Boy Scout lane is a haunted road in portage county, Wisconsin. The area is a hub of paranormal activity and attracts a lot of paranormal fanatics. The road is known as Boy Scout lane because the area adjoining the road was once owned by the Boy Scouts of America who wanted to build a scout camp there. The land surrounding boy scout lane is now privately owned and is out of limits for the general public.
According to several urban legends, during the 1960s a group of boy Scouts while camping there died mysteriously. Some stories claim that they were murdered by their scoutmaster while others suggest that they were murdered by their bus driver.
According to one version of the legend, all the scouts died when their bus crashed and caught fire, but one of the most famous legend is that all the scouts dissapeared in thin air without any trace except two boy scouts who escaped and got lost in the forest eventually dying of starvation.
It is believed that the ghosts of the boy scouts haunt the road and the forest surrounding it. People can hear them hiking through the woods or their lights can be seen at night as they seek help for their fellow scouts. Stories started circulating about visitors reportedly hearing the sound of footsteps, a strong feeling of bring watched, breaking branches from multiple directions, sightings of red or white lights bearing resemblance to swinging lanterns, ghostly buses or figures and childlike handprints on cars passing from there. A family was passing from there and saw what looked like a face on the window of their car, they sped up the car and moved out of there quickly. The road is considered to be one of the most haunted roads attracting paranormal investigators.
According to some people there are no records of any such deaths in the area and everything is just a hoax. But the truth is that the stories still persist and people keep on visiting the place in the hopes of catching some kind of paranormal activity.
Chase vault is located in Christ Church parish church in Oistins, Christchurch, Barbados. The place is best known for a mysterious legend of the moving coffins. According to the legend, each time the vault was opened, all the coffins would have changed their positions. The vault was a heavily sealed one and whoever had to go inside the vault had to remove a huge marble slab in order to get inside. The Chase family bought the vault in the 1800s, soon after 3 family members died in quick succession from one another. Thomas chase, the man of the family also committed suicide and was buried there. After that whenever the vault was opened for another burial or maintenance, the coffins despite being really heavy were found scattered around as if they were thrown away by someone from their original place. The family believed it to be the work of vandals, however no footprints or any other signs of break in were ever found. The coffins would then be moved to their original positions, but the same thing would happen every time the vault would be reopened. The legend spread all around the town like wildfire. People began talking about the reason for this mysterious activity. The most famous and widely believed explanation was that a curse has been put on the family using black magic.
The Belmez faces is a mysterious paranormal phenomenon that started occurring in a private house in Spain.
In 1971, the pereira family started discovering images that looked like faces on the walls of their house. The mistress of the house first saw a face appearing on the kitchen floor. Her husband and son destroyed the floor with an axe but another face appearing on the floor. Family members demolished and reconstructed the floor but the faces kept on appearing in different parts of the house.
The news about these incidents reached the mayor of the town and he ordered several investigations one of which involved cutting out the wall where the face appeared and sending it for testing.
The news spread all over the country and many tourists as well as news reporters started to gather around the family home to witness the mysterious activity themselves.
Many faces have appeared and vanished since 1971 and some of them have even been photographed. Paranormal investigators believe that these images are of the dead. The house became a place of tourist attraction as hundreds of people started to visit the house.
According to a local legend, many skeletons were under the ground near that home. The floors of the house have also been rebuilt several times but the faces keep on appearing. Many investigations have taken place since then but none of them have led to a rational conclusion. People believe this to be the work of spirits while many other consider it a hoax but that’s how all the urban legends and paranormal mysteries are. Right?
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.
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.
I’m Ts’mshian and we seem to have a lot of shapeshifters which some are uhh…. Questionable.
I think a lot of them are similar to the idea of skinwalkers, but some of the shapeshifters (like raven) have been a huge part of getting the things we need like the moon and stars (although mostly through… trickery). I’ve known some people who swear they’ve come into contact with shapeshifters that usually end up being like a mimic of someone they know (usually somekne with them) but are often faceless. There was apparently a ghost war once. Mosquitoes were once a bloodthirsty group of people.
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Uktena. It’s a legend about a horned snake in Tsalagi (Cherokee) legend. Uktena is said to be very large and round like a tree trunk, with horns on his head. The only way to wound him is to shoot at a singular spot on his forehead that emits bright light. It’s similar to a diamond. If you defeat Uktena, you become a miracle worker. A great warrior. Yet, once you see the light of his forehead, you run toward it instead of trying to escape. Even to see Uktena sleeping is death. Not to the hunter, but to his family.
r/4050kie Joe
The Raven Mocker was our version of the bogeyman. The most feared of the Cherokee witches, they prey on the sick and dying. They eat the heart of their victim and add years to their life for every year their victim would have lived.
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‘The flame walker.
Spirits who take the form of a small blue flame, that leads people into the swamps and bogs, where they eventually drown or otherwise vanish. (yes they are basically will-o-wisps)
Another are the ‘Water Faced hunters’ (again rough translation, and i am not heavily involved with my tribe these days).
These creatures have a face that acts like a pool of water, reflecting the face of anyone who looks them in the ‘eyes’. They mercilessly hunt down the people who ‘acknowledge them’. The only way to avoid them is to not speak to, or others interact with a stranger unless you can see their face from the corner of your eye.
We also have the more traditional skinwalker type legends, as well the Bogmen. My Tribe is considered part of the Abenaki, but are actually a smaller ‘sub tribe’ basically when it came down to it, there were not enough of the tribe to actually be considered a tribe anymore. Today we number fewer than 200, and only 8 of those are more than half blooded. My bio father and his brother, as well as my paternal grandparents are the last 4 full blooded of my tribe.
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We have a spirit similar in aboriginal culture. Its called a mimi spirit. Basically when you go walk about this spirit (day or night) will try and trick you into following it. It will appear, you walk to it and its vanished. It will appear again, you again follow it for it to disappear. Repeat this multiple times and you are lost forever.
I was 7 when I first actually met an elder whos son was taken by the mimi spirit. Ill never forget her broken face when she told my class.
r/THCInjection
I feel like I may be late but I have a lot of aboriginal myths. Most are old tales that involve magic or giants, taking animals. Cunning ravens, the birth of the Tli Cho people; but more sinister of tales, the Nahga. The aboriginal version of Bigfoot.
I also know of an Inuktitut take about witches that live under the ocean called the Qallipiliuit.
I’m a northern Canadian with an aboriginal father and a white mother. The tales heard where either from teachers, grandparents, or friends who have embraced their culture.
So let me know if you want to hear some stories
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Dene from northern British Columbia here, my mom used to always tell me stories of the Nehgunni, or bushmen/wild-men when I was young, they were people who lived in the forest and took away people who wandered too far out, specifically children.
I always figured these stories were created by my people to serve two purposes, first to teach young children to not wander far off, and second to give explanations to kidnappings done by other tribes, which was a fairly common occurrence even up until the early to mid 20th century, my grandmothers brother was taken by Cree from Alberta and raised by them. They had assumed he had died until decades later when they were reunited and learned what had happened.
r/lilbugjuice
I’m Cherokee and growing up the Uktena (horned serpent) really freaked me out. The mountain my family lived on has these mysterious glowing lights that according to legend was from the Uktena trying to trick people into finding it. There is also Spearfinger, an old lady who can transform into your loved ones and eat your liver.
r/kalimah1
So the first one is called See-at-co (don’t know the translation in English). Lived at this lake and it’s was his spot, we DO NOT go there or he will kill you. Used to have nightmares about him based on what I was taught as a kid. Like how you could stand at the edge of the water and be looking in and he would come out of it and just grab you.
But then the mountain blew up and filled in the lake so don’t know if he’s still around or not.
The second I don’t remember the name but translated into to English is “dangerous being” who lives in rivers and drowns people. Anthropologists think it was our way of describing dangerous log jams and whirl pools in our river.
The stull cemetery became really famous in 1874 when a student in the university of Kansas printed an article about satan visiting the cemetery twice a year, the cults using the cemetery for performing rituals and a supposed gateway to hell that is concealed within the cemetery. It is also said that during a trip to Colorado in the 1990s, the Pope redirected the flight path of his private plane to avoid flying over the unholy ground of Stull (although there is no evidence that this happened)
People soon started claiming the cemetery as one of the seven gateways to hell. Thrill seekers started visiting the cemetery and they would claim that weird and creepy events such as noises and memory lapses happened to them leading to further speculation that the town was haunted by witches and the devil. Two guys were walking towards the cemetery at night, a strong gush of wind made them scared and they ran towards their car but they could not find the car where they had supposedly parked earlier instead it was found on the other side of the road.
Many legends are attributed to the Evangelical Emmanuel Church that stood there from 1857 to 2002. The church became completely dilapidated in the 20th century. The ruins of the church are said to have been used by satanists, cults and witches for performing rituals. It is said that even though the church didn’t have any roof at the time when these cults used to meet, rain could not pour inside the church. There used to be a pine tree beside the church which people believed was used to hang witches. The tree was cut down by the officials to prevent thrill seekers and vandals from entering. However, the number of people visiting the cemetery has not gone down. The graveyard has started to deteriorate because of the vandals. People would jump over the fence to visit the cemetery and they would vandalise everything. Nowadays, the area is patrolled by the county sheriff’s office and those found trespassing are arrested. If caught inside the cemetery after it is closed, a fine of 1000$ could be charged and one might also end up in jail for six months.
Stull cemetery and the legends revolving around it have been popular for a long time. It has also been widely depicted in many movies and tv shows most notably in “Supernatural” where the final confrontation between Lucifer and Michael happened in the season 5 finale.
During 2002, the church inside of the cemetery was torn down although the owners of the property deny giving anyone the authorisation to do this and nearby residents did not even hear the church getting torn down.
This is however not the only haunted place in Kansas as there are many haunted places throughout the state.
Beechworth asylum also known in its later years as the beechworth hospital for the insane, and mayday hills lunatic asylum. It closed down in 1995 after 128 years of operation.
Numerous patients had died there before it was officially closed. The beechworth asylum used to hold a total of 1200 patients when full. 3000 patients are said to have died there in its 128 years. Anyone from your family could get you admitted there by getting a signature from friends or family and doctors specifying that you have mental disorders. As a result many people who did not even had a mental disorder used to get admitted there just by proving to the doctor that they were insane. Once admitted, a person would officially become insane due to the nature of the asylum.
Asfridhr (grounds of the asylum with high walls to prevent patients from escaping)
Due to its brutal history and deaths of the patients during rehab or while trying to run away, there have been many sightings of the spirits. One sighting is believed to be of a beloved nurse, Matron Sharpe, seen wandering the halls of the asylum. A patient whose ghost is said to haunt beechworth asylum is of Tommy Kennedy. Tommy died in the kitchen which is now part of a bijou theatre. Those brave enough to wander the asylum now have seen an elderly man staring out of a window and ghost of a young girl who tries to communicate with anyone she comes in contact with. The grevillia wing was a section of the hospital all patients feared, it has now been closed for entrance and is in a very bad state now. Patients were put there in straightjackets and even shackles we’re used as electroshock treatment. The two most common sightings in grevillia is of an unknown male doctor and of Matron Sharpe.
There have been many personal accounts of ghost sightings and unexplainable activity. The ghost tours being run at the beechworth asylum have become the most popular ghost tours on mainland Australia. Beechworth asylum is now considered to be the most haunted building in Australia.
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.
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.
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.
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. “
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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.
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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.”
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