classic urban legends Archives

Scary Urban Legends You Pretended Not to Believe

Did any of these scary stories haunt you as a kid? You were not alone.

Are No Two Snowflakes Exactly Alike?

Your elementary school teachers weren't lying to you -- this oft-repeated phrase is correct, but...

Doubt of Gas

Organ Trail

Baby High Chair Death

Was a baby left in a high chair to await the sitter discovered dead when...

The Bedbug Letter

Apology letter to wronged customer is marred by attached instructions to send the standard form...

Is Hell Endothermic or Exothermic?

Old collegiate legend involves a student's coming up with a clever proof about the physical...

HIV Needles in Coin Returns

Are drug users dropping discarded needles into pay phone coin returns?

AIDS Mary

A long-circulating urban legend, "AIDS Mary," holds that a woman seduces men with the intent...

The Vanishing Hitchhiker

The tale of a ghostly hitchhiker who disappears from a car.

The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs

A babysitter receives mysterious, threatening phone calls.

The Stolen Biscuits

A long-circulating tale of biscuit banditry.