Crocodiles in the sewers? The autoestopist that disappears when taking the curve?The kangaroo that was so blind that she put the cat in the microwave?No, in reality none of that has happened to the neighbor of a friend of a friend of yours, and probably ever happened to anyone.They are urban legends.Popular stories and beliefs that, despite containing supernatural or unlikely elements, are presented as real events.They are transmitted by oral tradition, from mouth to mouth, and are embellishing with each new version, creating a contemporary folklore.They are primed in superstition and morbidity, and they almost always have some morality, "if you do such - or if you don't - this will happen to you ...".Here is 15 as terrifying as universal to remember, for example, in Halloween.
The ghost autoestopist
It has been circulating centuries, adapting to the different means of transport.It consists basically that a woman makes horsetop on the edge of a road: a car stops and climbs to the back.Upon reaching a dangerous curve, the autoestopist warns of danger.When the vehicle has exceeded the curve, the woman has mysteriously disappeared.Then, the driver, or driver and co -pilot, finds out that at that point a woman died tragically.In some versions, the passenger does not warn of danger and the car suffers an accident and drives or passengers die, although there is always some survivor, of course, to be able to tell the story.In our country the fateful curve is located in the Puerto de la Cruz Verde.
There are also variations in which the autoestopist is an anguished father who has to get as much as the bed of his dying son.Or elderly sinister who announce the end of the world.Sometimes she is a white dressed girlfriend who died on her wedding day.Come on, there are versions for all tastes.
A few years ago, a homemade appearance video was viral that frightened half Portugal.I was shot from inside a car where three friends were traveling.The vehicle collected a young woman, Teresa Fidalgo in the middle of the night, and suffers an accident.According to the credits the three friends died.It was actually a curve video fragment that its director, David Rebordão, wanted to promote online.Caused fury in social networks, many believed it was real.It was such the shock that the director had to clarify the situation.
The Lady in white
It is a legend similar to the previous one, and is also extended throughout the world.In it, a woman dressed in white appears for a brief period of time in some rural area.Its history is usually related to some local tragedy.They are women who have lost children, husbands or have been victims of a betrayal and their spirit vague without rest crying revenge.
In the Medievo, when this ghostic figure appeared it meant that someone close, from the family or neighborhood, was going to die.In the English tradition, Blanco's lady guarded a treasure, but died suddenly, before she could reveal anyone where she was hidden.They say that in the nineteenth century the Blanca lady appeared up to three times to the son of the owners of Blenkinppp Castle in Northumbria, but it is true that in that part of England all the castles have their ghost legends.The white lady in Wales also keeps a treasure.When a man had the courage to approach her, he rewarded him with half.In his greed, he took everything, but the lady in Blanco reacted, and with her supernatural powers, she killed the greed.
In the Madrid capital there is also a white lady who, noctambula and without vertigo, walks at night through the roof of the house of the seven chimneys in the Plaza del Rey.This is Elena, daughter of a montero de Felipe II and alleged lover of the king who perished in strange circumstances and who, according to several witnesses, continues to wander through the town and court.But by heights.
Pokémon suicides
In March 1996, after the launch of Red and Green Pokémon 1.0, in Japan there were 104 suicides of children between 10 and 15 years.Some hanged themselves, others threw themselves into a vacuum from high buildings, they had to cut their veins.What did everyone have in common?All of them, according to their parents, were hooked to the game.The rumor was unleashed that listening to the music of the lavender people prompted the minors to suicide.According to this urban legend, high -tone binural rhythms affected children's brain, although, as with the mosquito test, adults were immune at that frequency.Someone invented a disease, "Lavender people syndrome", which induced children to suicide.The legend shot down the networks, enlivened with all kinds of speculation, such as the imminent danger of the game cartridges that still circulated around the world, directly responsible for deaths.There was a lot of talked about the suicide of one of the programmers, Chiro Miura, and the legacy that left.
The problem of youth suicides in Japan has little to do with videogameterror.
The call comes from inside the house
In general this is the story: a kangaroo is in a house, taking care of some children who have been sleeping for hours for hours.Start receiving threatening calls that actually come from inside the house.When you are going to check how the little ones are, you find that they have been killed.Then it is the one who dies.
Sometimes what happens is that the kangaroo is so placed with marijuana (or whatever) that when hunger enters the baby from the house in the microwave, or some similar barbarity.I have already said that with each new version the legend becomes even more monstrous and crazy.
The moral is clear: "Women, protect your children".There are variations of this story everywhere, from Scream to the classics, as another Note Return by Henry James.With the advances in mobile telephony technology, history is expected to become horror based on Wasap or murderers who use Tinder to locate their victims.
Robbery to a kidney
This story also have countless variants, but the beginning is the same: a man is seduced by a beautiful woman - or has sex with a meretor -.The next morning, he wakes up without any memory of the previous night, and discovers a suspicious scar at the kidney height, a viscera that will then be at the mercy of the best bidder the black market.The moral cannot be clearer, right?Sometimes instead of waking up without a kidney she wakes up with a message: "Welcome to the AIDS Club".And the portfolio has almost always disappeared, with its documentation and money.
This legend of organ trafficking sometimes occurs without even carnal exchange.There was a time when it was said that you forgave a kidney if you dared to access the tester according to what stores, and not for the price of clothes, but that the kidney was literal.Someone told you about someone who had entering a store and his partner, seeing that he did not go out, he appears and tell him that there is no one there.The husband, or the friend, or woman or girlfriend in question goes to the police who, when he arrives, finds the victim tied and gagged and about to extract a kidney for organ traffic.
Organ traffic is a basic element of horror fiction;From never abandon me from Kazuo Ishiguro to disconnection, Neal Shusterman's youth novel.Unfortunately, this type of exchange happens, but not in these latitudes, and not through a kidnapping (I hope).
The insect sting
It is so universal that it has inspired the fiction of media planet.A young man returns home after an excursion or a trip.Among the marks of his journey, (scratches, small wounds, bites, normal when you walk on the mountain) is an insect bite in an harmless appearance.The stinging begins, which becomes unbearable.When the young man goes to the doctor, he makes an incision.Under the skin, the spider or ant or insect that stung him had deposited his roe, which are now larvae or insects that nourish the victim's body and that they probably end their life.There are more light versions and other disgustingly gore.That something like that happens is practically impossible.Even so it is a classic of cinema and horror literature, from Alien de Ridley Scott to Stephen King's dream hunter, through Charles Burns or Suehiro Maruo's comics.
The hook man
Another indispensable story in every camp fire that is third.A couple in car looks for a dark and discreet place to give free rein to their cuddly.They arrive in a separate area.The boy stops the vehicle and puts the radio so that there is some atmosphere music.In the middle of its love activities, the song that sounds stops and a announcer warns that a dangerous madman has escaped from a nearby institution.A man with a very striking physical characteristic: where his hand should be, he wears a hook.The girl is scared, the boy reassures her to continue the courtship, but she insists, she wants to go home.The boy reluctantly accepts.When they arrive at their destination, the girl leaves the car and begins to scream hysterically.There is a bloody garfio nailed to the back of the vehicle.Sometimes one or the two members of the couple die.He began to circulate in the fifties in the United States and has been the inspiration of numerous horror movies, as I know what you did in the last summer of Jim Gillespie, based in turn on the novel by Lois Duncan.
The ghost waiter
No, it is not a chulesco tabernero that heshes you when you ask for a beer - who there are, but those, luckily, they laugh more than fear -.Everyone knows someone who knows someone who, being traveling, went to have a drink to a solitary bar of the town in which they stayed. Para pasar el rato y desconectar tras muchas horas al volante, el conductor consume varios gin & tonics en animada conversación con el camarero.According to legend, the stranger returns the next day and meets another bartender.When asked about his partner, if that day Libra, he finds out that the establishment had been closed the previous night.Right now we are all visualizing a road bar close to a dusty motel of Route 66, but the fact is that this legend also has its Celtiberian version.I heard her recently, from a friend of a friend whose father was a commander of the air and had been for a time for the Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete.When after six months he returned to that base for a brief instruction, he decided one night to approach the canteen to see if Tomás was still, the waiter with whom he had made good crumbs during his previous stay.I was still in charge and the command had a good time drinking great and telling anecdotes to the soldier.The next day the canteen was closed.When he inquirted, they told him that Thomas was no longer in the body: he had committed suicide three months ago.The canteen was closed, following suicide and that the new officers' pavilion had ended.
Chain cards
You already know him.They send you a message that suggests that if you do not pass it to five more people, there will be terrible consequences.This urban legend seems to have planned viral marketing in about twenty years.Today there are also those who believe that it serves to cure cancer or raise awareness of the society of some disease, but I, of course, do not see meaning to "pass this message to x people if you want (whatever)" areDesire to succumb to absurd blackmail.The concept of the deadly chain letter has also been exploited in fiction: the end of MR appears in the fantastic mystery novel.And, from Christopher Pike.
Adulterated food
Not long ago, the rumor that KFC had to eliminate the word Chickn was ran online because in reality what they sold was not chicken, but something genetically created.Even some surprising photos circulated.Foods are often victims of urban myths: Macdonald's hamburgers are actually made of worms, in Chinese restaurants serve dog meat and in the pate cans of such brand they appear cockroaches appear.These legends are nourished that sometimes they do skip news to newspapers, such as that of the Ikea cake in whose analysis they found human excrement, but I want to think that in Europe there is at least a strong control of security measures and safety measures andFood hygiene, or not? My favorite urban legend of food comes from my childhood, at school the rumor was extended that if you mixed coca-cola with aspirin came drug.Thus, in Hyperonym: "Drug".I don't know drugs, but surely it is an explosive mixture for the stomach.
The clown's smile
A classic in the major schools in Madrid that gradually spread over other Spanish university environments.The story tells that a young girl was waiting for the night bus at a bus stop in the Metropolitan area, the most important nucleus of major schools in the capital.The place is characterized by being surrounded by parks of the University Campus, which in conjunction with the buildings of empty and nightfactors, it was undoubtedly a scenario worthy of a horror movie.While the girl waited for her bus, a group of neo -Nazi -looking boys arrived in the area who began to bother her.The situation ended with them "drawing" the so -called clown smile on the face so that he could not shout, because his macabre intention was to violate it.The said smile is nothing more than a cut on each side of the corner of the lips that prevents the victim from shouting to avoid tearing even more.
The facts could not be contrasted, but the rumors were so insistent that in 2003 there was a meeting of several directors of major schools to elucidate how much really there was in history and try to end the alarm that extended with a gunpowder of gunpowderAmong the young people from Madrid
Verónica against the mirror
This story is very popular among terror lovers.The legend tells that a young woman named Verónica participated in an Ouija session with friends without taking everything that happens in something like that.Well, the poor end was killed in strange circumstances in front of all who were present.The fact are very confused, since some say that he died after being beaten by a chair that flew through the stay where the Ouija session was being held, while another version of what happened narrates that they were scissors that flew and stabbedTo the victim until he causes his death.Everything is based on a prophecy that sice that if you pronounce the name of Verónica three or nine times, which is not clear according to various sources, with a book that is usually the Bible and open scissors, the ghost of the ghost of theyoung behind you and kills you.Spooky, no doubt.
The man of dreams
Everything happened in New York in 2006.In that city, a psychiatrist received a patient in his consultation.Well, the young woman told her that she had dreamed several times with an unknown that she had an incipient bald, very thick eyebrows and extremely fine lips, especially the superior.The psychiatrist, while listening to the young woman, drew the portrait of the subject, but without giving him greater importance he left the drawing on the table.The thing was complicated when two other patients confessed to having dreamed of a character very similar to that previously described by the girl.The psychiatrist decided to make copies of the drawing and sent it to several colleagues, and the result left him ice cream, since the number of people who had dreamed with him did not stop increasing.To take action on the matter, they created a web page to record all appearances.You are also going to be ice cream: they discovered that the mysterious man had gotten into the dreams of about two thousand people...In Freddy Krueger Plan.
The legend of the twins
A mother took her twin daughters to school when she received an urgent call from her work.I had to go immediately, so they asked both to continue alone to the educational center, since they knew perfectly the way to get there.He kissed them on the forehead before leaving but, when he wore only a few meters tours he heard the frightening noise of a brake behind him.When he turned around, he discovered that the inert body of his daughters lay under a truck.The girls had died caught hand.
The mother practically went crazy, but a new pregnancy partly returned the illusion to continue living.He was eranged of twins.Once born, the two girls were tremendously similar to their other two died daughters.As they grew up, the mother became more and more protective, since she was afraid to lose them again as the first time happened.One day, on the way to school, the sisters advanced running under the watchful eye of their mother, who immediately stopped them and begged them to never do that without their permission.The answer was devastating: "We didn't think about doing so.They already hit us once, mom.It will not happen again".
The spirit of Sor Úrsula
A Sevillian legend that attests to what happens in some places that have witnessed many deaths and sufferings.As he says, in the old hospital of the five sores, which is currently the Parliament of Andalusia, follows the spirit of Sor Úrsula, a seventeenth nun who worked as a nurse and died because of the plague.According to this legend, the nun was a sullen and evil woman who enjoyed harming others.There are many who claim to have seen her night in the halls, still dressed in her habit and with a bunch of keys in the hands.
