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Oct 9, 2024 · But sometimes, these stories turn out to be true. Have a look—preferably under the covers and with a flashlight—at these 11 terrifying tales that actually happened. Rats in the Toilet Bowl ...
- Candyman. In 2021, director Nia DaCosta’s new vision of Candyman—the popular 1992 horror hit about a vengeful spirit who is summoned to reality by saying his name five times—arrived in theaters.
- The Killer Calling From Inside the House. For decades, stories have circulated about a babysitter home alone who receives harassing phone calls. When the call is finally traced by police, the babysitter is horrified to discover it’s coming from inside the house.
- The Goatman. The Goatman was a purported half-man, half-goat fond of devouring dogs and attacking people in Prince George’s County in Maryland. While the Goatman had been whispered about for years, he got an explosion of publicity in 1971 after a reporter named Karen Hosler delivered a one-two punch lending credibility to his existence.
- The Mothman. No urban legend rundown is complete without mention of the Mothman, a strange creature who purportedly terrorized West Virginia in the 1960s.
- Sutton Travis
- The Story of Charlie No-Face. The tale of Charlie No-Face is an example of one of those true stories that gets wildly twisted in each retelling. Here are the facts: In the early 1900s, a Pennsylvania boy named Ray Robinson was electrocuted by a trolley wire, resulting in lifelong disfigurement—specifically, most of his facial features melted away.
- Colonel Buck's Recurring Tombstone Stain. Passersby are often keen to point out the oddly-shaped mark, resembling a leg, that stains the tomb of this former Justice of the Peace.
- Reptiles Living in City Sewers.
- Neil Armstrong Bungling the Moon Landing Speech.
Oct 9, 2024 · What happens when a popular urban legend, a "boogeyman," so to say, ends up being an actual serial killer? Well, you get Cropsey, a tragic story-turned-real-life monster. In the 1970s and early 80s, children in Staten Island spread the legend of "Cropsey," an alleged escaped mental patient, axe murderer, and kidnapper who stalked the local streets.
Jul 3, 2024 · Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. The Alice Killings is a fairly new urban legend circulating in Japan. According to the tale, a string of murders happened in Japan between 1999 and 2005. The victim’s bodies were mutilated, with limbs torn off, and the name Alice was written somewhere nearby in the victim’s blood.
- Lyra Radford
Jun 26, 2016 · 9 Bow & Arrow Wars. Quinhagak is a small town in Alaska with a population of less than 1,000. It became quite notable a few years ago when it proved to be an invaluable treasure trove of Yup’ik artifacts. The Yup’ik are a group of Eskimo people related to the Inuit who first settled in Alaska around 3,000 years ago.
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Oct 8, 2017 · It’s a spectacular 7,000-year-old story, one that predates most of the world’s great civilizations. A tape recording made in the 1970s documented an elder talking of a huge explosion shaking ...
