This is a list of urban legends. An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, cryptids, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture.

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• 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend which claims that calling the emergency services, then hanging up, charges mobile phone batteries.^[1]

The Guardian - Back to home. Police eventually discovered the culprit was the child’s father, who had poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money. But the urban legend owes.

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• Aerial water bomber picking up scuba diver: about a water bomber, or a helicopter with a dangling water bucket, scooping up a scuba diver and dumping him or her on a wildfire site. Urban legend debunking site Snopes.com reports there are no proven cases of this happening in reality.^[2]
• The Ankle slicing car thief or The man under the car is an urban legend that tells of a driver that keeps hearing noises under their car when they are driving. When they step out of the car to investigate, their ankles get sliced open with a knife. And when they are rolling around on the ground in pain, a car thief emerges from underneath the car and steals it.^[3]
• Baby Train is an urban legend which claims that a small town had an unusually high birth rate because a train would pass through the town at 5:00 am and blow its whistle, waking up all the residents. Since it was too late to go back to sleep and too early to get up, couples would have sex. This resulted in the mini-baby boom.^[4][5]
• Black-eyed children (or black-eyed kids) are an urban legend of supposed paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. Tales of black-eyed children have appeared in pop culture since the late 1990s.
• Black Volga refers to a black Volga limousine that was allegedly used to abduct people, especially children.
• The Blue star tattoo legend refers to a modern legend that LSD tabs are being distributed as lick-and-stick temporary tattoos to children.
• Bloody Mary is a folklore legend consisting of a ghost or spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is called multiple times. The Bloody Mary apparition may be benign or malevolent, depending on historic variations of the legend. The Bloody Mary appearances are mostly 'witnessed' in group participation games.
• Bunny Man is an urban legend that probably originated from two incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970, but has been spread throughout the Washington D.C. area. There are many variations to the legend, but most involve a man wearing a rabbit costume ('bunny suit') who attacks people with an axe.
• The chupacabra (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾa], from chupar 'to suck' and cabra 'goat', literally 'goat sucker') is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas, with the first sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats.
• Cow tipping purported activity of sneaking up on any unsuspecting or sleeping upright cow and pushing it over for entertainment.
• Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copy-pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences. People often (falsely) believe them to be true.
• The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

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• Hanako-san is a Japanese urban legend of the spirit of a young girl who haunts school bathrooms, and can be described as a yōkai or a yūrei.^[6][7] To summon her, individuals must enter a girls' bathroom (usually on the third floor of a school), knock three times on the third stall, and ask if Hanako-san is present.^[6]
• Hippo Eats Dwarf. An internet-spread urban legend about a circus performer being accidentally swallowed by a hippopotamus.^[8]
• The Hook, also called Hookman, is a classic example of an urban legend. Originating in post-war America, it recounts a story of a murderer with a hook prosthesis in place of a hand.
• JATO Rocket Car started as a Darwin Award winner where a driver strapped a pair of Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) units to the rear of his car and ended up smashing into the side of a hill in Arizona. No police agency in Arizona took a report of this type of accident. The Arizona Department of Public Safety even issued a press release on their website debunking the report.
• Killer in the backseat (also known as High Beams) is a common car-crime urban legend well known mostly in the United States and United Kingdom. The legend involves a woman who is driving and being followed by a strange car or truck. The mysterious pursuer flashes his high beams, tailgates her and sometimes even rams her vehicle. When she finally makes it home, she realizes that the driver was trying to warn her that there was a man (a murderer, rapist, or escaped mental patient) hiding in her back seat. Each time the man sat up to attack her, the driver behind had used his high beams to scare the killer, after which he ducked down.^[9]
• Killswitch is a fictional video game. According to the legend, this game can only be played once - If your character dies or you manage to complete the game, the game will delete itself, and will leave no trace.^[10]
• Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, 'Slit-Mouthed Woman') is a Japanese urban legend about the malevolent spirit, or onryō, of a mutilated woman. She is said to partially cover her face with a mask or object, and reportedly carries a sharp tool of some kind, such as a knife or a large pair of scissors.
• The Licked Hand, known sometimes as possible the Doggy Lick or Humans Can Lick Too, is an urban legend popular among teenagers. The story describes a killer who secretly spends the night under a girl's bed, licking her hand when offered, which she takes to be her dog.

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• Melody is dead is an urban legend claiming that Spanish singer Melody died in a plane accident.^[11]
• Men in black is an urban legend and conspiracy theory claiming that men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses or victims of alleged Alien Abductions to keep them quiet about what they have seen.^[12]
• Nale Ba is a popular folk legend which features prominently in areas across Karnataka, India. 'Naale Baa' (ನಾಳೆ ಬಾ in Kannada) has been found written on walls of small towns and villages for years now. Villagers write this on walls to deter the entry of malevolent spirit into their homes. The myth is that a witch roams the streets in the night and knocks on doors. The witch apparently speaks in the voices of one's kin so that one would be deceived into opening the door. When the house dweller opens the door he dies.
• The Monkey-man of Delhi was a mysterious creature or criminal that was reported attacking locals near New Delhi in mid 2001. Most sources consider the monster an urban legend, and a creation brought on from exaggerated media hysteria, often compared to the Spring-heeled Jack epidemic during Victorian times.
• Paul is dead is an urban legend suggesting that Paul McCartney of the English rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike.
• Phantom P-40 Airplane/pilot In its original form the pilot is a survivor of the 1941 Battle in the Philippines who wages a one-man war against the Japanese until his heavily-damaged aircraft crashes in China;^[13] a modern variation is that he crashes after flying from the Philippines to Pearl Harbor.^[14]
• Polybius is a fictitious arcade game, the subject of an urban legend that emerged in early 2000. It has served as inspiration for several free and commercial games by the same name.
• Sewer alligator is an urban legend based upon reports of alligator sightings in rather unorthodox locations, in particular New York City.
• Skeleton in a tree is an urban legend alleging that years after the defeat of St. Clair in 1791 at Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio, the skeleton of a Captain Roger Vanderberg was found in Miami County, Ohio inside a tree, along with a diary. However, no one of this name was a casualty of the 1791 battle; the story originated in 1864 from a Scottish novel.^[15]
• Slender Man (also known as Slender man) is a fictional character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Victor Surge in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face and wearing a black suit. The Slender Man is commonly said to stalk, abduct, or traumatize people, particularly children. The Slender Man is not tied to any particular story, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, mostly composed online.^[16]

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• Teke Teke (テケテケ) is the ghost of a young woman or schoolgirl who fell on a railway line, which resulted in her body being cut in half by a train. She is an onryō, or a vengeful spirit, who lurks around urban areas and train stations at night. Since she no longer has lower extremities, she travels on either her hands or elbows, dragging her upper torso and making a scratching or 'teke teke'-like sound. If she encounters a potential victim, she will chase them and slice them in half at the torso with a scythe or other weapon.
• The Spider Bite or The Red Spot is a modern urban legend that emerged in Europe during the 1970s. It features a young woman who is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The bite swells into a large boil and soon bursts open to reveal hundreds of tiny spiders escaping from her cheek.
• Vanishing Lady a.k.a. Vanishing Hotel Room: During an international exposition in Paris, a daughter leaves her mother in a hotel room; when she comes back her mother is gone and the hotel staff claims to have no knowledge of the missing woman. It is later revealed that the mother was dying of plague and, fearing for the negative impact on the hotel's public image, the staff just disposed of the mother, redecorated the room and pretended as nothing had happened. Inspiration for the movie So Long at the Fair. Based upon a turn-of-the-century Philadelphia newspaper story.^[17]
• The Vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, the disappearing hitchhiker, the phantom hitchhiker or simply the hitchhiker) story is an urban legend in which people traveling by vehicle meet with, or are accompanied by, a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. Vanishing hitchhikers have been reported for centuries and the story is found across the world with many variants. The popularity and endurance of the legend has helped it spread into popular culture.

See also[edit]

• 'Fair Charlotte' – a folk ballad about a girl who froze to death because of vanity

References[edit]

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Running time118 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$90–106.2 millionBright is a 2017 American directed by, written by, and starring,. The film is set in an alternate present in which humans and mythical creatures co-exist and details an police officer and his partner confronting and while protecting a and the girl who wields it.began in November 2016 in. The film was released worldwide on on December 22, 2017. While it has received negative reviews from critics, it has become one of Netflix's most streamed movies ever.

Contents.Plot coexist with other races, notably. While is known to be real, only a very few individuals called 'Brights' can wield rare without dying. In, veteran officer Daryl Ward has been involuntarily partnered with Nick Jakoby, the nation's first orc police officer, equally detested by his brother officers for his race and other orcs for being a policeman.

Ward's relationship with Jakoby has been awkward since Ward was wounded by an Orc armed robber that Jakoby failed to apprehend and the LAPD's division suspects Jakoby let the robber escape on purpose.One night, Ward and Jakoby respond to a disturbance at what turns out to be a for the 'Shield of Light', an extremist group that prophesies the return of the ', a semi-mythical figure from thousands of years ago who was defeated by a combined army of eight races (orcs having supported and been defeated with him). Inside, Ward and Jakoby apprehend the lone survivor, an elf girl named Tikka in possession of a wand.Ward calls for backup but, the moment the four arriving officers see the wand, they try to coerce Ward into killing Jakoby and letting them steal the wand for themselves, reminding Ward that Jakoby has already betrayed him by letting the robber escape.Ward goes outside and demands the truth about the robber.

Jakoby explains that the first orc escaped from him and Jakoby mistakenly apprehended a second, younger one (realizing from his scent that he was not Ward's shooter), then helped him escape from the arriving backup officers, knowing that they would probably gun the kid down on the spot without asking questions.When the four officers appear behind Ward, planning to kill both him and Jakoby, Ward turns and shoots them down before they can return fire. The gunfire attracts the attention of the local Hispanic gang, whose -bound leader Poison has seen the wand and believes it can allow him to walk again.

Meanwhile, rumors of the wand draw both its owner, Leilah—the leader of the radical elf sect called the Inferni—and Kandomere, an elf agent assigned to the federal 'Magic Task Force'.The trio flees through the territory of the Fogteeth Orc clan, disrupting its monthly. The gangsters corner the trio in a strip club, but are themselves killed by Leilah and her two enforcers, allowing the trio to escape again. At a service station, Ward contacts his friend Deputy Rodriguez, whom he knows he can trust. Rodriguez contacts Kandomere and his human partner Hildebrandt Ulysses Montehugh, but their conversation is intercepted by Leilah, who attacks the service station, killing Rodriguez.Escaping again, the trio are captured by the Fogteeth Orcs whose leader Dorghu also wants the wand.

Dorghu orders his son Mikey to kill Jakoby, but Mikey reveals that he was the orc that Jakoby allowed to escape and thus refuses to kill him. Dorghu sends his son away and kills Jakoby himself. But as he prepares to kill Ward, Tikka produces the wand and uses it to resurrect Jakoby, revealing that she is a Bright.

The Fogteeth's pronounces this to be part of a, causing the clan to kneel to Jakoby and allow the trio to go free. Tikka, now trusting them, reveals that she speaks English and explains that the Inferni believe that assembling three wands will allow them to resurrect the Dark Lord. She was a member of the Inferni but fled the group and was sheltered by the Shield of Light. Leilah loaned her wand to a Bright assassin and sent her to kill Tikka but Tikka escaped with the wand.Using the wand to resurrect Jakoby has made Tikka gravely ill and the only place she can be healed is a magical pool back at the safe house. They return there, but are ambushed by Leilah and her two guards. In the confrontation, Leilah's guards are killed, but Leilah holds Tikka helpless as Ward and Jakoby run out of ammunition.

Ward deliberately grabs the wand, believing that the resulting explosion will kill all of them. To everyone's amazement, Ward survives handling the wand, revealing him to be a Bright as well. With a word from Tikka, Ward destroys Leilah, triggering an explosion that sets the building on fire. Tikka disappears and the injured Ward and Jakoby try to escape the building.Discovering himself alone outside, Jakoby rushes back into the inferno and rescues Ward as the fire department and the ambulance arrive. Dorghu and his clan appear and perform an ancient orc ceremony signifying to Jakoby that he is now 'blooded'—an orcish status only achievable by an act of great bravery. While he and Ward are rushed to the hospital, the federal agents arrive to take possession of Leilah's wand.

In the hospital, Ward and Jakoby give Kandomere and Montehugh a doctored statement of the previous night's events, understanding that the federal agents want the existence of the wand and any hint of magical activity kept secret. In a public ceremony, Jakoby and Ward are honored for their brave stand against 'armed terrorists' though both are disgusted that the corrupt cops are honored along with them. (L–R): Director and stars, and at the 2017Described as 'a contemporary cop thriller, but with fantastical elements', the film is directed by and stars and, with a script penned by, which Ayer rewrote.

Netflix officially picked up the film for a $90 million deal with filming beginning in fall 2016, making it the most expensive Netflix film to date. Entered talks to join the cast in May 2016. Landis stated in an interview that official production was expected to begin in September 2016, but that they'd already shot a small part in Los Angeles. Ayer's frequent cinematographer, was confirmed to be working on the project. On October 15, 2016, was added to the cast. On October 17, 2016, was added to the cast. On October 20, 2016, actor was cast in the film.

On November 1, 2016, and were cast in an unknown role and the role of Smith's wife, respectively. On November 9, was confirmed to be added to the cast.

That same month, and joined the cast of the film in undisclosed roles. Filming Photos from the set were first published in November 2016. Filming was completed by February 4, 2017. Reception Critical response Bright received criticism for its screenplay, cinematography and excessive focus on. On, the film holds an approval rating of 28% based on 109 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ' Bright tries to blend fantasy, hard-hitting cop drama, and social commentary—and ends up falling painfully short of the mark on all three fronts.'

On the film has a weighted average score of 29 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'.of the gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, saying: ' Bright is basically a tired dressed up in bizarre trappings. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it’s not nearly as self-deprecating and funny as it needed to be.' Writing for, David Fear gave the film 1 out of 4 stars, criticizing the script and incoherent action scenes, writing: 'This combo of gritty cop procedural and fantasy is a dark, dank, dumb-as-hell mess.' David Ehrlich of gave the film an 'F' and called it the worst film of 2017, saying: 'There's boring, there's bad, and then there's Bright. From the director of and the writer of comes a fresh slice of hell that somehow represents new lows for them both—a dull and painfully derivative ordeal that often feels like it was made just to put those earlier misfires into perspective.' Ayer responded enthusiastically to Ehrlich's review, claiming that he desired for the film to receive 'a strong reaction either way.'

's Chris Klimek wrote: 'Critics have already lined up to pillory Bright as among the year's worst releases. Don't believe the clickbait. Lazy but not boring, this Net-flick is perfectly, stubbornly mediocre, and less a chore to sit through than either of 2017's Vin Diesel vehicles.' Audience response Several publications noted that while critics were harsh in their assessment of the film, viewers seemed to enjoy it more and gave positive reactions on social media. Netflix announced that the film had been viewed more times in its first week than any of its other releases. According to, about 11 million American viewers streamed Bright within the first three days of its release, with 56% of the audience being male and 7 million being between the ages of 18 to 49. Netflix CEO noted that: 'The critics are pretty disconnected from the mass appeal.they are an important part of the artistic process but are pretty disconnected from the commercial prospects of a film.

If people are watching this movie and loving it, that's the measurement of success.' Soundtrack Bright: The Albumby.2:34Total length:42:50Charts Chart (2017–18)PeakpositionAustralian Albums 8513Dutch Albums 92Finnish Albums 18German Albums 97New Zealand Albums 24US48US 28Sequel In December 2017, Netflix ordered a sequel.

The following month, Netflix confirmed the sequel was moving ahead, with Smith and Edgerton reprising their roles and Ayer directing and writing the script with. In August 2018, it was announced the film would begin filming in March 2019 in Germany.

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