What If Teke Teke Was Real?

What If Teke Teke Was Real?
hello and welcome back to life's biggest questions I'm Charlotte dobre today on life's biggest questions we are going to talk about the Japanese urban legend tech a tech aid and what would happen if it was not just an world urban legend but a real being don't forget to show this channel some love subscribe and let us know in the comments below a question you have always wanted to know the answer to take a tech a is a Japanese urban legend about a monster who makes strange sounds as it pursues its victims the tech a tech a was once a young woman who fell on a railway and was subsequently cut in half by an approaching train after this it took quite some time for her to die and so when she did she turned into a vengeful spirit otherwise known to the Japanese as on Rio she travels around Japan and moves around by dragging her upper torso with her claw like hands as she does this the sound of the clacking of her claws resembles tech a tech a which is how she got her name Tek ka Tek a has long black hair that covers her face which ranges from being disfigured to being beautiful depending on the story legend has it that if Tek a tech a finds anyone at night that isn't traveling fast enough to escape her she slices them in half by the torso mimicking what happened to her with the Train there are multiple versions of the tech a tech a legend but one of the most compelling goes like this following World War two a female office worker was assaulted and raped by American military personnel in Moran Hokkaido stricken with misery she jumped off a bridge onto a railroad track but an oncoming train hit her and sliced her in half it was extremely cold that night and so her blood vessels contracted which prevented her from bleeding out and dying still alive she crawled to a train station where there was an attendant whom she asked for help but instead of helping her he covered her with a tarp and left her to die a slow painful death the teka teka is similar to another japanese urban legend known as kuchisake-onna the slit-mouthed woman as well as the story of Kashima Reiko another woman who was assaulted in a bathroom and lost her legs all are vengeful ghosts women whose purpose is to torment and kill the living so why does the tech a tech a want to cut people in half the exact reason isn't certain some say she's looking for her lost legs some say she's angry because no one helped her when she was dying there have been films made about the tech a tech aid by koji sheer I see Japanese children tell the story to each other as a warning to not walk home alone late at night the teka teka said to chase children who play at dusk she's also known to frequent train stations she cuts people in half with the sky or a saw turning them into one of Darumasan urban legend her own so now that you know a little about tech EdTech hey let's talk about what would happen if she was real according to legend three days after hearing about tech a tech a you will see her either in a dream in a phone call or in person if this ended up being true techie techie would be a story rarely told except by people who don't believe in ghost stories there would be a ban on talking about tech a decade to prevent the spread of her story but like with the case of many things tell someone not to do something and they'll probably do it anyway because tech a techie is known for chasing children at dusk curfews would be in place children would have to be picked up and dropped off from school and no one would be allowed to walk around the streets after sunset there are many train stations in Japan all of which would likely have to be closed down like kuchisake-onna it is impossible to get away from or defeat tech a decade the Mossler is incredibly fast and can travel at speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour that being said it is possible to survive an encounter with her as long as you don't run away she will ask you a riddle that you will have to respond to with the correct answer she will say do you need your legs to which you have to answer I need them right now she will then ask who told you my story to which you must respond Kashima Reiko Coty's and maas she as in death MA as in demon ray as in ghost and co as an accident say this response without mistakes and there is a chance that teka teka will let you go the tech a tech a story is believed to have originated as a way for parents to scare children into avoiding walking home alone at night another purpose of the story could be to prevent people from treating others badly as Chuck a techie rose again as a vengeful ghost who was treated so badly by humanity that she died a painful death moral of the story be nice to others or they might come back as a vengeful ghost and chop you in half sound good.

Top 10 Dark Titanic Stories From REAL Survivors

can drop your list at number 10 first class passengers while traveling In First Class might feel more comfortable at first but when it came to the sinking of the Titanic first class passengers had a better chance at survival you would think obviously but here's why just over 200 first-class passengers survived out of the 324 Souls traveling In First Class during that fateful Voyage that's a lot of people I mean a lot of people have passed away but in hindsight a lot of people made it if you've seen the James Cameron film you know women and children were first to board these lifeboats and then afterwards it was first class men see by that point there were few lifeboats left which I'll get into of course later on but second class and third class their chances at survival here right off the bat were not great simply because they were divided by class being stored further and lower from these lifeboats the odds weren't in their favor there were more than 700 third-class passengers and that number exceeded the other two classes combined it's horrible those rooms were cramped four people would have to share one tiny room and the beds were smaller than twin beds so when it comes to evacuating quickly sad believe these passengers had the hardest time getting out which we don't often think of when we think of you know the Titanic and the sinking of it number nine the band we know how passionate musicians can be and we know that The Creepiest Urban Legend music can heal a lot of people of course while I'm absolutely sure there's nothing that could have been done to completely erase people's worries about what was about to happen on the Titanic that fateful night the ship's Orchestra did what they could which was to play music and I'm sure that helped somebody in some way shape or form it wasn't just in the movie right the eight Orchestra members continued to play as the ship sank in order to try and keep spirits up first it was widely believed that they did this because they were ordered to and for the record if this were the case that still would have been insanely Brave with them too but it turns out this is far from the truth so the Japanese urban legends band members were in fact not ship employees at the time which means they technically had the same rights as any other passenger to leave and board a ship but they chose not to they all unfortunately passed away in the sinking of the ship and they played until they couldn't anymore which I think is horribly sad but also very beautiful and heroic of them the film can't quite capture the beauty I'm sure their heroism helped a lot of people people who are also in this terrible situation and I'm glad their acts have been remembered even still number eight locked doors Ellen hakarian was aboard the Titanic that fateful night and Tanki magazine actually published her Survival Story afterwards titled going down with the Titanic in third class yeah I mentioned the first class Creepy Urban Legend differences between third class so this story here is already a feat in itself Ellen and her husband pekko decided to leave Finland and start a new life in America the night of April 14th after the couple had returned to their cabin and got settled in they heard a loud scraping sound and the engines then started to act up pekko ran out to see what was going on the hallway was tilted by the time Elin poked her head out moments later once she heard a ruckus in the hallway then there was a knock at the door one of her friends from Finland came in and they said the ship was sinking papeco was nowhere to be seen and her friend asked how did he get out of the passageway all the doors are locked I was confused I didn't know what to do next after a few moments I grabbed my purse and life jacket and ran out to the passageway the door was locked all the doors were locked a steward finally came along to guide the crew to Third attack where they were then taken to the Carpathia and they didn't arrive to A Safe ship until the sun was up the following day so after losing her husband and all of her belongings Ilan only received 125 dollars that's all the ship could give them they're like we're sorry you lost everything here's the best we can do that's it number six ignored flares just 20 miles away from where the Titanic sunk there was another boat this one was called the SS Californian this boat had stopped in order to avoid the ice and the crew on the Titanic had also received warnings about icebergs the Titanic had received six warnings about icebergs before the Collision now while the first few warnings were received by the captain not all six were why so the captain of this other boat he slowed down and actually saw the emergency flares being set off on the Titanic ahead but he ignored them because he thought that they were company Rockets the SOS signals that the Titanic was sending out weren't received until the next day because the radio operator on that SS Californian had gone to sleep yep you took a little power nap after ignoring all the flares by time they had heard these calls and arrived the next day it was obviously too late sadly number five less lifeboats before the Titanic even set sail during the preparation for the journey at some point people made a decision to reduce the number of lifeboats that were on board why they did this beats me I don't know they did this because they didn't want to clutter the deck which is truly trivial when we're talking about the safety of I don't know 2208 passengers that were on board that day the number of lifeboats ended up being reduced to just 20 with an additional four that were you know collapsible so 24-ish lifeboats 2 208 passengers it doesn't add up it's not uh it's a terrible ratio which means they should have had time to launch every single one but this would still be only enough for half the passengers on board it was cursed from the get-go and as you may or may not know during the sinking of the ship not even all the lifeboats were able to be launched as everything happened too quickly and it was chaos there are quite a few lessons that can be definitely learned from the sinking of the Titanic because the more we learn the more we realize that safety precautions taken for these ships simply were just not up to par wasn't really about the iceberg I mean that did it but there were other things that could have helped number four the card in the remnants of the Titanic there was an inspection card found that belonged to a woman named Marianne meanwhile this must seem like any ordinary find after a wreck but it reveals a grim story for the woman once the card was found found it was then revealed that Marion was not intended to be on the Titanic at all but by some turn of events she unfortunately found herself as one of the passengers the card shows us that she was originally meant to be traveling on a ship called the Majestic but for some reason the trip she'd originally planned was delayed and she instead was assigned to the ill-fated Titanic you could see the word Majestic was actually crossed out on her card which shows us the change in plans it's it's so haunting to look at now there's no way anybody could have known or warned her it's just a really tragic situation to look back on and to physically see the cancellation of the ship gives me goosebumps that's really horrible number three Eliza Melvina Dean this story really is something okay buckle up but thinking back to this tragedy it's hard to imagine how it looked in real time like being on the ship right I mean you know not from James Cameron's perspective right it was a moonless night in the pitch black of course the navigation was hard of course it could have been handled better or they could have listened to the numerous warnings but again it was Pitch Black this is what the iceberg looked like in real life Eliza Dean was only a newborn on the Titanic her parents were on the way to the states with everything that they owned packed up in their luggage see Eliza's father was actually on the deck of the time of the Collision so he saw the ship hit that Iceberg how terrifying is that but in doing so he knew in that moment get the family hit the deck something bad's gonna happen even as third class passengers they were thankfully some of the first on the lifeboats which is incredible seeing as what I said earlier it was Eliza her brother and her mother they all got aboard safely but her father of course never made it off which is terrible but his quick thinking saved his family number two John Jacob Aster as the ship was sinking the first Last Passenger John Jacob Aster he put his young wife on one of the lifeboats and he was about to get in with her when he immediately saw two terrified children standing behind him and it happened he instead gave up his spot and let those other two children on the boat which is just Noble it's Brave it's heroic I it's something you ask yourself could I do that if it actually were to happen would I have the willpower to do that I hope so this is absolute bravery one of the Titanic survivors named Philip mock saw John in one of his final moments later on after this Brave moment he saw him and his ballet huddled together on one of the life rafts before they unfortunately froze in the cold water it's tragic this was indeed a very tragic event but the positive news here is that both his wife and the child that she was carrying at the time were able to make it to safety and they survived the entire ordeal while there are many terrible stories from this day we also don't hear enough about the braver that people showed during this tragic event and finally number one Molly Brown in total there were 706 people who survived the sinking of the Titanic Molly Brown has been referred to as The Unsinkable Molly Brown and when you look into her story it really checks out Margaret Brown not only survived the Titanic which is just an incredible feat in itself and it's the odds there are just incredible but once aboard the life ship she threatened the quartermaster she said she'll throw him overboard if he didn't go back immediately and start looking for more survivors that's bad that that is something I will do I hope I could do in a moment like this that's incredible historically this is where the accounts get a little hazy see it's not confirmed whether the boat actually went back to look but after narrowing leads surviving a tragedy then you're barely conscious you still think of other people that's the that's the moral of the story here Margaret was traveling in Egypt but when a grandchild got sick she ended her trip early just to go back to the States and take care of them once she got all this attention after surviving said disaster she then campaigned publicly for women's rights and education for the poor she was a badass in the boat and then a bad afterwards like this is insane there was a musical comedy in the 60s called The Unsinkable Molly Brown so her name will be remembered for a while as it should be thank you Molly number eight record time it's been noted by many survivors that the Titanic was traveling quite fast faster than anything they've experienced before well that's because the ship's Captain Edward J Smith was trying to beat the crossing time of the Titanic's older white star sibling now there were already concerns about icebergs at this point but the fact that the captain still went ahead at full speed regardless of all the oncoming icebergs well sure didn't help astronomers at Texas State University at San Marcos discovered something Cosmic that may have had something to do with the sinking of the Titanic that night the alignment of the Sun the moon and us on Earth could have created higher than normal tides in the Atlantic Ocean around January 1912. so by time the Titanic was whipping through months later icebergs that used to be stuck in the labrad RC could have gotten in the way it also would have helped to see the iceberg approaching from afar but number seven no binoculars on the night of the Collision binoculars were locked up the entire time of course this could have possibly Changed History so why weren't they used where were they well the key to the lockup was being held by Officer David Blair only before the Titanic's depart from Southampton officer Blair was pulled from the crew of course this may not have made a difference at all you know with all things considered but it's important to note to think these were stashed in a locker in the Crow's Nest this entire time is actually pretty haunting poor guy was transferred to another ship and forgot to give the key back the amount of times I've taken a workkey home with me honestly it's a simple mistake so this is tragic number six Wrong Turn it's the middle of the night there aren't any binoculars at disposal it's high tides it's hard to see but if the steersman accidentally point the Titanic towards the iceberg well back in 2010 Louise Patton said this story was passed down from her grandfather who just happened to be the most senior ship officer that survived that disaster apparently what happened was the iceberg was seen and of course there was little time given the speed of the ship at that point so command immediately issued to turn hard a starboard that command was passed down a line like broken telephone it was screamed past multiple people So eventually the command was received as make the ship turn right rather than push the tiller to the the right which would have made the ship go left it's confusing and also at that moment it's hard to hear there's no chance of anyone's fault number four staying warm the Titanic was obviously quite fancy it's dining selections were fancy the wines were fancy it was all fancy but alcohol was sadly reserved only for first class the bar had 1500 bottles of wine and 20 000 bottles of beer most of the people who passed away that night it was because of icy temperatures in the water I mentioned the alcohol in the cold water because one passenger named Charles jogan Charles was the Baker on the ship and when he realized the fate of the ship it was probably going down he drank everything he could see he just chugged as much as he can honestly I'm on board with drinking responsibly and all that but if this was the case yeah of course go for it you don't want to be sober when this is happening Charles was found two hours after the ship had completely gone down somehow still treading water and also somehow alive and also extremely drunk what happened here was the alcohol the rather large amount of alcohol slowed his heat loss so he was able to hold on until help arrived luckily number three a helping hand John Astor was one of the first class passengers on the ship that night now as the ship was sinking he put his wife on one of the lifeboats but as he was about to get in himself with her he saw two children standing behind him of course they were petrified so John John asked her he gave up his spot and let those two children take his instead one of the Titanic survivors named Philip mock later saw John and his valet huddled together on one of the life rafts trying to keep each other warm but they both sadly didn't make it a sad story of course but John's wife and the child that she was carrying at the time both survived and made it to safety starting off in our number 10 spot we have the heads up I'm not sure why but for actual years I thought that on the day of the Titanic sinking the iceberg they hit just kind of came out of nowhere and surprised them so imagine my surprise when I found out that wasn't true even in the slightest it turns out the entire thing could have been avoided the crew had received six warnings about the iceberg before the Collision while the first few warnings were received by the captain not all of them were and it's not totally clear why although the crew knew about the icy conditions on the water they didn't slow down much which some have called a reckless decision but apparently this was standard practice at the time so I suppose you can't really blame them the final warning however was received from a ship that had halted for the night due to an ice field a few miles away and when the message was being relayed to the captain he cut it off and said to shut up as he was working Cape race in our number nine spot today we have the futility this is more so something that happened prior to the fateful day of the Titanic sinking but it's still quite unsafe settling and also kind of bizarre nonetheless in 1898 a book called futility was released by an author named Morgan Robertson this book tells the story of a large ship named the Titan the Titan sets out for its first sale but encounters and Strikes in iceberg this certainly sounds eerily familiar doesn't it considering this book was released in 1898 and the real life event of the Titanic sinking happened in 1912 there are many people who believe that this novel predicted this fateful day it's most likely a very strange coincidence but man is it really weird even with the names being so close let alone how the rest of the story just matches up so well maybe Morgan Robertson is a time traveler or some kind of prophet but if he was to guess it would be kind of rude to just write a book about it rather than I don't know warn someone in our number eight spot today we have true love two of the first class passengers who were on the ship were elderly couple Isador and Ida Stratus when the ship started to sink and lifeboats were being boarded attendants were ushering Ida into one of the lifeboats but of course without her husband since women and children were being rescued first Ida however refused to leave her husband and Isidore refused to be rescued before other men instead they both chose to stay on the ship and they went down together Ida said quote I will not be separated from my husband as we have lived so we will die together survivors who witnessed their love last saw the pair standing on the deck with their arms around each other this love story is incredibly tragic but also just such a testament to how much they loved each other I'm very glad that they had one another in those very frightening moments in our number 4 spot today we have slow action while we were just talking about lifeboats I mentioned how there wasn't enough time to launch all of the ones on board this is true and while the Titanic sank fairly quickly there would have been wartime if only people were more prepared what I mean is that from the point where the ship actually hit the iceberg until the first lifeboats were launched was an entire hour that is way too long when it is an emergency of this magnitude which obviously leaves us wondering why well as it turns out a lot of people thought that the alarm Bells were actually just a drill and they stayed inside where it was worn this is already terrible but what's even worse is that for the people who didn't think it was a drill they had absolutely no idea where to go or what to do in the case of an emergency they had never done any Lifeboat drills so everyone was just panicking with nowhere to go due to this Lifeboat delay there wasn't enough time to launch all of the remaining lifeboats successfully this means that there are likely many lives that could have been saved had they had some more direction or prior training in our number three spot today we have ignored help only 20 miles away from the location of the sinking of the Titanic was another boat called the SS Californian this boat had stopped in order to avoid the ice which was clearly a fantastic idea what is pretty insane however is that the captain of this boat actually saw the emergency flares being set off on the Titan Titanic but he ignored them because he figured they were company Rockets and to make this matter even worse the SOS signals that the Titanic was sending out weren't even received until the next day because the radio operator on the SS Californian had gone to sleep by the time they heard these calls and arrived the next day everyone had unfortunately already passed away and they weren't able to save anyone who knows what could have happened had they taken those emergency signals seriously it's obviously not their fault but it definitely makes you think moving on to number seven I know we talked about how not a lot was done with the warnings that were given about the icy water conditions but when the iceberg was actually spotted the chief officer received this warning and he ordered the Helmsman to turn the wheel apparently this was actually a huge mistake but it's unlikely that they would have known at the time researchers now believe that if they hadn't have turned the wheel the ship might not have sunk the ship itself had bulkheads in the bow so it is very likely that had the ship collided head on with the iceberg it actually would have been fine they say that a head-on collision would have either stopped the ship from sinking at all or it would have at least sunk a lot more slowly which would have given more time for people to be rescued I suppose this is just one case of hindsight being 20 20. moving on to number four the Titanic Had A well-stocked bar as it had 1500 bottles of wine 8 000 cigars and 20 000 bottles of beer on board one less than great thing about this is the fact that all of the alcohol was only reserved for first class passengers I suppose this isn't the worst thing in the world as no one needs alcohol but it started only seems a little rude most of the people who passed away on the night that the Titanic sank didn't die from drowning but rather the icy temperatures of the water I mentioned the alcohol in the cold water because of one passenger named Charles Charles was actually the Baker on the ship and when he found out that the ship was most definitely done for he decided to indulge himself in the bar as he was known to enjoy a whiskey or two considering he thought he was about to meet his end he may have over indulged and found himself quite drunk actually well after the ship sank Charles was found two hours later still treading water and relatively unscathed it turns out that the alcohol slowed his heat loss so he was able to survive the terribly cold water until he could be rescued who would have thought that getting drunk would actually turn out to save your life moving on to number three the time from the point where the ship actually hit the iceberg until the first lifeboats were launched was an entire hour that is way too long when it is an emergency of this magnitude which obviously leaves us wondering why well as it turns out a lot of people thought that the alarm Bells were actually just a drill and they stayed inside where it was warm this is already terrible but what's even worse is that for people who didn't think it was a drill they had absolutely no idea where to go or what to do in the case of an emergency they had never done any Lifeboat drills so everyone was just panicking with nowhere to go due to this Lifeboat delay there wasn't enough time to launch all of the remaining lifeboats successfully there were even two boats that never got launched at all this is obviously terrible because there are so many people who potentially could have been saved had this delay never happened I also just can't imagine how frightening it would be to be in the middle of that emergency with absolutely no direction at all moving on to number one only 20 miles away from the location of the sinking Titanic was another boat called the SS Californian this boat had stopped in order to avoid the ice which was clearly a fantastic idea what is pretty insane however is that the captain of this boat actually saw the emergency flares being set off on the Titanic but he ignored them because he figured that they were company rockets and to make this matter even worse the SOS signals that the Titanic was sending out weren't even received until the next day because the radio operator on the SS Californian had already gone to sleep by the time they heard these calls and arrived the next day everyone had unfortunately already passed away and they weren't able to save anyone who knows what could have happened had they taken those emergency signals seriously it is obviously not their fault but it does make you think coming up in our number 10 spot we have the couldn't shower woman this person on Reddit mentioned that throughout her whole life she has been obsessed with the Titanic but in a way where she has always feared it her biggest fear was the Titanic for so long not bugs or monsters under the bed it was always the Titanic she subsequent feared water because she would constantly have flashes of being on the Titanic when in water and especially if it was cold for memories and thoughts were so vivid that she actually had a hard time showering and would have her sister sit in the bathroom with her until she was 17 years old whenever she would see pictures of sunken ships and specifically when she saw pics of the Titanic she would get anxious even though sometimes she would seek them out she doesn't have any specific memories just flashes of staring up at the boat as it was sinking and it has completely altered her life that's wild imagine being so scared that you would literally need someone to be in the bathroom with you while you shower she either was actually on the Titanic or she really needs to speak to someone about her active imagination that would be so terrifying to experience in our number nine spot we have the water is coming a woman's son that chose to remain nameless had an obsession with the Titanic he was constantly talking about the Titanic again wanting to watch the movie and so one day she decided to take him to the Titanic exhibit after going there he began to have night terrors and one night in particular she would never forget she was watching TV when she heard loud banging in her son's room she went inside to see him on all fours and heard him yell go go go go the water is coming and then he let out a scream but it wasn't his voice it was the voice of an older man coming out of him apparently after that incident her son started to talk about it less and she chalked it up to that maybe his soul had come to terms with the catastrophe and was more at peace hmm wow I definitely would have been extremely terrified if I had witnessed this I wouldn't have been able to go back to sleep at least that's for sure in our number eight spot we have Michael Kushner a tick talker and photographer by the name of Michael Kushner explained his Titanic story and how he has memories from the incident in his explanation he he spoke about how around seven years old is when you start to lose your memories from a past life and when he was seven he saw the Titanic movie four times and every time he saw the sinking scene he felt that something wasn't right throughout his life the Titanic followed him everywhere when he moved to London it was the 100 year anniversary and on the day he landed a ship sunk and everyone was saying that it was just like the Titanic the first playbill he ever photographed was called The Unsinkable Molly Brown and even James Cameron the director of the Titanic said he didn't feel the sinking scene was depicted accurately and explained why and Michael said that his explanation aligned with what he felt out of all of the stories that I'm going to tell you about today this guy definitely feels like he could have been on the Titanic in another life would love to know your thoughts in the comment section Below in our number 7 spot we have Paul Emerald Paul Emerald is a Los Angeles producer that took part in a series series of past life regressions for a television show he was working on what he found though led to a journey that he did not expect and he even wrote a book on it he was convinced for so long that he wasn't going to live past the age of 25 and when he started doing these regressions he realized that he had a lot of weird similarities with a passenger that died on the ship named John Jack Phillips who was 25 when the boat sank he decided to visit John's Hometown and it was there that he experienced major Deja Vu like he knew where everything was so he did some more regressions and saw John's whole life he is convinced that Jon was him in another life wow that's an incredible story imagine just going to a random town and knowing where everything is because you were there in another life in our number six spot we have the mysterious Reddit user this is told by a Reddit user who explained that he always had a fascination with the Titanic and an overwhelming amount of sadness and empathy around the situation he explains that he's not a very empathetic person but for some reason he feels an increased amount of empathy for those that died on the ship this user always freaks out when it comes to water and drowning is one of their biggest fears they did a past life meditation to see if they could get a name but only got a picture of being somewhere cold and icy so interesting I think it's possible that maybe there's a lot of people out there that didn't actually die on the Titanic but they did die on like a shipwreck in a past life and that maybe it would make sense why they would resonate with the Titanic but who knows in our number five spot we have a love to remember a 19 year old woman by the name of Amanda remembered being on the Titanic with her past love she remembered being a first class passenger by the name of Julia who met her man named Mark on board the ship they both ended up taking a Lifeboat together and surviving the disaster and later on ended up getting married married Amanda said that she has a hard time finding love in her life nowadays because no one quite meets the standards of her previous love oh that's sweet and terribly sad hopefully she ends up finding him again in this life in a number 4 spot we have the claustrophobic man this person is another Reddit user that very much considers themselves to have died on the Titanic in a past life and their justification they hate being cold and can't swim well interesting he said I'm deeply claustrophobic and so maybe I got trapped somehow but all I know is that I've been deeply fascinated by the Titanic and the movie do you think it's possible that the movie casted some kind of spell on people around the world and because it felt so lifelike people just felt as if they were there another user commented that they did lock passengers in the steerage so it's possible this person was one of those passengers coming up in our number three spot we have the girl with the green eyes this person believed they were on the Titanic because of a pastel life regression Circle that they took part in this person is a part of a pagan group and one day they were doing a past life regression exercise and she saw herself go down a long hallway with white walls and wood paneling and a plush red carpet and a fancy wooden door at the end of the hallway honestly this sounds like the final scene from the movie but I'm gonna go on anyway she goes into a room filled with water and a girl comes up to her with piercing green eyes and a blue Lily Crystal hairpin in her hair her eyes were filled with tears they got into a Lifeboat together but then the girl got out and continued to hold her hand once they lowered the boat her hand slipped from the girl's hand as they were separated interesting I swear something like that happens in the movie as well I really wonder what people were saying before the movie came out and if their experiences were described similarly then in our number two spot we have Alfred peacock a young boy that was born two years after the sinking of the Titanic would have tons of visions of being on the Titanic growing up he felt that he was on the Titanic and couldn't imagine any other explanations for his Visions he remembered being a young boy on the Titanic and that he lived in the third class cabin with his family he remembered that his name started with an A and ended with an E and A D and that led him to think that his name was Alfred after doing some research of the passengers that died on the ship he came across an Alfred peacock that was young on the ship and he believed that his memories were then confirmed in our number one spot we have Charles litola a man remembers being a passenger on the Titanic that went by the name of Charles litola Charles was a British sailor who was a second officer on board the Titanic he did not die on the Titanic he was one of the survivors and went on to live till the 50s so this person must not be too old if he feels that he really was him in another life he has flashes of walking down this staircase on the ship and seeing beautiful gowns he always felt connected to the Titanic and after discovering a picture of Charles he knew he felt a connection with it and he felt that it was himself in June of 2001 when he was writing a book about the Titanic a woman randomly came up to him in a coffee shop and told him that he was on the Titanic and opened up one of his research books of the Titanic and pointed to an officer and sure enough she pointed to Charles litola freaky [Music] foreign [Music] [Music]

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Top 10 Scary American Urban Legends

Weve done a few now and the response has been amazing - you guys seem to want to hear creepy Urban Legends from every single country around the world. If thats the case, let me know which country you want next but for now - were talking about a country you may have heard of - the United States of America. And this is the Top 10 Scary American Urban Legends.

10. The Grunch

This one comes from Louisiana. In the early days of New Orelans, there was a road called Grunch Road that went deep into the swampy woods before coming to a dead end - thats where the Grunch people lived - a strange hybrid of albinos and dwarfs - forced away from society and forced to live in their own community. As the years went by, people started to doubt the stories authenticity - but it sparked up again when people started disappearing down Grunch Road. Nearby farmers reported their animals missing or finding them dead and drained of their blood. Many locals now refused to head down Grunch road for fear of meeting the same fate.

9. Stull Cemetery

To those that know the stories, Stull Cemetery in Kansas is better known as the doorway to hell. Legend says that the devil himself chose the cemetery as his entrance from the underworld to our own. Its said that a tree once stood in the cemetery and an old tombstone inscribed with the word -Witch- … the tree was used to hang condemned witches who were put to death by the locals. The tombstone apparently marks the burial spot of Satans own child - a creature born deformed and covered in wolf hair. In modern times, the legend has continued with reports of the ground catching fire randomly. Pope John Paul the 2nd was said to divert his private plane around the cemetery because it was so tainted by evil. Whether or not you believe this all, theres plenty of videos on YouTube to checkout if youre interested.

8. Knock Knock Road

This is for all of you guys that get creeped out by Little Girl ghosts. The worst kind. Strasburg Road near Detroit has a disturbing tale of murder attached to it. Legend says a little girl was killed on the road in the 1940s. Ever since then, people have reported the same story. They stop at a traffic light and see, on the side of the road, a young girl standing - just standing and staring right at you. Whether they freeze or try to speak to her, she slowly walks forward to the car and stares at you with deep set, hollow eyes. She scans your face to try and find her killer and get her revenge, you better hope you don't look like them.

7. Char-Man

The story goes that in 1948, a wildfire swept across Ojaji California. The flames consumed a cabin where a man lived with his son. He was burned alive but his son survived - just barely though. When the authorities arrived, they found a shocking scene - the father had been flayed - his skin had been removed from his body and peeled off, his body hanging from a nearby tree. The police searched for the purportator - they heard a wheezing from a nearby bush and then suddenly, the son bolted out. The overpowering spell stunned the officers and in that moment, the boy ran into the trees and escaped into the hills. In the years since, many locals say they have seen the Char-Man in the woods, horribly disfigured by his burns and tormented by his past. Hes said to creep up on the tents of innocent campers, waiting for them to fall asleep.

6. Hells Gate Bridge

This one comes from Oxford Alabama. The story goes that in the 1950s, a young couple crashed their car off the side of the bridge and drowned. Now, some locals believe you cross the bridge at your own peril. One story is that if you drive your car out to the middle of the bridge and turn off all the lights, the couple will appear in your car, sitting behind you. When you turn around theyll be gone, leaving a wet seat behind. The other story is that if you drive over the bridge and look over your shoulder halfway through, the scenery behind you turns into a portal to hell - spouting fire and flames. Whether or not you believe this - its enough for some people to look for a different way to cross the river.

5. 100 Steps Cemetery

This is located in the town of Brazil in Indiana. Interesting name for a town - and the cemetery is even more interesting. Its been used for at least 150 years and in that time its gained quite a sinister reputation for a ghostly undertaker. The story goes that as you walk up the many steps to the top of the cemetery you must count each step. When you reach the top, you must turn towards the open field and the ghost of the cemeteries first undertaker will appear. Without saying anything, he will then reveal your own death to you in a vision. Straight away, you must proceed down the steps and count each one again. If the number is the different to the one counted on the way up - the vision was true. An added bous is that if anyone tries to cheat and climb up or down without using the steps, a ghostly hand will push them to the ground leaving a red imprint on their back for days as a mark of the devil. Definitely not a place to just got for a Sunday walk then.

4. The Goat Man of Pope Lick

This is an old Kentucky urban legend about a hideous being who roams the woods across the state. Those who have seen him describe the goat man as having dark fur, pale skin, goat legs and twisted horns. Some say he was an escaped circus freak, others say he was a farmer who tortured goats for Satan - Satan repaid him by turning him into a tortured goat himself. The Goat Man is said to hide under the rusty bridge that crosses Pope Lick Creek in Louisville. Legend says he lures people onto the train tracks and then takes pleasure in them being hit by oncoming trains. Please don't go looking for this one though guys, in 2016, a woman actually fell to her death from the bridge while looking for the Goat Man.

3. Slaughterhosue Canyon

With a name like that - you know its not gonna be a pretty story. During the 1800s Gold Rush, a family moved lived in the canyon in a wooden shack. Every day was the same, the husband would set off into the mountains to search for gold and food for his family. Then, one day he didnt come back - presumably injured or killed by animals, the mountain or other humans. His wife waited for her husband for weeks until they began to starve. Driven mad with the hunger and her childrens cries, she put on her wedding dress, picked up a knife and murdered her children, throwing them in the river and then weeping until starvation killed her too. Legend says that that if you visit the canyon today, you can still hear the Mothers painful cries.

2. The Blank Angel

This statue looks creepy as it is - an old, worn, corroded angel staring down over Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City. Her sinister appearance has helped spawn a number of different legends around her. One of them says that a pregnant woman should never walk under her lest they want to lose their unborn child. Another says that if you kiss or perhaps even touch the statue, youll be dead within 6 months. This is the kind of story that scares everyone off - whether or not you believe in curses - its just not worth even thinking about!

1. Cropsey

Many New Yorkers know the story of cropsey, the boogeyman of Staten Island. Legend says he was an escaped patient from a mental asylum who went on a murderous rampage. He had a hook for a hand which he would use to drag children back to the abandoned ruins of Seaview Hospital. Pretty creepy - but heres where it gets really scary. Many parents would tell this to their kids to scare them into being cautious about strangers even if they didnt really believe it. But then, in the 1970s, a real killer called Andre Rand really did start hunting children in a similar way. Was he using the Cropsey legend as cover? Either way, people take the legend a lot more seriously now. Wow America, you kinda creepy, you really are kinda creepy.

Top 10 Scary British Urban Legends

We're gonna be looking at some creepy tales again and this time its from my homeland of Britain. Its a place with a lot of history dating back thousands of years - so, it makes sense that there would be a lot of scary stories attached to certain places. Which one of these sends a shiver down your spine? Lets find out - This is the Top 10 Scary British Urban Legends.

10. Corpse Train

According to London folkshore, in the early 1900s, there was a train that ran under the city - and it was only for dead people. Back then, Londons hospitals and morgues were struggling to deal with the amount of people dying from poverty and disease. They decided to transport the bodies out of the city but knew they couldnt do it overground without disturbing a lot of people. So, they used an existing train line to load the bodies on to. The train ran on the other side of a wall from the normal service - where unsuspecting Londoners were getting on and off the trains, unaware of the nearby bodies.

9. The Suicide Pool

This one comes from Epping Forest near Essex. The story goes that years ago, a young couple in love were followed to a pond in the forest by the girls father. When the couple embraced, the father lept from the trees to confront the boy. The fight got out of hand and the father ended up killing the boy in a rage at the edge of the pool. The waters turned black, wildlife that was touching the water died. In the years that followed, bodies started to appear there. First it was an old woman, then a young one with her young child dead beside her. They say the pool drew them in to their death and that the pool is still out there in the forest somewhere, waiting for its next victim.

8. Annie

This one comes from Edinburgh, Scotland. In the Old Town lies a street known as Mary Kings Close. Its steeped in muths and legends of hauntings and murders. In 1990, a psychic called Aiko Gibo visited and felt a small hand touch hers. She said she then made contact with the spirit of a child called annie who had died in a plague hundreds of years ago and had lost her doll. The psychic then went to a nearby shop and brought back a barbie doll. Since then, visitors leave dolls for Annie and a mountain of them has built up in the dark.

7. The Faceless Woman

This one comes from the borough of Barkin in London. There you can find Becontree Station - home to the faceless woman. The most famous sighting of her happened in 1992. A station supervisor reported that one night, he heard the handle of his office door rattle outside on the platform stood a woman. She had blonde hair, wore a pale dress and stared into the distance. The supervisor approached her but as he reached out, she turned to him only to reveal she had no face - just darkness where there should be one. Local ghost hunters claim she is the ghost of a train crash that happened there in 1958 which killed 10 people.

6. The Beast

Englands Hackney Marshes is known for its sprawling woodland, and boggy reed marshes often covered in swirling fog - the perfect setting for this urban legend. The story goes that in 1980, two bear carcesses were found in the river there - they had been decapitated. People started speculating about who or what could cut a bears head clean off its shoulders. Then, a year later, 4 boys were taking a walk along the march one winter morning when they saw it through the trees. They described it as a giant, great, growling, hairy thing. As soon as it saw them, it reared up on it back legs and let out a deafening roar. The boys ran - but the story remains, always in the back of peoples minds as they trudge through the marsh.

5. The Crying Girl

On November 18th 1987, a match was dropped on an escalator at Londons King Cross station. A fire quickly spread into the ticket office which resulted in the deaths of 31 people. In the years since then, passengers have reported seeing a girl who died around the station. She has long brown hair, wears jeans a tshirt and is always crying. Some people have reported hearing her sobs while smelling smoke coming out from the escalators.

4. Sawney Bean

This is the gruesome tale of Alexander -Sawney- Bean … a man who was said to be the head of a Scottish clan of cannibals in medieval times. According to legend, the group was made up of his wife, their 14 children and 32 grandchildren. They lived in a cave by the water and would ambush people on the road at night. They would bring their bodies back to the cave to dismember and eat them. Any leftovers were picked in a jar for later. When King James VI of Scotland eventually heard of the murders, he led a manhunt to capture. The clan were then executed. Some say you can still find the cave along the Bennane Head area of Scotland.

3. Cane Hill

Some people say this is one of the most haunted places in England. It was a mental asylum for over 100 years from 1882 to 1991. It built up a reputation for abandoning some of its patients, hiding them away from the public eye and never truly helping them. Some people say the patients who died left their energy behind because of their tortured lives. The building was gutted by a mysterious fire in 2010. Urban explorers who visit it today often report seeing shadows flicker by the windows. Perhaps the scariest stories are of faces appearing by the burnt out windows.

2. The House of The Screaming Skull

This one comes from Bettiscombe Manor in Dorset, England. The legend goes that in the 1830, a man lived there called John Frederick Pinney. He had a slave he had brought back from the carribean island if Nevis. The man became ill and on his deathbed, he swore he would never rest unless his body was returned home to Nevis. Pinney refused to pay for that expense and when he died, he had the man buried in the local graveyard. After, ill fortune began to plague the village for months. Screams and cries were heard from the cemetery. At the manor house, windows rattled and doors slammed. The body was dug up and brought to the manor house where today, only the skull remains where its said to haunt the manor but the village remains safe.

1. The Hellhounds

Dartmoor is a vast, rocky, windy and mysterious part of England. Its popular among tourists but everyone who goes is aware of the legend of the hellhounds. Its said that a pack of these ghost dogs wanders the moors at night, preying on sheep but not afraid of humans. Theyve been described as cat like but with the frame of a bear - and fast. There have been pictures and film taken over the years that claim to show glimpses of the hellhounds. Many of the locals don't need that though - theyve had the stories handed down from generation to generation - some of say theyve seen the hounds with their own two eyes.

Top 10 Scary Chinese Urban Legends

This the Top 10 Scary Chinese Urban Legends - as you know, taking a look at different countries - what would you like to see next? Today, we look at China - a country steeped in thousands of years of history and stories some of them are very creepy indeed.

10. The Lotus Pond

This story goes that there once was a young couple who were in love. They planned to run away together and get married. They arranged to meet at midnight beside a lotus pond. The girl arrived and waited for him but he never came. As she headed home, she spotted her boyfriend with another girl - this devastated her and made her cry and cry. She went back to the lotus pond and threw herself in the water where she drowned. A while after, another couple agreed to meet at the lotus pond. This time the boy was there first - he waited for his girlfriend by the waters edge. Suddenly, he hard a womans voice behind him say -I asked you to meet me at midnight, didnt I?- … the boy answered -no- … all of a sudden, two pale hands burst out of the water and dragged him into the pond where he drowned. Ever since then, people have kept an eye out when they go to a Lotus Pond at midnight - if you hear a girl, don't answer her or even look at her, or you too may be dragged to a watery grave.

9. The Hello Kitty Murder

In May 1999, a 13 year old girl in Hong Kong told the police that a woman that her boyfriend helped murder was haunting her. She told the police the victim was a 23 year old woman who was being tortured endlessly while bound with electrical wire. The police followed some leads to a house where they found some shocking evidence - a large Hello Kitty Doll stuffed with a womans head. The victim was identified as 23 year old nightclub hostess Fan Man-yee who was abducted the year before for failing to repay a debt. When the story hit the press, it terrified Hong Kong residents who called it the Hello Kitty Murder. Months later, CCTV images began circulating from roads near the house showing a dark female figure lurking in the shadows. Some believe her restless spirit still haunts the area.

8. The Mog Wai

This one one roughly translates to English as -Monster- … the monsters mating season is said to be triggered by rain - one of them is known was the Yaoguai. They are demons that eat peoples souls to gain immortality. They are shapeshifters that are said to take on different forms to trick their victims. One story told of a man who brought a beautiful girl home. One night, he spied on her through the bedroom window. Instead of seeing the girl, he saw a demon painting features onto the skin of the girl - like someone would improve a dress.

7. Nu Gui

This one comes from Hong Kong where a Nu Gui is a ghost woman. The story goes that they are women who were wronged in life and linger on Earth to exact vengeance on her enemies. Usually they were the spirit of a women that was murdered or abused by their husbands. This has led many people in Hong Kong to believe that the ghost hates men specifically - they will kill men but only scare women.

6. The Jiangshi

Essentially, these are Vampires in some Chinese traditions. The closest translation for their name -hard- or -stiff- … this is because they are almost a cross between a vampire and a zombie. A person dies and just as rigor mortis sets in they wake up with stiff joints and begin wandering - looking for blood to suck to survive. A Jiangshi is said to be created when a person dies to things like suicide, magic or an improper burial.

5. The Shui Gui (Shoey Tzi)

This is otherwise known as the Souls of The Drowned. They are the vengful ghosts of people who have drowned. They always lurk in the same spot as where they died. They wait for an unsuspecting person to swim by or get too close - and they they pounce. They drag their victim down into the water to drown them. Then, that person becomes the new Vengeful Soul, creating a cycle that lasts forever.

4. The Death Worm

Rumored to exist in the Chinas Gobi Desert, the Mongolian Deathworm is well known to a lot of chinese people. Its said to be a hellish creature, red from top to tip, somewhere between 2 and 5ft long. Some say theyve seen them grow to twice as long. Locals fear the worm because it is said to be high toxic - they say it has the ability to spray its venom from a distance which is deadly enough to kill a horse.

3. The Suicide Mall

In the city of Guanzhour lies the Liwan Plaza shopping mall. Locals always said the chinese character for the mall looks a lot like the one for death. That seems morbidly appropriate in a way as its been the site of more than 12 suicides over the years - some witnesses swear that a supernatural force seemed to push the victims over the railings. The Malls curse was so begin many years ago when developers overlooked where they were building it - right on top of an ancient Chinese burial ground. They didnt notice until construction unearthed 8 empty coffins which locals blame for the strange noises and deaths that plgaued the area. Taoist priests were brought in and they identified the coffins as being part of a ritual to actually keep AWAY evil spirits - if they werent disturbed for a thousand years. That was the mistake then.

2. Da Ji

Da Ji was the life of King Zhou - the last ruler of the Shang Dysnasty. She was said to be an evil woman - her and her husband gained sexual gratification by seeing people being tortured - she even invented her own torture device - the paolao. It was a bronze cylinder which she would strap her victims in. The coils were then heated up - resulting in a painful death as the victims were slowly cooked alive.

1. The Last Bus


In 1995, a young man boarded the last bus to Fragrant Hills in Bejing. Shortly into the journey, two men tried to wave the bus down. The driver was reluctant but the conductor reminded him that this was the last bus of the night. The two men got on board and passengers were surprised to see they were wearing traditional Chinese robes - their faces white as snow and expressionless. Everyone eventually got off except for the 2 robed men, the young man and an old woman. She accused the young man of stealing her waller - the young man angrily defended himself - she insisted they get off there and go to a police station to resolve the matter. When they got off, she told him that she had made the argument up to get him off the bus with her because she had noticed the two robed men had no legs which meant they must have been ghosts.

Scary Jack the Ripper Urban Legends

For those of you who don’t know, Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who terrorized the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. He brutally murdered and mutilated at least five prostitutes and his identity was never discovered. He had a very particular way of murdering his victims and he was never caught. So of course, there are a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding Jack the ripper and his murderous rampage through London. So, here are the top 10 scary Jack The Ripper Urban Legends.

10. Mary Ann Nichols

She was one of the Whitechapel murder victims who was viciously murdered by the infamous Jack the Ripper. Her throat was slashed twice from left to right and her abdomen was mutilated with one deep jagged wound. She also had many incisions across her abdomen and a ton of other deep stab wounds. Since her brutal murder, it has been said that her spirit has been haunting the Whitechapel area and people have been hearing strange ghostly noises of Jack killing Mary Ann Nichols. People have also said that they can see her spirit glowing at the site of her murder and horses and dogs will refuse to go near that location.

9. Lewis Carroll was actually the murderer

This is the author of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, which to me sounds like a very unlikely suspect. However, there are a bunch of urban legends that point to him. Apparently, people believe that he killed a bunch of women and left clues about the murders in his children’s stories. There are a bunch of ripperologists who have studied his writings and they were able to unscramble a bunch of passages from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and from a bunch of his other works that make you wonder, did he kill all of these women?

8. The last four murders

Mary Jane Kelly was believed to be the final victim of Jack The Ripper but according to an urban legend, the first four murders were just an elaborate attempt to cover up the real reason why Mary Jane Kelly was murdered. It is believed that her husband was the infamous serial killer and his motive for killing his wife was because he was so angry that his wife turned to prostitution shortly after they got married. So he killed four other prostitutes to make it look like a pattern and then he killed his wife so that the police wouldn’t suspect him of committing the crime.

7. The murders were part of a black magic ritual

According to an urban legend, it is believed that Jack the ripper was apart of a cult who indulged in a very violent form of Satanic worship. Apparently, his true motive was to kill four prostitutes in order to become the cult leader. In this black magic ritual, certain organs had to be removed from the murdered prostitutes and they had to be killed at pre-arranged sites that resemble a satanic symbol. The organs that were commonly removed were the heart, kidneys, genitalia and the womb which of course, were also commonly removed during black magic rituals during this time period.

6. The American Jack the Ripper

There is a lot of speculation that Americans Urban Legends were also the victim of Jack the Ripper. So, three years before the first Jack the Ripper murder happened in England, a serial killer dubbed the servant girl annihilator brutally murdered 8 people in Austin, Texas. Similar to Jack the Ripper, the servant girl annihilator has never been identified and there are so many theories about his identity. All of the women were killed indoors while asleep in their beds and some of them were dragged outside and mutilated in the same way as jack the ripper victims. Because of all this evidence, there is an urban legend that suggests that Jack the ripper was actually the servant girl annihilator and he roamed the streets of Texas, brutally murdering eight people before heading off to England to do the same.

5. Elizabeth Stride

She is another victim of Jack the Ripper but she wasn’t as brutally murdered as the others. The only body mutilation that she had was a slashed throat, so it is believed that Jack the Ripper was most likely interrupted during his murder and he was unable to chop up her body like his other victims. The local urban legend surrounding her murder says that if you go to Dutfields Yard on Berner Street, you can supposedly hear ghostly and eerie screams of a woman struggling and crying for help.

4. Mitre Square

This cobblestoned area is the site where one of London’s most infamous crimes occurred. At the south-west corner of Mitre Square, the mutilated body of Catherine Eddowes was discovered at this location at 1:45am on September 30th, 1888. Catherine Eddowes was Jack the Rippers fourth victim. She was found lying on her back in a pool of blood with her clothes over her waist. Her throat was slashed, her intestines were taken out and placed over her right shoulder and she had a lot of other brutal cuts all over her body. Well the local legend states that on the anniversary of her death, people have reported seeing her ghost figure lying where her corpse was discovered.

3. The second victim

Annie Chapman was viciously murdered by Jack the Ripper on September 8, 1888. Her throat had been slashed, she was disembowelled with her intestines thrown out of her abdomen and part of her uterus was missing. So basically, she was chopped up and her body was severely sliced and hacked. Her disfigured body was found in the backyard of the Truman Brewery and when this brewery was still in business after her murder, it was reported that on the anniversary of her murder, you can see her ghost standing in the exact spot where she was viciously sliced up to death.

2. Mary Kelly

It is believed that she is the last and final victim of Jack the Ripper. She was about 25 years old at the time of her vicious murder. Her body was found lying naked on a bed in an apartment. Her whole abdomen and thighs were removed, her chest was cut off and her arms had several jagged wounds. Her face was hacked up so badly that you couldn’t even recognize her and her neck was cut so deep, that you could even see her bones. An urban legend states that after her murder, anyone who lives in that apartment will see a bloody handprint on the wall. Even if you attempt to clean it or paint over it, the bloody handprint will reappear shortly after. Some people even claim that they have seen her ghost wearing all black and she has been haunting the building on the very same night of her murder.

1. Westminster Bridge Jack the Ripper sighting

Legend has it that if you stand on the Westminster Bridge on December 31st and look east as midnight approaches, you might see the ghost of Jack the Ripper. And as Big Ben chimes in the new year, you will see a shadowy figure creeping down the wall and into the Thames river. This legend began to circulate because back in 1888 it is believed that Jack the Ripper killed himself by diving into the river at this very spot and now every year since, his spirit is forced to repeat this over and over again as a form of punishment.

Top 10 Scary Japanese Urban Legends
Starting off at number 10 we have Teke-Teke. This is the Urban Legend about a girl who fell under a train and was cut in half. She became a vengeful spirit that moves using her hands and elbows, dragging herself while making the sound -Tek-Tek- … if you hear that noise, youre supposed to run. Those who are caught by the Tek Tek will recieve a fate like her - shes said to slash her victims in half so that they look like her, and possibly become wandering vengeful spirits as she is.

At number 9 now we have the Slit Mouthed Woman. You may recognise this one from a number of Japanese movies and TV shows. The traditional name for this being is Kuchi-sake-onna and dates back over 300 years ago. She is a woman who was brutally mutilated by her husband after he found she was having an affair with another Samurai. This left her in death as a restless spirit. She is said to cover her mouth with a cloth mask, a fan or a scarf. If you approach her, shell ask you if you think shes pretty. If you answer yes, she will remove the mask and when the victim screams they will be slashed from ear to ear until they look like her. Even if you say no, shes said to follow you home and brutally murder you that night.

Next up at number 8 we have Daruma-san. This urban legend is more of an old game passed down through the years. You shower in a bath, turn off the lights and chant -Daruma-san fell down- while you wash your hair … its said that you will see a woman in your mind. She is Daruma-San. Shell be standing up in a bath. Youll see her slip and fall onto an old rusty tap. It goes straight through her eye and kills her. Then, you will feel her ghostly presence behind you. If you turn around - there she is. Black tangled hair, rotting clothes, one eye is bloodshot and the other is just a bloody, hollow eye socket. The game continues even further than that if you dare, but I think thats enough for you to understand this creepy urban legend.

At number 7 now we have the Girl From The Gap. This Japanese story comes from peoples natural fear of what lies lurking in the cracks of a home. Do you ever see something move past the hinge of a door? Is that someone looking out from inside your wardrobe? Have you ever pictured a hand reaching out from between your bed and the floor? Well it could be the girl from the gap - a spirit that lives both physically and metaphorically -between worlds-. Its said that if you ever see her, she will ask if you want to play hide and seek. At that point the game is on. When you her between a gap again, shell drag you to an other worldly hell.

At number 6 now we have The Red Room. This is a very modern Japanese urban legend about a pop up ad thats red with black test. In a childs voice, it simply repeats the phrase -Do you like?-. A boy who got the popup tried to close it but it kept reappearing. Then, it changed to -Do you like red?- … he keeps trying to close it but it grows large and changes again to say -Do you like the red room?- … then, the site changes. All red and black. It has a list of names on it - his friends is at the bottom. And hand reaches out towards the boys neck from a video. tHE Ending gets even more twisted but guess what, its based on a real website. Its still out there. If you can find it, youll know the gruesome legend of the red room and if the horrible ending comes true for you.

Moving on to number 5 we have The Human Pillars. This legend dates back to ancient times in Japan where its known as Hito-bashira. Back then, there was a belief that a human sacrifice sealed inside a structure would make a foundation more stable. This means that many old Japanese buildings are said to contain the spirits of the people who were sacrificed during their construction. One famous example is Matsue Castle where a woman was sealed inside the foundations during its construction. Now her spirit is said to haunt the castle and whenever a woman dances there, the castle shakes violently. Many building owners in Japan are open about their building being a Human Pillar.

Next up at number 4 we have The Snake Woman. This one comes from the old Japanese folklore pf Nure-onna which translates to wet woman. She is often described as having the head of a woman and the body of a snake - with long claws, snake eyes and jet black hair.  She carries with her a childlike bundle to lure in her victims. If a person tries to pick up the baby, they find its not a child at all. The bundle then becomes very heavy and stops the victim from fleeing. The snake woman then uses her long tongue to suck all of the blood from the victims body until they die.

At number 3 now we have Onibaba. She is a demon women that often appears in Japanese folk folklore. She will often appear as an old woman asking for help but if you get to close, she will slice you open with a knife and eat you. She is said to be the tormented spirit of a woman who accidently killed her pregnant daughter and unborn grandchild in an effort to find a cure for her friends child being sick. She was told to bring them the liver of an unborn child but when she finally killed her victims, she found they were her own family.

At number 2 now we have The Dream School. This one is extra creepy because apparently if you don't forget it within a week - it will happen to you. Lets see if this is true. One night, a boy had a dream about a school. The hallways looped forever, bringing him back to the start. Staircases led back to the first floor. As he got scared, he heard footsteps behind him. He ran until he found an emergency exit with a glass box and a key next to it. The glass had been smashed and there was a note saying it could be found in room 108. When he found that room, it was empty - no students - but there were backpacks hanging off every chair. There was a pounding on the door. He opened it, terrified, to find the hallways covered with dead children. Its said that he never woke up from his dream and if you don't forget the story in one week, youll meet the same fate. Don't worry though guys

And finally at number 1 we have Onryo. This is a traditional Japanese belief about a vengeful spirt that can and will physically hurt the living. Its a very scary concept if youre only familiar with the western idea of ghosts which don't really take solid forms and so cant hurt humans with physical contact. Thats not true for an Onryo. They are vengeful and full of hate, stopping at nothing to enact the suffering they received when they were alive. For any of you guys who have seen The Grudge, this spirit is the influence for that creepy girl in that movie.

Top 10 Scary Korean Urban Legends

10. Virginial Ghost

This is the term used to describe those Grudge type apparitions that youve probably seen in horror movies with the hair over their faces, usually dressed in white. One day, a man who lived on the top floor of an apartment building woke up to the sound of a knock at the door. He lived alone and rarely got visitors. He walked to the door and asked whos there. After a few seconds, a voice said -count to 100 and dont make a sound or youll die- … he opened the door - and there was nobody there. He was still scared though so he closed his eyes and started to count to 100 in his head. When he got to 49 - he opened his eyes out of curiosity and there she was, right infront of his face.

9. Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery is a big market in Korea and as such, horror stories have sprouted up around it. This story starts with a man sitting on an empty subway car when a tall, thin woman sits down in front of him. Her long, dark hair covers most of her face but he can see shes wearing a surgical mask. As the doors close, he catches her eye. He smiles. She asks him -Am I pretty?- ‘yes’ he replies … then she takes the mask off. Theres a huge wound from ear to ear, exposing her bleeding gums, teeth and muscles. -Am I pretty now?- she screams at him. She takes out a scalpel and moves towards him, the doors open and he runs for his life.

8. The Organ Thief

This is quite a modern South Korean urban legend coming from the city of Gwangju. Screenshots of a text conversation between 2 friends appeared on Facebook there and went viral. One of the friends was warning the other to not take taxis at night. They said that one of their friends got in a taxi while drunk. The taxi driver then put a needle in their neck. They lost consciousness and were defenceless. When they came round, they were bleeding from their stomach and lying in a field on the outskirts of the city. He was rushed to hospital where doctors found he was missing a kidney. The fear of these organ stealing taxi drivers became so much that officials said it was affecting the taxi business in the city.

7. Dalgyal Gwishin

This is whats known as a traditional type of Korean ghost, dating back in legend hundreds of years. Its notable because the ghost is said to appear with no facial features - no eyes, no nose or mouth - some of them even lack arms and legs. Theyre often referred to as perhaps the most terrifying spirits in Korean folklore as even just looking at one can cause instant death.

6. The Back

The story goes that a married couple with a young son were always fighting. After years of this, it got so bad that in a sheer rage the father murdered the mother. He covered up the crime and nobody else suspected a thing. The only strange thing was - the boy never seemed to complain about the absence of his Mother - so he asked him -Son, why arent you calling out for Mommy? Most little boys would want their mommy to be with them. Tell me whats bother young- … the little boy looked up and slowly replied -Im fine, I was just wondering why youre always carrying Mommy on your back- … this is one of many similar stories found across the land.

5. Sesame Seeds

This a strange Urban Legend that seems to scare people about coming into contact with sesame seeds. A girl had heard that taking a bath with sesame seeds in the water would be good for her. So thats what she did. She sat in the bath for hours and hours. After a while, the girls mother became concerned and went to check on her. When she opened the door, she found the girl was covered in the seeds which had sunk deep into her skin. The daughter was crying and trying to remove them with a toothpick … theres one for any of you guys who hate the thought of holes in your skin.

4. The Bathroom Girl

This one is like moaning myrtle from Harry Potter but about 100 times more creepy. There are stories that in some of the old Korean schools with their dimly lit bathrooms live the ghosts of girls who killed themselves. Its said that she now haunts the stall where the event took place. How do you know which stall it was? Well the toilets have been said to flush themselves, the door slams with nobody around and sometimes you can hear her cry or even catch a glimpse in the mirror. The most gruesome by far though is that sometimes, she is said to emerge from the stall and ask you if you will use red or blue toilet paper. If you choose red, the ghost will cut you open. If you choose blue, the ghost will suffocate you.

3. Ghost Money

In this urban legend, a member of the South Korean mint went away on a business trip. During the trip, his daughter was abducted, dismembered and murdered. After an investigation, nobody was tried for the crime. It was believed that this lack of justice would turn the girls ghost into an angry spirit. Because of this, the mint began to places images of her body parts and parts of name on South Korea currency in he hopes that this would appease her. The mint has denied all knowledge of this.

2. The Loan Shark

A loan shark is someone who lends people money, often illegally, at extremely high interest rates. Sometimes, if they don't get their money back, they take matters into their own hands. Theres an urban legend from a small village in South Korea. Farmers there had to make a mass crave to bury cattle who had died from disease. Not long after, they heard a human voice calling out from beneath the soil. By the time they had dug through the dirt - the person buried among the cattle had already died. An investigation found they owed a lot of money to a loan shark. This has apparently happened dozens of times across the country.

1. Oysters

This is a really weird urband legend coming from the South Korean coast. Apparently one day a guy was walking along the beach when he slipped and fell on a sharp rock that cut his knee open. He washed it quickly and put a bandage over it. When he got home, it started to itch but he didnt want to remove the bandage incase it made things worse. He took it off a few days later and to his horror, tiny oysters covered the wound. It turns out there had been Oyster eggs on the rock he had fallen on which had gotten into his wound. They were protected by the bandage and fed on his blood until they had rooted themselves in his leg.

Top 10 Scary Vietnamese Urban Legends
Starting off at number 10 we have Ghost Tape Number 10. During the Vietnam War, its claimed that the US came up with a creepy new tactic in their fight against the Vietcong. With the help of the South Vietnamese, the US army created scary messages that sounded like voices of the dead. Along with shrieks, screams, and moans, a dead Viet Cong soldier pleads with his comrades, saying things like -My friends, I have come back to let you know that I am dead … I am dead!- and -Don't end up like me. Go home friends, before its too late!- … American helicopters blasted the Ghost Tapes over the jungle to make it sound like the voices were coming from everywhere. This was intended to do more than just scare them - the US army was playing on the strongly held Vietnamese belief that the spirits of the dead are doomed to walk the earth in their own personal hell if their bodies are not found and properly buried. It was hoped that this fear could be instilled in the Viet Cong and convince them to give up the fight or meet the same fate as the ghostly voices.

Next up at number 9, we have The Pregnant Ghost. In December 2001, a house caught fire in Saigon which took the life of 7 family members. The fire started in the early morning and quickly engulfed the first floor which was also a showroom for the family's motorbike shop. People living nearby were woken up by the smell of burnt plastic tires. The family tried to escape but found the only way was through the balcony. One by one people jumped but then a pregnant woman stepped forward onto the balcony. She was the daughter of the owners. The upper floor wasn't that high so everybody urged her to just jump - but she was too scared. She stepped back from the balcony, towards flames, and was never seen again. By the time the fire was put out the next days, the pregnant woman could not be found. In the years since then, locals swear that on certain nights - you can see the ghost of the pregnant woman standing on the balcony. Even though she is already dead, they say you can see the fear in her eyes as she looks down at the ground, clutches her baby and steps back into the flames that went out years ago.

Moving on to number 8 we have Apartment 727. This building used to be a symbol of luxury in Saigon - the tallest millionaire residence. Its divided into 6 blocks with 530 rooms but despite the grand plans of the past, it now lies almost completely abandoned. The simple reason is - people believe its haunted. In the 1960s, this was where a lot of US officers lived. Now, locals claim they see military ghost parades and the shadow of a blonde American soldier holding hands with a Vietnamese girl. They believe this is down to the spirit of the 4 virgins in the building. The legend goes that during the construction of the hotel, everything was going smoothly until the last floor of the building where many deaths and accidents occurred. The owners stopped construction for 3 days to set up an altar. People say they were advised by a Chinese exorcist to bring in the bodies of 4 virgin women. They then buried the bodies in the 4 corners of the building in order to exorcise whatever demon or curse was stopping construction. It seemed to work and the building was completed - but locals say that this act is the reason the building is so haunted today - and no soul wants to live there anymore.

Moving on to number 7 we have the Batutut. Every country seems to have some sort of Bigfoot story - well this is Vietnam. This apelike creature is said to wander the forested hills of Vietnam. Many locals have reported seeing it for a number of years. It gained wider attention when US servicemen returned from the Vietnam War with the same stories of the creature. The first documented Batutut sighting was in 1947 by a Dr. John MacKinnon in the Vu Quang Nature Reserve. Dr. MacKinnon was searching the area for undiscovered wildlife and came across tracks which he identified as hominid - a human-like creature. He said it stood at around 6ft in height. The creature is said to have hair covering its entire body except for its hands, feet, and face. The hair color can vary from grey to brown to black. They've been observed walking on two legs and also both alone and in small social groups. Those who claim to be experts say they forage for fruit and leaves but also hunt small prey. However, there is no evidence beyond eyewitness accounts and so for now, the Batutut remains an intriguing legend.

Moving on to number 6 we have The Meat Eater. The story goes like this. In a small town in Vietnam, the houses were very packed together. This was many years ago when people didn't have a fridge to keep their meat fresh and so the only way was to put salt on the meat and store it in their backyard kitchen. They didn't have any special container and just left it on a shelf. One night, a housewife in a family store their meat on the shelf. The next morning, a piece of it was missing. Furious, she went round and asked the family where it was - nobody knew. That night, she put the meat on a different shelf to make sure no one would take it away. The next morning, she went to the backyard and again, she found the meat missing.

She complained to her husband and that night, the couple stayed up to try and catch the culprit. When night came, they sat by the window overlooking their backyard. Just after 1 Am, they saw the shadow of a woman jump over their fence. They realized it was the old woman from next door. When they went out to catch her - they were shocked to see she already had the meat in her hands and was biting into it raw with a crazed look in her eyes. She looked possessed and was tearing the meat apart with sharp teeth and fangs. After finishing up the meat, she lept back over the fence. The next day they confronted the old woman's family about what had happened, they refused to believe their grandmother could have done it. The next day, the couple had to leave town for some business - they left their 1-year-old baby at home with a babysitter. They returned at 1 AM just in time to hear a loud scream come from the babies room.

They rushed upstairs to find their worst fears had come true. They had left no meat in the backyard that night and so the possessed old woman had climbed into the room and was biting on the babies arm - her face pale and fangs dripping. They attacked her and she jumped out of the window. The whole village helped to hunt the old woman - they eventually found her on top of a house. They tried but failed to get her down and decided the only way was to burn the building down. The old now transformed into her demonic form. She laughed and laughed until the roof collapsed and she fell into the flames - letting out a blood curling evil scream and then - silence, only the crackling of wood. The next day, all they found in the ashes was a very small skull. The old woman's family had already disappeared - leaving the village with more questions than answers - and a terrifying story to pass down the generations.

Moving on to number 5 now we have Mirrors. It is a common belief in some parts of Vietnam that Mirrors have a supernatural quality to them which can be used as a help or a curse. Its believed that mirrors are a portal to the spirit world. This is used as a defense against evil spirits. It's not uncommon to see mirrors hung on peoples doors. The idea for this is that an evil spirit will approach the door and be scared away by the mirror, not wanting to slip through the portal as it passes through the door. However, mirrors aren't always tools for good. Some Vietnamese believe that if you stare into a mirror for too long, a reflection can take your place and you will be the one who ends up in the mirror. You won't realize it until you go to step away and blink out of existence, forced to wait in the mirror until the real you return. Youll be forced to copy their movements exactly - and nobody will be able to see you screaming out for help through your eyes.

Next up at number 4, we have Thuan Kieu Plaza. In the heart of Saigon's busy Chinatown district is a series of three towers - each one stands 33 floors tall. Buildings A and B are completely deserted while building C has just a few people living there. During its construction in the late 80s, some of the workers died due to poor safety standards. No compensation was offered to the family and so one of them put an ancient Chinese curse on the site called -Lo Ban- …. The accidents and problems only got worse - people blamed it on the curse. Then, the ghost stories came. One involved a taxi driver who got a call from one of the abandoned builds. He went anyway but when he arrived at the place, it was of course empty. He called the girl on the other end of the phone but all he could hear was heavy breathing and muffled screams. He drove away, terrified. When he asked locals about it - they said it was most likely the ghost of a girl who was murdered by her boyfriend on the site in 2005. There are many stories like this - only adding to how deserted and creepy this plaza really is.

Moving on to number 3 now we have the Lonely Ghosts. There is a belief among some people in Vietnam that if people die alone then they will stay near where they died as ghosts because nobody was there to guide their spirits to the afterlife. They could have died alone, maybe their family didn't even know of their death or a person may have died with no family at all. If someone had a violent death, as spirits they'll be mischievous - not always evil but often violent. September is the -Ghost month- of Vietnam and during that time you can see people burning paper money in rusty buckets in the hopes of appeasing the lonely ghost.

Next up at number 2, we have Tao Dan Park. This 10-hectare park in Saigon is beautiful by day, attracting many tourists who wander around its green gardens and shady tall trees. If you dig a bit deeper - you'll find that some consider this to be the most haunted park in all of Vietnam. The story goes that over 10 years ago, a man and his girlfriend were having a picnic in the park when they were brutally attacked. The man was killed but the woman managed to survive and escape. Officials say there is only one recorded case of a murder in the Park. It was of a young man called Tuan in 1989. He was trying to sell his motorbike and asked his friend Hung to help. Instead, Hung and another accomplice killed Tuan and took the bike for themselves. Locals say that whichever one is true - the cold-blooded murder that was committed has stained the park forever - and the spirits of the victims remain.

And finally, at number 1 we have The Singing Girl. For many years, there was only really one official place in Saigon to bury the dead - Binh Hung Hoa Cemetery. Because of this concentration of dead people - many believe its one of the most haunted places in Vietnam. Perhaps one of the most famous stories is that of the singing girl. There was once a 16-year-old girl who lived in the area. She was known for her love of Kai Lung (c?i l??ng) - a well-known singer in Vietnam. The girl fell for a singer from a local theater - however, her Father didn't approve of their love due to the singer's lowly background and forced him to enroll in the army in hopes of separating them. A few months passed by and the girl was heartbroken to learn that her lover had died in the war. She was furious at her father and so hurt by her lover's death that she took her own life by jumping into the pond in the cemetery. Her body wasn't found until 6 days later. Ever since that fateful day - on every night with a full moon - locals swear they see her standing on the edge of the water, mournfully singing her favorite singers songs.