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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Ghost Urban
Legends.
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We know you love a good ghost story and you love a good urban legend!
We decided why not fuse the two and bring you the Top 10 Scary Ghost Urban Legends
10 - Bloody Mary Ah Bloody Mary is a classic spook!
Most of us will know the legend of Bloody Mary – she is a mirror dwelling ghost that
is said to appear when her name is chanted again again as you stare into the reflection
in the mirror.
The origins of Bloody Mary go way back in old old folklore, when ye-olde woman would
invoke the ghost if Bloody Mary to show them a glimpse of their future husband’s face…although
if they saw the grim reaper or a skull in the mirror instead, it would mean they would
likely die before they got the chance to marry.
In modern times, the legend goes that if you summon Bloody Mary, she appears as a witch
looking woman.
If she is angry with you, she will scratch out your eyes, steal your soul, drink your
blood…
all of the dark stuff.
I am sure you will know loads of people who played Bloody Mary as a kid, and maybe they
got freaked out and convinced themselves they saw something… but I never heard anyone
getting their eye scratched out.
The mirror ghost is a popular urban legend across the world - in Japan they have something
very similar in the form of Hanako San.
9 - The Ghost Pushers of Gravity Hill In almost every urban legends video I have
done, especially for those in the United States, there has been a phenomenon of a car being
pushed up a hill by some kind of otherworldly being.
The story tends to involve a car accident in that very same spot and helpful ghosts
who want to save you.
One example of the legend will be say, on a rail track.
The legend will say that in this very spot 37 years ago, a bus filled with kids died
when it got stuck on the tracks – now if you park there and wait, your car will miraculously
be pushed over the tracks by helpful hands.
Other versions take place on hills where cars have rolled backwards and cause fatal accidents,
only for ghosts to remain In that spot.
There are legends like these literally all over the world.
Confusion Hill in California, Magnetic Mountain in Canada…
Moonbi Australia, The Magic route of France, Hnagman’s Hill in Essex, UK…there are
so many!
Generally speaking, naysayers will claim that these so called paranormal phenomena are a
trick of the light – like water appearing to run uphill.
8 - Walking on Gravestones.
Ever felt a shiver unexpectantly?
Well folklore and urban legend have it that if this happens to you, someone has walked
on your gravestone.
This suggests somewhere there is a future in which you are dead and buried, but somehow
you feel it now.
The urban legend also suggests that we should never step on another’s persons grave for
this very reason – we may send a shiver down someones spine or anger their spirit,
which may just follow us beyond their final resting place.
Beyond that, it is just disrespectful!
7 - The Ghost Train Ah, a classic Ghost Train.
I am not talking the fairground ride, although since Goosebumps there has also been a lot
of haunted ride urban legends.
When I say ghost train I mean the ghost of an actual train thundering at break neck speed,
only to disappear out of sight...or perhaps strange headlights in the distance near an
old abandoned track, or a smell of a steam engine and a puff of smoke coming from nowhere.
There are thousands of ghost train legends.
The st Louis Lights, Stockholm’s Silverpilen, Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train and more!
I’ll see your ghost train and raise you a scary ghost ship!!
6 - The Flying Dutchman The flying dutchman is the most famous of
the Ghost Ship Urban Legends – it dates back to the 1700s, a high time for sea faring
– and refers to a doomed Dutch man of war ship.
Tails of the flying dutchman are ingrained in seafaring lore a lot like that of the Kracken.
Many sailors have reported seeing a Phantom boat emitting a bright light on a stormy night
and is a bad omen for sea farers and has become a loathsome superstition.
The flying dutchman has regularly been spotted – famously once by King George the Vth of
the UK!
Some say they have spotted the ship in the air – hence the FLYING dutchman.
Explanations include mirages, looming refraction and simply hallucinations from fatigued sailors.
5 - The Theatre Ghost There is always a blooming theatre ghost,
isn’t there!
Old theatre buildings absolute always come replete with ghosts.
Is it because the high drama of theatre leaves an imprint on the building or because imaginations
are high in theatrical buildings.
Usually urban legends of theatre ghosts go as such – the spirit of a former performer
who either died on stage or in a brawl at stage door haunts the theatre.
The ghost is seen by actors on stage as they look out to the audience or they are felt
by patrons who sit down only to feel a sudden rush of cold air as they go by.
I personally love a good theatre ghost story!
There is the Phantom of the Opera, who isn’t actually dead, the MANY MANY ghosts of the
Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London – one of the oldest theatres in the world, the Wailing
Woman of Wellington’s St James Theatre….Judy Garland is even said to haunt the Palace Theatre
in New York!
Theatre ghosts are always blamed for mischief, too!
Lights turning on and off, props flying about back stage, things going wrong on stage….
Theatre ghosts are usually tricksters and agents of chaos.
They are so exciting…honestly talking about Theatre Ghosts gets me so excited!
4 - The Vanishing Hitchhiker The Vanishing hitchhiker is a classic ghost
urban legend.
In each of the stories a driver picks up a person thumbing for a lift.
They drive them a little way, something spooky and mysterious is said and then the person
in question vanishes.
Often they leave a little clue as to who they might be behind.
Then the driver does a bit of research and finds out that the passenger died along that
stretch of road x number of years ago…sometimes to the day…ooooh!
Spooky.
This is such a classic urban legend that most cities have a story like this.
In Chicago, for example, the vanishing hitcher is resurrection Mary, who you can hear more
about in our Chicago Urban Legends video.
In Japan, a similar phenomenon is reported with the alleged ghosts of tsunami victims.
Cab drivers in Ishinomaki have reported ghost passengers.
Do ghosts like cars, or are the Vanishing Hitchers stuff of legends.
3 The Shadow People Shadow People are popular ghost sightings
and we actually did a whole top 10 about this.
Some people have described scary shadows as black mass ghosts - negative imprints left
on the world from angry spirits.
So many towns and villages across the entire world report shadow sightings, with some cultures
and tribes believing they are demonic spirits.
One of the more famous Shadow People sightings inc.lude the Dark Watchers of Santa Lucia
– dark featureless shadows wearing hats and carrying walking sticks that appear silent
and still watching in the distance of the Santa Lucia Mountains.
Recently a disturbing black cloud was spotted over a mall in Zambia that some people were
claiming was a shadow ghost….or a dementor.
Was a shadow ghost the contents of our number 2 - The Ghost in a Jar
The ghost in a jar is one of my favourite ghost urban legends ever.
While there have been many stories of spirits being trapped in objects, the ghost in a jar
story went viral and inspired imaginations across the world.
The story goes that in 2003, Teajay101 of Arkansas listed a jar containing, I quote,
a black thing.
The lister said they dug up the jar up near a church in the 1980s and since then they
had been plagues by a black shadow.
The jar is painted black and red on the inside and was covered with strange symbols.
If the jar was so creepy, why it took the owner 20 years to get rid of, I don’t know….but
the listing went viral and somehow the ghost sold for nearly 51 thousand dollars and since
has been the stuff of legends.
The legend was so widespread and popular it even became a Rick and Morty character.
I feel like I need a 15 year update – is that ghost still in that jar?
Someone let me know!
How does this story end?
1 - The White Lady My, my, my!
If I had a dollar for every white lady ghost story I had read, I would have… well….
Enough dollars to buy a pretty convincing white lady costume and go around spooking
people and making them think that I myself am a ghost!
Anyyyway…white lady ghosts are a popular ghost trope and usually have some kind of
tragic background of love loss and searching associated to them.
I guess the ghost being in white represents some kind of woeful purity and something unfulfilled-
many are depicted wearing wedding dresses.
There are countless tales of white lady ghosts across the world – in Canada she is a war
widow who threw herself over a waterfall in Quebec City when her lover never came home,
in California in the States she haunts Calico Ghost town, a place I visited last Christmas,
in the Czech Republic, she is the spirit of a cursed wife who haunts a castle, in the
UK she also haunts a castle and has a bounty of hidden treasure, in Malta she wanders a
forest in her wedding dress and in Germany, disturbing her will get you killed.
In Asia, white lady apparitions are usually less romantic and far more malevolent and
vengeful.
SO what a spook fest ! What is your favourite ghost urban legend?
Let me know in the comments section down below!
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Comments from cursed movies you should never watch…
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watch these...anyone else?
just me?
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Jennifer Campbell said: What about Poltergiest?
Everyone died!?
Obsidian Titan 97 shared their scariest movie pick, they wrote: For me it's Tremors, I was
young and I didn't even want to get out of the chair I was in while I was watching it?