So a few days ago, I was watching tv in the living room and I was a bit tired since I slept late. I tried to have a nap and when I dozed off I felt someone tap my back and in my brothers voice it said. YOU'RE NOT AWAKE? I woke up and looked at my brother on the other couch, it wasn’t him, he was watching tv the whole time. And then he pranked me when I woke up, he said you are in a dream and when I blinked he was gone, I found out that he was behind me. But the one that tapped my back wasn’t my brother.

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Ok you don't have to believe me ok ok

I was 11 wean this happened ok me and my dad were going to denis on the bike we were 10 minutes in and this 7 foot tall thing come running at us we were going 50mph and it kept up on us my dad flord it and we were going 70mph all the way thar and I was shaking idk if your going to believe me.

I love killers sucha s Ghostface, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, I want to know if there is a urban legend about a crazed killer, not necessary masked( the only ones I know are the Bunnyman and the Hookman).

Thanks!

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In the eerie forests of Pennsylvania, there lurks a malevolent entity known only as the "Allegheny Shadow Stalker." This sinister being is said to be a twisted form of a skinwalker, with a haunting appearance that strikes fear into the hearts of those who dare to cross its path.

The Allegheny Shadow Stalker is described as a tall, gaunt figure cloaked in tattered black robes that seem to blend seamlessly with the shadows of the dense woodland. Its eyes glow with a malevolent light, piercing through the darkness like burning embers, and its elongated fingers end in razor-sharp claws that drip with an otherworldly darkness.

This ghastly creature is rumored to make its lair deep within the heart of the Allegheny National Forest, in a hidden glen shrouded by ancient trees and veiled in perpetual twilight. The air in its domain is thick with a sense of foreboding, and the trees themselves seem to whisper warnings to all who approach, as if trying to deter them from the malevolent presence that dwells within.

Legend has it that the Allegheny Shadow Stalker preys on the lost and the unsuspecting, drawing them into its realm with whispered promises of guidance and salvation. Those who fall under its spell are never seen again, their fates unknown but their souls forever bound to the shadowy creature that haunts the depths of the forest.

Despite the skepticism of outsiders and the attempts to rationalize away the tales, the legend of the Allegheny Shadow Stalker endures, a chilling reminder of the darkness that lingers in the forgotten corners of Pennsylvania's wilderness.

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I watched a video on YouTube back when I was serving in the military and I remember it too well fir me yo have dreamt it, anyway the video was like a found footage tapes of 3 separate events one was of a village during ww2 that gave robotic appendages to amputees way ahead of the technology of the time. The second was about a military exercise at sea where the military persons where diving of a speed boat but one is grabbed by something and pulled away at great speed that not even ghe speed boat can catch it. The third video was of a child who had telekinetic powers or something and he drowns the family dog in the pool using it and the family flees to sweeden or some Norwegian country.

I've tried to find this collection of videos for years but I can't seem to find it again. I feel like I need peace of mind that this actually exists and it wasn't just some fever dream I had.

I remember the details of an image.

A woman with long hair apppearing on the water-side but her sp!n3 is exposed.
EDIT: And maybe even the back of her r!bcag3 too.

I remember browsing Pinterest urban legend captions when I younger, and finding a story about police finding the body of a comedian/entertainer/ventriloquist mutilated into a puppet-esq corpse. There was a back & white photo of the puppet corpse sitting on a wooden chair. Anyone know what I’m talking about? Thanks

So you know about Slenderman sironhead skin Walker they are very popular and main stream and there arent any in a long time so is there a way to main stream a Urban Legend without it being fake or are there any specific places i should go ?

Hey everybody, we just joined this group because we're creating a podcast episode about Urban Legends for our month of Halloween episodes. We are specifically looking for Urban Legends that turned out to be true or based on true events. I'm thinking of stuff like the old tv show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Do you guys have any fun stories for us to share? Thank you!

I thought I would share this urban legend as I didn't seem to find any English source talking about it and I found it to be absolutely fascinating. I apologize in advance if this gets pretty long, I will add some background on how and why I got to know the story, because I believe it adds to the plot :)

TW : I wanted to add a TW for s**cide but couldn't find a tag so I add the NSFW one.

Yesterday, as a day trip gateway with my bf, we decided to visit "素顔の滝 - sugao no taki", located in Kitakyushu city. As we parked and started to head to the waterfall, we felt an eerie vibe almost immediately (it has just rained, and we were in the middle of a forest... but still). Behind the trees and up the hill, we could see what looked like two fairly big buildings, but we decided to leave it for exploration after seeing the waterfall.

We kept walking and saw small alters and statues all along the way that led to an abandoned temple, right next to the waterfall. Most of the statues were black with bright white eyes, it was pretty spooky, and I have never seen that in Japan before. Also, the temple was in a really bad shape, the roof had collapsed, and the windows were broken so that we could see all the religious items left behind inside. The overall atmosphere was really something and we got excited as we heard growling sounds around and saw some wild animals (a Japanese badger, a baby wild boar and a snake).

We get to the waterfall, enjoy the view, then climb our way to the big buildings we saw on the way. It happened to be two religious looking buildings, in an old Japanese style, but looking new. What was weird is that as new as it looked… it also seemed empty. There were a lot of kakemonos and signs mentioning the name of the temple, so we decided to look it up on the internet since we started to think it might be a place that belongs to some cult-like organization.

And actually… We found nothing much about these two buildings, but a LOT about the waterfall and its legend, and so it goes (shortened version) :

"It is said that an old times princess named "歌姫 - utahime" (which you could translate by the "Singing Princess") was living a pretty lonely life as she was so high in class that her guards wouldn't let villagers approached her. One of the young villagers, named Kumahiko, was pretty smitten with her and was ready to try anything to talk to her, and one night he sneaked into her garden to try to see her beauty more closely. That same night, the princess went into her garden and was tying "短冊 - tanzaku" to the trees (piece of paper on which you write wish for fortune then tye it to trees or shrines). He noticed that she left one of the omikuji with nothing on, he saw it as a chance to communicate with her and wrote on it a poem to declare his love to her.

The next day, the princess found the poem, and felt in love. She was extremely moved that someone so passionate with a pure heart and mind could exist.

She was then looking for the person who wrote the poem, and one of the higher-class villagers claimed to be the author. As the two were getting married, Kumahiko got filled with rage and started yelling through the fence "It was me ! It was me !". The new prince asked his henchmen to get rid of him. They took him to a waterfall hidden in the forest and drowned him there.

After a while, the princess started to get sick as she was unhappy with her marriage and realized that the person she thought was a mindful poet turned out to be shallow and uncaring. This is when she started to see dreams of herself going to a waterfall, diving in the water and get wrapped up by a giant white snake that healed her.

She shared these dreams with a wise man who told her that she could go to the waterfall if she felt like it, but she should cover her face with black paint to hide from the snake.

There she went, covered in paint, dived into the water and let the cool water calming her fevers. The splashes of water felt so good on her skin that she decided to scoop some with her hands and washed off all the paint from her face. The snake saw the uncamouflaged princess, grabbed her and pulled her into the deep water where she drowned.

People now say that if you go to the waterfall and look at your reflection in the water, you can see the ghost of the princess standing next to you."

Now that you know everything, here some additional facts and questions I would like to know the answer to:

• The waterfall was named after the legend ; "素顔の滝" litterally means "real face waterfall" or "no-makeup face waterfall", referring to the princess who showed her real face after the paint was washed off.
• The place is a very famous "ghost spot" in the area.
• I wonder if the black statues on the way are a reference to the princess’ face paint, but I didn't find anything about that and I wonder if the religious temples around could have something to do with an urban legend…
• Is the snake the vengeful spirit of Kumahiko ? Nothing is said about that, but we could speculate...
• Was that legend inspired by a true story that happened in the area ? Obviously very romanticized but I could imagine some kind of truth that inspired the myth.
• I can't believe we actually saw a snake there !!! It was only the second time in my life seeing a wild snake, crazy coincidence.
• Some people say that there is no snake, and that it was all an illusion when seeing the waterfall, as it could be looking like a big white snake.
• Unfortunately, the area is also known for having quite a few cases of s**cides, people say it's due to the bad spirit of the snake calling people to death.
• I still don't really know what the two big buildings are, but according to a blogger, a person recalled going there to explore and saw a group of people wearing traditional / religious looking clothes and told him to leave.

I am sorry I lost pretty much all the sources I checked but here's one I could find : https://note.com/devaagni2000/n/n711f88581b9f

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Please note the details provided below are true. These are real events that occurred, and some readers may find their graphic content disturbing and should therefore read with caution. This report describes violence to children and is of some of the most gruesome content ever covered by the team. The true accounts were extracted from numerous face-to-face interviews throughout multiple slums across India, to attain a comprehensive view of the timeline of events.

The Puppet Master, or Kathaputalee Maastar as he’s known locally in India, is one of the most horrific serial killers of all time. The nature of the crimes he committed haunt thousands across Western India, his infamy still running through the country to this day. The brutality of the killings, as well as the lack of convictions, means the residents of Mumbai hold this monster in a similar regard that the Whitechapel residents of 1800s London held a certain Jack the Ripper. The Puppet Master is not thought to be a man, but a monster. The police have never paid him any attention - with the information of this case largely deriving from qualitative data and first hand interviews. The reasons for this are touched upon later.

It was the summer of 2000. The temperatures in Mumbai were at a sweltering 40c + (100f). Mumbai itself is India’s most populous city and the third most densely populated city in the world. Out of the millions that live in Mumbai, a large proportion are forced to live in slums. Shacks and dirt floors that are a struggle for any family to live in, let alone one of 10+ people.

Such as the family that Aarav Bhat was a part of. Aarav was born in the early 90s as the 8th child in the Bhat family. They grew up in a small shanty hut in South Mumbai, and like many of the children in the area - Aarav had to learn to fend for himself at an early age. Aarav and many of the other street kids would roam the city through the day and head back towards the slums at night to be reunited with their families. School was no option.

It was a day like any other. The 10-year old Aarav and his friends had headed into the city to a local underpass to have a game of cricket. The underpass was located below one of the city’s largest highway’s bridges and provided the children with a shelter from the sun and an open space for them to play cricket. The children had begun playing when the ball went over a fence and out of sight. Aarav volunteered to retrieve it.

One of the last decisions he would ever make.

When Aarav didn’t return a few minutes after he disappeared behind the fence, his friends began to panic. They searched for him thoroughly but ultimately returned to the slum’s without Aarav that night. Aarav’s mother was naturally heartbroken, but with 9 other children to care for - she could not spare the time to look for Aarav herself. The police also wrote him off as another runaway child, and Aarav was unfortunately all but forgotten.

That was until he returned just under a year later. But he was different.

You can imagine the thrill and joy of Aarav’s mother when on her walk to the local market - a little boy was sat against the wall. Her little boy. She rejoiced and threw her arms around Aarav, shouting that her boy had been returned to her. But he was cold. And not moving. Upon further inspection of her son, she found his eyes were no longer the dark brown like hers. They were a pale blue now. She screamed as when she put him back down against the wall he was sat against, his body slumped over. His new lifeless pale blue eyes still staring straight ahead. He was dead.

But he wasn’t just dead. When examined by the local doctor, the story goes that Aarav’s organs and innards had been expertly removed. They had been replaced with cotton wool, with the only clue being the scar on his back where the procedure would have taken place. His skin had been embalmed with some sort of oil to preserve its likeness and not to rot, with his eyes also being replaced with fake glass ones. Aarav had been gruesomely turned into a human doll, or as the locals began referring to him - a puppet.

This is the first known case of the puppet master. It’s unclear who gave him his name, but this is the origin of it. For the next 2 years, the puppet master would do the exact same thing to children like Aarav. They’d be playing sports under a bypass bridge, selling goods at the side of the road or waiting for the bus to take them home. Then they’d vanish, and appear months later as one of the ‘puppets’. All of those are real examples of what 6 children were doing when they vanished.

Then came Priya. Priya’s last name cannot be revealed upon her instruction, and understandably so.

That is because Priya was the first of the puppet master’s victims to escape.

Priya was 17 at the time of the attack in 2002. She was working at a gas station by the Mumbai highway. It was a day like any other, she had to deal with creepy men a lot in her customer service role. But the man she saw today was different. Usually the men that tried to flirt with her or made her feel uncomfortable were fat married men away from their wives - but this guy was different. He was older, and had only a few long grey hairs on his head. He had small rectangular glasses. He had on a suit, which considering the heat, was a strange choice of attire. The man got out of his car, which she notes as being a more luxurious 4x4 Jeep type of car (juxtaposing his appearance) - and approached her. He came to her with a toothless grin, and asked if she’d like to see a magic trick. It should also be noted that Priya mentions she’s always looked young for her age - that many people have mistook her for a child in the past. Priya declined to see the magic trick - but the man began to pull a pack of cards from his sleeve anyway. He began aimlessly shuffling them around, before dropping them. Spilling them all over the floor next to his car. Priya reached down to help the man pick up his cards - she would feel bad to see an elderly person have to bend over in their state. That was when the man quickly reached into his pocket again, this time pulling a long needle out. He attempted to plunge the needle into Priya, at a speed a lot faster than he was moving at before, but Priya was faster. She grabbed the pushed the man away, before landing a strike to his face. A strike that would smash one of the lenses of his glasses, sending the shards of glass into his eye.

The man fled the scene, and Priya soon after alerted the authorities.

This man is whom many began to theorise the puppet master was. A sick demented old man, that would lure children in with magic tricks - and turn them into his puppets.

And that could possibly be correct. Aside from a small few factors.

The thing with urban legend is that rumours can turn into fact. The immaterial can become material. But in this case, the cold reality of what was really happening in Mumbai was far more tragic and horrifying than one demented old man could be. Aarav was not turned into a puppet that day he was kidnapped. Aarav was turned into a street beggar. The rumours of Aarav’s pale blue eyes were likely true, but not because they’d been replaced with glass eyes - but because of the scarring of the tissue after he was intentionally blinded to appear more vulnerable to wealthy American tourists. To be able to line the pockets more of his captors. The scar on his back was not to replace his insides with cotton, but to steal his organs that would be sold to the highest bidder.

This is what most likely happened to all of the children taken by the ‘puppet master’. They were merely a means to pay the bills of a sick freak. After he was done with them, they’d be cast back to the streets where he found them.

This also explained the locations of all of the victim’s disappearances. They were all by roads, mainly the highway. This allowed the Jeep of the puppet master to park up and make a quick getaway, after luring one of his victims in with a card trick and sedating them with a needle.

And that concluded the case of the Puppet master of Mumbai. The police would not look into it further, because of corruption or lack of funding - either way the puppet master was never caught. And that’s if there was only one puppet master. Dozens of gangs around Mumbai put these exact same practices into play to make street children their beggars, to make money from them.

The only slight consolation of this specific case is that one of the puppet master’s of Mumbai, whoever the man with the glasses driving the jeep was, will think again before harming another child when he looks at the hideous scar blinding him in his left eye.