we have different cultures and stories around the world but there's one thing that unites us and that's a good urban legend the spookier and more eerie the better whether it's a freaky beast in the woods or a prankster from the spirit world people can't get enough of these incredible stories I hesitate to call them facts because well they aren't or are they I'm Mike with list 25 and here are 25 Eerie urban legends from around the world 25 Kula this Village in Northwest India is automatically scary because no one lives there when the Sun goes
down you reportedly hear the ghostly sounds of the old inhabitants so what's the story here the legend states that the population moved away after a prime minister made a shocking demand he wanted to marry the daughter of an important figure in Kul da and he wasn't going to take no for an answer so the community ditched their own home to save her from his clutches 24 Joey the Clown clowns can be fun but a lot of people find them frightening so a crazy clown living in old Victorian Railway tunnels in the UK is pure nightmare
fuel Joey the Clown was said to have escaped the circus and killed a poor baby who suffered a terrible fate when hung upside down in front of a train the Train the baby and Joey himself who ended his own life under the wheels can all be heard in the dead of night 23 black shuck dogs this medieval folk tale has become an eerie urban legend in the UK East Anglia and South Southeast England lives in fear of the black Shu a mighty canine with eyes that glow red one of the weirdest things about this is
the black Shuck's connection with electricity the dog apparently appears during dramatic lightning storms kind of sounds like the goer dogs from Ghostbusters doesn't it 22 the bean sucker over in Maryland you need to watch out for the Bean sucker this name sounds super Shady but trust me it is very freaky and scary a 19th century prank artist wanted to Spook a couple in a horsedrawn carriage what did he do well he did the whole boo thing only he filled his mouth with beans okay well he was chased to the railway line by The Carriage driver
and he had his head knocked off when he accidentally collided with a locomotive I'm not sure why beans were supposed to be so scary but a decapitated head haunting the site where Bean sucker died well that's truly Eerie 21 Seattle vending machine between late '90s and 2018 people in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle Washington were creeped out by an old vending machine that served drinks from the past despite seemingly neglected the machine never ran out of cans this strange mystery was never solved because the machine was removed one day removed or did it vanish
Into Thin Air who knows what we do know is that a note was left where it used to stand reading went for a walk I'm feeling both terrified and thirsty 20 Highway Guardians Highway 464 in Montana isn't the place you want to break down help will arrive that's for sure it just won't be the help You're Expecting three guys are said to arrive out of nowhere to fix the problem which is very cool of them but there's an eerie twist these individuals are believed to be Ghosts no one knows their identity aside from them being
Good Samaritans with a supernatural Vibe 19 the lookup lady in the Philippines there's the urban legend of a scary ghost lady with a simple request to look up what are you supposed to be looking up at it isn't clear at all making this encounter even more unsettling where is this lady located in the female restroom at a university and if you're thinking that sounds a little odd then get this the voice is said to say these words in ancient Latin hey guys just jumping in here real quick to tell you some exciting news you know
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if you were cycling along the road and suddenly someone slapped you and made you fall off your bike you'd be pretty angry right well if the slapping ghost to the woods is responsible then you might want to pick yourself up dust yourself off and just be on your way what caused cyclist to be brutally attacked during a perfectly normal ride the incidents happened in both the 70s and 80s years apart could it have been a tree Ranch that needed pruning uh maybe but a possible Supernatural explanation is a lot more fun 17 the spron of
London the horrifying spron originally comes from West penwith in Cornwall England referred to as a warrior fairy the spring can steal children control the weather and and trick men to their deaths it's pretty small but the spron is said to be the ghost of a huge giant it certainly has a giant siiz capacity for Mayhem so what's the urban legend Connection in the Crouch end area of London there's a scary Park sculpture that scares local children in the 80s it was thought a man goat creature was in Crouch end and that the spron sculpture is
linked to this monster 16 Crown Casino tunnels there's an urban legend from Melbourne Australia that focuses on the crown Casino the country's biggest casino is according to Legend sitting on an underground morg which is accessible via a series of passages leading from the bathrooms why do they need a morg well if gamblers die on the premises they can be taken somewhere to be processed this puts an eerie spin on the fun and excitement of a casino environment 15 the yellow VW it's common to overtake or be overtaken while driving out on a highway but what
if there was a little yellow Volkswagen in front of you that you overtook only for it to be smack bang right in front of you again this is just one of the Eerie urban legends connected to the kak highway in Malaysia maybe you'd want to pull alongside and Shout at the driver well you'd get a shock because this freaky little Herby is driverless 14 the ratman no he's not some lowbudget superhero this is an eerie figure who's talked about in south end in southeast England his origin story is horrifying a poor old homeless man was
brutally killed by kids Clockwork Orange style he then went through another indignity when rats turned his face into dinner since then he's become some sort of a supernatural rodent King just pray that you don't run into him beneath the tube at night 13 jacking jogger save you're laughing this urban legend from Denmark may be exactly what it sounds like but that doesn't make it any less creepy the name in Dutch is derer which sounds better but still means the same horrible thing sorry to put that image in your minds but hey I don't create these
Legends I just report them 12 the leg shaped stain Here Comes an unusual and Eerie urban legend from Maine specifically the town of Bucksport which was founded by one Jonathan buck buck had a witch burned and then when he died a stained shaped like a leg appeared on his Tombstone weird right it sounds like a Witch's Curse but why a leg this relates to the identity of the witch herself who according to the legend was Buck's mistress she was ejected from the town when she got pregnant and her son accidentally pulled off her leg when
trying to retrieve her body following the burning the leg shaped stain never goes away clean it off the grave and it comes right back again 11 Groot slang this mysterious and frankly terrifying creature is at the center of an urban legend from the Orange River area of South Africa it's a snake leg monster that's been spotted since at least the 1860s moving through the water looking for prey accounts of the Groot slay vary but it's reportedly capable of rearing out of the water and snatching cattle from the bank for lunch 10 the oily man this
figure from Malaysia called or minyak or oily man isn't a human so much as a beast women beware because a dangerous monster cing in Black grease May grab you in the night reported sightings date back to the late 50s and Aang minyak has been described as either wearing bathing trunks or nothing at all nine Harry hand imagine driving along when a pair of hands takes control of your vehicle and causes you to crash this isn't some weirdo who's broken in your car but a random set of hands that form the basis of an urban legend
from dmer England what makes things even scarier is the fact that the hands are covered in hair is this some kind of ghost werewolf on a mission against Road Safety well you'll never look at a hairy handed driver the same way again eight Chinese bus Legend what would you do if you were on a bus and trouble broke out that was the Dilemma facing an elderly Chinese woman on a bus in Beijing she decided to cause a scene deliberately in order to be thrown off at night during a storm maybe not the wisest of moves
but hey it was the correct one the vehicle which was heading to a location called flagrant Hills went on to crash into a reservoir killing everyone on board seven Jin in the United Arab Emirates a legend persists of the Gin be careful because apparently this monster has a truly deceptive look if you see a gorgeous lady calling out to you and she's smelling lovely and has a gold fixation then you're probably in trouble get out of there before she scares you to death with her true witchy appearance six Yang deceased friends and relatives are celebrated
over in Scandinavia just like everywhere else however this culture also has an intriguing and Eerie urban legend about the Dead coming back to life a funeral May feature the guests walking round and around the church this move is to make sure the Dead stay buried not everyone dies happy and those with grudges are thought to get out of their coffins and seek ghostly restitution the word to describe the threat is yangang or ghost five the PN serpent forget stupid Netflix movies about sharks in Paris if local Legends are to be believed they have enough trouble
on their hands with a giant underwater snake this slythering Predator which lives under the Palm new bridge turns the city of love into the city of screaming and running away adding to the eeriness is the fact that it's a nocturnal Hunter as in you only see the serpent at night or rather you don't see it as it'll probably have snuck up on you and grabbed you in its fangs before you realize what's happening four Dubai body bags Dubai is one of the wealthiest places on the planet but it has its creepy side like the time
someone was alerted to a dumpster which the local cat population had taken a liking to why were the cats so interested it turned out there were a bunch of body parts bags that have been left in there by someone unknown it took a dog walker to discover this the hard way when his Pooch fished out a foot and according to the urban legend that isn't the first time it's happened three man in a big hat otherwise known as El somon this Eerie figure from Mexico and Central America looks like a Swanky Busker and behaves like
a deranged hairdresser yeah you heard that right he approaches unsuspecting women in his enormous hat accompanying himself with guitar music elreon then becomes a parasite attaching himself to the host and get this braiding her hair till she dies presumably of Terror two Serbian hellwell some people go to hell early and they don't even need to have done anything bad that was the situation a team of scientists from Russia found themselves in when they went digging in Siberia according to this shocking urban legend they inserted the microphone into a mysterious cavity they were exploring the team
reportedly heard the sounds of souls going through never- ending torment in Satan's layer one hand of Glory what happens to a condemned man after he's executed well you could always chop off his hand and use it as a supernatural candle holder and that's not the end of the story The French L GL or hand of Glory might also disable your opponent or unlock a door that can't be opened how does this even work we don't know and that's why it's so eerie and if you want to see what freaky urban legends exists here in America
then check out our state-by-state guide right here and I'll catch you next time
