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An urban legend or urban myth is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture.
List of creation myths; List of legendary creatures by type; List of mythology books and sources; List of mythological objects; List of culture heroes; List of world folk-epics; Lists of deities; Lists of legendary creatures; National myth; Mythopoeia
The ghost of Resurrection Mary allegedly haunts roads and buildings around Resurrection Cemetery near Justice, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Ghost of Queen Esther, the ghost of an Iroquois woman who allegedly mourns the massacre of her village in Pennsylvania. Ghosts of the American Civil War
Cultures around the world tell stories about a great flood. [14] In many cases, the flood leaves only one survivor or group of survivors. For example, both the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible tell of a global flood that wiped out humanity and of a man who saved the Earth's species by taking them aboard a boat . [ 15 ]
The Monument Mythos is a YouTube horror webseries created by Alex Casanas and set in a paranormal alternate history of the world, depicting supposed horrific secrets behind major monuments and landmarks across America and beyond.
The "real-life" horror film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26 and premiered in theatres on June 5. Shadow people, described as "Shadow Men", feature prominently in the 2007 novel John Dies at the End. When they kill a person, that person is retroactively erased from existence, and history is rewritten as though they were never ...
The 1981 Indonesian horror film Mystics in Bali is partly based on the penanggalan legend, [4] and the American anthology streaming television series Creepshow features a penanggalan in the season three episode "Drug Traffic". [a] The penanggalan also appears in the Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others comics, [7] as well as the Image Comics ...
In 1959 the story was first developed into a movie, with many later cinematic versions to follow. The latest cinematic version of the Mae Nak story is Pee Mak, a 2013 comedy-horror film by GMM Tai Hub. The movie debuted on 26 March 2013, making 500 million baht, and went on to become the top Thai movie in the box office for 2013.