Halloween is almost come, and this means that once again it's time to show you what an urban legend, which frightened you when you were children, would have to scare you now, for the reason that they are often completely truthful. After all, sometimes it happens that the terrible stories told at night sitting, actually once happened to my sister's cousin's brother that guy. For example ....

7. Devouring people escalator
Legend: Parents can not seem to resist the temptation to play the role of director of horror films, when you learn how important it is - to tie the laces on his shoes. "You do not want to end up like the guy who lived two blocks away when his shoelaces hit the escalator at the mall. They are still clean out the remnants of his fingers out of the lattice with dental floss. " After many years of travel on escalators without any incidents, you begin to suspect that soon you will fall down a meteor than the escalator at the mall will eat your fingers.
Truth: Escalators seems hungry as wolves - in this case as an invisible, intangible mechanical wolves, which seem to become even hungrier once taste the human blood. "The laces are tightened inside ... as drawn cola through a straw." This is not a quote from a parent tutorial on the basics of existential terror, and the words of certified safety inspectors escalators Kevin Doherty. And after the escalator dragged your shoelaces, even food metaphors are not able to convey something with which Doherty had to face in his work: "It's unbelievable, that can make the escalator with human flesh."
Toes and feet there were whole chunks of chewed escalators. And if the victim tries to get rid of this man-Shredder, here it turns out bad in the worst. As is the case with grizzly bears and sharks, you probably do not want to deal with the escalators, when they are in the middle of his meal.
For example, in 2003, little girl lost part of his hand as she tried to free his shoes, which hit the escalator. In 2005, a 34-year-old man made the mistake of wearing a hood on the escalator. No one knows for sure whether he wanted to free his shoelace, or just sitting, when it grabbed the hood of the escalator, because by the time he was found, an escalator swallowed his hood and pulled the man to the ground and strangled him.
The point here is that the teeth in the beginning and end of the escalator - this is not the only parts that can catch you. Drag your foot along the place where the wall meets the stairs, and the rest of your life you will have three fingers lower than your friends. We also have property escalators reverse motion, and it can be painful, even if they have their device and do not remind you of the jaw interlocking steel knives.
6. The girl in the closet
Legend: We all know the feeling. You are alone in the house, and suddenly you are bombarded by an overwhelming feeling that you're being watched. It seems that you can feel the presence of another person in your home, even though you definitely have closed the doors and windows. This eerie trick of the brain is probably one of the reasons that so many stories about ghosts tell about someone in our own home. You hear a whisper from the depths of the house, the killer is hiding under your bed, awakened in the morning one finds a strange letter, glued to his forehead. Even in a closet in our lives a monster. But these fears are irrational, right?
Truth: The 57-year old man in Japan, living alone in his house, began to notice small things that change their place in his house. Food was lost, although he could have sworn that not eat it. He woke up from the strange sounds in the middle of the night, but every time he got up and checked what was happening, the door was locked and the windows are closed securely. The house does not have any.
What is happening to him? He goes crazy? He has lived in the house poltergeist shy? To find out, he found several hidden cameras around the house. The next morning, he rewound the tape in the camera and that's what he saw. A strange woman crawled out of a cupboard in the film "Wake." And if you think this is scary, imagine what he felt when at the end of shooting she crawled back into the cabinet. In the same cabinet, which was located a few yards from him, while he watched the recording on the tape.
In an attempt to keep his mind in man suggested that this woman was a thief, who only for a time hid in the closet, and soon left his house. He called police, who found that all the locks on his doors and windows were damaged. There was no evidence that someone breaks into his house - in other words (here, to play the dramatic music), a woman all this time was inside the house.
After a thorough search of the woman was found hiding in a small locker. As it turned out, she crept into the house and slept, ate, and even take a shower in it for a year. Think about all the things you do when you are confident in their solitude - the things that you think no one sees. And now imagine the Japanese homeless woman, who all this time watching you.
5. The call is a killer
Legend: The body was found in the center of the room. The only evidence of what happened to him - the handset, squeezed in his hand. Of course, all this "stay away from the phone during a thunderstorm!" Story is just an example of technophobia, which probably was invented by older people.
Truth: Lightning's as far you are away from the window. If she dropped out your telephone number in the style of the movie "Final Destination" she'll come after you, and it can seep through any phone in order to do their job. In fact, the phone makes it even more dangerous.
This story took place in 1985 with 17-year-old student named Jason. He has just passed a thorough medical examination for admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. So unless you're Rambo, you can safely assume that his body was able to survive injuries that your treating doctor would have called "the cause of death."
And after only four days after the examination he was found dead in his room with a telephone receiver in his hand. Lightning struck the cable outside the house and flew out of the phone - right in the ear of Jason. We like to think that he would have felt a little better, knowing that his death - this is almost ideal for the death of a metalworker 80s.
"But my phone is not no old wires," you say, "I only use a cell! I have to worry only about cancer of the brain, right? ". It seems that talking on a cell phone during a lightning storm can increase the severity and lethality of lightning strikes for the same reason that killed Jason. Human skin is a poor conductor of electricity, enough so that ordinary lightning will disperse over the surface of your skin.
However, while you hold the phone at his ear, or listening to music on your iPod, you send the lightning in your ear canal, actually conducting electricity through the natural barrier of the body and giving it direct access to your internal organs.
One guy was listening to his iPod and trimmed the lawn, when lightning from nearby storms hit held in it by creating a closed loop between his ears. He survived, but still on his body the scars where the wire from the headphones to swim in his chest and neck. Most likely, since he never again included the song that was playing in his player at that moment.
4. A strange guy with a big bag of angular
Legend: A strange mysterious stranger with a big bag and angular - one of the pillars of pop culture. He appeared in "Something About Mary," beer advertising and films Joe Pesci, but a friend of your friend's cousin knows that it's not funny. Because she was practically empty bus stop, when it appeared scary stranger with a huge bag of clothing. Something in the form of objects that were inside, and then the guy muttering about the fact that these forms of "forced him to do it" was wrong, but she thought it was just magic tricks of her imagination. Two days later she saw him in the local news - it was an escaped mental hospital patient convicted of dismemberment.
Truth: When the city of Athens airport security began a routine inspection of baggage Greek Orthodox monk, and they could not imagine that soon find themselves part of history in the spirit of Dan Brown. You see, in addition to the usual monastic things (Bible, removable robes, shaved heads for polishing), the monk decided to fill their bags with human bones.
However, we must say that the monk had an excuse - the bones belonged to the holy martyr. And everyone knows that the bones of saints usually are carried as luggage briefcase at once. Of course, it turned out that the bones belonged to was not a saint, a nun, missing from his monastery four years earlier. As she died, and that the monk was going to do with her bones is not clear, but we can say with 100% certainty that it was something terrible.
While the majority of criminals can come up with something better than to try to smuggle home-made sacks for corpses through customs, a number of suitcases full of dismembered bodies, found all over the world seem to indicate that the travel luggage for many fans of the dissection is the most preferred method of transportation. We do not want to say that every scary guy who fights with his big bag of weird, actually carries it chipped pieces of the body, but we would not rush to help him load a similar bag in his vehicle (a hint of Buffalo Bill from " Silence of the Lambs ", approx. mixednews).
3. Revenge of the Killer Birds
Legend: Since the curse of the film «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» for the killing of an albatross with a crossbow seized the minds of viewers, the dark depths of the human imagination, obsessed with the idea of ​​birds preying on people. In birds, there is something terrible. Edgar Poe was not the motive of revenge was required to turn into a ghost of a raven nightmares. A Hitchcock just confirmed this eternal truth: mad geniuses know that birds have direct access to the irrational fears in our subconscious.
Truth: In fact, in our fear of birds, there is nothing irrational. Do not let a stupid mistake, birds - it's the dinosaurs that are strange disguise only as long as we do not weaken its protection. Several very real killers of birds seem to come straight from the nightmares of our collective unconscious.
Proven that crows can remember people's faces and wait for the case of revenge, it's better than to deal with it people.
But you probably never occurred to me to be afraid of cocks. They are, quite frankly, not the most horrible creatures, and this is probably the reason why the cock-fighting enthusiasts do not see the problem is to give them back their razor-sharp claws era of dinosaurs. One coach fighting cocks was killed when his prize rooster slashed his throat.
But Jose Luis Ochoa became a real ancient mariners today. Like the hero of the poem Coleridge (English Romantic poet, approx. Mixednews), he received many signs that he should not have to deal with the birds. He continued to participate in cockfights, despite the arrests for the content of training and fighting cocks in the past. And they are not restrained him from the idea to attach a pair of razor spurs paws to his cock, and let him into the ring in one of January days.
As an anonymous tip-off that day the police they cracked down on this underground scene. And as in a prison brawl, one of the cocks take advantage of the chaos to cut Ochoa. Ochoa left the crime scene with a slight wound in his leg, but shaving spur hurt inside the artery. By the time he reached the hospital, it was too late ...
2. The skeleton in the wall
Legend: During the renovation of a historic building, a worker brings down old wall, and face to face encounters with the human skeleton. Recognize him as man, who disappeared many years ago. Poor guy once was immured in the wall, and since none of it had heard nothing. As his family looked for him, he was just a few meters away from them, turned out to be trapped, and then degraded, and then possibly emitting horrible sounds when the wind blew his bones. Okay, but it is obvious that all this bullshit? How someone could be trapped in the town house, so much so that no one noticed? Have they not heard his cries for help? This story, horror story is not very well thought out, right?
Truth: Eybvillsky National Bank has always used the second floor of the building as a warehouse, but when they needed space for new offices, a team of workers proceeded to his pereobustroystvu. When one of them took a metal plate, bolted to the wall behind it was discovered long ago used fire, which found a bunch of old rags and a few human bones.
Any hopes that they have remained since the time when the rich bankers, it was common to use the little orphan as kindling, were dispelled when the remains of a human skeleton were found a few meters above the old fireplace chimney. With the help of DNA testing, the remains were identified as belonging to a certain Joseph Sheksnayderu.
Caption: Joseph Sheksnayder

Due to the fact that it turned out to be virtually unused floor, his body was found, when Joseph was stuck in the wall of a local bank, and was not found, even when it began to decompose. In fact, his body was immured behind a brick wall for 27 years, while his unsuspecting friends and other citizens engaged in the affairs of their bank directly below it. So yes, add "perhaps your neighbor disappeared decomposed somewhere inside the building" to the list of reasons why you so hate to be in the bank.

We will likely never know why Sheksnayder decided to crawl into the chimney at a local bank. But we do know that this is not the only place in which absolutely no one hears your screams.
Caption: Just stay out of these pieces

1. Worst place to wake up
Legend: Grieving pass by the grave, paying last respects. It is your turn, you see inside the tomb, and think, "Wow, they are well tried and it looks almost like a living!"

And at this very moment the body begins to scream.

Truth: It all started with that Fagilyu Mukhametzyanova, a woman from the Russian city of Kazan, caught a heart attack, and she was immediately taken to hospital by her husband. At the hospital she was found dead a team of doctors who seem to be in a minute from his lunch break, as it turned out that she was not dead.
Caption: If Fagilya Mukhametzyanova look for you live in this photo, you're probably not a Russian doctor

However, this did not stop seven women on the fast of the funeral - a funeral, it flagrantly violated his screams of terror, when he suddenly woke up and found out what was happening. But listen, although the form of a corpse suddenly sitting down during the funeral, and started howling like banish, and a little scary, but after all, that your lover is not dead - it's good news, right?

Well, of course! Aside from the fact that Fagilya Mukhametzyanova suddenly died again. This time for real. The shock of waking up at his own funeral was so large for a poor woman, she immediately received a second heart attack, which is exactly, 100% guaranteed, killed her a second time. At least, this is the conclusion rasprekrasny medical team, which declared her dead for the first time.