Aka Manto (Red Cape).
1.Theres a Japanese ghost of a woman who wears a mask.
She approaches young children asking them if they think she is beautiful.
God & Man
If the child answers yes, she removes her mask and asks again.
This time her true nature is shown, having her mouth slit from ear to ear.
If the child says no, she kills them.
In Malaysia we called it PENANGGAL.
The head is floating with its lungs and throat dangling below its neck.
When morning comes, the head will fly back and attach to its body.
3.Aka Manto (Red Cape).
Shes usually seen at night wearing a white dress and has large black eyes.
Once they have sex, La Xtabai will change into a serpent and eat them.
She can also be seen under a tree to lure and then throw her someone over a cliff.
Once she throws them over, she will rip their heart.
She will lure or kidnap children and bring them to the river.
7.Kelpies are water demons that live in Scottish Lochs.
8.An old Japanese lady told me this story.
Hes always trying to find water, but never can because it hardly rains.
All he leaves behind are the dry husks of children for their parents to find.
10.My hometown is named for the freshwater springs that bubble up everywhere in the woods around town.
11.Orang Minyak the oily man in Malay.
Hes a shaman or a supernatural being entirely covered in tar or black oil.
He gains and increases his powers by abducting and raping virgins.
The rumor spread like fire.
Douens lived in the forests, and were basically children that had their feet back-to-front.
Their footprints would lead the child more astray, losing them in the forests for good.
They are said to be lost souls of kids.
A 3ft tall demon that wears a red hat, has backwards feet, and is missing his thumbs.
He is interested in children, and if they dont hide their thumbs he will bite them off.
He will also give a shot to lure children into the jungle.
The only way to escape him is to hide your thumbs and show only your four fingers.
Tata Duende will think you are like him and would let you go.
14.Wendigo (wenddigo, wittiko), an Ojibwe myth to explain cannibalism despite bountiful food supplies.
Stories tend to originate around people either committing cannibalism, or being forced to when lost in the forest.
15.Nakki is a spirit that lives in still pools and under bridges.
16.Shadow people/ Shadow men.
More recent than a lot of traditional folklore some of the stories around shadow people are pretty spooky.
Though the children appear human their eyes are always completely black.
Moral of the story, dont be mean to your parents.
The only way to kill it is to find its lower body and put salt in it.
19.Here in Scotland, I was told about changelings as a little kid.
The baby will look just like yours so its hard to tell.
20.I went on vacation in the Philippines once.
One night, they told me about what they call thetiyanak.
Apparently, tiyanaks are demon-babies spawned by the motherfucker himself.
21.This swedish urban legend about a Myling.
The Myling would often scream and cry for help, or for attention.
Just to make everyone living closeby or at the actual place, feel uneasy.
You could also help the Myling by finding its corpse to then bury it at holy grounds.
24.I live in the UK so black dogs.
They terrified me as a kid because they were a demonic entity and were rumoured to signal death.
My uncle said he saw it once and refuses to drive through the pine barrens at night.
26.In Islamic culture / religion, there are ghosts (?)
called jinn and the idea of them always freaked me out.
SO many people I know claim to have had an experience with them.
And they can possess you.
28.This one I heard at Sapfest (harvesting maple sap) in Northern Wisconsin.
Im not sure if its well known, since I only ever heard it from my family.
Its called the buried boy, and it came out of this song we sing while at Sapfest.
According to the story, the older brother rose up that night and killed his dad as payback.
So he kept wandering around, searching for his father to kill him.
So he wanders around the woods, searching for his father to get to get revenge.
I still dont like crossing rivers at night, even in a car over a bridge.
There footprints are actually still preserved in Kilauea national park.
You apparently smell sulfur and you have to get naked and lay on a fetal position.
Ive heard other people say you just cant look at them and if you do youll die.
30.Kumiho is a very unstable, malevolent spirit.
Us Koreans believed, due to Taoist influences, that many objects grew stronger as time progressed.
Something happened like she would start screaming and then vanish.
The time of year wasnt around Halloween or anything.
Literally his parents jumped our cases because of the ghost.
The road is gone now because quite literally no one used it.
32.The Draug of Norwegian folklore.
The Draug is the spirit of a sailor taken by storms.
33.Dullahan are basically a mix of Grim Reaper and The headless Horsemen.
They go around in carriages made of skin with wheel made of bone.
Whenever they stop, somebody dies.
They come from Celtic folklore I believe.
American folk legend about a giant cat-like creature that stalks the woods at night.
Tailypo is startled and manages to escape.
Satisfied with the tail, the hunter takes it home to make stew out of it.
Later that night Tailypo manages to break into his home.
Tailypo jumps on the mans bed and asks where its tailypo is.
The man, scared shitless, answers that he ate it.
35.Im from northern Brazil near the Amazon river.
My grandma always told us the story of the Matita perreira.
At night you’re free to hear her whistle.
The Matita perreira is a normal human in daylight, she can be anyone from the village.
It is ike a curse.
When you hear her whistle you’re free to call her 3 times.
So you could find out who she is.
But there is a catch.
She would come real early in the morning.
You should have coffee and cigar for her, otherwise she would kill you.
Everybody who would still be asleep when she arrives, would fall ill and die.
It was really creepy for me growing up.
But today I know that the whistle is a bird.
In Brazil we have a lot of those folklore stories.
36.Our village has one called bilaas.
So shes literally living amongst you.
She can turn into different creatures and attack you while youre alone.
And you cant refuse her coming in Sounds silly, and it is, but it is still creepy.
37.Scariest one Ive heard in real life?
If you explore caves youve probably heard them.
The quiet little whispers.
They sound like a group talking way off in the impenetrable darkness.
Ive heard a dozen different versions of what they are.
Because if it does, theyll come for you.
Or its because its true darkness down there and youll likely get lost and fall in a pit.
Its a right of passage for young cavers to be frightened with the stories by older vets.
Though Ive met a few who really swear to having full conversations with the spectres.
Or turning my light out for more than a few minutes.
A lot of widely known fairytales come from here and operas were inspired by the forest.
However, when the sun shines, its fucking beautiful.
Some of those girls then later appeared as nymphs to then again lead hikers into their watery death.
Due to the cold water from the depths some people probably drowned.
And these are just the few tales I remember.
40.A bald man who comes at night to set fire to corn fields.
You do not want him to get ahold of you, for hell destroy your throat.
People in Mexico call him El Pelon Quema Maiz.
Legend from Japan obviously.
Kappa are still creepy to me.
42.Homem do Saco or, in English, The Bag Man.
