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    Urban legends are fictional stories associated with the macabre and superstitions that are meant to scare people. Two well-known urban legends are the chupacabra and Slenderman. The chupacabra is a legendary creature from Puerto Rico described as heavy with spines and reported to attack and drain livestock of their blood. Slenderman began as a fictional character created as an internet meme in 2009 and became popular online before influencing pop culture through books and movies, though it also connected to real violent acts. Exploring urban legends and mythical creatures provides an intriguing perspective on the unknown in the world.

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    Urban legends are fictional stories associated with the macabre and superstitions that are meant to scare people. Two well-known urban legends are the chupacabra and Slenderman. The chupacabra is a legendary creature from Puerto Rico described as heavy with spines and reported to attack and drain livestock of their blood. Slenderman began as a fictional character created as an internet meme in 2009 and became popular online before influencing pop culture through books and movies, though it also connected to real violent acts. Exploring urban legends and mythical creatures provides an intriguing perspective on the unknown in the world.

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    Urban legends are fictional stories associated with the macabre and superstitions that are meant to scare people. Two well-known urban legends are the chupacabra and Slenderman. The chupacabra is a legendary creature from Puerto Rico described as heavy with spines and reported to attack and drain livestock of their blood. Slenderman began as a fictional character created as an internet meme in 2009 and became popular online before influencing pop culture through books and movies, though it also connected to real violent acts. Exploring urban legends and mythical creatures provides an intriguing perspective on the unknown in the world.

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    Urban Legends

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    Margaridaa Tavares
    Urban legends are fictional stories associated with the macabre and superstitions that are meant to scare people. Two well-known urban legends are the chupacabra and Slenderman. The chupacabra is a legendary creature from Puerto Rico described as heavy with spines and reported to attack and drain livestock of their blood. Slenderman began as a fictional character created as an internet meme in 2009 and became popular online before influencing pop culture through books and movies, though it also connected to real violent acts. Exploring urban legends and mythical creatures provides an intriguing perspective on the unknown in the world.

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    An urban legend is a myth or a tale and it often consists of fictional stories associated with the

    macabre and with superstitions and are supposed to scare those who hear them. Urban legends
    are often rooted in local history and popular culture.

    The chupacabra ("goat-sucker") is a legendary and very known creature in the folklore of America.
    The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of goats.
    The sights of this creature are so blurry that his physical description his very distinct. It is
    supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck
    to the base of the tail.
    Eyewitness sightings have been claimed in many places in America and even outside America,
    however the reports have been disregarded as uncorroborated or lacking evidence.
    The first reported attack eventually attributed to the creature occurred in March 1995 in Puerto
    Rico. Eight sheep were discovered dead, each with three puncture wounds in the chest area and
    completely drained of blood. A few months later, in August, another attack was reported in the
    Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas, when 150 farm animals and pets were reportedly killed. Initially,
    it was suspected that the killings were committed by a Satanic cult. And later on more killings were
    reported around the island. All the animals were draines out of blood.

    The Slenderman is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet


    meme created by Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009 on a thread in the
    Something Awful Internet forum. The thread was a Photoshop contest in which users were
    challenged to "create paranormal images." So Surge decided to combine two black-and-white
    images of groups of children to which he added a tall, thin, almost transparent figure wearing a
    black suit. He is described as a thin, unnaturally tall humanoid with a featureless face and wears a
    black suit. After this, Slenderman, soon went viral and people were talking about him everywhere
    and he started to appear in many disparate works of fiction including books, movies, series etc.
    Outside of online fiction, the Slender Man has become an internet icon and has influenced popular
    culture even has his own video games such as Slender: The Eight Pages and Slender: The Arrival.
    Although he was very popular, Slenderman created panic within people when, in 2014, readers of
    his fiction were connected to several violent acts, particularly a near-fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old
    girl in Wisconsin. Slender Man is commonly known for stalking, abducting or traumatizing people,
    particularly children.

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    To conclude, i really like to get to know more about these legends and myths because its so
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    interesting to believe in creatures out of the world we live in and that we dont even know if they
    exist
    texto for sure. Believing in things that are not suppose to exist and getting to know them is very
    intriging to me.
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    Im all about the unknown and i Think that searching for these type of people, creatures, historys
    etc gives me another perspective about Earth and the universe in general. I might sound a Little
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    crazy but i Think we need to open our minas and souls to these urban legends.

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