User blog comment:Sykokillah/What's your favorite urban legend?/@comment-24970508-20140623195658

My favourites are almost always ghost stories, especially the ones attached to real places.

Like people seeing Anne Boleyn walking through the Tower of London, carrying her head. Or the story about a particular old theatre in my city, where an employee supposedly fell down the elevator shaft a century ago. People still claim to see her in the auditorium when there is no show on, and she gets the blame/credit for all the glitches in that ancient elevator.

Asian ghost stories, especially about Japanese Onryo, and Chinese Hungry Ghosts are my all time favourites. Those vengeful spirits who hate and harm the living are so much scarier than Western ghosts, who just generally just float around creeping people out.

Fun Fact! The movie Ringu, which is the original Japanese version of The Ring, was based on a 500 year old folk tale. Folk tales are the original urban legends! The story has been written as novels, kabuki plays, and now updated to make a couple of damn good movies!