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10 free urban legends trivia questions with answers. Think you know your urban legends? From creepy folklore to modern myths, urban legends have captivated and terrified people for generations. Test your knowledge with our 98-question trivia quiz covering the most famous urban legends from around the world.
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Q 01What spectral figure is supposedly summoned by chanting her name into a mirror?
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary descends from an older divination game in which young women climbed stairs backward with a candle and hand mirror, hoping to glimpse a future husband's face.
Q 02Which creepypasta character is often depicted as a tall, thin, faceless entity in a dark suit?
Slender Man
Slender Man was invented in 2009 by Eric Knudsen, posting as Victor Surge, who pasted the faceless figure into two doctored black-and-white photographs for an online paranormal-image contest.
Q 03Which creature, said to attack livestock and drain their blood, is often sighted in parts of the Americas?
Chupacabra
Chupacabra means 'goat-sucker' in Spanish, from chupa ('sucks') and cabras ('goats'), after its reported habit of draining livestock.
Q 04What large reptile is rumored to live in the sewers of major cities, having been flushed down as pets?
Alligators
Alligators: the sewer legend grew from a 1935 New York Times report of teenagers hauling a seven-foot alligator from an East Harlem storm drain, later embellished in Robert Daley's 1959 book The World Beneath the City.
Q 05Which urban legend tells of a killer with a prosthetic hand stalking couples in parked cars?
The Hookman
The Hookman's hook is always found dangling from the car door handle after the couple speeds away, the detail that makes the legend.
Q 06What is the usual name for the pale-gowned female ghost of betrayal or untimely death found in folklore worldwide?
The White Lady
The White Lady appears on nearly every continent, usually with a backstory of murder, suicide or a lover's betrayal; the Philippines' Balete Drive ghost is one of the best-known.
Q 07Which figure of Hispanic American folklore wanders near water, wailing for the children she drowned?
La Llorona
La Llorona drowned her own children in the river, in most tellings, and now wanders the banks wailing for them.
Q 08Which axe-wielding Fairfax County, Virginia legend is tied to a railroad overpass near Clifton?
The Bunny Man
The Bunny Man was traced by a Fairfax County library archivist to two real 1970 police reports of a man in a rabbit costume threatening people with an axe.
Q 09The part-man, part-goat Pope Lick Monster is said to live under a railroad trestle in which US state?
Kentucky
The Pope Lick Monster is a legendary part-man, part-goat creature reported to live beneath a railroad trestle bridge over Pope Lick Creek in Louisville, Kentucky.
Q 10Which folklorist popularized 'urban legend' with his 1981 book The Vanishing Hitchhiker?
Jan Harold Brunvand
Jan Harold Brunvand, a University of Utah folklorist, followed The Vanishing Hitchhiker (1981) with The Choking Doberman (1984) and The Mexican Pet (1986), building the modern study of urban legends.
Q 11The 'Hook' legend may have roots in 1946 Lovers' Lane murders in which Texas city?
Texarkana
Texarkana: the 1946 'Moonlight Murders' by the unidentified Phantom Killer, who attacked couples parked on lovers' lanes, are often cited as a real-life seed of the Hook legend.
Q 12In the 'babysitter and the man upstairs' legend, where are the menacing calls coming from?
Inside the house
Inside the house, the police trace reveals; the 1950 unsolved murder of babysitter Janett Christman in Missouri may have influenced it, and it inspired When a Stranger Calls.
Q 13In 'The Licked Hand' legend, who is really licking the girl's hand at night instead of her dog?
The intruder
Q 21Mothman sightings around Point Pleasant, West Virginia became linked to which December 1967 disaster?
The Silver Bridge collapse
The Silver Bridge collapse killed 46 people, and John Keel's 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies tied the creature to the tragedy.
Q 22According to legend, the Jersey Devil was the cursed thirteenth child of a woman known by what name?
Mother Leeds
Mother Leeds, in the usual 1735 telling, cried 'Let the child be the devil', and the creature has haunted the Pine Barrens ever since.
Q 23The 1934 'surgeon's photograph' of the Loch Ness Monster was attributed to a London gynaecologist named what?
Robert Kenneth Wilson
The intruder had hidden under the bed all night, licking her hand whenever she reached down; in the morning the dog is found dead beside a note reading 'Humans can lick too'.
Q 14In the 'killer in the backseat' legend, why does the pursuing driver keep flashing his high beams?
To warn her someone is hiding in her car
To warn her someone is hiding in her car is the twist; folklorist Carlos Drake first recorded it in 1968 from texts collected by Indiana University students.
Q 15A man from which country made the 1991 claim that possibly started the ice-bath stolen-kidney rumour?
Turkey
Ahmet Koc's story of a stolen kidney seeded a rumour cycle that has since travelled the world.
Q 16Which Life cereal child actor was falsely rumoured to have died mixing Pop Rocks and cola?
John Gilchrist
John Gilchrist, 'Mikey' of the Life cereal ads, was alive and well; General Foods ran newspaper ads and wrote to school principals in 1979 to debunk the exploding-stomach rumour.
Q 17Contrary to the cryogenic-freezing legend, what actually happened to Walt Disney's remains?
He was cremated
He was cremated two days after his death in December 1966, and his ashes were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Q 18The famous 1969 Beatles death hoax claimed which member had died in 1966 and been replaced by a look-alike?
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney was alive and farming in Scotland; fans heard 'Turn me on, dead man' in a backwards Revolution 9 and read clues into the Abbey Road cover.
Q 19Polybius, the legendary mind-altering arcade game, supposedly appeared in 1981 in which city?
Portland
Portland, Oregon, in 1981, is where the Polybius cabinets supposedly appeared; no machine, ROM or record of its claimed publisher Sinnesloschen has ever surfaced.
Q 20The black-eyed children legend began with a reporter's 1996 posts about which Texas city?
Abilene
Abilene, Texas: in 1996 Abilene Reporter-News journalist Brian Bethel posted online that two black-eyed boys had asked to get into his car outside a cinema there, launching the legend.
Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London gynaecologist, lent his name to the 1934 photo; in 1994 Christian Spurling confessed it showed a toy submarine fitted with a sculpted head, a hoax organised by Marmaduke Wetherell.
Q 24At which Northern California location was the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot film shot?
Bluff Creek
Bluff Creek, in the Six Rivers National Forest, is where Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin shot their 59.5-second 16 mm film on October 20, 1967.
Q 25The first widely publicized chupacabra sightings emerged in 1995 on which island?
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico's 1995 sightings started it; later 'chupacabra' carcasses in Mexico and Texas turned out to be coyotes and dogs with severe mange.
Q 26The ghost ship Ourang Medan, its crew supposedly found dead with terrified faces, was said to be from which nation?
Dutch
Dutch: the Ourang Medan was described as a Dutch freighter lost in the Strait of Malacca, yet no Lloyd's or Dutch registry record of any such ship has ever been found.
Q 27Vincent Gaddis's 1964 article 'The Deadly Bermuda Triangle' crystallised the legend in which magazine?
Argosy
Argosy, a men's adventure magazine, ran Gaddis's piece in February 1964; he set the triangle's corners at Miami, San Juan and Bermuda and cited the 1945 loss of Flight 19.
Q 28Which masked woman of Japanese urban legend asks passers-by whether she is pretty?
Kuchisake-onna
Kuchisake-onna panic swept Japan in 1979; escapes include calling her 'average', throwing hard candy, or saying 'pomade' three times.
Q 29In Japanese schools, the ghost Hanako-san is said to haunt which part of the building?
The toilets
The toilets, specifically the third stall of a third-floor girls' lavatory: knock three times and ask if Hanako is there.
Q 30The Japanese ghost Teke Teke drags herself along on her hands because her body was cut in half by what?
A train
A train: Teke Teke was a schoolgirl cut in half at a level crossing; she haunts stations at night and her name imitates the scraping sound of her torso on the ground.