Charlie</a> from Top 10s counts down the #top10 10 Scary Urban Legends That Are Actually True! Here are some of the scariest urban legend that have been told for years that are actually true!

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Urban legends anime has a long history of adapting Japanese urban myths and folktales into shows that fuse horror, mystery, and the supernatural.

Hallmarks of urban legends is that they are generally apocryphal in nature, are repeated as true stories, have a local connection to the teller (e.g., "My sister told me this happened to her ...

(Note that veracity or lack thereof is not considered a marker of a legend; although perhaps fully three-quarters of circulating urban legends are false, a significant minority are true in whole ...