These strange urban legends turned out to be completely real, including killer clowns and snakes in toilets. Every wild story ...

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Urban legends have captivated humanity for generations, those spine-tingling tales shared in hushed voices around campfires and whispered during sleepovers. These stories possess an uncanny ability to ...

Scary stories are all fun and games until you realize they were based on some form of truth. Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community to share what spooky local legends they grew up with, and now I'll ...

Growing up, urban legends had a way of sneaking into our lives and giving us nightmares as kids (and beyond). It might have ...

Bigfoot, chupacabra, Area 51—who doesn’t love a good urban legend? As fun as they are to entertain, though, most of them lack any credible proof. The Great Potato Salad M*****e back in 1976. Small ...

Cellphones cause cancer. Freezing batteries will retain their power. Macs are immune to viruses. Pretty sure you’ve heard every tech myth out there at this point in your life. But granted there is ...

Outrageous myths about celebrities are nothing new. Given the way information spreads through social media and the Internet, it’s often hard to know what’s fact or fiction. This week, during a segment ...

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 ...

As far as urban legends go, The Backrooms is one of the most compellingly ones to have arisen from the Internet. An ever-expanding array of rooms that house unspeakable creatures and impossible ...

One of Pokémon’s most well-known urban legends is that there’s a rare Pokémon — Mew — hidden under a truck in Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. Where did this come from? No one really knows. When Pokémon ...