Famous Urban Legends Quiz

In Pennsylvania, a jilted bride supposedly hung herself from a bridge on Suscon Road. Lucky (or rather, unlucky) people who visit the area may hear her tortured cries.

The spirit reportedly gets the women pregnant as part of his plan for revenge - any sons that are born will grow up and avenge their murdered father.

She died in 1958, a victim of the Beast 666, but no one really knows what that's supposed to mean. Perhaps she was murdered by the devil himself.

According to the story, a tortured girls kills herself, and the people who discover her body wind up dead, too.

Trump supposedly rewarded the nice man by paying off his mortgage. This one, it goes without saying, is entirely untrue.

Down in Kentucky, you'll find Mackey's famous "haunted" country music club. There are all sorts of gruesome stories attributed to this location, which may very well be a "gateway to hell," depending on your tastes in music.

Zanfretta was supposedly abducted by aliens, and his detailed stories convinced many people that the experience really happened. He said he was abducted again the following year.

The couple finds the dog chewing on a finger. They call the police, who rush to the home and find a burglar still on the premises. This is an old legend with many variations.

The driver arrives at his destination ... but the hitchhiker has disappeared. He learns later that a young woman died on that same stretch of highway years earlier.

They drive off quickly after hearing about the killer with the hook hand. When they arrive at home, they find a hook dangling from the door handle.

The woman returned home late and didn't turn on the light for fear of waking her roommate. Turns out, her roommate's killer was still in the room, and he left the gruesome message "aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?" on the wall.

This gruesome story features a Japanese woman who is slit from ear to ear by her husband after he realizes she's been unfaithful.

Her damaged vanity looms in her eerie words "am I pretty?"

He accidentally twisted one word and called himself a "jelly doughnut," but the mistake was subtle and incorrectly reported, leading to a sugary urban legend.

The bridge name has been used for multiple bridges in the U.S. Supposedly, if you listen, you can hear the cry of children who were murdered near the bridges.

Stow Lake is near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The legend is that a mother overcome by the loss of her child still roams the area, looking for her little one.

In 1908, police supposedly pulled over a speeding driver. The man was terrified after having spotted a spirit that was barefoot and blocking his way.

Char Man is supposedly a guy who died in forest fire in California. If you stop along the wrong highway, he'll try to tear off your skin.

One of the rare urban myths based on truth, on more than one occasion, people have pretended to be hanging just for fun ... only to accidentally hang themselves for real.

A legend says that Mr. Rogers was once a Navy SEAL and served in Vietnam, where he recorded multiple kills. This one is completely false.

Nicknamed "Dog Boy" because he captured animals and tortured them, he also supposedly beat his parents. The house is reportedly haunted.

This one is just a myth. There are two arachnids many people call "daddy longlegs": the harvestman and the pholcid house spider. Harvestmen have no venom, and pholcid spiders have venom of typical strength.

Say the words "Bloody Mary" three times into a mirror and you'll summon Mary Worth, a woman who was supposedly executed for witchcraft.

She calls the parents to ask if it's OK for her to cover the clown "statue," which turns out to be a little person dressed as a clown. The children had complained to the parents repeatedly about a clown watching them sleep.

He repeatedly tells the babysitter to check on the kids in their beds. She calls the police, who trace the call to inside the home. When she finally checks on the kids, they have been murdered.

Supposedly, there is a thriving population of alligators living in the sewers, former pets that were abandoned by their owners when the reptiles became too large.

This long-standing urban legend says that Coke will dissolve a tooth. It may have been an exaggerated claim to scare people about sugar being responsible for cavities.

This urban legend is actually grounded in truth. On numerous occasions, killers have stuffed dead bodies in the base of a bed in order to (temporarily) hide the evidence.

The legend says he was drugged, and one of his kidneys was stolen for sale on the black market. The ice in the tub was meant to keep him alive until he could call for help.

The myth says that Russians created a well in Siberia that went so deep it punctured the ceiling of hell, and a winged demon emerged. We can assure you that this didn't really happen.