What's the creepiest urban legend that you've ever heard?

For me, it's gotta be Bloody Mary. This legend involves summoning the

ghost of Bloody Mary by chanting her name three times in the mirror. Ooh, that one really spooked me.

This was by far one of the scariest childhood dares. Urban legends are usually just spooky stories

meant to keep us awake at night or scare us into behaving.

But sometimes, these stories turn out to be more than just tales told around the campfire.

You're about to hear four horrifying urban legends that turned out to be true.

First up, the boogeyman of New York.

The legend of Cropsey haunted statin island during the 1970s urban legend said

that cropsy was a serial kidnapper and killer who lost his son and resorted to taking others as replacements

it was said he had a hook for a hand and burns and scars all over his face.

Super creepy.

And even more chilling.

Story said Cropsey had a vast hunting ground for victims.

We know Staten Island is different from the rest of New York, with large areas of dense,

undeveloped woodland.

So Cropsey would reportedly hunt for victims out there and drag them back to the

ruins of the abandoned mental hospital where he supposedly lived. Kids would tell each other Cropsey

stories to scare one another at sleepovers. And some parents would use the tale to stop their children

from getting lost in the woods and staying out past curfew. Then things took a really

disturbing turn. In the mid-1970s, children in Staten Island began disappearing. Eventually, residents

were horrified to learn. This creepy legend that most believed was just made up was true.

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