Urban Legends & Folklore

My aunt Denise won't take the stairs in any car park now, not even the two-storey one at Tesco, and for years she wouldn't explain why. She told me the whole thing last November, at her kitchen…

The first sound my coworker heard, she said, was gulls fighting over chips down on the boardwalk. Three in the morning, nobody on the pier but her and the machines, so gulls made sense. It took her a…

My dad did eleven years as caretaker at Barrow Court, that grey fifteen-storey block off the ring road in Nuneaton before they redid the cladding. He wasn't a man who told stories, so when he gave me…