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SCARY URBAN MYTHS

Info Gathered by Spirit


(credits and sources of information supplied at the end of the page)*


Urban legends are a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor). The term is often used with a meaning similar to the expression "apocryphal story." Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often false, distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized. Despite the name, urban legends do not necessarily take place in an urban setting. The name is designed to differentiate them from traditional folklore in preindustrial times.


Aliens

In a small town in Texas, a mother was worried when her not-too-bright son failed to return from work. She told the police, who organised a search party that combed the surrounding area, but they couldn't find any trace of him. Two days later the young man turned up looking the worse for wear and talking about being abducted by aliens. He told interested reporters that he had been walking back home from work when he had met the aliens, who had taken him back to a brightly-coloured room with strange, loud music playing. He went on to describe how the aliens had forced him to eat food which burnt the back of his throat and to drink a foul-tasting liquid before he blacked out. He remembers nothing after that until he woke up in a field with a splitting headache and made his way home. One sceptical reporter, investigating the details that the man had given him, discovered a little bar full of Mexicans near the field where the man had woken up and he realised what had happened. The Mexicans had taken the man in and plied him with hot spicy food and tequila. The man had got drunk and passed out and, on relating the story, he used the US immigration term of "alien" to apply to the Mexicans.

Droning Tourists

A group of tourists on a sight-seeing trip around Edinburgh, Scotland, were taking in the splendour of the city and, at the same time, being educated about Edinburgh's darker past the focus of the tour was a ghost walk, a trek around haunted sites. They paused to contemplate the site of a particularly gruesome murder and to be told about the ghostly events that had occurred there since the slaying. While this was going on, a woman dressed in a cape appeared carrying a wooden stake, which she proceeded to plunge into the chest of the tour guide. The tour guide crashed to the ground and the tourists, assuming that this was a spectacularly well-acted piece of street theatre, applauded wildly. Unfortunately, the scene they had witnessed was not a piece of theatre but an actual murder carried out by a deranged woman who had been driven insane by the constant noise of tour guides droning on outside her window.

Paranormal

A man from South Dakota was obsessed that the world was going to end in any number of ways. As far as he was concerned it was just a matter of what got us all first from a long list that ran from alien invasion to the impact of a giant meteorite. One day he was listening to radio signals from outer space when he saw a shower of asteroids land in his backyard. The asteroids were bright green and the man, worried that they were radioactive, retreated to his specially-built bunker and radioed for help. Eventually, the police turned up to investigate, only to discover that the luminous, radioactive asteroids were in fact green balloons from a nearby fair.

Spooky

A group of New Zealanders touring Scotland arrived in Stirling, a place that held them in awe with its rich history and heritage. They parked their car and wandered around, when they came across an old Scottish man, complete with his clan tartan and bagpipes. He spoke to them in a strong brogue accent, claiming that he was from the Mackenzie clan that was defeated by the Cameron clan in the area. The group was delighted to have met such an interesting man and chatted for some time before saying their farewells and driving on. Later in the day they stopped at some souvenir shops and stumbled across the old Scottish man again. They gave him a knowing nod, bought a few trinkets and, waving goodbye to the Scotsman, continued their journey. They stopped a mile or so up the road to admire a plaque dedicated to the "War of the Two Clans" and there he was yet again. Bewildered at how he had got there before them, they asked him to join them for a group photo. Back in New Zealand, the group had the photos of their trip developed. But on looking through them, they were shocked to see that the group photo that was taken of them with the old Scotsman showed them standing by the plaque with their arms round an empty space.

The Virgin Mary

A church in a small town in Ireland, gained notoriety when the statue of the Virgin Mary was reported to speak to visitors. Rumours began when a local woman praying to the statue said she heard the Virgin Mary tell her that Jesus would return to the people very soon. In no time at all, flocks of people were turning up at the church and every now and then, the statue would talk about the return of Jesus and what the people should do to prepare for it. At one point, hundreds of people were gathered in the church. They all waited with bated breath to hear the Virgin Mary speak. Eventually, the statue began to speak: "Jesus will...". Suddenly there was an ear-splitting whine and the statue continued: "Shit, I spilt my cup o' tea!" The priest turned scarlet red and the people began murmuring. It didn't take long for people to figure out that a local businessman had planted a radio transmitter in the statue and his wife had made the pronouncements in a bid to boost tourism to the town. Funny that most people didn't question the Virgin Mary having an Irish accent.

The Walking Dead

Apparently, this was a common occurrence, but still understandably heart-stopping. Family and friends had gathered for the funeral of a young boy killed in a gangland slaying in Little Rock, Arkansas. The priest was just about to start on the last rites, when a young boy came upon the scene. Suddenly, women were screaming, men were gaping in shock and the mother fainted. Confounded, the priest asked a nearby mourner if this outburst was a ritual within the community. The mourner said in a wavering voice: "No, Father. That boy who has just walked in, he's the one we're supposed to be burying today." A pragmatist, the priest managed to calm people down and after much discussion realised what had happened. He worked out that the boy's mother suffered from glaucoma and when she was called to the police station to identify the body, she mistook the dead body for her son.


Urban Legend:

Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon her vengeful spirit.

The Story:

Go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off. Bathrooms seem to be perfect for this since they almost always have a mirror and are usually dark at night with the lights off and the door closed. Light a candle, look into the mirror, start chanting "Bloody Mary" . You have to do this  13 times, of course. You should see Bloody Mary behind your left shoulder after the thirteenth time.

Beware, she has been reported to 1.) Kill the person calling her, 2.) Scratch their eyes out, 3.) Drive the person mad or 4.) pull the person into the mirror with her. This is an old legend, it has been around for ages. A folklorist,  Janet Langlois, published an essay on the legend back in 1978. At that time, the legend was wide spread across the USA and a popular slumber party ritual done by girls as well as boys.  No one knows the true origins of the Bloody Mary tale, she's been known to be anything from a witch that was killed for practicing witchcraft to a modern day woman killed in a car crash, depending on what part of the country you live in. It was made popular again in the film Urban Legends in 1999.

Who was Bloody Mary?
She lived deep in the forest in a tiny cottage and sold herbal remedies for a living. Folks living in the town nearby called her Bloody Mary, and said she was a witch. None dared cross the old crone for fear that their cows would go dry, their food-stores rot away before winter, their children take sick of fever, or any number of terrible things that an angry witch could do to her neighbors. Then the little girls in the village began to disappear, one by one... Further reading on the story HERE


Credits

  1. Information collected from UrbanMyths.Info
  2. Surfing Legends & Hoaxes
  3. Wikipedia
  4. American Folklore.net