Local myths and legends from your area.

[StrixMaxima]

Christianity hur hur hur hur hur. /sillyness

None really, although an inordinate amount of people I know are quite scared of Slenderman.

OMFG, I almost squirted all my fine beverage over my monitor. I like you, your silly person!

@Topic

Everyone in Brazil lives in fear of the dreadful Water Closet Blonde!

http://ifolclore.vilabol.uol.com.br/lendas/sd/sd_loira01.htm

Which is just a sad rehash of the Bloody Mary thing. We import even urban myths... talk about being colonized.

Our local indians, though, have a very rich and interesting body of folklore, which seeped into the culture of the city folk, little by little. Stories of Saci, Mulas Sem Cabeça, Anhangá, Mãe D'água are fascinating, but, sadly, only available in Portuguese, AFAIK.

 

[DarkishFriend]

Reading through this I noticed someone else said something similar to this. In Denton, NC there is a hill where supposedly some teens died in a car crash. They're friends and class maters wrote on the road in spray paint they died on. If you put your car in neutral, you'll slowly move, what looks like is going up hill, and you stop directly at the end of the spray paint. Works when going in reverse too. It's a good distance too, at least 100ft. When me and my friends did it we didn't put flour on the car though.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Around where I live, you hear stories of straw idealists that annoy people with their calls for equal rights for minority groups. The legend goes that if they ever succeed, the world will fall down the slippery slope of doom.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Christianity hur hur hur hur hur. /sillyness

None really, although an inordinate amount of people I know are quite scared of Slenderman.

OMFG, I almost squirted all my fine beverage over my monitor. I like you, your silly person!

Thanks, that's why I post silly things on the internet, to makes random strangers happy

 

[kayisking]

We here in Limburg, the most southern province of Holland, have many stories about the "bokkenrijders", witch literally means the goatriders. They were a bunch of bandits that were active all over the province, and were famed for wearing goat horns on their head to make themselves look more intimidating. There are many stories about them around here, but the most prevelant one is that they would actually ride flying goats and crash through the windows at night.

 

[Fbuh]

This:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Covered_Bridge

Local legend says all sorts of things about the bridge itself. In one version, a girl supposedly burned to death in a hay cart. It is also said that people were hanged/lynched from the bridge's beams. Whatever the story, teh bridge itself is eerie as hell, and it swallows light and sound. It also feels like a mental punch in the stomach. Call me crazy, but that's our local legend.

However, we have Havre de Grace about 20 minutes away, so that's always a favorite spot for supernatural activity, too.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Mine's boring, it's Sasquatch.

In fact, a movie (which probably was called simply "Sasquatch") was filmed (or set) in a nearby town of Willoughby Hills, Ohio; a town that's twenty-something minutes from where I live.

 

[Magnesium360]

Through eastern Australia, there have been reports of a strange light, seemingly without source, that may sometimes approach people, and disappears when fired upon. Stories about these lights have been told by the Aborigines of eastern Australia, referring to them as Min Min, since times long before western settlement.

 

[Jakub324]

Nan Tuck was a girl who lived in 1810, less than 3 miles from where I sit. She was accused of murdering her husband and the villagers got together to kill her. For a few days, she evaded them, but then they caught her. She ran away, but they ran faster and hanged her from a tree. Now, her ghost can be seen to run down the Nan Tuck Lane and the place where she was hung is completely devoid of vegetation.
I don't believe it, but a lot of people do.

 

[Don Savik]

Well...being from Minnesota, we have a local folk hero here that is so popular, there's a statue of him in Bemidji. As well as his big blue ox.

I am of course talking about the one and only...Paul Bunyan.

CAPTCHA: -closed wspaced

Crap...I'm having flashbacks to my word processing classes again...

Hey a fellow Minnesotan! Yea...all we got is Bunyan. /boring

Its wood and lakes. Wtf you gonna do? Lol

 

[Phasmal]

In the forest near where I lived there was an old manor house that fell out of use a long time ago (they built a new one not far away for some reason), it looked abandoned completely, with old rusted bikes and old-fashioned lawnmowers half sunk into the ground and a grated-off well.

We had no idea what actually happened there or why it fell out of use, but me and my sisters used to go down there and try and make up stories about it to scare each other. We never really believed it and it was just silly fun, but still we were careful not to disturb anything, just in case.

Man, I love spooky stories. I wish I knew more.

 

[wolf thing]

scotland has quite a feiw, arthur's seat in edinburgh is said to be a resting giant and there is also tale of half men half wolf called wulvers living in the shetlands. we got saint belive to be able to cure sickness and control animals and theres alot of dragons in are myths as well.

 

[i love headcrabs]

near where a live theres is a place called brackavile.just outside the place is where the ghost is seen when diving.the ghost appears to be an old women crossing the road with a goat or dog it created a big buzz back in late 2008 when a man seenit. a lot of people were going around to see it and also the lane up to her house was open

 

[Don Savik]

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Is it for sale? I don't care if it costs as much as a house, I'd like a stone supposedly possessed by Lucifer. Best Halloween decoration EVER

 

[Phlakes]

Well, I live in Austin, so... hipsters? That's basically all we have. Well, there's also Leslie, the old guy who wears a thong downtown, but he probably ODed and died by now.

 

[Rnr1224]

there is actually a restaurant that my family owns that is supposedly haunted

 

[Dango]

The closest thing I've got is my town being right next to Sleep Hollow. Yes, the Headless Horseman story's Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving lived in the town that I live in, and he used the neighboring town as a setting for his story.

 

[EVILGUY]

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Christianity hur hur hur hur hur. /sillyness

None really, although an inordinate amount of people I know are quite scared of Slenderman.

Dude i barely know anything about slender man and im F***ing scared of him

 

[Nickolai77]

Pendle Witches here. Don't live to far away from Pendle Hill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_witches
http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/content.php?page=factfile
http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/

Not myths though, it did actually happen.

Whether they were witches or not 10 people hung for the crimes of murder by witchcraft, 1 more died in prison and another was found innocent and they lived not too far away from where i'm sat right now.

I currently live in Lancaster, the Pendle Witch tale is certainly well know here.

As for home, i live on the Wirral, and a few ghost stories come to mind.

One of my local pubs is apparently haunted, if you go up the stairs there is said to be a ghost which haunts one of the darker rooms up there, my friend claims to have seen the ghost there once. I don't know the back-story however.

I know of a couple of other haunted pubs around in my area, there's the George and Dragon in Chester which is said to be haunted by a patrol of Romans who march through the basement of the house. In Liverpool, there is a pub haunted by someone who was murdered there by a press-gang in the 18th century. Of course, there are quite literally hundreds of ghost stories around where i live, only these come to mind though.

In terms of amount of claimed sightings, England's one of the most haunted places in the world.