From Bigfoot sightings to DIA lizard people, Colorado’s famous stories revisited for the state’s 150th anniversary.

In every state, urban legends have been scaring residents for years, and they can mean big business for local economies. Here ...

Hallmarks of urban legends is that they are generally apocryphal in nature, are repeated as true stories, have a local connection to the teller (e.g., "My sister told me this happened to her ...

Some of the world’s most enduring urban legends have survived for one unsettling reason: the facts behind them are real. You know that creepy story someone told you at a sleepover that you laughed ...

The story of Huggin’ Molly is clearly a tool used by parents to get their children to obey the rules: The urban legend, native to Abbeville, tells of a phantom woman who appears to children if they ...

Urban legends have haunted human consciousness for generations, weaving themselves into our collective psyche with remarkable persistence. These unsettling tales transcend cultural boundaries, ...

Feel like you’re at summer camp again with these spooky folklore tales, including the man that haunts Columbia’s underground.

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 ...

First, the story was that Halloween candy was poisoned, perhaps by witches and goblins (or wicked neighbors) out to kill young children. After that 1960s myth faded, it was followed by the insistence ...

Urban legends have always creeped me out. You know the ones. A couple is making out in a car and gets home to find the hook hand of an escaped killer on their door handle. Or the couple makes out in ...

Here is the synopsis for that original Urban Legend film: "A university is beset by a rash of gruesome murders that resemble old urban legends. When her friend Michelle (Natasha Gregson Wagner) is ...