Whether you dismiss urban legends as children's lore or believe they're based on fact, these 50 tales will send a shiver up ...

Cropsey, a Dutch Reformed elder of Dutch-French parentage and a staunch romantic idealizer of nature, was born on Staten Island and trained as an architect in New York City. He was not an artist ...

Urban legends have been around forever, and even though the modes of communicating them have evolved over the years and centuries, they continue to be a source of fear and fascination, especially ...

A shop owner with good business sense, loyalty to his clientele, and, most importantly, unwavering love of music is what ...

What it’s about: According to local lore, Cropsey was an escaped patient from a nearby abandoned mental institution who would snatch children off the streets on Staten Island, New York.

These concrete bases are the foundation for what was supposed to be the New York Wheel, a 630-foot observation wheel, but developers scrapped those plans in 2018. But now the city’s Economic ...

Brancaccio and Zeman are no strangers to the legend of Cropsey. They have a personal connection, as both grew up hearing rumblings about Staten Island’s own boogeyman. But life began to imitate ...

Where Cropsey succeeds best is as a freaky confirmation of urban legend. As the film progresses, the filmmakers—Staten Island natives, mind you—convincingly construct a portrait of Staten Island as a ...

Children in Staten Island grew up hearing spooky stories about a child-snatching boogeyman named "Cropsey" — and when Andre Rand started kidnapping and allegedly murdering local children, it seemed as ...

Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne returns to Staten Island's Willowbrook woods with Atwell's family and tries to uncover clues in this terrifying cold case.