Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary Hungary
Urban Legends!
Hungary it is your time!
Have you guys ever been to Hungary?
Funny story...
I ended up in Budapest over Christmas when my flight back home got cancelled because
of the Drone drama at Gatwick!
Then when I got to Hungary there was a bomb scare at the airport!
Anyway, thanks to everyone who helped get me out of that situation - you know who you
are - I would like to go back to Budapest under less stressful circumstances!
Let me know where is next on your bucket list and also while you are down there leaving
a comment, why don't you leave a thumbs up.... - stick around until the end of the video....comments!
10 - The Death Lions One of Budapests' most popular landmarks are
the iconic stone lions of the chain bridge.
The bridge was completed in 1849 and two lions sit at each end of the bridge, so four lions
in total.
The sculptor Janos Marschalko was happy with his work until an apprentice started freaking
out that they have no tongues.
Don't lions use their fearsome tongues when they roar?
After people began noticing the tongueless lions, they started saying that Marschalko
had made a mistake.
The legend says he was so upset with himself for his anatomical error that he was driven
mad and jumped from the bridge into the watery depths of the Danube, where he died.
Now the lions are said to carry the heavy burden of their sculptors regret.
I love a good Theatre Cat ! It is traditional for theatre's to have a cat.
Can anyone think of the reason?
I will tell you.
Theatres tend to be big old buildings.
Big old buildings have mice.
Having a cat keeps the mice population down and also provides a furry friend for the theatre
staff.
At the Hungarian State Opera, it is said that a mysterious grey cat roams the building.
It seems that this cat's name is Vera and sometimes she shows as a very real looking
cat, sometimes as just an ankle height shadow slinking round a corner.
Some say they have seen a pair of red eyes watching them from dark corners.
The legend has it that Vera once belonged to an Opera Singer who performed at the theatre.
Sadly the cat died at the theatre but in the afterlife is constantly searching for her
owner.
That's kind of sad.
I'll love you, Vera!
8 - The Tribe This is truly awful, but urban legend has
it that back in 1896, The Budapest Zoo exhibited a tribe of 250 Africans from the Savannah
and displayed them as quote un-quote primitive humans.
The exhibition was to said to celebrate 1000 years of the Hungarian nation... which...
I am not sure what that had to do with an African Tribe, but none the less people paid
money to go and see them and apparently were very impressed with their bodies.
Creepy.
Like... a human zoo is absolutely not okay...
I don't even really think Animal zoos are okay.
Anyway, it turns out that while the story has been someonewhat embellished over time,
this urban legend is actually true.
7 - Wisps Hungarian Culture, like a lot of Europe, is
alive with fairytales.
One enduring legend is of the Wisps . The Wisps are complex creatures, and talk of them
became rife in the 20th Century.
Wisps are blamed for peoples bad moods or sicknesses.
It seems that wisps are parasites who sit on peoples chests...which sounds like a familiar
urban legend in middle eastern countries who believe in tha sleep paralysis demon who sits
on your chest at night giving you nightmares.
Anyway, in Hungary the Wisps spread disease and cause people to depressed.
If you are inexplicably angry - it is likely the work of Guta, and if you are feeling bitter,
it could be Fene.
This could well be another type of Wisp up next, we have the
The Nightmare Chicken at number 6 Okay maybe something is a little lost in translation
here as I am literally getting Sexy Nightmare Chicken.
The Liderc is said to be hatched from the first egg laid from a black chicken and kept
warm under the arm of a human.
Once hatched, the Liderc attaches itself to a human as a succubus.
it becomes vampire like, sucking the blood of its lover and giving them terrible nightmares.
The benefit of having one of these nightmare chickens is that it will make you rich beyond
belief, until it kills you, anyway.
The only way to rid yourself of the Liderc is to lock it in a tree hollow, or by persuading
it to perform an impossible task...like counting the grains of sand on a beach.
5 - The Footprint of The Devil I love me a good geothermic spa, I really
do.
These are naturally occurring hot springs heated by tectonic activity in the earth's
crust.
We know that now.
Buuut back in the day, people were baffled by the seemingly magically hot pools!
Some did not trust them.
The legend has it that the hot thermal path of Harkany is warm because it preserves the
footprint of the devil.
The story goes that the devil took a liking to a local Hungarian girl, who he defiled
and then ran away - escaping under the ground through a lagoon on his return to hell.
Through his escape, he boiled the water, which remains hot today.
Lusty devil bath anyone?
4 - Belly Frogs In Hungary, there is a weird legend that if
you drink too much water...so much water that you hear a sloshing in your tummy, then frogs
will start growing in your tummy.
Some kids even claimed to be able to feel them there, swimming around.
I mean... this one is a bitttt crazy.....
Belly frogs!
Ribbit.
It seems this tale is told to kids to stop them drinking too fast when they are thirsty.
Is there such a thing as drinking too fast.
3 - The Haunted Labyrinth Paris has the catacombs and Budapest has the
Buda Labyrinth - rumoured to be one of the most haunted places in the city.
The tunnels expand directly beneath Buda Castle and artefacts discovered in the many caves
off the tunnels suggest the space has been used since ancient times.
A torture chamber was also discovered - although seeing as it is attached to a medieval castle
I am not surprised.
It seems that many people believe the residual energy prom tortured souls still haunts the
tunnels - and these spirits are pretty damn angry.
Beyond that, some even say the ghost of Vlad the Impaler haunts the tunnels.
He's only one of history's biggest killers... it should be fine.. right
2 - Goliath the CIA Whale Soooo the 1950s were a weird time.
70 years ago a lot of the Western world was still kind of obsessed with side shows.
So in 1952, three whales were harpooned in Norway and then taken on tour across Europe
- sometimes under the guise of being educational, sometimes as a freaky side show oddity.
This isn't even the urban legend part - this is the truth part!
So these whales were toured around and displayed in towns and cities in huge formaldehyde tanks
- they smelled awful...apparently.
As they went on tour, they were loaded onto HUGE special transport trucks...on the side
they had the name of the whale.
Okay.
So....here is where the conspiracy theory slash legend comes in.... a lot of people
think that the whole Whale thing was a CIA coverup and that they were actually testing
road routes and road capacities to be able to transport nuclear missiles across Europe
without people knowing.
Some say that the whales, including Goliath who toured Hungary, were kept in storage and
nuclear weapons secretly filled the whale vehicles.
SO weird.
So wild!
1 - Gloomy Sunday and the Smile Club Gloomy Sunday is a Hungarian song written
in 1933 by a depressed musician Rezs Seress.
His sadness clearly translated into the song, which became his first real success in the
music industry.
Both he and the girl he wrote the song about killed themselves... but legend has it that
he unleashed a curse in his music that affected a nation.
It seems that the song turned Budapest into the City of Suicides...many people drowned
themselves in the Danube after hearing his music!
People were found dead holding the sheet music of the song, others wrote lyrics in their
suicide notes, and one guy even shot himself because he couldn't get the tune out of his
head.
In response, a group of Hungarians set up something called The Smile Club to try and
encourage people to be happy.
This was also quite sinister, though, according to legend, the club would tape people's mouths
up so they had no choice but to smile!
Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday in 1941, causing a fresh spate of suicides.
The song was so problematic that the BBC banned it from their airwaves.
Is this Hungarian song really cursed?!
Legend has it that yeah, it is.
So that was the Top 10 Hungarian Urban legends!
What did you think to this list?
Which legend did you find the scariest?
Let me know in the comments section below.
Comments from Top 10 Scary Beauty and the Beast Theories
Jebellish provided a bit more insight into the Jane Theory - they said: Jane's dad =child/grandchild
making Jane Belle's great granddaughter....cause Jane is living in the Victorian era and Belle
lives in 1700 France?.....
Ahhh!
Although we think Beauty and the beast was 1750ish... and the Victorian era started in
1837...so yeah....actually granddaughter makes more sense!
Playersass said: Hi Rebecca and other wonderful people have a fantastic day?
Gacha Queen Said: I loved your outfit Rebecca!
My favorite characters were the animals, aka the wolves and the horses.
They were my favorites because the horse is my flight instinct and the wolves are my fight
instinct.?
A lot of you were saying your favourite character was Lumiere!
Good on you, we all know I'm wardrobe 4 life though!