Essay about Urban Legends

Thomm Quackenbush said “The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination” in his book We Shadows. The image of Slenderman was created both in Anissa’s and Morgan's head and that eventually lead to the stabbing of Payton Leutner. Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser believed in the urban legend of Slenderman, causing them to commit this horrid act. Slenderman isn’t the only urban legend told to scare individuals the Grimm brothers introduced urban legends idea during the 19th century. Throughout the years children have become more interested in urban legends due to technology and that is why this legends sparked Anissa and Morgan to almost kill their friend.

frightened and wants her lover to take her home. At first he refuses, however after he tries to kiss her and she pushes him away he agrees begrudgingly to take her home. It is only after she gets out of the car that she sees the hook of the murderer gouged into the door. It is suggested that this rumour was created to warn young adults away from acts of sex before marriage. The story while at first spread by means of oral communication, gained infamy when a column writer in a local newspaper wrote an article describing the incident as an event that happened to a friend of a friend (Winick, 2009). To this day the urban legend of The Hook is a well-known legend, which is still told, though in our current society this is spread more as a means

For example, King James 1 of Scotland was murdered after reporting being approached by a strange sighting, fitting the banshee. In 2006, a lady in Toronto was awoken by a loud eerie wailing noise. Following the noise, she looked outside and across the street, saw the saddest face she had ever seen, of a woman with very long hair, wailing the saddest noice she had ever heard. She was there for about a good ten minutes until she dissapeared, and two weeks later, the witness’s brother had

In the urban legend titled “Aren’t You Glad You Didn’t Turn on the Light” there were two college roommates and on a night before a big test one of them went to a party and the other decided to stay in the dorm and study. When the roommate came home late from the party she went straight to bed without turning on the light so she wouldn’t wake her roommate. In the morning, she found her roommate murdered in her bed and the words,” aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?” written on the wall in blood. This urban legend has core elements that closely relate to “Humans Can Lick Too” so it could have been created around the same time. These elements are that the main character is a young woman, a murder takes place right in front of her, and

Anna woke up in a chair with her wrists tied and her ankles tied and she tried to scream but realized that she had a sock in her mouth. Anna started crying thinking that this would be her last day on Earth. The serial killer came inside the room and just started looking at her then smirked and said “ Do you remember me?” Anna shook her head no in fear, he then said “ I was that guy you yelled at in the store for stepping on your shoe” he paused then said “you should be nice to everyone because you don’t know who they really are and what they are capable of”. Anna tried to start talking about all that came out was inaudible mumbles because of the sock in her mouth. The serial killer went over and snactched the sock out of her mouth and Anna said “ I am so sorry I am usually a kind person but so much happened that day and you stepping on my shoe brought me over the edge and I took it out on you please let me go I won’t tell anyone this happened ” The serial killer said “I know I have those days all the time” he paused and went to stand behind her and then continued to talk and said “ I understand but………….. I’M CRAZY” and then shot her in the back of the

On Halloween night in 1957, 35-year-old hairdresser, Peter Fabiano, answered the door to what he believed to be trick-or-treaters. Instead, the last thing he saw was an adult in a hat, red cloves, and a domino mask, aiming a brown paper bag that contained a .22 caliber pistol right at him. The person fired the fatal shot and immediately fled the scene, hoping to disappear under the cover of anonymity.

Weekendnotes.com, (2014). The 4 Spookiest Urban Legends in Adelaide. [online] Available at: http://www.weekendnotes.com/spookiest-urban-legends-adelaide/ [Accessed 19 Oct.

I'm here to tell you about the urban legend of the Bloody Mary. “Bloody Mary” is a urban legend that first originated in in the early 1960s as an adolescent party game, and the person would take a candle or a flashlight and go into a dark room and look into a mirror and say a chant,” The exact chant is unknown”. After you say the chant a unknown amount of times something would appear and or happen. For example in the Poems of Robert Burns, published in 1787: Is a great example of a bloody mary ritual. “Take a candle, and go alone to a looking glass; eat an apple before it, and some traditions say, you should comb your hair all the time; the face of your conjugal companion, to be, will be seen in the glass, as if peeping over your shoulder.

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Spooky or creepy stories have been told for ages. Lots of people like hearing scary tales but I think what makes a story really scary is one which is real. A horror story which really happened can be scarier than a made up story. There is a house in Los Angeles, California which sits on top of a Los Feliz hilltop. It has become known as the Los Feliz Murder Mansion. It was a fateful night when on December 6, 1959 Dr. Harold Perelson took a hammer and struck his wife dead, he then severely beat his 18 year old daughter and finally ended his own life by having a acid cocktail. The mansion remained alone and uninhabited, holding its dark secrets for the next fifty years.

Humankind fought numerous wars in the twentieth century. In the United States, none affected the everyday lives of those left at home to the extent that the Second World War did. The government rationed essential war material, such as rubber, gasoline, and numerous food items. Teens, disabled, middle aged, and elderly, male and female, kept farms productive and factories turning out munitions at an unprecedented level. Although people endured hardships, they also found opportunities for adventure and financial gain. For countless people, the war changed the direction of their lives.1 Their stories are diverse.

Creepy urban legends. 1) Bloody Mary: There are numerous origins of this tale. Mary was supposedly a witch who lived in the woods in the outskirts. She wasn't allowed inside the village.

This urban legend, with its narrative polish and how recently it has taken place, seems to have had its start in 1980s, when a Turkish man sold his kidney, but had told officials that it was stolen. Later it was proven that he offered to sell his kidney from a newspaper advertisement. This story became famous with its adaption to the TV crime show Law and Order. With its new found fame, many people adapted the plot to better fit their needs upon retelling it, such as changing the location. Locations started in distant countries, for instance, Brazil and the Caribbean, then moved closer to Mexico, and even within the US, New York and Las Vegas (Fine and Ellis, pg. 179-180). The major points that follow the legend through its various forms include: hotel rooms, an unknowing victim, traveling to new places, confusion and pain.

Stephen King is the author of many novels and short stories with creepy settings; King admits that he even has a fear of bugs to add to the list of things that freaks him out. In one of his earlier short stories from 1976, several women at New Sharon Teachers' College fall victim to a “Jack the Ripper” style character with a mysterious fog that weighs heavy over the campus. King, the narrator, also a student, leads us on a twisted tale in a foggy New England town to search who committed the horrifying acts. My analysis of King’s use of the literary elements, together with his history of horror reflected from his short story, “Strawberry Spring” ( The Fact Site, 8 Apr. 2017)

"Red Rooms" are purportedly secret underground websites where people can watch the live murder of a captured victim. Although Red Rooms tales are a fairly recent trend, first widely appearing in 2014 and largely picking up interest in 2015 (Figure C) they can be seen as the evolution of prior murder myths and speak to societal fears both contemporary and old.