The Legend Of Cropsey

A boogeyman-like creature in Staten Island, USA, named Cropsey was said to be an ax-wielding murderer who escaped from a mental institution and lurks in the tunnels below the old Willowbrook State School—a former facility for children with intellectual disabilities that was shuttered after allegations of horrific torture and mistreatment were exposed.

The story says Cropsey comes out at night to snatch children, bring them back into the abandoned Willowbrook, and kill them. The legend, however, is more real than it sounds.

Andre Rand, a suspected murderer who was convicted of kidnapping two children in the 1970s, as it turns out, worked as a janitor at Willowbrook in the mid-1960s.

Source: msn.com