10 Urban Legends That Turned Out To Be True
4. The Corpse Mistaken For A Halloween Decoration
The legend: What everyone thought was an impressively realistic Halloween decoration depicting a hanged woman was in fact a genuine suicide.
The truth: Rather tragically, this did happen. In 2005, in the town of Frederica, Delaware, a woman hung herself from a tree on a busy roadside during the Halloween season. Countless motorists passed by, but her suicide went unreported for hours.
It turns out that many of the passersby thought the suspended corpse was a Halloween decoration (albeit the least tasteful one ever made) and simply left it to swing.