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In the early 19th century, there was a lack of burial places in London. That coupled with the high mortality rate created a lot of problems.

There were many illegal burials within the city. People were buried in the graves that were not deep enough and quicklime was thrown on the bodies to speed up decomposition so that the grave can be used for burial again. Due to overcrowded graves there was a widespread bad smell and in turn a lot of diseases were spread leading to more deaths.

The Highgate cemetery was built in 1839 to tackle these problems. It was constructed in Victorian Gothic style. Within the next 4-5 decades the cemetery consisted of more than 10000 graves which included some of the most famous figures, the most prominent among them being Karl marx.

The cemetery became abandoned in 1960 when the London cemetery company declared bankruptcy and the gates of the cemetery were closed.

By 1970,it was a wildly overgrown jungle. When hammer movie studio used the cemetery for its gothic horror movie shooting, the press rekindled their interest in the cemetery.Rumors started flowing like wildfire. Many people reported seeing men dressed in black robes who had started using the abandoned cemetery to practice dark rituals. The local newspaper, highgate express started receiving letters from frightened individuals who had gone through a ghostly encounter outside the cemetery. People reported seeing an apparition with red eyes glaring at them through the gates of the cemetery. This apparition came to be known as red eyed demon after many reported sightings.
Another man while walking down the lane was knocked down by a mysterious creature which seemed to glide off the walls of the cemetery. The creature dissolved in thin air when an oncoming car shone its headlights on the man.

The most famous legend is of the Highgate Vampire. The Highgate vampire is rumored to be a medieval nobleman who practised black magic in Romania and whose coffin was relocated from continental Europe to England in the 18th century by his followers, who bought a house for him at West End and buried him there. Eventually that place was occupied by Highagate cemetery. He laid there peacefully for a while until according to one Sean Manchester, santanists performed a ritual and woke him up. The Highgate vampire is reported to be a tall, dark figure that glides through the cemetery. His presence leads to a sudden drop in temperature, he has reportedly caused the watches and clocks to stop. His presence terrifies all the animals. He has a hypnotic stare and a bone chilling effect on those who have encountered him. People have reported hearing unexplainable sounds at night including screams from the cemetery. During the 1970s people walking past the cemetery at night would see this entity inside the graveyard. Several animals were also found dead and drained of blood near the gates of Highgate cemetery. The legends revolving around the cemetery only grew in the following years.

Highgate cemetery is reportedly the most haunted cemetery in the world and people are still debating about the hauntings.

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Japan is a beautiful country attracting thousands of tourists because of its food, nature, culture and festivals. One other thing Japan is unfortunately really famous for are the creepy legends and hauntings. There are many abandoned places, towns, forests etc. If you are looking for paranormal in Japan and you know where to look, chances are you will find it.

• Hanako-san

One of the most infamous Japanese urban legend is of Hanako-san. This legends is about the spirit of a young girl name Hanako-san that haunts school bathrooms. Like many other urban legends, personal accounts and backstory of this urban legend varies from people to people. The legend of Hanako-san has gained a lot of popularity in Japanese schools where students dare each other to try and summon Hanako-san.
Hanako-san is described as having a very pale white skin and always wearing a red skirt. Her hair is short and black, done in an old fashioned style. Accounts of her behavior also vary. Sometimes she is described as a vengeful spirit who can harm people, other times she is said to protect children who are being bullied. According to the legend, you can summon her if you stand very close to the third stall in bathroom, knock three times and ask, “are you there Hanako-san? “.If you are alone you would hear a voice saying “Yes I am here”. What happens after that depends on which school you are in. In some schools people say a hand will grab your inside the toilet stall and kill you, other school students say that if you open the stall slowly you will see hanako-san there. The stories about how this legend came into existence also vary. There are several stories. According to one story, she lived during World War II and while playing she hid in the bathroom. While she was in there a bombwas dropped on that area leading that part of the school to collapse on her. In another such story she was murdered by a stranger, some people say she committed suicide after getting depressed because of getting bullied. The legend dates back to as early as 1950 and became even more famous because of schools.

• Teke Teke

This story dates back to the world war 2. According to this legend, a young woman or a schoolgirl was thrown on the railway tracks and a train ran over her body cutting the body into half. As it was winter time she did not die immediately but screamed in pain and agony for the whole night. Ever since then the ghost of this young girl or woman is said to haunt the bathroom stalls and railway tracks throughout the country. She travels by using hands as her lower body is missing and if someone encounters her, she would ask for her legs. She is said to chase people and slice their body in half. As she drags her body by using hands one can hear a scratching or teke-teke like sound hence the name.

• Kuchisake Onna ( slit mouthed woman)

According to this legend, people walking alone in the streets might encounter a woman carrying a pair of scissors and wearing a face mask. She would ask the passerby whether he thinks she is attractive, If the passerby says yes she would remove her mask revealing her mouth that has been slit from one corner of the face to another. If the passerby says no then she would instantly kill them and if the passerby says yes then she will slit the person’s face with the pair of scissors. People believe that in order to survive they have to run away before she asks anything or make her confused.

In Japan, everyone knows about Kuchisake Onna. The legend started in the 1970s and after the origin of the internet it became famous all around the world. There are many stories about how this demonic spirit as it is known around the world came into existence. The most famous one perhaps is during the feudal times a samurai after finding out that his partner has cheated on him slit mouth from end to end and the woman would later commit suicide. She would then come back as a vengeful spirit and hide in dark streets and alleyways waiting for its victims.

• Kunekune

Kunekune is an urban legend that originated in 2003 when it was mentioned around the internet and quickly became famous. People started telling stories about how they witnessed it. A Kunekune is tall, slender white sheet like humanoid being said to be found during the afternoon on warm summer days in the countryside. It lingers in extended rice fields or sometimes in open seas. It can only be visible from a distance. A person who is close to it cannot see it but a person who is far away can see it close to that person . If a person tries to look carefully at it or tries to come close they are driven insane or the kunekune kills them. If someone does not try to approach it or does not acknowledge it then Kunekune also ignores them.

• Okiku doll

In 1918, a boy bought this doll for his younger sister. The sister got really infatuated with the doll. Sadly after sometime, the girl passed away because of an illness. Soon the family noticed that the doll’s hair has started to grow. They came to believe that their daughter’s restless spirit resides within the doll and they gave it away to Manne-ji temple in Hokkaido where it resides to this day. It is said that it’s hair continues to grow and the priests at the temple regularly trim the hair.

The exorcist is unarguably one of the creepiest movies ever made. People literally passed out in theatres and couldn’t sleep for months after watching the movie.

Although the movie is creepy, the events that occurred during the filming were perhaps even creepier. The Exorcist is based on the book of the same name which in turn is based on the real story of a boy named “Ronald doe”(name was changed at the request of the family). This boy was possessed and an exorcism was done by the priests. During the exorcism, the boy managed to get free from the restraints and injured one of the priests. Roland went on to live a normal life and does not have a single memory about any of those incidents. During the filming so many haunting events occurred that people labelled the move as cursed by a demon.

In the beginning, the house used for filming caught fire and was completely burned down except for Regan’s room (character that was possessed in the movie) which was left unharmed. The actress who played Regan’s mother was injured during the scene. The actors Jack Mackgowran and Vasiliki Maliaros who were to die in the film, died in real life when the film was in post production. The actor who played father Damian karras was nearly killed when a motorcycle hit him. In total 9 people associated with the film died. It wasn’t just the actors that were affected by the movie but the relatives of the actors were also affected. Some of the relatives had horrific accidents. One of the voice actor’s son killed his wife and children and then committed suicide. Some people believed the movie to be cursed and playing the movie in theatres would be like challenging the evil. The release of the film was banned in many countries including all the middle Eastern countries. Some of the theatres handed out barf bags because people kept vomiting in the theatres. A lot of people left the theater before even completing the movie because it was too much for them to handle. Linda blair ( actress who played Regan) got so many death threats from the people that she had to walk around with bodyguards.

In many theatres as soon as the movie started people claimed to have heard a strange howl from outside the theater during late night shows and that happened in different parts of the world. The movie terrifird the audience as well as actors who worked in the movie. Though the movie does not have effects like the movies of today have but the expression of horror on the faces of actors creates genuine fear among the people watching the movie.

r/DefrockedWizard1–

Where are those people from the before?

Before what?

Before here. Before this place?

2 year old who had only lived in the one house

r/kthxbyebyee

When my son was about 3, he would talk to someone named “Wally”. He was crying one night and said Wally was looking in his window but this time his face was missing. I had him sleep in bed with my husband and I that night after doing a perimeter check around the house lol. Kids are creepy little creatures.

r/LibriBot

My son, then about two or three, used to tell us about his imaginary friend Johnny, who wore all green, including a green hat. One time, we were driving by the cemetery and my son pointed out the window and exclaimed, “that’s where Johnny lives”. He was very little and didn’t know what a cemetery was, so we explained to him that no one lives there, it’s a place for people who died. That’s when he told us that “Johnny was a soldier who died in a place called Nam. “

r/neverbringsajacket

Story of a family friend who is a single mother. Her and her young daughter (age 3-4ish?) fell on hard times and moved to a cheaper apartment downtown. Her daughter developed an imaginary friend who she claimed was a little girl who visited her “through a door in the wall” at night. Soon, behavioral bottoms ensured. Daughter was not sleeping, complained her “friend” was mean to her after she said she didn’t want to play anymore and wouldn’t let her sleep. Daughter started acting out and mother became concerned once heads were ripped off barbie dolls and eyes and mouth were blacked out with sharpie. Last straw was when mother found BURNED pieces of doll clothing and hair in daughters bedroom. Daughter kept blaming the imaginary friend, who was now relaying disturbing tales of how the imaginary friend wanted to play with fire and had burned clothes. Her daughter stated she was afraid of the friend, who wanted the daughter to be her “forever friend”.

Mother is scared as hell and confides in a friend/ neighbor. Comes to find out that the apartment they lived in was remodeled after a former fire. In a tragic accident a family perished in the apartment fire, including a young girl approximately the age of the daughter. They nope’d the f out of there and daughter resumed her usually happy go lucky self. She doesn’t not remember this imaginary friend.

r/uwu_SenpaiSatan

So this is actually my story of when I was a kid. I had an imaginary friend named Derek who was a carbon copy of me. We were completely identical. I played with Derek for years, longer than what normal kids do. But he would always look at my mom and older sister with a sense of sadness. Eventually he went away. 23 years later im digging through my moms safe to grab some paperwork she’s kept for me and I see a stillborn death certificate for a boy named Derek who shared my birthday. It was only then I found out I was actually a twin and my twin, Derek, died during birth. Creepy right?

r/NotAnotherWhatever

I’ve mentioned this before, but my sister Ashley used to get visited at night by a dead girl with long dark hair and spider hands (yes, this pre-dated The Ring, yes, I’m old AF). She moved out the second she turned 18, never looked back.

20-odd years later, our half-brother Trevor moved into her old room. It wasn’t long after Trev started sleeping on the sofa, or with the lights on, and told us about his new “friend” that he didn’t like. She was a dead girl who had long dark hair, an old nightgown, and spider hands.

Needless to say, none of us offered to trade rooms with him.

r/lilpigperez

Was taking my 3 year old niece for ice cream one evening. I strapped her into her car seat in the backseat. As I started driving, my niece asks if Jacob (imaginary friend) could get an ice cream, too? I jokingly said, “Jacob can get his own ice cream.” I laughed, and said, “Just kidding – we’ll get Jacob an ice cream.” She didn’t respond so I looked in the rear view mirror. I couldn’t see very much because it was dark. What I could see was my niece’s face. She looked angry and I was about to reassure her that I was kidding but I realized she wasn’t looking at me. She was looking at something near my ear, towards the back of my head. Then she says, “I said NO, Jacob. Be nice. NO. She didn’t mean it.”

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Purple mommy. When my son was first learning to talk, he would tell us about something called “purple mommy”. It could be an imaginary friend, but these details are a little bit creepy. Here’s a few of the purple mommy details. Purple mommy is all purple with long hair and bright all white eyes(at the time he mixed up purple with black, so he could have meant she was all black). Purple mommy picks him up at night, and turns off the lights. We would often find my son out of his crib in the morning, which would mean him crawling over the railing and to the ground, at a time when he was barely walking. Definitely found the lights in his room off a few times too, even though hes terrified if the dark.. Purple mommy needs a bandage because she has blood everywhere.

Purple mommy has no smile, meaning a mouth

Purple mommy can take her head off.. Purple

mommy really doesn’t like daddy.

He told us all of this stuff for maybe a year or a little more. If we ever asked where she was, hed always point to the same spot. A corner of the room behind his open closet door. He would also wake up crying almost every night during this time. Once, during a really rough night, my wife went to ask him whats wrong, and his answer was “purple mommy wont let me sleep.”

r/StarDustAndLus


So maybe not scary but definitely weird.

When I was little claimed to have an imaginary friend, who had light brown hair and wore a night gown, and she had stars for eyes.

Well, my niece was living at my old childhood home and she told me that she has a friend who misses me and she asked why I went away. When I asked who, she described my old imaginary friend. It was super spooky.

Edit: I have been informed that this is scary, my apologies.

r/Gemski13

My cousin was a few years younger than me and he had an imaginary friend called ‘Mooky’.

Mooky wasn’t human, but some kind of alien/monster thing.

Used to freak me out when I’d hear a noise behind me at my grandparents house and my cousin would calmly say “It’s only Mooky, he just wants to see you.”

Waverly hills sanatorium is probably one of the most haunted buildings in the United States. It is also the most well known place among the paranormal investigators and all of them have either visited the place atleast once in their lifetime or have planned to visit there. But what makes the waverly hills sanatorium so haunted that even a person living continents away can recognise the name because of the stories and hauntings that they have heard.

Waverly hills sanatorium is a closed sanatorium located in Louisville/jefferson County, Kentucky. It was first opened to accomodate the tuberculosis patients as Kentucky was badly ravaged by the disease also known as the white plague.

In 1900s Kentucky had the highest tuberculosis death rate in America. This hospital was constructed to combat the deadly disease but due to the absence of a vaccine a lot of patients died here and the role of the hospital was only reduced to an isolation centre. Once a person would walk inside the grounds of the sanatorium, they would likely become it’s residents with almost zero chance of going outside again. It was like a small enclosed community growing its own food and everything with little to no contact with the outside world.

Even the treatments were not very pleasant. In one of the treatment practises patients lungs were exposed to ultraviolet light to stop the bacteria. Other treatments included the removal of several ribs from the chest wall to collapse a lung. Sometimes a part of the lung had to be removed from the patient’s body.

It is no secret that these medical practises were upto no good and a lot of patients died during the treatment itself.

Other treatments were less pleasant and much bloodier. Most patients who came with the disease did not survive. It has been estimated that a minimum of 6000 patients died here. Although the real number of deaths might be a lot higher as the mortality rate of the patients was really high. The staff did not want the patients to witness the dead bodies as it would lower their morale so a special body chute was built which was a tunnel like slide and the bodies were moved from there at night and it would lead to the back of the sanatorium.

The hospital was eventually closed off in 1961 due to antibiotic drug streptomycin that lowered the need for such hospital.

By 2001 after a long terrifying history of torture, ridicule and deaths it became the local haunted house.

• Visitors reorted of slamming doors, lights in the windows as if power was still running, sound of footsteps . Teenagers and paranormal investigators often visit the building and multiple people have witnessed shadows moving from the corner of their eyes. People have ran off scared from the now dilapidated hospital and several investigators have claimed to be getting nightmares even after visiting the abandoned building only once.

• Sightings of a little girl seen running up and down the third floor solarium, the little boy, the hearse that appeared in the back of the building dropping coffins.

• The fifth floor of the building is considered to be the most haunted floor.

• There was a room 502 on the fifth floor. The room felt like sadness. The head nurse of this room was found hanging from the light fixture. Another nurse jumped off the roof to her death. People sometimes witness moans and cries in this room.

• The whole place is haunted by a grim presence called the creeper who apparently crawls along the floors and walls of waverly hills sanatorium. Some believe it’s an otherworldly spirit or demon, while others believe it’s a human spirit twisted by the trauma of death.

• The tour guides and visitors have also claimed to have seen their dopplegangers or an entity mimicking them while inside the building.

Even if you don’t come across anything or these experience turn out to be just stories, the daunting structure of the building and it’s traumatizing past is enough to give you creeps.

Waverly hills now hosts paranormal investigators and visitors who wish to take a tour inside the sanatorium and know much more about the place.