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Local Urban Legends/Mythical Creatures from your neck of the woods?

jammyjammy remixing bongo rock... 813 Posts
edited May 2011 in Strut Central
this stuff has always fascinated me. i was just reading about 'the goatman of maryland'.
does anyone have any other local stuff like this?

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  • cookbookcookbook 783 Posts
    jammy said:
    this stuff has always fascinated me. i was just reading about 'the goatman of maryland'.
    does anyone have any other local stuff like this?

    we have a goatman myth here as well, the Pope Lick Monster

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Lick_Monster
  • PrimeCutsLtdPrimeCutsLtd jersey fresh 2,632 Posts

    the Jersey Devil who by the way would kick el chupacabra's ass.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    no creatures...but in high school there was a road called Callis Cutoff that it was an urban legend that Satanic sacrifices took place on it. In was an unlighted country bumfuck road with only one, grim little house on it. On the pavement up and down the road there was all kinds of pentagrams, 666, and satanic stuff spray painted on it...creepy as hell. Went down it for old times sake the other day and there is a new sub-division on it and a sonic and furniture store on the corner. lame.
  • jaysusjaysus 787 Posts
    Over the Labor Day weekend 2010 my girlfriend and Newfoundland dog were camping at Lake Cushman, WA at the upper Camp Cushman campsite. We had dinner, an evening walk and then to bed in our seperate tents. I was cuddled up with my dog when all of a sudden a very loud earie whooping call burst through the quiet night, awaking me and the dog. My dog growled and flipped himself over & broke the tent pole. He was very agitated, nervous and couldn't calm down. The whoop sounded longing, lonely or lost in tone. It was definatly a female tone, the whoops went "whooop whooop whoop, whoop whoooop.." then would stop for about 15-20min, then again "whooop whoooop...." on and on for about 2.5 - 3hrs. The noise came from up above the campsite away from the Lake. It sounded really close but could tell it was far away, perhaps about 1- 2 blocks away. It was difficult to tell due to the woods, lake and projection of the very loud voice. I thought it could be an owl but no owl sounds like that, then I thought maybe an Elk but once again I've never heard an elk like this before. I couldn't go to sleep that night due to my dog wouldn't calm down, he was on alert all night until it finally stopped. I was petrified and was up all night wondering if this creature making the noise was coming to visit us in our tents. When I woke up my friend had heard the same noise and wondered if it was an injured dog howling but then when I mentioned sasquatch whoops she had an Ah-hah moment and realized no dog could make this noise. Others campers gathered in the AM discussing the mysterious noise, some said it was a bard owl, spotted owl, a coyote, an elk, but I felt in my bones it was the same noise I had heard from a recording on BFRO site (1974 Ron Morehead Sierra Nevada whoops & knocks) Camp Cushman is most likely being closed due to some lawsuit w/the native americans over land use.

    http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=28207

    Hey, there's a noise in the woods, must be a yeti!
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    In Galveston, Texas there's a building called Ewing Hall at the University of Texas Medical Branch. The guy who originally owned the land that the building now sits upon had warned his family not to ever sell it. Of course, as soon as the man passed his family went right ahead and sold his land. So UT builds on it and mysteriously, the man's face appears on the side of the building. UT routinely sandblasts the face off of the building, but it just keeps coming back,..





  • jammyjammy remixing bongo rock... 813 Posts
    good stuff guys. keep it up!
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts


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  • HollafameHollafame 844 Posts
    Not my immediate neck of the woods, but our summer retreat is near the Okanagan Lake in B.C., which is said to be occupied by the Ogopogo (lake demon). I've seen him once ;-P

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogopogo

  • DustedDonDustedDon 830 Posts
    Enter the HODAG

  • JoeMojoJoeMojo 720 Posts
    Night marchers!
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    DB Cooper.
  • KineticKinetic 3,739 Posts
    Dunno about myhtical, but in the Blue Mountains where I grew up there was always this rumour that there was a wild panther that lived somewhere in the Mountains. Some old dudes seriously belived it.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I was telling a 4th grade class about a book of scary stories, and told them the one about the girl who woke up with the red pump on her face. Her mom said it was only a spider bite. When it didn't go a way after a few days she squeezed it, and hundreds of baby spiders came crawling out.

    All the kids knew the story. It happened to their mom, or their mom's friend or their sisters friend.
  • El PrezEl Prez NE Ohio 1,141 Posts
    Here in Cleveland Ohio we have the "green lady" as kids we would run like he'll if someone yelled out that they saw the green lady..... by the way I dare someone to say Mary weatherby is a witch.... seven time in a mirror with the lights off
  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    Here in the Pacific Northwest we have Bigfoot aka Sasquatch. Never seen one.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    I was telling a 4th grade class about a book of scary stories, and told them the one about the girl who woke up with the red pump on her face. Her mom said it was only a spider bite. When it didn't go a way after a few days she squeezed it, and hundreds of baby spiders came crawling out.

    All the kids knew the story. It happened to their mom, or their mom's friend or their sisters friend.

    Brought to cinema by The Believers.
  • AlmondAlmond 1,427 Posts
    I spent my childhood in the town of Sunnyvale until we moved out of the Bay Area. The Toys R Us store there was apparently haunted by the ghost of a man who died in an accident chopping wood or something. Legend states that he roams around the store looking for his former lover. All the kids seemed to know the story. The teaching aide who led my 2nd grade computer class told us that she used to work there and did indeed feel strange breezes and notice things were moved around. But in a store as large as Toys R Us, there are probably enough creepy monster toys and dusty corners to give you a scare if you're looking to get one. Google it!

    None of the other small towns I've lived in have had any folklore popular enough to reach me.
  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    There's supposedly a hidden enclave of midgets out here.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=647&q=palm+springs+midget+town&aq=0&aqi=g1g-j1g-b1&aql=t&oq=palm+springs+midget

    That's all I got.
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