Category: Urban Legend

Jenny Dixon Beach

If you are ever driving along Wilfred Barrett Drive, heading towards Noraville in New South Wales, Australia, beware of picking up hitch-hiking women. This area, […]

Just an urban legend? 5 Fridays, Saturdays, Sunday in August won’t happen again for 823 years

True or False. August 2014 will have five Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Such an event won’t happen again for 823 years.The rarity of such an […]

The Kabuki Ghost of Kohada Koheiji

What happens when a man who is a master of playing a yūrei in kabuki dies and becomes a yūrei himself? That is the question […]

Top 10 urban legends

Ghost-less ghost stories, urban legends are modern day fairytales. Just as Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks were spread by oral tradition, urban myths are […]

Why urban myths like Slenderman have become more deadly

The Internet doesn’t just help suspend disbelief. It rolls right over it.Exhibit A: Two 12-year-old girls from Waukesha, Wisconsin, charged with attempted murder for stabbing […]

Who is Teresa Fidalgo? Debunking the fake ghost story that’s got Instagram spooked

While numerous White Lady stories like this have been dreamt up over the years, something about the specificity of ‘Teresa Fidalgo’ and her supposed but […]

Sink Your Teeth Into First DRACULA UNTOLD Poster With Luke Evans

Dracula Untold – directed by Gary Shore “The Draft” and stars Luke Evans “The Crow” and Dominic Cooper “Captain America: The First Avenger”. The film […]

Myths Over Miami – Terrifying tales told by homeless children in shelters

To homeless children sleeping on the street, neon is as comforting as a night-light. Angels love colored light too. After nightfall in downtown Miami, they […]

London’s Very Own Urban Legend: There Are NOT Hundreds of JCB Diggers Buried Beneath The Capital’s Streets..

It was a story that had journalists salivating at their keyboards. “The bizarre secret of London’s buried diggers.”Yesterday, media outlets including the New Statesman, The […]

Urban legends: Mysticism of Kazan

The authorities of the city of Kazan, the Tatarstan Republic, have recently started to demolish the abandoned buildings of ZBI-2 armored concrete factory on Zorge […]

Was Godzilla Originally Going to Be a Giant Octopus?

Since his debut, Godzilla has remained a scaly dinosaur-like creature the scales themselves were meant to evoke the radiation scars that the survivors of Hiroshima […]

Is this the skeleton of legendary devil dog Black Shuck who terrorised 16th century East Anglia?

Yesterday, 500 years after Black Shuck first went on the prowl, archaeologists were examining the skeleton of a 7ft long dog unearthed in the remains […]

Did H.R. Giger Design a Batmobile For ‘Batman Forever’?

Alien was a brilliant fusion of science fiction and horror, as screenwriter Dan O’Bannon and director Ridley Scott had the crew of a spacecraft slowly […]

Rest of the Best: 10 Best Houston Urban Legends

Houston is a big diverse city with a big diverse population, and that more often than not leads to a whole lot of different levels […]

The top 5 Toronto urban myths

Did you ever hear the one about the guy who fell out a window at TD Centre? Or what about the tale of whale bone […]

Ten of the best rock n’ roll urban legends

From deals with the devil to blood transfusions to faked deaths, the music world has always been rife with rumour, conjecture and conspiracy. But how […]

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter – Fargo’s urban myth made into movie

As TV’s Fargo begins its Channel 4 run, a film based on the mysterious story of a Japanese woman who froze to death in Minnesota […]

The Brag, Shape-shifting Devil Horse

I’ve only just started this column, so I’m not particularly worried about running out of ideas yet, but I did sit down for this one […]

Top 10 People Rumored To Be Alive After Death

History is full of faked deaths and re-appearances of people long thought dead, but there are also a small number of people who did most […]

The Unicorn: Myth, Legend. Did they Exist?

The Unicorn is a legendary animal that has been described in ancient times as a horse with a large pointed spiraling horn projecting from it’s […]

Mysteries and pranks are the stuff of British country life

There’s a mystery afoot in Essex. Don’t call for Scotland Yard. Nobody’s car has been spray-painted, yobs aren’t congregating around the village cross, the fields […]

Folklore of Yorkshire -Kai Roberts (Book Preview)

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in Britain, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of shared […]

Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic Seen After His Death: 1912

Baltimore, Md., July 20. The statement that Captain E. J. Smith, commander of the ill-fated Titanic, was not drowned in the disaster, but was seen […]

The UnMuseum – Myth of the Titanic Mummy

Among the stories surrounding the sinking of the luxury liner Titanic in 1912 was a tale about an unlucky mummy whose curse was as responsible […]

The Jackalope

The jackalope is an antlered species of rabbit, unfortunately rumored to be extinct, though occasional sightings of this rare creature continue to occur, suggesting that […]