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Location: Louisiana Gender: Male Total Likes: 22 likes
| | | Re: Your Local Urban Legends < Reply # 40 on 2/11/2005 3:49 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Well, the big enchilada of urban legends around these parts has gotta be Stull Cemetery, located in the tiny little town of Stull, Kansas. Just Google it to read some really interesting tales. There's a ton of really wacky legends about the place - which have resulted in people traipsing all over and causing all kinds of problems for the locals, so the cops really watch the place. I've never been out there, but the tales sound a bit *too* fantastic to be true. According to local legend, it is the evilest place on earth. Even the Pope is supposed to be afraid of it. (HA!) It is one of the places that is rumored to be the Seventh Gate to Hell. It's said that the Devil's child was buried there, that he comes back as some kind of a werewolf, that the Devil comes there to visit a witch's grave, etc. There were all sorts of interesting legends about the burned-out shell of a church that used to stand out there - I think townspeople came and tore it down in the middle of the night to make people stop coming, although I don't know if it worked.
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| Ablamar
Location: Big Spring, Tx Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | | Re: Your Local Urban Legends < Reply # 46 on 8/14/2007 7:37 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | There are a lot around here, but my favorite has to be the Devil-Worshipper's house. It lies about three miles outside town on private land in a glade of trees. (I'm being purposely vague as to the location) Supposedly, the owner was a Satanist and so on and so on. The house burnt down in an unexplained fire, leaving just the concrete foundation and steps going up to it, along with a basement that allegedly contained the bodies of sacrificial victims. They say on nights of the full moon that the house reappears and you can see the former owner running through the place, but never what's chasing him. I've been there and it's one very creepy place, and my brother-in-law, a former City Police and Sheriff's Deputy, refuses to talk about some of the stuff he saw out there. I may have to get him drunk some night...
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| shotgun mario
Location: MSP Gender: Male Total Likes: 283 likes
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| | | | Re: Your Local Urban Legends < Reply # 51 on 8/15/2008 4:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | hmm... my area... well.... For hauntings [don't believe them]: several buildings in milwaukee, my old high school, there's a house not too far from my town, Marquette University Dorms used to be the Children's Hospital during TB outbreak, ghost trucks that chase you, disapearing hitchikers...
Wierd Stuff (don't believe 1/2 of this): Haunchyville (town of Midgets... I'm the self-proclaimed expert researcher on the subject lol), Whitewater (the second salem, MA) Thunderbirds, hundreds of UFO sightings, reptile men, bear men, dozens of bigfoot & littlefoot sightings (4-5 foot tall relatives), the world capital of werewolf sightings, um... lake monsters, the hodag, there's some crybaby bridges, 7 bridges park, grave markers that walk around at night, mysterious 'men in black', exorcisms, demon dolls, the list goes on and on... and WHO KNOWS how many 'satanists in the woods go in at night in the dark and do this and this and then this will happen' kinda stuff is passed around. It's crazy. Idk what it is about wisconsin, but there are so many urban legends here. Maybe it's the extreme amount of german immigrants in the 1900's, bringing the dark fairy tales with them? I'm not sure, but there's lots of them. Even the writers of the Weird U.S. series thought so, but also said they could have easily written a second book on wisconsin's urban legends, folklore & fakelore, because there's so much of it! I'm seriously surprised that there aren't more crazies stories of ax wielders running around out in the woods. I guess they wouldn't last with all of the hunters though. heh.
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| shotgun mario
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| | | | Re: Your Local Urban Legends < Reply # 55 on 9/10/2008 9:25 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | LOL, that's great you started a UL. I was going to.... I tried to find a good bridge for a bunnyman legend in the area, but me & my friend were unable to. I still might try though. I've always been a good storyteller, and because I do so much research in so many topics, people almost always believe what I say to be true, or as true as where I heard of it. Outside of HS's tho, there's no real group of people in my area. Perhaps I'll give it a go tho. update: if I ever take someone UEing that's a little looser on the non-believer front, I might try telling them the 'i heard a story about this place online' kinda thing
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| If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! |
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