While they are rolling around on the ground in pain, a car thief emerges from underneath the car and steals it. When they step out of the car to investigate, their ankles get sliced open with a knife. The Ankle slicing car thief (or the man under the car) is an urban legend that tells of a driver that keeps hearing noises under their car when they are driving.The legend originated in a Daria fanfiction written in 1998, and since the 2000s has seen circulation on internet forums and social media.

Alexandria's Genesis is a purported genetic mutation that gives its carrier purple eyes, shimmering pale skin, a lack of body hair, and a lack of menstruation while still remaining fertile.The Discovery Channel show MythBusters also disproved the myth. The urban legend debunking site reports there are no proven cases of this happening in reality. This legend was used as a plot device in the films Magnolia and Barney's Version. Aerial water bomber picking up scuba diver is an urban legend about a aerial water bomber, or a helicopter with a dangling water bucket, scooping up a scuba diver and dumping them on a wildfire site.The 2016 clown sightings were urban legends that rose in popularity during 2016 about an individual or group dressed up as clowns who stalk, harass, or otherwise scare random people.The 1962 Halloween massacre was an urban legend about a photo of a Halloween costume party in 1962, in which seven people were purportedly killed.The 999 phone charging myth is an urban legend which claims that calling an emergency telephone number, then promptly hanging up, charges mobile phone batteries.The claim of a 'statistical spike' for the death of musicians at that age has been repeatedly disproven by studies.

The 27 Club is an urban legend that popular musicians and other celebrated artists die at age 27 with statistically anomalous frequency, notably Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.

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