Every year the tales and stories legends are created from circulate around the Internet, as Halloween approaches. Some really make you think and wonder could this be true….or is it at the very least surmise they may be grounded in some type of truth?

Humans are captivated and intrigued by the macabre and exotic horror of many Halloween Urban Legends.  Here are 5 legends that may make you explore and search for the truth.

One legend tells of the girl who received a cactus for Halloween at an old “witchy” looking woman’s house that none of the kids in her neighborhood dared to approach. The old, old creepy woman came to the door when the 12 year old tricker-treater knocked. She said she had no candy….but wait a minute she told the girl. The old woman walked back into her house and returned to the door with a cactus in clay pot and handed it to the young girl.

Delighted, the girl took the plant and ran back to her friends. They thought the plant was disgusting and weird.

The girl took the cactus home and put it in her room on a window sill.

Two days later she awoke in the night, because she felt something crawling on her face. She sat up and swiped her face with her hand……and she had 20-30 baby tarantula spiders running every which way. Then she turned on the light beside her bed…..and the bedroom was covered with baby spiders that were coming from the cactus plant the weird “witchy” woman had given her Halloween night.

Urban Legend of the “Too Scary to Finish Haunted House”.

It is told that a very, very horrible Haunted House exists somewhere in the hinterlands of the American Mid-West (usually told as Kansas or Wyoming). When people visit the place it costs $25 to enter and you can earn back your money in $5 increments as you pass through various degrees of spooky and levels of danger. The story says no one has ever finished going though the house and 2 boys who reached the 4th levels disappeared (supposedly victims to another dimension as they passed through a portal). This Haunted House may be the ultimate Halloween scare adventure, if you can find it.

Dead Men don’t tell tales and hanged men truly do not tell stories, but they may come back from the dead to get you.

Many urban legends circulate around the Internet this time of year concerning men who have been hung til dead, from the gallows and returned to haunt and terrorize their executioners (and descendents). One young man, said to have been executed by the rope of the gallows on All Saints Night 1780, in New Orleans, is said to stalk all patrons of the present neighborhood bars where he was killed.  Every Halloween Eve people go to these bars, in the district where he died, to find the “gallows ghost” and encounter his wrath. It is said he leaves a small piece of rope behind after he visits and wails drunken party people’s ears. His appearance is that of a young man with his head bent sideways and his tongue hanging out. Yuk!