The babysitter and the man upstairs

The tale of the babysitter who receives an eerie phone call only to discover the call was placed from inside the home has been popular since the mid-20th century.
The story has yielded several films, including 'When a Stranger Calls' (1979) and its spin-offs.
The story is based on a real-life crime that took place in 1950 in Missouri, USA. A 13-year-old named Janett Christman was babysitting a three-year-old boy at his home when she was brutally raped and murdered by an intruder. Her case remains unsolved.




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The Puebla Tunnels

For hundreds of years, the residents of Puebla, Mexico, told folk stories about a mysterious network of tunnels hidden underneath the cities.
But that network of tunnels simply didn't exist. Or did it?
In 2015, a crew of construction workers found a mysterious tunnel. Since then, about six miles of mysterious tunnels, believed to have been built between 16th and 19th centuries, have been discovered snaking under the city.

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The Legend Of Cropsey

A boogeyman-like creature in Staten Island, USA, named Cropsey was said to be an ax-wielding murderer who escaped from a mental institution and lurks in the tunnels below the old Willowbrook State School—a former facility for children with intellectual disabilities that was shuttered after allegations of horrific torture and mistreatment were exposed.

The story says Cropsey comes out at night to snatch children, bring them back into the abandoned Willowbrook, and kill them. The legend, however, is more real than it sounds.

Andre Rand, a suspected murderer who was convicted of kidnapping two children in the 1970s, as it turns out, worked as a janitor at Willowbrook in the mid-1960s.

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The Alice Murders

A more recent tale has been circulating in Japan, which deals with a supposed five slayings between 1999 and 2005. In each case, the killer wrote the word "Alice" nearby.

After killing and mutilating the victims, the killer also left a playing card. But these murders never actually happened—at least not in Japan.

A convicted murderer terrorized Madrid, Spain, in the early 2000s following a similar method. Alfredo Galán shot and killed six people, leaving a playing card on the body before fleeing the scene.

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The Night Doctors

Also known as Night Riders and Ku Klux Doctors, they represent a sort of boogeyman in African American folklore. The tale says that doctors looking for victims to experiment on would lurk in the dark, waiting for the opportunity to kidnap them. The rumors were spread by whites who were trying to prevent the former slaves from moving to the north. Unfortunately, the boogeyman has some factual basis.

There is some evidence that 19th-century doctors were performing experiments on members of the African American community. White farmers used this as a scare tactic against blacks, a technique that was picked up by the Klu Klux Klan after the Civil War.

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