Fantasia

A lot of people, especially teenagers, have heard about this story. It is often referred to as "The Babysitter and the man upstairs", or like the 1979 or 2006 version of the film "When a Stranger Calls". This is like one of the most popular urban legends that has survived over many decades.       This story is about a babysitter and a couple of children, others say three. In this story, a married couple go out for dinner and leave the children with a babysitter, specifically a high school student. They tell the children are already asleep and she need not wake them up. A short while after they are gone, the phone rings but when she answers no one talks. This happens a couple of times, and she thinks it is her boyfriend that she has been waiting for a call from. But it is not him, because the next time she answers, a stranger says "Did you check on the children?" then hangs up. This happens again. Finally, she calls the police but they tell her as lo...

Vampires are one of the most popular mythical creatures ever known. Thanks to "Dracula", people everywhere in the world believe they exist along with all the stories that tag along. But do they really  exist? The myths and legends of vampires started a long time ago. In Europe, when diseases like Tuberculosis were so fatal and before medicine had reached such a high level, when an epidemic came, people would go down like flies. No one would know why such diseases went viral so fast and how. That is when the myths started, stories go that if a person has just died of an epidemic, you had to dig up their grave and if their heart is still fresh, for fear of vampirism, you had to tear it out and burn the corpse. The most popular one of course is the story of "Dracula" of Romania, a fictional character who apparently used to live on blood and just over all a supernatural creature. That is what the novel says,  but have you ever considered where the story o...