“Urban Legend” (n.): an often lurid story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true.

This October, we present a series of terrifying tall tales complete with boogeymen, creepy cults and a possessed videotape. So the question is: which of these urban legends frighten you the most?

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