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Top 10 Scariest Urban Legends


don’t you want to be an urban legend all
your friends are now something horrible
happened to a friend of a friend Satan
it was welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 scariest urban legend urban
legend is just a made-up story that
people keep telling as if it was true
for this list we’ve compiled some of the
most famous and terrifying urban legends
that scared us as kids and have told
them as though they are true which of
course they’re not right I don’t know
baby
number ten sewer Gator a well-to-do New
York family returns from their Florida
vacation with pet baby alligators but
when the reptiles grow too big the
family flushes them down the toilet
those Gators survive and thrive in the
sewers underneath the city by eating
rats and refuse
becoming aggressive huge and in some
cases mutated spotted by sewer workers
the Gators are then hunted by police but
never captured
you ever see that movie where the evil
speaker ooh surgeon snatches up the
pretty gringo tourists and cuts out all
their organs number nine the kidney
heist
a lone traveler stops for a drink when
he’s approached by a beautiful woman I’m
Natalie
what’s your name the next thing he knows
he’s groggily waking up in a bathtub
full of ice with an incision in his
abdomen and a note instructing him to
call 9-1-1 immediately when doctors
examining the red kidney has been
removed they discover his kidney is
missing there’s a kidney there’s a
missing kidney the work of organ thieves
out to make a quick buck on the black
market you can’t take my kidneys I
already have number eight this is
definitely not myth flashing headlights
happens all the time as you drive along
a dark and deserted road you notice a
car traveling to warn you with its
headlights off they lights you signal to
the driver by flashing your headlights
but that’s what he’s waiting for
he’s being initiated into a gang and
must do a Yui to hunt you down assault
rape or kill you all because you flashed
your high beams Joey
number seven the hook a couple’s parked
at Lovers Lane here’s a radio
announcement about a murderer with a
hook for a hand
evicted murderer Damien Gore known as
the hook who’s on the loose in their
town
the man is extremely dangerous and all
parents are urged not to let their
children go trick-or-treating this
evening the girl demands to go home and
the boy reluctantly drives her
but as soon as she exits the car she
begins screaming
confused the boy crosses over to the
passenger side where he finds a bloody
hook dangling from the handle number six
aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the
light two freshmen girls are dorm mates
and classmates ones bookish the others a
party animal the night before midterms
the partier goes to a kegger while the
study erstes home to cram returning past
midnight but partygoers slips quietly
into bed without waking her friend
however in the morning she awakes to
find her murdered with the message
aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the
lights walled in blood across the wall
so you hear a noise while you’re in the
bedroom you get up you come in here the
camera follows you from the doorway
number five you see the dog you turn and
you see the message on the mirror and
then the killer pops up you scream and
that’s it the licked hand home alone a
young girl goes to bed with her dog
sleeping below her for reassurance she
drops her hand to him he licks it and
she nods off later she awakes to hear a
dripping noise but stays in bed where
her trusty pooch licks her hand and she
drifts off in the morning she finds her
dog slain in the bathroom dripping blood
beside him a note humans can lick too
hello number for the babysitter and the
man upstairs with sleeping kids upstairs
a babysitter watches TV the phone
worries have you checked the children
Bobby a voice asks immediately she
phones police can’t you help me I’m all
alone here
who agreed to trace the call ring ring
hello
why haven’t you check the children why
haven’t you checked the children panic
she slams the phone down when it rings
again it’s the cops the call is coming
from inside the house she escapes his
police arrived
discovering the caller upstairs covered
in the slain children’s blood
number three the killer in the backseat
driving home alone late at night a woman
stops for guests yeah thanks the gas
station attendant tells her there’s a
problem with her credit card and that
she’ll have to come inside his credit
cards no good you’re gonna have to come
with me to the register that’s when he
tells her there’s a man with a knife in
the backseat of her car there’s someone
in the back seat of your car with a
knife we’re going into the cashiers
booth locking the door and calling the
police
stories vary as to whether or not she
believes him but if she doesn’t her fate
is sealed
he saw two women signaling him to stop
number two
the vanishing hitchhiker a man picks up
a hitchhiker on the side of a deserted
road and offers to drive her home
feel like I was waiting forever but
sometime before they arrive the
hitchhiker mysteriously disappears from
the moving car confused
the driver knocks on the door of the
address she’d given him the woman who
answers explains that the girl had been
killed in a car accident five years
earlier in the exact spot he picked her
up
one money marry number one money in a
three Bloody Mary Bloody Mary
in a room lit only by a candle stare at
a mirror and chant Bloody Mary thrice
and you may end up face to face with her
spirit cutting Mary this is so stupid
what happens next varies she could haunt
you kill you or pull you into the mirror
alongside her lesson learned
why was Bloody Mary so tortured was it a
lost child or a horrible disfigurement
either way hers is a remarkably enduring
urban legend
do you agree with our list no but I like
it
which urban legend keeps you up at night
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