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...

       Stories about monsters have been going on forever, especially those that speak of monsters under the bed. There is almost no child on earth that has not heard of this story at least once in their lives and got scared of it.      The myth about the "Boogeyman" goes under a lot of names. They go something along these lines: a monster hides under the bed to scare non-obedient children and make them behave themselves, or the other version, a patient has escaped a mental health institution and crawls at night and murders children.     Other myths exist all over the world under a lot of names. For instance, in Spain and Mexico, there is the myth of "El Coco". It is basically the same story about someone who takes away misbehaving children, or more specifically orphans and their misbehavior is pretty much refusing to go to sleep.  This was very famous in Spain during the 16 th and 17 th Centuries. Japan ...