5 Urban Legends That Probably Creeped The F--K Out Of Your Childhood
Am I Pretty? (Japan)
The story is that Kuchisake-Onna wears a beautiful scarf or mask covering her face and asks them, “Am I pretty?” This is the beginning of a lose-lose conversation. If you say no, she is going to kill you with a pair of scissors. If you say yes, she will remove her mask, showing you her horrific scars and ask, “How about now?” If you say no, she'll cut you in half. If you say yes, she will still kill you and slit your mouth, making you look like her.
The Black Volga (Eastern Europe and former USSR countries)
This type of car was the most lavish and expensive available during the Cold War and was typically driven by the Communist Party and Soviet political officials. The legend of the black Volga automobile comes from the Soviet Union and spread throughout Eastern Europe. The Black Volga was a very high end limousine with white curtains and rims that was spotted frequently in the streets. Reports were that women and children would disappear whenever this car came around. According to the legend, high-ranking Soviet officials drove the black Volga kidnapping young, pretty girls to be sex slaves of the highest ranking Soviet comrades.
Buried Alive (UK)
The wife of an elderly man passes away after a long illness, leaving her husband devastated. He is stricken with grief and keeps denying that she is dead. He insists that she is still alive but since everyone thinks he is just in denial they sedate him and proceed with the funeral. They bury his wife in the family plot at the old man’s estate. That night, he keeps having nightmares of his wife trying to scratch her way out of the coffin and trying to escape. After a week of these nightmares, the the family agrees to exhume the body to give him peace of mind. To everyone’s horror, when they open the coffin, they find the old lady’s hands all bloody with bent and broken nails and scratches on the inside of the lid.
La Llorona (Mexico)
The legend goes that there was a beautiful woman named Maria. No man was ever good enough for her until a handsome stranger came to the village. After she used her powers of seduction they got married and had two children but Maria’s husband left her for another woman. One day, she was walking with them along the river when Maria’s husband drove by in a carriage with his lover. As an act of revenge she drowned their children in the river. Once she realized what she had done she killed herself. The first night after Maria was buried, the townspeople heard the wind howling by the river. But it wasn't the wind, it was La Llorona crying "Where are my children?" The legend goes that she now roams around at night wearing a white dress, searching for children playing by the riverside so she can drown them to replace her own. In many places people are afraid to let their children play by the river at dusk because La Llorona might snatch them.
Backseat Killer (America)
A woman is driving home and the car behind her keeps flashing his lights and tailgating her.
Terrified, she drives quickly to her house and jumps out of the car. (Why would she take the murderer right to her house?) Anyway she runs inside the house and calls the police. The man following her also jumps out of the car behind her and yells for her to call the police. It turns out, that this driver had seen the silhouette of a man with an axe in her backseat so he kept flashing his lights to warn her and scare the killer. The police arrested the crazed axe man in the backseat who turned out to be an escaped mental patient.
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