City legends are no longer just tales around the fire, but part of the culture of individual countries and peoples. And it is for such people who like to tickle their nerves themselves and others who are offered the 10 most terrible stories from around the world.
10. Nyxur (Nykur)
In books and cartoons, horses are portrayed as good and beautiful creatures. But in Iceland this is not entirely true. When you see a gray horse on the bank of a river or lake, then look at its hooves - and if they are turned in the opposite direction, then you are out of luck and it looks like you met Niks. According to local residents, Nyxa is an underwater monster, sometimes crawling out on the coast to lure another victim. When trying to stroke or saddle this horse, a man will firmly stick to it and it will take the victim to the bottom of the sea kingdom. True, if you shout out the name of this horse, then frightened, it will run back into the reservoir.
9. The Ghost Wagon
Several men rode the cart to Beaufort West, a place renowned as a home of ghosts and evil spirits. There were four of them: a wanderer from Cape Town, Anthony de Heer, Latterodt and Seruni. As they approached Beaufort West, they heard a loud clatter of hooves that literally rushed towards them. When the wagon got closer to them, the four men saw fourteen horses in a harness. Everyone except de Heer, who remained to remove the wagon from the road, jumped from it. Angry de Heer shouted to the coachman: “Where are you rushing ?!” To which they replied: "To hell." According to local residents, talking with the driver of a ghostly carriage is in big trouble. And so it happened. A few days later, the body of Anthony de Hira, crushed on the rocks, was found at the bottom of the gorge. Beside him were his horses.
8. A child in a high chair
This legend is straight from harsh Norway. The young couple could not go on vacation. After several months, the couple went on vacation. They took plane tickets and hired a nanny for their baby. On the day of departure, the spouses were in a hurry and, moreover, the nanny broke the car as luck would have it. The nanny told them that in 15 minutes she would come on foot. Parents put their child in a high chair, fastened their seat belts and ran on a plane.
The first version says that the wind slammed all the doors and the nanny thought that the child flew away with his parents. According to the second version, the nanny was hit by a truck to death. The third version says that the nanny died of cardiac arrest.
But when the parents came home, they saw in front of them a dead child in a high chair, fastened with seat belts ...
7. The picture of Japanese suicide
Young Japanese woman before suicide, painted a portrait of a girl. After a while, she posted her creation on the net and committed suicide. Those who saw this picture say that the eyes of the girl in the picture exuded sadness and anger when looking at them. Others said that with long eye contact with the girl, they saw her grin. Many also say that those who looked at this picture for more than 5 minutes brutally committed suicide.
6. A woman who hanged herself on a delonix royal
The Australian myth tells of a girl from the city of Darwin. One terrible day, she was raped by a fisherman. Soon, the girl found out that she was pregnant and hanged herself on the Delonix Royal. Her soul never found a place for herself other than where she hanged herself. And now she appears in that place in a beautiful white outfit. As soon as the innocent victim succumbed to her charms, she immediately turned into a terrible witch and tore the victim into pieces, eating her entrails. Fearless can come to the park and call this girl. To do this, you need to turn around yourself three times and call her by name. If a terrible scream is heard in the distance, then the session was a success and it would be time to make legs if your guts are expensive ...
5. El Silbon
This Colombian-Venezuelan story tells of a very spoiled, moody and mischievous boy. Once he demanded that a deer be cooked, but the boy’s father could not find the venison, which offended his son so much that he killed his own father and brought his insides to his mother. Mother later realized whose insides it was and allowed her grandfather to teach the boy a lesson. First, the grandfather beat his grandson almost to death, and threw freshly squeezed lemon juice into his wounds, after which he completely gave him a bag with his father’s bones and sent him to be torn to pieces by dogs. Grandfather cursed his grandson on wanderings until the end of time. And so, since then El Silbon has been wandering through the fields and forests, whistling a song at the same time. He occasionally comes into people's houses. If the creature is not noticed, then one of the family members will die, if it is noticed, then the family will be lucky, and the creature will leave.
4. Tsok-Tsok
Once a Japanese girl was raped and maimed by several men. That same evening, she rushed off the bridge, after which she was cut in two by a train. Due to the great frost outside, she slowly bleeding and managed to crawl to the station. The watchman who saw her was horrified by what he saw and covered the girl with tarpaulin. The girl died in terrible agony. According to legend, after three days of reading or hearing this story, the ghost of this girl will begin to haunt. Hiding from a ghost is very difficult, as it moves at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. You can hear about the approach of a girl by a clatter. Death can be avoided by giving the correct answers to the questions of the ghost. If the ghost asks if you need legs, then you need to answer: "I need them right now." If the question is about who told this story, then we can safely answer: “Kashima Reiko”.
3. Girl from Studley Road
The story gained popularity on the net after the story of one of the Reddit users, whom this story horrified from a young age. The action takes place in Mechanicsville - a town in the state of Virginia. One of the winding roads of this city is called Stadley Road. Not far from the road lived a family in which the alcoholic father, enraged, beat his own wife and daughter to death, and committed suicide. But for some time the daughter was still alive. She crawled to this very road and covered her with blood. Now she wanders along the margins of this very Studley Road in the guise of a little girl with a sagging jaw. Those who stop to help her hear an inhuman scream. Sometimes she tries to say something, but only the gurgling of blood in her torn mouth is audible.
2. Blue baby
Legend has it about a mother who killed her child with a fragment of a mirror. The story has become popular in that you can evoke the spirit of this child. To do this, at night in the bathroom you need to go up to the fogged mirror and write “blue baby” on it. The room should not have lights on. Hands should be folded as if a real child is on them. After a while, a child will appear on the hands, but it is impossible to drop it, since a mirror will break, and death will come with it. Another version says that you need to say “blue baby” 13 times and shake hands as if the baby was in them. The ghost is likely to scratch the one who summoned him. But the worst thing is that the caller can be killed by a distraught mother, who is likely to appear in the mirror.
1. Devilish box with toys
A rumor is circulating around Louisiana that somewhere on its territory is a house in which there is a floor, walls, and even a ceiling from mirrors. If you stay too long in this house, you can lose your soul. The mirrors in the room form a hexagon. Experts say that staying in this room for more than five minutes is impossible. The man was there only 4 minutes and became dumb until the end of his life. A woman who entered this house found out what cardiac arrest is. The teenager who was there, was hardly taken out of there, he screamed and kicked like crazy. Two weeks later, he committed suicide.