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Calls From Beyond Urban Legend
A middle-aged man was on a train to Los Angeles, on his way to a job interview. He had recently become engaged, and he hoped that the job would allow the pair to marry. At 4.30 p.m. the vehicle collided at 85 mph with a freight train running in the opposite direction, in one of the worst accidents in America’s history.

His fianc?e heard about the crash while driving to the train station with the man’s parents and his siblings. Several of his loved ones received calls from the man’s mobile phone so they naturally assumed that he had survived the accident, even though all they could hear when they picked up was static. Although their subsequent calls to him went straight to voicemail, all through the night they waited for confirmation that he had been found alive and well.

Twelve hours after the accident, having tracked the signal from his mobile phone, rescuers finally located him in the wreckage. He had died instantly in the crash…and yet 35 calls had been made from his phone—only to his nearest and dearest—as if the mobile had been reaching out to help lead them to his body.

Midnight Fare Urban Legend
A taxi driver working the night shift on a quiet Sunday was driving past a hospital. A young girl hailed him down and hurried into the car to get out of the rain. She was wearing a hood and her hair partly obscured her face. She requested that he take her to a lake nearby, which he thought was odd, but he reasoned that perhaps she lived near it. She didn’t answer any of his questions, so he drove to the destination in silence, with the rain drumming on the car.

When they arrived, she asked him to wait for her, and she disappeared into the darkness. He waited for a long time, not wanting to abandon the girl out there on her own. Finally, she returned and asked to be taken to a new address, this time to a neighborhood that the driver knew. When they arrived, the girl got out of the car without paying the fare and disappeared inside a house. Annoyed, the driver got out of the taxi and knocked on the door.

An elderly man opened it but there appeared to be no sign of the girl. When the driver asked about his mysterious passenger, the old man said that there were no children in the house, but then he explained something: he once had a daughter, but she had drowned in the lake in a car accident with her boyfriend many years earlier. He said that sometimes her spirit caught a cab to look for him in the lake, before returning to her childhood home. The old man asked, worried, “You didn’t get a good look at her face, did you?” The driver replied he had not, and the old man smiled, “Good.” He then paid the fare and closed the door. When the taxi driver got back to the car, he saw that in the place where the girl had sat down was a puddle of black water.

Nure-onna Urban Legend
Japanese children are often told the story of a keen swimmer who went for a dip every day in the lake near his house in the mountains. Usually, he was the only person there, as he swam early in the morning when the water was very cold. One day he thought he saw someone else in the lake but, as he approached the water, he realized that they weren’t swimming—they were drowning. It was a young woman, waving her hands silently above the surface of the lake, so he dived right in and swam powerfully to her rescue. As he got closer, he saw the girl’s long black hair swirling around her as she slipped beneath the choppy waters.

He moved to grab her but suddenly his legs felt heavy and he could barely move his arms. He couldn’t understand what was happening, but then he noticed something strange: the girl was no longer struggling but staring directly at him with black eyes. As he desperately tried to keep his head above water, he realized that instead of hands she had claws, and instead of legs she had the body of a great snake, which was wrapping itself around his torso and dragging him down into the depths. He was never seen again—being a hero can have its consequences…

Clack Clack Urban Legend
An American boy was sleeping over at a friend’s house and they were both trying to outdo each other with telling scary stories. He’d seen all of his older brother’s scary movies, so he wasn’t that impressed with what he had heard so far. Then his friend’s cousin turned up, heard what game they were playing and, despite their protestations, sat down and joined in. He told them about a girl who was waiting for a train to her high school prom one night, when she saw a group of her friends on the other side of the tracks. Not wanting to be left out, she ran over a crossing just as the train was coming, and the wheels cut her in half at the waist. Ever since, people had reported seeing her legless ghost at the school, especially on prom night, when it was said that she would cut your body in half. And anybody who heard the story would see her in one month’s time.

A few weeks later the boy was walking home from school, when a girl appeared over a wall and smiled at him. He smiled back and continued on his way when he heard a strange “clack clack” noise behind him. He looked around in horror: the girl was crawling over the wall, dragging herself on bony elbows. As she dropped to the floor, he saw that she had no legs and when she started crawling towards him, her elbows made the spine-chilling clack clack noise, as she gained on him. He didn’t turn up to school the next day.

The Doll Urban Legend
For decades a small doll kept at a temple in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, has captured the attention of Japanese people. The story goes that the doll, which has black hair and black eyes, and wears a traditional kimono, was the favorite of a little girl who died tragically young in the 1920s. The girl carried the doll everywhere she went and, after her premature death, the family placed her favorite toy in an altar in her memory. The girl had cropped the doll’s hair short to look like her own, and people would often comment that it looked suspiciously like its owner.

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afterwards, the family noticed that the doll’s hair appeared longer than it had been. Although they dismissed the notion as a figment of their imagination, eventually they couldn’t ignore the fact that the hair was growing. When it reached the doll’s knees, the family, suspecting some insensitive prank, cut the doll’s hair so that it was short again but, of course, it only grew back longer. The family eventually placed the mysterious toy in a local temple, where it remains to this day. The monks at the temple cut the doll’s hair on a regular basis and it always grows back. Many years after the doll arrived at the temple, the hair was tested and found to be that of a young child.

Tunnel Visions Urban Legend
A busy highway in Tokyo, Japan, runs through a tunnel that lies underneath a very large and very old cemetery. The graveyard is not visible when driving a car underneath, but many drivers are said to have felt its presence over the years. A man driving back from a late shift at work one night narrowly avoided hitting what he swore was a young mother with a small child, but after he managed to get his car under control and swerve to a stop, he saw that there was nobody there. His friends blamed lack of sleep, but he was sure there had been somebody standing in the middle of the road.

People in the know would say that he witnessed one of the sinister spirits emanating from the graveyard above and becoming trapped in the tunnel, stuck between this world and the afterlife. On more than one occasion drivers, usually male, have described how they glanced in their rear-view mirror and caught sight of a young girl with long black hair on the back seat, staring straight at them. If they managed to keep their car on the road and checked again, they would find that there was nothing there. Other reports include people hanging upside down or banging on car roofs, and mysterious handprints and faces appearing on windows. The area’s taxi drivers are particularly wary: all of them know the stories of cabs being hailed by people in the tunnel, only for them to disappear when the door is opened.

Hanako-san Urban Legend
Anybody who grew up in the West knows the urban legend of Bloody Mary, who will appear if you say her name three times into a mirror in a darkened room. The Japanese have their own version: you must go into an empty girls’ bathroom and knock on the door of the last cubicle three times, then ask aloud, “Are you there Hanako-san?” When you open the door, you will see a young girl who was brutally murdered in a high school bathroom many years before. She always wears a red skirt.

Benjamin’s House Urban Legend
At the turn of the twentieth century, a wealthy family bought an old mansion in the south-west of England, high on the cliffs in a remote location, overlooking the sea. They lived with their young child, a boy named Ben, and several servants. Stories would reach the local villagers, who rarely saw the inhabitants of the house, that the owners were distant and cruel to their staff, who had little other choice of employment in the area. The devoutly religious lady of the house singled out one of the maids, a young cook, for particularly cruel treatment, claiming that the girl was evil and that she was corrupting the rest of the staff.

The maid would often return late from her weekends off, and the other servants liked to gossip: they said that she was a harlot, a liar and even a witch. She was a strong-minded girl and instead of denying the rumor, she played up to the stories told about her. When the boy’s father found her performing strange rituals in the grounds of the house, she was beaten and dismissed. Before she left, she offered a doll to the boy, who had always liked her despite his parents’ suspicions, as a peace offering. His parents were all for throwing it away, but the boy liked it—in fact, it became an instant favorite, and he even named it after himself: Benjamin.

He dressed the doll in clothes to match his own and would never let it out of his sight—or was it that he was never out of its sight? The boy would often talk to Benjamin in his room alone, even pretending to speak in its voice. His parents thought his behavior strange, but as he had no other friends to speak to and it kept him occupied, they let him be. Occasionally, the servants heard him arguing with the doll in his bedroom and one morning they heard him sobbing uncontrollably from behind a locked door. They told his father, who found the little boy hiding under the bed, because he said that Benjamin couldn’t see him there. The father was again ready to get rid of the doll but the boy pleaded to let him keep it in the house.

A rumor started among the servants that the boy was not talking for the doll; the doll was talking for itself. It became common to hear loud noises coming from the boy’s room at night, and when the door was opened, he would claim that Benjamin had done it. One of the maids reported being “followed” by the doll and spotting it at different upstairs windows, as if it were watching her work. It was said that the doll’s face had a different expression depending on who was looking: sometimes happy, sometimes sad—sometimes angry.

The urban legend stories eventually caught the attention of a writer who was staying in the village and decided to investigate. He was rebuffed by the owners, who denied all knowledge, but he persevered. He managed to talk to some of the staff, who told him that the doll had a distinctive piercing laugh, which could be heard in the upper floors of the house, and was often spotted sitting in different rooms of the house when the boy wasn’t at home; one servant even claimed to have seen it running across the hall. Eventually, the boy grew up, but he never left the house—and he never left Benjamin. When he died many years later, the household wasted no time in banishing the toy to the attic, where it was sometimes glimpsed peering out of the windows. The doll remained in exile upstairs for many years, until the house’s new owners moved in. They had a little girl who one day, while roaming in the attic, discovered an old well-worn doll with a sad look on its face. Soon Benjamin was up to its old tricks: the girl appeared to be terrified of the doll, saying it had attacked her, but she couldn’t bear to be parted from it. On one occasion, her older brother beheaded Benjamin with scissors and left it on the floor as a cruel sibling prank, only to find the doll the next day in his bedroom…with its head reattached and smiling.

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The Highgate Vampire Urban Legend
In the 1970s a London newspaper covered a juicy story that was terrifying the residents of a well-to-do suburb in the north of the city. The cast of characters included: a top-hatted gentleman thought to be a vampire who had been sighted several times—he apparently escaped from a cemetery each night to find fresh victims—and a vampire hunter with a band of dedicated followers. The paper reported that people walking in Highgate cemetery, resting place of many famous individuals including Karl Marx, had seen ghostly figures following them at night. A few days later it emerged that graves in the cemetery had been disturbed and the remains of a ritual act were found. Most disturbingly, an iron stake had been driven through the lid of a coffin and into the corpse inside.

The paper interviewed the self-proclaimed vampire hunter: he claimed that whoever had placed the stake in the coffin was mistaken and that the monster was still at large. Moreover, he declared that he and his followers had stalked the vampire as he was leaving the cemetery and that the creature was actually the reanimated corpse of an eighteenthcentury European gentleman: he had been transported to London in a coffin after his death and was now possessed by evil spirits. The hunter claimed that he had tracked down the vampire to a great mausoleum in the cemetery, where he had had the chance of putting a stake through his heart as he was sleeping. However, he did not carry out the deed, as it would have been illegal to desecrate a body in such a fashion, but he took sensational photographs of the creature’s evil, contorted face and scattered garlic in the vault.

Then the body of a woman was found in the grounds of the cemetery, not far from the mausoleum, causing a furore in the media. Hundreds of people turned up at the cemetery night after night in an attempt to find the vampire. The police had to guard the place for several nights to put the locals’ minds at rest. The hunter eventually cornered the vampire in a nearby mansion, where he had found refuge in a coffin. They performed an exorcism, put a stake through the creature’s heart and burned the corpse, thus ending the threat forever.

Modern Vampires Urban Legend
In Romania, land of the original Dracula, old habits die hard. Rumors of vampires rising from graves to prey on the living are still popular. In Transylvania in 2004, a group of villagers were worried about someone who had been recently buried. They thought he was responsible for a series of recent attacks in the community and decided to revert to ancient techniques in order to stop the crime spree. They went to the cemetery to dig up the body, which, they noticed, looked a lot fresher than would be expected, and a stake was driven through the heart. Then the organ was cut from the torso and burned, according to tradition. No more attacks were reported.

Vampire folklore has a long history in Romania, home as it was to the man who inspired Dracula: Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia in the fifteenth century. Vlad got his nickname because of his habit of impaling captured enemies on stakes. He carried out this practice with so many of his enemies that one visitor to the country described a “mighty forest” of corpses stuck on stakes that stunk to high heaven. When he complained to the Prince, it’s said that the same visitor was “impaled high up, so that the smell of the others would not bother him.”

It’s not just in Eastern Europe that stories of vampires cause people to take drastic action. In rural nineteenth-century New England, an outbreak of tuberculosis took hold, killing many, and as the disease tended to kill several members of the same family, worried locals surmised that the dead were taking others down with them. In order to try to arrest the outbreak, they invoked ancient rituals designed to stop vampires. In 1892 the Brown family of Exeter, Rhode Island, were hit by the disease. A young girl, Mercy, died, and her mother followed soon afterwards.

As inevitably happened with the disease, Mercy’s brother also fell ill. The family felt that their only option was to exhume and examine the bodies. The father enlisted the help of villagers for the job; they found that Mercy, who had died two months previously, looked suspiciously lifelike and that her heart contained fresh blood. This was a sure sign that she was the vampire to blame for the deaths, so her heart was cut out and ritually burned. The ashes were given to her brother on his sickbed, while others inhaled the smoke in a belief that it would protect them. Unsurprisingly, neither method worked.

The School Bus Urban Legend
Several decades ago, an odd urban legend story appeared in a local newspaper in a rural region of Wales. On the last day of term, a school bus taking children home was making its usual crossing over a railway line that ran up a mountain. The driver never liked taking the children over the crossing, but he had done it hundreds of times without incident. However, this time something went wrong, and the bus stopped right in the middle of the tracks. As the driver frantically tried to restart the engine, his worst nightmare began to come true: he heard a train sound its horn in the distance. Within seconds a heavy goods vehicle was looming large in the window. His first instinct was to save the children, so he leapt from the bus and smashed open the emergency exit. The last thing he heard was the terrible noise as the locomotive’s brakes screeched in vain and the children screamed as they jumped off the bus. The last thing he saw was the train driver above him, shielding his eyes as he awaited the inevitable. The train obliterated the bus, but by some miracle only the bus driver lost his life.

Over time the small mining community slowly forgot about the accident, until a recent story appeared in the same paper. It reported that an elderly man, a retired teacher, was driving over the same railway crossing when his car stalled on the tracks. The alarm began to sound and his panic grew as he fumbled with his seat belt. Just as he opened the door, and the guard rails lowered behind him, he felt the car shift, as though it was being lifted up from underneath, and the next thing he knew the train was thundering past behind him, so close that it rocked the car. He was so shaken that he had to get out of his vehicle and call his wife to drive him home, which is when he checked the back of his car for damage: the train had missed it by a foot. It was also at that moment that he noticed the marks on the boot of his car: they were bloody handprints. The man looked around in a panic, but there was no one else in sight.

Red Paper Urban Legend
Japanese children scare each other by repeating the tale of what happened to two schoolboys many years ago. One day one of the boys went to the bathroom, only to find that there was no toilet paper in the stall. As he cursed to himself, he heard a voice asking him whether he wanted red or blue paper. He answered “red” and all the blood seeped out of his body so that he died in minutes. The story spread around the school. Some months later the boy’s friend found himself in the same toilet stall, and again there was no paper. He heard the same voice ask him what paper he would like. Knowing the story and remembering what had happened to his friend, he chose blue. Gradually, his throat began to tighten and soon he was struggling to breathe. Classmates found him dead, blue in the face from suffocation.

The Survivor Urban Legend
One sunny summer day, a young couple were driving down to the coast for a vacation. They had left the town and were winding through the hills when they noticed a woman at the side of the road, flagging them down. She looked distressed and her clothes were covered in blood, so they quickly pulled over and asked her what had happened. She struggled to get her words out; she appeared to have an injury to her neck and was in pain. They finally established that she and her family had been in a car crash, although there was no vehicle visible from the road. The woman pointed over the side of the valley, saying that the car was somewhere down there and her husband was dead, but her baby was trapped in the back seat and he was still alive when she left him.

The man started to clamber down the valley through broken trees, while his girlfriend said she would call for help and look after the woman. He saw that the car had rolled a long way down the hill, and looked in a very bad way, but as he got closer he could hear the muffled sounds of a young child. The wreckage was terrible and he could barely see the driver. Although the back door was bent into the frame, he tugged with all his might and managed to wrench it open. He was able to pull the screaming baby out and carry him back up the hill.

As he hurried back to his girlfriend, he noticed that the woman was no longer with her. “Where did she go?” he asked.
“She went to see her baby. I tried to stop her,” replied his girlfriend.
So the man handed the baby over and returned to the crash site to find the boy’s mother. As there was no sign of her, he checked the rest of the vehicle. He hauled the smashed windscreen out of the way and saw that the driver was clearly beyond help, so he turned his attention to the passenger and what he saw took his breath away: it was the mother who had flagged them down, clearly dead and trapped in the wreckage all that time.

Esmeralda Urban Legend
Around 100 years ago, a sensational urban legend story filled the papers in Nottingham, England. A young gypsy girl named Esmeralda, who was visiting the area with her family, was raped one night and the attacker was never found. It was said that the police weren’t bothered about the fate of a traveller. What the papers didn’t know was that she had fallen pregnant after the attack and gave birth to a child, but he was horribly deformed and didn’t survive his first year. He was buried in an unmarked grave in a field on the borders of the city. Esmeralda was said to have visited the place every time she came through the area with her family until she was middle aged. On one occasion she found that the grave had been dug up, the coffin opened and the body taken. After struggling to deal with the memories of her ordeal for many years, the shock of that discovery tipped her over the edge and she lost her mind. Esmeralda was shunned by her community and ended her days in a cruel asylum in the city.

The urban legend story was forgotten, and the field became a children’s playground after the war. For many years locals had reported strange happenings at the site: some described the sounds of a baby crying, or something like the shrieks of a fox or a feral cat. Children playing would find the mutilated remains of animals, such as birds, cats and once even a large dog. A newspaper report warned parents that a young girl had been approached by an old woman wearing strange clothes who had asked if she had seen her child and then had muttered a curse when the girl ran off.

One night in the 1960s, a man was walking his dog, a German shepherd, through the park. The dog was running off the leash when his owner heard him growling somewhere in the darkness. He called for him, scared that he might bite a stranger, but then came a terrible yowling, and the animal raced back to his side, whimpering. It had a vicious gash on its nose and was limping. Then the man heard something wailing from the trees, like nothing he had heard before, and caught sight of something moving quickly across the ground towards him. He didn’t wait to see what it was and ran home as fast as he could.

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The Woman in White Urban Legend
A group of children were playing in a river in their hometown near Mexico City—a place they usually visited to let off steam. A woman appeared and started to ask them questions. She stood out from the locals because of her appearance: she was dressed all in white and immaculately groomed. She spoke quietly and occasionally sobbed, asking the children if they had seen Marcus and Gabriela, whom she called her “little babies.” One of the boys was called Marcus, but he didn’t know the lady, so they ignored her.

The woman disappeared as quietly as she had appeared. When the time came to leave the river, the children noticed that Marcus was missing. They assumed that he had gone home by himself and thought nothing of it, but by the next morning he hadn’t turned up and the whole town was looking for him. He was eventually found face down in the river; he had drowned. His family assumed he had got into trouble while swimming with the others, until one of the children told her mother about the woman in white and how she had been looking for her children. When Marcus’s mother heard the tale, her blood ran cold; she knew who had taken her son. Three more children from the town disappeared over the following month, and each death was preceded by a sighting of the pale-faced woman in white, asking after her children.

Centuries earlier, when the Spanish invaded South America, a beautiful native interpreter became involved with one of the commanders and had two children by him. The man eventually married a Spanish woman, shunning his native mistress and their offspring. In her grief she went mad and drowned the children in the river before leaping off a bridge herself. She tried to enter heaven, but could not gain access without her children, so she was condemned to roam the earth, trapped between the living and the dead. The urban legend goes that she wanders the land looking for her children, taking any she finds that resemble her own and drowning them, in order to bring them to heaven to try to receive forgiveness for her terrible crimes.

La Mala Hora Urban Legend
Maria from Arizona received a phone call from her best friend, Rosanna, who sounded distraught. Rosanna was breaking up with her boyfriend and he had left the house in a rage, so she asked if her friend could come and keep her company. As Maria’s husband was away on a business trip, she was feeling lonely so she decided to accept. It was late, just after midnight, when she left her house in her car, and the dark roads were deserted. She couldn’t escape the feeling that something was watching or following her, but she told herself that it was just her mind playing tricks.

Halfway to her destination, she stopped at a crossroads and suddenly a dark shape, like a cloud of smoke, rolled towards her car. Then it disappeared. The lights turned green and she accelerated but immediately slammed on the brakes when she saw a figure in the road right in front of her. She was small, like a girl, but with the face of an old lady twisted into a hateful grin. Her eyes glowed red, and she bared black and sharpened teeth. She crawled on top of the car, and started to scrape and hit the window on the driver’s side with clawed hands. Maria put her foot to the floor in sheer terror and the car lurched away from the crossroads, leaving her attacker on the tarmac. As she sped away from the lights, she realized with horror that the demon woman was still chasing her car and somehow keeping pace, her talons scraping at the metal with a terrible noise. She accelerated to well over the speed limit, her heart pounding, and then the noise stopped. Her heart was hammering in her chest as she watched in her rear-view mirror the figure in the middle of the road: she was standing still but seemed to be as close as before; she was growing towards the sky and her great claws were so large that they touched the ground. Then the car turned a corner and she was gone.

When Maria reached Rosanna’s house, she screeched to a halt, ran up the drive and slammed her fists on the door, shouting to be let in. Her friend opened the door in fright, and Maria told her to shut it and lock it. She closed all the curtains and told Rosanna not to look out of the window.

“What happened?” Rosanna asked, and Maria explained what she had seen on the road: the dark shape, the woman with claws and how she seemed to grow in the moonlight behind her. Her friend listened quietly, kept looking at her watch and seemed to know what she was talking about.

“Are you sure you were stopped at a crossroads?”
“Yes, I’m sure,” replied Maria, listening carefully for any noises coming from outside.
“It may have been la mala hora,” explained Rosanna. “It means “the evil hour”. They say she appears at a crossroads when someone is about to die. If you manage to escape her grasp, someone you love will die in your place.”

Maria was horrified, but she tried to make light of it, saying that she must have imagined the whole thing. However, she knew that she hadn’t, and she couldn’t stop shaking.

It took her hours to get to sleep, but when she awoke the following morning, she wondered if it had all been a dream. Rosanna didn’t mention anything over breakfast and Maria slowly forgot about it. Later that day, as she was driving home, her phone kept ringing but she didn’t stop to answer it. She had to pass over the same crossroads on her journey back but was relieved to find that in the daylight she wasn’t frightened. When she reached home, she saw a police car waiting in her driveway and wondered whether she had been burgled—or maybe her husband had been caught speeding again?

The officers got out of the car but wouldn’t tell her anything until she went inside. They asked if she was alone in the house and said that her husband had been found dead in his hotel. They thought that he had been followed back to his room by a thief, who had forced his way in and stabbed him to death for his wallet. Maria didn’t want to believe them, as she had spoken to him late the night before, so she asked what time it had happened. “Not long after midnight,” came the reply.

The Psychic Urban Legend
A girl and some friends went to a show put on by a “psychic medium” at a local theater. They didn’t know if they really believed in those sorts of things, but they thought it might be fun. Who knew, they might even get an insight into their future! One of their friends had been to see the same psychic for a private tarot card reading, and been told that she would find the man of her dreams and marry him within six months. As that’s exactly what then happened, maybe there was something to it after all!

It was a fun evening, if a little creepy at times, as the psychic seemed to be aware of things that only they and their loved ones knew. The psychic did a reading of the cards for the girl’s friends, writing something inside an envelope for each of them, and said that they could open them straight away or later at home. They all tore them open and read out predictions about marriage, heartache and great wealth.

Then the psychic asked the girl to come up to the stage and laid out the cards. She looked at her with a pained look on her face and claimed that something was stopping her from seeing clearly—had she lost a loved one recently? The girl replied honestly that she hadn’t. The psychic asked to read her palm instead and traced the lines on her skin, nodding solemnly. “I can see your future now, my dear; it’s all very clear.” She laid down her hand and handed her an envelope that she already had in her pocket. Her friends begged her to open it, but the girl pretended not to be too bothered by the whole affair, saying that she would leave it until she got home.

Once the evening ended, the girl bid farewell to her friends and drove home alone. She had pulled out onto a main road and was looking at the envelope lying on the passenger seat, thinking about what might be written inside, when she was startled by the blast of a horn and flashing of lights. A large lorry had missed the back of her car by inches as she pulled out in front. She breathed a sigh of relief and drove on nervously.

Eventually, she couldn’t resist the temptation any longer and leaned over to pick up the envelope. As she did so, the car drifted slightly over the white dividing lines of the road, just enough for a car coming from the opposite direction to smash into hers and shove it violently into the path of the following truck. She was killed instantly. When the firefighters arrived to cut her body out of the wreckage, they found a bloodied envelope on the floor. It made its way to her family, who decided to open it. The card inside said, “You have no future.”

Cow Head Urban Legend
A teacher in China was travelling with his students on a school trip in the mountains above the town where they lived. It was a long journey and the students, who had grown bored and restless, started to play up, so the teacher suggested that they should tell each other stories. He joined in and told them several spooky tales that soon kept them quiet as the night drew in. Then the bus driver asked him if he’d ever heard of a very old urban legend story known only as “cow head.”

The teacher looked shocked and went quiet for a moment. He told the driver that he had heard of the story but didn’t know how it ended. Besides, he had heard that it was too frightening for children. Some said that people who had merely listened to the tale had lost their minds, and there were even rumors that it had taken lives. The bus driver smiled to himself, but the children overheard their conversation and were soon clamoring to hear the “cow head” story.

The teacher reasoned that he couldn’t do any real harm, as he didn’t know the whole story anyway; he could make it up as he went along. He started to tell the tale of a government official who had arrived to take a census in a remote village in the mountains, many decades ago. The last census had suggested that there should have been several hundred citizens there, but the place was completely deserted. The only signs of life were the bones of animals scattered in the dust. The official found the place unnerving and travelled to the next settlement, a long way over a mountain pass, where he asked what had happened to the villagers.

They said that nobody knew for sure, but there were rumors that they went mad and ate each other during a terrible famine. The official called in colleagues from the government to investigate. Amongst the animal skeletons, they found the strange remains of a man with what appeared to be the head of a cow. Locals said that the man had seemed perfectly normal when he first arrived in the village, but he had brought a terrible curse down upon them.

At this point in the narration, the children on the bus started to cry and asked the teacher to stop telling the urban legend story. But something had come over him: he was no longer in control and he continued with the tale as though in a trance, staring dead ahead. The children were trying to cover their ears and some started to foam at the mouth. They attempted to move from their seats but their arms were pinned down by their sides. The teacher continued to recite the urban legend story with a blank look in his eyes, a tale that became more horrific with every word. The last thing the children remembered before they passed out was the look in their teacher’s eyes. When a passing driver came upon the bus many hours later, the teacher and all the students were still unconscious. It took days for them to come round but the teacher was found to be in a deep coma from which he never recovered. The bus driver was never seen again. None of the children on the bus who heard the cow head tale would ever dare to recite it, not even to each other.

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Prime Real Estate Urban Legend
A large, pretty family house in Amityville, New York, has a secret and that’s why it has remained empty for decades, despite a local property boom. In 1974 a man murdered his entire family in that house, shooting his wife and three small children with a hunting rifle as they slept. At his trial the defense tried to get him declared insane, as he claimed that he was being controlled by strange voices in his head belonging to the previous occupants of the house, who had told him to commit the crime.

The experts, however, did not agree that he was mad. The jury convicted him of first-degree murder and he was given four consecutive life sentences, one for each life he had taken. The house lay empty for a year, as the family’s relatives couldn’t bear to even set foot in the place. They finally sold it way under market price to a young family from out of town, who had never heard about the murders. When neighbors finally told them, they pretended that they weren’t bothered, but certain things started to make sense, as they had been plagued with problems since moving in: the water ran red from the taps and mysterious foul-smelling black gunk oozed from the toilets. The father found strange marks in the door frames, which looked to him like the imprint of a small child’s teeth, but his own children denied any knowledge.

Each of the family members reported hearing the sound of music at night, from an unknown source, and, strangest of all, their youngest daughter became obsessed with a demonic imaginary friend that she described as a pig. The parents didn’t believe in ghosts, or anything supernatural, but the kids refused to go upstairs at night, so they called in a priest to perform an exorcism. They told themselves it was just to reassure the kids that the house was safe. The priest was relaxed and friendly when he arrived, but he became noticeably disturbed after blessing the upstairs rooms and left before performing a full exorcism. He told them that although the house was not haunted, on no account should anyone sleep in the third bedroom. They were sceptical, but they locked that door. The happenings continued, but the family were too proud to move—who would buy the place anyway? The final straw came when the young mother was woken by dark red liquid dripping from the ceiling of the bedroom, and the family moved out to a motel that very night. They had lasted six weeks. Nobody in the neighborhood was surprised; some had even commented on how the new owner looked remarkably similar to the murderer and joked darkly that he had escaped just in time to save his family.

Lake Ronkonkoma Urban Legend
Lake Ronkonkoma, in New York State, is an ancient and extremely deep lake that has been linked to many tragic stories. It’s often claimed that someone has drowned there every year as far back as records began. There was once a tribe of Native Americans living on the shores of the lake, at the mouth of a river, and a rival tribe was based on the opposite side. The princess of one tribe fell in love with the prince from the other, and once the elders found out, she was forbidden to even cross the river, never mind see her prince again. The two tribes had been warring for decades, and there was too much bad blood between them to risk a union.

Young love being what it is, the prince and princess took a dugout canoe one night and escaped onto the lake. They didn’t have a plan, but they wanted to be together. They had not been paddling for long when the wind suddenly grew into a monstrous storm, and the surface of the lake was whipped into great waves. They held onto the canoe for dear life as the water around them surged into a foaming whirlpool, and they were dragged down to the bottom of the lake in a tragic embrace. Afterwards, the elders told the youths of both tribes about the pair, explaining that the lake spirits did not agree with the union and that was why they had taken those young lives.

Despite the stories associated with it, the beautiful lake still draws young people to its shores every summer. They paddle boats out into the middle and dare each other to dive into the cool waters. Every year someone fails to surface—always someone who is in a loving relationship—and the body is never recovered. The urban legend story goes that they are cursed by the tragic Native American princess, who, jealous of her victim’s happiness, drags them down into the depths.

The Black Lady of the Woods Urban Legend
A local newspaper in Lincolnshire, England, published images taken by a girl who had been walking with her cousin in woods near her home. She told the paper that they had been playing around with her camera in the dark, taking pictures of her cousin, who was an aspiring model, and didn’t see anybody else around. But when the girls looked at the photographs a couple of days later on a computer, they saw that they had captured strange shadows in the trees: the floating figures of mysterious people and ghostly faces in the darkness. The girls didn’t really believe in ghosts, but after a little research on the history of the woods, they knew exactly what they had captured: the Black Lady of the Woods.

Hidden in the undergrowth is an abandoned stone cottage near a pond where, in the seventeenth century, a poor gamekeeper lived with his wife and son, or so the urban legend story goes. After the outbreak of the English Civil War he was forced into fighting for his master, who supported the king, and marched off to battle. He told his wife that he would return within six months, but he never did, and she took to wandering the woods to look for him.

One Christmas, a band of Roundheads fighting the king rode through the forest on horseback. Identifying the land as enemy territory, they claimed the wood and everything in it, including the gamekeeper’s cottage. They stole everything the wife had, including her young son, and burned the house. It was said that the woman died of grief and, from that day on, people have claimed to see a lady—hunched over and crying, dressed in a black cloak and hood—wandering the woods, looking for her missing husband and child. It’s believed that she can still be seen in the forest to this day, and if you walk in the woods at Christmas time and utter the words, “Black lady, black lady, I’ve stolen your baby” three times, she will appear in front of you.

Betsy’s Voice Urban Legend
Boy Scouts on camping trips tell their rookie recruits a urban legend story that dates back to the early days of scouting after World War Two. In a forest surrounding an abandoned airfield, there was an old house where Scouts would play hide-and-seek. The place had been bought cheaply by a young couple, Betsy and her husband Johnny, before the war. They hoped to renovate it and make it their perfect family home.

Betsy was an aspiring singer whose career was cut short by the outbreak of the war. She was driving down the track from the house one night, when a truck full of soldiers coming back from the pub came the other way. They were making a racket, completely inebriated, and distracting  the driver. He took his eyes off the road for a moment to tell them to pipe down, just long enough to veer into Betsy’s path, crashing head first into her car and killing her instantly. Her body was so badly disfigured that the police wouldn’t let her husband, Johnny, say goodbye to her. She was identified only by the large diamond ring he had given her, a family heirloom. Johnny buried the ring with her, devastated, and moved to another country, letting the house go to ruin.

Many years later the house was discovered by a group of Scouts on a hike through the forest from their camp. It seemed like the perfect place to light a campfire, play games and tell creepy stories. But it was not to be an idyllic Boy Scout adventure. The first thing they noticed was a female voice joining them in songs around the fire, which was odd because back then girls weren’t allowed in the Scouts. Above the crackling of the flames, they heard her again, and it sounded as if she was inside the house. Finally, they saw her, initially looking out of the windows and then walking round the campfire: a terribly disfigured girl in a pretty dress. And then Betsy was gone.

The next morning one of the boys could not be woken. His mates were horrified to discover that he was dead, and the only signs of any injuries suffered were some nasty scratches on his face. “Betsy did it!” cried one of the boys, when he saw the body and, after some coaxing, he recounted what had happened in the night.

Betsy had returned to pay the lads a visit in the small hours and woken two of the boys with her singing. She asked them one by one if they thought she had a beautiful voice. The first boy had been too scared to answer and an angry Betsy slashed him across the face with her diamond ring, saying that once he fell asleep, he would never wake up again. Then she asked the other boy the same question and, without hesitation, he told her that she did indeed have a beautiful voice, so Betsy smiled and disappeared into the woods, singing all the way. The terrified boys tried to stay awake, but eventually they both fell asleep. Only one of them awoke in the morning. To this day Scouts are told to listen out for Betsy around the campfire and tell her what she wants to hear; she always wanted to be a singer, but she never liked critics.

Milk Bottles Urban Legend
Two old men ran a general store in a small town in the American urban legend Midwest. The Depression had hit and business was hard: the customers stopped visiting and soon only a few regulars were keeping them afloat. One day a young woman dressed all in white entered the store, carrying an empty milk bottle. She placed it on the counter and one of the men filled it with milk from the churn, asking for ten cents in return. The girl, who had a sad look in her eyes, did not reply; instead, she picked up the bottle and quietly left the store. The man was too surprised to say anything and when he followed her out of the shop, she was nowhere to be found. He went back inside, muttering to himself that she was probably a migrant from the city who didn’t know how things worked out there.

He told his partner what had happened and to watch out for her. The next day she returned, again carrying an empty milk bottle. This time he told her that he knew that times were hard, but she had to pay like everybody else. He filled the bottle from the churn, but again she ignored him and walked out with the milk. On this occasion, however, the two men were ready, and they followed her through the town. She moved quickly, and they could barely keep up, but they saw that she headed for the church and stopped in front of a gravestone, where she disappeared.

The two men couldn’t believe their eyes, but they figured they couldn’t both be seeing things. Then they heard the sound of a baby crying close by, but they couldn’t see anybody. They realized that the noise was coming directly from the gravestone where the woman had vanished into thin air. They returned with shovels from their store, informing the sheriff on their way, and as they dug into the grave, the crying got louder. When they lifted the coffin out, they found a live baby inside, next to the woman from the store, who was clearly dead, and two empty milk bottles.

Top 10 Scary French Urban Legends

Its about time we talked about France! Its a country known for its rich history and culture - but today were not going to be talking about restaurants, museums and buildings - were going to be talk about the dark stories that have haunted the people of France for hundreds - or even thousands of years. Will they end haunting you too? And this is the Top 10 Scary French Urban Legends.

10. THE LOU CARCOLH

This urban legend originates from the Gascony region of France. The Lou Carcolh is said to be a disgusting, grotesque creature that wanders the countryside of southern France. Its described as half snake, half snail. Its massive and long body carried an enormous shell on its back. Its hideous mouth is surrounded by several long, hairy and slime covered tentacles that can extend for not inches or feet - but for miles, yes, miles. They send these tentacles stretching out from the caves they live on. They wait for people to accidentally touch one and then - bang - they grab hold of you and drag you down underground where they swallow you whole with their huge mouth.

9. MEAT PIES

In the 15th century, the story goes that a barber and a cook made a deal in Paris. The barber would slit the throats of his clients who were mainly poor college students. He would then chop up their bodies and send them through a trapdoor to a cook - straight to his kitchen. The cook would then use the human meat for his pies - there were many different flavors and sizes to reflect the diversity of his supply … business grew for both of them and the bakers became one of the citys most well known Patisseries. Nobody was wise to what was going on - at least no human. One day, a German student called Alaric was visiting the barber. His dog sensed that something wasnt right and began barking at the  neighbors. When people came to investigate - they found the cellar, full of torture tools used to hack apart the corpses. The two men confessed to their heinous crimes and were burnt alive in iron cages.

8. THE PELUDA

This creature has been a feared part of French folklore for generations. Its name means -hairy or shaggy beast- but to be honest - its a whole lot more than that. They are said to have stingers like a porcupine, the head and neck of a snake, tortoise feet and a serpent tail. Their breath withers crops, they can fire their quills like arrows, spit acid out of their tail and if they attack you - youre doomed - they are said to be invulnerable all over their body except for their tail. With their huge size, people say they could create floods simply by stepping on rivers. Some believe that the Peluda was on of the animals that was not saved by Noah and his Ark in the Bible. However, it still survived the Great Flood that came by hiding in a cave. Afterwards, it went on a rampage across the world - killing everything that got to board the ark. Some say it still continues this today, even if theyre only left in France.

7. THE CHATEAU DE TRECESSON

This is a medieval castle in the Brittany region of France. From the outside, its an impressive looking building - attracting tourists from all over - but don't be fooled by its outward charm, the Chateau is famous for its terrifying ghost stories. One night, many years ago, a black coach stopped near the moat and two men got out. They used shovels and picks to dig a deep grave in silence. From the coach they dragged a young woman dressed as a bride - her face as pale as her dress. She doesnt cry or beg for mercy as her executioners lay her in her grave and cover her with dirt. The men then ride off into the darkness. A local man saw the whole thing from the trees and gathered the other villagers to help. They dug her up and tried to save her but by sunrise she had died without saying a word. They never knew who she was or why they killed her - but it wasnt the last time people saw her. In the centuries since then, locals have sworn they still see her ghost floating on the waters of the moat, still in her wedding dress - and still deathly silent.

6. CATACOMBS

This is perhaps one of the most famous french urban legend and creepy parts of Paris. They are a series of tunnels that wind underneath the city. They are said to hold the remains of some six million people there. They were first started in the late 18th century to help deal with the citys overflowing cemeteries. A sign at the entrance reads -Stop! This is the empire of the dead!800 meters of the walkways in lines entirely with bones. Over the years locals have shared stories of dark goings on among the bones - legends of Masonic cults meeting, black masses, Nazi Gatherings, gang fights and serial killers.

5. THE WOODEN LEG

In The Chateau de Combourgis, there is a ghost with a wooden leg. It is said to be the ghost of Comte de Combourg - he was a general who lived there 300 years ago and lost his in battle, having it replaced by a wooden one. In life, his leg was said to send echos around the castle so that everyone knew where he was. After he died though, that never went away. In the years since, many visitors have said theyve heard his leg thumping in the night. Some even say theyve seen it walking up and down the stairs by itself - no body attached to it - accompanied only by a mysterious black cat.

4. A STRANGE CONCERT

On June 2nd 1925, a 24 year old medical student named Jean Romier was studying in a garden in Paris. An elderly man approached him dressed in a strange riding coat. The two men began to talk about classical music and eventually, the  old man invites Jean to come and listen to his concert he was putting on with some friends on Friday. Jean accepted and asked him for his name and address. He said he was Alphonse Berruyer and his address was Rue de Vaugirard, 3rd floor, on the left. Next Friday, Jean arrived at the given address and was welcome in where he met the Alphonses whole family. They were lovely to him but Jean couldn't shake this strange feeling that something wasnt right. Maybe it was the old fashioned apartment with its outdated decor and gas lighting. They musicians sit down and perform some classical music including Mozart. Jean stayed for a few hours after and talked to Alphonses about music. He thanked him and left.

Out in the street, he realised he had left his lighter inside. He went up and rang the bell but there was no answer. He kept trying until a neighbor came out and asked what the problem was. Jean said he is trying to see Alphonse but the neighbour said - I think youre mistaken, Jean has been dead for 20 years and that the apartment has been empty since then. Jean tells him thats impossible, he had just spent a whole night with him and his family. The neighbour started to become suspicious of Jean and accused him of being a thief. The police unlocked the apartment and took Jean inside along with the owner of the place - Alphonses great-great-great Grandson. They walked through the apartment which was now empty, when they got to the back room they found a side table covered in dust. There, sitting on top, was Jeans lighter. Some say Jean experienced a time slip, others refuse to believe this happened at all - either way, theres an official police report out there that contains this story - and many believe its unsolved.

3. THE TUILERIES PHANTOM

This is the story of a man called Jean. He worked as a butcher near the Tuileries palace in Paris during the reign of Catherine de Medicis in the 16th century. She ordered Jean to be killed because he had threatened to reveal many of the royal familys secrets. Just before he was executed, he told his executioner that he would rise from the dead. The executioner left Jeans corpse in the garden. He then went to tell Catherine the deed had been done. When he returned to the garden to dispose of the body, he found Jeans corpse missing. A few days later, the Queens astrologist reported having a vision.

In it, he claimed he saw all the inhabitants of the palace die a terrible death and that Jean would haunt the palace until it was destroyed. Not long after, the executioner was on his way to the palace when he looked behind him - and froze in horror. There stood Jean, drenched - as if he was still alive - covered in blood - thus began the legend of the Red Man. He is said to have haunted the grounds ever since. People believe that comes across Jean - the little red man - means a terrible tragedy will follow shortly.

2. THE DEVILS DOOR OF NOTRE DAME

Notre Dame is a very famous Cathedral in Paris - many visitors notice its elegant side doors with their intricate iron pattern. They were designed by an artist called Biscornet - his talents were known throughout France. The doors were considered a masterpiece - taking months to complete in Biscornets workshop. Parisians were so impressed that some of them began to doubt he did it alone. This was the 1300s - an age of deep superstition in Europe - some people said that Biscornet had sold his soul to the devil in exchange for this masterpiece.

Locals said they had been to his studio during his work hours where they had found him unconscious on the floor next to the finished piece which had been mysteriously completed in record time. When they came to first use the door on the Cathedral, the priests claim that they could only get it to work after sprinkling it with Holy Water. Biscornet died soon after and in the years since, many experts have struggled to explain how he made this with the basic tools of the time. Some also point to his name - Bis means two or twice while cornet means horn - put it together and you have the two horned man.

1. CHATEAU DE BRISSAC

This old French castle in the Loire Valley was first built in the 11th century. Its been almost a thousand years since then and its walls have seen some grizzly deaths and hauntings. Perhaps the most famous is the story of Charlotte. She was the wife of Jacques de Breze, the lord of the castle in the 1400s. One night, he came home after a hunt and had dinner with Charlotte - then, they went to bed in their separate rooms - the marriage was said to be for political reasons, not love. That night, he was woken by his servant who said Charlotte had another man in his room - it was one of his hunter partners.

He flew into a rage, grabbed his sword and attacked both of them - slashing and hacking away. By the time they were dead, their bodies had almost 100 wounds inflicted. Charlotte was actually the half sister of King Louis the 6th. He stripped Jacques of all his titles and took possession of his castle. As for Charlotte, well, people say she never left - her traumatic death made her a ghost, cursed to haunt the castle forever. They say at night on the walls of the castle you can see a female ghost in a green dress with bloody, gaping holes all over her body. She is silent except for when she returns to the room where she was murdered - where deathly moans and cries can be heard until dawn.

Top 10 Japanese Urban Legends You Never Heard Of
Every country has its own set of creepy urban legends  but japan might just have some of the  creepiest  from faceless ghosts that will play  tricks on you to demons that could drag  you to hell  i'm going to be discussing these and  more on today's top 10 list but before i  begin i just want to thank our sponsor  for today's video  tokyo treat tokyo treat is a monthly  subscription box service where you can  get a box  full of delicious japanese candy and  snacks  right to your door the holidays are  coming up and this would be the perfect  gift to get someone  if you're interested we got a link in  the description box below  just for you this is just a little sneak  peek of the stuff that you could get in  your box  and now i am going to taste test the  kitkat cheesecake and you know what i  like cheesecake and i like kitkat so  i think it's gonna be really good it's a  cute little packaging  that's really good wow  they're so cute and minnie starting off  this countdown we have the faceless  ghost  the nopera bow or faceless ghosts are  creepy looking creatures with  no face they typically disguise  themselves as  humans but can wipe all the facial  features off of their face  so they look terrifying but no need to  worry these ghosts mean no harm  they are tricksters and all they like to  do is scare humans with their appearance  what's the worst is that they can  impersonate your family or friends  so one second you're talking to your mom  and then bam her face is gone and you're  talking to this  nightmarish creature moving on number  nine we have the riverboy  and if you guys are liking this video so  far make sure to give it a big thumbs up  now this legend is quite an unusual one  so it surrounds these creatures known as  river boys they are said to live in  ponds or rivers and are about the size  of a small  child but they look kind of like turtles  with  webbed human-like feet and hands a shell  type thing  on their back and green skin now  these creatures are known to be quite  mischievous  they're stories of them peering up  women's kimonos or  tooting really loud in public on top of  that they can be quite  evil they have lured swimmers to their  death along with horses  and cows because apparently they hate  those two animals but how could anyone  hate cows like they're so cute anyway  another interesting fact about these  creatures are that they have a small  bowl type thing on their head that  always has to remain wet  or filled with water if it dries out or  spills  they can lose their powers or die in  japan the stories of the river boy  creatures are used to deter  kids from swimming alone moving on down  to number eight we have  the painted buddha noribotokai otherwise  known as the lacquered buddha or the  painted buddha  gets its name because it resembles a  buddha with its protruding gut  but this creature has black skin a long  tail like a catfish  and has eyes that dangle out of its  sockets  it also is said to give off a foul odor  now japanese homes or temples often have  a buddhist  shrine but legend goes if you leave this  shrine open at night  or if you don't keep it well kept then  this creature can  lurk out of it once it's out it will  trick humans by providing them with  false prophecies or they will dance  around all night and keep you  up so they look more terrifying than  they actually  are in our seventh spot we have the  human pillar  yeah it's as creepy as it sounds so the  human pillars in japan  are pillars that are rumored to have  humans trapped inside of them  legend goes that if you put humans  inside of pillars during the  construction of a building  then it would bless it and help hold it  in place  and this was an actual ritual that  people would practice  it's a form of human sacrifice and  people were buried alive  but now legend goes that the buildings  are haunted by the souls trapped inside  one famous legend surrounds matsu castle  where apparently a woman was sealed  inside during construction  and now her spirit haunts the castle in  fact sometimes the castle shakes  randomly and that's said to be from the  woman  trapped within it making our way down  the list number six we have the girl in  the gap  this was a japanese superstition that  turned into an Japanese urban legend  so there's a superstition that spirits  live between the gaps of things like  in between the gap of a door or couch or  closet etc  now legend goes that a demon girl  resides in this gap  if you lock eyes with her she will ask  you to play hide and seek with her  no matter what you have to play with her  but at one point in the game  she will grab you and drag you to hell  yeah  good luck sleeping tonight we're now at  our fifth and halfway mark with the  dream school  legend goes that one night a young boy  had a dream about  school which alone is terrifying itself  but in this dream the school had  hallways that went on and on  forever you had staircases that led to  the same  floor no matter what he couldn't escape  at one point in the dream he heard  someone coming close to him  so he ran until he found an emergency  exit the emergency exit had a glass box  where a key to the door was held  but the glass was smashed and there was  no key  instead there was a note that said it  could be found in room 108  but when he found the room it was quite  terrifying  the room was empty there were no  students but there were backpacks  hanging off of  every chair he went back out to the hall  and that's when he saw  it was littered with dead students it  said that he never woke up from this  dream  he's still trapped inside the legend  ends saying if you don't forget the  story in one week  the same will happen to you so good luck  and may the odds be ever in your favor  no i'm just kidding this is just Japanese urban legend i have to put this  disclaimer in here  because my other video i scared people  so bad like i got dms  asking if it was fake or if they were  gonna die so you guys are good in our  fourth spot we have the  paper lantern ghost cho chinobaki or the  paper lantern ghost was a regular  lantern that after 100 years of use  turned into this creature this comes  from the old belief that all  objects have a soul living or non-living  now this lantern ghost might look a bit  terrifying with its large  eyes or sometimes just one eye and its  big mouth and long tongue  but it's harmless it's another one of  those tricksters that just want to spook  humans legend goes that the chochinobaki  will flick its tongue out  roll its eyes and give out a big laugh  in order to frighten humans  coming in at number three we have the  carnivorous spider  the carnivorous spider is a reference to  the golden orb weaver spider which can  be found  in japan but this spider is a bit  different  apparently when the spider reaches 400  years old  it can transform into a young beautiful  woman  but there's one problem with this she  gains an appetite  for eating young men so this woman  spider creature thing then lures men to  their home where they  trap them and eat them slowly so don't  be fooled  your next tinder match could actually be  this creature in disguise in our second  spot we have the wriggling body  the wriggling body is an urban legend  about this tall almost  paper looking thing that shimmers and  wiggles in rice or barley fields  it said that this thing constantly moves  even on windless days  from afar you can't tell what it is but  whatever you do  don't get anywhere close to it according  to the legend if you get too close to it  has the power to drive you insane  if you touch it you will die although  this is just a legend some people have  claimed to see this in real life  but it may just be a scarecrow they see  moving around in the fields  at least we only hope that it's just a  scarecrow in our number one spot we have  the ghost  of okiku okiku is the name of a young  girl who lived in a castle as a servant  to a samurai  one of the things that okiku was  responsible for was looking after the  samurai's collection of  10 valuable plates now one day when  caring for the plate she noticed that  there were only nine  one was missing she began to worry and  obsessively started to count the plates  over and over hoping she was just  miscounting and 10 were actually there  the samurai became so mad at her that he  threw her down a well  but the girl's soul could never find  peace  so every night she would crawl out of  the well and could be seen  counting the plates over and over when  she realizes the tenth plate is missing  she will scream at the top of her lungs  okiku haunted the castle for months  until a priest came  and released her soul now before i go to  the comment shoutouts i would just like  to let you know that tokyo treat is  having an upcoming promotion for black  friday  you can use the code bf2020 to get the  ultimate  black friday bonus and at the end of  november 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