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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Gates_of_Hell] | [TOKENS: 678] |
Contents Seven Gates of Hell 40°02′23″N 76°39′42″W / 40.039671°N 76.661692°W / 40.039671; -76.661692 The Seven Gates of Hell is a modern urban legend regarding locations in York County, Pennsylvania. Two versions of the legend exist, one involving a burned insane asylum and the other an eccentric doctor. Both agree ... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_House] | [TOKENS: 441] |
Contents Chimera House The Chimera House (also known "13 Floor Money Back House"[citation needed], 13 Story Money Back Haunted House or the 13th Floor Haunted House) is an urban legend which typically involves a group of teenagers going out for a night on the town, only to stumble across a large, worn down multiple sto... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Lick_Monster] | [TOKENS: 989] |
Contents Pope Lick Monster The Pope Lick Monster (more commonly, colloquially, the Goat Man) is a legendary part-man, part-goat and part-sheep creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Numerous urban legends ... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Kennedy_coincidences_urban_legend] | [TOKENS: 668] |
Contents Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend There are many coincidences with the assassinations of U.S. presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and these have become a piece of American folklore. The list of coincidences appeared in the mainstream American press in 1964, a year after the assassination of... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_star_tattoo_legend] | [TOKENS: 328] |
Contents Blue star tattoo legend The blue star tattoo legend is an urban legend which states that a temporary lick-and-stick tattoo soaked in LSD and made in the form of a blue star, or of popular children's cartoon characters, is being distributed to unknowing children in any given area. Propagation The legend commonl... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choking_Doberman] | [TOKENS: 918] |
Contents Choking Doberman The Choking Doberman is an urban legend that originated in the United States. The story involves a protective pet found by its owner gagging on human fingers lodged in its throat. As the story unfolds, the dog's owner discovers an intruder whose hand is bleeding from the dog bite. Jan Harold B... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO_Rocket_Car] | [TOKENS: 1618] |
Contents JATO Rocket Car The account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly spectacularly met his death after mounting a JATO unit (a rocket engine used to help heavy aircraft to take off) onto an ordinary automobile. It was originally circulated as a forwarded email.... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Vampire] | [TOKENS: 597] |
Contents Richmond Vampire The Richmond Vampire (also called locally the Hollywood Vampire) is an urban legend from Richmond, Virginia. Local residents claim that the mausoleum of W. W. Pool (Dated 1913) in Hollywood Cemetery holds the remains of a vampire. Supposedly Pool was run out of England in the 19th century for ... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_alligator] | [TOKENS: 1567] |
Contents Sewer alligator The sewer alligator is an urban legend about alligators that are said to live in sewers outside alligators' native range. Some cities in which sewer alligators have supposedly been found are New York City and Paris. Accounts of fully grown sewer alligators are unproven, but small alligators are... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_Rider_urban_legend] | [TOKENS: 531] |
Contents Headless Rider urban legend Headless Rider (首なしライダー Kubinashi Rider) is a Japanese urban legend of a motorbike rider with a missing head. Legend A piano wire is stretched across a road at neck height, causing a motorcyclist to become decapitated as a result of running into it at high speed. However, the bike r... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aka_Manto] | [TOKENS: 1533] |
Contents Aka Manto Aka Manto (赤マント; "Red Cloak"), also known as Red Cape, Red Vest, Akai-Kami-Aoi-Kami (赤い紙青い紙; "Red Paper, Blue Paper"), or occasionally Aoi Manto (青マント; "Blue Cloak"), is a Japanese urban legend about a masked spirit who wears a red cloak, and who appears to people using toilets in public or school ba... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zegrus] | [TOKENS: 929] |
Contents John Zegrus John Allen Kuchar Zegrus (ジョン・アレン・カッチャー・ジーグラス, Jon Aren Kacchā Jīgurasu) is the reported name of a man detained in 1960 in Japan for alleged document fabrication. He was dubbed the "Mystery Man" (ミステリー・マン, Misuterī Man) by Japanese news at the time, and became a prototype for some urban legends. In... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Black_of_Wat_Samian_Nari] | [TOKENS: 1643] |
Contents Women in Black of Wat Samian Nari The Women in Black of Wat Samian Nari is a Thai urban legend that revolves around the ghosts of two women dressed in black, who are said to appear near the front of Wat Samian Nari in Bangkok late at night. It is considered one of the most famous contemporary urban legends of ... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourang_Medan] | [TOKENS: 1941] |
Contents Ourang Medan SS Ourang Medan was a reported ghost ship and proposed urban legend of the 1940s. The vessel was supposedly discovered adrift after briefly broadcasting an SOS. The ships that responded to the SOS were reported to have discovered all the crew dead with their eyes open and their faces frozen in sho... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_sightings] | [TOKENS: 3171] |
Contents Elvis Presley death conspiracy theories Since Elvis Presley's death on August 16, 1977, various false and discredited conspiracy theories have circulated stating that he may still be alive. "Elvis sightings" from people incorrectly claiming to have seen him after this date are a phenomenon both as an ironic me... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel] | [TOKENS: 1253] |
Contents Curse of the Colonel The Curse of the Colonel (Japanese: カーネルサンダースの呪い, romanisation: Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi) is a Japanese urban legend that held that the ghost of the KFC founder, Colonel Sanders, placed a curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. The curse was said to be placed on the team because of the C... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokkuri] | [TOKENS: 799] |
Contents Kokkuri Kokkuri (こっくり, 狐狗狸) or Kokkuri-san (こっくりさん) is a Japanese game popular during the Meiji era that is also a form of divination, partially based on Western table-turning. The name kokkuri is an onomatopoeia meaning "to nod up and down", and refers to the movement of the actual kokkuri mechanism. The kanj... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inunaki_Village_(legend)] | [TOKENS: 961] |
Contents Inunaki Village The Inunaki Village (Japanese: 犬鳴村, Hepburn: Inunaki-mura; lit. 'Howling Village') is a 1990s Japanese urban legend about a fictional village-sized micronation that rejects the Constitution of Japan. The legend locates the village near the Inunaki mountain pass [ja] in Fukuoka Prefecture. A rea... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Town] | [TOKENS: 2092] |
Contents Lavender Town Lavender Town (Japanese: シオンタウン, Hepburn: Shion Taun; Shion Town) is a fictional village in the 1996 video games Pokémon Red and Blue. Stylized as a haunted location, Lavender Town is home to the Pokémon Tower, a burial ground for deceased Pokémon and a location to find Ghost-type Pokémon. The ba... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Room_Curse] | [TOKENS: 492] |
Contents Red Room Curse The Red Room Curse (Japanese: 赤い部屋, Hepburn: Akai heya) is an early Japanese Internet urban legend about a red pop-up ad which announces the forthcoming death of the person who encounters it on their computer screen. It may have its origin in an Adobe Flash horror animation of the late 1990s tha... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold] | [TOKENS: 2215] |
Contents Yamashita's gold Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and supposedly hidden in caves, tunnels, or underground complexes in different cities in the Philippines. It was name... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biringan] | [TOKENS: 670] |
Contents Biringan Biringan is a mythical city said to lie invisibly between the municipalities of Gandara and Pagsanghan in the province of Samar, Philippines. Described as ultramodern, engkantos ("enchanted beings") populate the city. Seven portals are said to be scattered across Samar. A few of people have claimed to... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Loyon] | [TOKENS: 428] |
Contents Le Loyon Le Loyon, also known as the Ghost of Maules, is an urban legend concerning a supposed humanoid figure that was said to roam the forest near the village of Maules (Sâles), Switzerland. Le Loyon was described as a tall humanoid creature dressed in a military or camouflage boilersuit, a cloak and a gas m... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves] | [TOKENS: 639] |
Contents And yet it moves E pur si muove or Eppur si muove [epˈpur si ˈmwɔːve] ('And yet it moves' or 'Although it does move') is an Italian phrase commonly attributed to the Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). The Catholic Church persecuted Galileo for promoting the Copernican model of the So... |
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[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Tights] | [TOKENS: 833] |
Contents White Tights White Tights, White Pantyhose or White Stockings (Russian: белые колготки, beliye kolgotki; Lithuanian: baltosios pėdkelnės; Latvian: baltās zeķbikses; Estonian: valged sukkpüksid) is a Russian urban legend about female sniper mercenaries fighting against Russian forces in various armed conflicts ... |
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