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My 3 Favorite Urban Legends

Urban Legends are humorous or horrific stories or information circulated as truth, especially one portraying someone vaguely related or known to the teller.

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My 3 Favorite Urban Legends
Legend of the Candy Lady

The Candy Lady


The time was set in the 20th Century. They found kids were going missing from a small, rural town in Texas. It was said that a woman named The Candy Lady lured children to her home with candy where they would disappear and never be seen again. Kids were reporting candy lying on their window sills but would never tell the adults in fear that it would stop. Then she would leave notes attached to the candies signed by the Candy Lady. Anyone who investigated the stories ended up dead with candy in their pockets. Reports of missing teeth were found lying around wrapped in candy wrappers. Any time a kid goes missing now, they would blame it on the Candy Lady and rumor has it that she takes out her victims teeth.

The Babysitter and the Fake Clown

As many of you may be thinking “No more clown talk”, this urban legend may not be the story for you. This urban legend is about a girl who babysat a girl and a boy one night and the parents had an obsession with clowns. Their house was filled with all sorts of clowns from different parts of the world. They had a special room for where they put them all on display. One of the clowns was sitting in a small rocking chair. There were things about this particular statue that made the babysitter very uneasy.

It was a feeling where she would move and she felt the eyes following her around the room. She got so paranoid, she would call the parents. She explained how there was a clown in a chair and asked if she could move it or put a blanket over it.

“I’m sorry. I don’t know what you are talking about. We don’t have a clown fitting that description.” The parents replied. “Are you sure it’s in the rocking chair?”

She reassured them that there, in fact, was a clown sitting in the rocking chair.

“Take the kids and get out of the house now.” The parents sounded completely worried at this point. “Go to the neighbors across the street. They will let you in.”

The parents met them across the street and explained to the babysitter that their next door neighbor has been giving them problems and seemed to be mentally ill. He had tried, on occasion, to kidnap the kids and this night in particular, he dressed as a clown and painted his face and waited until the right opportunity to do what he went there for.

A Mother’s Plea


It was a dark summer night when a couple was on the way home from their date. When they were driving down a road that they were familiar with, they came across a lady standing off to the side. The woman walked to the middle of the road and tried to stop them. They pulled over because the lady seemed to be horribly injured. She seemed very frantic and told them about how she was in a horrible accident that involved her baby trapped in the backseat.

The man told the woman to stay with his wife and he would help her family and most important, get her baby free. Upon arrival to the car, he heard the baby crying out. ‘Oh good, the baby is still alive.’ He thought to himself. He freed the baby and noticed the dead couple in the front seat. He walked back to his wife and noticed the lady was gone.

“Where did she go?” The husband asked. His wife explained that the woman went back to the car to help him. His wife seemed to be relieved that the baby was okay. He went back to the car, yelling out for the woman and there was no answer or no woman to be found. He investigated the couple and in the passenger seat was the same lady who had stopped them for help.

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