Urban Legends are whispered around campfires, and passed down from generation to generation.
They spark fear in the minds of children, and even adults -- embedding in your skin
and lingering with you for years to come.
They range from vampires, werewolves, to ghostly spirits haunting the woods.
But one thing remains the same, they invoke terror.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m going to be counting down our list of the Top 5
Scary North American Urban Legends.
Before we begin, be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be responding
to some of your comments.
And with that, let’s jump in.
5 Arkansas: The Dog Boy Now, the name may sound ridiculous, yes, but
the story is truly chilling.
If you find yourself at 65 Mulberry Street, in the middle of the small Arkansas town of
Quitman, you may very well encounter the hulking outline of a 300-pound half man, half beast,
with glowing animal eyes.
This is The Dog Boy.
If you see him, walk quickly, as he is rumoured to chase people down the street, biting at
their heels.
Now, this legend is rare, because the story behind the story may just be even creepier
than the legend.
Gerald Bettis, the only son of the Bettis family of 65 Mulberry, was reportedly a problem
child.
But, not a cute one.
No.
This kid collected and tortured animals before turning his sociopathic focus to his parents,
supposedly imprisoning them in their home and murdering his father.
Bettis was eventually imprisoned for growing marijuana on his back porch and would later
die in a state penitentiary in 1988 of a drug overdose.
Spooky stuff.
4 Colorado: Riverdale Road Riverdale Road near Thornton, Colorado is
crammed with horrifying legends to bring even the bravest paranormal investigator to their
knees.
Riverdale Road is notorious for having some of the most chilling and endless ghost stories,
beginning with the fact that it is literally referred to as “The Gates To Hell”.
Yeah.
Now, the gates themselves are simply made of rusty iron, yet people travel from far
and wide to visit them.
This is because the man who built the gates lost his mind once they were finished, he
then burned his entire mansion with his family asleep inside.
Worse still, he was never caught or put on trial.
As of now, people report that a lady in white walks the road close by to the gates -- with
many assuming she is the man’s wife -- wandering, searching for her murdered children, or even
her husband.
Another ghostly story goes that there are accidents that specifically happen to joggers
all the time.
Once upon a time, a jogger decided to take a jog along Riverdale Road and ultimately
got hit.
They sadly passed away, and rumour has it their spirit now haunts the road.
People who walk the road are said to have heard a loud heartbeat and footsteps.
If you drive by, you might feel something hitting your car when there’s really nothing
there.
Now, there are so SO many more stories, but we’ll end with the Native American shape
shifters.
Now, what makes Riverdale Road interesting isn’t just the road itself, but because
the area of land that it cuts through is also rumoured to be haunted.
For hundreds of years, there have been countless stories about Native American shapeshifters
roaming the land -- with many passers by spotting them on the road.
According to reports, they take on different shapes, and communicate with people in their
own ways.
They are also known to play tricks on anyone who walks down Riverdale Road.
3 New Jersey: The Watcher Now this legend could honestly be the script
for a horror movie.
Let me break it down for you.
A family began receiving ominous notes just days after they closed on their dream home.
Yeah, spooky right?
Well, this story took off back in 2015, after a young family moved into a million dollar
house in Westfield, New Jersey.
However, they began to get letters signed by someone only ID’ing themselves as “The
Watcher”, who claimed it was their duty to watch over the house, while also spouting
weird lines such as, I quote, “Do you need to fill the house with the young blood I requested?”,
and “Who has the bedrooms facing the street?”
Yeah.
Terrifying.
The writer also noted the make of the couple’s car and the comings and goings of construction
crews.
He also observed that the couple had three young children, stating, I quote, “Was your
old house too small for the growing family?
Or was it greed to bring me your children?
Once I know their names I will call to them and draw them to me.”
Now, no one quite knows the truth behind the legend.
Whether it was a prank, or a spooky neighbor.
But what we do know is that the The Watcher was never caught, and still remains watching
the house in Westfield, New Jersey.
2 California: Turnbull Canyon Turnbull Canyon is a 4 mile loop trail located
near Whittier, California and is part of Puente Hills Preserve.
It lies in the northern-central part of the preserve, and is an east-west canyon with
relatively steep drainage.
Now Natives called Turnbull Canyon “Hutukngna”, or the place of the Devil, and is supposedly
where the ghosts of those slain for not converting to Christianity dwell alongside witches AND
satanists who reportedly used the place to sacrifice children, whose spirits now walk
the canyon.
Now, according to other reports, Turnbull Canyon also houses the ghosts of 21 children
who perished in a plane crash back in 1952, however, there are no existing records of
the incident, so this may be local legend.
However, what we do know is real is that in the canyon lies the remains of an old insane
asylum that supposedly came back to life to kill a teen in the 1960’s via long-dormant
electrical wire.
Not only that, but there are cults, alien encounters, and gravity hills, the list goes
on and on.
Basically, if something unnerves you, there is probably a story about it going down at
Turnbull Canyon.
Now, it’s origin is pretty simple, Turnbull’s evil dates back centuries, however, it wasn’t
until the site was established as a fur-trapping site in 1845 that things started to get a
little...odd.
And very quickly, word of the Canyon’s evil terrors spread far and wide, making it one
one of the world’s most visited places, but not for its beauty, but due to morbid
curiosity.
1 Virginia: The Bunny Man Bridge This terrifying Urban Legend originated from
two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1970 but very quickly spread through the
Washington DC area as well.
Now, like all legends there are many variations; most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume
who attacks people with an axe or a hatchet.
Now, the legend goes that in 1904, a group of convicts were piled onto a bus to be transported
from an asylum in Clifton, Virginia to a nearby prison.
En route, however, one of the buses crashed and the convicts managed to escape, thankfully
though the police were able to round up all of them -- all but one.
As their search went on, they began to find skinned, half-eaten bunnies in the woods and
hanging from the overpass of Fairfax Bridge, now known as “The Bunny Man Bridge.”
A year later, on Halloween Night, several teens went to hang out under the bridge: come
morning the were all found dead.
Legend has it that if you hang out under the Bridge on Halloween Night, you will meet the
same fate as the rabbits and the teenagers.
Jump ahead to 1970, there were numerous police reports of people who had been threatened
by a man holding an axe and wearing a white suit with bunny ears.
Terrifying.
A few other people also reported that the man in the suit threw an axe at them for trespassing
near the bridge.
To this day, there have been numerous reportings of the man with the axe, as well as dead rabbits
in the woods surrounding Fairfax Bridge, which is now known as “The Bunny Man Bridge.
Now versions of the legend have varied over the years, particularly in the Bunny Man’s
name, motives, weapons, victims, and description.
With some accounts stating that victims were mutilated, and others that the Bunny Man is
a ghost.
However, that aside, the legend is absolutely horrifying and has prevented a lot of Virginia
locals from wandering too close to the bridge.
Well, there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any Urban Legends that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
Before I go though, I just want to respond to a few comments from one of my last videos,
Top 5 Scar End Of The World Prophecies That Might Come True.
Soulmaiden deSade said “Actually, the world will end when Lucy decides it will end.”
-- No truer words have ever been spoken.
Chris Miller said “Girl you so flipping cool no matter how many words are butchered
by the Queen of scary, by the way nice shirt and thanks for the good vids.”
-- Well shuck, that’s flipping cool.
Thanks for the love!
Nelson Chris said “You forgot the most important prophecy, the Queen Lucy is here.
She here to reign the Top 5 Channel.”
-- Part 2 will feature the Queen herself, don’t you fret.
Whiskey Brewer said “Lucy’s frustration at having to pronounce these names will be
what ends the world.”
-- Preaching the hard facts here
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