Top 10 Spooky Halloween Urban Legends

[Sentry18]

https://misanthrope.today/2019/10/17/top-10-spooky-halloween-urban-legends/

Top 10 Spooky Halloween Urban Legends

Aliens in Area 51, secret deep state mind control experiments, Bloody chemtrails – there is some really scary stuff you can read about in pages like these all year long!

So, it really should come as no surprise that Halloween is filled with some really scary conspiracies and urban legends all of its own that just refuse to die!

1. Contaminated Candy

Anyone who has ever been out Trick or Treating has been told to “beware of contaminated candies,” and we all know that “friend of a friend who got an apple with a razor blade in it. The common saying “don’t take candy from strangers” dates back to the abduction of Charley Ross in 1874, who was lured into a horse-drawn carriage with a treat and never seen again. So while there is an ounce of truth to the saying, not all candy is out to do evil. Still, while poisoned candy being doled out by the bagful on Halloween remains firmly in the realm of urban legend, instances of sharp objects concealed inside foodstuffs and handed out during Halloween have occurred. Moral of the story? Be cautious with your sweets.

1. The Great Pumpkin Conspiracy

OK, this is a really weird one. If you are like me, you love the Peanuts movie “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.” Watching it every year was a tradition in my family growing up and I have carried that on with my own daughter. As fun and innocent as this movie is, do you know that there is a conspiracy theory that says that the “Great Pumpkin” that Linus and the gang “worship” is really the Demon Beelzebub who has killed all of the kid’s parents, and that is why you never see any adults in any Peanuts cartoons, and just hear them speak in this weird demon-like trumpet voice.

1. The Halloween Masked Massacre

There is a well-known picture that started circulating in 1962, that shows a bunch of Halloween partyers all in various costumes and a man in a creepy black mask in the middle. According to legend, at some point, after this picture was taken, he locked all the doors and proceeded to start murdering all the guests. He killed seven before escaping, never to be found. It was reported that the FBI found the mask in 1969. None of it ever happened, of course, but it remains a Halloween urban legend.

1. Drugged Candies

Like the stories of poisoned or otherwise adulterated candies, urban myths persist of candies being given out that are really the drugs Ecstasy, or LSD, or temporary tattoos that contain LSD. These rumors started in the 70s, and to this day parents are warned to watch out for houses handing out loose gummies or brightly colored sweets or anything meant to be applied directly onto the skin. While they usually crop up every Halloween, there is virtually no evidence to suggest they’re based on any fact.

1. The Halloween Hookman

The well-known urban legend of the “Hookman” a crazed killer with a hook for an arm who kills kids on making out in cars, started as a Halloween legend. In some instances, the teens escape before the killer sinks his hook into them; in other tales, they’re not so lucky. While it’s nothing more than a ghost story that doubles as a cautionary tale about teen sexuality, the Hookman legend may have some connection to some real-life lovers’ lane slayings such as the Texarkana Murders, some of which took place on Halloween.

1. The Spider Wig

As this tall tale goes, a version of which appeared in the recent movie, “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” a young girl was rooting around in her grandma’s attic seeking a Halloween costume. She chooses a wig and something that looks like a witch’s hat and attends a party. Then her scalp begins to itch. Then partiers begin screaming as they see that thousands of tiny spiders have come out of the wig and are crawling all over her face.

1. It’s Open Season on Black Cats

There is an on-going Halloween urban legend that Satanists go out on the prowl to find black cats to kill and sacrifice. This has never been proved, but it has forced some animal shelters to prohibit the adoption of black cats on or shortly before Halloween, and some rescue groups to trap and get black kitties off of the streets.

1. Bloody Mary

Like the Hookman, though now not only Halloween folklore, the legend of “Blood Mary,” began life as ritual only to be done on Halloween. Now, any day is fine to conjure this malign entity, by looking in a mirror and uttering her name three times.

1. The Halloween Head Hoax

There is an aged photo that makes the rounds on social media around Halloween every year that purports to show English children Susan and John Buckley hoisting their mother’s decapitated head for Halloween—these were not nice children! However, the Snopes has posted evidence that the original 100-year-old photo was doctored.

1. Halloween Night Gang Initiations

This is probably the most recent Halloween urban legend on our list. This rumor, which started in 2008 involved an email hoax warning people that the Bloods – a violent LA street gang – were holding an initiation on Halloween night requiring them to kill 31 women—one for every day of October. Subsequent versions said the gang initiates had to kill up to 140 women on Halloween. To the relief of women nationwide, it was only a hoax.

 

[Weedygarden]

https://misanthrope.today/2019/10/17/top-10-spooky-halloween-urban-legends/

I haven't looked at the contents yet, but it seems that these kinds of things really do not have many people who are interested. I am. We grew up telling stories at slumber parties and other times. Telling stories was entertainment. Growing up with grandparents, they would have visitors and they would reminisce about things. Most of it was what happened to this or that person, but there were other kinds of stories.

 

[Patchouli]

That's why "Lore" is such a great podcast. It has many legends and myths, worldwide but a lot right here in the U.S.A.
And it is some really scary freaky stuff.

 

[Weedygarden]

That's why "Lore" is such a great podcast. It has many legends and myths, worldwide but a lot right here in the U.S.A.
And it is some really scary freaky stuff.

I will check it out.
https://www.lorepodcast.com

 

[Terri9630]

I was told this one as a kid living in San Antonio. We lived not far from this RR crossing.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/tx-ghostlychildren/

Just south of San Antonio, Texas, is the site of Texas’ most famous ghost story. Not far from the San Juan Mission is an intersection of the roadway that is crossed by railroad tracks. Whether this is an urban legend or truly a ghostly tale has long been forgotten in history. Reportedly, this is the site of a fatal accident in which a train collided with a school bus full of children in the 1930s or 1940s.

According to the legend, it was a rainy Texas morning as the train moved swiftly down the tracks when the engineer spied a school bus stalled along his path. Frantically pulling his break and tugging on the train whistle, the hulking engine quickly advanced toward the school bus, unable to stop in time. Ten children reportedly lost their lives that day and continue to haunt the area, protecting others from a similar fate.

As the story goes, if you park your car directly over the tracks and shift into neutral, the ghosts of the children will push it uphill, out of the way of any oncoming train. And if you have the foresight to cover your bumper with baby powder or flour, you can reportedly see the children’s fingerprints upon your car.

This story has been featured on the popular television shows of Sightings, Unsolved Mysteries, as well as numerous Texas Magazines and newspapers.

Despite the much publicized story, its truth has been hotly debated in San Antonio and both area residents and local law enforcement are weary of the legend. Numerous accounts have been reported that cars do in fact inexplicably move on their own and mysterious prints are seen on vehicles. Others allege they have heard the voices and laughter of children while at the site.

 

[Sentry18]

That's awesome. Friendly ghosts are always better than scary ghosts!