Title: Cropsey

General Information about Item:

• Vebal Folklore: Urban Legend

• Language: English

• Country where Item is from: United States

Informant Data:

• Rachel Zhao was born in  New York, New York in 1997. She grew up in an Asian American family in Brooklyn. She currently attends Dartmouth College as a member of the class of 2019.

Contextual Data:

• As a native of New York City, Rachel is very fond of her city and the people in the city. This is a story she has heard often in New York City. The urban legend circulates by word of mouth from New Yorker to New Yorker.

Item:

Transcript of Associated File:

This is the story of Cropsey. In Staten Island, there is a place called The Willowbrook Mental Asylum. A ghoul named Corpsey with a hook for a hand and rumored to be an escaped mental patient wanders the halls looking for children and hauling them away never to be seen again.

Informant’s Comments:

“This story scared me more as a child than is does now.”

Collector’s Comments:

This urban legend is perceived as true by many, but there is no proof for the validity of the story. A documentary was made about Cropsey in 2010.

Collector’s Name: Sydney Zhou

Tags/Keywords: Horror, Urban Legend