The Hollow / Urban Legends
BLOODY MARY!!
Urban Legend:
Chanting "Bloody Mary!"
thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror
in an otherwise dark room
will summon her vengeful spirit.
The Story:
Go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off.
Bathrooms seem to be perfect for this
since they almost always have a mirror
and are usually dark at night with the lights off
and the door closed.
Light a candle,
look into the mirror,
start chanting
"Bloody Mary" .
You have to do this 13 times, of course.
You should see
Bloody Mary
behind your left shoulder after the thirteenth time.
Beware,
she has been reported to
1.) Kill the person calling her,
2.) Scratch their eyes out,
3.) Drive the person mad or
4.) pull the person into the mirror with her.
This is an old legend, it has been around for ages.
A folklorist, Janet Langlois,
published an essay on the legend back in 1978.
At that time,
the legend was wide spread across the USA
and a popular slumber party ritual
done by girls as well as boys.
No one knows the true origins of the Bloody Mary tale,
she's been known to be anything from a witch
that was killed for practicing witchcraft
to a modern day woman killed in a car crash,
depending on what part of the country you live in.
It was made popular again in the film Urban Legends in 1999.
THE CRYPT !!!
Urban Legend:
A person makes a bet with their friends
that they can
spend the night in a cemetery crypt
and
is found in the morning
insane with snow white hair.
The Story:
A person is dared
to spend the night
in a crypt
in a local cemetery
and
is found in the morning
totally insane
and
their hair
has turned snow white.
This one
can vary from
biker club initiation,
fraternity or sorority initiation
or
a dare
between a group of kids.
It takes place usually
in an gated
above ground crypt.
The person is locked in
with the dead
and left over night.
No one knows
what actually happens
to said person
because
they never speak again,
their hair turns snow white
and
they go insane.
Origins:
This
legend has been told
as having happened
in various parts of the United States
but no true origins can be found.
The Long Distance Phone Call !!!
Urban Legend:
An elderly woman,
bed-ridden after her husbands death,
receives strange phone calls
that turn out to be
from the dead husband.
The Story:
An elderly
woman
receives a phone call
on a dark, stormy night.
She hears a moaning on the other end
and a voice that sounds like
her recently diseased husband.
The calls torment her all night.
The next day,
she asks her driver
to take her past the cemetery
where her husband was laid to rest.
They discover that during the storm,
a phone line had fallen down
and was laying on her dead husbands grave!
Were the phone calls
she had received the night before
made from beyond the grave
by her dead husband?
Another variation of this
has the woman dying
from shock in her bed
after answering the phone call.
Then,
when she is being taken to the cemetery
it is discovered
that the phone line
is laying
on her husbands grave.
Origins:
This legend has been told
as having happened
in various parts of the United States
but no true origins can be found.
A version of this legend showed up
as an episode of
the
Twilight Zone on
February 7th,1964, called
"Night Call."
Halloween
The last day of October,
when according to Christian tradition
the spirits of the dead return
to where they lived
and witches and demons
become active.
To celebrate Halloween
children dress up as
witches, ghosts and devils..
WITCHING HOUR
Midnight,
when witches
are supposedly active
(after Shakespeare's Hamlet iii. ii. 377
the witching time of night .
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