urban legend
form of modern folklore
fan death
South Korean misconception relating to the use of electric fans
Ronald Opus
fictional gunshot victim used to illustrate law of death inquiry
Mull of Kintyre test
urban legend
rainbow party
Sexual urban legend
gasoline pill
urban legend about a gasoline pill that turns water into gasoline
Pass by catastrophe
academic urban legend
yellow ambulance
Japanese urban legend
Pot brownies food stamps hoax
hoax and urban legend
Serbian dancing lady
Serbian urban myth and internet phenomenon
Silver Train
contemporary legend about a metro train in Stockholm, Sweden
Muhlenberg legend
urban legend
Barometer question
urban legend
Aka Manto
Japanese urban legend
Baby Train
urban legend
poisoned candy myth
urban legend about malevolent strangers intentionally hiding poisons, drugs, or sharp objects in candy and distributing them with the intent of harming random children
White Soarer
Japanese urban legend
The Baby-Roast
urban legend
black-eyed children
urban legend
Nazi gold train
legend of Nazi train containing gold buried underground in Poland
Mandela effect
phenomenon in which a group of people share a collective false memory of a past event
Nuclear Gandhi
urban legend software bug in the video game Civilization
Vanishing Hotel Room
is an urban legend which claims that during an international exposition in Paris, a daughter left her mother in a hotel room and when she came back her mother was gone and the hotel staff claimed to have no knowledge of the missing woman
litter boxes in schools hoax
false claim that schools provide litter boxes for students identifying as cats
Black Volga
Polish urban legend about a black Volga car that would abduct children
rumour in Orleans
urban legend claiming that young girls are rapted for white slavery in Jewish dress shops
Cursed Girl Hoax
urban legend
vanishing hitchhiker
urban legend in which people traveling by vehicle meet with a hitchhiker who vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle
psychic vampire
fictional creature said to feed off the life force of other living creatures
Red Room Curse
Japanese Internet urban legend
The Backrooms
urban legend and creepypasta
Bermuda Triangle
region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico
The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs
urban legend involving a babysitter and a man
urine-indicator dye
Urban legend
Mars hoax
urban legend
Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend
Maritime urban legend related to the dangers of hubris and inflexibility
Varginha UFO incident
alleged capture of an extraterrestrial being in Brazil in 1996
embarrassing cheque
confidence trick using cheques issued with embarrasing names
The Spider Bite
modern urban legend
Human face fish
legendary creature
white lighter myth
urban legend
Myth of the spat-on Vietnam veteran
myth and debate around the spat-on Vietnam veteran
ten percent of brain myth
urban legend
blood type personality theory
pseudoscientific theory that a person's ABO blood type is predictive of a person's personality, temperament, and compatibility with others
Cow tipping
urban legend
Blue star tattoo legend
urban myth about LSD being distributed to children