The charge is grisly enough to qualify as folklore - a culinary creepypasta that's been circulating since at least 2012, when a "This American Life" segment explored whether ersatz calamari might actually exist. The hosts never found proof that anyone, let alone Olive Garden, served such a thing, but the story's unforgettable texture - literal and metaphorical - lodged deeply in the public imagination.
A strange urban legend that continues to captivate some religious communities has connected the Bible's first murderer to the mythical creature Bigfoot. Over the years, some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormons, have shared an unsubstantiated story linking Bigfoot to Cain, the eldest son of Adam and Eve. The decades-old theory has claimed Bigfoot is actually Cain, who was doomed to roam the earth forever as a hairy, mysterious creature after receiving a biblical curse.