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![]() Top 1. 0 Scary Urban Legends to Keep You Up At Night. If you’re reading this at night, and you’re about to go to bed. These folktales and urban myths come from around the world. Some are centuries old; others are modern. The one thing that they all have in common is that I found them all pretty unsettling. There were a few urban legends that didn’t quit make the cut but that we found creepy nonetheless. If you want to read more about these, check out our page on Robert the Doll, or our post about the Shadow People. Anyways, without further ado – here’s our list of the Top 1. Scary Urban Legends out there. Slit mouthed woman / Kuchisake- onna. The legend of the woman with the slit mouth originates from Japan, although it is now also quite a well- known myth in Chinese and Korean culture. It is said that there was once a stunningly beautiful woman who was married to a Samurai. Six Parts: Sample Stories Understanding the Horror Genre Generating Story Ideas Developing the Characters.The samurai believed her to be adulterous, and in his rage he slit her mouth open from ear to ear and taunted by saying . If you have the bad luck of coming into contact with her, she will ask you a question – . The scariest part is, even if you answer . You can’t just run away either – if you try to escape, every time you turn around still be standing there. Right in front of you. She is said to almost exclusively hunt children, and reports of sightings have occurred not only in Japan – she was sighted once again in South Korea as recently as 2. If you’re unfortunate enough to run into her on the way home, you should answer he questions noncommittally – . The Slender Man. The legend of Slender Man has been extensively covered on this site already – nonetheless, it’s such a creepy urban legend that I feel compelled to retell it here. The story of the Slender Man first gained notoriety in 2. The Slender man is an extremely tall, lanky man who wears a black suit. He has deathly thin limbs, and the most terrifying thing about him – he has no face. There are reports that the he also has the ability to stretch and bend his arm in supernatural ways, and that his fingers are long, almost like claws, which he uses to scratch at the windows of his unsuspecting victims. It is said that the Slender Man is often found in the woods or forests, and if you’re out camping or hiking and its past sunset, if you turn around you may catch a glimpse of him, standing motionless in the distance behind you. His victims are reportedly all children, and this is somewhat confirmed by the fact that he has been spotted in the background of photos of young children who tend to disappear with no trace just a short time after the time the photo is taken. After the myth of the Slender Man became widely known of the internet, people began making connections to older urban legends in other cultures. Similar unnaturally tall, figures have been discovered in cave paintings in Brazil, and in the 1. The Tall Man’, who lured children into the woods. There is also a . Shadows lay over him, dark as a cloudy midnight. He had many arms, all long and boneless as snakes, all sharp as swords, and they writhed like worms on nails. He did not speak, but made his intentions known,”We have covered Slenderman a lot on this site: We have a entire page dedicated to the Slender Man, check it out here. Two Girls Commit Murder, inspired by Slender Man. Shooting in Vegas is linked to Slender Man. Haunted Majora’s Mask. This is a more contemporary but still extremely unsettling urban legend. The first discussion of this particular modern myth happens in 2. Okay, /x/, I need your help with this. This is not copypasta, this is a long read, but I feel like my safety or well- being could very well depend on this. This is video game related, specifically Majora’s Mask, and this is the creepiest shit that has ever happened to me in my entire life.”It’s hard to describe the entirety of what happens in this story – I don’t feel like I could do it justice here by just retelling it – instead, you can read the whole thing here. It’s worth it, trust me. Nam Koo Terrace. This is a less well known, but no less creepy urban legend. It takes us all the way to Hong Kong – there is an abandoned building called Nam Koo Terrace that hasn’t been renovated or redeveloped, despite its prime location and Hong Kong’s lack of sufficient housing space. In fact, the building is owned by a major property developer – who knows why they’ve chosen to leave this particular building in its dilapidated state. The building is close to a hundred years old, and was once owned by a wealthy family. This family was apparently forced to evacuate in WW2 due to the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong – and it is rumored that this building was used by the Japanese as a location for the . Since then, the ownership of the building has transferred to other parties, and is now owned by . The odd thing is that this company has plans to demolish the building and replace it for a luxury hotel – their plan was even approved by the government, but for unknown reasons, this plan was never executed – and the building is still standing today, and remains vacant and unused. Now here is the interesting part. Locals have often referred to the building as a haunted house – it is said that the spirits of the comfort women who died there remain in the building, and there are numerous accounts of people hearing screams and strange lights from inside the house. It is reported that in the 1. Apparently, there had been an attempted exorcism inside the property prior to this happening. It wasn’t the last time something strange occurred inside those walls. In 2. 00. 3, a group of eight teenage girls decided to put this . It was reported that this one girl had also taken on a different personality and was speaking in a voice that didn’t sound like her own. The police were called, and when they tried to lead the girl off the property, she responded with violence – it took two grown police officers to subdue the unhinged teenage girl, and later she and the two other distressed girls were sent to the hospital for psychiatric treatment. Over the years, there have also been a number of bodes found inside the house or on the grounds – apparently as many as 3. Apparently, people who go into the house have visions of a bloody drenched or decapitated woman and hear piercing shrieks (even if they cover up their ears) – others have also said to have witnessed a man, dressed all in black, roaming the corridors in the property. The official stance of the company that owns the property is that they plan to let it stay standing due to its status as a historical building – despite their previous plans for demolishing it. Keep in mind – while some of the claims about the building may be exaggerated, the story regarding the experiences of the 8 teenage girls has been confirmed – in fact, it was reported by a number of newspapers at the time. You can see the original chinese newspaper article here: http: //orientaldaily. Clown statue. The urban legend of the clown statue takes place in the residence of a wealthy family. A teenage girl is babysitting two children, one boy and one girl, as a favor to a family friend. The parents are going out on a date night, and the father asks the babysitter to stay in a specific room to watch TV after she puts the kids to bed – the parents don’t really want her roaming around the house. The kids have gone to bed, and the babysitter goes into the room to watch TV and wait for the parents to return – but she notices a clown statue in the corner of the room as she’s settling in. Clown statues are inherently creepy, but she tries to ignore it for a while, but the room begins to feel more and more unsettling as time goes on. Her pulse is racing and she’s beginning to panic, so she calls the father and says “I put the kids to bed already – is it alright if I move into another room? This weird clown statue is really unsettling.”The father immediately tells her to get the kids and to immediately go to the neighbor’s house and call 9. She asks him if anything is wrong and he tells her to just do it and call back when she’s at the neighbor’s. So she rushes to get the kid, goes to the neighbor’s house, and asks if she can use the phone to call the police. After all that, she dials the father again and asks him for an explanation. He tells her that they don’t have a clown statue in the house, and that the two kids have recently been complaining of a clown monitoring as they sleep . He says they’ve been having nightmares about a clown. The police arrive, and apparently the ? What I do know is that if I ever see a clown statue in the same room that I’m in, I’m getting the heck out of there. Here’s the account of another sighting of a Creepy Clown. Black Eyed Children. In the late 1. 99. Brian Bethel had an unnerving experience in his town of Abilene, Texas , where he works for the . Whether or not you believe his accounts of his experience, you should know that this is a real person – so at the very least, we know the premise of this scary urban legend is not a hoax – there is at least one person on the record (and a journalist no less) who claims that this happened to him. Brian posted about this unsettling encounter in a mailing list in 1. He was in the town of Abilene, sitting in his car and attempting using the light of a nearby building – a movie theatre – to try a write out a check to pay his internet provider. He hears someone tapping on the window on the driver’s side. He looks up and sees two boys, neither of them older than about 1. They’re dressed in hoodies, standing outside his locked car door. He rolls down the window, not sure of what to expect, when the hairs on the back of his neck begin to stand on end. An inexplicable dread- like fear grabs hold of him. One of the boys begins to talk to Brian, and the boy explains that he and his friend need a ride – that they wanted to go to catch a movie, but they left their cash at home and needed a ride home to fetch it. Creepy Urban Legends of London(Image: Marc Barker)There’s nothing like a good ghost story. In every settlement since time began, we humans have gathered to whisper frightful tales to one another. Urban legends of corpses returning from the grave; of alligators living beneath our feet, and so on. Sometimes gloomy, overcrowded and alienating places where campfire stories seem so much more believable. Cities like London. The fact that many of its ghost stories are undoubtedly rooted in urban myth and legend only serves to make them more intriguing, perpetuating them for future generations of Londoners. Here are 1. 0 creepy tales from across England’s capital. The Suicide Pool (Epping Forest)Stretching from the fringes of London deep into Essex, Epping Forest has long been a place of myth and mystery. It was here that Dick Turpin’s gang plied their trade and Elizabethan poets found their inspiration. But it’s also a place of dark, unsettling legends; the darkest of which has to be the Epping suicide pool.(Image: Prof. DEH)Many decades ago, so the story goes, a young couple in love were followed to a pond by the girl’s father. Although the tale is hazy on what exactly happened next, it’s generally agreed that the two confronted him. Not long after, something strange happened. The waters of the pool turned a dark, impenetrable black. Wildlife began to die at its edges and the clearing soon became barren. Then the bodies started to appear. First a woman was found dead beside the pond. Then a girl was found, her young child dead beside her. Rumours began to surface that the pool was drawing people in, leading them to their deaths. Supposedly, Epping Forest’s suicide pool is still out there somewhere, unmarked on any map, waiting for someone to find it. But we’ll understand if you’d rather not go looking. Just in case. The Corpse Train (Whitechapel)Although it sounds like a low- budget horror movie, the Whitechapel corpse train is probably the most- intriguing item on our list. Unlike many we’ve discussed, it has no supernatural origins or manifestations. Instead, it features a very human horror: hundreds upon hundreds of corpses.(Image: Anthony Woodman)In the early days of the tube, death was not an uncommon occurrence in London’s many hospitals. Faced with overflowing morgues and nowhere to put the steadily- mounting bodies, the Royal London Hospital came up with a solution equal parts genius and grotesque. Without telling anybody, they allegedly installed a new line on the underground running underneath the hospital and into Whitechapel. A line they could use to ferry human cadavers away from the morgue, to lie unremarked upon in the station’s spare ticket office; just metres away from oblivious commuters. As good as this story is, it’s almost- certainly untrue. But it makes for an interesting urban legend; one that communicates our fear of death and the unknown as effectively as any number of ghost stories. The Shadows of Cane Hill (Croydon)If you’re looking for a location for your ghost story, Cane Hill Asylum would be hard to beat. In operation between 1. Image: Paul)Some of them – such as Charlie Chaplin’s mother and the brothers of David Bowie and Michael Caine – would later be immortalised by those they left behind. But the majority lived and died unnoticed, hidden from sight. All of which may explain why they – some say – never left. Over the years, disturbing reports have come in from the derelict hospital of figures moving in the grounds. Others swear they’ve seen shadows flitting by the windows, or vanishing into the night. Dogs are known to fear the site, and it’s said the dead are watching from the windows, turning their cold and envious eyes upon the world of the living. At least, that was once the case. In 2. 01. 0, a fire gutted the hospital. Today, only a shell remains of the place a many lost souls once called home. The Crying Girl (King’s Cross Station)At roughly 7. November 1. 8th 1. King’s Cross Station escalator. The resulting fire gutted the ticket office, killing 3. Today, the terrible memories of the fire still linger on in the form of the crying girl.(Image: Sunil. A young woman with long brown hair, dressed in jeans and a t- shirt, the crying girl has been spotted around the station, seemingly inconsolable with grief. Passengers have reported trying to comfort her, only to see her suddenly disappear in the crowd, or feel their arms going right through her. More creepily, people have heard her sobs when the platforms are empty, and others have smelled smoke curling out from underneath the escalators. Although no- one has ever got a clear look at her, it is thought she’s one of the fire’s victims, her spirit left behind to wait forever on the platform where she died. That said, crying children often turn up in urban legend, many of which are cautionary tales, and may go some way to explaining the King’s Cross haunting. The Beast (Hackney Marshes)With acres of woodland, overgrown paths and a scattering of reed marshes shrouded by mist in the early morning, it’s perhaps no wonder Hackney Marsh has attracted some curious legends. But at least one of these legends goes right past curious and into outright weird.(Image: Derek Harper)It started in 1. Lea River. They’d been decapitated and dumped, left to rot in the stagnant water. Fast forward a year and four young boys decided to take a walk across the marsh one winter morning. It had been a cold night and there was snow on the ground. About halfway across, they stumbled across a strange set of tracks they couldn’t identify. Thinking nothing of it, they walked on. And then they saw it. Something they’d later describe as “a giant, great, growling hairy thing.” Whatever it was, the creature allegedly reared up on its hind legs and roared at them. The boys fled. When 5. So what was it? Urban legend? Local lore today tends towards it being a nasty prank pulled on a group of easily- frightened kids. But officially the mystery remains unsolved, with dog walkers even now keeping one nervous eye out for the mysterious beast. The Screams of the Dead (Bethnal Green Station)In 1. Bethnal Green in East London experienced one of its worst wartime tragedies. Not from bombs or flying shrapnel, but something potentially far deadlier: panic.(Image: Sunil. During a routine air raid siren test, civilians on their way to shelter in the Tube station all happened to converge on the entrance at once. In their panic to get downstairs, some people tripped. As more and more people fell to their knees and bodies kept piling in the door, the panic became a deadly crush. One hundred and seventy- three people were trampled to death, including at least 4. The disaster was Britain’s worst civilian tragedy in the entire war. Over 7. 0 years after the accident, its memory still scars the station. Underground staff and late night passengers have reported hearing women screaming and the sound of children crying. Do the voices of the dead still linger beneath East London’s streets? The only way to be sure is to go down there late at night and find out for yourself. The Faceless Woman (Becontree Station, Barking)If you ever find yourself catching the Tube back from Barking late one night, do yourself a favour and steer clear of Becontree Station. Small and unassuming, the station is nonetheless said to hold one of London’s creepiest ghosts: the faceless woman.(Image: Sunil. The most- famous iteration of the story takes place in 1. A station supervisor was closing up when he heard a rattling on the handle of his office door. Going outside to look, he found a female figure waiting on the platform. She was blonde, in a pale white dress. As she stared into the distance, the supervisor approached. He had almost reached her when she turned around. Where her face should have been, he simply saw a ghastly blank. Other iterations of the story have her appearing directly before someone; or simply standing down the far end of the platform, waiting for a train that’ll never come. It’s theorised that she’s the ghost of someone killed in the 1. Why she’s stayed behind when all the others have long since vanished is a question no- one can answer. However, it’s also worth noting that the faceless woman haunting has been associated with various sites across the world, and may be rooted in urban legend. The Figure in the Studio (Southwark)Not all ghosts have to be seen by dozens of people to qualify as creepy. In fact, some have only ever been seen once.(Image: Andreas Praefcke)The story takes place in the studios of art radio project Resonance FM. In an interview with Londonist, a couple of the station’s presenters recently claimed they’d seen a ghost in the studio late one night. Not just any old ghost, either, but a chillingly malevolent one. According to one presenter, it looked like a shadow with angry, burning eyes. The other said it was the teeth he noticed: sharp, dark, malformed things that the creature bared at him before disappearing. Whatever it was, it hasn’t been seen since. So was it just a hoax tale told for fun? But there’s also the chance that something weird was witnessed. If that’s the case, we don’t even want to think about what that snarling, dark and angry figure might have been. Hardy was visiting the Queens House in Greenwich. At the foot of the Tulip staircase, he paused to take a picture. At the time, he thought no more about it. Until he got his photo back.(Image: Rev. Ralph Hardy via Oddee)It transpired that the Reverend had accidentally taken one of the most- infamous pictures in supernatural history. Featuring a mournful, hooded figure clinging to the railings of the staircase, it appeared to be impossible, the sort of ghostly picture you couldn’t fake. When news of the photograph got out, the British Ghost Club decided to investigate. With recording equipment in tow, they headed to the Queens House to perform a s. Their records of the evening make for some uniquely disturbing reading. Starting at 1. 0.
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