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I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and welcome back to another most amazing video.
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For those of you who are from Europe, you might be surprised to know that this continent
is full of scary and creepy urban legends.
These urban legends have been scattered all through Europe and have been told for many
years.
So, prepare as we give you the top 10 scary European urban legends.
Let’s kick this list off in at number 10 with the Domovoi.
These creatures are said to protect your home, only if you keep them happy.
Over in Russia, it is commonly believed that every house has a domovoi.
These are small, hairy, ugly creatures that are rarely seen but they are usually living
behind your stove or in dark areas.
If you treat these creatures with respect, leave them treats and say nice things about
them, they will protect your house.
But if you ignore them, leave your house in a mess or constantly fight with your family,
then they will destroy your house or strangle you in your sleep.
I don’t know about you guys but if I had a house in Russia, I would have the cleanest
house with random treats all over the place.
The Greek soldier marches onto this list in at number 9.
This creepy urban legend originates in Greece and it is about a Greek soldier from World
War 2 who was captured, tortured and brutally executed by other Greeks who disapproved of
his political beliefs.
He was tortured for five weeks and then he was eventually murdered.
After his death, stories about a very attractive Greek soldier in uniform would appear and
disappear overnight.
His goal was to seduce young, beautiful widows or virgins and impregnate them.
Five weeks after the mother gave birth to the baby, he would disappear for good but
he would leave a letter that explained why he disappeared.
The letter said that his main goal was to return from the dead in order to spread his
seed so that his sons would eventually get vengeance on those people who had murdered
him.
Wow, this is so morbid and dark so let’s move on.
The Hostel urban legend, haunts us in at number 8.
Have you guys ever seen the movie Hostel?
It’s about college students who are backpacking through Europe.
One of their stops was in Amsterdam and they decide to rent a room at a hostel that was
known for their partying.
Well, they found themselves in a terrible situation full of torture chambers and murders.
So yeah, this movie was inspired by the hostel urban legend in Europe.
According to the legend, hundreds of people who backpack through Europe each year, mysterious
disappear.
Some people speculate that they are held in a torture room by a sick and sinister murderer
and others say that they were cut up and had their organs sold for money.
A lot of people believe that this urban legend it true so many of us stay in hotels while
in Europe.
But I’m starting to think that the hotels started this urban legend in order to get
more money.
The spider bite nibbles into this list in at number 7.
This extremely disgusting Urban legend surfaced in Europe during the 1970’s but it is still
being circulated around the continent even to this day.
Basically, this Urban Legend used people’s irrational fear of spiders to discourage them
from visiting exotic countries in the south.
So, this Urban Legend gave a lot of southern countries a bad reputation that they were
either unclean or not very safe.
In the story, a young woman travels to an exotic location for her vacation but during
her trip, her cheeks began to swell so she decided to cut her trip short and return home
in order to get medical treatment.
When the doctor examines her cheeks, he inserted something into her cheek that caused a dozen
spiders to come crawling out.
Is this real-life right now?
If I saw all of these spiders coming out of my cheeks I would probably faint and die from
fear.
According to this legend, a spider had laid eggs under her skin during her vacation and
when the spiders came crawling out, it caused the woman to go insane.
Well can you blame her?
I know this is just a story but it’s scared me to the point that if I see a spider, I’m
running in the opposite direction.
The Smiley Face makes it onto this list in at number 6.
Don’t be fooled by the name of this urban legend, because it isn’t a pleasant one…
This story was heavy circulated in cities across Belgium in 2002 and it is about a gang
or single man who would follow a woman home from the subway and attack her in an abandoned
alley way.
The gang or man would give her a choice.
They said she could either be raped or smile forever.
Seems like there is an obvious choice so the woman easily picked the second option but
it resulted in her mouth being sliced open at the corners all the way up to her ears
so that it resembled a clown’s smile.
Ugh, that would be so incredibly painful.
I couldn’t imagine that actually happening to someone.
I really hope this urban legend is just a legend and its not actually true because that
would be a really bad form of torture.
The Strigoi bite their way into Number 5.
Alright, so this urban legend originates in Romania and I think by that, you’ll be able
to guess what this legend is about.
If you guessed vampires – you’d be close.
However, the Strigoi are much more intense and hardcore than Dracula ever will be.
This urban legend states that the Strigoi are almost like a hybrid between vampires
and werewolves.
So similarly, to vampires, they like to stalk the streets at night but what makes them more
powerful is that they are able to shape-shift into any creature that they want.
So yeah, basically they are unstoppable.
They can also make themselves invisible.
Okay, now that’s not even fair.
According to one legend, a Romanian girl claimed to have been visited by a Strigoi that took
the form of her dead uncle.
So, the family decided not to take any chances and they dug up his grave, cut his heart out
and burned it.
Yeah, I don’t think that would be the steps that I would take… but that’s just me.
The death car crashes onto this list in at number 4.
This urban legend is famously known in Poland as the Black Volga and the story originated
back in the 1960s and quickly spread throughout Eastern Europe.
The legend goes something like this; there is a black Volga that is driven by evil priests
and nuns, black-robed Satanists, vampires or even the devil who would abduct people
and then they would be sacrificed to evil spirits.
People have claimed that they’ve seen this car driving around Poland but instead of having
mirrors on the sides of the car, it had ram’s horns.
The modern version of this urban legend claims that the Black Volga is driven by gang members
or thugs who abduct people in order to harvest their organs and then sell them to rich Americans
or Arabs who suffered from terminal illnesses.
So the moral of this story is if you see a Black Volga, you might want to run for your
life, because you could be the next victim.
The boogeyman tiptoes into number 3 on this list.
I think its safe to say that almost every country has their own variation of the boogeyman,
but we are going to be talking about the Czech Republic’s version.
They refer to their boogeyman as Bubak.
He is supposed to look like a terrifying scarecrow and makes chilling sounds of a crying baby
in order to lure his unsuspecting victims.
When there is a full moon, he weaves a cloth from the souls of the people that he has stolen
and he drives a cart that is pulled by cats.
The Bubak’s main target is misbehaving children but he doesn’t discriminate.
He is said to eat anyone or anything that is foolish enough to cross his path.
So I guess what I’ve learned from this urban legend is to not wander around creepy, abandoned
places when there is a full moon and if I hear a baby crying…then I’m in trouble.
The Gryla claws its way into number 2.
This horrifying urban legend takes us all the way over to Iceland.
And after you hear about this legend, you’ll probably want to avoid travelling to Iceland
during Christmas time.
That’s because Iceland created a terrifying creature named Gryla who is a giant troll
with hooves for feet and has 13 tails.
This creepy looking figure is always in a horrible mood and she is constantly hungry
for children.
During each Christmas, Gryla comes out of her cave in order to hunt for misbehaving
children.
Once she finds them, she stuffs them into her sack, drags them to her cave where she
boils them alive and adds their dead corpse to her favourite stew.
Whoa, Iceland…you really didn’t hold back with this story.
I mean this is one creepy Christmas story to tell your children.
I think its safe to say that they are probably scarred for life.
The white death brings us to number 1.
This is an urban legend that originated in Scotland about a little girl who hated life
so much that she wanted to destroy every trace and evidence that showed that she ever existed.
One day she decided to commit suicide in her bedroom and shortly after her family found
out that she was dead, strange things began to happen.
Every family member died within a few days after they discovered her body, except all
of their limbs had been torn off.
The legends say that when you learn about the white dead, this little girls’ spirit
will find you and knock on your door until you answer.
Each knock gets louder and louder until you finally open the door, but when you do, she
will brutally murder you because she is scared that you will tell someone else that she exists.
So basically, this little girl is very sinister and she will stop at nothing to prevent people
from knowing about her.
So, I guess we are all kind of screwed now.
If you hear knocking at your door tonight, I would suggest that you don’t answer it…