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.
Local myths and legends from your area.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't believe it, but a lot of people do.
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.
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.
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.
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
I currently live in Lancaster, the Pendle Witch tale is certainly well know here.Rawne1980 said:
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.
True, but it does kind of just look like someone's pet rock has been naughty.Don Savik said: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 EVERBlablahb said:
Even if it is Satan's pet rock.
Oh, the Western Suburbs of Sydney is supposedly host to halfman half beast creatures that roam the streets, drunkenly yelling "Farkovwerful".
Me being from Washington State (And Western Washington at that), I have a good few Bigfoot stories up my alley. Ever hear about Ape Canyon? Or should I say, the now Non-Existant Ape Canyon? Back in the Early 1900's, the canyon and general area around it was a hot spot for Bigfoot sightings until the Helen Eruption which pretty much wiped out the area and a lot of species. Not to say that I don't have my own Bigfoot stories (Hell, I have seen something that looked like it 4 times while living in Washington state, one sighting was even on my birthday. Not saying that I believe all of these to be true encounters, just ones that I don't have an answer to yet).