Category: Urban Legends

This is a story about the Smith sisters who were murdered anonymously while they slept in their bedroom.

It’s an urban legend about a boy named John Smith who was very fond of scary emails and popups.
Every day, he would find new ones and post them to everyone he knew. He even started making […]

Read some really scary urban legends Decide for yourself whether these stories are scary but true or just myths and hoaxes. All the famous and popular ones are here including The Hook, Bloody Mary, and The Babysitter.

Bloody Mary
Smith Sisters Murdered Anonymously
The 13th Floor
Humans Can Lick Too

San Antonio Ghost Tracks
Vanishing Hitchhiker
The Hook
Killer in the Backseat

The Babysitter
Aren’t […]

This is an urban legend “The Hook” or Hookman about a teenage boy who drove his date to a dark and deserted Lovers’ Lane to make out. After turning on the radio for mood music, he leaned over and began kissing the girl.

A short while later, the music suddenly stopped and a news announcer’s […]

This is a scary urban legend called “Killer in the Backseat“, about a young woman who goes driving alone late at night and finds more than she bargained for.

One night a woman went out for drinks with her girlfriends. She left the bar fairly late at night, got in her car and onto the deserted […]

The Donkey Lady Bridge is a scary urban legend in San Antonio, Texas about a woman who was burned in a fire and went insane.
Anyone who has lived in San Antonio has heard the legend of the Donkey Lady. As the story goes, back in the fifties, a young woman had been in a fire […]

One of the most haunted places in San Antonio is the ghost tracks - The railroad crossing and train tracks are said to haunted by the ghosts of children who died there in a tragic accident.

Back in the 1940s, a school bus full of children was making its way down the road and toward […]

The city of San Antonio, Texas is home to many ghosts and legends, but none is more disturbing than the legend of Midget Mansion.
As the legend goes, in the early 1920s a wealthy family of little people, father mother and two children, moved to San Antonio. The father had made a lot of money appearing […]

The Vanishing Hitchhiker is a scary urban legend about a young girl on her way to a dance and a boy who gives her a ride in his car.

A boy and his friend were in on their way to a dance, driving down a lonely country road. They saw a young girl standing at […]

Read some scary Japanese legends and myths. Lots of the horror movies that come from Japan are based on the urban legends below. Find out more about them and send a chill down your spine.

Kuchisake Onna
The Slit-Mouth Woman.
Hanako-San
The toilet ghost
Sadako
The Ghost from The Ring.

Ouija Board Ghost
Kokkuri San.
Giant Skeleton
Gashadokuro.
No Face
Nopperabou.

Long Neck
Rokurokubi.
Tek-Tek
The Girl Who Walks On Elbows.
Urban […]

A young couple out on a date parked along an old country road to be alone. They were listening to the car radio and talking. Suddenly the music was interrupted by a news bulletin. “A convicted murderer has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. The man was mutilated in a car wreck following […]

The Curse of the Werewolf is an old urban legend about a priest who discovered a werewolf while travelling in Ireland. This tale inspired Stephen King to write the novella “Cycle of the Werewolf” which was later turned into a movie called Silver Bullet.

The Curse of the Werewolf
The story begins with a priest from a […]

The 7 Barns is a scary urban legend about a wealthy farmer who owned a lot of land and built a new barn on his property every time his wife had a baby. He named each barn after each of his kids and by the time this story takes place, they had 6 kids and […]

Life Rocks is an urban legend about a kid who mixed pop rocks and coke and exploded.
There was famous commercial that used to air on TV for Life breakfast cereal and starred a kid known as “Little Mikey”. In the Life commercial, Little Mikey became famous as the kid who will eat anything his older […]

Shock Collar is an urban legend about two girls named Mary and Karen having a sleepover. It was being held at Karen’s house because her parents were out of town. In fact, every time Karen’s parents went out of town, they had a sleepover because Karen was afraid to stay by herself.
It was Halloween […]

You’re wondering whether Bloody Mary is real or just an urban legend. Well she’s real. Or at least she was.

Hanako San is a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a young girl that’s supposed to haunt school toilets, opening and closing doors and scaring anyone who enters the bathroom, knocks on her stall, and calls her name.
Twenty years ago, when a wave of stories of ghost-sightings swept through the nation’s school yards, […]

Tek Tek is an urban legend from Japan about a student who is leaving his school when he looks back and sees a beautiful girl through a window. He wonders why she’s here, because it’s an all-boys school. When she sees him, she smiles and hugs herself so that she’s holding her elbows.
Suddenly, she […]

The japanese version of the Ouija Board is called Kokkuri San.
Two girls, sitting across from each other over a paper scrawled with the hiragana alphabet grasp a pen between them, chanting the name softly. “Kokkuri-san, Kokkuri-san, tell me, when is the date of my death?”
The question hangs in the air as the pen slowly […]

The giant skeleton or Gashadokuro is a monster from Japanese urban legends. They can reach huge sizes (up to about 90 feet tall), and are constructed out of the skeletons of people whom have died awful deaths in war or from starvation. The bones are collected into this giant creature by the dead’s feelings of […]

Long Neck is a Japanese urban legend about Rokurokubi, creatures that look and act like normal humans, but at night their necks elongate, freeing their heads to move around almost independently from their bodies. Most Rokurokubi are women, and they take pleasure in scaring regular humans. Rokurokubi are also apparently fond of licking the oil […]