Another grim college legend, which is repeated across many dorm rooms, is the one about the dead roommate. No one knows where it started or whether it has any basis in true events, but rumour has it that if a student’s roommate in college dies by accident,
Illness or suicide, s/he will get only straight As until the end of the year. This, of course, is complete fabrication. Those students might receive some consideration for the stressful circumstances, but they will most definitely not automatically get only excellent grades. (So don’t start getting any murderous ideas!) One of the US colleges where this belief is particularly popular is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Halloween massacre is one of the most famous college myths of all time. It is not certain how and when it actually started, but it has made its way into most American universities.
For decades now, it has created panic and fear among thousands of students (and possibly even a few professors as well). The legend goes that a popular psychic has made a prediction that on a Halloween night a masked man (in some variations, he is dressed as Little Bo Peep) will enter the campus of a university that starts with the letter 'M' or 'W' and is located near a pond/lake/river, railroad track, or cemetery.
He will then kill everybody there. This story has existed for many years now, but no massacre has happened yet. However, students from all around the country still fear it, especially at colleges such as the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.
The ghost on this ride has been proclaimed as not scary at all, but what makes people cringe and have their spine tingle with fear is the haunting backstory associated with this ghost. As the story is told, two boys decided to say at the park hours after it closed and went for a swim in the pond that separated Tom Sawyer’s Island from the main park. Unfortunately, though, the older boy of the two drowned during their late night swim, making people report that they have witnessed strange ripples and splashing in the water late at night.
The urban legend of Carmen Winstead emerged in 2006 when chain letters began circulating online. Some letters are written like dramatic news accounts, others are in the voice of Winstead's ghost. All of them relate the same sad tale of a teenage girl who was pushed down a well to her death. Now, her ghost wanders the earth, killing people who receive this chain letter but don't forward it. But is any of this true?
Carmen's Story
This spooky tale first showed up on social media sites like MySpace and email. Over time, versions have appeared elsewhere online, like this version that was posted on Google+ on Oct. 4, 2014:
"Hi my name is Carmen Winstead. I'm 17 years old. I am very similar to you... Did I mention to you that I'm dead. A few years ago a group of girls pushed me down a sewer hole to try and embarrass me. When I didn't come back up the police came. The girls said that I had fell and everyone believed them. The police found my body in the sewer. I had a broken neck and my face was torn off. Send this message to 15 people after you read the whole message if you value your life! A boy called David received this message. He just laughed and deleted it. When he was in the shower he heard laughing... MY LAUGHTER! He got really scared, rushed to his phone to repost this message... But he was too late. The next morning his mum entered his bedroom and all she found was a message written in his blood saying, "You will never have him back!" No one has found his body yet... because he is with me!... Send this to 15 people in the next 5 minutes if you don't want your fate to be the same as David's. Your time starts... NOW! The story is true you can research it on google"
The man-made lake in Georgia became a hot spot for urban legends because it’s the site where many horrifying things happened. It’s known for a high number of boating accidents and drownings. The skeleton of a woman was found at the bottom still trapped in her car after she went missing in 1958.
Her spirit is now said to haunt the lake and its shores. Then some homicides occurred there. Monstrous catfish also apparently swim at the bottom. People blame the fact that it’s a party lake on the number of deaths, but it still hasn’t stopped some from believing there’s something more sinister swimming around.
Riverdale Road in Colorado is 11 miles of sheer terror. For years, people have told tales of cars getting attacked by the ghost of a jogger and a phantom car driving up and down the road. The most popular story was that of the Gates of Hell.
These gates blocked the entrance to an abandoned mansion where a man once burned his wife and children alive. The physical property and gates are now gone, but some believe this spot is still the portal to hell. Perhaps find a different route if your GPS is suggesting Riverdale Road.
The 49,000-acre canyon is a real location with a lot of urban legends associated with it. Located near the popular vacation destination of Los Angeles, the area was once called “Hutukngna,” aka the place of the devil, by Native Americans. Then it was said to be the spot where witches and Satan worshipers would sacrifice children.
Those spirits now haunt the canyon. Those ghosts, of course, were joined by the spirits of 21 other children who died in a plane crash, although there’s no record of one. And there are other tales of cults and aliens here, too. Whatever you're scared of, it lurks in these hills.
If you’re currently living with a roommate, you might want to stop reading. The legend goes that there were two college dorm mates. One went to a party while the other stayed home to study. When the one girl returned home after a night of drinking, she saw her roommate lying in bed and fell asleep thinking nothing was out of the norm.
When she woke up the next day she saw her roommate covered in blood with her throat slit. To make it worse, above her bed, the words “Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?” were scribbled in blood.
This story is creepy on many levels. While there’s no particular origin or truthful tale behind it, the story still gets told around the campfire. Basically, a girl received a dog as a gift, and it would sleep with her each night. She would often put her hand down and feel the dog lick.
Then, one night while her parents were away she heard a dripping noise and went into the bathroom to turn off the tap. When she returned to bed, she felt her dog lick her hand. This happened several times until the girl investigated more and found her dog hanging dead in the cupboard with a note reading “Humans can lick too.”
Nobody knows for sure who, or what The Shadow Man is, but it may be the ghost of a man who was convicted of stalking and kidnapping children.
He was caught at a home he had broken into a few days before, and was being dragged off to the gallows after his trial when he overpowered the guards and ran into the woods. A huge search was organized, and the entire forest was thoroughly searched, but he was never found. A few years later, children started going missing again, and some people thought that it must be him.
Their suspicions were put to rest however, after one of the missing children came back. The five year old boy was questioned, and, during a police interview, he revealed that he was captured by a “shadow man with big red eyes and a funny hat.”
Since then, there have been many more reports of this “shadow man.” The shadow is described as being a shadow of a tall man with a bowlers hat and glowing red eyes. He can assume almost any form he chooses and slip through any door. He will plague children with nightmares about a strange man in a bowlers hat grabbing them and taking them away to an old hut. After a few days, he will creep into the child’s room and stare down at them with his glowing red eyes until they wake up.
The child will then be petrified with fear, and that is when The Shadow Man will whisk them off, and the child will never be seen again. The scariest part is that he could be anywhere at anytime, and you can never be sure if he is there, watching you.
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Known as the "Wicked Witch of Monroe," Hannah Cranna gained a reputation as a witch in the 19th century when her husband died by mysteriously falling off a cliff — and locals reportedly believed that she had bewitched him. People also believed that she would cast spells on people she didn't like.
Hannah lived till the age of 77, but right before she died, she asked to be carried down to the cemetery in her coffin by foot, not wagon. After her death, the people of Monroe tried to wheel her coffin down the hill but were unable — the coffin kept falling off— so they were forced to carry it.
When the townspeople returned to her home, it was found to be engulfed in flames, sealing Hannah's reputation of witchcraft. Read more: www.thisisinsider.com
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Riverdale Road is the site of not one, but eight creepy stories. Ranging from a Hell Gate, to ghosts of slaves hanging from the trees, the stretch of road is decidedly spooky.
The creepiest story, though, is that of the phantom jogger. One day, there was a driver who hit a jogger, freaked out, and left him for dead. Now, it's said that if you park at the site of the crash, you'll hear disembodied footsteps getting closer and closer to your car. People have reported hand prints on their windows and banging noises as if someone was kicking the outside.
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The story of Slaughterhouse Canyon takes place during the Gold Rush. During the 1800s, there was a family who lived down in the canyon. They were very poor, so the father would venture out into the canyon for food for his family. As you might have guessed, one day the father did not return, so his family slowly starved and descended into madness. The mother, unable to bear listening to her children's cries anymore, put on her wedding dress, murdered her children, and then threw them into a nearby river. The next day she succumbed to starvation herself.
The legend states that if you go down to Slaughterhouse Canyon at night, even now, you will hear the loud, anguished cries of the mother who lost her mind.
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The generally accepted story of Hell's Gate Bridge starts in the 1950s. A young couple driving over the bridge somehow drove their car off the bridge one night and both drowned.
There are two legends associated with Hell's Gate Bridge — one, that if you drive your car out to the middle of the bridge and turn off the lights, the couple will magically appear in your car and leave a wet spot on the seat. The other, which is how the bridge got its name, is the belief that if you drive over the bridge and look over your shoulder halfway through, the scenery behind you turns into a portal to hell engulfed in flames.
Potentially to curb ghost hunters and bored teenagers, Hell's Gate Bridge is closed to cars, and in such disrepair that walking across is strongly discouraged.
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This is a real case. Okiku had a doll that wore a kimono and she was the girl's inseparable friend. But one day Okiku died of cold and his spirit returned, possessing the toy. Now Okiku's doll hair grows and no one has an explanation for it. It is stored in the Mannenji Temple in Japan.
Before being possessed, the doll had short hair. But over time, it has grown and is now long. No one knows how hair continues to grow, but scientific studies have concluded that hair is a child's. Maybe Okiku.
La Mala Hora is an evil spirit that wanders along quiet roads waiting to pounce on unsuspecting travelers.
La Mala Hora takes pleasure in driving humans insane. As if that wasn’t enough, this dark spirit also hypnotizes and paralyzes people and then attacks them while they are in that weakened state. After suffocating them, La Mala Hora leaves them next to the road. Citizens of New Mexico refuse to talk about it, simply referring to it as an evil thing. They believe that if you encounter the spirit in female human form, it is an omen of death. If you happen to see her at a crossroads, it is very likely that you or someone close to you will be dead soon.
In an apparent run-in with La Mala Hora, a woman was driving down a deserted highway just after midnight when a black shadow appeared at the crossroads ahead. When she hit the brakes, the shadow disappeared, and in its place was an old lady with red eyes and sharp teeth. The old lady proceeded to try and claw her way into the car. The woman sped off down the highway, only to find the freaky old lady was keeping up with her, running next to the car. She eventually outran the specter and saw in the rearview mirror that the evil old lady had grown to the size of a large tree. The woman returned to her house the next morning and found police officers waiting for her. Turns out her husband had been murdered just after midnight the night before.
Here are two examples of the urban legend known as
the "The Dead Boyfriend."
Example #1:
A girl and her boyfriend
are making out in his car. They had parked in the woods so no one would see
them. When they were done, the boy got out to pee and the girl waited for him
in the safety of the car.
After waiting five
minutes, the girl got out of the car to look for her boyfriend. Suddenly, she
sees a man in the shadows. Scared, she gets back in the car to drive away, when
she hears a very faint squeak... squeak... squeak...
This continued a few
seconds until the girl decided she had no choice but to drive off. She hit the
gas as hard as possible but couldn't go anywhere, because someone had tied a
rope from the bumper of the car to a nearby tree.
Well, the girl slams on
the gas again and then hears a loud scream. She gets out of the car and
realizes that her boyfriend is hanging from the tree. The squeaky noises were
his shoes slightly scraping across the top of the car!!!
The Wizard of Oz is little less than the stuff that dreams are made of. For many viewers, the 1939 film was the first time they saw color on screen. The Goldfinger legend of a woman suffocating from the gold paint on her body, finds a little truth in The Wizard of Oz, as the original Tin Woodsman (The Beverly Hillbillies’ Buddy Ebsen), had to be replaced due to his reaction to the aluminum powder in the Tin Man’s body paints. Professor Marvel’s second-hand store bought coat, coincidentally, turned out to be the former property of The Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum. Many believe Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is a perfect alternate soundtrack to the film, thus creating the “Dark Side of the Rainbow” phenomenon.
But the most chilling of The Wizard of Oz urban legends is (fortunately) as ridiculous as it is untrue. Look closely at the trees in the background when Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Toto and the freshly oiled Tin Man are skipping away from the witch and the talking trees singing, “We’re Off to See the Wizard”. What’s that in the background, swinging from that tree, just above where the Yellow Brick Road curves away from the Woodsman’s Shack?
Yes, it’s the swinging body of a hanged munchkin who killed himself right there on the set because he lost his true love. Some viewers even claim to have seen a documentary that confirms this haunting fact. Other rumors attribute this to a hapless stagehand who accidentally hung himself on set.
This lesser-known legend tells us of a Greek soldier who, after WWII, was returning home to marry his fiancee. Unfortunately for him, he was captured by fellow Greeks who had hostile political beliefs, tortured for five weeks, and finally eventually murdered. In the early 1950s—mainly in North and Central Greece—there were stories about a very attractive Greek soldier in uniform, who appeared and disappeared overnight, seducing beautiful widows and virgin girls with the sole purpose of impregnating them.
Five weeks after the babies were born, the man would disappear for good—leaving a letter on the table explaining that he had returned from the dead merely to spread his seed, so that his sons might avenge his murder.
A black Volga automobile was supposedly spotted frequently in the streets of Warsaw back in the 1960s—packed with kidnappers who were bent on snatching children. According to the legend (and helped along by Western propaganda, no doubt) high-ranking Soviet officials drove the black volga in Moscow during the mid 1930s, kidnapping young, pretty girls for the sexual pleasure of the highest ranking Soviet comrades. Another version of this legend tells us that vampires, mysterious priests, Satanists, body venders—and even Satan himself—drove the black volga car.
According to different versions, children were kidnapped with the intention of using their blood as a cure for rich leukemia sufferers around the world. Of course, none of these versions were ever found to be true.
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