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Black Volga - urban legend about a mysterious black car that travels the streets at night and abducts people for sinister purposes.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Legends of Myrtles Plantation - haunted house in Louisiana(en.wikipedia.org)

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Excarnation - refers to the practice of removing the flesh and organs of the dead before burial.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Rabies - almost invariably fatal; causes about 59,000 deaths worldwide per year, 40% of which are children under the age of 15.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Witch's mark - the entire body was considered a canvas for a mark, an indicator of a pact with Satan.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Rattlesnake James - the last person executed by hanging in California(en.wikipedia.org)

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Feral child - young child lost in the wild, often raised by animals(en.wikipedia.org)

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Giles Corey - crushed to death as a witch in Salem(en.wikipedia.org)

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Premature burial - also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Bloody Mary (folklore) - spirit invoked via mirror ritual(en.wikipedia.org)

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Nathaniel Bar-Jonah - child molester, murderer, almost certainly a cannibal.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Turpin case - married couple who tortured, imprisoned, and isolated their 13 biological children.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Michael Malloy - murdered by a group of five acquaintances after multiple failed attempts on his life by the men to perpetrate life insurance fraud.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Lampshades made from human skin - not as prevalent as urban legends assume, but they certainly existed.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Billy the Axeman - unknown serial killer responsible for a series of family murders along train routes in the early 1900s.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China - "on demand" executions of political prisoners to provide organs for transplant.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Yuba County Five - After the snow melted in June 1978, four of the men's bodies were discovered. The fifth was never found. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Fritz Haarmann - German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Suicide Cliff - location where Japanese civilians and soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by US troops.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Vampire burial - burial performed in a way which was believed to prevent the deceased from reviving in the form of a vampire(en.wikipedia.org)

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Cleveland Torso Murderer - unidentified serial killer active in the 1930s(en.wikipedia.org)

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Leucochloridium paradoxum - Parasitic worm that infects snails, manipulating their eye stalks to resemble caterpillars which attracts birds to eat them(en.wikipedia.org)

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West Memphis Three - three teenagers received max sentences for killing three children, with no physical evidence or motive linking them to the crime, as a result of the Satanic Panic.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Dalkon Shield- contraceptive device that caused severe injuries, infections, and deaths among users, because of corporate greed and racist rhetoric.(en.wikipedia.org)

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Pishtaco - according to folklore, his method of killing is stealing his victims' body fat for various cannibalistic purposes, or cutting them up and selling their flesh as fried chicharrones.(en.wikipedia.org)

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