Results: True Urban Legends (Part 5 of 6)

The Mad Man Who Hangs Dead Bunnies from Bridges - Even if you weren't a resident of Virginia in the 1970s when this urban legend became a favorite tale among children and teens, it's likely that you're at least familiar with some aspects of the story. As the legend goes, an escaped mental institution patient had taken to roaming around the countryside of Virginia, killing rabbits and hanging their dead bodies from bridges in the area. And, though this exact story may not fully check out, there are very real reports of a raving mad man in the area, who was seen by numerous people in October 1970. According to the witnesses, he was dressed in a white suit and bunny ears, sometimes even launching a hatchet at cars full of people. Have you heard of this urban legend?

There Are Aliens Buried in the Southwest - Despite the tall tales that are perpetually swirling about Nevada's Area 51, the only extraterrestrial presence in the Southwest that we can positively confirm is the mass "burial ground" for the 1982 E.T. video game, E.T. The Extraterrestrial . The video game, which was based on the seminal 1982 Disney film of the same name, was met with such widespread admonition that Atari decided to literally bury all the unsold games in the sands of a New Mexico landfill. Have you heard of this urban legend?

The Maine Hermit - For 27 years straight, citizens and tourists in the North Pond region of Maine would come home to mysteriously find possessions—food, clothing, tools, toiletries—missing. And an urban legend was borne: There was a hermit in the woods. Then, in 2013, legend became fact when one man, Christopher Knight, was arrested and booked on robbery charges. According to GQ, he committed more than three dozen robberies per year. As for how investigators tied him to three decades of crime? When Knight was asked "how long" he'd been living in the woods, he paused and retorted by asking when the Chernobyl meltdown occurred. (The answer is 1986.) Have you heard of this urban legend?

The Body Under the Hotel Bed - Legend has it that some people encounter dead bodies underneath their hotel beds. Though it sounds like a childhood campfire story, in fact, a dozen-plus newspapers have detailed stories about this grisly occurrence—from a couple in Atlantic City sleeping on a mattress that contained a dead body to guests at the Budget Motel in Memphis finding the dead body of Sony Millbrook, a missing person, just beneath their bed. Have you heard of this urban legend?