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Today, we have some of the scariest, grossest, weirdest urban legends we've ever heard.
We all love a good urban legend, like the man who wakes up in an iced-bathtub without
a kidney, or the killer with a hook for a hand.
But these top 10 scary urban legends will put those elementary stories to shame.
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10.
Cropsey What's scarier than a boogeyman and a serial
murderer escaping from a mental institution?
The myth of Cropsey is about a mental patient haunting an institution for the disabled that
closed under dark circumstances.
Cropsey, the janitor, sneaks out at night into the suburban neighborhoods that surround
it to trap and murder children!
Cropsey is an urban legend, sure, but he is based on real events.
In fact, in real life, he's possibly even more frightening.
He was a child murderer named Andre Rand, who was on the cleaning staff at a school
for disabled children on Staten Island, before the school closed in the late 1980's due to
the abuse of the patients exposed.
Cropsey continued living on the grounds and was suspected of the disappearance of several
children and later found guilty of kidnapping on two separate occasions.
9.
The Dog Man There is an Arkansas-born urban legend about
a spirit with a dog-like appearance that walks on all fours that haunts the town of Quitman.
He haunts the house of his childhood where he grew up being an evil, cruel child, and
where he murdered his own father.
This entire myth revolves loosely around the story of a man named Gerald Bettis.
As a child, Bettis enjoyed capturing stray animals and doing experiments on them.
He was abusive to his family, and his father was found dead in his family home under suspicious
circumstances.
He kept his mother in the house against her will until she was taken away by adult protective
services.
She later testified against him and he died in prison.
It's a common story that his spirit still haunts the home when the terrifying acts occurred.
8.
Charlie No Face Our next urban legend takes place in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania at an abandoned train tunnel.
Imagine, you're going past an abandoned tunnel, perhaps you're taking a detour, or Google
Maps led you astray.
Through the darkness, you see a figure.
This figure becomes clearer as the lights in the tunnel start to flicker, and you see
that his face is severely burned to the point beyond recognition.
How fast and how hard would you slam your foot on the gas?
This myth, like our previous ones, has a very real base.
The real person's name was not Charlie, but Raymond and he had a severe electrical accident
and was left disfigured.
As would happen to anyone, he became a bit of a hermit, and would only go out at night
when his face would be less visible and shocking.
7.
The Alaska Triangle We've all heard of the Bermuda Triangle, but
the much less famous Alaska Triangle, a very harsh terrain located between Juneau and Anchorage,
has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people over the past 50 years.
The area reportedly takes one life every single month.
They're not just random people either, In the 1990's, two U.S. congressmen disappeared
in this very triangle as well as a House Majority leader in the 1970's.
Bodies don't turn up, nothing is explained, so of course, conspiracy theorists jump to
fill in the blanks.
Some theories talk about evil spirits, electromagnetic vortexes, or simply the result of people trying
to take on nature and failing.
We all know it's aliens, so let's just move on already..
6.
Kansas' Gateway to Hell Beyond its fields of crops, cattle, and suburbs,
Kansas also holds the myth of an actual gateway to hell.
In the small town of Stull, there lies a tale of an ancient resident called, get ready for
it, Lucifer.
It's said that he appears several times a year at the cemetery, using a portal in a
roofless church to get across to and from the underworld.
Why this church?
Rumors roll around about ancient witch hangings in the area, while others think one of the
graves holds his very own child.
Of course, this leads to lots of rumored cult action in the area and a constant rise in
new graves.
The myth is so rampant that the town actually has arranged for police presence to deter
dark tourists.
5.
Mississippi's Three-Legged Lady Southern women are strong-willed, don't mess
around, and basically run the show.
Add to any Southern woman a third leg, and you have something really dark.
That's basically the basis of this urban legend.
See, there's a dark stretch of gravel in Mississipi called Nash Road, where the three-legged lady
is supposed to lurk.
The old and rotting third limb she carries around is one she sewed onto her body.
Some say the leg comes from a dead lover, others say that she's the ghost of a grieving
mother whose daughter's leg was dismembered.
Regardless, keep Nash Road on the "dont's" for your next Mississippi stop.
4.
Area 51 The creepiest thing about this urban legend
isn't that this project in Nevada could be the place where we found dead aliens, probed,
and eventually swept everything under the governmental secrecy rug.
Really it's how much we DON'T know about the whole endeavor.
So, some background, Area 51 is a super-secret military base.
We don't know much of what it's for or why it exists, but do know it was created in the
1950's to develop and test a U-2 Stealth plane operation.
Since then, it has become the epicenter for alien activity theories including the Roswell
alien crash theory where several alien bodies were found, one alive, and sent for testing.
3.
Kadena Air Force Base Anything Japanese is totally terrifying.
From urban myths to horror films, it's a country full of frightening things.
One of them is the tale of a haunted Kadena Air Force Base.
The place is located in Okinawa and was home to a series of occurrences that had people
wide-eyed and running in the other direction.
For one, they had the classic lights turning on and off by themselves, as well as the sight
of a woman washing her hair in the kitchen sink.
The scariest part is that the house shares a chainlink fence with a daycare building.
Children between the ages of four and five years old would constantly throw toys over
the fence and when asked why, they said they wanted to play with the children on the other
side.
All of the kids saw these other children, but the adults could not...
2.
The Stick People This Native American tale is horrifying from
the title alone.
Put anything before the word "people" and you have me freaked out.
Whether it's the stick people, the tall people, the doll people... people should just be people.
This legend talks about a sect of people who live in the hills and lure children into their
community.
These aren't just any children though, they trap the kids who don't pay attention to their
parents, those who are out past their bedtime, or babies who have been neglected.
Like some cultures' legends of gnomes and naughty fairies, the stick people would also
steal things like socks and keys.
I'd like to see them steal my socks.. even my wife won't touch them..
1.
Headaches From Hell This far-reaching urban legend is about the
cause of mysterious headaches.
Rumors say that several patients around the world varying in age and gender at one point
or another complained of headaches only to find out they've been infested by insects!
One example is of a child who allegedly fell asleep eating sweets and was swarmed by ants.
They dispersed when he woke up, but he didn't realize it was too late, they made a home
in his skull, eventually taking his life.
In Taiwan, a story roams about a man who left food by his bed at a Taipei hospital, despite
the nurse's advice.
Same as the previous patient, he complained of headaches and eventually died.
During his autopsy, doctors supposedly found that the live ants in his head had been eating
parts of his brain.
Disgusting, right?
But also totally false.