I went to a boarding school for rural students from 9th-12th grade, that place had some wierd legends about it. The dorms were old WWII barracks, and at some point between WWII and when the state took them over they were used as a TB sanitorium. People were always claiming that they'd seen the ghosts of people who died in their rooms, or hearing strange noises from the locked third floor of the girl's dorm. There were also rumors of extensive tunnel systems under the school, and a hidden bunker with crates of rifles and grenades left over from WWII.

I eventually got into the third floor and found some tasty asbestos and 1960s grafitti, but no ghosts. The tunnels turned out to be cramped little crawlways, and the "bunker entrance" below the stairs was just a hollow space to store propane tanks.

Now here's the good part. The other legend was that bodies of TB victims were sealed into metal coffins and buried inside old military bunkers, which were then filled with concrete. This one turned out to be true! There were two known bunkers that were used for this purpose, one of which was also used by the Coast Guard as a groundskeeping shed until they remembered why half of it was cemented off. One of these bunkers was later destroyed for airport expansion and the bodies were recovered and re-buried, but I'm pretty sure there are some other forgotten bunkers that were paved under the runway when the original airport went in.
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Posted by Carrie @ Haunted Pennsylvania 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.

FYI: Should be careful about SHADOWLANDS. Some fo the stories on there are just too silly to be true. Especially the way people word them.

Posted by metalwitch FYI: Should be careful about SHADOWLANDS. Some fo the stories on there are just too silly to be true. Especially the way people word them.

So true! Although it's a good area to start searching for things at times. At least I've found it to be for most places. I've found quite a few hotels and hospitals through it. Not haunted in the least, but abandoned all the same.

As far as gravity hills go there's fuckload (that's 2 shit tons) of them in Pennsylvania. I think Bucks Co. alone has 3 of them and one right across the river in Jersey. THe best one though involves a hill, a church and satanic worship. All 3 things one needs to create one strange ass story...

On a weird ass backwater road there's a church, which is still used by satanic worshipers. These people are also all employees of a certain security company (how strange...) However, if you go onto the road you'll find a line. How this line got here is yet another mystery. You put your car in nuetral on the line and all of the sudden you're going uphill. Weird enough yet? Well it gets crazier...

If you go into the cemetery and knock on the back door of the church you can "Race the Night". (The whosit whatsit now?) Yep you guessed...you can race the "evil spirits" back to your car! You know you've lost by a gust of wind that blows past you from behind as you run. (like you could be a fuckin' demon on foot...ha!) That's it...no repricusions for trying just you lose.

That's the somewhat sarcastic and strange tale of "Gravity Hill and Racing the Night". There's also another little story about racing dead witches on the "Footbridge" but that's another story for another time.

Posted by HauntedPA On a weird ass backwater road there's a church, which is still used by satanic worshipers. These people are also all employees of a certain security company (how strange...) However, if you go onto the road you'll find a line. How this line got here is yet another mystery. You put your car in nuetral on the line and all of the sudden you're going uphill. Weird enough yet? Well it gets crazier... If you go into the cemetery and knock on the back door of the church you can "Race the Night". (The whosit whatsit now?) Yep you guessed...you can race the "evil spirits" back to your car! You know you've lost by a gust of wind that blows past you from behind as you run. (like you could be a fuckin' demon on foot...ha!) That's it...no repricusions for trying just you lose. That's the somewhat sarcastic and strange tale of "Gravity Hill and Racing the Night". There's also another little story about racing dead witches on the "Footbridge" but that's another story for another time.

Hmmm as much as I'm skeptical about the stories, I sure as hell wouldn't mind doing an experiment to see if it actually works or not. I mean shit, that'd be pretty cool, running and then this fucking gush blows past you hehe... too fun


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Posted by Frost Hmmm as much as I'm skeptical about the stories, I sure as hell wouldn't mind doing an experiment to see if it actually works or not. I mean shit, that'd be pretty cool, running and then this fucking gush blows past you hehe... too fun EDIT: I can't spell

Go there on a Friday or Saturday night around Halloween or during the summer and you'll see tons of people trying this. It's almost like a cult or something. Highly amusing to watch too.

Posted by HauntedPA Go there on a Friday or Saturday night around Halloween or during the summer and you'll see tons of people trying this. It's almost like a cult or something. Highly amusing to watch too.

I'll have to keep that in mind, and remember to bring my camera hehe... we could send it to bloopers or something heheh

What? America's Dumbest People? Wait...I think I smell a goldmine there

Posted by HauntedPA What? America's Dumbest People? Wait...I think I smell a goldmine there

That's exactly what I was thinking

Freak, that is one freaky story... I read that article bout them just burying the people in temporary tombs... Creepy.

Posted by Burzum 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...

Quite right, Burzum, but there is also the Rockville Monster in Suisun Valley at Rockville Park out by the old Pony Express stop.

BPM

EDIT: The flashlight tours are also held every Friday the 13th...

Posted by BigPoppaMikey Quite right, Burzum, but there is also the Rockville Monster in Suisun Valley at Rockville Park out by the old Pony Express stop.

Rockville Monster? Is this something alone the same lines as the Jersey Devil legends and other similar "demon beasts"?

Florida has one of those, it's a huge cult Manifestation...

...we call it "Mickey Mouse"

the one that i knew was one at a camp in the black forest down in colorado springs, there were some sand dunes behind the cabins, and all the older kids said that there were ape men that would eat us...

In a suburb of Milwaukee there is this house that people call the "Witch's House", it's got all sorts of strange statues in the yard. There are various rumors floating around about the house and the statues, a common one is that her husband and daughter drowned in the lake and she built the statues to capture souls in, so she wouldn't be lonely. There are also variations where she murdered her family, and stories about how the statues are grave markers.



Wild stories about this house have been floating around since the 50s, but the truth is it belonged to an artist and teacher who died in 2002.

Winged, what the hell is going on in that yard?! It's like the sculptures have just broken out of an asylum patients mind or something.

Those are some funky looking statues.

Posted by SnArF Those are some funky looking statues.

No kiddin, what exactly is going on with the dinasaur one? Granted I probably don't want to know.

Here's something I've been wondering... exactly how many Crybaby bridges and Seven gates of Hell are there? I've heard about them all over, I think every state has one of each.

Posted by Roland Here's something I've been wondering... exactly how many Crybaby bridges and Seven gates of Hell are there? I've heard about them all over, I think every state has one of each.

How about "gravity hills"? I know that Bucks Co. in PA has 4 of them all by itself!

Well here in Maryland there's one at Soldiers Delight, and one in Burkittsville I think...