The story of Huggin' Molly is an urban legend, native to Abbeville, Alabama. It tells of a phantom woman who appears to children if they stay out late at night. Some versions of the tale claim that Molly is the grieving ghost of a woman who lost her baby, hugging local children to help her heal. It's said that she's terrifyingly imposing, at 7 feet tall and wearing a big hat and dark clothes. She grips the lingering child tightly and screams in their ear—she's not meant to cause death, just one heck of a scary-movie-style fright. Did you enjoy spooky tales like this as a child?

The qalupalik of Alaska are an Inuit version of a mermaid or siren. They call with a hum to children who are wandering too close to the seashore, then takes them away in her baby pouch, called an amautik. Qalupaliks are hauntingly scary to see—clawed hands, the smell of sulfur and scaly skin and fins emerging from all parts of their bodies are all features of these terrifying, womanlike sea creatures who will never return a child once it's been taken into the depths. Do you think that this sounds like a scary way to convince your kids not to go into the water?

Slaughterhouse Canyon, also known as Luana's Canyon, is a location near Kingman, Arizona, famous for a tragic urban legend and purported paranormal activity. The legend involves a family who starved to death during the Gold Rush; the mother, driven to madness, murdered her children and threw their remains into the river. Visitors are drawn to the canyon, attracted by its eerie history and the folklore that the mother's and children's cries can still be heard in the canyon, especially at night. Would you make a trip to visit this creepy canyon?