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Discovering whether a rural legend is true or not can take all sorts of time and effort, and even then you might never find it out. First, they’re almost always spread by word of mouth, and rarely in writing. And even if they’re written down, typically it’s long after the event itself happened. Beyond that, it’s usually taken from people who heard it third-hand themselves, or maybe are hopelessly gullible, or even are pathological liars. Second, if the event happened long ago, odds are any reputable people who were there at the time have long since gone to The Great Story Hour in the Sky.