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Let's all take a break from the political bickering for awhile and discuss our favorite Urban Legends. Here are my favorite Urban Legends.

Bloody Mary: You look at a mirror in a completely dark room, and say Bloody Mary 3 times, 7 times, 13 times, you're susspose to have red candles, not, you're susspose to spin around etc. There's alot of variance to this Urban Legends which makes most people doubt it validity but most people still won't do it! :) I also actually thought about writing a horror book based on Bloody Mary, but it's probably been done already.

Psychic predicts college mass murder: I've heard this alot back when I was in college, and every Halloween, someone would once again be telling this story. There are several variance to the myth about how a famous psychic, Sylvia Brown or the guy from "Talking to the other side" or Lorraine Warren appear on a show like Oprah, Dr. Phil, Coast to Coast AM etc. and they predict that a college campus will suffer a horrible mass murder etc. Once again no one takes it seriously but it's still fun to talk about. Once again, something I've thought about writing a horror book about.

The various number 13 myth

The various Friday the 13th myths.

Now it's time for you to tell us about your favorite Urban Legends!

Also, if you don't know any then go to this website (http://snopes.com/) and look around!

No political Urban Legend please!

http://www.snopes.com/risque/juvenile/lobster.asp

This ones funny, but probably not true for the reasons on the page.

I can't pick a favourite though as there are just too many!

EDIT: tried the bloody mary thing, didn't work:(

I think....

Favorite Urban Legend?

This one (http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-08.html)...
Accident Report
This one needs an introduction, so you won't be lost at the beginning. This man was in an accident at work, so he filled out an insurance claim. The insurance company contacted him and asked for more information. This was his response:

"I am writing in response to your request for additional information, for block number 3 of the accident reporting form. I put 'poor planning' as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully and I trust the following detail will be sufficient. I am an amateur radio operator and on the day of the accident, I was working alone on the top section of my new 80-foot tower. When I had completed my work, I discovered that I had, over the course of several trips up the tower, brought up about 300 pounds of tools and spare hardware. Rather than carry the now unneeded tools and material down by hand, I decided to lower the items down in a small barrel by using the pulley attached to the gin pole at the top of the tower. Securing the rope at ground level, I went to the top of the tower and loaded the tools and material into the barrel. Then I went back to the ground and untied the rope, holding it tightly to ensure a slow decent of the 300 pounds of tools."


"You will note in block number 11 of the accident reporting form that I weigh only 155 pounds. Due to my surprise of being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rather rapid rate of speed up the side of the tower. In the vicinity of the 40-foot level, I met the barrel coming down. This explains my fractured skull and broken collarbone. Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley. Fortunately, by this time, I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold onto the rope in spite of my pain. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of tools hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel."

"Devoid of the weight of the tools, the barrel now weighed approximately 20 pounds. I refer you again to my weight in block number 11. As you might imagine, I began a rapid descent down the side of the tower. In the vicinity of the 40-foot level, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles, and the lacerations of my legs and lower body. The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell onto the pile of tools and, fortunately, only three vertebrae were cracked. I am sorry to report, however, that as I lay there on the tools, in pain, unable to stand and watching the empty barrel 80 feet above me, I again lost my presence of mind. I let go of the rope..."

Some of our local ones...

"Do not try to take Pork over our Mountain Range. The spirits won't allow it."
"Do not remove Lava Rocks from Kilauea, Pele's curse will follow you."

Favorite urban legend?

KRS-One!

He's urban....and he is a legend! :p

http://snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/frozen.htm
Walt Disney was frozen.

I love how freaked out my mom gets when I flash my brights at people to let them know their headlights aren't on.

I also love how every town I have ever been to has the train tracks where the kids push you to safety, every single one.

I also love how every town I have ever been to has the train tracks where the kids push you to safety, every single one.

I don't know, I only heard of that one from San Antonio TX. However I do agree that every town has at least one Urban Legend involving the train tracks, it's just not always about children pushing the car to safety.

I don't know, I only heard of that one from San Antonio TX. However I do agree that every town has at least one Urban Legend involving the train tracks, it's just not always about children pushing the car to safety.

I have been to about 5 towns with the same legend and when I mention that it's from TX they all get "nu-huh, it totally happened here, school bus o' kids killed!"

also, they all have the cry baby bridge thing too, and every college I have attended has the "guy committed suicide during finals and that's why the building is closed"

I have been to about 5 towns with the same legend and when I mention that it's from TX they all get "nu-huh, it totally happened here, school bus o' kids killed!"

Well hate to run it for them but it happened in San An. and only in San An. I know because I used to date someone from there, and one time we went there to meet her family and I went to the famous train track crossing site.

also, they all have the screaming bridge thing too, and every college I have attended has the "guy committed suicide during finals and that's why the building is closed"

The one about the bridge is true. This is from my neck of the woods.

Concord, NC - Sally's Bridge - Sally's Bridge is an old bridge off Poplar Tent Road. A young high school girl and her baby were driving here one night in the rain and ran into a creek. Sally could not find her baby, but they both died eventually. If you stop on the bridge, she will do anything she can to get you to help her find her baby. People have reported a frantic looking woman knocking on car doors and trying to open car windows.

As for the guy who committed suicide during finals, I actually researched a similar urban legend for my college paper. This is the rough draft of article that I wrote. (so please excuse the grammar error)

Old College Haunts.

Hangings. Murder, death, and the creepy sounds of foot steps at night are some of the key words in any ghost stories. All across America and in other countries colleges have their own folk lore and Urban Legends. Pfeiffer is no different, with its own collection of urban legends that is unique to the area. Some of the Urban Legends are cute and innocent, like the sun dial, the rumor on campus is that if you touch the sun dial you’ll have good luck or graduate. However, if you step on the school seal in the Student Center, you won’t graduate. However, Pfeiffer’s ghost stories are another matter, especially the Chapel and the story behind its ghost.
Fabio Rivas was a student here at Pfeiffer back in the 40’s, he came here from Cuba. However he died on January 8th, 1948. He has been ill since January 1st and went to Yadkin Hospital in Albemarle. He had acute appendicitis, the appendix was removed. After the operation Fabio went back to the college where he stayed at a Infirmary in Merner. However, soon after his release, he fell ill once again, and died from an embolism, which is a blood clot in the lung. However, Fabio’s body could not be returned to Cuba for financial reason and he was buried near the Chapel and Wesley Chapel Road. Ever since his death, rumors have been flying around that the ghost of Fabio plays the organ late at night. Other stories’ surrounding the Chapel was that Henry Pfeiffer haunts the Chapel and that there was a hanging in the back. When the Chapel was renovated, the story of Fabio was dug back up and people wonder if his ghost would like the renovation that was being made.
Another story involves Angel Allen, who was also a student here at Pfeiffer University. She was a student around the same time Fabio was, and she too has died on campus. Back in the 40’s Jane Freeman second floor was actually used for living quarters, and Angel Allen lived in those quarters with her mother. Ever since her death, people has claim that the ghost of a woman and child haunts the second floor of Freeman.
There has also been numerous hanging stories that surrounds the campus, a hanging at Freeman, at Cline, and Rowe, also the Chapel. There was also a claim that in the 80’s the current dean of the school hung himself in the Rose Garden Apartment building, which is now the married people’s apartment. These stories do not check out, and the only death on record that happen on this campus was those of Fabio and Angel. These hanging stories are believed to be a spin off of Fabio’s story.
Most of the students and staff may dismiss these stories as nothing more than just that, stories. However, there are many people who believe in the paranormal, who believe that there are such things as ghost and demons. History is more than just what we read in the textbooks, and what we watch on the History Channel, these Urban Legends and ghost stories that we hear, are also a part of our history, and whether you believe in them or not, they should be preserved and hopefully passed down from generation to generation, because, what’s better than a good scare at night, in middle of a thunderstorm?

Ahh how I missed writing for the paper.

Let's all take a break from the political bickering for awhile and discuss our favorite Urban Legends. Here are my favorite Urban Legends.

Bloody Mary: You look at a mirror in a completely dark room, and say Bloody Mary 3 times, 7 times, 13 times, you're susspose to have red candles, not, you're susspose to spin around etc. There's alot of variance to this Urban Legends which makes most people doubt it validity but most people still won't do it! :) I also actually thought about writing a horror book based on Bloody Mary, but it's probably been done already.

Psychic predicts college mass murder: I've heard this alot back when I was in college, and every Halloween, someone would once again be telling this story. There are several variance to the myth about how a famous psychic, Sylvia Brown or the guy from "Talking to the other side" or Lorraine Warren appear on a show like Oprah, Dr. Phil, Coast to Coast AM etc. and they predict that a college campus will suffer a horrible mass murder etc. Once again no one takes it seriously but it's still fun to talk about. Once again, something I've thought about writing a horror book about.

The various number 13 myth

The various Friday the 13th myths.

Now it's time for you to tell us about your favorite Urban Legends!

Also, if you don't know any then go to this website (http://snopes.com/) and look around!

No political Urban Legend please!

Elvis/Hitler is still alive, and Paul McCartney is dead.

There's cocaine in Coca-Cola (not *was*, *is*)

There are thousands of alligators living in the sewers.

Well hate to run it for them but it happened in San An. and only in San An. I know because I used to date someone from there, and one time we went there to meet her family and I went to the famous train track crossing site.
there wasn't even a bus crash at those tracks in San Antonio, there was one in Utah, and yeah, there are gravity hills all over the country, there is one in Clinton, OK with a similar bus accident story and I have been on it with my car in neutral and it rolled up-hill. San Antonio wants to have the market on that legend, but it's just not true, whether your car rolls or not there was never a bus full of kids killed at that site.



The one about the bridge is true. This is from my neck of the woods.
uh....no.

"This one I have only heard about. I was to chicken ever to go as a child. There is a bridge out in the rural area of Jenks. It is called, "Cry Baby Bridge" it is closed down now because it is to dangerous to cross. The story goes like this in the 1940's or 1950's I am not sure when exactly. A woman took her three children out there and killed all three. One was a baby and the woman supposedly beat the baby's head on the beams of the bridge while the baby screamed & cried. Now when people go out there they can hear the baby's cries."

"The actual location of "Cry Baby Bridge" is just a little southeast of Kellyville. I traveled out there on many a dark and spooky night's and though I never heard a baby cry, a friend of mine and I had a few spooky experience's out there. The actual event that took place out there was a car accident wherein a woman was running from her husband (he was chasing her in another car) and she ran off the bridge, and the baby was never found. Last I knew there was a record of this event in a Sapulpa newspaper in the local library. The actual event's that were supposed to take place was that if you came up on the bridge around midnight or a little after you would see a "blue" light and hear baby crying, if the light got to close to your car then all kinds of things went wrong, as I understood it the car would shut down and loose all power and I even heard some say the the car would start to shake or rock violently. Though we made many venture's out there out and around midnight we never saw a blue light and I never heard a baby cry. However one night when my friend went out there by ourselves ( usually we had a car load of girls and buddies) it was just midnight on the dot when we came around the corner, as soon as our lights hit the bridge they blinked out and the car started to sputter, my friend was driving and started pumping the gas and all the way across the bridge the car coughed and sputtered until we got several yards away from the bridge on the other side. The lights suddenly came back on and the engine revved up and we sped down the road as fast as we could go.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/oklahoma.html

also, in addition to the 6 crybaby bridges I know about in Oklahoma, there are apparently a ton of them in Ohio as well.

http://www.deadohio.com/CrybabyBridges.htm

Here's a classic from my school.

The story goes that a class (usually whichever grade you were in at the time of the story telling) was taking a trip up to our school's bell tower. (Building was built in 1929, with a clock tower on top. Every few years, they get the clock working again, but usually not for very long.) Anyway, the story is that one of the students strayed from the line, slipped, and fell into the gears of the clock. He was crushed between the gears, and that's when the clock stopped working.

Women on the internet.

Women on the internet.

wewt!

A couple more:

That whole thing with the pop-rocks.
The Beaver being killed in combat during Viet-Nam. Not that anyone would miss him, but he's alive. :p

uh....no.



No what I meant was that your statement was true, every town does have one of those bridge stories. Sorry about that lol.

No what I meant was that your statement was true, every town does have one of those bridge stories. Sorry about that lol.

:eek::p;) sorry as well.

Stress cards (http://www.snopes.com/military/stress.htm)

I knew a guy who swore up and down he knew guy who had a private who tried to use a stress card. Everyone swore they used them at Fort Jackson, SC (Relaxin' in Jackson). In fact, people still think this is true, even though the Army Times did a story saying it was false a few years ago.

Oh, and I've never heard the bridge stories or the "bus full of kids" stories. Perhaps those are southern/southwestern things.

Oh, and every town I've lived in claims that some small lake nearby is "bottomless" and that researchers from University of Michigan and Michigan State University have tried and failed to find the bottom. Most towns have stories about snowmobilers cracking through the ice and never being found. One town had train tracks near their "bottomless lake" and people swore up and down that it had swallowed a derailing train.

Favorite Urban Legend?

This one (http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-08.html)...


Some of our local ones...

"Do not try to take Pork over our Mountain Range. The spirits won't allow it."
"Do not remove Lava Rocks from Kilauea, Pele's curse will follow you."

I took a Lava rock home with me, I haven't been plagued by boils or locusts or anything of the sort, so I think that one's pretty well busted.

The Hook handed guy?

bart simpson. or that cool hoodlum El Barto.

Cow tipping. Who in the world ever came up with that.

Cow tipping. Who in the world ever came up with that.

Yeah, I know. Some show I saw recently (could've been Mythbusters) claims you can't even tip one if you wanted to, and that they don't sleep standing up, so they'd see you coming anyway.

Hard to believe *all* those cowtipping stories and references were false, but that's what they say.

Some chic she got killed on a road on prom night or something .. and now hitch hikes.. as a ghost. Don't know the name of the legend. My nieces told me about it long ago.

I remember the bloodmary one when I was small... some use to say 'redrum'.. from Jack I suppose. Never heard of this bus of kids being killed on train tracks. What is the one about the flashing car lights? I seem to remember something.. but can't remember atm. I've only known people to do that to alert on coming traffic of cops.

The Mothman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman) legend is pretty cool. Mothman Death List (http://www.lorencoleman.com/mothman_death_list.html).

Spring Heeled Jack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Heeled_Jack) England .. similar look.

Not an urban myth .. but when crossing over a low level bridge near here, years ago, it use to make a howling/whining (tires or air going under the bridge or something I guess) sound. My mom use to tell me it was a witch living under it. ... Oh and when the sun comes out while it's raining the devil is beating his wife. heh

The Mothman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman) legend is pretty cool.

Indian curses always seem to spell trouble. ;)

There are thousands of alligators living in the sewers.
idiots.
Everyone knows they're crocodiles, not 'gators.

I like the UL about the guy coming home from work, immediately throwing a porn movie on, jerking off then switching the lights on to find himself surrounded by his friends and family who had organised a surprise party for him and had been waiting for him to switch the lights on before yelling, 'surprise!'.
Another variation has it a girl who doesn't switch the lights on and instead goes straight to her bedroom. They burst in to find her and her dog in an intimate embrace. 2nd variation on this is she first goes to the kitchen, then the bedroom and when they burst in, her dog (sometimes cat) is licking petfood off her most intimate area.

edit: here it is on snopes, except it's peanut butter.
http://www.snopes.com/risque/animals/peanutbutter.asp

That feeding seagulls alka-seltzer makes them explode - it doesn't.

If birds eat rice, it swells up in their bellies and kills them - also false.

That friction causes the space shuttle to heat up when it re-enters the atmosphere - also wrong.

What about the story where you trap a mosquito by pinching your skin where it's feeding off you, the idea being that it can't stop sucking blood and therefore explodes.

I've known people who've sworn they've done this but hours spent of an evening attempting it has failed every time.

It's equivalent to the cow-tipping for me.

Here's another couple I like:
breath-sucking cat (http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/catsuck.asp)

bizarre suicide (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/opus.asp)
(actually I'm guilty of perpetuating this myth - I use it with my class and ask them to think of and write other even more bizarre deaths).

Here's another couple I like:
breath-sucking cat (http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/catsuck.asp)

bizarre suicide (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/opus.asp)
(actually I'm guilty of perpetuating this myth - I use it with my class and ask them to think of and write other even more bizarre deaths).

Ahh the cat taking babies breath away!! Can't believe I forgot about that. Now that I've always heard. I think they just like the smell of the breath when they're asleep or something. But I still wouldn't let my cat sit there and breathe on my baby if I had one. lol

jacking it, makes you blind. I mean come on, who is tupid enought o believe that?

That girls dont use the II forum in the NS forum :eek:

But seriously, in the little village (pop 4) where my bf lives the legends are known as Rural legends. The best one is that if you go quadding up onto the hills the local cougar (cant remeber name) will jump from a tree and not kill you instead it will poison you and force you to walk off the cliff into the barb wire fence...

That got started by the farmer who always had quadders going up on the hills behind his house.

Another favorite is the one that is actually moderatly true.

One day my bf was sleeping in his bed he woke up from the coyotes howling and got pissed off. He opened his window and yelled at them to shut up. It was a full moon and after he closed the window and the blinds a wierd shape flew past his window. He heard a winper than saw a freaky shadow pass by his window, it spread about the town that it was the local bird monster. It turns out it was just an eagle out for some late night hnting that took away a coyote...

one where you put a match stick through the keyhole of a church and run around it 13 times at midnight and if you look through the key hole you see the devil, or the one from my town the ghost that flies around on certain nights with barrow and in barrow is heart or something like that. or that a lorry driver was peeing one night and the green lady "local major ghost" poped out and cut his dick off

OOOHHH!!!! A toughy! (I think most of the regulars have caught a hint or five that I'm UL busting junky. :) I have almost all of Dr. Brunvand's books and am old school on the Snopes forums, even though I don't podt regular over there anymore.)

Let's see...

The Barometer Question and the One Word Final are classic funny ones.

The Vanishing Hitchhiker and the Hook are classics.

"Otto Tizling invented the bra" and "Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet" are always good fun ones.

The "brown note" (that makes everyone poo) and Bananadine are old but sitill good.

I love the "you can't lick your elbow" one because busting it is so much fun. The people who buy in to it really seem to get upset at the dimplicity of busting it. :D

I always had a soft spot for the bacronyms like FUCK, WIMP, TIP, (whinging ;)) POM, COP, etc.

But I think my fave is this lesser known one:
The former Prime Minister of Japan Yoshiro Mori was famous for his gaffes. He was widely considered an idiot (more so than Bush is in certain circles in the US). In preparation for the 2000 G8 summit in Okinawa, he was instructed to engage Bill Clinton in the following dialog in English:
M: "How are you?"
C: "Fine, thank you. And you?"
M: "Me too."
Supposedly he goofed it ansd asked Clinton "Who are you?". Clinton thought it was a joke, and answered "I'm Hillary's husband, and you?", to which Mori answered "Me too".

The Hook handed guy?

The Hook. :) It's a classic. [1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hook)]

Some chic she got killed on a road on prom night or something .. and now hitch hikes.. as a ghost. Don't know the name of the legend. My nieces told me about it long ago.

That's most commonly known as "the Vanishing Hitchhiker". It's one of the most widely known ones in the world. There are variants dating back to the Bible. [2 (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/vanish.asp#sightings)], [3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_hitchhiker)]

Never heard of this bus of kids being killed on train tracks.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/handprint.asp

What is the one about the flashing car lights? I seem to remember something.. but can't remember atm. I've only known people to do that to alert on coming traffic of cops.

One reason it's done in North America (and elsewhere, from what I understand), is to indicate to oncoming drivers that their lights are out. The UL is that gangs use that as an initiation and they kill the first driver who flashes their lights. [4 (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/lightsout.asp)]

Not an urban myth .. but when crossing over a low level bridge near here, years ago, it use to make a howling/whining (tires or air going under the bridge or something I guess) sound. My mom use to tell me it was a witch living under it.

Sounds like you're talking about a "Crybaby Bridge" variant. (And yes, that would be a UL.)

Oh and when the sun comes out while it's raining the devil is beating his wife. heh

I took a Lava rock home with me, I haven't been plagued by boils or locusts or anything of the sort, so I think that one's pretty well busted.

Boils? Locusts? Never heard of those. :p

http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp

My favourites are the MacDonald ones. You know, those stories about six kinds of man's semen found in the Shake... :D

My favourites are the MacDonald ones. You know, those stories about six kinds of man's semen found in the Shake... :D

The sad thing is one need not make up stories about McD's or the other fast food places. They only buy the cattle that are near death. They pay about 15 cents per pound where a good feeder calf will bring $1.25. So they get the extremely old or extremely sick. Then one must consider what "beef" means to you is not the government's definition of "beef". Beef is anything that comes out of a bovine animal. Remember when people raved over "Jimmy Dean Whole Hog Sausage" until they realize what "Whole Hog" really means? Well the same is true of "100% Beef"

It's really hard to find a person that raises animals that eats at fast food.

OP: Have you tried that Bloody Mary one?

OP: Have you tried that Bloody Mary one?

I tried it at every pre-pubescent slumber party I ever attended, mostly you go into the bathroom and try and one of the other girls tries to scare the crap out of you.....

after we got tired of that we started doing the Ouija board and other stupid games.

OP: Have you tried that Bloody Mary one?

Nah I never did.

cow tipping... true, they don't sleep standing up but you can tip them and they do spin as they get up. and high school stoner out looking for shrooms in new england knows that.

my fave is the crying girl of LBI in NJ a young girl whose fiancee was out at see earning money for their marriage, came from a family of questionable values, her father told her to stand on the beach during rain storms with a lantern, to get the in coming ships to run aground. that way they can steal the flotsam. she hated it because her man was a sailor but a daughter must fallow her fathers orders. so one night amongst heavy protest she obeyed the storm was bad and a ship ran aground, that night besides cargo they came across a body holding a small package in his hand. her father said to cut the fingers off and grab the box when she did the body turned over revealing her fiancees face. and in his hand their wedding rings, she ran off into the stormy night crying never to be seen alive again. now on rainy nights you can supposedly hear her crying as she runs by.

i never heard her but i did see the weirdest thing on LBI. last may i went out fishing at 430am with my buddy. tide was out, no one on the beach, we look over there was a woman sitting on the edge of the water no prints in the sand she was about 100 ft from us. i grab my coffee and she is about 300 ft from us in the the same position. i'm, like how did she get there so quick. we watch her, no movement. we stared cause it was just a freaky thing, we cast out and bam she was back at 100ft again. we started to freak out a little so we start to pack up, look back gone. we went over to where she was not a foor print in the sand only hand prints leading into the water. i told another local fisherman he claims to have had a similar encounter, he thinks it was a mermaid.

cow tipping... true, they don't sleep standing up but you can tip them and they do spin as they get up. and high school stoner out looking for shrooms in new england knows that.


Sounds like someone has had too many shrooms and too much stoner.

Cattle aren't stupid enough to let you close enough to "tip" them. They are prey animals. They wouldn't have survived if you can get close enough to tip them. I can walk up and pet some of my cows, but if I would try running toward them they wouldn't stand still. And if you walk up to them when they are laying down they'll get up. Now I guess you could "bulldog" them like in a rodeo, but that's another subject. I doubt if too many drunken (or otherwise) teenagers would have the strength and knowledge how to do that.

Paul McCartney is dead.

Damnit, Paul is dead! He's being played by an imposter named Billy Shears! Everyone knows that!

They are prey animals. They wouldn't have survived if you can get close enough to tip them.
Shh, no one tell him cows have been domesticated for centuries.

Damnit, Paul is dead! He's being played by an imposter named Billy Shears! Everyone knows that!

William Campbell Shears. Yeah. To quote Night Ranger, "it's taken miles and lines to learn the right from the wrong, I think I've heard it all"

My favorite is one specific to my Hometown(Not the ones involving stories that pop up in every town, this is one that is actually created in my hometown)-the Vergas Trails. There are a few stories involving the Trails.

The most well known is the "Hairy Man of the Trails". It started back in the 50's when a story began to circulate that a group of teenagers, enjoying a joy ride through the Trails(It is still a favorite hang out for teenagers to this day for several days), were killed by a crazy man, whom afterwards fled into the woods, living as a hermit to this day. The reason he is called the hairy man is that he allowed his hair to grow and go wild. To this day people claim to see the "Hairy Man" at the trails. Of course, there is no record of any group of teenagers being killed at the trails, nor any actual basis for the Hairy Man, so this is likely just a local Urban Legend.

Another story involving the hairy man killing his wife and newborn child, whos graves are at the graveyard in the middle of the woods(There is a strange graveyard actually in the middle of the woods. Hard to find, yes, but it does infact exist). It is said that the Hairy Man frequents this graveyard(As well as it being haunted-I will get to that later). Once again, no records exist of this happening.

As well, in the 70's the Hairy Man story mutated a bit. Apparently then, after the bigfoot craze, the Hairy Man story changed from being a crazy man, to being a sasquatch. A lot of people claim to see this newer "Hairy Man" wandering the trails.

Now then, there are other stories(A little less known, but still they are there). For instance, the graveyard is apparently is Haunted. One of the most common stories is the "Rotating Graves". It goes like this: The graveyard is haunted by the Wife and Child of the Hairy man. Every night, the faces of the graves of these two will "rotate", so that the front of the Graves will be on the back, and the back on the front. During the day, they appear as normal, but once you view them after nightfall, they have changed. As well, people have claimed to see ghosts in this area of the trails(Like I said, the Graveyard does exist, and it is rather strange to see it just sitting in the middle of the woods, with no actual trails or roads leading up to it).

Finally, there are the black arts and Devil Worship stories. Apparently they practiced animal sacrifice, and according to some accounts human sacrifice. One of my teachers claims to this day that he has actually witnessed animal sacrifice in the trails many, many years ago. There is a specific story involving an eight sided building, which mysteriously burned down. Apparently, the wooden beams holding up the building itself did not burn fully, yet, the steel bolts holding them together were found, melted and warped by extreme heat. How is it that the wood did not burn in such extreme heat, some ask. Well, nobody knows.:D

Man, I love the trails. Such weird stories come out of there(And I am guilty of putting lawn gnomes with reflective eyes along the trails to screw with people :D).

*snip*

Meanwhile, a hairy man sits lonely in the forest.

Poor Hairy Man

He just wants to be loved :(

Meanwhile, a hairy man sits lonely in the forest.

Poor Hairy Man

He just wants to be loved :(

I've been wondering where my gnomes went...

:D

-snip-

You wouldn't happen to live near the Vermont part of the Appalachian Trail would ya? Because what you talk about sounds like The Bennington Monster.

Shh, no one tell him cows have been domesticated for centuries.

A cow isn't domesticated like a dog or cat. Cattle still have to live with coyotes, wolves, big cats, bears, and all of the other large predators. They still have the survival instincts of the wild aurochs. I defy you to "tip" one.

I've been wondering where my gnomes went...

:D

They're MY gnomes, MINE I tell you!

*pats gnomes on head*

A cow isn't domesticated like a dog or cat. Cattle still have to live with coyotes, wolves, big cats, bears, and all of the other large predators. They still have the survival instincts of the wild aurochs. I defy you to "tip" one.

You should really separate your cows from the coyotes, big cats, bears and etc., - basic farming really.

A cow isn't domesticated like a dog or cat. Cattle still have to live with coyotes, wolves, big cats, bears, and all of the other large predators. They still have the survival instincts of the wild aurochs. I defy you to "tip" one.

oh, let him try it, a kick and stomp from a cow never hurt anyone....oh, wait, they do.

Seriously people cows look docile and stupid, but you really really don't want to piss one off, not only will they kick your ass.....they will probably kill you.

You wouldn't happen to live near the Vermont part of the Appalachian Trail would ya? Because what you talk about sounds like The Bennington Monster.

Nope, Mid-west Minnesota. The "Hairy Man" isn't really supposed to be a monster, just a crazy dude(Later adapted into a monster).

A cow isn't domesticated like a dog or cat. Cattle still have to live with coyotes, wolves, big cats, bears, and all of the other large predators.
quite right. Farmers in NZ have so much trouble with coyotes, wolves, cougars and bears attacking their lifestock.


and tigers.



T-Rexes are also a nuisance.

You should really separate your cows from the coyotes, big cats, bears and etc., - basic farming really.That comment reminds me of George W Bush.


La Llorona

el chupacabra

Someone is offered a prize to visit some haunted place at night. Some part of his clothing gets caught on a nail/table/fence/whatever. Because of the low lighting, he thinks a monster is pulling him back so he panics, has a heart attack, and dies.

On the night between December 24 and December 25, a guy is transported by flying reindeer to the tops of houses where he climbs down the chimney to deliver toys or coal. I actually believed that one for a while when I was a little kid.