The chilling voice of the man-made goosebumps all over my body, “The children...have you checked the children..” the man said. It was too late. The screams of them still remain. Urban Legends are stories that cause fear in those who know no better, the stories could be a crazy phenomenon with serial killers or even ghostly figures that disappear into oblivion. These stories can be passed down generation to generation, it’s like a game of telephone but the game last for years. The fear for children is a commonly exploited fear in most of these Urban Legends. Examples of these could be in the story “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs”, The story of “Gravity Hill”, and even the story of “Bunnyman’s bridge” with the fear for children in each of these. …show more content…
The moral of the story is; don’t leave children unsupervised in a big house. This moral can make parents or babysitters scared of leaving children unsupervised in your house for too long. In the story, the man on the phone with the babysitter says to the babysitter “Have you checked the children…” from The Choking Doberman. That line could indicate that the children are in danger and should be brought to safety quickly considering there is a man upstairs.

Next, the story of “Gravity Hill” has the fear for children by having said children dying on the bottom of the hill. “The children were in a school bus were killed at the bottom of the hill. These kids now push up whatever may try to go down the hill,” to prevent others from the same fate. This story causes fear for children by telling children or bus drivers to be aware that they may not know what is at the bottom of the