Most towns and cities have them, random people know them, and the storie has changed through out the years of being told, and spread. So let's hear what local Urban Legends you have.


Name:Crybaby Hollow
Location:Crocker, MO
http://www.missourighosts.net/crockerstories.html
http://theshadowlands.net/places/missouri.htm


That is the only one in my area that I know of, and I still have yet to check it out and see what the true story behind it is. But interesting at least.

well, winchester mystery house tops my list. not just a tourist attraction, it genuinely disturbing, particularly during the late nite flashlight tours around halloween. i couldn't even begin to list the urban legends associate with this structure...

We have this one about "The hatchet lady" in the wheat ridge area. I've never heard it though.

I just recently learned of an old casino my area used to have, based out of a cave... as well as a HUGE cave under a department store..accessible from the casino cave? hmm.. and a possibility that these caves, lead all the way to a huge cave hours away! Interesting.

Hmm...casino pier.
http://www.angelfire.com/mo/borderstar/

well, winchester mystery house tops my list. not just a tourist attraction, it genuinely disturbing, particularly during the late nite flashlight tours around halloween.

I'd love to see Winchester sometime. I grew up in Wyoming, and for those of you that aren't familiar with the west, Many forts and historical sites are scattered all across the state - most involved somehow with the Oregon Trail ... Forts such as Fort Laramie & Fort Caspar. My old history teacher did the whole historical reinactment thing, and he told me a few stories about some of the times when he did stuff over there. There are a lot of legends associated with fort laramie. Whenever I have more time, I'll try and do some research on that and post it. And if any of you are familiar with the story of the Mormons, When Brigham Young brought the mormons to Utah, they were stranded in Wyoming in the middle of winter and many of them died. There are a lot of Urban Legends in that alone. Again, when I have more time, I'll do some research about that and see what I can dig up.

Posted by stinger I'd love to see Winchester sometime.

its my favorite building on the planet, and the seance room is just too creepy. if you ever in cali, look me up - i will take just about any excuse to go.

Our local one is pretty old. My town has a legend that the first white settlers got from the Indians. The Indians believed a giant dragon like creature lived out in one of our ponds. It had a giant carbuncle that had supernatural powers of some sort. The rest I can't really remember, but it amounts to either a settler or an Indian attempting to slay the beast and get the carbuncle.

Thus the name of the pond today is Carbuncle Pond.

Also, our very own police department fell for an urban legend. They thought people were putting poison on payphones that would kill you when you put it to your ear.

{edit: added the police story}

In Niagara Falls we have 'The Screaming Tunnel' - the story of which is rather well-known to many locals.

http://www.uer.ca/...ow.asp?locid=21149

Background story:

http://www.nfpl.li...reamingtunnel.html


Silent Knight

This lists some of the alabama legends:
http://www.ulrc.co...=USA&State=Alabama

There are tons of ghost stories, especially on the campus of the University of Alabama
http://corolla.ua.edu/100yrs/09.html

we have the coral castle story.
suppossedly this guy fell in love with this girl and he built her a castle made of coral. she didn't love him (as always the case) and she married someone else. so then he supposedly moved the stones (some as heavy as 3 tons) 15 miles away.

http://www.coralcastle.com/

www.masscrossroads.com

In the search space, type Rehoboth, then click on the "44update"


That is from my town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
The "local resident" that the author quoted from is me.

In Central Florida we have many upon many urban legends that I've heard over the years, but there are three very popular ones.

The first two are commonly heard togther, The Chapman Road and Oveido Lights. You can read the legend here: http://aolsvc.digi...e=ghoststories2004

The next biggest thing you'll hear is about Casadaga, which was huge in the 60s-70's as a spiritualist camp but has no legistical proof of anything (my opinion) the story is here: http://aolsvc.digi...e=ghoststories2004

FYI, both those links go to the same thing...

Crud! Probably just the way Digital City is, they are all listed on the right so you can just click each one. Those are the most "popular" urban legends in this area. Problem is that I find, that "Chapman Road" isen't exactly what that perticular "haunting" is.. that is actully in the "Celery Fields" legend. Which is odd that they both share the same story, Celery Fields however is in an entire diffrent location.

If you haven't looked before I reccomend
http://theshadowlands.net/places/
For an urban legend sort of directory of your area by state and city.

Forgot one! (Idiot)
My favorite are the gravity hill legends. Where supposedly spirits will push your car up the hill and if you put something on your bumper you'll find hand-prints. A gravity hill is an optical illusion where you car is actully rolling downhill but it appears to go upwards insted.

Posted by Carrie @ Haunted Pennsylvania Forgot one! (Idiot) My favorite are the gravity hill legends. Where supposedly spirits will push your car up the hill and if you put something on your bumper you'll find hand-prints. A gravity hill is an optical illusion where you car is actully rolling downhill but it appears to go upwards insted.

Oooo... I wanna go there! Where's that? Maybe I'll take a roadtrip to the US in the near future, just so I can check this place out!

They are all over the US, there is even one here in Florida. I'm sure if you check around you could find one easily enough, what area do you live in?

Posted by Carrie @ Haunted Pennsylvania They are all over the US, there is even one here in Florida. I'm sure if you check around you could find one easily enough, what area do you live in?

I live in Ontario, Canada.

Probably none here, at least not that I've heard of.

There is one I found in Canada but it is in BC. Here is the link to a website that has many of them listed as well as locations.

http://www.researc...ell/gravhills.html

This one has two listed in Ontario!

http://www.eureka4...rldwide/canada.htm

Hope that helps some!

Posted by Carrie @ Haunted Pennsylvania There is one I found in Canada but it is in BC. Here is the link to a website that has many of them listed as well as locations. http://www.researc...ell/gravhills.html This one has two listed in Ontario! http://www.eureka4...rldwide/canada.htm Hope that helps some!

Wicked, Burlington is like 20-30 minutes away... WOO HOO! Going on a roadtrip, going on a roadtrip!

I'd still like to see those ghost hands on my car though too, if it's true of course... that would be some freaky shit.

Edit: Forgot to say thanks. Thanks!

There's also a somewhat famous one just outside of Moncton, New Brunswick called Magnetic Hill:

http://w3.execnet....l/MagneticHill.htm


S.K.