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What's fact? What's just an old wives' tale? Read up on these persistent, sometimes creepy, totally believable urban legends to separate truth from myth.

Myths and Legends

El Dorado

<p>Mutiny, beheading, malaria, and horse-eating&nbsp;are just a few of the things Europeans&nbsp;subjected themselves to during their bloody search for El Dorado. With no evidence other than hearsay incorrectly based on one indigenous worship ritual, 16th-century&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/ways-conquistadors-killed-people/thaneeconomou" target="_blank">conquistadors</a> trampled through South America, killing and subjugating the indigenous Muisca people in their chase of a myth of a gold-plated city that never proved real.</p><p>The closest thing to El Dorado turned out to be a lake in Colombia which was the site of religious rituals involving gold offerings. The City of Gold did not exist, but the cost to prove that&nbsp;was a steep and tragic one.</p>

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