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* The '''[[Beast of Bladenboro]]''' (colloquially known as the '''Vampire Beast of Bladenboro''' or '''Vampire Cat''') was a creature in [[Bladenboro, North Carolina]].
* The '''[[Beast of Bladenboro]]''' (colloquially known as the '''Vampire Beast of Bladenboro''' or '''Vampire Cat''') was a creature in [[Bladenboro, North Carolina]].
* The '''[[Bell Witch]]''' was a folklore legend in [[Robertson County, Tennessee]].
* The '''[[Bell Witch]]''' was a folklore legend in [[Robertson County, Tennessee]].
* '''[[Oakland Cemetery (Iowa City, Iowa)#Black Angel|Black Angel]]''' was a folklore legend and located in [[Oakland Cemetery (Iowa City, Iowa)|Oakland Cemetery]], [[Iwoa]].<ref>[https://www.goiowaawesome.com/iowa-city/2018/03/2670/tales-from-iowa-city-the-black-angel-of-death "Tales From Iowa City: The Black Angel of Death"]. Omaha News. Retrieved 26 September 2021.</ref>
* '''[[Oakland Cemetery (Iowa City, Iowa)#Black Angel|Black Angel]]''' was a folklore legend and located in [[Oakland Cemetery (Iowa City, Iowa)|Oakland Cemetery]], [[Iowa]].<ref>[https://www.goiowaawesome.com/iowa-city/2018/03/2670/tales-from-iowa-city-the-black-angel-of-death "Tales From Iowa City: The Black Angel of Death"]. Omaha News. Retrieved 26 September 2021.</ref>
* '''[[Black Volga]]''' refers to a black [[GAZ Volga|Volga]] limousine that was allegedly used to abduct people in [[Eastern Europe]], especially children.
* '''[[Black Volga]]''' refers to a black [[GAZ Volga|Volga]] limousine that was allegedly used to abduct people in [[Eastern Europe]], especially children.
* '''[[Black-eyed children]]''' (or '''black-eyed kids''') are an urban legend of supposed paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. Tales of black-eyed children have appeared in pop culture since the late 1990s.
* '''[[Black-eyed children]]''' (or '''black-eyed kids''') are an urban legend of supposed paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. Tales of black-eyed children have appeared in pop culture since the late 1990s.

Revision as of 21:30, 26 September 2021

This is a list of urban legends. An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture.

0–9

  • The 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend which claims that calling the police and fire services, then hanging up, charges mobile phone batteries.[1]
  • The 2016 clown sightings were an urban legend that rose in popularity during 2016 about a truly disturbed individual or sometimes even groups of disturbed individuals dressed up as garish clowns who go out of their way to stalk, harass, or otherwise scare random people for no apparent reason other than because they just can.[2][3]

A

  • Aerial water bomber picking up scuba diver: about a water bomber, or a helicopter with a dangling water bucket, scooping up a scuba diver and dumping them on a wildfire site. This legend was used as a plot device in the film Barney's Version. Urban legend debunking site Snopes.com reports there are no proven cases of this happening in reality. The Discovery Channel show MythBusters also disproved the myth.[4]
  • Alexandria's Genesis is a purported genetic mutation that gives its carrier purple eyes, shimmering pale skin, a lack of body hair, and a lack of menstruation while still remaining fertile. The legend originated in a Daria fanfiction written in 1998, and since the 2000s has seen circulation on internet forums and social media.[5]
  • The Ankle slicing car thief or The man under the car is an urban legend that tells of a driver that keeps hearing noises under their car when they are driving. When they step out of the car to investigate, their ankles get sliced open with a knife. And when they are rolling around on the ground in pain, a car thief emerges from underneath the car and steals it.[6]
  • Annabelle was a folklore legend in Monroe, Connecticut.

B

  • Baby Train is an urban legend which claims that a small town had an unusually high birth rate because a train would pass through the town at 5:00 am and blow its whistle, waking up all the residents. Since it was too late to go back to sleep and too early to get up, couples would have sex. This resulted in the mini-baby boom.[7][8]
  • The babysitter and the man upstairs (or also known as The Babysitter or The Sitter) is an urban legend that dates back to the 1960s about a teenage girl babysitting children who receives telephone calls from a stalker who continually asks her to "check the children".
  • The Bandage Man is an urban legend in Cannon Beach, Oregon.[9][10]
  • The Beast of Bladenboro (colloquially known as the Vampire Beast of Bladenboro or Vampire Cat) was a creature in Bladenboro, North Carolina.
  • The Bell Witch was a folklore legend in Robertson County, Tennessee.
  • Black Angel was a folklore legend and located in Oakland Cemetery, Iowa.[11]
  • Black Volga refers to a black Volga limousine that was allegedly used to abduct people in Eastern Europe, especially children.
  • Black-eyed children (or black-eyed kids) are an urban legend of supposed paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. Tales of black-eyed children have appeared in pop culture since the late 1990s.
  • The Blue star tattoo legend refers to a modern legend that LSD tabs are being distributed as lick-and-stick temporary tattoos to children.
  • Bloody Mary is a folklore legend consisting of a ghost or spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is called multiple times. The Bloody Mary apparition may be benign or malevolent, depending on historic variations of the legend. The Bloody Mary appearances are mostly "witnessed" in group participation games.
  • Boo hag is a folklore legend in South Carolina.
  • Mercy Brown vampire was a folklore legend in Exeter, Rhode Island.
  • Bunny Man is an urban legend that probably originated from two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970, but has been spread throughout the Washington, D.C. area. There are many variations to the legend, but most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume ("bunny suit") who attacks people with an axe.

C

  • Castilian lisp is an urban legend claiming that the prevalence of the sound /θ/ in European Spanish can be traced back to a Spanish king who spoke with a lisp, and whose pronunciation spread by prestige borrowing to the rest of the population. This myth has been discredited by scholars for lack of evidence.[12][13]
  • Charlie No-Face (also known as the Green Man) was a real man named Raymond Robinson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • The chupacabra (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾa], from chupar "to suck" and cabra "goat", literally "goat sucker") is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas, with the first sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats.
  • Cow tipping purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment.
  • Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copy-pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences. People often (falsely) believe them to be true.
  • The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin.
  • The curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
  • The cursed memorial of Jonathan Buck is located in Bucksport Cemetery, Maine.[14]

D

F

  • The Fouke Monster (also known as the Boggy Creek Monster and the Swamp Stalker) is a folklore legend in the rural town of Fouke, Arkansas during the early 1970s.

G

H

  • Hanako-san is a Japanese urban legend of the spirit of a young girl who haunts school bathrooms, and can be described as a yōkai or a yūrei.[16] To summon her, individuals must enter a girls' bathroom (usually on the third floor of a school), knock three times on the third stall, and ask if Hanako-san is present.[16]
  • The Hands Resist Him is a painting that was created by artist Bill Stoneham in 1972.
  • Hippo Eats Dwarf. An internet-spread urban legend about a circus performer being accidentally swallowed by a hippopotamus.[17]
  • The hodag (or the Rhinelander hodag) was a folklore legend in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
  • Homey the Clown was a folklore legend in Chicago, Illinois.[18]
  • The Hook, also called Hookman. Originating in post-war America, it recounts a story of a murderer with a hook prosthesis in place of a hand.
  • The Hopkinsville goblins was a supposed extraterrestrial visit by small, goblin-like, green "hairless children" with three toes in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

I

  • In the Air Tonight is a song by Phil Collins that is allegedly about a drowning incident in which someone who was close enough to save the victim did not help them, while Collins, who was too far away to help, looked on. Increasingly embellished variations on the legend emerged over time, with the stories often culminating in Collins singling out the guilty party while singing the song at a concert.[19]
  • The Italian Bride was a real woman named Julia Petta and located in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Illinois.

J

K

  • The Killer in the backseat (also known as High Beams) is a common car-crime urban legend well known mostly in the United States and the United Kingdom. The legend involves a woman who is driving and being followed by a strange car or truck. The mysterious pursuer flashes his high beams, tailgates her, and sometimes even rams her vehicle. When she finally makes it home, she realizes that the driver was trying to warn her that there was a man (a murderer, rapist, or escaped mental patient) hiding in her back seat. Each time the man sat up to attack her, the driver behind had used his high beams to scare the killer, after which he ducked down.[20]
  • Killswitch is a fictional video game. According to the legend, this game can only be played once - If your character dies or you manage to complete the game, the game will delete itself and will leave no trace. It has also been cited as the primary inspiration behind the creepypasta Ben Drowned.[21]
  • Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, "Slit-Mouthed Woman") is a Japanese urban legend about the malevolent spirit, or onryō, of a mutilated woman. She is said to partially cover her face with a mask or object and reportedly carries a sharp tool of some kind, such as a knife or a large pair of scissors.
  • Kushtaka (or Kooshdakhaa) is a folklore legend in Alaska.

L

  • The Licked Hand, also known as Doggy Lick or Humans Can Lick Too, is an urban legend popular among teenagers. The story describes a killer who secretly spends the night under a girl's bed, licking her hand when offered, which she takes to be her dog.
  • Lighthouse and naval vessel, describes an encounter between a large naval ship and what at first appears to be another vessel, with which the ship is on a collision course, which is later revealed to be a lighthouse.
  • The Loveland frog (also known as the Loveland frogman or Loveland Lizard) is a folklore legend in Loveland, Ohio.

M

N

P

  • Paul is dead is an urban legend suggesting that Paul McCartney of the English rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a body double. Similar urban legends have also formed around Avril Lavigne and Melania Trump.
  • Phantom clowns were first sighted in 1981 when several children in Brookline, Massachusetts.[26]
  • Phantom P-40 Airplane/pilot in its original form the pilot is a survivor of the 1941 Battle in the Philippines who wages a one-man war against the Japanese until his heavily-damaged aircraft crashes in China;[27] a modern variation is that he crashes after flying from the Philippines to Pearl Harbor.[28]
  • Phi Yai Wan is an urban legend about the ghost of a pregnant woman similar to renowned Mae Nak Phra Khanong, but her story takes place in Taling Chan in the 1970s.[29]
  • Polybius is a fictitious arcade game, the subject of an urban legend that emerged in early 2000. It has served as inspiration for several free and commercial games by the same name. Similar urban legends about arcade games with harmful side effects (nightmares, suicidal thoughts, etc.), albeit without using the name "Polybius," had circulated since the 1980s. These similar urban legends, from before the name was standardized, were referred to by gaming commentator Ahoy as "protomyths."[30]
  • Pukwudgies is a folklore legend in Hockomock Swamp, Massachusetts.

R

S

  • The Seven Gates of Hell is a modern urban legend in Pennsylvania.
  • Sewer alligators is an urban legend based upon reports of alligator sightings in rather unorthodox locations, in particular New York City.
  • The Shaman's Portal is an urban legend and located in Beaver Dunes Park, Oklahoma.[31][32][33]
  • Shotgun Man is an urban legend of organized crime: as an assassin and spree killer in Chicago, Illinois in the 1910s, to whom murders by Black Hand extortionists were attributed.[34] Most notably, Shotgun Man killed 15 Italian immigrants from January 1, 1910 to March 26, 1911 at "Death Corner," the intersection of Oak Street and Milton Avenue (now Cleveland Avenue) in what was then Chicago's Little Sicily.[35] In March 1911, he reportedly murdered four people within 72 hours.[36] However a check of the Northwestern University website on "Homicide in Chicago" shows shotgun killings in Chicago-but none in Jan-March 1911-and only one killing at Oak and Milton Streets between 1900 and 1920 (Reference only).
  • Skeleton in a tree is an urban legend alleging that years after the defeat of St. Clair in 1791 at Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio, the skeleton of a Captain Roger Vanderberg was found in Miami County, Ohio inside a tree, along with a diary. However, no one of this name was a casualty of the 1791 battle; the story originated in 1864 from a Scottish novel.[37]
  • Skinned Tom is an urban legend in Walland, Tennessee.[38]
  • The Skunk ape (also known as the swamp ape and Florida Bigfoot) is a folklore legend in Florida.
  • Slender Man (also known as Slender man or Slenderman) is a fictional character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Victor Surge in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children. The Slender Man is not tied to any particular story, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, mostly composed online.[39]
  • The Spider Bite or The Red Spot is a modern urban legend that emerged in Europe during the 1970s. It features a young woman who is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The bite swells into a large boil and soon bursts open to reveal hundreds of tiny spiders escaping from her cheek.[40]

T

  • Teke Teke (テケテケ) is the ghost of a young woman or schoolgirl who was tied to the railway line by bullies, which resulted in her body being cut in half by a train. She is an onryō, or a vengeful spirit, who lurks around urban areas and train stations at night. Since she no longer has lower extremities, she travels on either her hands or elbows, dragging her upper torso and making a scratching or "teke teke"-like sound. If she encounters a potential victim, she will chase them and slice them in half at the torso with a scythe or other weapon.[41]
  • Tha Tian legendarily two temple guardian giants, Giant of Wat Jaeng (Temple of Dawn) and Giant of Wat Pho, Giant of Wat Pho borrows money from Giant of Wat Jaeng and refuses to pay it back. They fought fiercely in the midstream of the Chao Phraya River near Phra Nakhon side. As a result of the battle, the around area was completely flattened, hence the name "Tha Tian", which means "flat pier".[42]
  • The truth about Area 51 is an urban legend and located in Rachel, Nevada.[43]

V

  • The Vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, the disappearing hitchhiker, the phantom hitchhiker or simply the hitchhiker) story is an urban legend in which people traveling by vehicle meet with, or are accompanied by, a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. Vanishing hitchhikers have been reported for centuries and the story is found across the world with many variants. The popularity and endurance of the legend has helped it spread into popular culture.[44]
  • Vanishing Lady a.k.a. Vanishing Hotel Room: During an international exposition in Paris, a daughter leaves her mother in a hotel room; when she comes back her mother is gone and the hotel staff claims to have no knowledge of the missing woman. It is later revealed that the mother was dying of plague and, fearing for the negative impact on the hotel's public image, the staff just disposed of the mother, redecorated the room and pretended as nothing had happened. Inspiration for the movie So Long at the Fair. Based upon a turn-of-the-century Philadelphia newspaper story.[45]

W

  • Walking Sam is an urban legend in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.[46]
  • The Well to Hell legend holds that a team of Russian engineers purportedly led by an individual named "Mr. Azakov" in an unnamed place in Siberia had drilled a hole that was 14.4 kilometres (8.9 mi) deep before breaking through to a cavity. Intrigued by this unexpected discovery, they lowered an extremely heat-tolerant microphone, along with other sensory equipment, into the well. The temperature deep within was 1,000 °C (1,832 °F)—heat from a chamber of fire from which (purportedly) the tormented screams of the damned could be heard.[47][48][49]
  • The wendigo is a mythological creature in Minnesota.[50]
  • Women in black of Wat Samian Nari the story of the ghost of two sisters in black dresses. The sisters are believed to have been crushed by a train until their bodies were torn in two in front of Wat Samian Nari temple, Chatuchak, Bangkok in the 1990s, Their spirits haunt people at night, especially taxi drivers. Most often it is said that a taxi pick up two sisters in black from entertainment district, Ratchadapisek Road or RCA in the middle of the night (past midnight). The beautiful Thipsuksri sisters (names Chulee Thipsuksri, and Sulee Thipsuksri) ask the driver to bring them to the Wat Samian Nari temple. He thought they would go home after the hangout, but he noticed that they sat quietly, not speaking to each other or even reciprocating with him. As the taxi approaches the destination, they mysteriously vanished from the back seat. Cab driver stepped out of the car in a daze, suddenly he saw the two sisters lying on rail tracks in front of the temple, cut in half, and dragging their bloodied torsos in pain.[51]

Z

  • The Zombie Road (now called the Rock Hollow Trail) is an urban legend and abandoned gravel road located in the Al Foster Memorial Trailhead, Missouri.[52]

See also

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