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While everyone has heard of a sea serpent, it is a broad title used in mythology and in urban legends for a wide variety of marine animals.
Abu Fanous translates to “Father of the Lantern” and is the title given to a mysterious light phenomenon that occurs in the Arabian Desert. The local urban legend is that the light is a jinn attempting to lure unwise travelers into dangerous parts of the desert where they will meet their doom.
According to myth, if you see a group of mushrooms sprouting in a circle, you have found a fairy ring.
The story from 1840 goes that a young woman, Charlotte, was invited to a New Year’s ball. After taking hours to do her hair, arrange her dress, and paint her face, she steps into a sleigh, ready to ride to the party.
Cow tipping is the idea of sneaking up on a sleeping cow and shoving the animal hard enough that it falls over.
The chupacabra, which translates to “goat sucker”, is a legendary monster that haunts parts of the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and several other nearby countries.
During the mid-2000s in South Korea, the population developed an unusual fear: electric fans.
In the mid-1990s, a hoax article was printed about an Austrian circus performer with dwarfism accidentally being swallowed by a hippopotamus.
In 1911, an Italian train belonging to The Zanetti Train Company carried 104 passengers into a mountain tunnel on its maiden voyage and was never seen again. Only two of the people who boarded the train were reported as survivors. Both claimed to have had a premonition of doom and jumped from the vehicle before it entered the tunnel. In…
An urban legend is modern day example of folklore. These myths often contain exaggerated stories of macabre events, supernatural beings, extraterrestrial encounters, cryptids, or other unexplainable occurrences.