Over the last decade, hundreds of reports have cropped up across the Chicago area of people’s horrifying encounters with a large, winged creature with glowing red eyes. Last month, Park Ridge ...

It didn’t take long after the Mormon Pioneers settled in northern Utah for the urban legend of the Bear Lake Monster to appear. Brigham Young even sent a group to investigate reports that a monster ...

Since the dawn of cinema, horror movies have drawn from locational folklore and urban legends to tell spooky stories that you’d rather not hear in the dark. These stories often feel too real and can ...

The digital landscape of modern gaming is often seen as a place of cold logic and rigid code, where everything happens for a ...

We've all heard the one about someone waking up in a tub of ice with their kidney removed or the tale of a woman drying her dog in the microwave because it was wet. When you see children, your mind ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Every town has its own spooky urban legend. We've all heard at least a few. We're talking about the ...

There is something deeply human about a story that refuses to die. Urban legends are not just campfire nonsense. They latch onto our fears, our social anxieties, and our desperate need to make sense ...

Roop is a contributing list writer at Collider with over three years of experience in the writing space. After being introduced to “The Exorcist,” she developed an affinity for horror — now it takes ...

Justin Flynn is an editor and writer from Ireland. He became a gamer at the age of eight when a mix-up at his local toy store landed him a copy of Kingdom Hearts. Since then, he has earned a Bachelor ...