Urban Legend

It was Halloween night and Elizabeth was at the pumpkin patch picking the perfect pumpkin for the pumpkin carving contest on her street. She saw her best friend, Lindsey, down the street so she ran down to meet her.

One of Miss. Maudie’s neighbors- Mr. Avery- made his way to the top floor of the house, throwing any furniture down that he could salvage. The fire soon spread to the stairs and Mr. Avery was forced to climb out of the house through the window. Struggling, he slipped and fell, landing on Miss Maudie’s shrubbery.

The mysterious mood and multiple points of tension in the short-story, “The Landlady,” are built through different literary devices. From beginning to end, something is just not right. The story is about Billy, the protagonist, who travels to Bath, England for his work. While looking for a place to stay, he finds a boarding house willing to take him in for a ridiculously cheap cost. Throughout the story, his landlady, the antagonist, seems a little odd and a bit suspicious. Because of his experiences at the boarding house, the reader learns that not everything is as it seems. The author’s clever use of literary devices in the story, “The Landlady,” creates suspense through foreshadowing and imagery.

The caregiver must have walk in, becaue the noise of his door opening starteled him and the sound of creaking floor boards freeze him in place but The Old Man is able to call out "who's there?" 4. The Old Man thinks to himself maybe it was just a mouse crossing the floor or a cricket making a single chirp... It wasn't comforting like he had hopped 5. The Old Man heard a loud yell and my caregiver took me by suprise so he shrieked.

In there home a large window leading outside is open and the stranger is curious about it. From the girls view she is going to have some fun. She said her uncle and cousin went off to shoot some years ago and died. Mrs Sappleton leaves the door open hoping that one day they will come back. At this

After feeling thoroughly creeped out, she quickly went inside and gave the money to rent the

It was the next morning after Phillip Higginbotham had gone to the Rabinowitz’s house for dinner, and he had realized something! He realized that he showed up to the dinner invite wearing a dress coat, but forgot to take it from the coat rack on his way out. He knew it was a gamble, but he decided to drive over to the Rabinowitz home this sunny, humid, morning to retrieve the coat. As he pulled up to the Rabinowitz home, Susannah could see that it was him through the living room window. Still flustered from their moments in the kitchen the night before, she made sure her hair was somewhat decent in the mirror on the wall, and then wrapped a light shawl around her shoulders. She then headed for the front door in anticipation for him to ring

He sat on the back porch, reminiscing, he smiled, remembering Mary Jenkins was a terrific lady even in her late nineties with snow-white hair, she dressed as if she was a model and looked innocent as an angel. She loved and cared for animals and always had a cat lying on her lap while sitting on the front porch waving to everyone who passed by her house. When Mrs. Jenkins saw him, she smiled, “nice seeing you." He thought she did it because she was old and alone. Later, he discovered another reason for her kindness.

The two oddly rose there hands up,reaching for the ceiling, and the two said in sync without even knowing the other said it,

No sand could run through her toes; they were blocked and webbed by nylon. Clarissa reached one of the pillars, closest to the rippling waters upon the shore, and embraced it by hugging it. No one was around this area, so she had not a care in the world. She pretended the rough wood at her frontal side was that of Johnny’s body and hands having his way with her. But the excitement must have been too much for her; her breathing became very shallow. A tingling sensation came over her. Clarissa’s eyes became blurred, but she stayed as fixated as she could to the incoming water that was now running through her leggings at her feet. The cold water sent her into a chilled world. The moments went by and she held on to the scene ahead, and to the thought of Johnny’s love for her, but she eventually collapsed right there as the water came up to her one last time while she was somewhat conscious. She was no longer breathing and her crisp outfit was becoming drenched from the water that had approached. It was official…Johnny would never see his femme alive again. And Clarissa succeeded in keeping herself in the shadows so that Johnny could never see her suffer at the very

That day all Margot did was look out the window wishing the sun would come back. When the bell finally rang, she walked home in the rain, but she didn’t take out her umbrella; she just walked and let the rain drown her. Then the tears finally came, and she started to cry. She cried long and hard as she walked home. When she turned the corner at the end of the block, she saw her house, but she knew right away that something was wrong because there was an unfamiliar truck in the driveway. As she got closer to her house, she noticed that the front door was ajar. She opened the door and saw that the furniture was gone and there were stacks of boxes

She looked down from the porch and saw two others approaching. One was a tall man and the other a little girl The little girl was carrying something. This thing was a doll and a tin. Sam joined her mother on the porch and her face immediately lit up. “Mommy, that's Maddie, but who's the man? ”asked the child with a look of inquiry in her hazel eyes.

Molly sees Heather back at the lone gravestone. When Molly sees Heather, she instantly senses something is wrong; the warm day suddenly sends chills down her back as she hears Heather talking to an unseen new “friend” named Helen. Molly is scared and yells at Heather telling her to come home. Heather soon comes home and says that Molly was being mean to her, later she warns Molly that she shouldn’t keep spying on her or if she continues her new friend Helen will do something bad to them. The next day Heather runs off again, Molly finds her at the remnants of a magnificent old house that had been burnt long ago.She hears Heather talking once again to the unseen friend. Molly thinks that Heather is in danger and grabs her arm and drags her home where Molly is then scolded for “being mean to Heather” by Dave. Once at home, the groundskeeper Mr. Simmons overhears what happened and warns the kids that the old house and the pond next to it are dangerous and aren't a good place for kids to play. Mr.Simmons also

Urban legends are like a type of desire. Be it the occurrence of Roswell UFO or the conspiracies of the American dollar bill; the similarity found between them were 'realism'. Now then, how did this urban legend come about? It started as an ordinary rumor- one player holding 300 game rankings with an perfect undefeatable record including the fact he had beaten every cheats and grandmaster. The news spread like wild fire, and some had even suspected this genius gamer to actually be a hacker. Whatever the case is, this person had allowed this rumor to spread, for he had an account and ignored this, thus provided little to no information. Crowned the king of world rankings, countless of people had tried to identify this mysterious player. Nonetheless, the correct answers are usually the most boring ones...

Misty and her brother Chris are joined by their childhood friends when they decide to go in search of the urban legend that haunts their small town.