they are.
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10 Creepy Urban Legends That
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Turned Out to Be True.
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Number One is The Body in the Wall.
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This Urban Legend says that,
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while renovating a home,
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a construction worker knocks down a wall
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only to find a bare bones skeleton staring back at him.
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Well, in 2011, while renovating the second floor of
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the Abbeville National Bank in Louisiana,
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workers discovered the bones of Joseph Schexnider,
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who had been missing for 27 years.
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It's believed that he got stuck in the chimney
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while attempting to break into the same bank
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all the way back in 1984.
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Did I mention that the police were already
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looking for him for stealing a car?
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I guess you could say he's got some skeletons in his closet?
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Or at least in his chimney.
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Number Two is
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The Old Woman Buried Alive.
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This Urban Legend is about an old woman
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that's buried after being declared dead,
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after which the body is exhumed,
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only for the family to find scratch marks
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on top of the coffin lid,
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among other signs of attempted escape.
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Well, as it turns out, premature burials were actually
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pretty common in the 19th Century.
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In fact, there were over 200 documented cases
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of people being buried alive around that time.
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Now, before you're like,
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"Well, damn, how can that be?"
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keep in mind that this was during a time
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when the medical profession wasn't exactly a science.
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I say that we should just be thankful that
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we're lucky enough that they have ways today
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of telling whether or not Grandma's in a deep sleep
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or whether she's ready to become a root inspector.
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Number Three is The Quietly Dead Guy.
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As the story of this Urban Legend goes,
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a guys is passed out on a bus and
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everybody leaves him alone,
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assuming he is sleeping as the bus makes its rounds,
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only for the driver to check his body
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at the end of his shift to find out that he was dead.
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Well, believe it or not,
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the real story is a lot worse.
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In 2011, Robert Young and Mark Rubinson
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arrived at their friend, Jeffrey Jarrett's house,
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only to find him passed out.
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So, they decided to load him into a car
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and go partying at bars for the night.
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The only problem was he was dead
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in the back seat the entire time.
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They claimed that they thought
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he was just passed out drunk,
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but that doesn't explain why they
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used his money and credit cards.
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You know, you should never commit a crime
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but if you do, I'm just saying you shouldn't
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base your entire plan off the movie
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"Weekend at Bernie's."
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Propping your dead friend up like he's alive
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is not exactly an air-tight plan.
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Number Four is Brain Bugs.
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This one just ...
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ugh.
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This incredibly creepy Urban Legend is about
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a person that goes to bed and wakes up with
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a pain in their ear that gets progressively worse,
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only to find out that the pain is caused by bugs
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that have nested deep inside their skull.
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Well, yep.
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It happened.
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In 2013, a 27-year-old woman named Rochelle Harris,
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returned home after a vacation to Peru,
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after which she started hearing scratching noises
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inside her own head.
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She started experiencing pain and decided
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to go to the doctor after a fly flew out of her ear.
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The diagnosis?
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A family of eight flesh-eating maggots
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had nested deep inside her ear canal.
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Oh, God.
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I don't know how this happened,
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but I'm obviously so freaked out by this
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that if I ever have to go to Peru,
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I'm wearing earmuffs all the time.
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I don't care how crazy I look.
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On the beach, whatever.
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I'll just say that's how we do it in Canada.
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(Bleep) it.
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Number Five is Calls From The Dead.
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This Urban Legend is about a person that gets
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multiple phone calls from a family member,
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only to find out later that they were dead
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when the phone calls took place.
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Well, this actually happened
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back on September 12th of 2008,
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when a train crash killing 25 people,
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one of them being Charles Peck.
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Family members reported missed phone calls
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which had came from Charles' cell phone,
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that had called several of them a total of 35 times,
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all of which occurred after he died.
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Of course, many of his family members believe that
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he was trying to get a hold of everyone desperately,
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to say that he loves them, but how do they know that?
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As far as they know, he could have been calling them
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desperately to get someone to clear
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his browsing history off his computer.
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You don't know what kind of freaky (bleep)
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that guy was into.
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Number Six is Creatures In Your Toilet.
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This one will pucker your butthole.
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This Urban Legend is about a man that gets out of bed,
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half-asleep in the middle of the night and walks to
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the washroom to do his business,
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only to get bit by a giant rat right in the bum.
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Well, sorry to say, but in 2007 in Portland, Oregon,
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a man named Ian Meyer did just that.
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A rat had actually come up through the sewer system
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and gotten trapped in his toilet bowl.
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He then tried to flush it,
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which only pissed it off even more.
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Eventually, he caught it but,
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oh my God.
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I almost feel bad telling you guys about this,
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because it's probably gonna make you paranoid enough
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that next time you get out of bed
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in the middle of the night to go hang a rat,
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you're probably gonna check to see if
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the toilet already provided you with one.
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Number Seven is
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The Girl In The Shadows.
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This Urban Legend is about a man who always felt
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watched in the shadows of his own home,
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only to find out years later that someone
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had been living in his attic the entire time.
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Well, a version of this story did occur,
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because back in 2008,
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a Japanese man that was living by himself
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started noticing that food was disappearing
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and things were being displaced.
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Well, after setting up a camera,
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he discovered that a homeless woman had been living
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in his cupboard for an entire year,
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sneaking out to steal food and even take showers.
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Possibly, the most disturbing thing is that when
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he watched the tape back,
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she was only a few feet away in that very cupboard.
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I would literally be like,
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"Oh, forgot some milk.
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"I'm just gonna run out and grab some."
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And just never come back.
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As far as I'm concerned,
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the girl from "The Grudge" can keep the damn place.
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I'm "Audi 5000."
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Number Eight is The Killer Policeman.
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This Urban Legend is about a cop
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that knocks on somebody's door to tell them
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that there's a murderer on the loose and
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when they let him inside,
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he's the murderer and he chops them up.
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Well, a similar situation happened back in 1974
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when a woman named Carol Daronch
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was approached in a bookstore by a police officer,
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except that police officer
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was infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy.
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He told her that somebody tried to break into her car
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so she went with him but she caught on after
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he tried to handcuff her.
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Lady, you were able to get away from Ted Bundy.
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You could not be any luckier.
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If I were you, I would go out and purchase
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all kinds of lottery tickets,
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because you could have just as easily ended up
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as a fine skin suit.
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It's just skin, Steven.
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Now, Number Nine is Don't Drink The Water.
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The story of this Urban Legend is about
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how a person moves into a new home
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to discover that the water coming out of the tap
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and shower head is a weird, dark black color,
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only to later discover that that's the remains
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of a liquefied dead body.
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Well, just last year in 2013,
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the Hotel Cecil in L.A. had this exact problem.
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They discovered a liquefying dead body
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in one of their water tanks and
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what's more disturbing is that that water was
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being distributed to the entire hotel
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through the taps and shower systems.
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It turned out that it was body of a Canadian student,
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but still nobody knows how he got in there.
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(gagging)
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Okay, this one's pretty gross but it would make
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for a pretty compelling Brita Water Filter commercial.
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"Brita Water Filters.
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"Filters out bacteria, harmful chemicals
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"and the liquefied remains of your dead neighbor.
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"Buy now."
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And, Number Ten.
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Kidney Thieves and Ice Baths.
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By far, one of the most famous Urban Legends out there
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is the story of the guy that gets kidnapped and drugged,
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only to wake up in a bathtub full of ice,
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with scars where his kidneys used to be.
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Well, disturbingly, this actually happened
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minus the ice part.
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In 2008, Indian construction worker, Mohammed Saleem,
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was told that he was hired for a new job,
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except that when he arrived,
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he was drugged and knocked out,
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only to later wake up on a steel table
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with his kidneys gone.
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But, what's most disturbing is that
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this is not an isolated incident.
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The illegal organ market is very real and very lucrative
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in many parts of the world,
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from China to Brazil to Egypt.
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So, next time you're traveling,
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I'm just saying be very careful,
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because if you're in Eastern Europe,
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someone might be eyeing you down like
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you're a ticket to a new car.
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And that's it.
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I hope you guys enjoyed this video and
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I hope I gave you a few nightmares.
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(evil laughter)
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No, I'm just kidding.
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If you want to add me to the Book of Faces or Twitter,
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the links to those will be in the description
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along with all my other social networking sites
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and, other than that,
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I will see y'all next Saturday.
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Peace.
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Hey guys.