The internet, in case you haven't noticed, has a bit of a fixation with the eerie and generally terrifying. Urban legends and myths pop up all the time all over the place.
Something about our bizarre predilection to be scared drives us to these stories — in the similar way that I am driven to the theater to see horror movies and yet know that I am terrible at watching horror movies, much to my girlfriend's hilarity.
Well, here for your viewing pleasure (if it can so be called), I have gathered a collection of creepy images with backstories which will chill you to the bone. So, you know, "spooky stuff going on ahead" warnings and all that business!