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  2. List of urban legends - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of urban legends. An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular ...

  3. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  4. List of creepypastas - Wikipedia

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    Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. [1] [2] [3] These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers. [1] [2] The term "creepypasta" originates from "copypasta", a portmanteau of the words "copy" and "paste".

  5. List of reportedly haunted locations - Wikipedia

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    Shahidullah Hall Pond, Dhaka: The old pond adjoining Shahidullah Hall at Dhaka University campus is believed to be haunted by people who drowned in the pond. [19] Kuakata Beach, Barisal. Farmhouse in Comilla: A huge farmhouse in Comilla is reported to be haunted by black shadows assaulting people at night.

  6. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Appeared around five billion years into the future on New Earth. It began when New Earthlings developed a new mood-drug called Bliss. The world became addicted to it and, in Novice Hame's words, "A virus mutated inside the compound and became airborne. Everything died. Even the virus in the end. It killed the world in seven minutes flat."

  7. Creepypasta - Wikipedia

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    Creepypasta. Fan art of Slender Man, one of the best-known creepypastas. A creepypasta is a horror -related legend which has been shared around the Internet. [1] [2] [3] The term creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet. [4] These entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories ...

  8. Horrorcore - Wikipedia

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    Horrorcore. Horrorcore, also called horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, death rap, or murder rap is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror -themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from certain hardcore hip hop and gangsta rap artists, such as the Geto Boys and Three 6 Mafia, which began ...

  9. Earworm - Wikipedia

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    Researcher Vicky Williamson at Goldsmiths, University of London, found in an uncontrolled study that earworms correlated with music exposure, but could also be triggered by experiences that trigger the memory of a song (involuntary memory) such as seeing a word that reminds one of the song, hearing a few notes from the song, or feeling an emotion one associates with the song.