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April 2014 Discussion Post: Urban Legends



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If you’ve never heard the term “urban legend” or “urban myth” before, it refers to – in a definition shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia – “a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true. As with all folklore and mythology, the designation suggests nothing about the story’s veracity, but merely that it is in circulation, exhibits variation over time, and carries some significance that motivates the community in preserving and propagating it.”

You’ve probably been told some form of urban legend as if it were a truth at some point in your life – I remember the whole “pop rocks and soda will make you explode AND DIE!!!” legend going around my elementary school (complete with dares to try it, of course), and as recently as last month I’ve seen people circulating – seemingly in earnest – the absolutely ancient myth about gang initiations and car headlights. Urban legends tend to have incredibly long lifetimes, and it’s very possible that some of you have unknowingly helped to spread an urban myth that originally spread before you were even born!

If you’d like to explore and familiarize yourself with most of the more famous urban legends, Snopes and Urban Legends Online are your best bets.

If you want to go directly to the creepy/horror urban legends, that category can be found right here.

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So let’s talk about urban legends this month. Which of these tall tales is your favorite? Have you ever been guilty of spreading an urban legend, either for fun or because you actually believed it? Were you surprised to see that any of the legends listed on the linked sites were actually just stories? Why do you think certain legends manage to stick around for so long? So on and so forth – I just figured that, given that this discussion post would be publishing on April Fool’s Day, we might as well discuss all the interesting and wild and even creepy hoaxes and legends that have cropped up and spread around throughout the ages.

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76 thoughts on “April 2014 Discussion Post: Urban Legends”

  1. my sister would always tell me when I was little not to go into the woods, but since I didn’t listen she made up an urban legend about heart-eating, slenderman like creatures. nowadays I hear rustling and chewing in the woods every now and then (0_0)

  2. My favorite is Killer in the Backseat. The version with the gas station is better than the one in which a guy follows her homw before telling her about the killer.

  3. I too have a haunted road. The last time I went down, I’ve had an “experience” with the curse, but really my parents had been getting me to get my car fixed for ages before it happened.

    There’s a hill where legend has it that native shamans would banish evil spirits into. However, even after European settlers took over the land, the spirits are still trapped in the area. Witches would use the area to hold their rituals, using the power of the spirits trapped within. The hill is now called “Hexenkopf” or “Witch’s Head”. However, even the road that goes in front of it, (Hexenkopf Road… what creativity) is said to be haunted by the spirits trapped in it. The usual ghost story of cars breaking down, and seeing figures of people who aren’t there.

    My persona experience:
    The road is in the next town over, so it’s still a novelty. I took some friends along for a ride “down the haunted road” My own experience ended with my brakes failing at the end of the road. I guess that’s jut what happens when I don’t bring my car in to the garage on time. We all got home safely though, and my car works now.

    It is apparently a major road, so I don’t understand how every car that goes down that road could break down like the legends say. Probably with no more frequency than the road I live on, but that’s spoiling the fun now, isn’t it?

  4. FlamingUmbrellas

    I know this thread is a month old, but I wanted to share one!
    Back in Canada, I lived in Keswick, Ontario.
    There was a large strip of woods beside our Elementary School and there were SO MANY urban myths and legends.
    My personal favorite was Bubbly.
    Bubbly was a man, he was completely white from head-to-toe, except for his eyes, which were black. He’d only show up around Christmas time, so he’d blend in with the snow.
    He dragged little kids away through the forest, decapitated them, and hung their bodies in the trees.
    Everyone knew it was fake, but it was still fun to tell. And, keep in mind, it was made up by a bunch of 5th-graders.

  5. Aspiring Pasta Connoisseur

    There’s a legend near where in from about an unknown type of big-cat wandering at night. Personally, I believe it :)

  6. In Northern Ohio there is a Urban Legend about a place called Gore Orphanage. The story goes that there was once an orphanage in Vermillion, Ohio that held many kids ranging different ages. A few hundred yards from the orphanage there was a creek which held home to a crazy homeless man that hated children because they ruined his life. (Be mindful that there is many versions of the story.) Well anyways he set the manor on fire and nearly everyone died. Now this is only an urban legend, but when I visited there there are still huge stone blocks and a well near the area. My experiences of hearing a child crying made me believe it more. I was skeptical of the place at first until I visited.

  7. At my old daycare right next to Greentree Elementary Schoolin Irvine, CA there was a rumor. It was told to me as a first grader by many sources from 4th graders, 6th graders and even a teacher. In the mid-90’s there was a kid that went to the elementary school that got picked on all the time. He was awkward and had a very pale and oval shaped head, so they called him Moon (they say his real name was James). One day after school kids were playing soccer on the fields near the school, James was trying to play with them, but was really bad. Some boys thought it would be funny to get him wet so they pushed him in the runoff water creek behind the fields. He fell harder than expected and cracked his head on a rock, thus dying. People say now that on certain autumn days he will come out past midnight and sit near the creek he died in reflecting. His ghosts head is fully shining and white like a half moon. The reason I believed this story is because there is a bench at Greentree dedicated to somebody named James — (I forget his last name somehow), a student that apparently died. My friends and I went to the soccer field once in 4th grade but I wouldn’t go close to the stream (scaredy cat) two of my friends say as they got closer they saw a glow and ran back.

  8. So, my elementary school was located on Elm St, in Illinois so you know there’s going to be tons of Urban Legends being made on the playground. There was this one Urban legend that’s’ stuck with me even now. Me and my mom lived in the next town over but my mom wanted me to attend the elementary on Elm St. because she worked there. So we were looking for homes in the area and we found one right across the street from the school. It was a one level styled house, which was different from the two and or three leveled houses that surrounded it. I was a fourth grader at the time, so I didn’t care what the houses history was, so I explored on my own. The house wasn’t creepy or anything, it was actually pretty bright and spacious. I defiantly saw myself living there. My mom and the realtor went to the basement, me following. Now, the realtor stopped just before actually stepping a foot on the basement floor. It was a small, and I’m talking extremly small, room with a dirt floor and nothing else. That was the most eeriest, most bizzare thing I have ever encountered. The house didn’t seem that bright and I had the urge to run the heck out of there. We found a condo and when I started school I was immediately told the story about the house across the street. Turns out, people buy the house for about one week two weeks than it’s back up on the market. That’s the only urban legend I’ve never really challenged.

  9. There’s this cemetery near Woodinville, WA called the Maltby Cemetery, which was supposedly founded by an occult group. It’s situated on private property now and the exact location is kind of sketchy, but there was a story about something called the “Stairway to Hell.” Apparently, there was a staircase in this cemetery that went straight down into the ground (at least until the hole was filled in about 20 years ago). There were thirteen steps leading down to an empty chamber, like an empty crypt or something. The story goes that if you descended the steps and looked back, you would no longer see the entrance, but a vision of Hell or of yourself in Hell. People were said to have gone insane from being down there, and witnesses say that they lost sight of the person who went down the stairs. Another version of the story is that there’s a chair at the bottom, and if you sit in it then your soul is forfeit.

  10. There is this game doom. I saw a weird face it looked like cat guts with eyeballs. I talked to my friends about it. And my bravest friend looked scared and he screamed in pain and then bled and vomited. He died that day. The next day at the funeral I saw a road killed cat whith cat guts strewn out and eyeballs placed just like the face

  11. We have quite a few down here in Bolivia.
    One of my favorites is the collection of rumors and stories about what happens in the underground catacombs of Sucre at night.
    In the department of Chuqisaca, there is series of tunnels running beneath the capital city, connecting churches, libraries, parliamentary buildings, and other historical sites that have stood around since the colonial era and continue to do so to this day. Legend has it: strange things can be heard on the street level, emanating from within the catacombs themselves. It is believed that, back then, these tunnels were constructed as a means for church and government officials to meet or move about in secrecy,. You can often hear wheeping, faint painful-moaning, rattling chains, or some heavy object being dragged along, late at night. The city hosts one of the oldest universities in the country; some believe it is simply the students who do their shenanigans in the tunnels out of sight. Many of them are medical students. What they might be doing to produce such cryptic noises is even scarier to consider.

  12. Liam Betthauser

    This is the song and “prank” that got the Michigan Dogman legend where it is today. This folk song is by Steve Cook, a former radio DJ from Traverse City. He wrote the song below in 1987 and played it on the radio for an April Fool’s joke. The lyrics are below and they tell the so called “legend of the Dogmen.” What Steve Cook wasn’t expecting was the large amount of calls he got after that from people who had actually seen a creature that met the description of the Dogman!

    The story says that the Dogmen appear in the 7th year of every decade in the Northern woods of Michigan (and some would say other parts of Michigan as well!) Anyone care to go Dogman hunting? If you’ve had an encounter with our lovable pooches, send us an email about it. Reader submissions and encounters are listed below.

    “The Legend”

    Lyrics and story by Steve Cook

    A cool summer morning in early June, is when the legend began, at a nameless logging camp in Wexford County, where the Manistee River ran.

    Eleven lumberjacks near the Garland swamp found an animal they thought was a dog. In a playful mood they chased it around till it ran inside a hollow log. A logger named Johnson grabbed him a stick and poked around inside. Then the thing let out an unearthly scream and came out and stood upright.

    None of those men ever said very much, ‘bout what ever happened then. They just packed up their belongings and left that night, were never heard from again. It was ten years later in ’97, when a farmer near Buckley was found. Slumped over his plow, his heart had stopped, there were dog tracks all around.

    Seven years passed with the turn of the century, they say a crazy old widow had a dream, of dogs that circled her house at night that walked like men and screamed. In 1917, a sheriff who was out walking found a driverless wagon and tracks in the dust, like wolves had been a stalkin’. Near the roadside a four-horse team lay dead with their eyes open wide. When the vet finished up his examination, he said it looked like they died of fright.

    In ’37 a schooner captain said, several crew members had reported a pack of wild dogs roaming Bowers Harbor. His story was never reported. In ’57 a man of the cloth found claw marks on an old church door. The newspaper said they’d been made by a dog, he’d a had to stood 7’4”. In ’67 a van-load of hippies, told a park-ranger named Quinlinn, they’d been awakened in the night by a scratch at the window, there was a dogman looking in and grinning.

    In ’77 there were screams in the night, near the village of Bellaire. Could’ve been a bobcat, could’ve been the wind, nobody looked up there. Then in the summer of ’87, near Luther, it happened again…at a cabin in the woods it looked like maybe, someone had tried to break in. There were cuts around the doors that could only been made by very sharp teeth and claws. He didn’t wear shoes cuz he didn’t have feet. He walked on just two paws. So far this year, no stories have appeared. Have the dogmen gone away? Have they disappeared? Soon enough I guess we’ll know, cuz this is the time to fear, for another ten years has come around, the seventh year is here and somewhere in the north-woods darkness, a creature walks upright. And the best advice you may ever get is never to go out….at night.

  13. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE USERNAME!

    Ugh I need to start posting on these Discussion Posts again, infact I just need to start using Creepypasta more.
    Anyway, Slenderman despite being overdone to death now was really enticing before he was famous. The obvious ones like Bigfoot and Aliens are good ones also.
    But in terms os stories, I heard one of a babysitter who gets high on drugs, and when the parent comes back, she state’s she ‘put the chicken in the oven’.
    Should I go on?

  14. Hello everyone I’m from India. A city near Mumbai, Navi Mumbai. It has recently been built and already boasts a tremendous amount of 215 skyscrapers standing taller than 150M. Besides the cosmopolitan dowtown and the beautiful, natural urban areas of the city. There is something that had long terrified all of us living here. It’s an urban legend that has been running around in Maharashtra for almost 3 years. This all began when a newly married couple was on their way to Mumbai(Highway road). The driver was not looking where he was driving and he hit the car into a tree. They had all died except for the bride. She crept out onto the road where she saw a truck coming her way she screamed for the driver to stop but he didn’t listen and he drove the car over her. She died. Now her ghost is said to be seen at around 12:00 AM in a red dress with blood smeared all over her body. She screams for you to stop and if you dont, you can get away safely. But if you do stop, she gets in your car. Starts crying and then she looks up at you, grins and snaps your neck. Many people have claimed to have seen her but nobody is sure whether it really is true or NOT.

    (PS: I’m a British citizen and this urban legend was told to me by friend Raj who was born in Bombay back in 1980, so I’m not really sure about the information provided, but I think there’s some pictures on google that can explain this strange happening)

    A similar story runs in the neighbouring country of Pakistan. In the city of Karachi, it is believed that on Karsaz road a lady in a white dress is spotted asking for people’s help and if you stop to help her,she gets in your car and devours your soul. This was also broadcasted by a news channel known as GEO. You can learn more about Karsaz road by searching “The ghost of Karsaz road in Karachi” on Google.

    (PS: This too was told to me by a great friend from Pakistan who’s name is Ali)

  15. to tell the truth my entire life is a folklore. different people have been told different versions of my life, and origins, so twisted and distorted that my own (even though they’ve always been distant) family doesn’t know who i really am. hell, i’m starting to doubt it…

  16. My aunt once told me the urban legend from her childhood, the story of Threetoes. Apparently she saw him when she was a kid. She told me that she and her brother used to live in West Virginia, in a small trailer. She and her brother had both gotten back from a day outside in the woods, and it was getting dark. When they got back inside, they saw that their father was sitting in a couch, facing the window. He had a shotgun in his lap and a beer in one hand. When my aunt asked him what he was doing, he mumbled something about “threetoes” and kept on staring out the window. Then there was a scuffling noise outside and before my aunt could even scream, her father had blown a hole in the flimsy wall of the trailer. She told me that there was a sound like a large dog yelping, then a sound of something heavy limping back towards the woods.

    The next time she encountered Threetoes was three years later, when her cousin had gotten a new bike and was showing it off by doing tricks in the woods. It was getting dark, however, so my aunt, her brother, and her cousin started to run back home before curfew, because if they got back late their father would beat them. It was getting dark fast, and they began running really quickly, my aunt and her brother running, her cousin on the bike. Suddenly her cousin fell off the bike and when my aunt went back to get him, she heard something loud behind her. She pulled up her cousin and began running faster than ever. They got back home, but her cousin didn’t show up until an hour later, and he was covered in dirt and scratches from the thorns that grew around the edges of the forest. When my aunt asked him what happened, he shook his head and went to take a shower.

    I can’t tell you if the stories my aunt told were true, but to this day there are rumours of a large man walking in the woods with a limp. It was quite the urban legend, but then again, where my aunt lived, everybody loved to scare the pants off of each other by making up stories.

    1. As I understand, West Virginia is one of the “backwoods” states, is that correct?
      Those are always the most entertaining. There is always some tale about a wandering beast/strange animal/demon that lurks about in the woods or hides in a cave, somewhere in the mountain.

      Those are some of the best stories when you live exactly where they take place.

  17. CaptainJellybeanz

    Have to admit my favourite urban legend/myth is Slender man as that was the first myth that truly terrified me. I first got told that he drives his victims insane so they see him everywhere for the rest of their life. That was the version that to this day makes the most sense to me.

  18. My favorite urban legend was the one about the baby sitter and the clown doll. If you haven’t heard it (which is surprising giving the website we’re on). It is about a babysitter who phones the couple who’s child she’s looking after and asks if she can remove the life-sized clown doll in the child’s room. The child’s father tells her that there isn’t a clown doll in the house and that she has to phone the police and grab the child and get out of the house. She does so and it later transpires that the “clown doll” was an escaped convict and had planned to kill both the baby sitter and the child.

    I also enjoyed hearing that one when staying the night at a friend’s house and I’m also pretty sure that there was a movie based of that story that came out in 2008(?) that had Lance Henriksen in it. (Bishop from Aliens).

    If anyone hasn’t heard this urban legend then I am glad to have told it you. :)

  19. I live in Adelaide, South Australia, and every now and then, I hear urban legends of an entire city built underneath the city of Adelaide… Every time I hear the story, it changes slightly, such as where the entrance to it is, what its purpose is, if there’s still people living there, is it haunted, is it used by satanic cultists, etc… For a long time, I believed parts of the story, but recently found out that it originated from a newspaper article in 1925, entitled ‘UNDERGROUND ADELAIDE: City Beneath a City’ that talked about how bad the city is laid out in regards to sewers, pipelines, gas lines, telephone cables, and power lines… Funny that people can take a news headline and run with it until it no longer has any relevance to the original story…

  20. Another ghost story in Texas is one in a Pizza restaurant. The place used to be a hospital. A girll was born there and never left the upstairs room she was born in. She died when she was nine of a deadly virus. The people who run the restaurant are couples who live there. Ever since she dide te room was locked nd none ever went in. The couple say that when the have a fight or argumnt they claim that te pns nd chairs nd tables start floating. The waitress says that once he girl died the whole hospital was closed down. I guess there is something/omeone who actually is up there, because everyone who leaves andthen looks back can see a curtain in that abandoned room move. This is completely true story.

    (sources) — It ha happened to one of my friends nd many others who go there.

  21. I live in Texas, and just down my road is a bridge. The first part of the story is 100% true, but the rest is just a legend. So there was a man. One halloween he went to a party and got drunk. Then he killed everyone in his family, and threw their bodies into the river. When realizing what had happened; he drove his white car off the bridge nd drowned himself. When people had figured out what happened they took down the bridge and built a new one right next to it. His is the fake part: It’s said that if you drive a white car, and part in the middle o the bridge on halloween (at midnight) then there is a chance that you will see his ghost. It’s only “happened ” once when someone clamed to hve seen him whn they were driving a white car at that very hour. And that’s why it’s called Jakeshill.

  22. Defective Killer

    There’s a legend where I live about this woman named the pink lady. There’s tons of variations but I definately have a favorite. It’s about a woman whom was pregnant, but beaten by her husband. The beatings killed her baby, so she threw herself and her husband off the top story of a 30 story hotel. All people could see was her pink dress as she fell, the darkness hiding her husband in his black suit. Now the legend is that if you hurt your wife/girlfriend, or children and stand close to the top railing she’ll push you to your death.

  23. I live in Colorado, and there is a popular resturaunt here in Boulder called The Melting Pot. It is a popular urban legend here and supposedly it is one of the most haunted places in Colorado. Also, another urban legend is the Stanley Hotel. It is the most haunted place in Colorado, and it’s REALLY creepy. They are both very old, and in the Stanley Hotel you can hear, smell, and experience creepy things.

  24. Another legend from Athens revolves around an old town named Moonville. There is a large tunnel that – like many stories before it – will kill your car engine or manifest spirits at night. I’ve been to that tunnel, and can say I did not experience any occurrences, supernatural or otherwise. But beyond that tunnel lay the ruins of the town of Moonville, which was abandoned for unknown reasons. In the 1800’s it was host to several witch burnings, which sparked a deluge of urban myths which would pop up around it. Though I’m not interested in spinning a tale of intrigue; I experienced the cold nature of the place first hand. Beyond the outskirts of the ruins sits an old rocky outcropping, around which lays a perimeter in which the trees will not grow properly. They are twisted and crooked; all I could find out about the area is that this is where some of the accused “witches” were hung. It is here that me and a few of my friends decided to look around. One of them (who shall remain unnamed), after giving a cold look, fell to the ground and started convulsing. He began having a seizure, but fell unconscious after a few minutes. Fearing the worst, we did our best to rush him to our car. He woke up in the car on the way to the hospital, and after a brief visit, the doctor said he was fine and there was no known cause for the seizure. My friend didn’t remember what happened between the seizure and waking up in the car, but reported that he felt incredibly cold beforehand. None of us have ever returned to the location.

    1. Upon slight research into the history of the town, it turns out it was abandoned due to the nearby coal mines being depleted.

  25. Here in Athens, OH (supposedly one of the most haunted places in the US), we have several urban legends, many of them surrounding an old mental institution on our local campus. Built into the hills, the massive building and the surrounding area are known simply as “The Ridges”. It was built during the early years of the city’s founding, and played host to many horrific incidents. The institution pioneered many experimental or “progressive” forms of treatment, including electroshock therapy, hydroshock therapy (the patient was submerged in freezing water, allowed to warm up, and submerged again), and lobotomies.

    A patient who was deaf and dumb had wandered into the attic of the facility, and had subsequently locked herself in. With so many rooms, no one found her until a week after she had starved to death. She had laid on the floor with her clothes folded next to her and her arms crossed, and her decomposing body left an imprint in the floor that would never fade.

    One of the buildings on the ground was sectioned off as a Tuberculosis ward, where many people died. This facility included one of the infamous “body chutes”, that orderlies used to move bodies out of the building (as not to discourage current patients). The building was torn down for unspecified reasons, and it is said to be physically unsettling to stand on the site where it had stood.

    After the mental institution had closed down, the building and property were purchased by the university and repurposed, but that wouldn’t be the end of the strange occurrences in the facility.

    A girl who had moved into one of the dorms that had been placed there requested to be moved to a new location for unspecified reasons. A week later, she was found dead in her new dorm. She had drawn satanic symbols on the walls in her own blood, and it was presumed that she was practicing witchcraft. The cause of death was reported as suicide. They painted the room and tried to place new students in it, but the blood kept seeping through the paint. So the faculty knocked the walls down and turned the space into a boiler room.

    There are several other myths associated with the area, and if you’re interested, I’m sure you could find much more information online.

  26. In Topeka Kansas there is a large mound named brunettes mound. It used to be the “castle” if you will for an old indian tribe. Being the highest point in Topeka. It was thought that chief brunette chose this place because it was the closest place to speak to god out here in the plains land. One day the settlers came to the area and tried to make the tribe leave. Long story short it was a slaughter fest for the natives. Chief brunette’s final breathes were used to put a curse on the mound. So that never again the land would be spoiled by the white man. In the 70s people tried to build on the mound. In the conclusion of construction a huge storm hit and a twister destroyed everything and everyone on the mound and half of Topeka with it at the time. The twister stayed in the city limits only… now since then the mound has stayed untouched. But a very haunted and very mysterious place at night that I myself have experienced so much up there. The whispers of fading voices can be heard. unexplained smells and random temp changes happen a lot. Phantom figures in the distance that just stare your down. Some have even said you can hear chief brunette and his white horse ridding around the mound. Some also say that there is a creature on the mound. Something that feeds on evil. Probably brought there from the blackened stain of those murdered natives. I have only heard this creature before. Never seen it. But in ally years of hunting I’ve never heard a howl like this thing can scream out. It really does put shivers down your spine. definitely a scary place you’re guaranteed to have a good time up on the mound at night if you’re a ghost hunter/ paranormal thrill seeker.

  27. There is a burned down house close to 287 between Wichita Falls Texas and Henrietta. They refer to it as Witches Gate. I have heard several stories of what happened. One version says it was a wealthy rancher, his wife, and two sons. They say the man died of old age and the wife who was a witch went crazy and burned the house down. Then the sons later in life rebuilt the house and robbers broke in and killed the one brother and the other brother trapped them inside and killed them all including himself by burning the house down.

    The version closer to the truth is that one brother never married and one was divorced. They were in their 60s and still raising cattle like their father did. Four men broke into the house because of rumors of a coin collection and killed the one brother by shooting him in the back. The other brother escaped the house and made it to the Jolly Truck Stop and called the police. The brother moved to a friends house and house burned down a few days. They never investigated but it was believed arson. This supposedly happened in the 60s or 70s.

    If you drive down the highway either during sunrise or sunset(can’t remember what side of the highway its on) the house is supposed to look like it’s on fire again.

  28. The article discussing gangs shooting people who flash their brights at them is a real urban legend. I live in Eugene, OR, as the article mentions, and I grew up believing it to actually be true, and just now found it that it is in fact an urban legend.

    There’s this urban legend in my neighborhood, that some boy drowned in the pond north of my house trying to save his brother (which he supposedly did). I don’t know if this is true, since I can’t find any documentation of it anywhere. Supposedly the story went that he caught is foot in something and couldn’t get out. I’ve heard it said that there’s even been a car that crashed into the pond as well, but again, I can’t find any evidence. It still is kinda creepy knowing that this pond used to be visited by quite a bit of people in my childhood (since they used to load fish into the pond) but now it’s dead a barren, sans the geese and ducks that visit. There’s also this little pathway that leads into the thicket by the pond where supposedly some cultists would meet up. I do know that there were some people who did worship the Devil, but I think my parents said this to scare us away from the pond.

    If you want to check the pond out, look up Bean St. Eugene, OR on Google Maps. It’s the nearest pond just north of that street.

  29. There is this house at the end of my block. It appears empty for most of the year, but there is never a for sale sign outside. I never thought anything about until I was about six.

    It was Halloween night. I hopped up the steps, hoping to receive more candy. I rang the doorbell, and my friends and I shouted “Trick or treat”. Nothing happened.

    Suddenly we all felt the urge to look down. Two little baby angel statues were halfway buried in the ground. One looked like it was dead, the other dying.

    Then an eerie looking light appeared in the front window. A hand was clawing at the curtains.

    That’s when a said “Let’s go home now” and ran home.

    Ever since then the angel statues are there, half buried, and every Halloween night the eerie light and hand appear.

    Now this is actually a true story, not a legend. I should know. I’m sorry to say, but I actually set it off.

  30. There is the legend of the chubracabra, it started in Puerto Rico as a large alien-like creature with spikes running down it’s back and large bulging eyes, now that same legend is in Texas, one woman shot it and now it’s stuffed and in a muesem, but if you ask me it looks like a cross between a coyote and a large-eared, hairless dog. That would explan why they weren’t able to identify it.

  31. I live around the point pleasant area and I remember this one legend about an old bridge that collapsed in the 60s. People saw this moth-like creature multiple times before the collapse. Mothman wasn’t seen again. The legend goes on saying that Mothman is the harbinger of doom and that you will die if you see him.

  32. For the longest time when I was little I believed that tapping on a soda can could help. Until I found out the hard way.

  33. LefthandedLunatic

    In Titusville, Pa we have the urban legend of the “Bleeding Skull Grave” or “The Witches Grave”. It is a gravestone located in Woodland Cemetery and it is noted to “bleed” from it’s eyes. I manage to found something on the internet on it that includes pictures. (http://missblaser.com/the-bloody-skull/#.UztfXyi9VFI)

    P.S. I’ve seen it myself in all of its bloody glory during cross country practice. The only Urban Legend I know to be true.

  34. Yowie. My favourite legend from the Australian outback. Think of it like bigfoot only… more aggressive.

  35. Aaaaaand here’s my Jeff submission. Worked super hard on this one. I’ve been called the Michelangelo of my generation.

  36. When my cousins were little, they would hear an ice cream truck pretty late at night and would ask my uncle if they could get ice cream. He was in bed and was extremely tired, so to make them shut up he told them that they were hearing the “haunted ice cream truck”. He told them that whoever mentions the haunted ice cream truck always dies or something terrible like that. It worked. My cousins stopped asking him if they could get ice cream. So now the haunted ice cream truck is one of my favorite urban legends, made up on the spot by a poor, tired father.

  37. I live in Alabama and grew up, at least during elementary school, hearing about or reading stories from “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.” I can’t really remember much about the stories, but the books are very popular and are memorable to people who haven’t even read them.

  38. there is this road called paradise road near my town and its said to be haunted. once you get on the road heavy trees cover the road. some people say if you go into the left side of the woods you can hear strange and evil things. i have heard that there was once devil worshippers in the woods. i heard that if you stop in the middle of the road and turn off your car lights and you look back into the top of the trees you can see a dead body. search paradise road wisconsin on google if you wanna know more

  39. Actually, I have posted this urban legend on nosleep..
    http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/20sopu/we_played_an_urban_legend_game_called_pete_wants/

    It’s called Pete Wants to Play

    basically it’s inviting a child to go play tag with you, in the dark. All of you must only hold a minimum amount of light, like a match or something. Then you run around in the dark.

    There was once a boy named Pete who agreed with his friends to go play tag…in the dark. Not the brightest idea huh? Well, you can already imagine what was going on in that game. If you’re thinking that Pete tripped over and died, thus the name of the game is what it is, and then you’re wrong. They were playing tag in the dark, when suddenly Pete met a strange looking man, it was said that the man took his soul, and will only release him if someone invites him to play another game of “tag in the dark”.
    Rules are simple
    1) You can perform this anywhere, as long as it’s dark.
    2) You and your friends should form a circle
    3) Do a head count; one player must announce his number to the whole group. example: Timmy: “One” Jack : “Two” Lisa: “Three”
    4) There is no limit on the number of players, so after all of you announced your numbers, grab a full match box.
    5) The match box will serve as the only light in the game, when while running, it goes out, light another one.
    6) Never play somewhere that has stairs, uneven grounds, whatever. We wouldn’t want to have any dangerous accidents
    7) Lights off, decide who’s it, and begin chasing each other
    8) After the game is complete, or if all of you are tired, open the lights and form another circle
    9) Do the head count again
    Warning: doing this game is at your own risk

  40. That white vans automatically come out at anytime after 11:00 and will pick you up and rape you. Only white vans windowless vans.
    It happens just not only white windowless vans and not only at night.

  41. I have to say the urban legend of the scream session is my most preferred myth. I loved how it was worked into the film “Urban Legends: Final Cut”! It’s awesome how they managed to cramp in famous urban legends into the storylines of two films. Also, kawaii Jeff is kawaii! :3

  42. Jason voorhees

    The gang initiation with headlights is for M16. And I didn’t just hear that randomly, corrections officers get gang training and that was part of it.
    On a different note, I love to hear urban legends. One near me is the haunted chair. It was a chair from an early royalty to the US (not sure who, slipping my mind) but supposedly, anyone who sits in it will die within a month. Could be any way, but it’s always within a month, you will die. The chair is roped off limits and police try to keep anyone from sitting in it, but people still try. I’ve never met anyone who has dared to sit in it, even if it is a hoax

  43. I would have to say that my favorite is Centralia. I am from a little town in Pennsylvania, so Centralia is a common topic spread around.

    Fact 1: Centralia PA is a real place
    Fact 2: There is an underground coal fire burning.

    That is where the facts in the real story end. People still live in Centralia, because they refuse to sell their lands to the government. While many people have been evacuated since the fire started decades ago, not everyone left.

    The people who currently live there still state that the fire has either gone out or has since gotten so deep into the coal vein that it is no longer a danger.

    The Mythos tends to spread more to the way that Centralia is Haunted, and that because of this, noone can live there. Mosters are propagated, demons, and ghosts are no stranger to the story either.

    Every school child in Pennsylvania has heard this story and told it to their friends. So, yes, I have spread urban legands around.

    )o(Blessed Be)o(
    Ahriannah

        1. AH, for real?
          Well, I guess that is one town I’ll be avoiding FOR THE REST OF MY NATURAL LIFE.

          …AND THEREAFTER.

    1. The_Amazing SAF

      I live in PA too, and I remember that story. At first, I’ll admit, I was scared. You know, when I was five. Then, I heard it so much that I just got bored of it.

  44. There is an urban legend down here in Louisiana… About French Town Road. It is basically a normal road till you get to maybe the middle of it…Then you start to hit trees that are like walls on either side. At this point there are no lines on the road, no lights, it just keeps going into blackness. At the end of the road, cannibalistic devil worshipers are said to live. Also, there is a bridge that a set of train tracks run on. Its said that if you go there at 3am and stop your engine under the bridge, the car will die. Apparently the devil worshippers use this curse to trap people for sacrifices in the woods…If you don’t stop under the bridge you will supposedly find animals skinned, drained of their blood, and hung from the trees over demonic symbols drawn on the ground…But ya know, It’s just an urban legend. ;)

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