From hidden background scares to ghosts allegedly lurking in mainstream comedy films, the most memorable frights usually come from encountering something spooky in the place that...
Urban legends are just cozy. They used to be shared person to person, often in some sort of idyllic, spooky setting, like the ring around a...
Urban legends didn’t just inspire a kickass ’90s movie starring the Noxzema girl. They also gave way to an awesomely imperfect Wikipedia index of actual urban...
You can never underestimate the power of hearsay. Sometimes, something sounding like it could be true is enough to convince people that it must be. And...
Before there were horror movies, there were legends. Passed down through oral tradition, our earliest ancestors created colorful fables of vengeful gods, malevolent witches, and ravenous...
From the moment that the very first humans settled in the very first city, they were already sharing scary stories. What we now know as urban...
Twiiiiiiiins. After checking in with the for-sure lesbians in Dario Argento’s Tenebrae and the maybe-lesbians of Jamie Babbit’s The Quiet, we’re heading back 20 years to revisit...
Yesterday, the popular subreddit NoSleep went private in protest, locking away thousands of stories created over the last nine years, and blocking its 12 million subscribers...
If you’re going through Halloween withdrawal, we have something that might help… All through the month of October, CREEPY posted a new scary story every single...
Released nearly twenty years ago, on September 25, 1998, Urban Legend had the misfortune of being lumped in as another Scream copycat, despite it being a...
The critically acclaimed 2009 documentary Cropsey effectively mixed urban legend and true crime to tell the history of a Staten Island boogeyman who allegedly abducted children....
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