Urban Legends

vinitjain · vinitjain

A gown used to dress a corpse for a funeral is removed from the body and returned to the store where it was purchased. An unsuspecting customer buys the gown and wears it to a dance, where embalming fluid from the dress seeps into her pores and kills her. The tale known as 'The Poison Dress', or 'Embalmed...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Hitobashira (Human Pillar), practiced formerly in Japan, is a human sacrifice, buried alive under or near large-scale buildings like dams, bridges, and castles, as a prayer to the gods so that the building is not destroyed by natural disasters such as floods or by enemy attacks. Hitobashira can a...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Serial killings committed by psychopaths who somehow manage to avoid being caught and convicted of their crimes. The Zodiac Killer, who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a string of murders accompanied by bizarre cryptograms and letters to the press. The Z...

vinitjain · vinitjain

To state the obvious, the weather around the globe keeps getting more and more intense everywhere. It is getting much colder in some regions and much hotter in others. It is global warming and it is global cooling. Record highs, record lows, record heat, record cold. Record swing in temperature chan...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Brandon Lee, son of the famed martial arts star, Bruce Lee, was shot and killed during the making of his breakout film, The Crow. Although his death was deemed accidental, many other speculations have arisen. What if his death was not an accident, but murder? There were many similarities between bot...

vinitjain · vinitjain

There was once a little girl that hated life and she wanted to get rid of every trace of herself off the planet. Soon, She killed herself and people found out. The people that found out died a few days later. Their limbs torn apart. They say if you know of The White Death, She will come and find you and const...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Atuk was a script for a movie based on an old novel from the 60's but where does the curse come in. It is said every actor who read the script has died. Atuk is most famous for supposedly being cursed and, according to legend, responsible for the deaths of several major comedic actors in the 1980s and 1990...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Legend of Carmen Winstead The Carmen Winstead urban legend is a popular ghost story. Apparently it started on Myspace and is now sent as chain mail through other devices of communication. So, the story goes that 17 year old Carmen Winstead was pushed into an open sewer by her supposed friends as a jok...

vinitjain · vinitjain

La Pascualita or Little Pascuala is a bridal mannequin that has lived in a store window in Chihuahua, Mexico for the past 75 years. That is quite a long time for a bridal gown shop to retain a mannequin, but then the dummy has a rather strange history behind it. According to an urban legend, La Pascualit...

vinitjain · vinitjain

SpongeBob SquarePants is a television show that is extremely popular around the world and has earned more than $8 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon. The cartoon features a wide variety of characters that live in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. One of these characters is named...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The game was played as night fell upon the region using three separate rooms. In preparation, participants would light 100 andon in the third room and position a single mirror on the surface of a small table. When the sky was at its darkest, guests gathered in the first of the three rooms, taking turns...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Please Don't Touch - Unless You Want a Baby! More than 2,000 women have reported that they became pregnant shortly after touching the wooden fertility statues. Many of them had been told by doctors they would never be able to conceive. Some are very serious about touching the statues, believing in th...

vinitjain · vinitjain

In December, 1932, a down and out Hungarian named Reszo Seress was trying to make a living as a songwriter in Paris, but kept failing miserably. All of his compositions failed to impress the music publishers of France, but Seress carried on chasing his dream nevertheless. He was determined to becom...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Various types of folklore can be found all over the world. Japan in particular has some very interesting, as well as creepy urban legends. The majority of them are based on onryo, or vengeful spirits that have had something unfortunate or tragic happen to them when they were alive and who let their ang...

vinitjain · vinitjain

This is popular Japanese story is about a poem called Tominos Hell. They say that you should only read with your mind, and never out loud. If you were to read it out loud, then you must take responsibility for your actions. Tomino is a japanese urban legend about a poem that kills anyone who recites it ou...

vinitjain · vinitjain

This theory was used in the film National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, and claims that the Presidents of the United States have passed down a book from Washington to Obama, in which some or all have added facts and histories earth-shattering in scope and implications, and that this books location is o...

vinitjain · vinitjain

One night, after everyone had gone to bed, unable to fight the curiosity any longer, she crept into a room that had a mirror. As soon as she saw her face, she broke down into terrible screams and sobs. It was at this moment that she was so heartbroken and wanted her old reflection back, which she walked int...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Poe Toaster is the nickname given to a mysterious man who pays annual tribute to Poe by visiting his grave every year. The strange tradition started in 1949 a century are after Poes death, and it occurs every year on the authors birthday (January 19). According to Wikipedia: In the early hours of th...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The legend around this painting is as grim as it gets. The stories began around 1985, when several mysterious fires occurred all around England. When the debris was sifted through the only item that remained un-charred was a painting of a little boy with a tear rolling his cheek in every fire. Could th...

vinitjain · vinitjain

In 2007, the 12-metre catamaran, the Kaz II, was discovered unmanned off the coast of Queensland, northeast Australia in April. The yacht, which had left Airlie Beach on Sunday 15 April, was spotted about 80 nautical miles (150 km) off Townsville, near the outer Great Barrier Reef on the following W...

vinitjain · vinitjain

There exist a number of "accursed sites" on the surface of our planet. Some of these locations are the sites of gravitational or atmospheric disturbances that still remain unexplained by twentieth century science. Such anomalous areas possess properties which interfere sporadical...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Is it possible a person can be here one minute and then totally disappear the next, never to be seen or heard from again? There are those who would say yes for they claim to be witnesses to just such a phenomenon. But where do these disappearing people GO? How is it they seem to defy the very laws of nature as...

vinitjain · vinitjain

In the vault of a Los Angeles bank lies a silver ring set with a semiprecious stone. It is not a particularly pretty ring or even a very valuable one, and chances are that no one will ever dare to wear it again. The ring lies in the vault because it bears one of the most malignant curses in the history of the oc...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The May Day Mystery refers to a series of cryptic ads which have been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the newspaper of the University of Arizona, every May 1 since 1981. (In 1983, 1988, 1999 and 2005 the ads technically ran on April 29, April 27, April 29 and April 29, respectively. May 1 first fell o...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area with it's points being at Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and San Juan Puerto Rico. In this area, over the course of time, many different aircraft and boats have mysteriously disappeared without a trace, leading many to believe that the triangle ha...

wolf_girl554 · Anonymous

Two dormmates in college were in the same science class. The teacher had just reminded them about the midterm the next day when one dormmate let's call her Juli got asked to this big bash by the hottest guy in school. The other dormmate, Meg, had pretty much no interest in going and, being a diligent stud...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The SS Ourang Medan was a Dutch cargo ship that sent out a distress call, but by the time help arrived the entire crew were dead with their eyes open, staring ahead with a look of incredible horror on their faces. As she was about to be towed to land the ship exploded, and sank to a watery grave refusing to gi...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Was it the IRA? Or the Mafia? Or even Colonel Gadaffi? The abduction of the Derby-winning racehorse remains one of the great unsolved crimes of the twentieth century The kidnapping of champion racehorse Shergar remains one of Britains most baffling whodunnits. For two decades, the disappearance...

vinitjain · vinitjain

The Hope diamond has intrigued people for centuries. Its perfect quality, its large size 45.52 carats (9.10 g), and its rare color (fancy deep blue diamond) make it strikingly unique and beautiful, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is...

vinitjain · vinitjain

Juba II was the monarch of a North African kingdom known as Mauretania, comprising most of modern Morocco and western Algeria. After Emperor Caligula murdered his son in A.D. 39, the Romans invaded Mauretania to seize his golden fortune. But they never found it. Nearly 2,000 years later, a buried tr...

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	Poison Dress - Dressed to Kill Urban Legend - Unexplained Mysteries (Preview) A gown used to dress a corpse for a funeral is removed from the body and returned to the store where it was purchased. An unsuspecting customer buys the gown and wears it to a dance, where embalming fluid from the dress seeps into her pores and kills her. The tale known as 'The Poison Dress', or 'Embalmed...	vinitjain	0	5002	Aug 7, 2014 by vinitjain
	Hitobashira (Human Pillar) Practice of Human Sacrifices in Japan - Unexplained Mysteries (Preview) Hitobashira (Human Pillar), practiced formerly in Japan, is a human sacrifice, buried alive under or near large-scale buildings like dams, bridges, and castles, as a prayer to the gods so that the building is not destroyed by natural disasters such as floods or by enemy attacks. Hitobashira can a...	vinitjain	0	2722	Jul 26, 2014 by vinitjain
	10 Serial Killers Who Were Never Got Caught : Getting Away with Murder (Preview) Serial killings committed by psychopaths who somehow manage to avoid being caught and convicted of their crimes. The Zodiac Killer, who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a string of murders accompanied by bizarre cryptograms and letters to the press. The Z...	vinitjain	0	2872	Jul 8, 2014 by vinitjain
	HAARP, Chemtrails, and Weather Modification – The True Source of Climate Change (Preview) To state the obvious, the weather around the globe keeps getting more and more intense everywhere. It is getting much colder in some regions and much hotter in others. It is global warming and it is global cooling. Record highs, record lows, record heat, record cold. Record swing in temperature chan...	vinitjain	0	2592	May 4, 2014 by vinitjain
	Conspiracy : Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee Death Curse (Preview) Brandon Lee, son of the famed martial arts star, Bruce Lee, was shot and killed during the making of his breakout film, The Crow. Although his death was deemed accidental, many other speculations have arisen. What if his death was not an accident, but murder? There were many similarities between bot...	vinitjain	2	14939	Jan 22, 2014 by Lee13
	The White Death - Creepy Urban Legend (Preview) There was once a little girl that hated life and she wanted to get rid of every trace of herself off the planet. Soon, She killed herself and people found out. The people that found out died a few days later. Their limbs torn apart. They say if you know of The White Death, She will come and find you and const...	vinitjain	0	3998	Dec 18, 2013 by vinitjain
	Hollywood Urban Legends: The Curse of Atuk (Preview) Atuk was a script for a movie based on an old novel from the 60's but where does the curse come in. It is said every actor who read the script has died. Atuk is most famous for supposedly being cursed and, according to legend, responsible for the deaths of several major comedic actors in the 1980s and 1990...	vinitjain	0	3875	Sep 6, 2013 by vinitjain
	Scary Urban Legends - Legend of Carmen Winstead and The Roommate's Death (Preview) Legend of Carmen Winstead The Carmen Winstead urban legend is a popular ghost story. Apparently it started on Myspace and is now sent as chain mail through other devices of communication. So, the story goes that 17 year old Carmen Winstead was pushed into an open sewer by her supposed friends as a jok...	vinitjain	0	3978	Aug 28, 2013 by vinitjain
	La Pascualita – The Mexican Corpse Bride (Preview) La Pascualita or Little Pascuala is a bridal mannequin that has lived in a store window in Chihuahua, Mexico for the past 75 years. That is quite a long time for a bridal gown shop to retain a mannequin, but then the dummy has a rather strange history behind it. According to an urban legend, La Pascualit...	vinitjain	0	5912	Aug 28, 2013 by vinitjain
	Urban Legend of Red Mist - Forbidden episode of Spongebob (Preview) SpongeBob SquarePants is a television show that is extremely popular around the world and has earned more than $8 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon. The cartoon features a wide variety of characters that live in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. One of these characters is named...	vinitjain	0	3503	Aug 28, 2013 by vinitjain
	Urban Legend of 100 Candles Game - Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (Preview) The game was played as night fell upon the region using three separate rooms. In preparation, participants would light 100 andon in the third room and position a single mirror on the surface of a small table. When the sky was at its darkest, guests gathered in the first of the three rooms, taking turns...	vinitjain	1	3675	Jul 8, 2013 by wolf_girl554
	The Legend of the African Fertility Statues (Preview) Please Don't Touch - Unless You Want a Baby! More than 2,000 women have reported that they became pregnant shortly after touching the wooden fertility statues. Many of them had been told by doctors they would never be able to conceive. Some are very serious about touching the statues, believing in th...	vinitjain	0	4943	May 23, 2013 by vinitjain
	Gloomy Sunday - The Urban Legend of MOST dangerous Suicide Song (Preview) In December, 1932, a down and out Hungarian named Reszo Seress was trying to make a living as a songwriter in Paris, but kept failing miserably. All of his compositions failed to impress the music publishers of France, but Seress carried on chasing his dream nevertheless. He was determined to becom...	vinitjain	1	4045	Mar 27, 2013 by wolf_girl554
	Japanese Scary legends - Japanese Urban Legends (Preview) Various types of folklore can be found all over the world. Japan in particular has some very interesting, as well as creepy urban legends. The majority of them are based on onryo, or vengeful spirits that have had something unfortunate or tragic happen to them when they were alive and who let their ang...	vinitjain	0	4665	Mar 11, 2013 by vinitjain
	Tomino’s Hell - Japanese Urban Legend (Preview) This is popular Japanese story is about a poem called Tominos Hell. They say that you should only read with your mind, and never out loud. If you were to read it out loud, then you must take responsibility for your actions. Tomino is a japanese urban legend about a poem that kills anyone who recites it ou...	vinitjain	0	6684	Mar 11, 2013 by vinitjain
	Conspiracy Theory - President’s Book of Secrets (Preview) This theory was used in the film National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, and claims that the Presidents of the United States have passed down a book from Washington to Obama, in which some or all have added facts and histories earth-shattering in scope and implications, and that this books location is o...	vinitjain	1	10089	Jan 11, 2013 by wolf_girl554
	The 5 Most Scariest Urban Legends and Horror Stories (Preview) One night, after everyone had gone to bed, unable to fight the curiosity any longer, she crept into a room that had a mirror. As soon as she saw her face, she broke down into terrible screams and sobs. It was at this moment that she was so heartbroken and wanted her old reflection back, which she walked int...	vinitjain	0	3821	Nov 3, 2012 by vinitjain
	Unexplained Mysteries - The Poe Toaster (Preview) The Poe Toaster is the nickname given to a mysterious man who pays annual tribute to Poe by visiting his grave every year. The strange tradition started in 1949 a century are after Poes death, and it occurs every year on the authors birthday (January 19). According to Wikipedia: In the early hours of th...	vinitjain	0	3401	Nov 3, 2012 by vinitjain
	Unexplained Mysteries - The Cursed Painting of Crying Boy (Preview) The legend around this painting is as grim as it gets. The stories began around 1985, when several mysterious fires occurred all around England. When the debris was sifted through the only item that remained un-charred was a painting of a little boy with a tear rolling his cheek in every fire. Could th...	vinitjain	1	5632	Aug 29, 2012 by Nuuk
	Katz II - Unexplained Mystery of Ghost Yacht (Preview) In 2007, the 12-metre catamaran, the Kaz II, was discovered unmanned off the coast of Queensland, northeast Australia in April. The yacht, which had left Airlie Beach on Sunday 15 April, was spotted about 80 nautical miles (150 km) off Townsville, near the outer Great Barrier Reef on the following W...	vinitjain	0	4915	Jun 19, 2012 by vinitjain
	Zone of Silence (Preview) There exist a number of "accursed sites" on the surface of our planet. Some of these locations are the sites of gravitational or atmospheric disturbances that still remain unexplained by twentieth century science. Such anomalous areas possess properties which interfere sporadical...	vinitjain	0	3273	Mar 27, 2012 by vinitjain
	Vanishing People- The incredible unexplained story (Preview) Is it possible a person can be here one minute and then totally disappear the next, never to be seen or heard from again? There are those who would say yes for they claim to be witnesses to just such a phenomenon. But where do these disappearing people GO? How is it they seem to defy the very laws of nature as...	vinitjain	0	4304	Mar 26, 2012 by vinitjain
	The Cursed Ring (Preview) In the vault of a Los Angeles bank lies a silver ring set with a semiprecious stone. It is not a particularly pretty ring or even a very valuable one, and chances are that no one will ever dare to wear it again. The ring lies in the vault because it bears one of the most malignant curses in the history of the oc...	vinitjain	1	5004	Nov 25, 2011 by wolf_girl554
	The May Day Mystery Newspaper Ads (Preview) The May Day Mystery refers to a series of cryptic ads which have been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the newspaper of the University of Arizona, every May 1 since 1981. (In 1983, 1988, 1999 and 2005 the ads technically ran on April 29, April 27, April 29 and April 29, respectively. May 1 first fell o...	vinitjain	1	3704	Nov 25, 2011 by wolf_girl554
	Top 10 Bermuda Triangle Theories (Preview) The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area with it's points being at Miami, Florida, the island of Bermuda, and San Juan Puerto Rico. In this area, over the course of time, many different aircraft and boats have mysteriously disappeared without a trace, leading many to believe that the triangle ha...	vinitjain	1	5848	Oct 31, 2011 by wolf_girl554
	Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light? (Preview) Two dormmates in college were in the same science class. The teacher had just reminded them about the midterm the next day when one dormmate let's call her Juli got asked to this big bash by the hottest guy in school. The other dormmate, Meg, had pretty much no interest in going and, being a diligent stud...	Anonymous	5	8652	Aug 16, 2011 by wolf_girl554
	The Mystery Of The SS Ourang Medan’s Dead Crew (Preview) The SS Ourang Medan was a Dutch cargo ship that sent out a distress call, but by the time help arrived the entire crew were dead with their eyes open, staring ahead with a look of incredible horror on their faces. As she was about to be towed to land the ship exploded, and sank to a watery grave refusing to gi...	vinitjain	1	7359	May 26, 2011 by wolf_girl554
	Conspiracy : Shergar and a 25-year-old mystery (Preview) Was it the IRA? Or the Mafia? Or even Colonel Gadaffi? The abduction of the Derby-winning racehorse remains one of the great unsolved crimes of the twentieth century The kidnapping of champion racehorse Shergar remains one of Britains most baffling whodunnits. For two decades, the disappearance...	vinitjain	0	5498	Apr 13, 2011 by vinitjain
	The Cursed Diamond (Hope Diamond) (Preview) The Hope diamond has intrigued people for centuries. Its perfect quality, its large size 45.52 carats (9.10 g), and its rare color (fancy deep blue diamond) make it strikingly unique and beautiful, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is...	vinitjain	0	4629	Dec 14, 2010 by vinitjain
	The Lost Treasure of King Juba (Preview) Juba II was the monarch of a North African kingdom known as Mauretania, comprising most of modern Morocco and western Algeria. After Emperor Caligula murdered his son in A.D. 39, the Romans invaded Mauretania to seize his golden fortune. But they never found it. Nearly 2,000 years later, a buried tr...	vinitjain	0	7700	Aug 31, 2010 by vinitjain
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