Q 01/05
A) Baba Yaga
B) The Bell Witch
C) Kuchisake-onna
D) Bloody Mary
Answer · why
Bloody Mary descends from an older divination game in which young women climbed stairs backward with a candle and hand mirror, hoping to glimpse a fut...
Q 02/05
A) Smile Dog
B) Jeff the Killer
C) The Rake
D) Slender Man
Answer · why
Slender Man was invented in 2009 by Eric Knudsen, posting as Victor Surge, who pasted the faceless figure into two doctored black-and-white photograph...
Q 03/05
A) Chupacabra
B) Mothman
C) Bigfoot
D) Jersey Devil
Answer · why
Chupacabra means 'goat-sucker' in Spanish, from chupa ('sucks') and cabras ('goats'), after its reported habit of draining livestock.
Q 04/05
A) Crocodiles
B) Alligators
C) Komodo Dragons
D) Caimans
Answer · why
Alligators: the sewer legend grew from a 1935 New York Times report of teenagers hauling a seven-foot alligator from an East Harlem storm drain, later...
Q 05/05
A) The Backseat Killer
B) The Hookman
C) The Vanishing Hitchhiker
D) The Lady in White
Answer · why
The Hookman's hook is always found dangling from the car door handle after the couple speeds away, the detail that makes the legend.
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