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Between the 1960s and the 1970s, there was an urban legend in Poland about vampires who kidnapped people.
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…