Gotta love a good Hocus Pocus reference- and we will be getting to an urban legend involving
a witch down on this list.
Hey guys welcome back to most amazing top 5 im Court McGinley.
Lets jump right into our list of the top 5 Scary American Urban Legends.
Starting off at our number 5 spot--Hannah Cranna- This legend known as Wicked Witch
of Monroe comes from Connecticut during the 19th century.
During this time a woman named Hannah Cranna gained a reputation as a Witch after her husband
died by mysteriously falling off a cliff.
The towns people believed that she had bewitched him.
People of the town also believed that she was casting spells on people she didn’t
like.
Due to this reputation Hanna kept to herself and grew old alone.
Right before passing away at the age of 77 she asked to be carried down to the cemetery
in her coffin by foot- not wagon- as it was traditionally done in those days.
After she passed the towns people went against her wishes and tried to wheel her coffin down
the hill but they were unable to as the coffin kept falling off.
So they were forced to carry it.
When the towns people returned to her home after the funeral it was found to be engulfed
in flames sealing Hannas reputation of witchcraft.
In at number 4--Hells Gate Bridge- This Urban legend comes to us from Alabama and theres
not one- but 2 legends associated with this bridge.
The stories surrounding this Bridge began in the 1950s after a young couple was driving
over the bridge when they somehow drove their car off the bridge one night and sadly they
both drowned.
So the first legend of this now haunted bridge says that if you drive your car to the middle
of the bridge and turn off the lights the ghosts of the couple who drowned will magically
appear in your car and leave a wet spot on the seat.
The second legends says if youre driving over the bridge and look over your shoulder when
youre half way across the scenery behind you turns into a portal to hell engulfed in flames.
Ever since these things supposedly began to happen the bridge is now closed off to cars.
This bridge is now accessible by walking through the park.
Sometimes teens will go there at night to try and scare each other- and paranormal investigators
will go there for research.
Yeah I definitely will not be going on that bridge anytime soon.
At number 3--Slaughterhouse Canyon- Here we have an urban legend from Arizona.
This comes all the way from back in the 1800s during the gold rush.
During this time there was a very poor family who lived down in the canyon.
One day the father went into the canyon for food as he would normally do only this time
he didn’t return.
So its said the family slowly started to starve and descend into Madness.
The mother was unable to listen and witness her childrens crying anymore so she put on
her wedding dress- murdered her children and then threw them into a nearby river.
The next day its said she died due to starvation.
Legend has it that if you go down to Slaughterhouse Canyon at night you will hear the loud cries
of this mother who lost her mind.
Coming in at number 2--Charlie No-Face- This urban legend is coming from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
Carlie No-face was a cautionary tale for children.
Parents told their kids that Carlie was a man who was foolishly playing with some nearby
power lines when he had an accident which caused his face to become severely burned.
Parents told this story to there kids to keep them from messing around with exposed electricity.
Charlie no-face was said to lurk around in abandoned train tunnels at night and made
electricity flicker with his presence.
He was also said to wander dark alley ways and deserted country roads late at night.
This urban legend is actually based on a real life man.
His name wasn’t Charlie though it was Raymond Robinson.
He had suffered a severe accident involving a does of 1 thousand 200 volts on an electrical
trolley bridge when he was a kid.
His eyes were cooked in their sockets- his nose was burnt off- and his left arm was destroyed
up to the elbow.
This amount of electricity should’ve ended up killing him but it didn’t.
Because he didn’t like people to see him looking like this he would only go out at
night.
But unlike the legend Raymond didn’t do any type of haunting at all he was actually
very friendly to people he would come across.
And in at number 1--Backseat killer- In this legend we have a woman in Indiana who was
driving home late one night after having some drinks with her friends.
Shes driving on a secluded highway when she notices a pair of headlights coming up behind
her.
At first it seems although the car is going to pass her so it pulls up beside her.
She notices a man is driving the car.
But then almost immediately he pumps the breaks and goes back to following behind her.
And right away she gets extremely nervous.
I mean you cant blame her.
Here she is driving in a secluded area- not another car in sight and then this man is
just following her.
The man then speeds up and gets dangerously close to her back bumper- and starts flashing
his lights.
At this point the female driver is freaking out- she doesn’t look back and just rushes
to get home.
The car follows her all the way to her house- the whole way flashing his lights and even
putting his high beams all the way up until they are in her driveway.
Once home she runs from her car to the front door- once at the door she looks back and
sees the man get out of the car and is running towards her.
Hes notices shes nervous so he stops and yells to her to call the police and lock her door.
When the police arrive she finds out the reason the man was really following her home.
Turns out the man behind her was actually trying to save her.
You see when he pulled up beside her to switch lanes he saw the silhouette of a man with
a butcher knife rising up from the back seat . Im not going to lie I watch way too much
criminal minds and like true crime shows so im always scared if im out late at night someone
just going to be like hiding in my back seat.
That’s why I always check.
Yes it might be a little paranoid but better safe then sorry right?
Alright and there you go that’s our list of the top 5 Scary American Urban Legends.
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