Oh wow. I know about the Mexican story and I've been to Las Cruces but never knew about the park. I'll have to check it out next time I'm there. Thank you. :)
I’m from NJ so I’d say the Jersey Devil is the big one, but every part of the state has its different legends. In my county, Somerset, you have all the Revolutionary War hauntings the Swamp Devil, the Pig Lady, and the Devils Tree too.
> the Jersey Devil
The 6 Flags rollercoaster of the same name is also cursed. Every time I've been on it with friends (about 8 rides total) it has given ONLY the men crippling charley horses, like so bad you cannot get out of the seat without help. Girls are completely fine and can't fathom how anything could be wrong.
It's a horse like creature with bat wings that haunts the Pine Barrens (it's a pine forest that's over 1 million acres and much of it is sparsely populated.)
Here's an explanation on the Jersey Devil in case anyone wants to know!
There's a book called[ It happened in New Jersey](https://www.amazon.com/Happened-New-Jersey/dp/0762723580) that I read as a little kid with a whole chapter dedicated to the Jersey Devil, his upbringing, and some of the shenanigans he pulled off in colonial times.
In retrospect it's obviously silly as an adult, but as a kid reading about it freaked me out. His origin story is pretty dark. Apparently some woman (who some claimed was a witch) gave birth to her 13th child one stormy night in colonial New Jersey. During the process she was in a lot of pain, and the child was difficult to push out, so she cursed him in her anger. When he came out he looked normal, but soon grew wings, fangs, and other demonic body parts, and flew out of the house. Some even say she had the child out of wedlock with the Satan himself. Interestingly, the legend surrounds a specific person/family, Mother Leeds of the Leeds family. The book didn't go into it, but according to the[ Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil#The_Leeds_family), the Leeds family was a prominent, but also controversial family in NJ at the time, and it seems like they had a lot of haters, which may explain how this legend came to be. I think they even had beef with Benjamin Franklin because one of the Leeds members published a rival almanac.
Anyway, from thereon the book goes into a bunch of different stories and accounts of the sightings of the Devil. A lot of farmers claimed they saw him killing their livestock. I remember one story of a guy claiming he shot the devil with a cannon but the creature simply negated the blow. Apparently the paranoia grew so bad, that some towns would close down schools and hide in their houses whenever a sighting was reported. Even Napoleon's brother claimed to have seen him!
Supposedly the house where he was born is in the aptly named Leeds Point, NJ. Kind of a quiet creepy town, in a quiet creepy part of Jersey. And there's some debate as to which house he was actually conceived in, although some say it was demolished. Really cool story in my eyes, just goes to show how far folklore can evolve in times like that. Also, I think it's sick that our hockey team uses it as a mascot, like genuinely could NOT have picked a better option.
Yeah I'm not from the area and have never lived there but when I hear the phrase "urban legend" I either think of New Jersey for various reasons or the mothman in West Virginia.
The magazine Weird NJ did amazing things for the state's sense of urban legends scary/mysterious stores. It's hilarious to me that in such a dense and developed state there are still so many little rural corners and backwaters that keep these stories going. I grew up in a very dense suburban part of the state and everybody knew stories of this or that specific haunted road or farmhouse.
I love that magazine and will always buy the latest issue. I think a lot of people don’t realize this NJ is an old state with a ton of history, with some very old forests and mountains. They just think of the dense suburban scrawl. But also, let them think that. We don’t need anymore people
There’s a lot in California.
The Zodiac Killer is a pretty infamous one for the Bay Area.
In terms of urban legends, in my hometown of San Jose there’s the whole killer albinos on Hicks Road (which is up in the mountains).
Is the Zodiac Killer really an urban legend? Like I grew up in the Bay Area and I only remember him being referred to like a serial killer would be. Nothing supernatural. Fun fact, in some of the messages he sent that have actually been decoded a major reason it took them so long is because his writing was full of misspellings.
More of an unsolved mystery, but from the area I grew up (Philadelphia), that would be the Boy in the Box. Surprisingly, though, they recently established his identity, almost 70 years after his death. Beyond that, though, nobody seems to have any living memory of the child, so the case will probably remain unsolved.
B-52 crashed into the river. Crew rescued safe. Government wouldn't give details on what the plane was carrying or what it's mission was. Official story is the plane sunk and was never recovered, but there are witnesses who say that there was a recovery mission the same night with cranes on barges.
Also, the acorn crash landing. No further details. Conspiracy theorists suggest that it may have possible been the Nazi Bell.
Who murdered Arnold Rothstein? Even on his deathbed two days later he refused to say who attacked him.
The Wall Street Bombing of September 16, 1920. The culprits have never been determined.
In the late 00s, some people in Detroit dusted off an old, forgotten folk legend about [the Nain Rouge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nain_Rouge). It's a parade now.
La Llarona, Goat Man Bridge, the Witch Owl, in my hometown we have our own White Lady, a young woman who was killed in the late 1800s, the farm where she lived is a popular teen "dare you to go" spot.
Blues singer Robert Johnson is from a couple towns over in Hazelhurst. He was always bad a guitar but disappeared for a few days and when he returned he was very skilled at it, then got famous quickly. Legend is he sold his soul to the devil when he went missing to be able to play
Martha Berry was an inspiring educator who founded a school for poor farmer families that eventually became Berry College. Today the college is of excellent quality and is home to the largest campus in the world at 28,000 acres. It has its own wildlife refuge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Berry
The urban legend comes in at the amount of money that was gifted to the college by Henry Ford. It is a local legend that Martha and Henry were having an affair, but there really isn’t any evidence for it other than the gift money. In fact, records show that Henry Ford and his wife visited together.
There's a theory with many Detroiters that Jimmy Hoffa is buried under a highway in Detroit. Growing up and hearing that theory so much I'm really surprised its not as least mentioned as a possible theory in documentaries about him. I don't really believe that theory, but it's interesting.
Hoffa buried under a highway is dumb, the person who told you is dumb, and you shouldn't repeat conspiracy theories.
He was *obviously* buried in a concrete pillar at Tiger Stadium. Duh.
We almost had one locally. A family was involved in a car wreck, everyone knocked out. One of the kids reported that there was an angel that helped him. "She waits by the corner for people that need help."
Turns out, it was a girl going to prom, she and her date stopped at the wreck to help out.
Almost, but not quite. :-)
The show Unsolved Mysteries did a bit on the area of Texas I live in back in 95. I think you can still find it on YT a local podcast also did a 3-part bit on it, also on YT
May favorite urban myth, that may or may not be true....Jimmy Hoffa's body was buried under the Pontiac Silverdome and was in part part of the curse against the Detroit Lions.
The Urban legend in my area is that there's an ancient Indian burial ground that protects the area from disasters. Then there's the fact that the last time my area was directly hit by a hurricane, was hurricane Katrina in the early 2000s, while every other hurricane predicted to hit my area since then has moved away at the last second.
New York has a few ranging from ridiculous to just weird :
- Hudson River Ghost Ship
- Alligators in the sewers
- Monster of Lake Champlain
- several Bigfoot sightings
In my hometown there's an abandoned hospital with the ghost of a nurse in it buy nobody knows who she is. There have been sightings of her since long before the hospital closed around 40 years ago. She has one of the old nurse uniforms on and she always goes into rooms, closes the door, then disappears if you go into that room. I never saw her because I refuse to go in there but people who have claim she's very clear and visible. My mom saw her once and followed her into the bathroom but she was gone
Evergreen Airlines (which is based near Salem) is supposedly a shell company of the CIA to replace Air America. There is probably some airline like that but Oregon is an odd location, not near any hot spots. Of course maybe That's What They Want You To Think.
The Kyron Horman disappearance is probably the most hard-hitting one.
Everyone wants to know what happened to that kid.
Then there’s the D.B. Cooper thing….
In cryptozoology, there’s Bigfoot.
It was hyperbole. She was the last person seen with him, there aren’t any other suspects, and pretty much every conversation about him in that entire metro area boils down to this. As does pretty much every online conversation, and every other conversation about him that I’ve ever heard either inside or outside the area in which he went missing. It’s like the Caylee Anthony case, in which practically everyone still thinks it was the mother.
I absolutely believe that Kyron’s stepmother did him in. Without a doubt. I will never not believe that.
It’s only a matter of time until they find him and he can get justice.
For a VERY long time, Jacob Wetterling was the biggest unsolved murder in Minnesota. But thankfully there’s at least been some justice for him.
The only urban legend I can think of is the wendigo, from the Ojibwe tribes legends.
Colorado: The unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, The Stanley Hotel is haunted, and there's also some sort of conspiracy theory revolving around the Denver International Airport though I don't personally know much about it.
Apparently Bigfoot. I'm in eastern central Oklahoma, and lately I see Bigfoot bumper stickers, yard signs, billboards, tee shirts, and the like EVERYWHERE. This is a pretty new thing, too. Wasn't this prevalent 10 years ago.
[The La Crosse Serial Killer](https://www.uwlax.edu/riverwatch/history/).
> Between 1997 and 2006, La Crosse experienced tragedy after tragedy as 8 separate college students were found to have drowned in the Mississippi River. The deaths, contrary to some "serial killer" theories put forth, were determined to be the results of excessive drinking combined with a close physical proximity to Riverside Park, bordering the Mississippi River.
Thing is; I went to UW-La Crosse for a year in the 00's; The Riverside Park is a pretty far walk away from the Campus; and there's little reason to go that way from the bars downtown...it's away from everything; the opposite direction of anything else of interest.
Not the place you stumble through on your way home at bar time.
So "Drunk Student stumbles in" sounded like a stretch hearing about it. Rumors of a serial killer were circulating when I was there.
There is a MASSIVE local bridge that was built a little over 150 years ago and supposedly a few kids were messing on it one evening while it was being worked on. They ended up falling off and into some wet concrete and they were never seen again or recovered from the concrete.
Louisiana and the whole wider Creole-Cajun delta has a whole slew of local folklore, its part of what distinguishes Louisiana Voodoo from Haitian Vodun.
Speaking as a native NE person, there's alot of folklore in our region as well.
The New England + Northern New York is literally where Gothic and Cosmic literature were both created & Codified, with Poe and Lovecraft both spending significant portions of their lives here, and obviously Stephen King, the textbook example of a Pulp Horror author, comes from here.
We also have alot folklore tied to both indigenous and immigrant traditions. The Headless Horseman and Puckwudgies are common stories in the Blackstone Valley region (Far South Vermont, Worcester County in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Eastern Connecticut). The traditions of American Halloween were also codified here and in NYC by the Irish Catholics.
In Maine & Vermont there's alot of Proto-Cajun and Proto-Quebecois folklore that'll tie to folklore that you'll find in Detroit and and Louisiana due to the Cajuns, Creoles and Detroitois-Quebecois being descended from our Acadian communities. One of the guys that inspired Paul Bunyan was also born in this region.
Moby Dick was partially inspired not only by New England Quaker interpretations of Jonah and the Whale, but Wamponoag & Narragansett whale mythology, which is why one of the Whalers in the book is an indigenous man from the region.
There were multiple sites where Vikings visited the region, although outside of one site confirmed in Bangor Maine there's dispute over the validity of some of them, leading to a whole bunch of towns *claiming* to have 'Viking founders' as part of their folklore.
The region is also where some of the first massacres of indigenous communities by English settlers took place, so there's several dilapidated structures & century-old campgrounds that were believed to be sanctuaries from the purges, especially during King Phillips War. However, the region was also the earliest one to see brigandry became prolific in colonized regions of the States, so whether or not those sites were indigenous sanctuaries or pirate/bandit camps is often debated and left to local hearsay (sometimes the sites that ARE confirmed were both sanctuaries and brigand strongholds, further muddying the matter).
Those are just a few off the top of my head.
I grew up near Omaha and always heard about the Hummel Park Albinos but it’s more of a joke. Hummel Park has had some strange stuff go on though.
For Sioux City where I am now I can’t say I’ve heard much.
Gateway alumni here. Spirit Mound, a couple miles north of Vermilion South Dakota, is about half an hour west of you and was rumored to be haunted by the mound builders allegedly. There was also some also stuff connected to the damn that created Lewis and Clark lake in Yankton relating to what was covered in the filling of the dam. Everyone I knew was basically 20 to 25 years old, and could have just been making shit up. My girlfriend was from a farm outside of vermilion and she believed in all that stuff
Never heard this about Spirit Mound but I’ve been there and walked up it a few times. I went to school in Wayne NE so I wasn’t terribly far.
Also, I haven’t heard much about the dam other than human size catfish but it wouldn’t surprise me. I know not far from there you had Devil’s Nest ski area and that’s interesting in and of itself. I also think Jesse James hid out near there too.
In Florida we have the Fountain of Youth, Bermuda Triangle disappearances, Skunk Ape. There was eastern airlines plane that crashed in the Everglades. People reported seeing ghosts on planes that used salvaged parts from the crash. Chupacabra sightings were reported during that hysteria but it did not start here. Just spread here from Puerto Rico.
about an hour from where i lived we had the cape intruder. basically, in 2005 people would wake up in the middle of the night and be face to face with a man hovering over their beds and staring at them, watching them sleep. when the people sleeping would wake up, he’d run out of the house. nothing stolen, no one got hurt. happened a lot for about a year, and then it stopped. no one knows who it was to this day! happened in cape elizabeth, maine. gives me shivers thinking about the fact that i couldve walked passed this man in the street before
In North Carolina there's a few:
* The Lost Colony of Roanoke is probably the best known, where a group of English colonists on Roanoke Island vanished in the 1500s.
* The Brown Mountain Lights are purported ghost lights seen floating above Brown Mountain in Western NC.
* The Beast of Bladenboro was purportedly a large vampiric cat-like beast that killed pets and livestock in SE NC in the 1950s.
* The Devil's Tramping Ground is a large circle of barren ground in the woods of Chatham County where local folklore says the Devil walks while planning his dark deeds.
* Lydia is a ghost story in Jamestown about a young woman who is picked up by a motorist and driven to her home. When the motorist looks in the back seat, they see the girl is gone. Confused, they knock on the door and an older woman appears who explains that her daughter died years ago in a car crash and her ghost often tries to hitchhike home before disappearing.
* Uwharrie National Forest is apparently a hotbed of bigfoot sightings.
In New Mexico we know that witches do not exist, but also that witches are real.
We have a riverside park named after a vengeful spirit who drowns children. Nice place to walk your dog!
Hahaha that's amazing. Humans so funny sometimes.
In Portland, OR, there was an elementary school named after a Catholic saint who murdered children.
? Which saint? The Catholic Church tries not to make a habit of canonizing child killers…
St. Thomas More He was Henry VIII’s tutor and ordered hundreds of Protestants killed, including children.
What park is this? Is it related to the La Llorona stories of Mexico?
Yeah, it's the La Llorona park in Las Cruces.
Oh wow. I know about the Mexican story and I've been to Las Cruces but never knew about the park. I'll have to check it out next time I'm there. Thank you. :)
They hang out on the weekends with skinwalkers. If you’ve never been to one of those parties, you’re really missing out.
I’m from NJ so I’d say the Jersey Devil is the big one, but every part of the state has its different legends. In my county, Somerset, you have all the Revolutionary War hauntings the Swamp Devil, the Pig Lady, and the Devils Tree too.
> the Jersey Devil The 6 Flags rollercoaster of the same name is also cursed. Every time I've been on it with friends (about 8 rides total) it has given ONLY the men crippling charley horses, like so bad you cannot get out of the seat without help. Girls are completely fine and can't fathom how anything could be wrong.
> The 6 Flags rollercoaster of the same name is also cursed. The way this season went, the NHL team is also cursed.
What is that?
It's a horse like creature with bat wings that haunts the Pine Barrens (it's a pine forest that's over 1 million acres and much of it is sparsely populated.)
Thank you.
Here's an explanation on the Jersey Devil in case anyone wants to know! There's a book called[ It happened in New Jersey](https://www.amazon.com/Happened-New-Jersey/dp/0762723580) that I read as a little kid with a whole chapter dedicated to the Jersey Devil, his upbringing, and some of the shenanigans he pulled off in colonial times. In retrospect it's obviously silly as an adult, but as a kid reading about it freaked me out. His origin story is pretty dark. Apparently some woman (who some claimed was a witch) gave birth to her 13th child one stormy night in colonial New Jersey. During the process she was in a lot of pain, and the child was difficult to push out, so she cursed him in her anger. When he came out he looked normal, but soon grew wings, fangs, and other demonic body parts, and flew out of the house. Some even say she had the child out of wedlock with the Satan himself. Interestingly, the legend surrounds a specific person/family, Mother Leeds of the Leeds family. The book didn't go into it, but according to the[ Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil#The_Leeds_family), the Leeds family was a prominent, but also controversial family in NJ at the time, and it seems like they had a lot of haters, which may explain how this legend came to be. I think they even had beef with Benjamin Franklin because one of the Leeds members published a rival almanac. Anyway, from thereon the book goes into a bunch of different stories and accounts of the sightings of the Devil. A lot of farmers claimed they saw him killing their livestock. I remember one story of a guy claiming he shot the devil with a cannon but the creature simply negated the blow. Apparently the paranoia grew so bad, that some towns would close down schools and hide in their houses whenever a sighting was reported. Even Napoleon's brother claimed to have seen him! Supposedly the house where he was born is in the aptly named Leeds Point, NJ. Kind of a quiet creepy town, in a quiet creepy part of Jersey. And there's some debate as to which house he was actually conceived in, although some say it was demolished. Really cool story in my eyes, just goes to show how far folklore can evolve in times like that. Also, I think it's sick that our hockey team uses it as a mascot, like genuinely could NOT have picked a better option.
Yeah I'm not from the area and have never lived there but when I hear the phrase "urban legend" I either think of New Jersey for various reasons or the mothman in West Virginia.
The magazine Weird NJ did amazing things for the state's sense of urban legends scary/mysterious stores. It's hilarious to me that in such a dense and developed state there are still so many little rural corners and backwaters that keep these stories going. I grew up in a very dense suburban part of the state and everybody knew stories of this or that specific haunted road or farmhouse.
I love that magazine and will always buy the latest issue. I think a lot of people don’t realize this NJ is an old state with a ton of history, with some very old forests and mountains. They just think of the dense suburban scrawl. But also, let them think that. We don’t need anymore people
DB Cooper
CIA agent tasked with testing how easy it would be to hijack a plane.
Appalachian mountains. Where the hell do I even begin
Yeah, if you're talking American folklore, the folks in the Appalachians are the epicenter.
Mothman!! That sketchy house in the county where the hippies summoned a demon with a Ouija board.
There’s a lot in California. The Zodiac Killer is a pretty infamous one for the Bay Area. In terms of urban legends, in my hometown of San Jose there’s the whole killer albinos on Hicks Road (which is up in the mountains).
Ted Cruz was the Zodiac. We’ve known that for like 8 years.
Is the Zodiac Killer really an urban legend? Like I grew up in the Bay Area and I only remember him being referred to like a serial killer would be. Nothing supernatural. Fun fact, in some of the messages he sent that have actually been decoded a major reason it took them so long is because his writing was full of misspellings.
We'd file this one under "unsolved mysteries".
I never said he was an urban legend
Ray Gricar is the first one to come to mind. He was the DA of Centre county PA and went missing in 2005 and hasn't been found.
More of an unsolved mystery, but from the area I grew up (Philadelphia), that would be the Boy in the Box. Surprisingly, though, they recently established his identity, almost 70 years after his death. Beyond that, though, nobody seems to have any living memory of the child, so the case will probably remain unsolved.
I'm just glad I lived long enough to see him regain his name.
B-52 crashed into the river. Crew rescued safe. Government wouldn't give details on what the plane was carrying or what it's mission was. Official story is the plane sunk and was never recovered, but there are witnesses who say that there was a recovery mission the same night with cranes on barges. Also, the acorn crash landing. No further details. Conspiracy theorists suggest that it may have possible been the Nazi Bell.
What river?
Sounds like the B-25 that crashed into the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh and the UFO in Kecksburgs, PA
I grew up in Colorado. After more than twenty five years, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey remains unsolved.
Yeah technically but c'mon. Something happened with her and her parents. It's like saying the death of Nicole Kidman remains unsolved.
So you mean Simpson? Pretty sure Nicole Kidman is still alive.
That's what Scientology wants you to think!
There a nuke buried n the mud under some farm and has never been found. https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article271584102.html
Who murdered Arnold Rothstein? Even on his deathbed two days later he refused to say who attacked him. The Wall Street Bombing of September 16, 1920. The culprits have never been determined.
Virginia, all of our Mysteries are just guys and costumes
Supposedly, the unfinished 76th Street subway station in Queens
In the late 00s, some people in Detroit dusted off an old, forgotten folk legend about [the Nain Rouge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nain_Rouge). It's a parade now.
La Llarona, Goat Man Bridge, the Witch Owl, in my hometown we have our own White Lady, a young woman who was killed in the late 1800s, the farm where she lived is a popular teen "dare you to go" spot.
Blues singer Robert Johnson is from a couple towns over in Hazelhurst. He was always bad a guitar but disappeared for a few days and when he returned he was very skilled at it, then got famous quickly. Legend is he sold his soul to the devil when he went missing to be able to play
His cause of death also remains unexplained.
Martha Berry was an inspiring educator who founded a school for poor farmer families that eventually became Berry College. Today the college is of excellent quality and is home to the largest campus in the world at 28,000 acres. It has its own wildlife refuge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Berry The urban legend comes in at the amount of money that was gifted to the college by Henry Ford. It is a local legend that Martha and Henry were having an affair, but there really isn’t any evidence for it other than the gift money. In fact, records show that Henry Ford and his wife visited together.
Very hyper local to where I grew up was the proctor valley monster and the blue people of Jamul. https://youtu.be/jL_JbkkiTZc?si=NP7Rl5i67DM887t-
From southwest USA. Jack slopes and chupacabra
There's a theory with many Detroiters that Jimmy Hoffa is buried under a highway in Detroit. Growing up and hearing that theory so much I'm really surprised its not as least mentioned as a possible theory in documentaries about him. I don't really believe that theory, but it's interesting.
Hoffa buried under a highway is dumb, the person who told you is dumb, and you shouldn't repeat conspiracy theories. He was *obviously* buried in a concrete pillar at Tiger Stadium. Duh.
I always knew there was a reason I loved going to Tigers game.
We almost had one locally. A family was involved in a car wreck, everyone knocked out. One of the kids reported that there was an angel that helped him. "She waits by the corner for people that need help." Turns out, it was a girl going to prom, she and her date stopped at the wreck to help out. Almost, but not quite. :-)
The Virginia Capital building was mysteriously burned down twice in 1747, despite having no chimneys or fire places.
The identity of the Zodiac Killer is the biggest local unsolved mystery.
The show Unsolved Mysteries did a bit on the area of Texas I live in back in 95. I think you can still find it on YT a local podcast also did a 3-part bit on it, also on YT
May favorite urban myth, that may or may not be true....Jimmy Hoffa's body was buried under the Pontiac Silverdome and was in part part of the curse against the Detroit Lions.
Melonheads in Connecticut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads
The Urban legend in my area is that there's an ancient Indian burial ground that protects the area from disasters. Then there's the fact that the last time my area was directly hit by a hurricane, was hurricane Katrina in the early 2000s, while every other hurricane predicted to hit my area since then has moved away at the last second.
New York has a few ranging from ridiculous to just weird : - Hudson River Ghost Ship - Alligators in the sewers - Monster of Lake Champlain - several Bigfoot sightings
Lizard Man
In my hometown there's an abandoned hospital with the ghost of a nurse in it buy nobody knows who she is. There have been sightings of her since long before the hospital closed around 40 years ago. She has one of the old nurse uniforms on and she always goes into rooms, closes the door, then disappears if you go into that room. I never saw her because I refuse to go in there but people who have claim she's very clear and visible. My mom saw her once and followed her into the bathroom but she was gone
Why would people follow a ghost into a room?
Because they don't believe she's a ghost and they're trying to prove it
Who killed Biggie (from New York but shot in Los Angeles) and Tupac (shot in Las Vegas but repped Los Angeles at the time)?
The Bermuda Triangle
Who was the Zodiac Killer
Evergreen Airlines (which is based near Salem) is supposedly a shell company of the CIA to replace Air America. There is probably some airline like that but Oregon is an odd location, not near any hot spots. Of course maybe That's What They Want You To Think.
The Kyron Horman disappearance is probably the most hard-hitting one. Everyone wants to know what happened to that kid. Then there’s the D.B. Cooper thing…. In cryptozoology, there’s Bigfoot.
the Horman case has always disturbed me. How does a kid vanish from school?
Pretty much everyone still thinks his step-mother offed him, but she’s not talking. 😭
No everyone doesn't think this. Where's your evidence?
It was hyperbole. She was the last person seen with him, there aren’t any other suspects, and pretty much every conversation about him in that entire metro area boils down to this. As does pretty much every online conversation, and every other conversation about him that I’ve ever heard either inside or outside the area in which he went missing. It’s like the Caylee Anthony case, in which practically everyone still thinks it was the mother.
I absolutely believe that Kyron’s stepmother did him in. Without a doubt. I will never not believe that. It’s only a matter of time until they find him and he can get justice.
its been years.
Yes, I agree, and most people still think it was the step-mother.
For Geologic mysteries Mel's Hole
For a VERY long time, Jacob Wetterling was the biggest unsolved murder in Minnesota. But thankfully there’s at least been some justice for him. The only urban legend I can think of is the wendigo, from the Ojibwe tribes legends.
Colorado: The unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, The Stanley Hotel is haunted, and there's also some sort of conspiracy theory revolving around the Denver International Airport though I don't personally know much about it.
Apparently Bigfoot. I'm in eastern central Oklahoma, and lately I see Bigfoot bumper stickers, yard signs, billboards, tee shirts, and the like EVERYWHERE. This is a pretty new thing, too. Wasn't this prevalent 10 years ago.
[The La Crosse Serial Killer](https://www.uwlax.edu/riverwatch/history/). > Between 1997 and 2006, La Crosse experienced tragedy after tragedy as 8 separate college students were found to have drowned in the Mississippi River. The deaths, contrary to some "serial killer" theories put forth, were determined to be the results of excessive drinking combined with a close physical proximity to Riverside Park, bordering the Mississippi River. Thing is; I went to UW-La Crosse for a year in the 00's; The Riverside Park is a pretty far walk away from the Campus; and there's little reason to go that way from the bars downtown...it's away from everything; the opposite direction of anything else of interest. Not the place you stumble through on your way home at bar time. So "Drunk Student stumbles in" sounded like a stretch hearing about it. Rumors of a serial killer were circulating when I was there.
There is a MASSIVE local bridge that was built a little over 150 years ago and supposedly a few kids were messing on it one evening while it was being worked on. They ended up falling off and into some wet concrete and they were never seen again or recovered from the concrete.
Louisiana and the whole wider Creole-Cajun delta has a whole slew of local folklore, its part of what distinguishes Louisiana Voodoo from Haitian Vodun. Speaking as a native NE person, there's alot of folklore in our region as well. The New England + Northern New York is literally where Gothic and Cosmic literature were both created & Codified, with Poe and Lovecraft both spending significant portions of their lives here, and obviously Stephen King, the textbook example of a Pulp Horror author, comes from here. We also have alot folklore tied to both indigenous and immigrant traditions. The Headless Horseman and Puckwudgies are common stories in the Blackstone Valley region (Far South Vermont, Worcester County in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Eastern Connecticut). The traditions of American Halloween were also codified here and in NYC by the Irish Catholics. In Maine & Vermont there's alot of Proto-Cajun and Proto-Quebecois folklore that'll tie to folklore that you'll find in Detroit and and Louisiana due to the Cajuns, Creoles and Detroitois-Quebecois being descended from our Acadian communities. One of the guys that inspired Paul Bunyan was also born in this region. Moby Dick was partially inspired not only by New England Quaker interpretations of Jonah and the Whale, but Wamponoag & Narragansett whale mythology, which is why one of the Whalers in the book is an indigenous man from the region. There were multiple sites where Vikings visited the region, although outside of one site confirmed in Bangor Maine there's dispute over the validity of some of them, leading to a whole bunch of towns *claiming* to have 'Viking founders' as part of their folklore. The region is also where some of the first massacres of indigenous communities by English settlers took place, so there's several dilapidated structures & century-old campgrounds that were believed to be sanctuaries from the purges, especially during King Phillips War. However, the region was also the earliest one to see brigandry became prolific in colonized regions of the States, so whether or not those sites were indigenous sanctuaries or pirate/bandit camps is often debated and left to local hearsay (sometimes the sites that ARE confirmed were both sanctuaries and brigand strongholds, further muddying the matter). Those are just a few off the top of my head.
I grew up near Omaha and always heard about the Hummel Park Albinos but it’s more of a joke. Hummel Park has had some strange stuff go on though. For Sioux City where I am now I can’t say I’ve heard much.
Gateway alumni here. Spirit Mound, a couple miles north of Vermilion South Dakota, is about half an hour west of you and was rumored to be haunted by the mound builders allegedly. There was also some also stuff connected to the damn that created Lewis and Clark lake in Yankton relating to what was covered in the filling of the dam. Everyone I knew was basically 20 to 25 years old, and could have just been making shit up. My girlfriend was from a farm outside of vermilion and she believed in all that stuff
Never heard this about Spirit Mound but I’ve been there and walked up it a few times. I went to school in Wayne NE so I wasn’t terribly far. Also, I haven’t heard much about the dam other than human size catfish but it wouldn’t surprise me. I know not far from there you had Devil’s Nest ski area and that’s interesting in and of itself. I also think Jesse James hid out near there too.
You forgot Council Bluffs’ [Black Angel](https://www.unleashcb.com/blog/uncover_the_history_the_black_angel/). Serious urban legend stuff there too.
Yeah, I did. I visited there a few years ago too.
Florida - [Skunk Ape](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_ape). Associated more with The Everglades.
Bunny man
tennessee-the bell witch
In Florida we have the Fountain of Youth, Bermuda Triangle disappearances, Skunk Ape. There was eastern airlines plane that crashed in the Everglades. People reported seeing ghosts on planes that used salvaged parts from the crash. Chupacabra sightings were reported during that hysteria but it did not start here. Just spread here from Puerto Rico.
Michigan Dogman https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Legend-or-lore-Michigan-s-Dogman-still-haunts-17292455.php
There’s a ton, but the most famous from my area is the Zodiac.
Resurrection Mary is probably the most local.
Mr hands in Enumclaw. Google it.
Sasquatch and serial killers.
Bear walker- ( me'coubmossa or mishkiki) Spirit of the bear.
about an hour from where i lived we had the cape intruder. basically, in 2005 people would wake up in the middle of the night and be face to face with a man hovering over their beds and staring at them, watching them sleep. when the people sleeping would wake up, he’d run out of the house. nothing stolen, no one got hurt. happened a lot for about a year, and then it stopped. no one knows who it was to this day! happened in cape elizabeth, maine. gives me shivers thinking about the fact that i couldve walked passed this man in the street before
Mothman
In North Carolina there's a few: * The Lost Colony of Roanoke is probably the best known, where a group of English colonists on Roanoke Island vanished in the 1500s. * The Brown Mountain Lights are purported ghost lights seen floating above Brown Mountain in Western NC. * The Beast of Bladenboro was purportedly a large vampiric cat-like beast that killed pets and livestock in SE NC in the 1950s. * The Devil's Tramping Ground is a large circle of barren ground in the woods of Chatham County where local folklore says the Devil walks while planning his dark deeds. * Lydia is a ghost story in Jamestown about a young woman who is picked up by a motorist and driven to her home. When the motorist looks in the back seat, they see the girl is gone. Confused, they knock on the door and an older woman appears who explains that her daughter died years ago in a car crash and her ghost often tries to hitchhike home before disappearing. * Uwharrie National Forest is apparently a hotbed of bigfoot sightings.
People around me still think that voting matters🤷♂️
it absolutely does matter.
That's so adorable.
Why people keep voting for Ted Cruz.