swap_horiz The Bunny Man Alternatives

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John Henry

John Henry is an African American folk hero, a steel-driving railroad worker said to have beaten a steam drill and died...

American Labor Folk Hero Steel Driver

8.3 Great

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Paul Bunyan

Paul Bunyan is a North American lumberjack folk hero, popularized in early 20th-century logging tales with his giant ox,...

American Frontier Lumberjack Tall Tale

7.3 Good

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The Vanishing Hitchhiker

The Vanishing Hitchhiker is an urban legend about a passenger who disappears from a car, documented in U.S. folklore stu...

Ghost Modern Urban Roadside

7.3 Good

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Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed was John Chapman, an American nurseryman who planted apple orchards across Ohio and Indiana in the earl...

American Frontier Orchards Folk Hero

7.2 Good

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Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett was a Tennessee frontiersman, congressman, and folk hero who died at the Alamo in Texas in 1836.

American Frontier Folk Hero Tall Tale

7.2 Good

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The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs

The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs is an urban legend in which threatening calls come from inside the house, widely cir...

Urban Home Killer Phone Call

7.1 Good

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Kuchisake-onna

Kuchisake-onna is a Japanese urban legend about a slit-mouthed woman who questions victims, spreading widely in school r...

Ghost Modern Japanese Urban

7.0 Good

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The Killer in the Backseat

The Killer in the Backseat is an urban legend in which a driver is pursued by someone trying to warn that a murderer is...

Car Urban Warning Killer

6.9 Fair

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The Bell Witch

The Bell Witch is a Tennessee haunting legend centered on the Bell family of Adams, notable for early 19th-century polte...

Ghost American Tennessee Haunting

6.8 Fair

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Casey Jones

Casey Jones was a real Illinois Central engineer who died in a 1900 train crash in Mississippi and became a folk hero th...

American Ballad Railroad Folk Hero

6.8 Fair

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Spring-Heeled Jack

Spring-Heeled Jack is a figure from Victorian British folklore, notorious for reported attacks beginning in London in 18...

Urban Victorian English Phantom

6.7 Fair

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Pecos Bill

Pecos Bill is an American tall-tale cowboy, popularized in early 20th-century stories as a rider of tornadoes and embodi...

American Frontier Cowboy Tall Tale

6.7 Fair

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Hanako-san

Hanako-san is a Japanese school ghost said to haunt third-floor girls' toilets, a modern urban legend widely reported fr...

Ghost Japanese Urban School

6.6 Fair

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Aka Manto

Aka Manto is a Japanese toilet ghost urban legend in which a voice offers red or blue paper, with either choice leading...

Japanese Urban School Toilet

6.4 Fair

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The Licked Hand

The Licked Hand is an urban legend about a child comforted by a dripping sound and a doglike lick, later finding the pet...

Urban Home Pet Killer

6.3 Fair

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The Choking Doberman

The Choking Doberman is an urban legend in which a dog chokes on an intruder's fingers, cataloged by folklorist Jan Haro...

Urban Home Pet Burglar

6.1 Fair

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Teke Teke

Teke Teke is a Japanese urban legend about the upper half of a woman or schoolgirl who moves on her elbows and attacks v...

Ghost Japanese Urban Railway

5.9 Mediocre

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Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine

The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine is an Arizona treasure legend about Jacob Waltz's alleged mine in the Superstition Mountai...

American Arizona Treasure Frontier

5.9 Mediocre

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Polybius

Polybius is an urban legend about a sinister 1981 arcade game in Portland, Oregon, said to cause illness and be monitore...

Modern Video Game Arcade Urban

5.9 Mediocre

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The Clown Statue

The Clown Statue is an urban legend about a babysitter discovering a clown figure is a person, notable in internet-era c...

Urban Home Killer Babysitter

5.0 Mediocre