Urban Legends: The Haunted Royal Ontario Museum

Home to six million or so artifacts, the Royal Ontario Museum, located in Toronto, Canada is the largest museum in Canada and one of the largest in the World. Found in April 14, 1912, the museum is over a hundred years old. Not surprisingly, for an old place housing many old artifacts, there are also many ghost stories associated with the place. Among the many supernatural stories, there are two notable ones...

Urban Legends: Gloomy Sunday, the Hungarian Suicide Song

"Gloomy Sunday" is a popular song composed by Hungarian musician Rezső Seress. The Song was published in Hungary in 1933 and became well-known throughout the English-speaking world after the release of a translated version by American Jazz Musician Billie Holiday in 1941. Since the lyrics referred to suicide, it becomes known as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". There is a recurring urban legend which claims many people who heard the song would commit suicide. 

Urban Legends: Hong Kong Ghost Takeout

Ghost Takeout (Traditional Chinese: 鬼叫餐) is one of the most well-known Ghost stories from Hong Kong. The origins of the story began sometime after the Second World War. Although there are variants, the basic structure of the story is as follows...

Urban Legends: Bus 375

Bus 375 is a supernatural incident that is purported to have happened in Beijing, China. The urban legend took place on the board of  Bus 375, during the midnight of November 14, 1995. It is the last bus on its route and has just pulled out of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmin yuan) bus terminus and is heading toward Xiangshan.

Old Summer Palace is the official residence of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 CE) emperors prior to its destruction by British soldiers during the Second Opium War in 1860. It is not only the namesake of the bus terminus, but it apparently drove through many areas which the old palace once stood.