The story of the Slender Man first gained notoriety in 2009 as it spread through the internet like wildfire. The legend of Slender Man has been extensively covered on this site already – nonetheless, it’s such a creepy urban legend that I feel compelled to retell it here. If you’re unfortunate enough to run into her on the way home, you should answer he questions noncommittally – ‘You look alright’, or ‘I think you’re average’ – this kind of answer is said to confuse her, giving you time to get the hell out of there. She is said to almost exclusively hunt children, and reports of sightings have occurred not only in Japan – she was sighted once again in South Korea as recently as 2004 wearing a red mask and following children. You can’t just run away either – if you try to escape, every time you turn around still be standing there. The scariest part is, even if you answer ‘Yes’ the second time, so warped is her mind that she will still slit your mouth open, so that you can be just as ‘pretty’ as she is. If you answer the second time, ‘No’, the legend suggests that you will die a grisly death at the hand of the woman and her oversized pair of scissors. If you have the bad luck of coming into contact with her, she will ask you a question – ‘Do you think I’m beautiful?’ If you answer ‘Yes’, she’ll rip off her mask and scream ‘What about NOW?’. The samurai believed her to be adulterous, and in his rage he slit her mouth open from ear to ear and taunted by saying ‘Now who’s going to think you’re beautiful?’ This urban myth was first recorded in 1979 in Japan in Nagasaki, and it caused such uproar that police were forced to increase their presence and schools instructed their students to travel in groups.Īpparently, the slit mouth woman, known in Japanese as Kuchisake-onna, lurks on the streets in Japan wearing a surgical mask. It is said that there was once a stunningly beautiful woman who was married to a Samurai. The legend of the woman with the slit mouth originates from Japan, although it is now also quite a well-known myth in Chinese and Korean culture. If you want to read more about these, check out our page on Robert the Doll, or our post about the Shadow People Anyways, without further ado – here’s our list of the Top 10 Scary Urban Legends out there. There were a few urban legends that didn’t quit make the cut but that we found creepy nonetheless. The one thing that they all have in common is that I found them all pretty unsettling. Some are centuries old others are modern.

These folktales and urban myths come from around the world. I’ve collected a list of what I think are some of the most scariest urban legends out there. If you’re reading this at night, and you’re about to go to bed… Well, I recommend you delay reading this until tomorrow, preferably when the sun is shining – I can’t guarantee that you’ll be able to fall asleep after reading this scary list of urban legends.

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