Urban Legend: Skinned Tom

It was the 1920's and even though times were tough Tom had enough charm and good looks to go around. When he had dated every girl in his hometown in Tennessee  he'd decided to move on to the neighboring town. This was when he met sweet Eleanor.

Eleanor was different than all the other girls he'd dated. Of course he was physically attracted to her she was gorgeous, but something about Eleanor made Tom want to stick around. It wasn't known if Tom knew, but Elanor was married. It probably wouldn't had mattered any way, because he was smitten with her.

Her husband did not want to believe the rumor going around town. That his beloved Eleanor was cheating on him. In order to either catch her in the act or prove the town wrong he told her he was going on a weekend trip. He never did leave town, but instead hid in the woods to keep an eye on her. When he saw Tom pull up and she got in the car her husband became enraged.

He carefully followed the two with his car. When they pulled into a Lover's Lane and everything got hot and heavy. Tom was suddenly pulled out of the car. Her husband had a knife up against him.

"So you're the man who's been with my wife!" He screamed at poor Tom.

"Please, she never told me she was married. I'd never take another man's girl!" Tom was begging for his life, but he was unsuccessful.

Eleanor sat in the car terrified watching as her husband dragged poor Tom into the woods. She sat waiting for her fate as she hear Tom's screams. She didn't know what to do, but was to terrified to do anything. Eventually Tom's screams stopped and her husband came out bloodied without his knife.

Her husband sat in the car and drove both of them to the police station. He had turned himself in. When the police arrived to get Tom's body they arrived to see the skin of a man hanging in a tree. The body it belonged was no where around. The knife that was used on him cold not be found either.

It's said that Tom now haunts the Lovers Lanes in Tennessee. He was going to give people commiting adultery the terrible fate he suffered.

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http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/urban-legends-tn/
https://koboldpress.com/monday-monster-skinned-tom/