Tonight i learned of two urban legends (well technically only one is a legend, for the other one has indeed happened...) of Thessaloniki.
-The first one is that in the west (less developed) part of the city there is an old lady that asks for help with her groceries, telling people to get them to her apartment, but they then are nowhere to be found.
That was the urban legend. Now the far more terrifying real event:
-Some years ago a girl who is related in a way to the person who narrated this story to me tonight, was at some big department store at the periphery of the city, where population is little and buildings are sparse. Hers was the only car in the drive way, where she returned after having bought the things she wanted to get out of the store, and there she saw a very old woman, dressed in typical mourning orthodox attire (black dress and something covering her head as well). She claimed that she was in extreme pain, and needed a ride to the nearest hospital. The girl agreed, and soon they were in her car.
While she was driving, at some point, to her absolute horror she noticed that the hands of the old woman had thick hairs on them. She was no old woman at all... But the girl managed to keep her relative calm, and when they neared another vehicle she deliberately bumped into it so that she would cause the other driver to show up. Needless to say the "old woman" left immediately when the car stopped...
Police examined the case, and it turns out the man who was dressed as an old woman was part of a gang, the other three accomplices were near that spot, in a van, where a full surgical table was operative... They were involved, for 20 years, in body organ trading, and the girl would have ended cut up in that van.
Anyway, i hope it was a scary or interesting story (really i never go to that part of town, too isolated for me, so i did not fear that much) and i very much look forward to reading your own. They can be of your neighborhood, town, city, state or country.
-The first one is that in the west (less developed) part of the city there is an old lady that asks for help with her groceries, telling people to get them to her apartment, but they then are nowhere to be found.
That was the urban legend. Now the far more terrifying real event:
-Some years ago a girl who is related in a way to the person who narrated this story to me tonight, was at some big department store at the periphery of the city, where population is little and buildings are sparse. Hers was the only car in the drive way, where she returned after having bought the things she wanted to get out of the store, and there she saw a very old woman, dressed in typical mourning orthodox attire (black dress and something covering her head as well). She claimed that she was in extreme pain, and needed a ride to the nearest hospital. The girl agreed, and soon they were in her car.
While she was driving, at some point, to her absolute horror she noticed that the hands of the old woman had thick hairs on them. She was no old woman at all... But the girl managed to keep her relative calm, and when they neared another vehicle she deliberately bumped into it so that she would cause the other driver to show up. Needless to say the "old woman" left immediately when the car stopped...
Police examined the case, and it turns out the man who was dressed as an old woman was part of a gang, the other three accomplices were near that spot, in a van, where a full surgical table was operative... They were involved, for 20 years, in body organ trading, and the girl would have ended cut up in that van.
Anyway, i hope it was a scary or interesting story (really i never go to that part of town, too isolated for me, so i did not fear that much) and i very much look forward to reading your own. They can be of your neighborhood, town, city, state or country.
