5 Creepiest Urban Legends
5. The Man Who Spoke With God
Picture this scene: The year is 1983. A group of religious scientists have come up with an interesting new theory that any human brain untroubled by stimuli would be able to sense the presence of God. Finding a willing volunteer, an old man with a terminal illness, they painstakingly seal off his nerve endings. Then they sit back and wait. What happened next is like H.P Lovecraft's worst nightmare. For a couple of days, the old man whispered about his deteriorating state of mind. On the fourth day, he claimed to hear distant voices. On the sixth, his dead wife began speaking to him.
Then things really went downhill. As the days passed, the voices of the dead began to grow louder, more hostile. They became angry, mocking, and started to tell the man things nobody should ever have to hear. According to the legend, the man began to scream and tear at his unseeing eyes, shrieking no heaven, no forgiveness, over and over and over. Finally he began to hysterically bite at his own flesh, saying he'd met God and he has abandoned us. Luckily, the tale is nothing more than a particularly spine-chilling example of an urban legend. But it's creepy enough to have utterly freaked some people out, and now seems to periodically resurface whenever the Internet is in need of some gut-wrenching terror.
4. Farmer John's Suicide
The story goes that the owner of a meat-packing plant woke up one day to find his kids missing. With the help of his brother, the two scoured the farm but could find no trace of the missing kids. After a few hours they called in the police, who made a horrifying discovery. The stuff coming out the meat grinder that day was human flesh, pulped and ground down to goo. Realizing this could only be his missing kids, the owner retreated to the plant's boiler room and quietly hanged himself.
Twenty years after the kids were murdered, workers at the plant stumbled across a terrifying scene. The brother of the former owner had been strung up in the boiler room, the words I did it carved across his chest. At the same time, visitors to the town cemetery reported that the soil above the owner's grave had been disturbed sometime in the night. Fast forward to the present, and it's said that you can see the ghosts of the two children falling into the grinder every October, while on Halloween the two hanged men make their way back to the boiler room.
3. The Staring Video
It's a video of a man looking into a camera without expression for roughly two minutes. It's been up on YouTube without comment and seen by hundreds of people. Known as the "Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv" video, the legend goes that it was pulled by YouTube in the early days after they realized its effects. According to the story, those who watched through to the end would see the expressionless man smile an evil smile.
After that they'd lose it. People were said to have clawed their own eyes out after seeing the whole video. Others were said to have taken knives and hacked their own arms up. Yet others were supposed to have killed themselves. It is said that nobody can get even 45 seconds in without screaming, and to go any further is to sacrifice the last shreds of your sanity. At least, that's the story. In reality, the video is of a guy called Bryan Cortez and you can see him today looking suitably non-demonic and friendly.
2. The Suicide Portrait
A few years back, an internet rumor surfaced about the suicide of a young Japanese girl. Shortly before killing herself, the teen had drawn a self-portrait, which she then posted online. Curious to see this slice of suicide memorabilia, a number of Korean forums picked up the image and began re-posting it. That's where things got weird. Users had a hard time looking away from this melancholy picture. Some began re-posting it time and time again, saying that its eyes were drawing them in.
Others noticed that if you stared at the picture for any length of time, it began to alter subtly, the faintest trace of a smile surfacing around the dead girl's mouth. Yet others reported feelings of intense sadness after seeing it. It is said that one or two even killed themselves. It is now thought that anyone who spends too long looking at the image runs the risk of falling into this same deadly obsession. At least it would be, if the original artist hadn't found out about this rumor and posted a fed-up message on his website, debunking the whole thing.
1. Mickey Mouse In Hell
The creepy "lost episod" is a whole sub genre of modern urban legend. But none has ever been quite so twisted as the legend that started them all: the story of the lost Mickey Mouse cartoon. According to the legend, this cartoon is nothing special. It features a black and white Mickey walking past a repeating background, white noise playing on the soundtrack. At two minutes in it cuts to black and that's it. Wait until the sixth minute, and the cartoon is meant to reappear. Only now the white noise has been replaced by the distant murmur of voices. The background Mickey was walking against has begun to distort in ways painful for the human eye to see, and Mickey himself is smirking unpleasantly.
From then on, the cartoon supposedly becomes a nightmare. A scream starts to rise up on the soundtrack as Mickey himself seems to decay, his eyeballs falling out and his grin getting ever wider. Impossible colors begin flickering across the screen, burning rubble rises in the background, and then it is said that nobody knows what happens next. The only Disney employee to ever watch to the end committed suicide shortly after. All he left was a note describing the final frame: a piece of Russian text that translates as "the sights of hell bring its viewers back in." And now, it is somewhere out there on the Internet, waiting for you to find it.
5 Most Evil People in History
5. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was and Iranian religious leader for a decade beginning in 1979. He had led the Iranian Revolution during which up to sixty thousand people were killed. The doctrine of the Shia Islamic Law was incredible strict, enforcing specific dress codes and eliminating equal rights. Brutal punishments were administered for breaking the rules. People were sent to prison and tortured just for listening to music. Anyone caught sharing a kiss in public was given one hundred lashes.
Those who chose not to believe in Allah were tortured and murdered by shooting, hanging, gassing, stabbing, stoning or burning. Anyone caught stealing would have a hand amputated, people were blinded and women's faces were slashed or damaged with acid. During the Iranian Massacres of 1988, everyone who was serving time in prison was killed. Over five months more than thirty thousand people lost their lives, including children who were hung from cranes. Khomeini kept fifty two American nationals hostage. Some were imprisoned for more than four hundred days, some spent six years in captivity. The hostages were blindfolded for their entire imprisonment.
Khomeini wasn't content with just ruling Iran, he had ambitions to conquer the Middle East. Saddam Hussein decided to attack first and between one and two million people were killed during the Iran Iraq war. Children were sent to fight by Khomeini. Saddam Hussein attempted peace talks but to no avail. The economy of Iran crashed and up to a million Iranian people died during this time. Khomeini's aggression towards the US is thought to have been the beginning of terrorist thinking, inspiring groups such as Al Qaeda. He is also thought to have inspired the Islamic Holy War during which over two million people died. In 1989 Khomeini lost his own fight, with cancer.
4. Delphine LaLaurie
When Delphine LaLaurie's New Orleans house caught fire in 1834, the emergency services who attended the scene made some very disturbing discoveries.Two people who were clearly being kept as slaves were found inside the house, chained up to the stove in the kitchen. Both were found to have had terrible injuries afflicted upon them during their life. But this was just the start. Upstairs in the attic more than twelve bodies were found, all of them chained to the floor or the walls.
They bore the disfigurement of serious abuse, having suffered a range of medical experiments conducted upon them by LaLaurie. She had trialled sex change surgery, had broken limbs and reset them in odd positions, performed amputations and taken flesh samples. Some of her victims had had their mouths sewn up, resulting in them dying of starvation. There were some victims who had had their hands attached to other parts of their bodies. LaLaurie never paid for her crimes as she escaped and went into hiding.
3. Beverly Allitt Nurse
Beverley Gail Allitt is said to be amongst the top ten most evil women of all time. Dubbed the Angel of Death, she killed four children and tried to kill another three. And that's not all, she also caused grievous bodily harm to another six. These terrible deeds were committed in 1991 whilst Allit was working in a children's hospital ward in Lincolnshire. It was found that two of the children had been given massive overdoses of insulin whilst another child was found to have a big air bubble inside their body. How the other children were killed and injured remains uncertain. Allitt was sentenced to life in prison, thirteen times over, when she was put on trial in 1993. The judge emphasised that Allitt posed a serious threat to society and would probably reamin in jail for the rest of her life.
2. Adolf Hitler
The German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, was the leader of Germany between 1933 and 1945. As a young man he had aspirations of becoming an artist but these were not realised when he failed to gain admittance to art school. He enlisted as a solider in the German army during the First World War. He was furious when Germany surrendered. After returning to Germany at the end of the war, Hitler began considering the role of the Jews in terms of the problems Germany was facing.
He blamed the Jews for everything and his bitterness developed into a belief that Jews were not human beings at all. He began to plan for the elimination of all of Europe's Jews. Part of this plan included the fulfilment of his ambition to control the entire world. Hitler believed that the power of persuasion could achieve anything and propaganda was a fundamental strategy in his plans. Hitler took to killing anyone who stood against him. He would experiment on hospital inpatients for new methods of killing people; one thing he trialled in this way was the use of carbon dioxide gas.
More than three hundred thousand people were killed due to Hitler's experiments. Hitler rounded up all of the Jews living in Germany and put them into concentration camps. Jews living in other countries were not safe from this threat and over ninety percent of Polish Jews died during this time. Those incarcerated in these prison camps were put to work. Some died from overwork whilst others were killed in the gas chambers. This wasn't the only way that Hitler killed the people in the camps. He also used a firing squad, death marches, the lethal injection, starvation, poisoning and medical experimentation.
Many people died from disease, starvation and exposure too. The Jewish people were forced to watch their friends and family die. The lives of millions of children were lost because of Hitler's breeding programme. Children were judged against the Nazi scale of perfection and those found to be lacking were executed. He wasn't loyal to friends and allies and would betray them without a second thought. Over eleven million people were killed as a direct result of Hitler's power.
This figure includes six million Jewish people, three million Polish people and another three million Russian people, seven hundred and fifty thousand Slavs, half a million gypsies, one hundred thousand people suffering from mental illness, another hundred thousand Freemasons, five thousand Jehovah's Witnesses and fifteen thousand homosexual people. In all, more than fifty million people died due to Hitler's actions. He died in 1945 when he commit suicide after taking cyanide poisoning then shooting himself.
1. Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the dictator at the helm of the Soviet Union for thirty-one years, between 1922 and 1953. Prior to his appointment to government, he had been an assassin, a bank robber and an agitator. It took him many years to progress to his place in power and he turned into a ruthless, aggressive, vengeful dictator who was ruled by his paranoia, bringing terror, violence and murder to his country. Those who crossed him were put to death so woe betide anyone who attempted to spy on him or anger him in any way. Anyone who voted against him suffered the same fate.
His ambition was to promote the Soviet Union to an industrial superpower but in working towards this goal many, many people were killed. Soviet citizens were forced into slave labour, many literally being worked to death. Enormous industrial schemes were established and became a source of perhaps millions of people's misery. Stalin's name appears on tens of thousands of death warrants. The only way to escape Stalin's brutality was to adhere to his word entirely. Anyone who spoke against him, who displayed independence or intelligence, was subjected to torture, imprisonment or murdered.
Family made no difference to Stalin and he was as likely to murder his supporters families as he was his enemies; in fact, he murdered the parents of a girl he had made a favourite of. She believed that he extended his love for her to her family, but she was wrong. He is even said to have had wives of his friends killed. Stalin's family didn't escape his ruthlessness either. He sent his daughter's boyfriend into exile and his wife commit suicide in order to escape his horrific treatment.
When his son was captured and put into a Nazi concentration camp, Stalin would not make a trade for his release; his son died in the camp. The means of murder were varied and brutal: it's said that Stalin even had people killed with ice picks. It wasn't only by brute force that people lost their lives. During Stalin's time in power, around ten million people starved to death. He is known to have said that an individual death can be regarded as a tragedy but in high numbers deaths are merely a statistic.
Stalin showed no respect for those who were fighting for his country during the Second World War, even having Soviet soldiers killed. Prisoners were released in order to join the army; when they returned from war, even if they were injured, they were thrown back in prison. He was just as brutal to people from other countries with hundreds of thousands of foreigners raped, tortured and murdered; one and a half million women from Germany were raped by Stalin's men. Stalin regularly used mustard gas explosives to kill large numbers of people. His aim was for his country to become as strong as America, with the ultimate goal being to take on the United States. He was responsible for the deaths of up to sixty million people. He lived until 1953 when he died after having a stroke.
5 Unsolved Mysteries With Strange Writteb Clues
5. John Hill
Ottumwa is a small city in southern Iowa and it is home to a disturbing unsolved mystery. Early on the morning of November of 22, 1976, two men walked into the Ottumwa Launderette and in a small room they found the dead body of the 51 year old owner of the launderette John Hill. He had been stabbed multiple times and shot. The police were called to the scene and they found a .25 caliber handgun on the floor near Hill's body.
Near the entrance of the launderette the police found five bullet holes. The police concluded that Hill died as a result of a robbery gone wrong. Hill fired his gun five times at the robber and missed with each shot. The robber attacked Hill stabbing and shooting him. The police said that it was a long drawn-out struggle. Then the killer did something really unusual.
Despite having multiple gunshots go off, which would have drawn a lot of attention, the killer took the time to write something in the victim's blood at the crime scene. It either said black or lack and then the second word was older. The police are unsure what the words refer to or their significance. There were two suspects in the case who are a couple, but neither were charged because they had strong alibis. Unfortunately the case has never been solved and Hill's family is still looking for answers as to who is responsible for his brutal and senseless murder.
4. Tracey Neilson
After a day of classes at Medical School on January 5, 1981, Jeff Neilson returned home to the apartment that he shared with his wife of five months, Tracy Nielsen, in Moore Oklahoma It was Tracey's birthday, she had turned 21. When Jeff got to the apartment he found the door unlocked. Inside the apartment, he found Tracy on the bed. She was lying face up. Her throat had been slit and she had been stabbed multiple times in the chest. During the police investigation they were quickly able to rule Jeff out as a suspect. What the police learned is that on the morning of her birthday, Tracy ran around and did some errands.
Then a neighbor saw Tracy finishing up her chores around the apartment at about noon. During the afternoon her friends and family have been calling to wish her a happy birthday but no one answered the phone. The medical examiner placed her time of death at some time around noon. She had not been sexually assaulted. There was no evidence of a break-in and there was no signs of a struggle inside the apartment. Robbery doesn't appear to be a motive because there was only one item missing from the apartment. It was a one inch by four inch keychain that Tracy used, which had her name on it.
The police think that the killer took it with him as a souvenir. The killer left several clues in the apartment, notably a single fingerprint but unfortunately no match to it has ever been found. The second clue is a cable ticket book from Southwestern Bell for cable repair, which may explain how the killer got into the apartment without breaking in or forcing his way in because Tracy may have let him in since he was a repairman.
The last ticket in the book lists Tracy's address as the service address Whoever filled out the ticket said that the work was completed and then they signed or initialed it at the bottom. The ticket said that the work was finished at 11:51 a.m. on the day of the murder. The police and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation are hoping that someone will recognize the signature or the handwriting Since the murder the police have followed up on 1500 leads, but after 35 years they are no closer to figuring out who killed Tracy Nielsen on her 21st birthday.
3. Gary Grant Jr.
January 12 1984, was a Thursday, but 7-year-old Gary Grant Jr. of Atlantic City, New Jersey, had the day off of school because there was a teacher conference. Gary left his house at about 2:30 in the afternoon and he told his mother that he had an appointment. His mother never thought to ask what he meant by appointment. Gary was supposed to return home by four o'clock and when he didn't, his mother called the police His neighborhood was searched and two days after he went missing his body was found two blocks from his house in the vacant lot.
The 7-year-old had been bludgeoned to death with a metal pipe. The last person seen with gary was his 12-year old friend Carl Mason, whose nickname was "Boo." The police interviewed Carl, who has developmental disability and was smaller than Gary, without a guardian or a lawyer present and he confessed to the murder. He was arrested and sent to juvenile detention. Once he was incarcerated Carl said that he was innocent.
He was given two polygraph tests; one was inconclusive and the other showed that he was telling the truth about being innocent. The judge eventually threw out the confession and Carl was released. Not long afterwards, the investigation into Gary's murder frosted over. This was especially tough on Gary Grant Sr., who was a police officer with the Atlantic City Police Department.
On January 4, 1986, a message was found scrawled on the side of an Atlantic City police car. It read: "Gary Grant's dead. I am living. Another will die on January 12th if all goes right." January 12th was the second anniversary of Gary's murder. Luckily, January 12th, came and went and no one was murdered in Atlantic City on that day. A few weeks later, a second message was found. This time it was scratched onto a sidewalk. It said: "Gary Grant Jr. lives. I still killed him. Son of the pig officer. Payback is a M.F."
The last message led to speculation that grant may have been killed and his payback against his father because he arrested somebody. However, that theory has never been proven. In fact, to this day the police are uncertain if the killer actually wrote the messages or if they were just a horrible prank. The case has sat cold ever since. The new clue emerged in 2006. Gary Grant senior was converting some audio tapes to mp3 files when he came across one that was labeled phone calls.
On the audiotape, he heard the following call that was made to the 911 dispatch on March 8, 1986, weeks after the messages were found. This wasn't the only mysterious phone call on the audiotape A few weeks after the bizarre confession, the 911 dispatch received a second strange phone call regarding the murder of Gary Grant. The caller didn't identify themselves but they accused the man of killing Gary because his father was a cop. The man's name was never made public because he was never charged.
Gary Grant Sr. knows the man, but says that he never had a problem with him. We should also point out that the accused man was arrested in 2011 for sexual contact with a child under the age of five and child endangerment. He ended up pleading guilty to child endangerment in 2013. Again, it is unclear at the calls are genuine or just a disturbing prank. Tragically, despite his father conducting his own investigation the murder of Gary Grant Jr. remains unsolved.
2. The Freeway Phantom
The evening of April 25th, 1971, was a warm one in Prince George's County, Maryland, and it was just an ordinary Sunday for 13-year-old Carol Spinks and her family. Around dinnertime Carol's older sister asked her to walk to the 7-Eleven, which was about a half a mile away from the family's home to pick up some TV dinners, bread and soft drinks Carol made it to the store and purchased her items but then she disappeared on her way home. Her body was found six days later on a grassy embankment next to a highway.
A few months later on the morning of July 8, 16-year-old Darleina Johnson, who lived a few blocks away from Carol, left her home to go to her summer job at a local recreation center. Sadly, she never made it to work. Her body was found 11 days after she went missing. She had been dumped about 15 feet away from where Carroll's body was found. 19 days after Darlenia disappeared 10-year-old Brenda Crockett was sent to the store by her mother.
When she didn't return home her family searched the neighborhood for her. Three hours after Brenda left for the store, her, 7-year-old sister was at home and the phone rang. She answered it and it was Brenda. She was crying. She said that a white man picked her up and she was heading home in the cab. She also said that she thought she was in Virginia. she then hung up the phone quickly. Minutes later the phone rang again.
Brenda's mother's boyfriend answered it this time. Again it was Brenda calling. She repeated what she told her sister and then she added that she was alone in the house with a man. The boyfriend told Brenda to put the man on the phone to tell him where she was and he'd come get her. Brenda then asked, "Did my mother see me?" The boyfriend responded, "How could she see you when you're in Virginia? Tell the man to come to the phone."
The boyfriend then heard the sound of heavy footsteps and Brenda said "I'll see you..." And then the line went dead. Hours later Brenda's body was found along the highway in Prince George's County. Her body wasn't hidden like the first two victims. She had been raped and strangled to death. A scarf was tied around her neck. The police think that the killer made Brenda call her home to give them false information to throw investigators off his track.
On October 8, 12 year old Nenomoshia Yates went missing while walking home from the store in Prince George's County Her corpse was found dumped along the side of the road just hours after she went missing She had been raped and strangled Then around 10:25 on November 15, 18 year-old Brenda Woodward was seen getting off the bus to transfer to another one Her body was found near an access ramp early the next morning. She had been strangled and stabbed.
Her coat was then laid gently over her body in her coat pocket there was a note that said: A handwriting analysis was performed on the note and the handwriting expert said that the note was written by Brenda herself; meaning the Phantom dictated the note to her. At this point the FBI was called in and they got thousands of tips, but none of the tips led anywhere. Around the same time that the FBI got involved the killer took a hiatus. But then on September 5, 1972, he popped back up again On that day, witnesses saw 17-year-old Diane William heading home on the bus after visiting her boyfriend, but she never made it home she was found strangled to death off the side of the road hours after she was seen exiting the bus After the murder of Diane Williams the Freeway Phantom killings came to it end.
Over the course of two years he claimed at least six lives. All the girls were between the ages of 10 and 18 and all of them were african-american. The FBI continued to work on the case but then in 1974 they reassigned the agents that were working on the case because manpower was needed to investigate the Watergate scandal and the freeway phantom killings went cold. In the ensuing years cold-case investigators have continued to look into the string of murders.
One conclusion they drew, which is based on the areas where the girls were kidnapped and the locations where their bodies were dumped, that the Phantom's anchor spot is Congress Heights, which is a neighborhood in Washington DC, suggesting that he lived or worked in the area during the time of the murders. There have been several attempts to pull testable DNA from evidence left on the victims, but so far they have not been able to. They also found fibers from a green synthetic carpet on five of the six girls, however they have not been able to find the carpet that it belongs to.
Finally, something that may just be a total coincidence, but three of the six victims had the middle name Denise Over the years the police have had over 100 potential suspects. The strongest suspect is a man named Robert Askins. Before the freeway phantom murders he had been charged with murder three different times and he was convicted of one of them in 1938 proposing a prostitute with cyanide He was released 20 years later because of a legal technicality.
In 1977, Askins was arrested for raping a 24 year old woman in his house after the arrest the police searched his house. In his desk, they found his appellate court opinion and in one of the footnotes was the word "tantamount" However, there's no physical evidence tying Askins to the Freeway Phantom murders and he was never charged Askins ended up being found guilty of raping and kidnapping the 24 year old woman and he was sentenced to life in prison in the late 1970s He died in prison in 2010, at the age of 91, without ever confessing to the Freeway Phantom murders. The police are hoping that in the future some new technology will help them crack the case
1. Jeanne French, Elizabeth Short, Mimi Boomhower and Jean Spangler
February 10, 1947, was a Monday, and a construction worker on his way to work happened upon a woman's body in a field off of an isolated road in West Los Angeles. The body was identified as 45-year-old Jeanne French. When she was in her 30s, Jean was a pioneering female aviator, but in 1947, her glory days were long gone.
She was estranged from her fourth husband, Frank French who possibly suffered from PTSD, and was supposedly abusive. Jeanne herself was an alcoholic who liked to go out and party. On the night before her body was found, Jeanne was having dinner and drinks at a diner with two men During the meal she got up from the table and made a phone call. From the way she talked on the phone a waitress at the diner could tell that Jeanne was drunk on the phone Jeanne said, "don't bring a bottle the landlord doesn't allow it."
She then yelled over to the two men that she was dining with not to put any liquor in the car and not to take any liquor. About two hours later Jeanne was alone and she stopped in at a drive-in diner where she had coffee with the owner. She talked about her troubles and complained about her estranged husband Frank.
At 10:30, Jeanne was seen at a bar where she told the other patrons that she was going to commit her husband to the neuropsychiatric ward at the Veterans Hospital the following day Jeanne then made her way over to her estranged husband's rooming house. She asked him to come out with her and he turned her down. She hit him in the head with her purse and left. Next, Jeanne was seen at another drive-in diner with a man who had a dark complexion and was small to medium in size People remembered them because the man bragged about leaving a large tip.
After the diner, Jeanne and her friend were seen at a bar They were there from 1:30 until 2:00 when the bar closed as it closed. The bartender Jeanne arguing with her friend. When the bartender stepped out of the bar, he saw Jeanne and her friend get into an old beat-up sedan and they drove off into the night. Then, just hours later, James body was found in the field by the construction worker.
Jeanne had been viciously beaten and stomped. She had massive internal bleeding, her heart was punctured, her neck was broken. On her torso someone had written "F--- you B.D.and under it were the letters "T-E-X" The message was written in Jeanne's lipstick. The police and the media immediately knew what BD stood for. It stood for Black Dahlia.
Just four weeks before Jeanne French was beaten to death, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short's body was found in los angeles Short had been cut in half and her intestines had been removed. Her body was drained of blood, her skin was scrubbed, and her lips were slashed from ear to ear, making it look like she had a horrifying smile.
Like Jeanne French, Short had been dumped in the field. Supposedly Short also had something written on her body in lipstick. It was too small swear words. Eight days after Short's body was found, the story dropped from the front page and an editor at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner got a call from someone claiming to be the Black Dahlia Avenger The caller told the editor that it seemed like they were running out of material on the Black Dahlia murder, so he would send them some of Short's personal belongings, like her birth certificate and her address book.
Sure enough, a package arrived at the newspaper two days later which containing several personal items that belong to Short. A note was also included with the belongings indicating that a letter would follow Four letters were sent in all. They were all signed off as the Black Dahlia Avenger, but the police are unsure at the letters were from the killer or from someone who knew Short well enough, or who had access to her apartment, like a landlord.
The police were hesitant to say that the killings of Short and Jeanne branch were connected The victims did share similar physical features, but the methods of the murders were very different from one another Newspapers, on the other hand, thought that one person was responsible for both murders. Instead of focusing on the serial killer theory when investigating Jean French's murder, the police immediately looked at the most likely culprit in any murder - the romantic partner of the victim.
After all, Frank did seem like a plausible suspect. The couple did have a volatile relationship and Frank did see her on a night that she died. Frank's swore that he had nothing to do with the murder and he took a lie detector test to prove it. He ultimately passed the polygraph test. The police interviewed Jeanne's son and he said that Frank had tolerated a lot from his mother and that she was more than capable of getting herself into trouble.
After that, Frank was dropped as a suspect. However, without Frank the police were out of suspects. Nothing happened with the case for two years. But then two years later, there was another odd case that happened in Los Angeles that may or may not be related to the murders of Jean French and Elizabeth Short.
On August 18, 1949, a friend talked to 48 year old Mimi Boomhower over the phone sometime between seven o'clock and eight o'clock p.m. The call was upbeat and the women talked about an upcoming social event. However that day was the sixth anniversary of Boomhower's husband's death. Later that night, the police were summoned to her upscale house. The front door was open her lights were on and her car was in her garage.
Inside the house there was a salad on the table that Boomhower didn't eat, there was fresh food in the kitchen, and a dress that had recently been worn was lying on the bed. The house showed no signs of a struggle and nothing was out of place. However, the 48 year old widow was nowhere to be found. The immediate conclusion was that Boomhower who was having financial problems committed suicide.
In fact, on the night that she disappeared she was supposed to meet an unidentified man at her house. She was hoping that the man would be interested in purchasing the house. Boomhower's friends and family said that she seemed happy with her life, and was looking forward to upcoming social events so they thought it was unlikely that she would have killed herself Five days after she went missing her purse was found in a telephone booth in a supermarket in Los Angeles.
Nothing appeared to be missing from her purse but written on its side big letters was: "Police Department found this on the beach on Thursday." Thursday was the night that Boomhower disappeared. The purse didn't show any traces of seawater or sands weeks. After Boomhauer disappeared from her house, another woman in Los Angeles disappeared.
26 year old Jean Spangler was an actress that had bit parts in movies and she had recently acquired a powerful agents. On October 7, 1949 she walked out of her front door to go to the farmers market and she never returned home. Two days later, her purse was found at the entrance to a nearby park. One strap had been ripped and inside the purse was a note that read: The police looked into her disappearance and discovered that Spangler was three months pregnant leading to speculation that Dr. Scott was an abortionist.
However, they were never able to find out the true identity of Dr. Scott. Rhe police were also unsure who Kirk was and then they received a rather unusual phone call from movie star Kirk Douglas. He was on vacation and called specifically to tell the police that he wasn't the Kirk in the letter. The police thought that this was suspicious because they never considered him to be the Kirk in the letter. Because of the bizarre call, the police considered Douglas a suspect, and then they discover that Spangler had recently acted in a movie that had yet to be a release, which starred Kirk Douglas, However, Kirk Douglas was eventually cleared in the disappearance.
The bodies of Mimi Boomhower and Jean Spangler have never been found. Newspapers at the time thought that the murders and the disappearances were all connected, but the LAPD weren't convinced. Unfortunately, the LAPD never brought anyone to justice for any of the crimes. However, there is at least one former LAPD homicide detective who thinks that the crimes are all connected, but he didn't join the force until decades after the murders and disappearances Steve Hodel, who is now retired from the LAPD, believes that his father who was an unusual and sadistic doctor named George Hill Hodel is responsible for the four crimes plus five other murders.
George Hodel was on the police's radar and he was a suspect in the Elizabeth Short murder because of an incident that happened in 1945. His secretary died of a drug overdose, but the police thought that Dr. Hodel had killed her to cover up some financial fraud. The police weren't able to prove anything conclusively and Dr. Hodel was never charged.
After his father died in 1999, he wrote several books on the Black Dahlia murder arguing that his father is the real killer. For his investigation, he had the handwriting on Boomhower's purse compared to his father's handwriting, and the examiner said that was highly probable that it was the same handwriting. The theory of George Hodel being the murder of Short and the other women is still controversial. It is even unclear if one person is responsible for all the murders and the disappearances. Unfortunately, there's a good chance that these cases may never be solved.
10 Creepy Urban Legends From Around the World
1. Meat Is Murder (Germany)
The legend goes that in post-war Berlin a woman who was walking through a crowd one day saw a blind man struggling. She offered to help him. He told her he was trying to deliver a letter - would she take it for him? It was on the way she was heading, so she said 'sure'. She set off with the letter, but remembered to check and see if the blind man was doing okay. She caught sight of him without his glasses and cane, hurrying down an alley. Feeling suspicious, she went to the police. When they went to the address on the letter she'd been given, they found bags of human flesh. The letter itself read: "This is today's serving". 1947 was known as the "Year of Hunger' in Germany, a country recently decimated by World War Two. People avoided starvation by eating what they could find: dogs, cats, rats, frogs, snails, as this rumor attests to, people.
2. The Well To Hell (Russia)
In 1984 a team of Russian scientists drilled deeper than ever before into the Earth's crust. It was on a remote peninsula in Northern Russia that hell was purportedly discovered, 12 kilometers below the surface. Supposeedly they through a point that reached 2000 degrees when the drill started sspinning strangely. They lowered their microphones in to take measurements and listened. It was then that they heard thousands of human voices, all screaming in agony. Were they souls trapped in hell? An explosion followed and a winged devil burst from the hole in the ground, killing 13 of the workers.
The story was reported around the world, but originated with a Christian group in Finland that heard of the experimental drilling. As might be expected, this is an exaggeration that has compounded over the years.
3. The Crying Boy (UK)
In 1985 The Sun newspaper in Britain printed a story title 'Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy'. The Crying Boy in question was a painting by Giovanni Bragolin that was found in perfect condtion after a house had been burned inside out. What's more, a firefighter at the scene said he knew of numerous other fires where the 'Crying Boy' painting had been. An investigation was carried out, but not before panicked members of the public began throwing their paintings onto bonfires. Over 50,000 versions of the cursed painting had been sold at this point. The investigators found that the paintings were varnished with flame retardant and so survived the fires. Although this didn't explain why no other varnished paintings were turning up.
4. The Lucifer Statue (Philippines)
Satan standing triumphant over Angel Michael makes for an odd sight in the Catholic Philippines. This is the grave of Don Simeon Bernardo, who ordered the statue be placed there on his death in 1934. Bernardo was tortured and, as a result, didn't have particularly rosy view of the world.
The evil on display shocked residents, but it's just a statue - or is it?
Locals say the statue was initially much smaller than it currently is and has been growing over the years. Others say that the demon files off at night so the wrought iron cage has been places around the statue to keep it from escaping. The surprising truth is that the statue has grown, but in a sort of self-fulfilling prophesy. Phone to vandalism due to its irreligious nature the damaged statue was replaced by a slightly larger version in the 1970s and protected from abuse by a large cage.
5. Kaala Bandar (India)
Fifteen years ago mass hysteria swept the city of Delhi in India. During a 5-day period, the terrifying Kala Bandar roamed the streets. It pounced on people in the middle of the night, gouging their arms and necks. Described as 4 feet tall, with the horrifying face of a chimp and bearing iron claws, it was given the nickname the 'Monkey-Man of Delhi'. One man even fell to his death when he thought he saw the Monkey-Man. Another eyewitness described the terrifying situation: "The creature had its hands on my tights when I woke up. When my mother picked up a broomstick, it jumped out of the balcony". No monkey, man or monkey-man was ever caught, but the legend of Kala Bandar lives on, frightening children.
6. Under The Bed (USA)
This is a classic from the USA, a teenage girl is home alone and starts to receive strange messages on to her phone. She keeps ignoring the messages and carries on watching TV, putting them out of her mind. When the messages become more threatening, she phone the police, who trace the messages and tell her that they are coming from within the house! Just a story, right? Well in 2014 one 16-year-old girl started receiving some pretty scary texts. But she thought it was all a joke. She went to bed and just before she fell asleep she received the text: "I'm in your house!" The man had broken in and was hiding underneath her bed. Thankfully though, the police caught him in time.
7. Sacamantecas (Spain)
In Spanish, Sacamantecas means 'fat extractor' and is a kind of disguised monster or drifter that steals the fat from children to feed on. The myth is thought to have begun with Spain's first recorded serial killer, Manuel Blanco Romasanta. In the late 19th Century, Romasanta was convicted of killing 13 people. He rendered their fat in order to make high quality soap, which he then sold - along with the victims'clothes. Romasanta was only one of several people caught for selling human fat in this era and so the myth of the Sacamantecas was born and used to frighten children into behaving.
8. The Black Volga (Poland)
The Black Volga was a classic Russian car and signified wealth and status in the Soviet States during the Cold War. If one was ever seen stalking the Warsaw cith streets, people would flee because it was said that the people inside kidnapped children. No one ever saw who was driving them. One story suggested that the Soviet leader Brezhnev was mortally ill and requested the blood of children to keep his hold on the empire. The Volgas, which were associated with Soviet officials, went out to abduct children and drain them of their young blood. Other versions of the story described the blood being sold to wealthy Arabs to cure leukemia or spoke of vicars, nuns, Satanists, and even the devil driving the car and making children disappear.
9. El Chupacabra (Puerto Rico)
The goat-sucking, spiny and reptile-like Chupacabra was first seen in 1995 in Puerto Rico. This modern legendary beast is thought to drain the blood, vampire-like, from the livestock of Central and South American farmers. The uproar around the first sighting, in which 150 animals were killed, led to a year of weekly chupacabra hunts around Puerto Rico. To unearth the origin of this monster, Benjamin Radford of the Skeptical Inquirer tracked down Madelyne Tolentino, the woman who first reported seeing the creature. He had a hunch: there was a sci-fi B-Movie called 'Species' that featured a creature in the final act that was remarkably similar to her description.nWhat's more, Species was set in Puerto Rico, it came out in the weeks before the first Chupacabra sighting, and Madelyne Tolentino had watched it.
10. Kuchisake Onna (Japan)
Japan never fails to disappoint with creepy myths and ghosts. Kuchisake-Onna is the malicious spirit of a woman who wears a surgical mask. She appears and asks you: "Am I Pretty?" If you say no. she kills you on the spot. If you say yes, she removes her surgical mask to reveal the her mouth has been slit at the corners like The Joker, and then asks:"How about now?" If you say no, she cuts you in half. But if you say yes, she slits your mouth to look like hers. This tale caused widespread panic the the late 1970s. Schools arranged for students to walk home in groups because of their fear of being attracked by the ghost. There is even a rumor that a coroner's report from 1979 showed a woman who'd been hit by a car - in pursuit of a child who had her cheeks slit.
Sources: The Guardian, Live Science, Time, Snopes, 'Folklore and Journalism' (Dr.David Clarke), ABS-CBN News, The Chester Chronicle
10 Deadliest Assassins of All Time
When you think of assassins, you probably think of agile, methodic, secretive characters that hide in the shadows, but as it turns out, some of the deadliest assassins of all time were not only not that secretive, but they had some of the craziest methods for carrying out their work that you will not believe. Here are the 10 deadliest assassins of all time.
10. Axe-Wielding Bear
17th century Swiss political leader Jorg Jenatsch's murder might be the most bearish assassination in history, pun intended. Jenatsch was a vicious Protestant leader with contempt for Spanish Catholics. He even pinned his political rival, Pompeius von Planta, to the floor and murdered him. Well flash forward 18 years to Carnival in the town of Chur. Jorg is drinking with his entourage, all in costume, so no one thinks twice about inviting a man in a bear costume, who's wielding an axe, to the revelry. Jorg tried to shake the bear's hand, but it was Rudolph von Planta, son of Pompeius in disguise, who shot his father's murderer in the stomach, and yet, Jenatsch still grabbed a giant candlestick and was able to fight back before eventually just dying. You know, I get it, the guy was in a bear costume, all snugly snugly, oh how cute, but the guy was holding an axe. Yep, nobody would have saw that coming, big sharp axe in your face.
9. Exotic Dancer Spy
World War I in Europe was an incredibly dangerous place to be, and in the rationale of the time, no place for a woman. But don't tell that to Margaretha MacLeod. This German intelligence officer is considered to be the greatest woman spy of the 20th century, but what's most interesting is that she went by the name Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who performed the dance of seven veils across Europe for English and French soldiers. MacLeod had a Dutch passport, so she could freely travel around wartime Europe, taking many high-ranking officers as lovers, many of whom she murdered before stealing military secrets. Hari ended up passing along her stolen intel to the Germans, that led to the deaths of almost 50,000 French soldiers. Even after she was caught as a spy and executed, she was a flirt, blowing a kiss at the firing squad before they shot her in 1917.
8. She-Tiger
Just like Hari, this person used her femininity and sexual prowess to fight for Basque independence from Spain in the 1980s. Known as La Tigresa, meaning The She-Tiger, she was a dedicated commando in the ETA, which stands for Basque Homeland in Liberty. She was responsible for 23 deaths. Specifically in 1986 at the age of just 20, La Tigresa set a car bomb in Madrid that killed 12 civil guards, another car bomb that killed five civilians, and seduced a police officer in order to gain access to police stations, before shooting him and another five police officers. In 2003, she was sentenced to 2,000 years in jail, but in 2011, apologized, and unbelievably was released early in June of 2017.
7. The Iceman
Richard Leonard Kuklinksi is considered America's most prolific contract killer, nicknamed The Iceman, because he froze his victims to hide the time of their death. He was only ever convicted for two murders, but claims to have killed up to 250 people over 30 years. That means one murder every six weeks. Kuklinski was the go-to killer for the Gambino mafia crime family, and unlike many other serial killers, he had no routine. Specifically, he would use guns, knives, bats, lumber, tire irons, ice picks, fire, cyanide, and even his bare fists, that he claimed he did for the exercise. Oh yes, getting a good one in today. The strangest thing is that when he wasn't murdering people for money, he was a family man living a quiet life in New Jersey. He was even an usher in his church, but his luck ran out in 1988 when he was sentenced to two life sentences, but freely spoke about his crimes up until his death in 2006.
6. The Superkiller
Agent 47 from the video game Hitman was actually inspired by Alexander Solonik, known as The Superkiller to the Russian criminal underworld. As a Soviet special forces member in East Berlin, he was tasked as an assassin of NATO diplomats. Believe it or not, what landed him in jail was not murders, but a rape conviction, and he ended up breaking out of the Siberian gulag and became a hit man for hire. He immediately started taking out high-ranking Russian mafia bosses, protected by armies of bodyguards, and he'd either do this as a sniper from great distances, or show up at nightclubs and kill his target and crew with dual pistols blaring. Police eventually caught up with him in 1995, but he ended up taking out five cops with a hidden machine gun before eventually returning to jail, escaping again, and created his own 50-strong assassin squad in Greece. Eventually he was found strangled in Athens in 1997. How appropriate, an assassin was assassinated, that's just irony.
5. Caesarea
In 1989, Palestinian political organization Hamas's chief weapons maker, Mahmoud al Habu, shot an Israeli soldier in cold blood. However, Israel had the last laugh in 2010, after Habu's body was discovered in the luxury Al Bustan Rotana in Dubai. His cause of death was a brain hemorrhage, which seemed improbable, so Dubai investigators looked into it. What they discovered was that 27 people from Massad's Caesarea unit flew in under different passports and left soon after. A German immigration attorney ended up discovering that multiple people in the Caesarea forged identities and documents to acquire German passports used to enter Dubai without notice. Seriously, these people must be really good at what they do, because I can't even bring a dang bottle of water through the airport, it's like I'm a criminal.
4. The Cartel Hit Man
Martin Corona's book Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man, released in July of 2017, details his violent life as an enforcer for the Arellano-Felix organization. It was this organization that inspired the movie Traffic, with their sadistic methods like Mexican stew, where they stuffed men into 55 gallon drums of hot lye. Corona was recruited to David Popeye Barin's death squad in 1993 after he saved Ramon Arellano's life fighting off 40 gunmen sent by the El Chapo Guzman, with a single AK-47. This guy's like an assassin Rambo. He tried to retaliate against El Chapo inside the Guadalajara Airport, but missed, but he still continued on to a long and lucrative murder for hire spree on both sides of the US-Mexico border. He would often wear disguises to trick his victims, like nerdy glasses, but in 2000, he turned on his bosses, working with the California Justice Department to dismantle the AFO.
3. The Camel
Jesus Ernesto Chavez Castillo's street gang, Barrio Azteca, were the Juarez drug cartel's go-to hit men until 2014. That was, until Castillo testified against his former boss, Arturo Gallegos Castrellon. Chavez confessed to 800 murders, but says that he lost count, and claims to have had a daily murder quota to instill fear in cops, politicians, and the people of Cuidad Juarez, the murder capital of the world. His confessions came after Mexican police allegedly tortured him with electric shocks to the testicles. But killing wasn't enough to please his boss, Castrellon, so he would often dismember and behead his victims, leaving their bodies in public places to make sure he made headlines. Unbelievably, since his imprisonment at the end of the drug cartel war, the Juarez murder rate dropped by two thirds.
2. The Political Assassin
Photographer Burhan Ozbilici's stark image of Mevlut Mert Altintas with a gun and his finger in the air while Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov lies dead beside him, was declared 2016's photo of the year. The Ankara Modern Arts Center was hosting an exhibition created by the Russian embassy on December 19th, 2016. Ambassador Karlov was a few minutes into his speech about improving strained Turkish-Russian relations when a man in a suit shot him nine times in the back, shouting "revenge for Syria and Aleppo." The gunman, who engaged in a 15-minute shootout with police before ultimately being killed, was Altintas. He was an off-duty member of the Ankara police riot squad and a member of the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda. Man, even police are assassins, you can't trust anybody.
1. The Lady Killers
Kim Jong Nam was a playboy living in exile when he was suddenly poisoned in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on Valentine's Day 2016. His assassins were Indonesians Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who sprayed the poison in his face, claiming it was a prank. The reason that they were so unsuspecting was because Miss Huong was wearing really casual clothing, specifically a sweater that said "LOL" on it. Well, getting sprayed in the face with a V.X. nerve agent isn't exactly LOL. It's more like OMG.
10 Deadliest Female Serial Killers
From the femme fatale’s with countless victims to the bohemian body counts that rival any Ted Bundy, we count down the top 10 deadliest female serial killers.
10. Delphine LaLaurie
Perhaps the real inspiration for American Horror Story season three, Delphine LaLaurie inspired her slaves to commit suicide. The reason? They were trying to get away from her lucid torture schemes. LaLaurie would keep droves of slaves on the brink of death and starvation, seemingly for her own enjoyment. Sadly, LaLaurie was never arrested, and although rumors of her atrocities run rampant throughout New Orleans, she never suffered the same way she treated those around her.
9. Belle Sorensen Gunness
No, it’s probably not because gun is in her name, or the fact that her children look terrified in every family photo. In what can only be described as ‘gold digging pioneering’, Belle would murder family members for money. After murdering her husband and two of her very own children and cashing in on their life insurance, she moved to Indiana. There, she dropped a meat grinder on her next husband’s head—and then advertised in the paper that she was looking for yet another husband. In gold digging irony, suitors rushed to the ever increasingly wealthy Belle, who murdered them all. Eventually, her whole estate burned to the ground, killing her children and revealing dozens of corpses for police to find. The weird part was, her teeth were found in the ashes—but her body wasn’t.
8. Amy Archer’s Murder House
Amy Archer-Gilligan murdered the elderly for fun. It’s horrible to hear out loud, but listen to this: in the early 1900’s Archer’s Connecticut home for the Elderly and Infirm saw 60 deaths, not including the deaths of several husbands. Eventually, family and friends of the deceased elderly caught on that Archer was feeding poison to her patients and was sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder. She died in 1962 in an insane asylum. Asylum sounds too nice for someone like that.
7. Lavinia Fisher
Notoriously famed as the first American serial killer, and perhaps the inspiration for American Horror Story season five, Lavinia Fisher and her husband ran a hotel that—can you guess?—made fun out of murdering guests. What started as murder and robbery turned into an all-out killing spree. It took local police years to nail Lavinia and her husband for their crimes, and the two were eventually sentenced to death in 1820.
6. Jane Toppan
The further we get down this list, the more we see several things. First, women seem to have bored of serial killing as time has gone on, and second, if a woman is a nurse or part of a medical environment, buyer beware! Jane Toppan was no exception. She is famous for casually experiment on her own patients for her own enjoyment. Now, take that sentence seriously, because this next statement might gross you out. She later told authorities that she felt sexual pleasure in watching her victims die. After killing close friends, her landlord, and her sister, time finally caught up with Toppan and she was sent to Taunton Insane Hospital, where she likely Taunted the world for being foolish enough to send her to a place that would give her another 30 years of life.
5. Bertha Gifford
The ‘Textbook’ Case - Falling in line with the majority of serial killers both male and female—Gifford fits the typical profile of, ‘Oh, she was nice and gentle’. Her murderous rampage is a complete surprise’. Gifford was a quiet and unassuming person who apparently was feeding arsenic to patients. No wonder American folklore is drenched in the blood of terrifying hospitals, insane asylums and medical wards. It seems like one in three had a vicious murderer traipsing around in it. Gifford’s body count made it to almost 20 before she was caught.
4. Dorothea Puente
And the modern era of female serial killers. If you’re in the shipping industry, it’s usually a bit taboo to open packages. Well, in 1985, a handyman failed to open a box given to him by Dorothea Puente to dump—and it was a good thing he didn’t open it, as it contained a decomposing human body. Luckily, fisherman found the body days later and reported it to police. After searches began to plague her premises, Puente suffered a devastating blow when police found seven dead bodies buried under her boarding house—where she had been doing most of her killing. She died in 2011.
3. Nannie Doss
Wait a minute. There’s a female serial killer with eleven bodies to her name and her first name is the word we use to describe a profession that takes care of children? Wow. Who okay’d that one? Nannie Doss married at sixteen, and then murdered two of that marriages four children. Unlike virtually every other husband on this list, that guy ran, but the Doss wasn’t done. Doss used this marriage to murder her grandchildren for insurance money. As if she were pissed about the first one getting away, husbands two, three, four, and five were all murdered. Husband five seemed to be the straw that broke the camel’s back, because the police finally nabbed her. Could you imagine husband number one—living his life in fear hearing about all these other guys dying. Who was husband five, by the way? What insane kind of deathwish did he have?
2. Dynamic Duo of Death
Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood, two serial killers with 80’s skin-flick names, murdered elderly patients for sexual pleasure in the 1980’s. You can’t make that up if you want to. Others thought they were however, when Gwen and Cathy bragged about how awesome they were at killing and no one believed them. In 1989, after Cathy’s ex-husband demanded that the police follow up on them, Cathy threw Gwen under the bus and struck a plea deal, resulting in Gwen serving five life sentences while Cathy only got slapped with 20-40 years. The scariest part—she may be released some day.
1. Aileen Wuornos
Some People Just Want to Watch The World Burn. Aileen Wuornos lands at number one. Unlike most of the women on this list, she didn’t use poison. Unlike most of the women on this list, she wasn’t after money. No—Aileen Wuornos wore her heart on her sleeve and her trigger finger itched. What’s insane about Aileen is that her motive, although completely different thab most of the people on this list, is almost all the more insane. For all seven of her victims that she shot in cold blood, she claimed self-defense—because, as she put it—they were trying to rape her. Wuornos claimed self-defense in the face of rape for years—all while she openly plead guilty to the actual murders. With seven counts under her belt, she was sentenced to death in 2002 by lethal injection.
10 Horror Animals Movie
Number 10: The mosquitoes from "Mosquito"
Kicking off our list is a film that's so bad, it's good. This movie answers a timeless question: What happens when ordinary mosquitoes feed on alien carcasses? The answer involves a campy, good time filled with horrible dialogue, bad acting, terrible effects and buckets full of gore. If you thought you hated these pests before imagine meeting one this big, without a can of bug spray.
Number 9: The crocodile from "Lake Placid"
This film is a similarly funny, yet scary tale of animal cruelty on man. A 30 foot crocodile has begun snapping at victims in Maine. This water dwelling amphibian is a vicious killing machine that not only devours people but also loves munching on cows.
Number 8: The sheep from "Black Sheep"
In this off-beat horror, the dangers of genetic engineering are explored when experiments turn harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers. As a result, these modified animals go on a rampage of a New Zealand farm, bringing new meaning to the term "Baaad".
Number 7: The snake from "Anaconda"
A National Geographic film crew is taken on a trip to hunt the world's largest giant anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. Unfortunately for them, this snake is so massive, it is capable of consuming a live person.
Number 6: The ants from "Them"
Now we're getting serious and delving into the real questions of radioactivity. Here, atomic testing in New Mexico causes regular sized ants to mutate into massive man-eating monsters that are hell-bent on devouring human civilization.
Number 5: The piranhas from "Piranha"
In this 70s horror flick, military scientists have genetically modified piranhas for use in the Vietnam war However, these man-eaters are accidentally released into the river and find their way to a day camp, where they begin to multiply and feed on the guests.
Number 4: The spiders from "Arachnophobia"
A Venezuelan spider stows away on a boat to America It mates with a local spider and their offspring eat their way through the inhabitants of a small town in California. This is easily the scariest flick to ever star 8-legged freaks with large fangs.
Number 3: The St Bernard from "Cujo"
In this Stephen King tale, a rabid bat bites a friendly St Bernard named Cujo. As a result, the dog becomes incredibly violent and goes on a killing spree through a small town in America.
Number 2: The birds from "The Birds"
Terror from the sky reigns in this iconic horror film by the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. The anticipation of a feathery attack never lets up and is especially nerve-wracking when the winged killers decide to converge on a child's party.
Number 1: The shark from "Jaws"
Rounding out our top 10 list is the great white that made us afraid to go to the beach. The film combines an excellent score by John Williams with suspense and pools of blood. Jaws will grip you and never let go.
10 Most Bizarre Curses in the World
From a cursed painting, to a cursed movie character, we have 10 most bizarre curses in the world.
10. The Iceman
An ice man was discovered in the Alps in 1991 and it was estimated to be over 5,000 years old. But, after his discovery, seven of the people who found him died over the course of thirteen years and not by natural causes. For instance, one person died in a car accident, another was killed in an avalanche, another died from accidentally falling off a cliff and another from a blood disorder. The Iceman curse is currently one of the most famous curses of modern times.
9. The Crying Boy Painting
This painting of a young boy was set on the walls of multiple homes throughout Europe. But, many of the homes the painting was placed in became the victims of fires and explosions. Even though the homes would be burned down to the ground, The Crying Boy painting was always found to be completely intact in the aftermath. But, what's really bizarre about this "supposed curse" is the fact that the painter of the painting from Madrid said that he had made the painting of a wondering orphan whose parents have died in a house fire.
Even a priest had warned the painter that the each home the boy was led into was destroyed due to a fire at one time or another, the painter did not believe him and took the boy into his studio to paint him. But sure enough, his studio caught on fire as well, and burned down. Causing the painter to banish the orphan from his presence.
8. Hope Diamond
This is one of the most famous diamonds in the entire world. But, there is a curse associated with it. The diamond was stolen from the head of of an idol in the 1600 and it is said that the priest of the temple of the idol was cursed in the stone. Sure enough, each and every owner of the diamond met a horrible demise including the Princess of France who was murdered by a mob in Paris. Even the jewelers who kept the diamond in their shop died mysterious deaths as well. The diamond is currently on display in the United States.
7. Koh-i-nor
The curse surrounding this diamond is very similar to the curse of the Hope Diamond. But what is unique about this diamond is that every female owner of it was brought great fortune and luck in their lives. But every male who has owned the diamond has been met with a terrible deaths. Diamonds are truly a girl's best friend. Number 6, the Superman curse. Most of the actors who have portrayed superman in either films or television shows have died of ways other than natural causes, ranging from suicide to complications from being paralyzed.
This curse began because the original comic book creators of Superman cursed their own superhero after they were denied the rights and money to the character. The Superman curse remains one of the most infamous curses of modern times. So, it's only a matter of time until we see what happens to the Superman actors from the more recent years.
5. The Bambino curse
The Bambino curse is one of the most famous sports curse in the world. The Boston Red Sox team had a string of bad luck after Babe Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees in the 1920s, but up until then, the Yankees were the ones with the bad luck. Following Ruth's trade, the Yankees won World Series after World Series while the Red Sox lost again and again. But, that changed in 2004 when the Red Sox finally won a World Series, during a total lunar eclipse. What was even more bizarre about this curse is that they won against the Yankees.
4. The 27 club
The 27 club refers to the rockers and musicians who all died at the age of 27 under controversial circumstances. Musicians included here are Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, all of who were very famous rock stars at their time. What is even more bizarre about this curse is that all of them became famous at the age of 25, and then died two years later.
3. 0888-888-888
There is really no cursed phone number in the world unless you are thinking about count spam or trash messages. But the notable exception here is the phone number 0888-888-888. This curses phone number has been the number of many people throughout the 2000's up until now. But every single person who had the number has died. Some owners died of cancer while others were shot to death or died in a gun shot accident. So, who knows what's going to happen to the current person who has this phone number.
2. Blarney Stone
The Blarney Stone in Ireland is notable throughout the world not because it is a curse, but on the contrary because it is a piece of good luck. Kissing the stone means that good luck will come to your life. But, it does not apply if any part of the stone is removed or stolen. In fact, if that becomes the case, bad luck with ensure. People who have stolen a small piece of the stone have reported suffering from depression and bad financial conditions among other things. So bad was the curse that multiple people who stole a piece of the stone sent it back to Ireland.
1. Tecumseh's curse
This curse was bestowed upon every american president in the White House. Elected every 20 years from William Henry Harrison up until John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The curse originated when William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory in 1811 broke a treaty with chief Tecumseh. This led to a war between the US and the Shawnee in which many of Tecumseh's men were killed and Harrison's reputation continued to grow. Finally, Tecumseh cursed Harrison to death when he was elected to the White House, in addition to every president elected after Harrison every 20 years.
Sure enough, every president elected each twenty years died while in office. Harrison in 1840, Lincoln in 1860, Garfield in 1880, McKinley in 1900, Harding in 1920, Roosevelt in 1940, and JFK in 1960. President Reagan who was elected in 1980 was the victim of an assassination attempt, but survived. Supposedly breaking the curse as George W Bush, who was elected in 2000 and survived as well.
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Top 10 People Who Claim To be Immortal
Top 10 People Who Claim To be Immortal
the oldest human being to ever live was Jeanne Calment she was born in 1875 and died in 1997 at the age of 122 everyone agrees this is the longest a human being has ever existed for well not everyone some people say there are others much older than that some people say there are humans who have become immortal some people even say that they themselves are immortal do you believe them let's find out my name is Danny Burke and this is the top ten people claimed to be immortal starting off at number 10 now we have Alex you he is a 46 year old man who claims to be immortal how has he achieved that for the use of his immortality rings he invented these small magnetic rings to be worn on people's fingers and toes to ensure that people's cells always heal properly and never die apparently if the cells constantly regenerate then the person never dies he says he has modernized ancient Chinese medicine to make immortality accessible for everyone you can actually buy these rings on Amazon right now although I don't recommend it they come in either black or white or the black one costs more because it's stronger apparently listen I don't know how it all works I'm just a mere mortal next up at number nine we have a Leonard Jones he was an American politician born in 1797 who claimed to be immortal more interestingly though he claimed that anyone else to be immortal you just need the right amount of fasting and praying he found a preacher that believed the same as him and together they found that the live forever faith and tried to recruit people to found a city of immortals while they were recruiting the preacher died apparently Leonard Jones was very much embarrassed when he had to speak at the funeral of his immortal partner he then switched to politics and tried to run for US terrifying kidnappings president many times with his main policy being you know his immortality suddenly he lost a lot of support when he died aged 71 and people say you can't trust politicians all right right now we have the wandering Jewish man in medieval Europe there was a story of a Jewish man who was there at the crucifixion of Jesus as he saw Jesus carrying the cross the man taught at him and told him to hurry up Jesus then turned to him and cursed him to walk the earth until he returned in the second coming his name was AHA Cirrus and countless people said they saw him wandering the earth hundreds of years later sometimes he was old sometimes young or even change between the two others say it's simply a story of symbolism for the Jewish Diaspora that has moved across the earth over the past millennia what do you guys think moving on to number seven now we have the immortal monk in 1927 the leader of a group of Russian Buddhist monks gathered his followers to announce his own death his name was dashi doors oh it eagle off he predicted that Stalin Russia's leader would persecute them and he warned them to flee then he said he would return in 75 years and in a deep meditation he passed away then many years later his body was exhumed the monks were amazed to find his body perfectly preserved his limbs were flexible and a skin was elastic in 2002 his body was put on display in the temple it was 75 years on and he had apparently returned the bullets believe that he remains in a deep meditative state on the edge of life and death makes the Panama six now we have Nicolas Flamel you might recognize this guy's name from Harry Potter as the immortal wizard who created the Philosopher's Stone and was a good friend of Dumbledore's well that fiction is based on the real Nicolas Flamel he was a French scribe born in 1340 and records show that he died in 1418 however hundreds of years later in the 1700s story started to emerge that he was still alive people said he was an alchemist who had discovered the real Philosopher's Stone and achieved immortality there are people who believe framel faked his own death and went into hiding to protect this powerful artifact from getting into the wrong hands and that he's still out there today coming up number five now we have Merlin Merlin was said to be the legendary wizard figure at the court of King Arthur King Arthur himself is a figure that is steeped in both history and legend it's often difficult to untwine the two Merlin was said to be half human half demon his demonic side was where he inherited his incredible powers and abilities but his human side put them to work for good one of these inherited powers was immortality believers and his existence say that you can find sightings of Merlin throughout British history many hundreds of years after his time with King Arthur others say this is just retellings of the same story the only way to find the truth is to keep picking apart the fact from the fiction Athen of a four-spot now we have the three Nephites according to Mormons Jesus visited what is now America after his resurrection he chose twelve apostles and real horror stories when his time came to leave three of them asked to stay behind forever to help humanity and watch over them Jesus was said to have granted this and Mormons believe the three Nephites still walk among us today as proof of this they point to stories of kind strangers helping people throughout history before disappearing without a trace next up at number three now we have Achilles I'm sure you've all heard of the phrase Achilles heel this is the guy it comes from he was said to be a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War the story goes that when he was a baby he was dipped into the river Styx the river that separates Earth from the underworld this made him invulnerable to everything even death itself effectively making him immortal except for one tiny thing they held him in the river by his ankle meaning that his ankle was totally vulnerable he was killed by a poison arrow to the ankle in a battle thus bringing his immortality to a swift end Achilles heel really was his Achilles heel next up at number two now we have the count of st. Germain he was a European nobleman who was born in 1691 and was known for his works and science the arts and philosophy he was said to have attained immortality after drinking an elixir which he made through his mastery of alchemy he traveled European courts where Nobles were astonished to see he had not aged a single day in the 50 years since they last saw him many people said that he could live forever even himself having confessed on at least one occasion to be 300 years old using the secrets of universal medicine records show he died in 1784 at the age of 93 but there have been countless stories of his appearance since then even as recently as the 1970s all right finally another one now we have Quincy High he was a famous Chinese emperor whose dynasty lasted 400 years some of the most famous works under his rule include the Terracotta Army and parts of the Great Wall of China he was said to be so loved by his people for they thought of him as an immortal this was a prophecy Quinn she was more than happy to fulfill and he became obsessed with seeking immortality on two occasions he sent hundreds of people out into the world to find the legendary elixir of life both times were a failure in the end he died of mercury poisoning after he ate too many mercury pills given to him by his doctors to try and make him mortal oh dear well guys I'm not sure how I feel about some of those stories but you know there's no smoke without fire also if there are immortal people out there maybe staying hidden it's one of the reasons they live so long.
the oldest human being to ever live was Jeanne Calment she was born in 1875 and died in 1997 at the age of 122 everyone agrees this is the longest a human being has ever existed for well not everyone some people say there are others much older than that some people say there are humans who have become immortal some people even say that they themselves are immortal do you believe them let's find out my name is Danny Burke and this is the top ten people claimed to be immortal starting off at number 10 now we have Alex you he is a 46 year old man who claims to be immortal how has he achieved that for the use of his immortality rings he invented these small magnetic rings to be worn on people's fingers and toes to ensure that people's cells always heal properly and never die apparently if the cells constantly regenerate then the person never dies he says he has modernized ancient Chinese medicine to make immortality accessible for everyone you can actually buy these rings on Amazon right now although I don't recommend it they come in either black or white or the black one costs more because it's stronger apparently listen I don't know how it all works I'm just a mere mortal next up at number nine we have a Leonard Jones he was an American politician born in 1797 who claimed to be immortal more interestingly though he claimed that anyone else to be immortal you just need the right amount of fasting and praying he found a preacher that believed the same as him and together they found that the live forever faith and tried to recruit people to found a city of immortals while they were recruiting the preacher died apparently Leonard Jones was very much embarrassed when he had to speak at the funeral of his immortal partner he then switched to politics and tried to run for US terrifying kidnappings president many times with his main policy being you know his immortality suddenly he lost a lot of support when he died aged 71 and people say you can't trust politicians all right right now we have the wandering Jewish man in medieval Europe there was a story of a Jewish man who was there at the crucifixion of Jesus as he saw Jesus carrying the cross the man taught at him and told him to hurry up Jesus then turned to him and cursed him to walk the earth until he returned in the second coming his name was AHA Cirrus and countless people said they saw him wandering the earth hundreds of years later sometimes he was old sometimes young or even change between the two others say it's simply a story of symbolism for the Jewish Diaspora that has moved across the earth over the past millennia what do you guys think moving on to number seven now we have the immortal monk in 1927 the leader of a group of Russian Buddhist monks gathered his followers to announce his own death his name was dashi doors oh it eagle off he predicted that Stalin Russia's leader would persecute them and he warned them to flee then he said he would return in 75 years and in a deep meditation he passed away then many years later his body was exhumed the monks were amazed to find his body perfectly preserved his limbs were flexible and a skin was elastic in 2002 his body was put on display in the temple it was 75 years on and he had apparently returned the bullets believe that he remains in a deep meditative state on the edge of life and death makes the Panama six now we have Nicolas Flamel you might recognize this guy's name from Harry Potter as the immortal wizard who created the Philosopher's Stone and was a good friend of Dumbledore's well that fiction is based on the real Nicolas Flamel he was a French scribe born in 1340 and records show that he died in 1418 however hundreds of years later in the 1700s story started to emerge that he was still alive people said he was an alchemist who had discovered the real Philosopher's Stone and achieved immortality there are people who believe framel faked his own death and went into hiding to protect this powerful artifact from getting into the wrong hands and that he's still out there today coming up number five now we have Merlin Merlin was said to be the legendary wizard figure at the court of King Arthur King Arthur himself is a figure that is steeped in both history and legend it's often difficult to untwine the two Merlin was said to be half human half demon his demonic side was where he inherited his incredible powers and abilities but his human side put them to work for good one of these inherited powers was immortality believers and his existence say that you can find sightings of Merlin throughout British history many hundreds of years after his time with King Arthur others say this is just retellings of the same story the only way to find the truth is to keep picking apart the fact from the fiction Athen of a four-spot now we have the three Nephites according to Mormons Jesus visited what is now America after his resurrection he chose twelve apostles and real horror stories when his time came to leave three of them asked to stay behind forever to help humanity and watch over them Jesus was said to have granted this and Mormons believe the three Nephites still walk among us today as proof of this they point to stories of kind strangers helping people throughout history before disappearing without a trace next up at number three now we have Achilles I'm sure you've all heard of the phrase Achilles heel this is the guy it comes from he was said to be a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War the story goes that when he was a baby he was dipped into the river Styx the river that separates Earth from the underworld this made him invulnerable to everything even death itself effectively making him immortal except for one tiny thing they held him in the river by his ankle meaning that his ankle was totally vulnerable he was killed by a poison arrow to the ankle in a battle thus bringing his immortality to a swift end Achilles heel really was his Achilles heel next up at number two now we have the count of st. Germain he was a European nobleman who was born in 1691 and was known for his works and science the arts and philosophy he was said to have attained immortality after drinking an elixir which he made through his mastery of alchemy he traveled European courts where Nobles were astonished to see he had not aged a single day in the 50 years since they last saw him many people said that he could live forever even himself having confessed on at least one occasion to be 300 years old using the secrets of universal medicine records show he died in 1784 at the age of 93 but there have been countless stories of his appearance since then even as recently as the 1970s all right finally another one now we have Quincy High he was a famous Chinese emperor whose dynasty lasted 400 years some of the most famous works under his rule include the Terracotta Army and parts of the Great Wall of China he was said to be so loved by his people for they thought of him as an immortal this was a prophecy Quinn she was more than happy to fulfill and he became obsessed with seeking immortality on two occasions he sent hundreds of people out into the world to find the legendary elixir of life both times were a failure in the end he died of mercury poisoning after he ate too many mercury pills given to him by his doctors to try and make him mortal oh dear well guys I'm not sure how I feel about some of those stories but you know there's no smoke without fire also if there are immortal people out there maybe staying hidden it's one of the reasons they live so long.
Top 10 Convicts Who Freaked Out After Given A Life Sentence
Top 10 Convicts Who Freaked Out After Given A Life Sentence
hey how's it going oh your most amazing top tenors I'm your host for today land in Dalit Singh and welcome back to a brand new video let me know the comments section below how long do you guys think a life sentence should be okay so there are a lot of criminals who commit horrible crimes and evil crimes so when it is their time to face a verdicts a lot of these criminals have different intense reactions to their sentencing so here are the top 10 convicts who freaked out after given a life sentence starting off this list number 10 with the mother and daughters desperate plea an eighteen year old teenager was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she used a dating app to set up a robbery that resulted in another teenager getting shot when the judge handed down her sentence the girl's mother dropped to the floor crying out of extreme grief the teenage girl was screaming for her mother and begging the judge to give her a lighter sentence and oh yeah I have a video clip of this watch [Music] headbanger comes in to number nine brandon spencer is serving a life sentence for opening fire at a Halloween party store and this took place at the University of Southern California he was charged with four counts of attempted murder and this is his reaction to his arraignment to 40 years to life after he was convicted of shooting a rival gang member at a 2012 Halloween party on the USC campus number eight brings us the two females who freaked out after american urban legends receiving a life sentence these two women collapse in court after they were both handed life sentences for the death of a three year old girl shortly after the judge are read their sentencing they fell to the floor with emotional out cries and they had to be wheeled out of the courtroom I'll get moving into number seven definitely unlucky number seven for this one Jaleel Hoskins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after tampering with evidence after he violently murdered a mother of five and dumped her body in a trash dumpster when the judge ordered him to serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole he threw the podium towards the judge and he had to be dragged out of the courtroom by the deputies take a look at this man fights with deputies comes in to number six a 19 year old received a sentence of life imprisonment after he shot and killed another man in an attempt to rob him the convicted killer was still hopeful that he would at least get the chance of parole but when the judge said that parole was out of the question it sparked an aggressive outburst you guys won't believe this take a look number 5 takes us to a man threatening to kill the judge I mean come on is this real life right now during his trial Wanda Rodriguez was being convicted of murder for stabbing a nurse at a mental health facility instead of making any last minute please he threatens to kill the judge if he didn't let him out of jail like as if that was going to work I'm done yeah that's probably not the smartest thing to say to a judge who literally has your fate in her hands a 19 year old man went into an aggressive rage after a jury sentenced him to death for a murder and this comes in to number four he began knocking down chairs before he was tackled by dozens of courtroom officers who eventually dragged him out of the courtroom take a look at this outburst [Music] [Applause] stun gun shocked its way into number three Andrew worth was charged with first-degree murder after he shot and killed a police officer his bail was set at 1 million dollars and after the judge sentenced him this is how he reacted the officers had to use an electric stun gun to calm him down before they carried him out of the courtroom ok moving on and number two brings us to Michael Marin after he was found guilty of arson and almost facing a life sentence behind bars he placed his hands over his mouth and swallowed something a few minutes terrifying kidnappings later he began gagging and he died in the courtroom a toxicology report discovered that he had poisoned himself with cyanide after he heard the verdict of his sentencing this is insane first to swallow something after the verdict is read notice as he reaches down and appears to get something from his bag he then wipes his face swallow something and appears to swallow again but eight minutes later Marin starts convulsing and collapses a violent man makes its way into number 1 a drug sentence marshal iguana to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault after he cut his niece with a butcher knife after he heard the sentencing he use a thin blade from a safety razor and he slit his own throat in an apparent suicide attempt he did survive and he'll probably receive more time for sneaking contraband into the courtroom well there you guys have it that is the end of this video thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you guys all is an excellent.
hey how's it going oh your most amazing top tenors I'm your host for today land in Dalit Singh and welcome back to a brand new video let me know the comments section below how long do you guys think a life sentence should be okay so there are a lot of criminals who commit horrible crimes and evil crimes so when it is their time to face a verdicts a lot of these criminals have different intense reactions to their sentencing so here are the top 10 convicts who freaked out after given a life sentence starting off this list number 10 with the mother and daughters desperate plea an eighteen year old teenager was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she used a dating app to set up a robbery that resulted in another teenager getting shot when the judge handed down her sentence the girl's mother dropped to the floor crying out of extreme grief the teenage girl was screaming for her mother and begging the judge to give her a lighter sentence and oh yeah I have a video clip of this watch [Music] headbanger comes in to number nine brandon spencer is serving a life sentence for opening fire at a Halloween party store and this took place at the University of Southern California he was charged with four counts of attempted murder and this is his reaction to his arraignment to 40 years to life after he was convicted of shooting a rival gang member at a 2012 Halloween party on the USC campus number eight brings us the two females who freaked out after american urban legends receiving a life sentence these two women collapse in court after they were both handed life sentences for the death of a three year old girl shortly after the judge are read their sentencing they fell to the floor with emotional out cries and they had to be wheeled out of the courtroom I'll get moving into number seven definitely unlucky number seven for this one Jaleel Hoskins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after tampering with evidence after he violently murdered a mother of five and dumped her body in a trash dumpster when the judge ordered him to serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole he threw the podium towards the judge and he had to be dragged out of the courtroom by the deputies take a look at this man fights with deputies comes in to number six a 19 year old received a sentence of life imprisonment after he shot and killed another man in an attempt to rob him the convicted killer was still hopeful that he would at least get the chance of parole but when the judge said that parole was out of the question it sparked an aggressive outburst you guys won't believe this take a look number 5 takes us to a man threatening to kill the judge I mean come on is this real life right now during his trial Wanda Rodriguez was being convicted of murder for stabbing a nurse at a mental health facility instead of making any last minute please he threatens to kill the judge if he didn't let him out of jail like as if that was going to work I'm done yeah that's probably not the smartest thing to say to a judge who literally has your fate in her hands a 19 year old man went into an aggressive rage after a jury sentenced him to death for a murder and this comes in to number four he began knocking down chairs before he was tackled by dozens of courtroom officers who eventually dragged him out of the courtroom take a look at this outburst [Music] [Applause] stun gun shocked its way into number three Andrew worth was charged with first-degree murder after he shot and killed a police officer his bail was set at 1 million dollars and after the judge sentenced him this is how he reacted the officers had to use an electric stun gun to calm him down before they carried him out of the courtroom ok moving on and number two brings us to Michael Marin after he was found guilty of arson and almost facing a life sentence behind bars he placed his hands over his mouth and swallowed something a few minutes terrifying kidnappings later he began gagging and he died in the courtroom a toxicology report discovered that he had poisoned himself with cyanide after he heard the verdict of his sentencing this is insane first to swallow something after the verdict is read notice as he reaches down and appears to get something from his bag he then wipes his face swallow something and appears to swallow again but eight minutes later Marin starts convulsing and collapses a violent man makes its way into number 1 a drug sentence marshal iguana to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault after he cut his niece with a butcher knife after he heard the sentencing he use a thin blade from a safety razor and he slit his own throat in an apparent suicide attempt he did survive and he'll probably receive more time for sneaking contraband into the courtroom well there you guys have it that is the end of this video thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you guys all is an excellent.
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Top 10 Scary Slenderman Urban Legends
10. Dead Rats on the Wall
This story is messed up. This whole saga was posted on Reddit No Sleep a few years ago by Redditor Moonbay. She said she went away with her husband to her Grandpa’s cabin and on their way up to the country, he husband cracked his classic Slenderman joke. When they got to the cabin, the girl saw scratch marks on one of the sides of the cabin, like someone had dragged a rake across the side of the house. She made a note to tell her grandpa but got on with her trip. That night, she heard something outside, like scratching. Her husband joked it was Slenderman again, but then said seriously that it must be rats and in the morning he would set up some pest control. IT turns it was indeed rats…..rats nailed to the cabin wall! The husband is a bit concerned but thinks it was kids playing a prank. The next night, there is scratching noises and heavy breathing and growling coming from outside the cabin and the pair both agree to leave at first light. In the morning, they step out to a whole menagerie of dead woodland animals strewn around the property and Goodbye, thanks for playing written in blood on the wall. Was it Slenderman urban legend, or some other woodland killer?!
9. The Garage
Incrediblefalk 1 posted about an encounter with Slenderman in their garage in Texas, USA. They admitted that they had read a lot of the No Sleep sub reddit and played the Slenderman video game. One night, they said they walked out to their garage to grab a drink after school and they noticed it smelled a lot like Gasoline. They grabbed an Arizona Watermelon cocktail and as they were walking out of the garage, they heard a growling noise. They looked over their shoulder and that is when they saw it. The Redditor says that what they saw looked a lot like the descriptions of slenderman, just with no suit. They said it was like looking at a warped naked mannequin with abnormally long arms. They also said that the mans hands were black with an inky shine to them. When he want back to the garage the next day, with caution, he took these pictures of the garage and big handprints he found.
8. Xbox
Something weird happened with an X Box 5 years ago in Ohio. Posted to reddit about his experience in a new house. MyBudDaVinci wrote that their new home had been the location for a murder and a previous reported Slenderman Sighting. When this guys parents were out one evening, he was playing videogames online with some friends. Everything is fine until he gets a text and puts his controller down, which is when his game character appeared to morph into Slenderman and stared at him through the screen. Then, he started to move through the screen and in to real life….which was when the guy woke up. He saw his clock, which said it was past 4am…and the though….woah, that was weird, he must have been asleep at his computer for two hours. He then noticed that his bedroom door and window were open. A bit freaked out, he closed them, went to check on his dog, and when he came back, he noticed the clock again….it was 2.16am, the time he last remembered playing his game.
7. Slenderman Tape
Sometimes Slenderman will come for you….and in those times, you just need to run! Run is exactly what this one redditor did when Slendy came for him. ScizorofVenus wrote that in their old hood, they saw Slenderman – tall, slender, black, no face, creepy. Sure. After seeing him a few times, he says that he moved. Good on him, Slendz is a creep. When they were at a new home, a village by a mountain, the guys wife saw something weird on the mountain will hiking. Later, the guy found a tape in a drawer that was seemingly an interview with a child called JImmy. The kid seemed scared about something. Jimmy the kid seemed to hallucinate, and the guy listening to the tape had a hallucination of his own – he dreamed Slenderman came to him with tentacles and that he hid his wife and kid in a mountain cave. He woke up to hear the kid in the tape screaming.
6. The Optic Nerve
Optic Nerve are also known as The Organisation, the Bureau and the Anti S-Walker Unit. This is the legendary group that observes and tracks Slenderman. The Optic Nerve is highly secretive but the urban legend goes that they’re based in Washington and are a government organisation; possible a collaborative outfit between the USA and Germany. The ON is said to have been watching Slenderman for years and believe that he is harvesting organs for some greater evil purpose. While the team tracks Slender man, who they call the Tall Man or S Man, they do not know how to neutralize him.
5. Slenderman in the Fog
The person from this Reddit post was convinced that slenderman was just a creepy pasta until they encountered him on a foggy night. The sun was setting and it cast a weird blueish light over the fog. The narrators dog seemed antsy and the cat seemed weird too, although the pair didn’t love each other. When they went to the bathroom, they looked in the mirror and saw something reflected – it seems that there was a long, tall figure outside, looking around. They thought it was a trick of the light, but when they went to let the cat out, they noticed that there was a crouched figure by the trees in the garden. As they strained to get a look at what it was, their neighbours came home, lighting up the fog around them with their car headlights. The figure seemed to disappear.
4. The Cannock Sightings
In 2015, slenderman rumours were as rife as ever when not one, but four people reported seeing the spooky figure in and around Cannock, in the midlands of Great Britain. Some swear the sightings were slenderman, others were convinced it was the lost soul of a ghoul, roaming the old mining town. That being said, three of the four slendy sightings were inside a house! One witness said tha they woke up to see a sphere shared shadow in their room and as they tried to get up to investigate, the woman sad– I quote As I tried to get out of bed and investigate further, the shadow began to stretch towards the ceiling. “It was at that point I found myself faced with the most disgusting and horrific creature imaginable.“It was about eight feet tall and had a white face with razor-sharp fangs.” Another household reported the tall man to have fierce red eyes and was wearing a black suit and hat. The indoor sightings are being explained by the effects of Sleep paralysis. Anther witness, who reported seeing the man outside, said that he wore a long black overcoat! What was going on in middle England?
3. The Scottish and Irish folk Legends of Fear Dubh
Fear Dubh is a Celtic legend about a dark man, the black man I believe is the most accurate translation. Fear Dubh is said to be a malevolent force that lives in the woods that wears all black. It sounds like someone we know! He is said to have long, tentacly arms which he is able to pass off as branches when he wants to be disguised. By disgusing himself as a tree, Fear Dubh is able to peep in the windows of children and tap at the glass with the branches.
2. The Dutch Takkenmann
Takkenmann means branch man in Dutch, and the legend is strikingly similar to that of Slenderman urban legends…which leads me to think about the many slenderman like stories across the world. We might not have the same name for the menace, but its eerie how many different cultures have a similar figure in their local lore. With Takkenman, or branchman, he his legs resemble thin tree trunks, and he is very tall, blending into the woodland. It is thought that Takkenmann shares some key similarities with the German legend of Lange man, long man. They’re both creepy woodland dwellers that appear to show up in the background of seemingly normal pictures.
1. Slender Sickness
Those stalked by Slenderman have been known to contract what the internet is calling Slender sickness. This sickness presents itself in coughing and sneezing fits, then leads to coughing and vomiting blood. It is also characterized by extreme exhaustion, paranoia, nausea, fever, nose bleeds and short term memory loss. Not ideal. The Slender Wikia explains this sickness as Sigma Radiation, so radiation poisoning, contracted by being too close to the slender chap. Apparently the illness gets worse, the more you spot slendy.
Top 10 Scary Saudi Arabian Urban Legends
Saudi Arabia is a desert country located in the Middle East that is known to be the birthplace of Islam. Along with its rich history and cultural background, Saudi Arabia also has their fair share of scary urban legends that have been circulating the country. So let’s dive right into this list of the top 10 scary Saudi Arabia urban legends.
10. Um-Duwais
Or otherwise known as the Myth of deadly temptation. This is a story about a beautiful, charismatic female demonic spirit who visits neighbourhoods in search of finding her next victim. She is disguised as a beautiful looking woman so men are easily drawn and attracted to her. Once she is able to entice them and lead the men to an abandoned location, she changes her form into an ugly looking demon who brutally murders her victims. She is said to have two donkey legs that she uses for speed and agility and both of her hands are made out of sickles which she uses to slice open her prey. And she also has the eyes of a cat so that she is able to see better in different lighting conditions. The moral of this urban legend is for men to not be easily attracted to beautiful strangers because you never know what they are capable of.
9. Qareen
The Qareen is another type of demonic creature that is very similar to a genie. They can have a master who controls them because they are in possession of the Qareen’s heart. These awful creatures are known to be excellent shapeshifters who will take on the form of a person’s deepest, darkest desire in order to seduce them. Once you fall victim to a Qareen, they will brutally kill you and the only way to kill a Qareen is to stab them in the heart but this is extremely difficult and you will probably die trying. Besides shapeshifting, they are also telepathic and extremely strong. They are naturally very evil and powerful and they know every detail about you. So that means they know all of your greatest fears, your weaknesses and your darkest secrets. So, they can easily trick you or blackmail you into doing whatever they want.
8. The haunted house in Jeddah
Saudi Arabia is known to have a lot of houses that are haunted by demonic spirits and actually, a lot of people living in this country are scared to move because they fear that their new house might be haunted. So, we guess it is safe to say that Saudi Arabia is not unfamiliar with haunted houses but this house in particular is on a whole other level. The most haunted house of Jeddah is located just one hundred meters from the sea and it has a notorious reputation. Taxi drivers don’t even dare to drive near this house and people say that if you get close enough, it acts like a magnet and you can’t escape it. According to the local legend, if you stand in front of the house during the day, you can feel your blood pressure increasing, and small shocks in your body.
7. Jinni terrorizes
According to the urban legend and folklore, Jinn are supernatural spirits that are very skilled at shapeshifting. So these evil creatures take on human or animal forms and they can even live in inanimate objects such as trees, rocks and underneath the Earth. They aren’t immortal, so they can be killed but they are free from any form of physical restraints. They love to torture and punish humans so they are said to be the ones behind many diseases and all kinds of accidents such as natural disasters or road accidents. They are known to cause a lot of destructive mischief and they love to watch humans suffer. There are different types of Jinn and depending on their classification, they have a bunch of different powers that are all harmful or damaging to humans.
6. Bent Al Kharsa
She is also referred to as the daughter of the speechless because her lips have been stitched together because she is being punished for something sinful that she did. It is believed that she likes to kidnap men and force them to marry her. She has the ability to kill without any weapons and she is even able to kill you by tickling your flesh. Apparently, she has these long fingers and she enjoys tickling her victims so that they will historically laugh until they die. Wow, this woman sounds like a complete nightmare. This sounds like one of the worst ways to die.
5. The Nasnas
This horrific looking creature is a hybrid between a human being and a demonic spirit. This unfortunate crossbreeding resulted in the Nasnas to be half a human body and a demon spirit. Yes, that means he literally looks like an evil half human. Even though the Nasnas only has one leg and arm, they are extremely agile because they use their tail to help them with balance and movement. These evil creatures would disguise themselves as decrepit old men who would try to get others to carry them over passages of water. Once the Nasnas successful enticed their victim to help them, they would change form and drown their victims in the water. These terrifying creatures are also known to easily murder a human to death by only using their one hand. And because they are missing half of their vocal cords, they aren’t able to speak but they are able to emit an ear-piercing noise that is supposed to be dreadful to hear. And depending on the volume and tone of this screeching noise, you would be able to tell what the Nasnas is feeling.
4. Ghouls
These terrifying creatures are known to feed on decomposing corpses and they can be found living in tunnels located underneath graveyards. The ghouls have been a part of Saudi Arabian folklore for a very long time. Ghouls are known to be excellent shapeshifters that prey on unsuspecting victims who are looking to cross the desert. Ghouls are very resilient and resourceful creatures who will transform into a desirable woman in order to lure these men where they would viciously kill them or mate with them. Obviously ghouls have a very bad reputation but things get even worse. They are known to be repulsive looking creatures who enjoy kidnapping people and feeding on their flesh. They are even able to absorb the traits of the humans that they eat such as memories and appearances. Apparently, the only way to banish a ghoul is to recite a line from the Quran.
3. The haunting of the Al Qasimi Palace
Every horror movie that has a possessed or haunted house looks like this one. Except unlike the movies, this house has a dark past and it rumoured to be very sinister. The palace was abandoned back in the 1980’s after the owners stayed there for only one night. They claimed that the house was full of paranormal activity and they couldn’t live there anymore. Since the palace was abandoned, curious people have wandered around the mansion, searching for ghost activity and supernatural presences. People have reported feeling impending doom, sounds of a woman crying through the halls and they have also seen children peeping out of broken stained-glass windows while crying. According to the legend, “You don’t seek the way to the palace, it will find you in time.” The legend also claims that if you visit this haunted palace on a night with a full moon, something awful will happen to you.
2. Abu Al Salasel
This scary looking man is also known as the man of chains. This is a very popular Urban Legend that has been circulating in Saudi Arabia for many years. It’s about an extremely ugly humanoid that is covered in chains. He often uses these chains to attack his prey and it is also believed that he is one of the most powerful demonic spirits in Saudi Arabia. He is most active at night and it is said that if you hear him walking with his chains, you are supposed to get out of that area immediately or you have a high probability of dying. The Abu Al Salasel craves human flesh and he won’t stop hunting humans until his craving his satisfied. This urban legend says that he is completely fearless and he might even follow you into your home.
1. A real witch
Witches and ghouls are a very popular urban legend in Saudi Arabia and even everywhere else in the world. Witches are women who are thought to have evil magical powers that have the potential to harm or kill people. So, what if I told you that there was a real police encounter with a witch? Do you believe in witches? You might after you see this clip. Is this real life right now? The two Saudi police officers came across this creepy looking witch in a hostile military area where no civilians were able to go to. And based on their reactions, they seem legitimately terrified.
Top 10 Scary Chicago Urban Legends
10. Haunted Oprah Show
The Ophrah Winfrey Show is famously filmed in the Windy City near the spot of one of the worst boating disasters of all time, which resulted in the largest loss of life from an incident in the great lakes. In 1915, passengers were boarding the SS Eastland which was docked in the Chicago River. Workers from Hawthorne Woks were off to a picnic. A full boat caused weight distribution issues and the boat listed to one side, rolling. This trapped some passengers below decks, others were crushed by heavy furniture. 844 passengers and four crew died in the disaster. The dead were taken to a nearby armory building, which served as an impromptu morgue. Fast forward decades and this building is now a warehouse and film studio where the Oprah Winfrey show is filmed. Many members of the show's crew gave reported seeing and hearing strange things in the building. There have been reports of screams from the doomed passengers, and even some apparition sightings. The most frequently spotted ghost is the Grey Lady, who is often seen stalking the halls.
9. 12,000 Corpses Under Lincoln Park
Between 1843 and 1865 there were four different cemeteries in the spot where the public park is now. The city was eyeing up the spot for a park, and after the Fire of 1871, they had the perfect excuse to start again. While some bodies were exhumed and moved, around 12,000 remain under the park. When the zoo was built in 1962, bodies were unearthed and reburied! With that many bodies, is it any surprise there have been a number of ghost sightings in the area?
8. Mrs. O Leary and the Fire That Killed 300 People
The Great Fire of Chicago was one of the most horrendous things that happened to the city. 3.3 square miles of the city burned from the 8th to the 10th of October in 1871 and left 100,000 people without homes. The popular legend blames Mrs. O’Leary…you know the song… late last night before she went to bed, Mrs. O’Leary hung a lantern in her shed….then her cow kicked it over…winked at her and said they’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight? You know the score. Except poor old Mrs. Leary never did it – she was a poor Irish Catholic Immigrant and was made a scapegoat because Protestant Founders of the US were distrustful of Catholics, and there was a lot of Irish racism around at the time. Reported Michael Ahern of the Chicago Tribune was to blame for fanning the flames on Mrs. O'Leary's reputation… but it was already destroyed. She was pardoned by Chicago’s city council in 1997, as was the cow…but, of course, this was far too late for Mrs. O. None the less, the legend lives on.
7. Haunted Water Tower
In the fire Legend has it that one brave citizen pumped water from the iconic Chicago Water Tower to try and help quell the flames. The water tower on Streeterville survived the blaze as a result of the man's actions, proving himself as a hero as he manned the pumps instead of fleeing for his life. Then, as the metal structure got hotter and hotter and the flames rose around him, the man knew he was going to die. Rather than die slowly and painfully, the legend has it that he hung himself from the structure. Legend has it that sometimes people still see his body hanging through a towers upstairs window. This has been confirmed by a police officer who also saw the awful sight.
6 - The Devil of Hull House
This story spawned the popular movie. The Hull House was a focal spot in the Chicago community. Jane Addams’ took the building over in the late 1800s and ran it as a women’s shelter. Jane reportedly took in a woman who was heavily pregnant and whose husband had abandoned her. It seems the midwives in Jane’s Employ would not go near the child after it was born because of its monstrous appearance. The legend states that the baby was born a monster because his father yelled to heavens in the frustration of being given only daughters. He yelled, “I would rather have the devil in this house than another daughter.”
Jane kept that baby a secret, but one day, three Italian women burst into the house and demanded to see the devil baby. They said they knew a baby had been born with pointed ears, a tail, and cloven hooves. The woman caused such a fuss and would not leave until forcibly removed that locals started talking. Soon a crowd appeared at the house and people wanted to get a look at the child. The mystery was never resolved, but there have been many whispers of hauntings at the house. Some report seeing the devils face at the window of the house to this day.
5. Homey The Clown
Homey the clown is a classic Chicago urban legend and long predates the creepy clown sightings of 2016. In 1991, there was a slew of reports about a creepy clown cruising the streets trying to lure kids into a red and blue van with Ha Ha written on the side. The Clown was dressed as a TV character called Homey and was said to be offering up candy and money to children who would come with him. The police had a lot of reported sightings, mainly from children. They dismissed a report from two ten-year-old boys in Oak Park, suggesting kids had banded together to troll the police. None the less, this didn’t quell the rumors and a whole epidemic of sightings sprung up over the city. The clown, however, was never caught. A lot of kids around in the 1990s in Chicago will remember Homey.
4. The Machine Guns of the St Valentines Day Massacre
The Saint Valentines Day Massacre is no urban legend – it was a real and gruesome morning of bloodshed in 1929, during the gang-riddled era of Chicago. 7 members of the North Side Gang were lined up and shot at with machine guns against a Lincoln park garage. This led to further bloodshed between the Irish North Siders and the Italian South Siders, famously led by Al Capone. While legendary, this is an irrefutable truth. The urban legend slips in as people claim the Clark Street spot is haunted by the massacred souls to this day. Civilians report hearing screams and gunfire as they walk by the massacre spot. There have also been a lot of reports of animals being freaked out as they pass the spot.
3. The Knocking Ghosts of Flight 191
On the 25th May 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 crashed moments after takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. 258 Passengers and 13 crew were killed, as were two people on the ground. This insane death toll makes this the worst aviation accident in United States History. Just as the jet was beginning its takeoff rotation, the left engine separated from the left wing and smashed into the runway, severing hydraulic fluid lines. As the plane began to climb, the damaged left side of the plane produced less lift and caused the plane to roll. This then caused the plane to crash in an open field right by the airport, killing all on board. The pictures from the aftermath are truly harrowing indeed. Debris was hurled into a nearby trailer park which destroyed five trailers…but that wasn’t all the trailer park would see of the crash. As the years went on, people living at the trailer park have reported frantic knocks at their doors, only to open them and find nobody there. One resident reported coming across a worried man who claimed he needed to make a connection. Another man in the area was walking his dog when he came across a man in a suit that smelled of gasoline who told him he needed to make an emergency call.
2. The Italian Bride
Mt Carmel Cemetery is best known for being the final resting place of Al Capone and a number of his gangster cronies. Also resident in the cemetery is the much famed and deeply mysterious Italian Bride. The Bride wasn’t actually a bride at all. She was a young woman named Julia Buccola who died in childbirth in 1921. She was reportedly buried in her wedding dress, which sparked her urban legend name. Following her death, her mother had a string of wild and vivid dreams that her daughter was not dead. Julia would tell her that she was alive and needed her help. Finally, six years after her daughter's death, the dreams got too much for Julia’s mother, who had her body exhumed. When the casket was opened, her body had not decayed one bit since the day she was buried. Creepily, on her gravestone, there is a picture of her body after she was exhumed, and yeah….she does look pretty freshly dead….which is really the best a gal can hope for sometimes. Finally, at number one, we have one of the most popular Chicago urban legends of all time.
1. Resurrection Mary
Ah, the vanishing hitchhiker. This urban legend is pinpointed to the southwest of Chicago in Justice Illinois. Since the 1930s, around 30 men who have been driving along Archer Avenue between Resurrection Cemetery and Willowbrook Ballroom have reported being hailed over by a young blonde haired, blue eyed woman in a white party dress. Further reports say she is wearing dancing shoes, wearing a shawl and holding a small clutch bag. The men that have stopped for her and let her in their car report her being softly spoken and shy. The woman asks to be dropped off at Resurrection Cemetery and then disappears in front of the gates. The legend says that this girl was in the ballroom with her boyfriend in the 1930s but they got into an argument and she decided to walk home. Sadly as she was walking up Archer Avenue, she was hit by a car that then sped away. She died at the scene, but her spirit is still searching for a chivalrous man to drive her home. Other reports have involved drivers breaking suddenly when they see a woman in white in the middle of the road.
Top 10 Scary Haunted Train Urban Legends Part 2
10. Express Train to Hell This story is an Urban Legend from Newark Central Station in New Jersey. It seems that a homeless man had been hanging around the station for a number of days and the station master had kept trying to move him on. One night he started screaming “ “It’s coming for me, it’s coming for me….” When the stationmaster reluctantly told the man that he was going to call the police, he said in all seriousness – The express train for hell is coming for my soul, you’ve got to help me. He confessed to the station master that he had killed a man who had cheated him. The stationmaster told him to calm down, but sure enough, at midnight, the sound of a steam engine came rolling into the station, along with the telltale wind that comes with an approaching train. He held the homeless man back, as he looked like he was about to jump in front of the invisible train. Both of the men stumbled back and the stationmaster lost his grip on the man. When he turned to see if he was okay, the homeless man was nowhere to be seen.
9. HELL GATE bridge
Which is disconcerting. Hell Gate crosses the east river, connecting Queens to Randalls Island. That isn’t all the bridge connects, though, it may well join New York to the afterlife….According to local lore, the bridge is haunted by an old train whose passengers are the cities damned. Those who find themselves on the bridge at night report seeing strange lights thundering towards them before they disappear. Others report seeing an old, battered train floating over the river. The legend says that the carriages are filled with people who have lost their lives in the water…from murder victims, people who have fallen short of the mafia, suicide jumpers and historic Dutch Explorers…they all sit together on the weirdest ride of all time.
8. Haunted Connolly Station, Ireland
Connolly Station is a busy train hub in the center of Dublin and connects rail routes across the country. In 2011 Ghost Hunters visited the station after a rise in reports of strange goings on in the building and around the platform. The Station is old, dating back to 1844, which means it is likely to have seen a lot of action. The station is also near the North Strand, which was heavily bombed during World War 2 and it is thought that some of the poltergeist activity is from lost souls who were killed in the bombardment. Leading Paranormalist Tim Kelly was keen to be granted permission to investigate the station, which is hard to obtain seeing as it is always so busy. He said Sometimes the human ear can't pick up the voices and they are only audible once recorded on the audio recorders and reviewed ….. he also quoted ghostbusters and claimed that he ain't afraid of no ghost.
7. Deadman on the New York Subway
This legend has been circling the New York Subway for about as long as the subway has been running…and has also done its rounds on the Paris Metro, the London Tube, the Toronto TTC….and basically all cities with underground train networks. This legend goes that a person is sitting on the train minding their own business, but they soon look up to realize the person across from them is staring at them with a creepy vacant stare. They notice two people sitting next to the starter, seemingly unaware. A man then comes up and whispers in the train riders ear that they ought to get off at the next station. They do, and the man says something along the lines of “thank god, I didn’t mean to scare you but you had to get off the train, the man staring at you was dead and the two people aside of him were propping him up.” There are so many variants on this story – some include one person riding round and round on a loop until someone finally realizes they’re dead. This story appeared in print in 1933 in a newspaper about Manhatten folk tales, leading us to believe this is simply an urban legend.
6. The Legend of Casey Jones
Jonny Cash sings the true story of the legendary Casey Jones, a gallant railroad engineer working in Cannonball, the USA in the late 1800s. Jones had a rep for always running his trains on time without fault, even if it meant running trains at very high speeds. He began to be known for his efficiency and the whistle he would make while driving trains through towns. One day, in April 1900, Jones was working a double shift and was tasked with bringing a late train from Memphis into Chicago on time. The train was an hour and a half behind schedule and Jones sent the train flying at 100 miles per hour. Sadly, as he pulled through Vaughn, Mississippi, he realized there was a train parked on the tracks ahead. Because of how fast he was going, he couldn’t stop in time. He pumped the breaks and advised some passengers to jump. He sounded the train's whistle as a warning. The collision was awful, but all the passengers survived. The only person who died was Casey, who was struck in the throat while he had one hand on his whistle and another on his break.
5. The Baby Train
Ah, this is a classic urban legend! Why is it scary? Well….because… babies! Babies as a result of train schedule! This urban legend has been told across a number of cities and one of the earliest mentions was in Chicago. 1939 a passage in Christopher Morley’s Novel, Kitty Foyle read: “The first thing you hear mornings in Manitou is the early Q train to Chicago. It’s too early to get up and too late to go to sleep again. They have a legend out there that the morning yells of that rattler do a good deal to keep up the birth-rate.” The legend also was appropriated to Canberra in Australia when the Government supposedly noticed that the birthrate was three times higher than in the rest of Australia. When a Government Statistician went to investigate he found the place swarming with kids. He realized the town was on the main rail line used by the Kyogle Mail train every morning at 4.30am. Apparently, this wake-up call got people frisky.
4. Ghosts of Glen Eden
Railway Station. Situated in Auckland, the Glen Eden Station has a rather morbid history. The station in Waitakere City was built in order to transport bodies to the nearby Waikumete Cemetery. That isn’t all, either. On January 11th, 1924, Alex MacFarlane, a tablet porter at the station, lost his balance and slipped between the platform and an oncoming train, severing his legs. He died from his injuries two hours later. Since the station was refurbished, a caf? has been built on site. It seems the ghost of MacFarlane is partial to a visit. Caf? staff has reported seeing a man with a grey beard and trench coat walking up and down the platform. Some say they see a man peering at them through a window. Other staff members have reported a man in a top hat entering the caf? and asking for a train timetable before disappearing.
3. Macquarie Fields
According to local reports, after the last train departs, crying and wailing can be heard whistling down the station. Those who have been on the platform after the last train has reported seeing a teenage girl shrieking, crying and sitting on the tracks. Apparently, this ghostly apparition is fond of starring into peoples eyes as they walk by her. Some say the ghost is of a girl who missed the last train home and was murdered as she tried to make her own way home, others say she was a teen who fell on the tracks…whereas others say she is a regretful suicide victim.
2. The Ghost of William Terriss
Actor, William Terriss was stabbed to death outside London’s Adelphi Theatre on December 16th, 1897 by a fellow thespian, Richard Archer Prince. It seems that Terriss had had the man fired from a previous production due to his instability….which…considering he later turned to murder him, is a fair shout. Prince was an alcoholic and was declared insane, which meant he got off quite lightly. Perhaps this unresolved business is why the Ghost of Terris is said to haunt the Adelphi Theatre and the nearby Covent Garden Tube station. Terriss’ ghost has been reported at Covent Garden station since 1955, over 55 years after his death. Jack Hayden, a ticket taker at the station was locking up when he encountered an elegantly dressed man wearing gloves and holding a cane. When Hayden asked the man how he was still in the station, he disappeared. When he reported the incident, his description matched the late actor. Many other station staff has spotted him after hours, too. It seems that the Tube station is near the site of Terriss’s favorite bakeries.
1. Time Travelling Train of Zanetti
This is a popular urban legend surrounding the alleged disappearance of a train in Italy in 1911. The story goes that an Italian Rail company, Zenetti, had set up a trip to advertise a new train route. They invited 100 high flying members of society to board this new train on a show route. The train, manned by 6 crew, left Rome and was traveling towards Lombard. As the train approached a mountain tunnel, a few of the passengers had a bad feeling. Two of the passengers were so overcome with terror, they jumped from the moving train. The rest glided on the train into the tunnel….which trembled and closed up behind them. It literally seemed as if the mountain swallowed the train, which was never found. The two people that jumped from the train were injured but survived and relayed their experiences to locals after they regained their health in hospital. The other 104 people on board were nowhere to be found. There were some sketchy reports of 100 or so people turning up in Mexico speaking Italian and seeming very lost and confused.
Top 10 Scary New York City Urban Legends
10. Hell Gate Bridge
In fairness, the bridge is named after the tidal straight it crosses in the east river…but still. The bridge connects Queens to Randalls Island and is an on brand red color. There are a number of urban legends connected to the bridge, including rumors of a killer lurking beneath its arches, but the main legend here surrounds the ghost trains. According to local lore, the bridge is haunted by an old train whose passengers are the cities damned. Those who find themselves on the bridge at night report seeing strange lights thundering towards them before they disappear. Others report seeing an old, battered train floating over the river. The legend says that the carriages are filled with people who have lost their lives in the water…from murder victims, people who have fallen short of the mafia, suicide jumpers and historic Dutch Explorers…they all sit together on the weirdest ride of all time.
9. Cropsey
Cropsey is Staten Islands very own Boogie Man, but the legend coincides with some real life terrifying stuff… Cropsey was rumored to be a killer with a hook for a hand who had escaped from a mental institution and hunted children. Cropsey was said to live in an old abandoned asylum, the Willowbrook Mental Institution. He would come out late at night and steal children off the streets, torturing them with his hook…in other variants of the story, he would have a bloody ax. Whichever way it was told, he was out there. Parents would use Cropsey to warn kids not to miss their curfews, others would use him to tease one another at sleepovers.
Sadly, the legend became mixed up in reality in the 1970 and 1980s when Staten Island children really started to disappear. Andre Rand started working at the Willowbrook State School – a school for children with learning difficulties that turned out to be an awful an unnurturing place for many reasons. Rand worked there and abducted and murdered 5 children. He was finally caught in 1987 when a young girl with Down Syndrome, Jennifer Schweiger, went missing. According to the acclaimed documentary, Rand may have been involved in Satanism and was possible killing the children as a ritual sacrifice.
8. 8 Million Rats
NYC dwellers will tell you that the population of rats will soon outnumber the population of people living in the 5 boroughs. Rats, of course, are terrifying for a good number of reasons – they’re vermin, they’re unclean and the spread disease. Hello…plague, anyone! While there is a whole load of rats living in New York City, there is actually around 1 rat to ever 4 dwellers – around 2 million rats…which is still a lot of rats! They’ll only be one Pizza Rat, though! We could do a whole top 10 on various legends of New York Rats…some people even think giant and or Mutant rats are running riot down there.
7. The Ghost Ship of the Hudson River
The Hudson River separates New York and New Jersey and runs all the way from the ocean up to Albany. The river is an iconic part of New York City urban legends of its very own. One popular story is the Legend of The Half Moon – the famous ship sailed by Henry Hudson, the namesake of the river. Hudson was lost at sea in 1611, although his ship is sometimes spotted sailing the famous river. One man named Samuel was fishing along the Hudson on the evening before a storm when he saw a wooden ship with three empty masts. Samuel was confused as he had never seen a boat like this in his life and said it drifted 50 ft away from him before disappearing. It seems the legend goes that the Half Moon is only spotted when times are rough on the river, serving as a warning for people to stay on dry land until bad weather passes.
6. The Buried Treasure of Liberty Island
Captain William Kidd was a Scottish Pirate who sailed on many an adventure but was especially known for his illicit activity around New York City. The famous pirate was said to have stashed a boatload of bounty on Liberty Island, which in those days existed without its famous state and was called Bedloe Island. After his death in 1701 for piracy, people started looking for Captain Kid’s loot, two soldiers, Gibbs and Carpenter, went to look for the treasure. They literally thought they had struck gold when they came across a wooden chest. Before they could open it, they were set upon by what they described as a demon with black skin, horns, and wings. This evil apparition is said to guard the treasure to this day, and still stalk liberty island at night.
5. Killer Pennies off the Empire State
Ever heard the one about people throwing pennies or cents off the empire state and – with the momentum they picked up from being dropped at such a great height, them killing innocent people standing below? It is a popular Manhattan urban legend and genuinely makes people nervous when walking around the base of the iconic building. This is just a scare story, though…an urban legend! A penny’s terminal velocity, the fastest it can fall through the air, is 25 miles per hour…even when dropped 1250 feet, it wouldn’t kill someone on the ground. It would hurt, sure. It would sting, absolutely, but it wouldn’t kill. To be honest, there are so many safety precautions these days that it is very unlikely anyone would be able to launch a projectile off the top of the building.
4. The Secret Bunker
Legend has it that there is 500 square acre subterranean city 100 feet under the central park. Theorists call the secret bunker The Manhattan Project….although I don’t know if they know that that name is already taken. These theorists, though, think that this secret project predates the atomic bomb. To accompany the theory, there is a rather in-depth website that claims to the bunker was built in 1853 and that it is still in active use down there. The site shows picture evidence of the bunker and its clandestine entrances around the park. The site also claims that the bunker is the property of the US government and that both Tsar Nicholas, the overthrown King of Russia, and Adolph Hitler were rescued and lived out their lives there. Hitler under the central park. Keeping it in Central Park, we have the legend
3. Ice Skating Sisters
This urban legend dates back to a pair of siblings, the Van der Voot sisters, who lived with their overprotective wealthy father in his Manhattan townhouse. Their father, a widower, would rarely let his daughters leave the house and when they did they weren’t allowed to go far. The furthest he would let them go would be to ice skate on the 59th street pond located at the south-east section of the park. They enjoyed this tiny, tiny slice of freedom so much. Both siblings died spinsters within months of each other in 1880. Around 35 years later, during the first world war, stories started circulating of two girls seen gliding over the 59th street pond. The sightings have occurred frequently ever since, and in all weather. The pair is seen in a Victorian-era dress, with one wearing red and one wearing purple. The sisters enjoy such fame as an urban legend, even the New York Times ran an article on them in 1997.
2. John Lennon and the Ghosts of The Dakota Building
The Dakota Building is a New York Landmark. Built-in 1884 it was already shrouded in mystery and paranormal whisperings before providing the backdrop to John Lennon’s Murder in 1980. The former Beatle, of course, was shot outside the front steps by David Chapman. John lived in the building with Yoko Ono, who claims to have seen his ghost sitting in their apartment. She isn’t the only one who has seen his apparition, either.
In 1983, Joey Harrow and Amanda Moores saw him standing at the entrance looking pensive. It seems John is just one of a number of ghosts haunting the famous building – Lennon himself said he saw a spirit called the crying lady, the ghost of a former manager of the building. The Dakota is also said to be haunted by the ghost of a young blonde girl in a yellow taffeta dress. Residents of the building to this day still report a lot of strange goings-on.
1. The legend of the Sewer Alligators
In New York City, there has been a legend for decades upon decades that Alligators exist in the sewer. The urban legend dates back to the 1930s and goes that wealthy people would bring baby gators back from their trips to Florida and the southeastern states. When the Gators got too much for them, they would flush them down the toilet and the snappy chappies would end up in the sewer, where they would breed with other abandoned pets.
In 1932, the New York Times reported an alligator spotting along the Bronx riverbank and three years later teenagers told news outlets they saw one crawl out of the sewer. People still claim to see gators in New York today, despite many refuting the claims. That being said, A 2-foot Caiman was caught in Central Park in 2001…so the legend more than prevails.
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