Hello and welcome back to the most amazing channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are back at it with the urban legends!
Today we are getting continental Europe as we take a spooky trip to Belgium.
Behold, the Top 10 Scary Belgium Urban Legends!
I love a bit of Belgium - have you guys watching been to Belgium?
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10 - The Smilers Ah, this is a popular urban legend from many
big cities but it was especially widely circulated in the 2000s in Brussels.
The story goes that a woman would walk home on her own only to be confronted by a gang
or a single but threatening man.
The man would hold her at knife point and would offer her the option of be raped, or
smile forever.
A tough choice, but the ladies often chose smile forever, even though, seeing the knife,
they kind of knew what was coming.
The smilers are women who walk around the city with scars from their mouths to their
ears.
When they chose smile, their faces were slashed.
9 - The Vending Machine At the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, which
is located in Brussels, there is an urban legend going around that a former student
got their arm stuck in a vending machine mechanism and had to have it amputated!
Blimey.
It seems that the student's snack got stuck, so they tried to reach in to grab their food,
but it got stuck and horribly mangled by the machine, so they ended up losing their arm.
While this may be circulated in Brussels, I feel like this isn't necessarily unique
to Belgium...I've heard this kind of thing before....especially from parents who don't
want their kids getting stuck!
I guess the bigger risk would be it falling on you!
8 - The Buckriders Ah, the Buckriders is a VERY old Belgian legend
indeed!
The Buckriders are ghosts or demons, a demonic presence that rode through the sky on the
back of flying goats gifted to them by Satan.
In 1774 a man by the name of Joan Van Muysen claimed to be a Buckrider and threatened a
farmer - blackmailing him for money.
It seems that a genuine gang of thieves operated in this time in East Begium and the southern
part of the Netherlands.
These gangs would raid farms and peaceful communities.
Some of the raiders were caught and admitted to being a satanic Buckrider.
As a result they were sentenced to death.
7 - The Scent of Brussels This urban legend crops up over both France
and Belgium, especially in cities like Paris and Brussels - the story often takes place
in a busy street, the kind of busy, bustling European street you could expect to find in
the mid-19th century.
A woman would be lured by market sellers offering her cut price perfumes.
She would follow them to an alley to smell their wares....wait...that sounds pretty awful.
Anyway, she would follow them and they would get her to smell perfume, but actually it
turned out to be chloroform which would knock her out.
The story branches off - the best case scenario for the woman is her purse is stolen, the
worst...generally she is raped.
6 - The Hitcher with Hairy Hands This is a reaaaallly weird urban legend.
Very weird....
So the story goes that a woman is returning from a movie theatre and gets back into her
car, parked in a dark parking lot.
As she goes to drive off, she notices a little old lad in the backseat.
Confused, she asks what she is doing there and the old lady looks weepy and says she
got lost when seeing a film with her grandson and then got scared alone in the car park
and could she have a lift home.
The driver took pity on her and decided to drive her home.
At one point, the old lady gestures that she wants the driver to turn left, and she showed
part of her arm.
The driver noticed that she had mysteriously hairy arms.
Casting a few peaks into the rear-view mirror, she noticed that the woman's hands were hairy
too.
Uh oh.
The driver realised something was wrong.
Really wrong.
She realised that the little old lady was actually a man in disguise.
Panicked, she saw a bus and decided to crash into a nearby bus and ran to the bus driver
to ask him for help.
When she got back to the car, the so called old lady had vanished.
When police came, they investigated her car and found chloroform and a chainsaw in the
back.
They warned her she had a lucky escape as the butcher of Mons was suspected to have
been in the area.
Speaking of the butcher of Mons, this is actually one of those Urban legends that is true, but
has sparked all kinds of other chatter.
I think we should talk about it at number 5
The Butcher of Mons So the Butcher of Mons was a very real Belgian
serial killer who was active between January 1996 and July 1997 near the city of Mons.
The killer murdered women and chopped them up, placing them in plastic bags and leaving
them in visible locations along highways and such.
The parts in the bags belonged to a number of different women - all from the Knokke-Hiest
region.
The bags, 12 in total, showed up between March 1997 and April 1998 - with all 5 murder victims
eventually identified.
The women were aged between 22-42.
Despite decades of investigation, the murderer has never been apprehended.
Less dark, still scary and still in Mons, we have The Angel of Mons at number 4
The Angel of Mons is an old world war one tale from the Battle of Mons.
During the first world war, much of Belgium was dug up for trenches and the country became
a tightly fought battle ground.
One such famous battle was the battle of Mons which took place at the onset of war in August
1914.
It seems that British soldiers came under fire from a surprise attack from the German
troops and found themselves cornered.
It seems that when the situation seemed dire, many soldiers believed that they saw winged
creatures in the sky.
Somehow the British managed to win the battle and the legend goes this is because angels
came down along with Saint George, the patron saint of England, to fend off the grey army.
Another war legend up next - could this have been the origin of George RR Martins White
Walkers ? Maybe!
They're coming in to number 3 This legend is often referred to as the legend
of the White Cavalry.
In 1918, a British Captain, Captain Hayward, saw a band of Germans throwing grenades and
shooting and an empty piece of land.
After fighting the empty space, they fled, terrified.
The English soldiers captured them and questioned them about the strange battle.
It seems they were convinced they were fighting a strange army in white riding white horses.
They described this men as being deathlike.
Was this just a hallucination of war, or was there something else going on?
2 - The Needle Back in the 1980s at the height of peoples
fear of HIV there were scaremongering vicious rumours that people were leaving contaminated
blood needles in seats at movie theatres, most notably the UGC de Brouckere.
The legend said a mad man would leave HIV infected needles in chairs - and when you
went to investigate, there would be a note saying "welcome to the world of HIV."
Awful.
Awful but pretty untrue.
I can't find any reference to this actually ever having happened....
It is just an awful Aids scare.
Finally...
1 - The Eyes Always a spooky forest in an urban legends
video!
SO the Eyes is the more frequently used name for a spirit called De Ogen, a malicious force
that haunts the Sonian Forest at the south east edge of Brussels.
De Ogen, or the eyes is said to be one large foggy shadow followed by smaller foggy shadows.
The legend began in 1937 when nearby nuns started finding burned bodies of young children
in the forest - although the exact number of deaths and the truth of the tale is pretty
sketchy.
Either way, if you come across a fog in the forest, you may want to get out of there,
for fear of being taken away and murdered by the Eyes.
Well there we have it!
That was the top 10 scary Belgium urban legends..... which of these did you think was the scariest?
Let me know in the comments section down below?
For me - I am really interested in the wartime legends.
Comments from Top 10 Scary Texas Urban Legends Part 2
Christy Rowland is all about that part three!
Oooh insight from Michele Solomonson - Hey Rebbecca, your pronunciation of Bexar County
is not BeXar it is pronounced Bear County.
A lot of words in Texas are like that.
Coming from Native American, Mexico and German.?
Ello ello ello....
We had a comment from Cody Stommels who said: Do an urban legend from Belgium Because i
am from there - mate - this one is for you!
WOAH we have another scary Texan legend here.....
Whitespace 101 said: I live down here in Texas and my parents would scare me with the tooth
reaper and he would take cavities and if you had given him 8 he would...........Put you
to "Rest" Scared me to hell and I kept brushing my teeth?
Finally, Jennifer Crushman said: I would love to see more scary urban legends.
I really don't care where.
But I wish you guys would go back and talk about more SCPs.
I really love hearing about them.
More than I do with scary urban legends.?
Oooh I'll hit up Baniel Yerk and see what he says!
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