Most Popular Urban Legends
The Babysitter :
As the legend is told, a young couple living in a large
house, had gone out to a dinner party one evening. The couple had left
their babysitter in charge of their two children at the house. With the
children already in bed, she decided to go into th living room and watch
some television for a while. As she was about to get comfortable on the
couch, the phone rang. As she picked up the reciever, all she heard was a
man laughing menicingly, and a voice that said " I'm upstairs with the
children, you'd better come up. Thinking it was a prank phone call or
someone just trying to scare her, she slammed the receiver down and turned
up the television. A few minutes later the phone rang again. As she picked
it up, she could her the unmistakable laughter coming over the phone line.
She then heard the man say, once again, " I'm upstairs with the children,
you'd better come up. Getting very frightened and worried, she hung the
phone up. Not knowing what to do, the babysitter calls the operator. The
operator tells her that they would notify the police and, should he decided
to call again, to keep him talking in order to give the police time to
trace the call. Only a few minutes after she finished talking with the
operator, the phone rang again. It was the voice again. After he said, "I'm
upstairs with the children, you'd better come up," she tried to stall him
by askin why he was doing this to her. However, he must have guessed what
she was trying to do and he hung up the phone on her. Only seconds later
the phone rang again. This time it was the operator, who said, "Get out of
the house right now, we traced the call and its coming from the upstairs
phone. The man is in the house with you.". The baby-sitter dropped the
phone and, at the same time, heard someone runnin down the stairs. She fled
from the house and ran straight into the arms of the police. The police
burst into the house and found a man brandishing a large butcher's knife.
The man had broken in through one of the windows upstairs. He murdered both
of the children while they slept, and was just about to do the same to the
babysitter when the police arrived
Resurrection Mary :
A ghost fondly named "Resurrection Mary" makes appearances near the
Resurrection Cemetery and at the Willowbrook Ballroom in Justice, Illinois. She has been known to dance with men at the ballroom and ask them for a ride home only to disappear from their cars as they pass the cemetery.
One night in the 1940's she was at the ballroom and had danced all night with a young man. The man was very much fasinated with her beauty and was very interested in her. She asked him for a ride to Resurrection Cemetary when the night was over and he asked why she said, "please, take me there don't ask any questions." He drove her there and she got out of the car and walked toward the gates of the cemetary, she disappeared. The man remembered that while they were dancing she had told him where she lived. The next day he decided to go to her home to see her. He found her house and knocked on the door and an older woman answered. He asked for Mary and very much to his surprised the woman said that Mary had been dead for 8 years. Still standing in the doorway he saw a picture of Mary on the piano behind the woman. He said, "that's her, that's Mary." The woman responded, "yes, that is Mary."
She been seen hitchhiking on the nearby roads by many creditable witnesses. In the late 1980's a taxi driving was driving near the Resurrection Cemetary and picked her up. He and Mary were talking but as the cab passed Resurrection Cemetery the she vanished from the cab. Other witnesses have also seen "Resurrection Mary" hitchiking and have stopped to pick her up. She gets into the vehicle and suddenly dissapears. She has also been known to have entered vehicles that were driving near the cemetary, once the occupants of the vehicle notice that she is there, she vanishes sometimes leaving something of hers behind.
"Resurrection Mary" is believed to be Mary Bregavy, a young girl had been killed in a car accident in 1939 while going home from a dance at a local ballroom, now the Willowbrook Ballroom.
The Intruder :
As the story goes, a young woman returned home from work one afternoon to find her Doberman Pincer gagging and choking on something..what, she did not know. Unable to help the dog dislodge the foreign matter herself, she rushed him to the nearest animal hospital, where she was advised to leave the dog for observation. Upon returning home a second time, she immediately received a telephone call from the animal hospital. "Yes, is my Doberman alright?" she asked. "Did you find out what he was choking on?"
In response, the veterinary doctor told her, "Listen...don't ask any questions, just get out of your house, NOW!! The police are on their way!"
Alarmed, she asked, "W-Why? Is my dog alright? What's going on??"
"Lady, I don't have time to explain," the doctor replied. "For your own safety, just do as I say! Get out of your house NOW, and wait for the police to arrive!!"
Now frantic, the woman did as the doctor told her, and ran out of her house to wait for the police. When the police did arrive moments later, they searched the woman's house thoroughly...and in an upstairs closet, they found a male intruder who'd been hiding there for some time. Understandably, the intruder had gone into shock, as his right hand was still profusely bleeding. He was soon taken away in an ambulance.
As it turned out, the woman's protective Doberman Pincer had been choking on three of the man's fingers...which the doctor had removed from deep within the dog's throat!
Don't Turn on the Lights:
As the story goes a girl was studying late into the night at the library at an undisclosed college and realized she forgot some notes she needed to study from. She decides to go back to her dorm room and get them. She doesn't want to disturb her roommate, so she doesnt turn on the lights when she gets her stuff off of her desk. After the night of studying she goes back to the dorm room and goes to sleep. In the morning she wakes up to find her roommate stabbed to death on her bed. She then notices a message written in red lipstick on the mirror of the roomates dresser. The message read, "Bet your glad you didn't turn on the light?"
Ghosts of Schoolbus Accident Push Vehicles off Tracks:
Just south of San Antonio, Texas, there is an intersection of roadway and railroad track that has become very famous in the paranormal and urban legends catagory. The intersection was the site of a tragic accident in which several children were killed - but their ghosts forever remain at the spot. And the curious from all over the world come to this intersection of railroad track and roadway to witness firsthand the paranormal phenomena they've heard takes place there.
This is the story as I have heard and read about it.
Back in the early to mid 70's, a school bus full of children was making its way down the road and toward the intersection when it stalled out on the railroad tracks. A speeding train, going way to fast to slow down in time, smashed broad side into the bus.The crash killed 10 of the children and the bus driver. Since that dreadful accident almost 30 years ago, any car stopped near or on the railroad tracks will be pushed by unseen hands across the tracks to safety. It is supposedly the spirits of the children, who push the cars across the tracks to prevent a another accident and tragedy like the one they suffered. Everday, cars will stop on the haunted intersection to see if the legend is true. The driver of the car will stop some 20 to 30 yards from the tracks and puts the car in neutral gear. And sure enough, even though the car is going up an incline toward the tracks, the car begins to roll. It rolls very slowly at first, then steadily gaining speed - seemingly of its own accord and against gravity - up and over the tracks. This has been tested time and time again, and cars really do roll up and over the tracks - every time.
The best part about this legend is as follows. Before you put your car in position near the tracks, sprinkle a light film of white powder - like talcum or baby powder - over the car's trunk and rear bumper. After the vehicle goes up and over the rail road tracks and comes to a halt. Go behind your vehicle. You will see tiny sets of fingerprints and handprints all over the back of the vehicle.these prints are those of the ghost children that were killed all those years ago. Many who have tried it swear that indeed they can see the evidence of small children's handprints in the powder.