10 terrible urban legends that could be true

Have you ever wondered why the stories we tell each other while sitting by the fire make us shake with fear? The truth is that there is always a certain amount of truth in them. Such stories are plausible enough that we are afraid to fall asleep during the rest of the night.

A man by nature is inclined to invent horrific stories, but smoke without fire does not happen. All of them had to be inspired by something, be it a pure imagination or real events. And sometimes urban legends created as pranks turn into something more - real stories with real observations. Do city monsters come to life only thanks to the power of the human imagination, or did they always exist, and we only recently learned about them? In any case, we suggest that you learn 10 horrendous urban legends that are likely to become the cause of your nightmares.

The noise that comes from inside ... children

Perhaps this terrible story is just a city legend. One thing is certain: "The noise that comes from within the children" (the author of this story, Ed Kahn) is one of the most mysterious creations in the history of writing. In fact, no one knows what exactly is going on in this terrible Ed Kahn story, but according to one critical review and a few mentions on the Internet, its content was so terrible that the work was banned soon after it was published. The only review on this creation notes that if more people read this story, the whole horror genre would have to be reviewed. But, alas, the author, like his story, disappeared from the face of the Earth. The mystery remains unresolved!

Rake is the fruit of your nightmares

The Internet has given us a whole new genre of real scary stories. Usually it all starts with one post, idea or comment, and then goes beyond the scope of this publication and turns into a full-blown urban legend with photos, documented observations and all kinds of details that make this idea all the more real. So it happened with Rake - a two-meter humanoid, who usually crawls on all fours. He has pale skin and a face without any signs of a mouth or nose, but he has three green eyes. They say it can be seen in suburban areas, but Rake does not attack if you do not approach it yourself. But if you decide to approach, he will start attacking, opening his mouth, which looks more like a crack on his face, with dozens of blunt teeth inside.

Virus Goodtimes

Now hackers have not been very happy days: they can not do really great damage, considering all the anti-virus software installed on modern computers. Nevertheless, back in the 90s, when users did not have complex programs to protect computers, they turned out to be helpless in the face of "evil" on the Internet. Hackers were some kind of web pirates, which caused chaos and despair. Have you ever heard of viruses that can melt your entire computer? And this is not just a turn of the word, viruses could actually destroy not only the software, but also the hardware. Even worse, this virus replicated very quickly, sending itself to all users who are in your address book. Imagine how many people suffered! The Goodtimes virus was sent via email when people were naive enough to open a message warning about the alleged attack. This virus managed to destroy hundreds of computers.

Ted's Caving Page Blog

If you think that modern Internet users are so trusting that they are ready to believe any rumor about the death of a celebrity or about the release of a new film after viewing just a few posts and photos edited in Photoshop, then try to imagine how gullible people were at the time when The Internet was something new. Why would someone lie on the web, right? But then people did the same as now.

Ted's Caving Page began as an innocent project with photographs of various caves, exits from them and descriptions of Ted's experience in speleology. Nevertheless, it all became very strange when Ted and his friends found a "secret cave", which was not on any map. Of course, he and his friends wanted to explore all the corners of the cave with its creepy hieroglyphics. The blog ended rather harshly after Ted and one of his colleagues began to suffer from nightmares for several weeks. They decided to go into the cave for the last time, armed with knives, and this is where the story ends. It is really well conceived and it seems absolutely real!

Goatman

Most modern stories of urban horrors were created on the Internet, but some of them have deeper roots that go back to the cultural heritage of Native Americans. This is the story of Anansi and his meeting with Goatman. According to this story, Anansi and several of his friends decided to go on a campaign to the south, to the desert of Alabama. There they met an eerie Goatman, who did not lag behind them day or night, spoke gibberish and moved in an incomprehensible way. This creature did not kill the travelers, but it affected their mind, as a result of which they began to suffer from paranoia and attack each other. This story brings terrible stories to a whole new level!

Project "The Witch of Blair"

Meet the predecessor of all the horror stories, which actually created the genre itself. This is a marketing campaign that mostly works on the Internet, presenting many convincing "proofs" that the Blair Witch is a real person, and not a movie character with a carefully thought out plot. The company spent $ 25 million on marketing, while the film budget was only $ 20,000, but the idea itself really paid off! People believed that they found footage, which was a prerequisite for the film, and they made it legendary. The project "The Blair Witch" told about three movie producers who were missing during the filming of the film, and showed many other eerie "plausible" details. The whole project was so brilliantly thought out that we can not help but wonder: could all this really be real?

Smith Sisters

Of course, the so-called happiness letters can be very annoying, but we usually do not consider them to be creepy. Nevertheless, this story will force you to reconsider your opinion. She talks about the boy John Smith, who liked to send such emails. But one day he received a letter from mysterious girls Smith, who claimed that they were his lost sisters. In order to prove the truthfulness of their history, they sent him some old photographs on which they were depicted in the old house. The boy was frightened, because he did not know that he had any sisters, especially the dead (it was obvious to him that they were sending letters to him from the "other side"). Sisters Smith urged him to check the old wardrobe at the top, about the existence of which he did not know. Of course, the boy did what he was asked for, but after that no one else saw him. The police found only a few carved figures inside the cabinet: one was the inscription "Lisa and Sarah, 1993", and on the other "John, 2007". So it's worth checking whether you've forgotten to include a spam filter to protect yourself from any crazy emails!

Slenderman

Each of us has at least once heard of the Subtle Man, or Slenderman, and knows that this is a completely fictional character. But this does not make this creature less scary. Who knows, maybe the power of our imagination could revive it? It seems that the Slenderman existed for centuries: this is what we must believe after watching the series and participating in a variety of games with this terrifying creature. After some time, no one will remember that he was the product of our imagination, and the Subtle Man will become an actual part of urban legends. The slender man first appeared in the form of a dark figure on an old black and white image created using Photoshop. But then more and more photos appeared, until there was a real avalanche of evidence that this creature was real. It plays on our fear of darkness and all those things that hide in it. We all saw shadows when we turned around on a narrow section of a poorly lit road at night, and it seemed to us that there was someone there, was not it? You definitely saw someone. Perhaps this was the Slenderman.

Russian experiment with sleep

Eerie experiments conducted by the military always impress people. And, probably, they will remain one of the most terrible topics for decades to come. There are real stories, for example, the notorious Japanese group 731, or the MKULTRA program, conducted by the CIA. Therefore, it would not be surprising that the Russian military also conducted experiments on innocuous citizens.

According to this legend, people were locked in cells and given drugs that did not allow them to fall asleep. This was done in order to see how long they can live without sleep. People stayed in the locked room for several months and slowly went crazy. After a while, the cells were open, but there was no noise in the room filled with dozens of people. It turned out that about half of the participants in the experiment were dead, and the rest ate their flesh. They demanded more medicine to never sleep. This is really hard stuff!

Normal porn for normal people

Here we are again dealing with spam, but this time the story makes an incredibly ominous twist. You get a link to a site with a rather unusual slogan, which reads: "A site dedicated to the elimination of abnormal sexuality." In the end, you read a crazy rant, but some words in it turn out to be links to video. It shows quite innocuous actions: the owner feeds the dog, the guy makes himself a sandwich with peanut butter and eats it, the girl plays the violin. Nevertheless, in each of these videos there are terrible and violent acts of a sexual nature, but they are seen only as a glimpse on the reflective surface. From this moment the video becomes more and more strange. We will not spoil all the "pleasure", and if you are interested in this video, just check it! If you decide.