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Oct 19, 2020 · From monsters to ghosts, these scary urban legends and myths have been spooking out the masses for years — and for good reason. Urban legends have existed as long as people have been telling stories.
- The Black Ambulance
- Death Chair
- Makcik “Keropok”
- Murder Cabin
- The Guardians
- Ghosts Said “No” to Walmart
- “Look Up”
- “The Caller”
- The Black Horse
- Joey The Clown
“I live in Romania and as a kid the most common legend was the “black ambulance” that would steal kids and harvest their organs and that kids’ bodies were to be found a few days later abandoned on a field with some money for the funeral. Also, in my town our parents would never let us go to the cinema because there was this legend about a man who w...
“We have a chair that’s been untouched since the 1960s in our schools boiler room. The janitor swears that a boy got locked down there by these other kids the day before summer break and died from the heat. He claims that the chair moves and that the door handle moves like he’s still there trying to get out.” — KTsDefacement
“Its a legend about a lady going around door to door selling keropok. (a type of cracker) If you refuse to buy any, she releases a Pontianak (a vengeful ghost) into your house. Best solution is not to open the door.” — RavenInTheSky
“Its not really a known creepy urban legend, but in the 1800s in the owyhee mountains in idaho there was a group of hunters staying in a cabin and after failing to come back to their families a search party was sent out to look for them, they found the cabin, locked from the inside, with the window also locked from the inside. and they found all of...
“We have 3 mysterious men in a car called The Guardians (yes that’s what we call them) along Montana highway 464. People have told experiences where they have car trouble and three men in a car drive up and help them out. Other people talk about headlights that disappear in places where they shouldn’t disappear. We also have a Native American in a ...
“There used to be an insane asylum by my house in the 70s. It is probably five minutes away from my house if that. But, they tore it down in the 90s because it was just a giant eye sore, and had a dark history of mistreating patients. There is a cemetery on the property with hundreds of unnamed people who died there. In the early 2000s, Walmart bou...
“It is a university urban legend here in the Philippines. There was a female college student that went to the female’s restroom. In the cubicle, she can hear a female voice. The voice is saying some Latin (I can’t remember the exact words). Obviously the female student was frightened and hurried to go back to the classroom. She then asked her profe...
“I’ll have to roughly translate it from Arabic so bear with me. We call it “the caller”. It is told that in the middle of the night it calls your name and forces you to follow its voice, until you reach a body of water, it then pulls you under forcing water into every single hole in your body no matter how small and of course then drowning you. I t...
“Not my current area, but one of the primary schools I went to had a few trees in the back corner of the field with a mountain of dirt. There were rumours that it was haunted with horses (of all things lol) there was one black horse that was evil. And if you sat under the trees and closed your eyes, you could hear the horses. It wasn’t until I was ...
“Nearby is a disused Victorian railway which has been transformed into a 20ish mile path for people to walk, jog, cycle etc and links different parts of the city (just as the rail line would have). Before that it was just disused and didn’t have tarmac or anything. Just mud, grass and there were no gates in the side doors of the tunnels. The tunnel...
- Rats in the toilet bowl. You stagger into the bathroom at 3 a.m. to relieve yourself. Groggy with sleep, you lift the lid and position yourself over the toilet.
- Cropsey. For years, kids living in and around Staten Island raised goosebumps by relating the tale of “Cropsey,” a boogeyman who lived in the woods and made a nocturnal habit of disemboweling children.
- The leaping lawyer. Sooner or later, Toronto residents hear the tale of a lawyer who had a peculiar fondness for running full-bore into his office windows to demonstrate how strong they were.
- The body under the bed. Vacationing couples. Newlyweds. Disneyland guests. All have been the subject of an urban legend involving hotel occupants who fall blissfully to sleep, only to wake up to an awful stench coming from either under the bed or inside the mattress.
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- Dudleytown. There’s an eerie town in Connecticut that locals refer to as a “dark vortex.” Rumor has it that if any visitor steals an artifact from the area, they will have a horrible curse put on them.
- Arizona’s Skinwalkers. Driving through a desolate desert at night is creepy enough. However, throw a shapeshifting, half-human monster into the mix and you’re bound to be scared silly.
- Seven Gates of Hell. Though the state of Pennsylvania may be scenic, it can also be super spooky. The Seven Gates of Hell is a modern tale that centers around a burnt-down asylum in a heavily wooded area of York County.
- The Watcher. A New Jersey urban legend that crept its way to viral fame in 2015, the Watcher is the tale of a young family moving into their dream home in Westfield.
Jun 16, 2020 · The 17 Scariest Urban Legends of All Time. Who needs sleep? By Mehera Bonner Published: Jun 16, 2020. Save Article. David Wall // Getty Images. Hello there! Are you looking for a reason not...
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Sep 11, 2019 · No matter where in the United States you’re from, your home state is sure to have its share of urban legends and urban myths. These scary stories aren’t just for Halloween; they’re...
Insider rounded up the scariest urban legends from around the world, from Hawaii to Scandinavia to Egypt. The gjengangers are thought to be murderous ghosts that can touch people and mark...
