Top Five
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Do you mean to tell me that Charlie is STILL on the MTA?!
My fav urban legend is the one about the three podcasters that did a show about urban legends AND WERE NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN!!!
Ahhhhh!
I’d never heard of the elevator game, but the first thing I thought of was the death of Elisa Lam.
https://theghostinmymachine.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/the-most-dangerous-games-elevator-to-another-world/
And for those wondering about Elisa Lam
http://worldofwonder.net/disappearance-elisa-lam/
I’m a Jersey boy, so I’m legally obligated to say the Jersey Devil. Granted, he’s a second stringer in the folklore department, but for one week in 1909. he took a shot at the title and crisscrossed no fewer than 30 different towns in the Delaware Valley – from Delaware, through southern New Jersey, and into Pennsylvania – causing mass hysteria. Women swooned. Posses of men plunged into the woods to find and trap it. People locked their doors. In one town, many people would not leave their homes during the day and the school in town closed for a day for lack of students. Mills in two other towns were forced to shut down for a day due to a high rate of absenteeism. The mayor of Burlington ordered his police to “shoot the creature on sight.” A Camden theater cancelled a performance. Trolley drivers began arming themselves. Major urban newspapers treated the appearances as front page news. It astonishes me that this was just over a hundred years ago – in the 20th Century – and schools and factories closed…because of the Jersey Devil! Grown men and women locked themselves in their homes! A sort of mass hysteria spread throughout the area and, just as quickly, the spell broke. That sort of thing fascinates me, and the Jersey Devil plays a big role in The Beast of Barcroft.