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Here's a pretty famous urban legend for you. It's known by various names but here I'm referring to it as The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs, usually told as a ghost story amongst adolescents. It appeared as a movie back in 1979 When a Stranger Calls (and has inspired thousands of others such as Scream and a remake of When a Stranger Calls)
A baby sitter, usually a teenage girl, is alone in a house. She keeps getting a telephone call for a scary voice asking "Have you checked the children?" in a menacing manner. The girl is too terrified to check on the children upstairs and instead calls the police.
The police advise her to keep the caller on the line the next time she gets a menacing phone call, so they can trace the caller. After another threatening call, the police telephone her and say "Get out of the house right away!" A policeman waiting outside explains that the call was traced to the upstairs extension phone. When the police go upstairs and they find the mysterious caller (its always a he and often either a murder who recently escaped jail or a mental patient who escaped a nearby hospital). The man has already murdered the children and was sitting waiting for the girl to come up and check on the kids.
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