Urban legends to keep you up at night No matter where in the United States you’re from, your home state is sure to have its share of urban legends and urban myths. These scary stories aren’t ...

Most urban legends are simply that: legends. But a lot of times, folks' creativity is less powerful than real life, and true events themselves can spark some eerie tales that later become ...

Terrifying Horror Movies That Are Based on Urban Legends Sometimes, horror movies increase the scare-level by involving urban legends. Here are seven movies based on terrifying urban legends.

There was an urban legend in the Canadian Prairies about a man who would kidnap Indigenous people, steal their winter clothes, and abandon them in the middle of nowhere to die in -30º temperatures.

Urban legend: Dating to the 1930s, the legend of alligators living in sewers has popped up in New York City, Paris, Florida and Louisiana. Where to watch: The film is available to stream on ...

This needless sequel to 1998's barely scary Urban Legend is a wretchedly written mess. For one thing, it's got almost nothing to do with creepy modern folklore known as urban legends.

Thrillist published a list of the creepiest urban legends in every state. Michigan has a ton of ghost stories from across the state. But here's what Thrillist deemed to be the scariest.

The death of an infant sparked this Hartselle, Alabama urban legend. Reports vary on how the baby died, and range from a wagon accident to a flood to murder, according to the whnt.com report. People ...

Every community spins its own urban legends. But, what stories are the scariest? To help answer the question, Thrillist spent all of October hunting down the spookiest urban legend in each state.

This urban legend appears to be much more complex. Others assert that not just shoplifting, but indeed all crimes are down, but that too is a sort of urban legend in reverse.

Where The Scary Things Are is both written and directed by indie genre filmmaker B. Harrison Smith, director of the films Camp Dread, ZK: Elephant's Graveyard, Garlic and Gunpowder, Death House ...

Around the D.C. area, the Goatman is a popular urban legend to tell. West Virginia has the Mothman. New Jersey has the Jersey Devil running around the swamps.