Urban Legends is a 30 minute 2007 television documentary-style series hosted by Michael Allcock. David Hewlett became the new host in 2011. In each episode, three urban legends are dramatized and presented to the television audience; the audience is then to speculate which one or two of the three is true. Each legend has witnesses to tell the story. For the one or two fake legends, the witnesses are actors, while the true legend uses real people affected by the story. Included in each episode are two quick quiz-like stories, called mini-myths, which air before the commercial breaks. Each will begin with the number of the mini myth and its name, followed by the story. After the commercial, the answer to the mini-myth is announced and the rest of the programming continues as it previously had. The show originally aired on the Biography Channel in the U.S., History Television in Canada and FX in the United Kingdom where it was hosted by Mark Dolan. It has also aired in Argentina, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Finland, Estonia, The Netherlands, Russia, Hungary and Denmark. The series briefly returned to the Syfy network as an "Original Series" with new episodes starting on Monday April 18, 2011, then moved to the regular time, Fridays at 10. The new episodes followed exactly the same format as the original but were narrated by Stargate's David Hewlett. The show now airs occasionally as reruns and mini-marathons on both SyFy and Chiller.
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MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
Urban legends, seemingly true yet seemingly fantastical, connect the past and future. While conducting research at Bride’s Pool, professor of folkloristics Poon Dor-lai experiences what appears to be paranormal encounters, but soon uncovers criminal exploits behind it. She teams up with journalist Fu Chi-pok to probe into the matter, unravelling the unknown background of bride-to-be Wong Yuk. The two decide to team up to continue work on Chi-pok's missing father's research paper on urban legends, but in the process, they discover many cases that bear similarity to the legends and they begin to suspect his disappearance.
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Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core and now the rumors have begun once more. Boogiepop... Everyone knows about Boogiepop: meet her one dark night and you are taken. People tell each other the stories and laugh: no one believes that she can possibly exist in this day and age. Still, strange things appear to be going on and the darkness is taking on many forms. Something is out there.
Mikado Ryugamine moves to Ikebukuro at his friend’s invitation and quickly becomes entangled in the city’s dangerous underworld. After witnessing the legendary Headless Rider, he finds himself caught up in escalating violence and gang conflict that begin to throw Ikebukuro into chaos.
The science of living and the randomness of death are combined with a dash of Darwinism. Forensic experts, pathologists, toxicologists, herpetologists, and other experts offer eloquent explanations of mortality.
A number of inexplicable phenomena have been plaguing the town of Domori. In order to protect the town's children, a new homeroom teacher known as “Nube” arrives. Normally gentle and a bit outgoing, Nube has a secret side: he is, in fact, the only psychic teacher in Japan. Rumor also has it his left hand is possessed by a demon! Hell's messenger of justice is here to take on the school's seven mysteries, ghosts, and evil spirits attacking his students.
Strange things are happening in present day Japan. Fake Documentary "Q" blends found footage and alternate reality premises to present a disturbing vision of a paranormal world lurking underneath day-to-day experiences.
Web series where two friends, TJ and Amy, search for filming locations for their upcoming Slender Man film project. As they walk through a graveyard, they encounter the Slender Man, initially believing it to be Jake, the father of TJ's daughter, Dahlia. The two are separated in the ensuing chaos, with Amy being confronted by the Slender Man on her own. TJ finds her in a delirious state, with hand-shaped burn marks on her body. TJ is then forced to protect her daughter and deal with Amy's fragile sanity, while the threat of the Slender Man looms over them. Additionally, two other mysterious entities make their presence known, both of whom appear to have an interest in Dahlia.
Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.
Celebrities and comedians share and discuss various intriguing urban legends from around the world. The show concludes by leaving viewers to decide what to believe.
Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X.
Trial of Leaves is an ongoing YouTube series set within The Slender Man Mythos. Having started at the beginning of 2013, this series continually chronicles the lives of three young survivalists and their struggles to protect those they care about. While hiking in their free time, the boys become wrapped up in a much larger design, with the appearance of a familiar symbol. Not letting that bother them, they decide to keep entertaining us, and ignoring it. Once they decide to gather their weapons and fight back they get beaten. Badly. What follows is nothing less than the crushing of man in every way... emotionally, spiritually, physically, and of course, mentally. At this time they discover a world parallel to our own, and under the jurisdiction of their stalkers. This Path of Blackened Leaves becomes both a haven and a hell for the protagonists, as their true Trial begins. From here on in, a tale of Cosmic Horror with just a sliver of hope that they can break free without losing all...
A children’s magazine show talking us through the fact and fiction of mysterious subjects and spooky goings on.
In a bet to prove whether ghosts or aliens exist, two high schoolers face terrifying paranormal threats, gain superpowers and maybe even fall in love?!
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories spin-off. The story will center on the Tōkeshū ninja group in Tokyo, the city where dreams and desires swirl like eddies in a river. With ancient techniques passed down through generations, the ninja are intent on wiping out the "darkness" enveloping people in the current Reiwa era.
Follow Rob Lowe and his two sons, Matthew and John Owen, as they investigate unsolved legends and eerie age-old stories on a bonding family adventure years in the making.
A live-action/animation mixed collection of short school ghost stories.
Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista who is too beautiful to be a detective. She is also intrigued by urban legends so much so that she believes all crimes are somehow linked to these legends. She even conducts her investigations in such a way as to prove them to be true. Tsukiko also likes to make use of whatever she can. She especially likes to enlist the help of crime lab officer Hitoro Katsuura, who happens to have a crush on her. Many other unique characters will make appearances as she investigates the crimes related to urban legends, using odd and exquisite techniques.
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19 episodes • 2007
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cheating Death | Jun 23, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Mixed Up in Crime | Jun 23, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 3 | It Seemed Like a Clever Idea | Jun 30, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 4 | No Excuse for Stupidity | Jul 7, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Fickle Finger of Fate | Jul 21, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 6 | What a Way to Go | Jul 28, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 7 | When Animals Think | Aug 4, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Neighbors | Aug 11, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Mail Mix Ups | Aug 18, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Stuff of Nightmares | Aug 25, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Good and Evil | Sep 1, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Marriage and Affairs | Sep 12, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 13 | What A Way To Go | Oct 11, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Cringe-worthy | Oct 25, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 15 | No Excuses for Stupidity | Nov 1, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 16 | Neighbors | Nov 15, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 17 | The Dark Side | Dec 13, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 18 | The Human Body | Dec 20, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Weird Woundings | Dec 28, 2007 | 0.0 |
15 episodes • 2008
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 Degrees of Separation | Oct 21, 2008 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Twisted Fate | Jan 16, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Auto-Geddon | Jan 23, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Love Hurts | Jan 23, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Beyond Belief | Jan 30, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Bad Sports | Jan 30, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Immaculate Deceptions | Feb 6, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Upstairs, Downstairs | Feb 6, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 9 | One Wedding, Two Funerals | Feb 13, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Lost & Found | Feb 13, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Bad Calls | Feb 20, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Big Mistakes | Feb 20, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Family Affairs | Feb 27, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Three Degrees of Separation | Feb 27, 2009 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Welcome Home? | Mar 6, 2009 | 0.0 |
15 episodes • 2011
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best Laid Plans | Apr 1, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Stranger Than Fiction | Apr 1, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Expect the Unexpected | Apr 8, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Stolen Dreams | Apr 8, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 5 | More Than Meets the Eye | TBA | 0.0 |
| 6 | Heads or Tails | TBA | 0.0 |
| 7 | Reap What You Sow | Apr 29, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Love and War | Apr 29, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Close Calls | May 6, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Under Wraps | May 6, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Blink of an Eye | May 13, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Missing Pieces | May 13, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The Terrible Truth | May 20, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Out of the Blue | May 20, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Skeletons in the Closet | May 27, 2011 | 0.0 |