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The legend was adapted into a horror movie, 999-9999, in 2002. [34] The Death ship of the Platte River (or the ghost ship of the Platte River) is an urban legend about an old sailing ship that appears grey and unnatural, crewed by phantom sailors, sighted between Alcova and Torrington, Wyoming since the mid-1800s. [35]
The Red Room Curse (Japanese: 赤い部屋, Hepburn: Akai heya) is an early Japanese Internet urban legend about a red pop-up ad which announces the forthcoming death of the person who encounters it on their computer screen. [1] It may have its origin in an Adobe Flash horror animation of the late 1990s that tells the story of the legend. [2]
Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, or simply legend) is a genre of folklore concerning stories about an unusual (usually scary) or humorous event that many people believe to be true but largely are not.
They devised a list of the scariest urban legends in each Southern state, including the dead children’s playground in Alabama and the town beneath Lake Lanier in Georgia.
A Japanese urban legend dating back to the Taishō period, that saw a significant resurgence after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, is a trend of taxi drivers who say that they picked up a passenger, often drenched or cold, who then disappears before reaching their destination, often leaving behind evidence of their presence such as a ...
A version of the story by author Alvin Schwartz appears in the 1981 collection of short horror stories for children Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. [7] The 1998 film Urban Legend begins with this scenario. [8]
Urban Legends Revealed. The Canadian animated anthology series Freaky Stories (1997) has a segment in its first season based on the Hook, set in 1963. [20] The story is referenced in "The Slumber Party" episode of Designing Women. The Hookman is used as a plot device in season 3, episode 5 of Community: "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps".
An urban legend referring to a hidden service or website on the dark web, depicting the live torture and murder of individuals; An area of the haunted house described in the 1977 book The Amityville Horror; A room for BDSM activities in the Fifty Shades trilogy; A room and a symbol in the gothic 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë