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Urban legends often horrifying stories people claim to have actually happened are told all over the world.
Here are some of the most chilling:
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“The girl gave the children some milk and cookies and then ushered them upstairs to bed.
She switched off the lights and went to watch TV.
She felt as though its eyes were staring straight at her while she watched TV.”
“For a second, the babysitter just stood there, stunned.
Then she dropped the phone, raced upstairs, and grabbed the children.
Carrying one under each arm, she ran downstairs again and fled out to the street.
Peeking through a gap in the curtains was the white, painted face of a clown.
It stared at her for a moment, then receded back into the room.”
“A married couple bought an old house.
They were very happy the price and neighborhood were great.”
“One day, the husband found a red crayon in the hallway.”
“Soon, however, they stumbled across a mysterious fact.
They knocked on the wall, and its sound was obviously different from that of other walls.
They peeled off the wallpaper and discovered a hidden door nailed up.
They pulled out all the nails and entered the door.
Inside was an empty room.
“Back in the 1950s, a hairdo style called the beehive was really popular.
The idea was to spray it so heavily that you could bounce a quarter off it.
At night, they carefully wrapped it in toilet paper and pinned the ends in place.
The result looked like a turban.
“Their teacher escorted the two girls to the nurse’s office.
Despite the girls' protests, the nurse started to attack the girls' hive with a big brush.
“On a dark night, a tired woman drives home alone on a quiet country road.
The only light around comes from her car’s headlights no other cars are in sight.
Suddenly, she slams on the brakes, terrified.
Someone has abandoned a baby in the middle of the road!”
“She throws open her car door and rushes to the bundle.
It’s going really fast and screeches to a halt.
In her side mirror, she sees a man get out and charge toward her car.”
“Upon finally arriving home, she can hardly think what to do.
Stay in the car, and phone, and hope the man doesn’t attack her inside the car?
Get out and run?
She pulls to a stop and fumbles for her phone, but the man is too fast for her.
He rushes up to her car door and rips it open.”
“A woman visited her female friends apartment.
They chatted until it got late, at which point the friend suggested she stay over.
The friend slept on a bed, and the woman lay on a futon on the floor.
“The friend finally gave in and they walked out of the room.
Once outside, the woman sprinted off in the opposite direction of the convenience store.
I saw a man with a large knife under the bed!'
One night, Jim decides to listen to what the man is saying and waits near him.”
The man mumbles, ‘Human.
‘Okay, thinks Jim.Nothing wrong with that.
She’s clearly human.”
“So, Jim finally goes up to the man and says, ‘Excuse me, sir?
Every night, I hear you mumble things when people walk by.
I was just wondering…what’s that about?'”
It isn’t until later that night that the realization finally sets in.”
She entered the room but did not turn on the light, knowing that her roommate was sleeping.
“The next day, she came back to her room to find it surrounded by police.
They asked if she lived there, and she said yes.
