The Most Popular Urban Legends From All 50 States

The Bell Witch – Tennesse

The Bell Witch, sometimes mistaken for the Blair Witch, began her rule over a family back in the 1600s. It began when a man named John Bell shot a "rabbit-dog creature" in his backyard. He didn't think much of it until his family began to experience tapping on doors and windows, sheets being ripped off of their beds in the middle of the night, and random voices permeating their home. President Andrew Jackson even visited the family, who was national news because of the haunting, and he ran out of there without saying why. Apparently, the Bell witch caused John to commit suicide. 

Black-Eyed Children – Texas

Even though Black-Eyed Children have been spotted all over the country, the very first report allegedly came from a small town in Texas. In 1996, a reporter pulled into a movie theater parking lot. He was approached by two children who knocked on his window. They asked him for a ride home and said that they didn't have a gun. Alarmed at the mention of the gun, he made a move to leave. That's when he saw their eyes. He said they were, “the sort of eyes one sees these days on aliens or bargain-basement vampires on late-night television.”

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.