In every state, urban legends have been scaring residents for years, and they can mean big business for local economies. Here ...

Hallmarks of urban legends is that they are generally apocryphal in nature, are repeated as true stories, have a local connection to the teller (e.g., "My sister told me this happened to her ...

Explore the 25 Most Popular Urban Legends Still Being Told. From vanishing hitchhikers to sewer alligators, discover why these chilling tales endure. Read ...

Every town has one. A haunted bridge. A faceless monster. A killer hiding in the woods. Most of us assume these stories were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Huggin' Molly is clearly a tool used by parents to get their children to obey the rules: The urban legend, native to ...

Urban legends have haunted human consciousness for generations, weaving themselves into our collective psyche with remarkable persistence. These unsettling tales transcend cultural boundaries, ...

From Bigfoot sightings to DIA lizard people, Colorado’s famous stories revisited for the state’s 150th anniversary.

First, the story was that Halloween candy was poisoned, perhaps by witches and goblins (or wicked neighbors) out to kill young children. After that 1960s myth faded, it was followed by the insistence ...

Since the dawn of cinema, horror movies have drawn from locational folklore and urban legends to tell spooky stories that you’d rather not hear in the dark. These stories often feel too real and can ...

Urban legends have always creeped me out. You know the ones. A couple is making out in a car and gets home to find the hook hand of an escaped killer on their door handle. Or the couple makes out in ...