WattMag: Spooky November Issue

Top 15 Creepiest and Scariest Urban Legends

Top 15 Creepiest and Scariest Urban Legends

Topic: Horror Story
By: FRIENDZONED21

            Well as the title said, this is a list of Urban Legends from different countries ranked based on how scary and creepy it is. However, I ranked this based on my opinion, it is still up to you what makes you shiver and what seems to be unrealistic. Now, let’s give it up for the top 15

            15) Wewe Gombel – Wewe Gombel originated in Indonesia, it is known as an “evil-spirit”. They look like an old lady with a creepy and scary face, white messy hair, creepy long tits, and they walked out naked. She likes to kidnaps children, especially children who plays at night and abandoned children, but she will never hurt them. She returns the children after the parents realizes that their children are lost or abandoned.

This one must be really creepy, but she’s not that evil at all.

            14) The Hello Kitty Murder - In 1999, Hong Kong was horrified to hear the details of a grisly murder that happened in a third floor apartment in Granville Road 31. The victim was a 23-year-old nightclub hostess, Fan Man-yee, who was abducted by three men and held captive for more than a month. During the time of her captivity Ms. Fan was tortured mercilessly almost every day until she died. Her body was chopped to pieces and disposed along with the household trash. Her decapitated head was then sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll, and since the media are not known for their subtlety, the crime was dubbed the Hello Kitty Murder by the press.

For several weeks, authorities were oblivious of Ms. Fan’s murder until a 13-year-old girl, a girlfriend of one of the murderers, went to the police complaining that she’s haunted by the ghost of a woman her boyfriend helped kill. The police just dismissed the statement of the girl, but she was persistent. Deciding that it would be less of a hassle to check the story than be berated by an angry teenager, they inspected the address given and were horrified with what they saw.

The suspects were quickly rounded up and given life sentences, but the story did not end there. In the months following the murder, CCTV cameras of nearby establishments captured images of a female form lurking in the shadows. Reports of eerie sounds and ghostly flames abound. Due to the ghostly haunting, the tenants moved out and no one else seemed interested to move in. The owner of the building was forced to close it down and finally demolish it in 2012.

This one is kinda scary for me, but the buildings were already demolished, so this one isn’t something to be afraid of.

 

            13) Tomino’s Hell -  The legend is about “Tomino’s Hell,” a poem in a book called The Heart is Like a Rolling Stone, written by Yomota Inuhiko. It is said that anyone who reads the poem aloud will be cursed to suffer just like Tomino. Some believed that the curse is only to suffer terrible accidents, while others say death will surely follow. Hardly anything is known how this particular urban legend sprouted from the darkest pits of Japanese imagination, but the mystery only adds more creep factor to the whole legend.

The poem itself is a horrible read. It conjures very dreadful and very graphic images that slowly shred apart the reader’s heart (unless, of course, the reader has no heart to begin with).

There are some foolhardy individuals who read the poem aloud and later claimed to have suffered no ill effects. However, there are those (and there are a lot of them,) who say otherwise. If someone reading this wants to tempt fate and try out if the curse is true or not, make sure to read it in the original Japanese and tell us how things work out afterwards. Best of luck!