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95 free Urban Legends trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
10 free urban legends trivia questions with answers. Think you know your urban legends? From creepy folklore to modern myths, urban legends have captivated and terrified people for generations. Test your knowledge with our 95-question trivia quiz covering the most famous urban legends from around the world.
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Q 01What spectral figure is supposedly summoned by chanting her name into a mirror?
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary may have grown out of old divination games in which girls peered into a mirror to glimpse a future husband; some versions call her Mary Worth instead.
Q 02Which creepypasta character is usually shown as a tall, faceless figure in a dark suit?
Slender Man
Slender Man was invented in 2009 by Eric Knudsen, posting as Victor Surge, who pasted the faceless figure into two doctored black-and-white photographs for an online paranormal-image contest.
Q 03Which creature, said to attack livestock and drain their blood, is often sighted in parts of the Americas?
Chupacabra
Chupacabra means 'goat-sucker' in Spanish, from chupa ('sucks') and cabras ('goats'), after its reported habit of draining livestock.
Q 04What large reptile is rumored to live in the sewers of major cities, having been flushed down as pets?
Alligators
Alligators: the legend grew out of real 1930s newspaper reports, such as a 1935 story of New York boys who lassoed a live alligator with a clothesline and hauled it out of a sewer.
Q 05Which urban legend tells of a killer with a prosthetic hand stalking couples in parked cars?
The Hookman
The Hookman's hook, in most tellings, is found dangling from the car door handle once the couple have sped home, proof of how close he came.
Q 06What is the usual name for the pale-gowned female ghost of betrayal or untimely death found in folklore worldwide?
The White Lady
The White Lady usually carries a backstory of murder, suicide or a lover's betrayal; a famous one on Quezon City's Balete Drive is said to flag down taxis at night.
Q 07Which figure of Hispanic American folklore wanders near water, wailing for the children she drowned?
La Llorona
La Llorona, 'the weeping woman', doubles as a warning: parents invoke her to keep children away from rivers and indoors after dark.
Q 08Which axe-wielding Fairfax County, Virginia legend is tied to a railroad overpass near Clifton?
The Bunny Man
The Bunny Man was traced by a Fairfax County library archivist to two real 1970 police reports of a man in a rabbit costume threatening people with an axe.
Q 09The part-man, part-goat Pope Lick Monster is said to live under a railroad trestle in which US state?
Kentucky
Kentucky: the trestle over Pope Lick Creek in Louisville is no abandoned relic but a busy freight line, and people hunting the monster have been killed by trains there.
Q 10Which folklorist popularized 'urban legend' with his 1981 book The Vanishing Hitchhiker?
Jan Harold Brunvand
Jan Harold Brunvand, a University of Utah professor, took the tales to a mass audience through a syndicated newspaper column and guest spots on Late Night with David Letterman.
Q 11Which city's 1946 'Moonlight Murders' may have seeded the legend of a killer stalking lovers' lanes?
Texarkana
Texarkana: an unidentified 'Phantom Killer' attacked couples parked on quiet roads there in 1946, and writers on folklore have suggested such real murders fed the legend.
Q 12In the classic babysitter urban legend, where do the menacing phone calls turn out to be coming from?
Inside the house
Inside the house: the caller is already upstairs with the children, the twist that the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls was built on.
Q 13In 'The Licked Hand' legend, who is really licking the girl's hand at night instead of her dog?
The intruder
Q 21According to legend, the Jersey Devil was the cursed thirteenth child of a woman known by what name?
Mother Leeds
Mother Leeds, in one common telling set in 1735, cursed her unborn child, which turned into a winged monster soon after birth and has haunted the Pine Barrens ever since.
Q 22The Loch Ness Monster's famous 1934 'surgeon's photograph' turned out to show a model head mounted on what?
A toy submarine
A toy submarine carried the sculpted head; Christian Spurling confessed that his stepfather, big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell, staged the photo after the Daily Mail ridiculed him.
Q 23At which Northern California location was the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot film shot?
Bluff Creek
The intruder, not her dog, licked her hand in the night; in the best-known telling she then finds the dog dead, with a message saying that people can lick too.
Q 14In the 'High Beams' legend, why does the car behind keep flashing its lights?
To warn of a hidden man
To warn of a hidden man: each flash makes the killer crouched in her back seat duck down again; folklorist Carlos Drake first recorded the tale in 1968 from Indiana University students.
Q 15In the classic organ-theft legend, a drugged traveller wakes up missing a kidney in what?
A bathtub full of ice
A bathtub full of ice, with a message telling him to call 911; the tale swept the internet by email in 1997, and the National Kidney Foundation's appeal for real victims went unanswered.
Q 16Which candy was falsely rumoured to have killed 'Mikey' of the Life cereal ads when mixed with cola?
Pop Rocks
Pop Rocks: actor John Gilchrist, who played Mikey, was alive and well, and General Foods ran newspaper ads in 1979 to assure parents the fizzing candy was safe.
Q 17Contrary to the cryogenic-freezing legend, what actually happened to Walt Disney's remains?
He was cremated
He was cremated two days after his death in December 1966; the first person ever cryonically frozen, James Bedford, was not preserved until the following month.
Q 18A 1969 death hoax claimed which Beatle had died in 1966 and been secretly replaced by a look-alike?
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney was alive and at his farm in Scotland; fans heard 'Turn me on, dead man' in a backwards Revolution 9 and read clues into the Abbey Road cover.
Q 19Polybius, the legendary mind-altering arcade game, supposedly appeared in 1981 in which city?
Portland
Portland, Oregon, in 1981, is where the Polybius cabinets supposedly appeared; no machine and no record of its supposed publisher, Sinnesloschen, has ever surfaced.
Q 20Mothman sightings around Point Pleasant, West Virginia became linked to which December 1967 disaster?
The Silver Bridge collapse
The Silver Bridge collapse killed 46 people, and John Keel's 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies tied the creature to the tragedy.
Bluff Creek is where Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a large, hairy figure striding across a clearing and glancing back at them, the most famous Bigfoot footage ever shot.
Q 24The first widely publicized sightings of the blood-draining 'goat-sucker' cryptid emerged in 1995 on which island?
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico's 1995 sightings started it; later 'goat-sucker' carcasses in Mexico and Texas turned out to be coyotes and dogs with severe mange.
Q 25The ghost ship Ourang Medan, its crew supposedly found dead with terrified faces, was said to be from which nation?
Dutch
Dutch: the Ourang Medan was said to be a Dutch merchant ship in the Straits of Malacca, yet searches for any registration or accident record of such a vessel have found nothing.
Q 26Which masked woman of Japanese urban legend asks passers-by whether she is pretty?
Kuchisake-onna
Kuchisake-onna panic swept Japan in 1979; escapes include calling her 'average', throwing hard candy, or saying 'pomade' three times.
Q 27In Japanese schools, the ghost Hanako-san is said to haunt which part of the building?
The toilets
The toilets, specifically the third stall of a third-floor girls' lavatory: knock three times and ask if Hanako is there.
Q 28The Japanese ghost Teke Teke drags herself along on her hands because her body was cut in half by what?
A train
A train: cut in half on the tracks, Teke Teke drags her torso along on her hands at night, and her name imitates the scratching sound that makes.
Q 29The Japanese bathroom spirit Aka Manto offers his victims a choice between which two colours?
Red and blue
Red and blue: Aka Manto asks whether you want red paper or blue paper; in most tellings red means being slashed and blue being strangled, and the only escape is to refuse both.
Q 30Which website's 2009 Photoshop contest for paranormal images produced the internet's best-known faceless villain?
Something Awful
Something Awful's forum ran the June 2009 contest where Eric Knudsen, posting as Victor Surge, first pasted his faceless figure into two photographs; a 2014 stabbing by two young fans caused a moral panic.