Poll: The Scariest Urban Legends

Results of 457 votes:

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   Camilla Belle in When a Stranger Calls (2006)

    

   The Call is Coming From Inside the House A babysitter seems to be getting unusual phone calls by a stranger. After calling the police, she finds out that the phone calls have been coming from inside …
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   Natasha Gregson Wagner appears as Michelle Mancini

    

   The Killer in the Backseat A woman finds herself driving all alone late at night. Only to find an armed man in the backseat of her car. Although she got warned earlier by a gas-station attendant, she…
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   Tony Todd in Candyman (1992)

    

   Candyman The legend claims that Candyman can be summoned by saying his name five times while facing a mirror, whereupon he will murder the summoner with a hook jammed in the bloody stump of his right…
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   Marley & Me (2008)

    

   Humans Can Lick Too A young girl goes to bed with her dog sleeping below her. For reassurance, she lets her dog lick her hand one more time, only to fall asleep shortly after. In the morning, she fin…
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   Jessica Lucas in Evil Dead (2013)

    

   The Slit-Mouthed Woman The Slit-Mouthed Woman is a figure appearing in Japanese urban legends. She is a woman who was mutilated by her husband, and returns as a malicious spirit. When rumors of alleg…
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   Muse Watson in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

    

   The Hook Man A young couple find themselves stalked by an escaped psychopath with a hook for a hand. After hours of being stalked, the couple is then later found dead in their car by the police.
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   This sinister message greets Natalie the morning after her roommate is found dead in their dorm room.

    

   Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light? There are two roommates. One stays home studying and the other goes out partying. When the party girl comes home, she unawaringly witnesses the murder of…
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   The Mothman of Point Pleasant (2017)

    

   Mothman: In West Virginia folklore, the Mothman is a creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area during the last 60s. It's been said that the creature came to this small town to warn the towns…
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   Tania Saulnier in Slither (2006)

    

   The Kidney Heist You wake up in a bathtub in a hotel room with a note telling you that your vital organs (like a kidney) have been removed for transplant and that you need to call an ambulance right …
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    Night of the Living Dead (1990)

     

    Bachelor Grove A woman sits all alone in her car in a dark grove. While her husband is trying to find gas, she hears strange scratching noises. After a while, a police patrol car comes along. The pol…
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    Katheryn Winnick in Amusement (2008)

     

    The Clown Statue A young girl is babysitting for a wealthy family. The father tells the babysitter that once the children are in bed, she should go into this specific room and watch TV there. So the …
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    Brendan Gleeson in Lake Placid (1999)

     

    Sewer Alligators Sewer alligator stories date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s. They are based upon reports of alligator sightings in the sewers of New York city.
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    Nick Stahl in Mirrors 2 (2010)

     

    Bloody Mary In a room only lit by a candle, stare at a mirror and chant Bloody Mary 10 times and you may come face to face with the spirit of Bloody Marry.
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    #13

     

    The Vanishing Hitchhiker A man picks up a hitchhiker on the side of a deserted road and offers to drive her home. But sometime before they arrive, the hitchhiker mysteriously disappears from the movi…
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    Carlos in Max (2015)

     

    The Choking Doberman A woman returned from work and found her large dog, lying on the floor gasping for air. Concerned over the animal’s welfare, she loaded the pet into her car and drove him to a ve…
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    Rob Bottin, Ric Moreno, Lee Socks, and Tommy Lee Wallace in The Fog (1980)

     

    The Man in Gray The man in gray is a ghost that haunts the coast and the outer banks islands of North Carolina, USA. He is the ghost of a confederate officer who died trying to rush home in a storm t…
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    Heather Mazur in A Night Of The Living Dead (1990)

     

    The White Death A little girl in Scotland hated her life so much, that she wanted to destroy every last trace of herself. She finally decided to commit suicide and shortly her family had found out wh…
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    Mark Viniello in Chupacabra Terror (2005)

     

    The Chupacabra The Chupacabra is a popular Latin American legend, a monstrous creature that attacks animals and consumes their blood like a vampire. The name is derived from the Spanish words chupar (…
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    Spike Jonze, Paul Dano, and Sonny Gerasimowicz in Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

     

    Goat Man Although there is no official story, most claim that a scientist had been doing experiments on goats. This somehow allowed him in becoming partially goat. A kind of human-animal hybrid. He i…
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    Lou David in The Burning (1981)

     

    Green Man It become common to see a horribly disfigured man walking down the darkened streets at night. He was given the name 'Charlie No Face' or 'Green Man' and everyone had their own stories of si…
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    Dwight Yoakam in Panic Room (2002)

     

    The Loose Medical Cabinet Supposedly, the housing projects in Chicago and in London were built so bad with very thin walls that the backs of the medicine cabinets, that where built into the walls, we…