Urban Legends of Halloweens Past: Fact and Fiction from All Hallows Eve

Halloween Haunted House

They say that fact is stranger than fiction, and in urban centers on Halloween this is especially the case. There are probably more urban legends surrounding Halloween than any other holiday in the United States. Some believable ones have turned out to be false, while some surprising tales have ended up being true!

Halloween Pumpkin House

Of course no one believes that chanting “bloody Mary” will conjure an evil spirit. It does, though, plausible that someone might have conceived of a Halloween haunted house, hospital or barn so scary that no one had ever completed a journey through it. However, such a house does not exist. No one is quite certain whether or not a partier who showed up at the wrong house was actually mistaken for a chainsaw-wielding madman.

Halloween Killer Pumpkin

Mistaken for a spooky decoration, a woman’s hung body was left suspended alongside a busy street for hours before anyone realized she was dead. Also true: a person pretending to hang himself as part of a Halloween hay-ride attraction actually (accidentally) hung himself. Incidents of Halloween candy tampering via the addition of pins, needles, razors or even poison have been greatly exaggerated, despite some actual instances. Whether true or false, rumors of black cat sacrifices have resulted in many bans on black cat adoptions on or around Halloween. Know of other strange urban legends of Halloween? Feel free to add them below!

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Posted by Urbanist October 31st, 2007
Urban, Urban Images, Various
Comments: 9

Comments

Comment from JeremyK@DH
Time: October 31, 2007, 1:43 pm

I like the new layout! very smooth!

Comment from Hi5 Codes
Time: October 31, 2007, 2:07 pm

Nice new layout first off - very interesting post. Dead people hanging… how scary. Very very scary.

Comment from giL
Time: October 31, 2007, 2:32 pm

He he! cool! happy Halloweens everyone!

Comment from Al Ebaster
Time: October 31, 2007, 6:19 pm

Great post, and the new layout is pretty durn good too =)

Comment from Moutain Man
Time: October 31, 2007, 7:07 pm

I lived and studied in Mexico, and, “ugly American that I was, I was surprised and somewhat shocked, that in Mexico Halloween is (was?) celebrated as “Day of the Dead,” and that the living gather, lay out their munchies on tombstones, and picnic cheerfully at the gravesides of relatives who have passed on.
MM

Comment from Justin
Time: November 1, 2007, 12:40 pm

That first photo of that house is awesome!

Comment from ben
Time: November 2, 2007, 10:35 am

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Comment from undeadbydawn
Time: November 22, 2007, 6:26 am

Do you have a full-size link to the top image? It’s lovely and I want it on my desktop.