Anyone from a small town or tight-knit suburban neighbourhood will have that house on the end of the street with a dark story behind it.
The one they drive slowly past each time as they impart dramatic tales to their passengers of the terrors which once occurred behind the front door.
Sometimes it’s not entirely clear whether these stories are just urban legends cooked up by a gossipy neighbour at the street-wide Christmas party, but it makes for great storytelling, doesn’t it?
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This week, people have taken to Reddit to share the scandalous stories of their small towns – and some of them are truly chilling.
We also pooled some of our own stories from the Mamamia office and yikes.
Here are 15 of the juiciest we could dig up.
(Some of these definitely sound fit for a Netflix series we would binge in a weekend).
From Reddit:
1. The missing wife
“Some lawyer’s wife went missing, there was a big search effort to find her including air force jets flying over the surrounding woods to find recently disturbed ground (indicating a possible burial).
“They couldn’t find her for days until finally a neighbour went to the media to point out the lawyer had remodelled the sitting area in his garden recently including pouring himself a nice big concrete slab right outside his back door the day before he reported his wife missing. Sure enough, they dug up that area and found her body.”