Urban Legends.

So far only one that's made me freak is the dog one! Mainly because I have a big hairy dog and do rely on him for protection, however, he does not sleep next to my bed. Weirdly enough I can watch criminal minds ext without too much fuss

Oh and my sister sees shadow people in the corners of hers eyes. They're quick as a flash and move really quickly.

About 5 mins ago I heard someone turn the key in our front door and I thought dh is home, but no one has opened the door and he hasnt come in. < shit scared >.

urgh I have been reading these on my own and I am to scared to go upstairs now.

Lord - every so often there are localised outbreaks in rural areas of stables being broken into at night and horses slashed with knives. Google 'horse mutilations England'.

I'm not into this sort of stuff in a creepy way, btw. I'm just a big Fortean Times fan and it gets discussed there, usually in a folklore context.

Sausage, yes It did have Joshua Jackson in it. He's the reason I watched it!

Lord, i found this about straw men here. It's a thread with people reporting sightings of them.

Also after reading the above, I'm a bit saddened that the scariest story I have ever read on MN about the stick man, is infact, maybe a lie. It's too similar to one of the sightings mentioned on the above link posted in 26.03.10. Might be an urban legend.

Although I quite like the idea of a friendly stickman.

Oh you fucking bunch of fucks. I should never have started reading this. Those black eyed children. That doll.

Being on the news doesn't mean something's true...

*terrifying.

Not scary.

ShrinkingNora's post up thread.

Link that says "sorry but it's fucking scary".

It is, but really needs to be mentioned that it's a doll. I HATE dolls. I now LOATHE that one.

Stella - I know, that's what makes it even creepier. According to t'internet there've been some pretty serious police investigations into it in various parts of the country, but no one ever seems to have been charged.

Some of the stories have the bogus social workers (or BSWs if you're in with the in-crowd) seeming not quite right somehow, kind of plastic-faced.

Horse slashers is another odd one. Wtf is that about?

Rainydays I had that film on video it had Jared Leto and Joshua Jackson in it. I can't remember the killers motive but all the classics were there.

The bogus socailise worker one is true, it actually happened to Xp (dd1's bio dad) and his new wife and was on the Anglia News.

does anybody know the labrador one?

it's not scary at all.

I've got both my children laying in my bed with me asleep as I read these stories. My blinds are open and there's a gap in the curtains; keep thinking I will see someone's reflection! < shudders >

I think I remember watching a film called Urban Legends when I was younger. It was a pathetic teen horror. I think there was a story about a dog being cooked in a microwave but cant remember.

Reading these has made me feel rather nervous about being in a detached bungalow with curtains only in the bedrooms. I just couldn't stop reading!!

Jesus Fucking Christ.....That bloody doll!

Fucking warn us next time, that's the sort of thing that really freaks me out.

I've been fine right up to that point.

This one always crept me out and upset me as dh works away a lot and we talk a lot on the phone.

There is a women busy in the house and preparing to get her kids from school when the phone rings, annoyed at being interrupted she answers it, the line is faint and crackly but its her husband she is pleased to hear from him as she missed his call earlier that day; he always called at 11am and as she didn't here the phone she is pleased he got a chance to call back. He tells her he doesn't have long to talk but she hasn't to worry, he says things are going to be different from now on, that she will have to be really strong for the kids. She's confused and asks if he's been drinking, she thinks he's being silly but can't understand why. He laughs and says he loves her but she will have to be strong, he says he loves them all very much but has to go and she shouldn't be too upset and she will understand things soon. More upset and confused she goes downstairs to get the kids thinking he was being silly and will call later. As she leaves the house a police car is pulling up to the house, they say they have some bad news her husbands plane went down at 11am that morning all soles were lost. Her husband therefore could only have called from beyond the grave.

The other ones that creep me out are dead people turning up in photos, like the RAF man killed in WW2 appearing in the group photo of the returning troops even though he never made it back.

Or the young child heading home from school and meeting grandma/mam/friend on the lane and having a lovely chat only to go into the house and be told they died earlier that day and they wanted to wait for her to come out of school before they told her.

The 'bogus social worker' phenomenon is creepy. Unsuspecting parent gets a knock on the door from a couple (usually including a woman) who flash some ID and claim to be from Social Services, investigating a report about the young child in the house. The shocked parents let them in, the child is 'examined' and the couple leave. The parents phone the council when they've had a chance to calm down and recover a sense of 'WTF', and are told that no social workers have been anywhere near their house and there are no reports on the child.

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