Horrors!!! This is your directory of scary stories, even scarier rumors, the scariest urban legends, and hoaxes and urban myths guaranteed to make you sore afraid.
It's the witching hour on a dark, moonless night. You're huddled with friends around a campfire in the gloomy forest far from town, taking turns telling tales. Someone has just finished recounting a particularly eery ghost story, insisting it was true. Then someone in the shadows clears their throat and begins to speak: "Did you hear the one about..."
You can find everything else under the sun in New York City -- so why not giant albino alligators under the streets?!
A fiendish killer disguised as a mild-mannered, well-dressed businessman helps a damsel in distress, then demands that she give him a ride...
After coming home late and getting ready for bed in the dark, a college coed wakes up the next morning to receive the shock of her life...
Rumors of penis-shrinking sorcerers roaming the streets cause outbreak of pubic panic in West Africa.
Legend has it that if you stand in front of a mirror in a darkened room and chant 'Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary' several times, a terrifying ghost will appear.
"Honey, what's that horrible smell in our hotel room?"
Manufacturer's instructions do not recommend drying your hair in the microwave. Neither does this urban legend.
They picked the worst possible night to go necking on Lovers' Lane...
Wedding reception fun and games take a gruesome turn.
It is a fact that once upon a time, before modern embalming techniques were developed, people were found on very rare occasions to have been buried alive.
Choking on what, you ask? Horrifying answer here.
A babysitter calls the parents who hired her to ask if she can cover up the clown statue in the room where she's watching TV because it disturbs her. The parents tell her to call 911, grab the children, and get out of the house immediately!
Little did the Palm Beach golfer realize as he tramped off alone to the seventh hole that he was about to become Ol' Mose's last meal.
Do they eat babies in China? Photos circulating on the Internet purport to show a Chinese man cooking and eating a human baby or fetus. Are they real?
Revolting photos show the surgical removal of a live worm from the eye of an unfortunate patient who purportedly contracted the parasite from ordinary house dust.
According to this emailed urban legend circulating since 2000, a woman in California got sick after cutting her tongue while licking an envelope infested with cockroach eggs. A few days later her doctor discovered a live cockroach growing inside her tongue.
A family receives a cactus as a gift and gives it place of honor in their living room. Weeks later, someone notices that it seems to be... guivering.
Girl with a beehive hairdo that can't be washed dies a horrible death after a spider crawls inside and lays eggs, hatching a brood of hungry babies. Legendary proof that vanity can kill.
She made one too many visits to the tanning booth...
It really happened at a shopping mall to the son of my friend's friend.
Watch out, Granny's got a hatchet!
These traditional stories from Fiji and a Native American tribe of the Pacific coast demonstrate you can still get ahead in this world without a body.
A teenager drove his date to Lovers' Lane for a make-out session before it was time to take her home. The place was very dark and deserted. A voice came over the radio...
Home alone, but there's nothing to fear with your trusty dog keeping watch under the bed. Or is there?
Rumors can spread like viruses, and are sometimes just as lethal. Case in point, The Kidney Thieves...
Drivers beware - that person following you on the highway may actually be trying to save your life!
Two college students making love on top of a mountain during a thunderstorm experience the climax of their lives -- literally.
A very good reason never to sleep with a necrophiliac - as if you needed one.
A female shopper's gratefulness turns to horror when she discovers that the "good samaritan" who offered to fix her flat tire in the mall parking lot has a briefcase full of knives, rope and duct tape.
An elderly woman comes up with a novel way to dry off her soggy pet in a hurry. Don't try this at home!
Resurrected urban legend about a psychic predicting mass murders at a major university on Halloween night brings terror to U.S. college campuses.
There's a killer hiding in the room. Don't turn on the light!
Flayed alive long ago by a jealous husband, Tom's ghost still haunts a popular "Lovers' Lane" in rural Tennessee.
This charming series of photographs purports to show a gigantic serpent killed and dissected in the process of swallowing a full-grown human being.
Real-life murders captured on film and video? The Skeptical Inquirer's Scott Aaron Stine stalks the truth.
Proof that drug smugglers will stop at nothing to ply their evil trade.
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