Whether you dismiss urban legends as children's lore or believe they're based on fact, these 50 tales will send a shiver up ...

Hallmarks of urban legends is that they are generally apocryphal in nature, are repeated as true stories, have a local connection to the teller (e.g., "My sister told me this happened to her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every town has its own spooky urban legend. We've all heard at least a few. We're talking about the nightmarish tales with a local ...

There's a stretch of road in western Pennsylvania that locals once treated as something close to sacred ground, the kind of place teenagers dared each other to drive down after dark. The figure they ...

Since the dawn of cinema, horror movies have drawn from locational folklore and urban legends to tell spooky stories that you’d rather not hear in the dark. These stories often feel too real and can ...

Modern culture is steeped in urban legends. From killer clowns to Slender Man, there is no dearth of outstanding tales to tickle the fancy. Urban legends, however, tell us a lot about the ethos of our ...

A longstanding urban legend about Richard Nixon, Jackie Gleason, and some dead aliens makes an appearance in Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day.

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With a remake in the works, the 1998 slasher starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, and Robert Englund comes to Shudder this week. Reading time 3 minutes Scream arrived in 1996, revitalizing slasher movies ...

Here is the synopsis for that original Urban Legend film: "A university is beset by a rash of gruesome murders that resemble old urban legends. When her friend Michelle (Natasha Gregson Wagner) is ...