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What is a local rumor you believed as a kid that turned out to be true years later?

Serious answers only.

I asked Reddit that question and these are the best answers.

US Midwest, rumor has it that way up the old road out of town,

somewhere in the woods was a satanic cult that held seances and other mystical rituals by firelights.

Scared the willies out of us kids and our parents wouldn't let us ride our bikes anywhere

on that road. Decades later I was working on a commissioned history project for the town and talked to the old man who owned the oldest homestead in the county, way back in the woods along that road.

While photographing the creek that ran through the stone foundation basement of the home,

which the settlers used for water generations ago,

I noticed the burned out tea candles everywhere.

The guy lit up and said, yeah, back in his younger days, he and his wife

used to host elaborate costume parties at the property, often by candlelight, for the fun of it.

He'd heard the rumors of the satanic cult and thought it was hilarious,

so he and his friends ran with it and held parties in monks robes

and had bonfires and lived it up.

He still laughs about it, and now so can I.

Wow.

So I guess there were people down there all along,

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