Black volga

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Black Volga is an urban legend bred in Poland, mainly in 1960s and 1970s (still live even after the end of PRL), about a black Volga limousine that was allegedly abducting children. According to this rumour, the black Volga had white curtains in its windows. Others have been mentioning white tires of the car. According to different versions it was driven by priests, nuns, Jews, vampires or satanists. Traveling at night, the driver allegedly abducted children to use their blood as a cure for rich Germans suffering from leukemia. Some variants use organ theft as the motive, combining it with another famous legend about kidney theft by the KGB.

The legend surfaced again in the late 20th century, this time embodied by a BMW or Mercedes, sometimes depicted with horns instead of wing mirrors. It was said that Satan was the driver, and he would ask passers-by for the time and kill them when they approached the car to answer (in another version of the legend, they died at the same time day later).

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• Piotr Gajdziński, Imperium plotki, Prószyński i S-ka, Warsaw, 2000, p. 197-200
• Konrad Godlewski, Volga and fear, Electoral Newspaper, 7th January 2004, p. 11
• Electoral Newspaper article