Top 20 Scariest Urban Legends

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[@Reaperguy67]

@sophie_garfieldlover321☆ nobody cares kid

[@Reaperguy67]

@RollyProductions doesn't matter if you are

[@Reaperguy67]

@@samuelokwuazu6948 so did anyone ask if you are

[@jcj268]

This is a good list. How about doing Top 20 Urban Legends and Ghost Stories from Horror Movies

[@Lutherstrode17492]

Let’s be real. If Supernatural came out today, Sam and Dean would’ve definitely encountered Slender Man at some point

[@liarliarplants4hire]

😢 I miss that show…

[@Knoxie._.]

FRRR-

[@Lutherstrode17492]

@@liarliarplants4hire me too

[@LaurenKaminski]

That show was good for the first 5 seasons!

[@BigFella117]

I think they would’ve kicked his ass

[@ARIXANDRE]

These bring back memories from the books "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" by Alvin Schwartz. Loved the artwork in those.

[@darkmist84]

i agree, one of the best scary books out there

[@TyeArtisik]

I love reading the stories on the website

[@tiananesbitt7156]

They need a sequel!😂

[@spoonbendingspacemonkey]

Flashing your headlights in the area I grew up in was a warning to other drivers that a radar cop is just ahead.

[@ctfilms848]

Yess same!

[@metallissahoney102]

yea, a check-point is coming up or the other car has an out headlight, that's why we flashed our lights at other cars in the area I'm from - Long Island

[@broken_axel9572]

Same

[@BlackBirdSinging47]

Oh come on! “People can lick too” should totally be higher on the list! That story scarred me for life as a child!

[@KimojiTheGamer27]

I too remember hearing that story as a child! I got chills every time I heard it, and It kept me up at night!

[@TSierra]

I live in Canada but I’m Colombian and when we flash our lights, it’s normally to let the people going the other way know that there’s police with speed cameras or they’re stopping people.

[@jordan67064]

Likewise here in New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@vojtapanek2972]

Exactly. In the Czech Republic we have it the same.

[@ctfilms848]

The flashing of headlights usually means letting you know there’s a cop sitting around the area looking for speeders

[@incendiq]

there’s nothing better than a scary video from mojo.

[@MoonlightBelladonna]

The Hook. The Man Upstairs and The Killer in the Backseat were always my favorite urban legends.

[@eden_mermaid]

An urban legend that really scares me is the one about the babysitter who's babysitting for another family and she's freaked out by their clown statue in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs. The children are already upstairs asleep so she spends the night downstairs watching TV. She's super freaked out by the clown statue and she feels like it's watching her. Eventually she gets so scared of it, she calls the parents and asks if she can put a sheet over the statue. That's when they tell her that they don't have a clown statue and to go get the children and leave the house. She runs upstairs and gets the children and when she comes back downstairs it's gone. *Fixed my bad English, Ich bin nur ein müder Deutscher

[@kalligraphii]

Jesus Christ

[@TyeArtisik]

This story isn't complete

[@motherlove202]

​@@TyeArtisikyeah, it turns out to be an escaped mental patient

[@mojo3318]

I'm familiar with that urban legend. I found a video with texts about it.

[@mojo3318]

@@motherlove202 Wha?

[@andrealenze8161]

I was seriously too afraid to ever try Bloody Mary. It still creeps me out a little

[@thedenimranger9380]

I do it from time to time when I'm drunk and I'm washing my hands after using the washroom. I do it because I think it's funny how scared I used to be as a kid

[@pundertalefan4391]

Honestly, I don't try it because there's nothing to gain. XD

[@broken_axel9572]

People used to try and summon Bloody Mary in my primary school bathroom

[@agmarkwell]

I always loved "The Vanishing Hitchhiker". My favorite version is where the guy gives the girl his sweater. After discovering the truth, he goes to the graveyard where she's buried and finds his sweater on her grave. My Halloween costume for 2021 was the Hitchhiker. I modeled it after the Living Dead Doll version of the legend. I wore a long white dress, a letterman-type jacket, two buttons that said "Can I get a ride?" and a shortened version of the legend (apparently very few people in my city have heard the legend), and made up my face to be ghostly. I had a lot of fun with it.

[@-0rbital-]

I've heard that one. I think it's pretty old. Like pre-internet.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Scariest has to be Slenderman...2 Girls literally tried to Kill their friend by stabbing her multiple times as a "Sacrifice to Slenderman".

[@oldbean7150]

That’s a creepy pasta not a urban legend

[@StanHalen1936]

Religions have been made from less.

[@mommyofkittens4809]

@@oldbean7150 the two girls trying to kill their friend really happened. It was a few years back and they were around 12 at the time.

[@mgsxmike]

I'm assuming the girl survived because they "tried"?

[@Knoxie._.]

Do y'all know this ain't fake...That actually happened- Please tell me y'all know that-

[@BigFella117]

The slit mouthed woman is probably the scariest urban legend I’ve heard from a foreign country

[@emiliebeck4623]

I was very obsessed with Slender Man in my college years, to the point that I was actually legitimately afraid of him. I watched Tribe Twelve in it’s entirety (the channel has mostly died out), and the lore and history surrounding Slendy has always fascinated me, and considering that there is more to him than originally proclaimed, he’s the only boogeyman or monster under the bed (per se) that I have ever feared.

[@wizwitch5318]

The one with the person in the backseat is way too ingrained into my brain--I do shift work and leave before midnight, and whenever anyone behind me has bright headlights, i immediately think of it and go "crap, is there someone back there?" The parking lot at my work is decently lit and I put my bag in the backseat, so I'd definitely see if someone is in there before i get in the car, and yet...

[@sammylane21]

The one with the Gators in NYC Sewers is too obviously stupid and untrue because we all know the only reptiles in the sewers in NYC are 4 crime fighting turtles with 80's attitudes and their totally rad sensi rat. Rumors have it, that if you shout on your NYC Building's rooftop the word "COWABUNGA!!" they will randomly respond back to you. 💗😂

[@FlashoftheBlades]

Radical, dude.

[@therestingrancor8259]

In Australia, we usually flash our headlights to warn on coming traffic of a police speed trap. Virtually saying cop ahead, slow down.

[@MeliesCinemagician]

One urban legend that always freaked me out is the story of the drugged babysitter. The tale goes that a couple with a new baby hires a sitter so they can go out for the evening. Everything's going great for a while when the couple decides to call and check on the sitter and the kid. The sitter says that she's doing fine, and she just put a chicken in the oven. The couple are horrified - they didn't have any chicken. They rush home to find that the babysitter had taken a hit of LSD and put their baby in the oven to cook.

[@ShanthoshRajThirumoorthy]

Now this is one creepy scary urban legend I wish never comes true😱😱

[@rottweilerfun9520]

They had a lot of dumbass anti LSD urban legends that started back in the 60's and 70's.

[@peaceLove1988]

😮 LSD and babies are not a good mix.

[@TyeArtisik]

I thought this was going to be the babysitter with the clown statue story

[@willbongz1065]

Wtf lmao

[@scottieman2]

There's a society of alligator people in the sewers.

[@CJ_Pharaoh]

You seen em two?

[@sparrow420500]

Yes, the leader is called Leatherhead. He sometimes helps the Ninja Turtles.

[@jamiesmith5728]

Flashing headlights to me means 2 things....... 1.) If their headlights are off, it's to let them know 2.) Slow down the po-po is back the way you're headed.

[@DryBones271]

But if you get bitten by a radioactive spider, you become Spider-man.

[@eliothutchins501]

My problem with the hook hand man is what doctor would look at a serial murderer and say “ you know what this guy needs? A vicious weapon for a hand!” Maybe the pillow handed man?

[@imaxyxia]

People who comment "First". Should have they comments removed & accounts banned.

[@Reaperguy67]

I argree with you. By the way, there is some one named black hat that will give medals for those pointless comments. Also black hat will bully people and make false claims as well. What's more sad , black hat is a adult.

[@ramonh97ILY]

People who don’t know how to use they, there, they’re, and their, should be banned.

[@imaxyxia]

@@ramonh97ILY Doesn't matter how you spell it. I'm not writing out an essay, You can clearly read & understand what I wrote.

[@imaxyxia]

@Reaperguy67 Never heard of that channel, Adtube should be stepping in & do something about it.

[@Reaperguy67]

@@imaxyxia ok. They are some one who is in this channel later then most people.

[@Alex-ru8ds]

Flashing lights in Italy is common courtesy when you wanna warn the incoming driver that there's a police checkpoint ahead 😂

[@SolusWhite]

Nothing scarier than the insane direction society is going.

[@ThinksWithPortals]

ok edgelord

[@melissagrant4178]

There was a case about two girl that stab their friend 19 time cause they believe Slender Man was real, lucky the the girl who was slab live

[@karlakadjakoro2710]

When we flash our headlights here it's normally to let people going the other way know that there police with speed cameras ahead!

[@franciscojaviermendezrinco1902]

That about the vanishing hitchhicker has a version where I live. I live in Baja California, Mexico, here we have a dangerous road named "La Rumorosa", which literally splits in two, one side to climb up the mountain by car, another one to go down, there its said that sometimes an old lady appears walking and asking truckers in the middle of the night for a ride, the truckers who give her a ride are found at the bottom of the abyss in the morning. But there's also another different. People talk about a nurse who got lost and died while going to visit a pacient, she got lost in "La Rumorosa". After that, drivers at night said they looked at her still trying to reach that same pacient, others said that pacients at the hospitals of the area said that a mysterious nurse who didn't gave her name helped them to feel better.

[@sergiofernandez7318]

My favorite urban legend is similar to bloody mary, but saying biggie smalls instead

[@gregoryvigneault1824]

The version of the hook man from supernatural is cool

[@AngelicVirgo]

In Ireland when we flash the car headlights to other is warning others that the speed van is there or the Gardi stopping people to see if we are up to date with our car tax and insurance.

[@scottyi88]

the hitch hiker ghost story happened in japanese taxi driver where the dash cam captured where the door opened and closed and as they went through a tennel you can kind of see the ghost from some light reflection.

[@moonprincesst.s.h.4ever115]

If you are conjuring Bloody Mary and she shows up, you deserve whatever happens next and I hope that you can outrun her. 😨😱

[@MrQ12elve]

harsh but true !

[@mojo3318]

Oh.

[@AlbiDartanan]

Try summon Candyman . Say Candyman before a mirror five times in a row XD

[@ROCKONplaceboforever]

Cool list love videos like this 🖤

[@Hekayatrowan905]

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[@Nero-Sparda12]

The “people can lick too” legend was recreated by the anime jojos bizarre adventure in season 4, the main villain (who killed the girl in the same way) is also a murder

[@UnknownRUN221]

You can run. But you can’t hide.

[@simplgaming8495]

The spider bite one from what I remember originated in Scary Stories to tell in the Dark

[@christigmc]

In high school my American Government teacher said the vanishing hitchhiker story happened to a friend of his. In his version it’s prom night and he picked up a lonely girl wearing a dress that was 30 years out of date. On the way home the girl complains it’s cold so friend has her wear his letterman’s jacket. Girl leaves with his jacket so he goes to retrieve it. A cranky old man tells him his daughter died 30 years ago coming home from prom and is buried at this cemetery. He goes to the cemetery and the jacket is on the gravestone. Teacher said he himself saw the girl. Personally I don’t believe him.

[@AncientKing9197]

Where's Jeff The Killer and Teke Teke?

[@cedricgravley5472]

In New Jersey back in the day, the Bloods in fact DID use to flash their headlights and if the car stopped then whatever happened happened…

[@davidmcdonald5068]

Again, no Verifiable and Examinable data that this ever happened. Anecdotal stories with no evidence to back up the legend.

[@EnigmaGirl831]

I actually based one of my haunted house characters around kuchisake-onna.

[@Aetium]

I wonder what happens if Kuchisake-onna encounters someone whose blind. does she ask them to feel her face?

[@atsukorichards1675]

That's a good question. By the way, I don't think this "urban legend" is hundreds years old, it just began in the 70's.

[@DaNinjaWhisperer]

Headlights flashing is a real thing. It happened in a city I lived in a few times over a couple of years related to gang initiation for Bloods. Some lived some didn’t which is how they connected it.

[@davidmcdonald5068]

Not True. Contrary to the "Legend," there is not one single example of this ever happening. No Crime Reports, No Victims that can be verified, No Arrests and No Prosecutions. If someone claims it to be true, ask for actual details: Time, Place, and Date. Also, Who was Killed and by Whom? The Legend falls apart when nothing can be Verified, with the "Evidence" being Anecdotal and lacks specific details.

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[@mojo3318]

I'm familiar with "Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light", "Bloody Mary", "Chupacabra", "The Vanishing Hitchhiker", "La Llorona", and "The Babysitter & the Man Upstairs". I watched movies, tv shows, listened to stories, or was told about them. When I was little, I tried flusing a toilet ten times to get Bloody Mary to come out and my brother ran out of the bathroom, but she never came out.

[@molsnhidin3223]

My dad did actually flush a pet alligator as a child. His name was "Swampy."

[@jarrettowens6073]

#20 What's also terrifying is that it inspired the Slenderman Stabbing. If you haven't heard of it here's the story: Almost a decade ago, two 12 years old girls lured their friend, Payton Lautner, who was the same age into the woods. Then they did the unthinkable: They stabbed her 19 times, and she was left for dead. Miraculously, she clawed her way on to the road, was found by a passerby, rushed to the hospital, and made a full recovery. The two girls said their motive was to make a sacrifice to that Urban Legend. Some kids take video games to seriously.

[@CharCharTV]

I always thought people flashed their headlights to warn otthers that there was a cop in the area so slow down

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

It can be for various reasons. I've both flashed and been flashed by drivers as a means of a warning that something was in the road like a dead deer and to be prepared to slow down to avoid hitting it. Other times, I will sometimes flash drivers if they are driving at me with their high-beams on. I often try to make it a note to let the other drivers see that I am turning my high-beams down as a curtesy and to not blind them but sometimes they often down do the same so I give them a quick flash as a means to try and get them to turn their brights off. Back when I lived in Louisiana, people would often flash their lights to let other drivers know that there was a cop sitting around the corner watching for speeding drivers.

[@Xaviator619]

Candyman vs Bloody Mary Let’s go

[@ryanbennett2806]

As interesting as the idea of Mothman is, didn't it get 'busted' by showing someone in a glider at night with a certain pair of glasses being hit by enough light causing the person to look like Mothman? I am also VERY surprised that the 'Boogeyman' or one of the many variants is not on this list.

[@jarrettowens6073]

#2 I heard about that in Spanish class in my senior year when we were watching a documentary on it. Scared the living hell out of me.

[@leobacelli3459]

Also, the Hookman urban legend isn’t the only thing I’m familiar with all of them the kidney heist and the gang high beam initiation is the other two?

[@junglejimmy8002]

In Italy you flash the car light to advise other drivers that there Is Police stopping car

[@molsnhidin3223]

Where I'm from flashing your lights at someone is a courtesy or warning a cop is up ahead and to make sure you're going the right speed, etc ... We do it frequently. In VA.

[@estebancastillo429]

The vanishing hitchhikers it's more international than most people think

[@NikhilluminatiOfficial]

I don't believe in any ghost or spirits or souls whatsoever and by that extension, did not get any scared by any of those urban legends at all, but being seriously arachnophobic, that spider one legit terrified me to the bone.

[@rowanfarmer9029]

Let me ask a legit question,how can you be certain?I mean if millions of people around the world have reported ghost sightings or hauntings.

[@LoveHandle4890]

The most frightening urban legend is the tale of my ex!

[@Knoxie._.]

Oh, my gosh- That one is so scary-

[@TyeArtisik]

😱

[@jimboberatorrobinson755]

These have to many jump scares😥

[@crazymus_pride]

Slender man exist, only his real name is D@ETH and the form most humans that we meet him see is a very pale, black suited, tall man with a hat. Possible you think I am crazy but I met him before year's he tell me "IS NOT YOUR TIME YET" (I thought was a crazy old man) That day I had lost the bus, i learn later the same bus had a horrible accident

[@sky22fairy7]

I lived in New Mexico and grew up with the story of La Lloronabut it was more to scare us to keep us out of arroyos and ditches

[@broken_axel9572]

In Australia, we flash our headlights if there are police ahead or if a person still has their high beams on when they aren’t meant to be

[@leobacelli3459]

Do you, fellow KZbinrs wanna know something I’m thinking about making a horror movie featuring the hook man going up against the phantom killer since both of their hunting grounds takes place in the exact same area lovers Lane

[@boenkakbar5676]

100 years later, "rainbow people"

[@colintabor5656]

i distinctly remember el chupacabra was likely discovered to be a unique wolf/coyote or coyote/dingo or wolf/dingo hybrid previously unknown to science that strongly resembled the more canine depictions of this thing. this thing was upgraded from cryptid to documented animal, which is the wildest part. it also shows that things we previously feared might actually be more interesting the more we know and understand about it.

[@davidmcdonald5068]

It has never been listed as a real and actual creature by any Legitimate Scientific Body. It has no zoological classification because there is no Verifiable and Examinable Physical Evidence to study. It is a Cryptid and nothing more.

[@gregcowen930]

Y’all missed the rake not to mention skinwalkers

[@Mr.Glidehook]

Cool one, Mojo! More, please❤

[@dundaz1]

Where I’m from flashing the highlights means i’ve just passed a police car/ camera van, watch your speed mate

[@katz0625]

The Mothman Prophecies movie is one of my favorite movies-so many people think it wasn’t that great but I LOVED it!! OMG!! My biggest fear is having a nasty bug going in any hole on my body and laying eggs or whatever!! It happens!!!! Have you ever seen botflies being pulled out of someone??? Omg no I wanna cry!! Worst is jiggers!! Omg Omg omg no!!! The poor people who have to deal with jiggers makes me sick because they’ll kill a person-haven’t seen any videos of jiggers…go watch if you dare!! It’s more scarier than any Urban Legend, paranormal activity or serial killer lol

[@CamFraser25]

Chupacabra actually started in the mid 90's and coincidentally, early descriptions match the alien from the movie "Species" which the person who saw the first Chupacabra had coincidentally just seen on video. Also you really excluded Cropsey in favour of Slenderman which isn't an urban legend but a creepy pasta?

[@DMalltheway]

Except now it’s just a coyote with a disorder

[@FlashoftheBlades]

Mothman almost sounds like the name of a superhero. And the Man Upstairs legend was the basis for one of the Bud Ice 🧊 Penguin 🐧 commercials.

[@daquanbenson549]

Man I love the flashing headlights legend and stranger calling your house. Those two never get old

[@tammylynnbeatricedoyle4500]

Omg 😮 used to do Bloody Mary at pajama parties back in the 1970s!

[@joelpietsch4998]

Is it me or is Watchmojo uploading their videos 15 minutes early?

[@TheRayInPV]

Wish you would have referenced in the video the 1979 version of When a Stranger Calls instead of it's less than stellar 2006 version.

[@danielrubinstein896]

Some of us like the 2006 one more

[@TheRayInPV]

@@danielrubinstein896 Showing the original would not have taken anyting away, but would have informed many that the original one was from 1979

[@danielrubinstein896]

@@TheRayInPV yeah, the opening of the original is perfect actually

[@jarrettowens6073]

#11 Oh, don't get me started on that psycho.

[@rolinzafra8059]

Sheeeh they got slenderman he's deserve this top urban legends

[@slackerofhell]

There was this one dude that got roasted alive in front of an underground rap show. His name was Clarence. And rumors state that Clarence's parents had a real good marriage. Oh, wait. Wrong kind of urban.

[@tm43977]

The urban legends Stuff also terrifying

[@nieo777]

Lots of scary urban legends in Philippines.

[@danielrubinstein896]

Yes

[@SacPlayzGamez]

People's POV: alright that's enough internet for today *a few seconds later* pees pants of scariness

[@edwardhardwick1116]

u guys forgot teke teke or the red room

[@FaxChecker-rq5yv]

As long as one of the doormates dies...

[@jdlasked]

Urban legends 😨

[@44godson]

Great list, gave me something's to draw

[@magikarpkingdom9698]

Another version of the bloody merry urban legend, is to go into the bathroom alone, turn off the lights, and say her name 3 times while looking at the mirror. Was extra scary since the bathrooms, where I grew up, didn't have windows. So basically your in a dark room, with a mirror, supposing summoning something if ya dare. So it's neet to know it wasn't only my childhood that had that, and how there are different versions of it too

[@lalitnanoskar1032]

That ghostbust of Beijing story is real.

[@xxplanes]

Slender man’s actually a kid he was a kid that always got bullied at school then he got bullied so much that he’d got a lot of bruises and then one day his bullies were at the forest pushing like normal bullies then he tripped on a root and then he fell down a cliff and then the vines forest vines came to him on his body wrapping around making the black color and then that’s how he became slender man

[@Wolfspirat]

I know the "arent you glad you didnt turn on the light" myth a lil different with a girl that has a dog that licks her Fingers or toes at night but at the next day she finds her dog brutally murdered and someone wrote "people can lick too" next to it.

[@randomguypostanimeupdates6703]

I really love urban legends I can't sleep with this urban legends a

[@3amnightmares]

I know the Bloody Mary game is not real, but I still would never do it LOL. I just don't want to mess with that stuff!

[@glassdragonmedia]

Kuchisake Onna meets Yuki Onna? That could be interesting.

[@somtochukwuobidegwu5426]

Very scary but sounds interesting

[@Josh12877]

In the uk you flash your headlights to tell some to move or thank them

[@pundertalefan4391]

No, I've never done Bloody Mary because there's nothing to gain. My mom actually watched A Stranger Calls when she was a babysitter. So it spooked her. Same with Blaire Witch when she was camping a lot. XD

[@pundertalefan4391]

I like the version where the party goer is the one who gets murdered. It just makes more sense. It's a stranger danger story that way, and the reverse way always bugged me.

[@jesusesquitel138]

Kudos for your pronunciation of chupacabra, la llorona needs a bit of work but sounds good too

[@genosisbear4305]

There’s a variation on the Person in the backseat-in Parking Garage a woman is asked from a granny to drive her to the exit. But the granny hops quiet „young“ in the car with her handbag. So the woman asks her to navigate her out of her Parking space-and quickly drives away. In the left Bag is duct tape, a rope and a knife. This story is known for centuries, even with horse carriages. Old women climbing to the coach seat, showing broad, hairy wrists. „She“ is then kicked down and left her murder bag as well.