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10 Of The Creepiest Urban Legends You Might Have Heard

February 25, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

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Creepy is the word that would perfectly describe urban legends.Brace yourself, as here are 10 of the creepiest urban legends you might have heard.

Even though our rationality is convincing us that urban legends are pure hoaxes and invented stories, theres something about them that will always make us curious or creep us out. Before you read the following urban legends, make sure you are sitting down and your light is turned on.

The chocking Doberman

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The chocking Doberman story originates from Sidney Australia and is about the story of weird dog happening. One night, a couple came home after going out for some drinks, and found their dog chocking in the living room. Because of the panic, the man fainted and the woman called a friend who was a vet and arranged to take the dog for a checking.
After dropping off the dog, she went home to help her husband get into bed. While at home, her phone ringed and the vet was screaming hysterically that they had to get out of the house right away. Without knowing what was going on, the couple left the house as fast as they could.
As they were going down the stars, police men run up to meet them. When the woman asked what was going on, one of the police men told her that the dog was chocking on a human finger and that the potential burglar might still be inside the house. He was found unconscious in the bedroom later.

The suicidal boyfriend

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Another urban legends is the story known also as The Boyfriend’s Death, legend which ahs many variations and its interpretation is a warning no to stay away from the safety provided by a home. This version, takes us back to Paris in the 1960s. A woman and her boyfriend, both of them college students, were making out in his car. The car was parked near the Forest of Rambouillet, so they could not be seen. After they were done, the boy got out of the car to smoke a cigarette and the girl waited for him in the car.

She waited for some minutes, and seeing that he was late, she got outside the car to look for him. All of the sudden she saw a man in the shadows and got scared, got inside the car to drove away. While she was inside the car she heard a faint squeak , followed by several squeaks.

This went on for a few seconds, she decided to drive away, but as soon as she hit the gas pedal, the car didn’t move, as someone had tied the car with a rope to a tree. She slammed the gas one more time and heard a loud scream. The girl got out of the car and saw her boyfriend hanging from the tree. Apparently the noise she was hearing were the squeaking of his shoes, scrapping the top of the vehicle.

The slit mouthed woman

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There is an urban Japanese and Chinese legend about a girl named Kuchisake-Onna, known as the slit mouthed woman. Some stories say that she was the wife of a samurai. The legend says that one day, when her husband returned home, he found her cheating on him with a younger and better looking man. Angry, he took out his sword and slit her mouth, from one ear to another.

It is believed that she was cursed to be immortal and that she is still wandering around the world so people could see her horrible scar and feel sorry for her. Some people have even claimed that they had encountered a beautiful young woman who asked them is she was pretty. Once they replied affirmative, she took off her surgical mask and showed them her terrible wound.

Then she asked them again if she was pretty, and those who no longer found her pretty was killed.

What’s the moral of this story? There are two actually, paying a compliment doesn’t cost you anything, and honesty isn’t necessarily the right thing to do.

Cry baby bridge

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This scary urban legend, tells about a couple who was driving home from church with their baby. The two were arguing on a subject. It was pouring and at one point they had to cross a flooded bridge. As soon as the car entered the bridge, they realized the water was deeper than they imagined, and they had to get out of the car and find help.

The woman stayed behind, but eventually left the car. While she was backing the car, she heard her baby was crying very loudly. She returned to the car and saw her baby carried away by water. The legend says that if you cross that bridge you can hear the baby crying.

Zanfretta’s Alien Abduction

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The story about the alien abduction of Fortunato Zanfretta is one of the most famous urban legends in Italy. Zanfretta claimed that he was abducted by aliens, who called themselves Dragos and who lived on the planet Teetonia. Apparently he had been abducted multiple times by the same group starting from 1978 to 1981. Even though it sounds extremely frightening and creepy, what he related during a hypnosis session is beyond our wildest imagination:

“I know you are trying to come more frequently . . . no, you can’t come to Earth, people get scared if they look at you. You can’t make friendship. Please go.”

Zanfretta might be the person who has given the most detailed information about alien abduction, details which might make even skeptics to stop and give it a thought.

The white death

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An urban legend about a little girl from Scotland who hated life more than anything and wished to destroy every last trace of herself. Eventually she decided to commit suicide and shortly after, her family had discovered what she had done.
In a creepy coincidence every member of her family died a few days later as their limbs were thorn apart. According to the legend, when learning about the White Death, the ghost of the girl, might come to you and would knock repeatedly on the door. Each knocking would get louder and louder and if you open the door she would kill you because she is afraid you would tell the world about her existence. Her main desire is to prevent people to spread rumours about her. Like many other urban legends, this story could be the invention of a modern Aesop, but still, it would hurt to check who’s knocking, before opening the door.

The black Volga

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The legend says that a black Volga was supposedly seen often in the streets of Warsaw, during the 1960s.It was driven by child kidnapers. The stories said that very important Soviet officials took the car and drove it to Moscow during mid the mid 1930s, and kidnapped young girls to use them as sexual slaves for the highest Soviet comrades.

Other versions of this legend say that the Volga car had been driven by mysterious priests, vampires and Satanists, and even Satan in person.There is also said that the car was used to kidnap children in order to take their blood and use it as a cure for leukemia patients all over the world.

As you might have guesses, none of these urban legends ever proved to be true, but it still makes our blood run cold.

The Greek soldier

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This legend is less known and talks about a Greek soldier who was returning home from WWII to marry his fiancé. He didn’t get to arrive home as he had been captured by fellow Greeks with hostile political beliefs. He was tortured for five weeks and in the end he was murdered. At the beginning of the 1950s, stories were saying the in the North and Central parts of Greece, a very attractive Greek soldier wearing a uniform would appear an disappear overnight, seducing virgins and beautiful girls with the purpose of getting them pregnant.
Five weeks after the birth of the babies, the man would vanish completely, leaving only a letter on the table in which he was explaining that the had returned from the dead to spread his seed so that his followers would avenge his death.

Elisa Day

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An urban legend, says that during medieval Europe, lived a woman called Elisa Day, whose beauty was compared to the one of wild bloody red roses that grew on the side of the river.

One day, a man came into town and instantly fell in love with her. The two dated for three days. On the first day he visited her at her place, on the second day he brought her one red rose and asked her to meet him in the place where wild roses grow. On the third day he took her to the river and killed her.

The story says that the killer waited for her to turn her back on him and took a rock and hit her head while whispering “All beauty must die”. He put a rose between her teeth and dropped her body into the river. There are people who claimed having seen her ghost wandering along the riverside with blood running down her head and carrying one rose in her hand.

The Well to Hell

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The action of the urban legend happened sometime back in 1989, when Russian scientists drilled a borehole in Siberia, with a depth of 14,5 kilometres inside the crust of the Earth. The drill intersected a cavity and scientists lowered some equipment to investigate what was found down there. The temperature was over 1000 degree Celsius, but what shocked them, were the sounds recorded by the machines.

They only managed to record around seventeen seconds of terrifying audio, before their microphone melted. Many of the scientists were convinced that they had heard the screams of those damned in Hell and backed out from the job immediately. At least this is what the story says.

Those who choose to remain, had an even bigger shock later that night. A coat of luminous gas bursted out of the hole shaped as a giant winged demon, and the words “I have conquered” in Russian, had been written into the flames.
Even though many consider it as a myth, there are many who actually believe that this really happened and that the Well to Hell is a real thing.
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Some Urban Legends Are True (Part 2)

January 28, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

Some Urban Legends Are True (Part 2)

Are you ready for more urban legends? We’ve prepared three more for you!

1. There’s life after cryonic death

Already overly used in countless movies, books, cartoons, video games, crossword magazine last page comics and whatever else, the whole freezing people up for them to come back to life later (supposedly decades or even centuries) seems to have been proven a tricky practice to nail with current technology. If anything, scientists prefer focusing on cryogenic preservation which entails a completely different practice and definitely won’t be keeping anyone alive for dozens of years, but instead prolong the time doctors have to operate on people experiencing severe blood loss.

But I diverge. Because a freezing, living body is more likely to go into hypothermia and then, several degrees under the normal body temperature, have its vital organs flat-line after amnesia and loss of body control kicks in, cryonics are still a long way away from making the science fiction thing a reality. But this myth might turn out to not be impossible after all as there is someone out there who has lived through it to tell the tale. Going by the name of Jean Hilliard, she is the lucky survivor of such an experience.

Having been found frozen solid in the snow by neighbors, she was brought in the hospital and pretty much declared a goner. Even if she wasn’t found to be dead, doctors stated that the temperatures that her body had been subjected to would most likely be the cause of severe brain damage. Then again, they proceeded to wrap the body up in an electric heating pad to begin the thawing; not much later, Jill Hilliard’s eyes popped open and curious inquiries regarding her own location were uttered from the person lying down in a heating pad, supposedly believed dead or at least a mental goner.

Not only that she seemed to not be affected in any way whatsoever by the cryonic nightmare, but her body didn’t display any form of frostbite or freezer burns and she was able to resume her normal life happily. How this occurred is still a mystery to doctors, but as we all know, it just takes one exception to make researchers realize it’s possible.

2. Voices from the walls

I remember being in my bed one night, back when I was a child, dozing off happily when I realized the reason I wasn’t managing to fall asleep was a constant, muffled meowing I could hear from the wall on the right side of the bed. The wall that separated my room from the house’s gym room that surely did not contain any kittens.

I never found the source of the sound, but I did struggle to fall asleep for several hours as I could swear the meowing was coming from INSIDE the wall. There is a number of similar urban legends – of course, involving human beings instead of cats – that speak of people being walled in in strange, inexplicable circumstances.

That’s no urban legend however, as real life Joseph Schexnider was found in a very baffling predicament. In an old building used by Abeville National Bank, when management ordered the renovation of the second level, workers found secret after secret. First they found that a large plate covering the wall by being bolted in place hid behind it an old, out of order fireplace.

That didn’t surprise anyone at first as the building was relatively old and the scenery wasn’t in any way unusual. But then came the first discovery that made the workers uneasy – cloth scraps and tiny bones lying on the floor inside the chimney. Because that wasn’t enough and further inquiry was required, the workers looked up inside the chimney and conveniently enough found a full-fledged human skeleton stuck in the narrow passage.

While the DNA tests revealed his identity, tissue tests revealed something even more frightening: the poor man had been wedged and stuck in the chimney for 27 years. The reason he was never found was the fact that the second floor of the building was barely ever used so his shouts for help were never heard. Nor were the usual signs of decease felt by anyone, come to think of it. The reason behind the poor man’s whereabouts remained just as big of a mystery.

3. Dark water. Real life dark water

If you’ve ever watched the 2005 remake of the Japanese film Dark Water (going to use the Hollywood remake as an example because most people have probably seen that, not the original), you most likely took it for what it really was – a fictional horror movie. While the movie’s interpretation of the dark water was simply the vengeful, restless presence of a spirit from beyond the world because that’s how horror movies work, this little story depicts things in a more literal way. Literally.

Take your low-mediocre hotel in downtown Los Angeles. You won’t expect it to be heaven, but you’d at least hope for decent bathing conditions. Guests at the hotel in question started noticing problems with the water they were getting from their taps. You know how after your water has been cut off for operations on the pipes, the water coming out from them will be brown and dirty for a while until the things clear off? Residents here weren’t even getting that, they were getting black water and the weakest pressure you could imagine.

God knows why it took guests at the hotel nearly a week to actually report the issue to the management, but eventually it happened so someone was sent to check things out. The hotel had four cisterns that it drew its water from and they all seemed alright – with the exception of one. Nothing big really, just the decomposing body of a woman tainting the water people were getting to that shocking extent. Nobody knew how she ended up there – whether it had been an accident, suicide or something that would make the story even scarier. You know what’s the scariest thing though? Guests at the hotel kept drinking and taking showers with said water for nearly a week. Yup.

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Some Urban Legends that Are True (Part 1)

January 23, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

Some Urban Legends Are True (Part 1)

So much for the urban legend status. Information travels fast, and over the length of all ages of mankind, word of mouth made sure that everyone was aware of the craziest, most attention worthy events that came up in people’s lives. In an age ruled by internet, information is even more ridiculously easy to come across – including erroneous, false affirmations that one or another came up with to serve their own purposes; or simply for fun. But at times, things can go the other way around: something that has always been considered a simple urban legend suddenly receives ground and proof that it is in fact, true. Sit down and grab your blanky, because this is going to be scary.

1. Carnivorous escalators

Something that our parents told us when we were kids, right? Tie your shoelace so you don’t end up like those boys on the news that got eaten by the escalator because they didn’t. Yeah, sure. You grow up, it never happens to you, and probably even end up telling your kids the same. And thank god you do because that couldn’t be a more real danger.

There have been several cases throughout the world of people getting literally chewed up by escalators. The rogue shoelace getting stuck in the gritty, metallic stairs going up with no possible stop idea couldn’t be more terrifying until you actually think about it a little. Once the shoelace is in, there’s no getting it out – trying to take your shoe off becomes a little difficult when the caught shoelace keeps tightening around your ankle. What happens after? Well, documented cases speak of toes and feet partially getting chewed off by escalators; upon trying to free themselves, victims also risked other parts of their body – most often their hands. In one case, a man got strangled by an escalator as he bent down to free his shoelace and got his hoodie caught in it as well.

2. Beware of your local mall and/or leveled hyper store.

Ever got the feeling you were being watched?

This is inadvertently becoming a “creepy” list of things that happen to be true too soon and too fast, but that’s urban legends to you. This one might be familiar to many people as it has circulated on the internet quite a lot and falls into the urban legends king category. I have personally never felt like I was being watched but many individuals claim it’s a real thing – not just something you have seen in movies. So the urban legend says that your 6th “someone’s watching me” sense starts tingling before you discover that despite your home security, a malicious stranger has in fact invaded your home and definitely did not bring banana bread to repay your hospitality.

In most cases, that is surely only Hollywood movie material. In one particular case however, it turned out it wasn’t. Few years ago in Japan, a man (although not claiming any 6th sense tingles) kept finding things amiss in his home such as missing food, objects not where he’d put them despite his home being safe and no hint suggesting there had been a break-in at any point. Out on a whim, the man proceeded to set up cameras in his home to clear out the mystery; after everything was set and done, he checked the footage the next morning.

To his horror, the video entailed a woman crawling out of one of his cupboards and going around his home to only return to the cupboard after everything was over. Upon the police’s arrival, a homeless woman was indeed found hiding in the house, in the very cupboard that she had crawled out from on video. While you’d think that’s pretty bad, turns out she had been living in the man’s house for nearly a year, eating, sleeping and even bathing there whenever he left.

3. Shrunken head tales were actually inspired from reality. Amazonian reality.

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While everyone uses the shrunken head thing as a fun – or scary, depending on genre – element addition to their stories and voodoo-themed media, very few actually ask themselves where the trend actually started from. And that’s the case with so many thematic appearances in a lot of videos, films, books and whatnot.

Such goes the story of the shrunken heads. How WOULD you get a shrunken head anyway? There’s no way that was real at any point in history. Well, surprise, it was. In tribes from around the Amazon more specifically. While it wasn’t a very broadly popular practice and was barely seen anywhere else across the planet, head shrinking seems to have taken place until late 19th century in said tribes.

The way they did it was cutting the back of the severed head, skinning the skull, sewing the eyes and mouth shut, boiling it and then drying it with hot rocks until it became a mass of… tissue that you could mold into a head-like shape. While these were kept as trophies most likely, it soon became more of a sport and trade as tribes started hunting and killing enemy tribes just for head-collecting – all because of traders offering guns in exchange for the tokens. This trade actually continued until the 1940s until it was finally outlawed. That’s awfully late if you ask me.

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