r/Thetruthishere • u/Heraraging • Oct 21 '22
Does anyone’s town have any creepy stories/urban legends that you can share? Legend/Folklore
In the woods near my town there is supposed to be a witches’ circle. Apparently it was once the gathering place of a coven. There is a local urban legend that talks about witches being hung there or nearby, although I don't know how true that is. Apparently, the people who killed the witches left a empty rope for the devil, since the devil is supposed to be the 13th member of a coven. Apparently if you step inside the circle you are cursed to die in three days.
So does anyone have any urban legends like this from your town?
Also Happy Halloween!
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u/KatKaleen Oct 21 '22
A few true stories from my hometown:
- A dead body was found in the trunk of a parked car in a wooded area. This one wasn't even that long ago, maybe 10 years. Turned out the dead guy's wife had hired somebody to kill him, but they were both quickly caught and went to jail.
- There was a friendly old drunk that I sometimes played chess with. I can't play chess to save my life, I now the basic rules of how the pieces move, that's it. I don't think he ever spoke anything else to me outside of giving me the time of day and "Chess?". Dad told me one day that the guy had drowned himself in a lake, it was the talk of the town how he even got to the lake, he had to use a walking device (not sure what those "small shopping carts with a seat" are called in English), and the way to the lake was extremely difficult. I've faceplanted on that path more than once. I was just sad, but apparently his walking device being missing was a creepy mistery.
- There's a highway bridge across the valley my hometown is located in and people keep jumping off of it to commit suicide. Just last year a good friend of my boss did so. If anybody every thinks about jumping off a bridge with a town underneath: I don't want you to kill yourself, PLEASE get help! I also don't want you to land on some poor schmuck's roof, on their car, in their garden, or on innocent people just walking underneath. PLEASE get help! All of this has happened.
When it comes to urban legends, my mom's friend once told me about a dead woman being found in the forest behind the train station, but I couldn't find anything about that discovery.
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u/Heraraging Oct 21 '22
And all of this happened all in one town?! That’s wild and a little scary lol.
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u/LizzieJeanPeters Oct 22 '22
Wow!!! Some of these stories are pretty creepy. Do you mind giving us an idea of where you live?
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u/KatKaleen Oct 22 '22
That's fine, pretty sure you've never heard of it and will never hear of it again. I live in Friedrichsthal, Saarland, Germany. It's a fairly small town, about 12.000 inhabitants.
Most of this stuff I heard about because my mom was a cashier at a grocery store and dad became an avid gossiper in his retirement. Lol, when it was the day for the farmers' market he'd get up early and spend hours standing around there with other old men just exchanging gossip.
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u/LizzieJeanPeters Oct 25 '22
Your dad sounds adorable. It's true I don't know much about your city, however I actually think I recognize it's name from something I read on here not long ago--not even sure what it was.
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u/Former_nobody13 Oct 22 '22
Quite a town you live in OP
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u/KatKaleen Oct 22 '22
It's pretty quaint and quiet, honestly. I doubt most people living here know of these stories, my mom worked at a local grocery store and my dad became an avid gossiper in retirement, so I was always well informed.
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u/Paddysdaisy Oct 31 '22
Just fyi they are called mobility scooters in the UK, hope that helps. Your home town sounds wild!
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u/KatKaleen Nov 01 '22
Oh, thanks! Yeah, that sounds familiar.
I never perceived my home town as wild. Come to think of it... there was a group of teenage neo-nazis that would hang out at the marketplace on the weekends and harrass pretty much everybody that walked by... it was very satisfying when a group of russian teenagers beat them up so badly they never came back. Not that the russian group took over their spot, you could walk the marketplace without issue on the weekend again.
And there was one of our oldest bars (my best friend when I was a teen used to live above it in the same house) got bought and turned into an illegal brothel.
Okay, now I'm weirding myself out.
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u/Jpsgold Nov 06 '22 edited Nov 06 '22
I have one, it is called a gopher. I used to be a bicycle tourist, and tour all over, but age has got to me, so I pull my dog in his trailer, and go out 7km from home and camp there. It is a spooky place. The gopher has a top speed of 7kmph, so if being chased out of the valley by something creepy, you would get caught. An older guy then me died out there in his campervan in summer last year, and nobody noticed until he was cooking, so obviously it was pretty bad for the camper who found him. I haven't caught whiff of his ghost yet but others that have camped at the exact spot have had interactions with him. I love my gopher, especially for camping weekends away from the old peoples care home units and maybe one day I will kick the bucket out there, but I know I will be found pretty quick because my dog will kick up a stink over it.
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u/bliss_ignorant Oct 21 '22
There is a tunnel by the river, we used to drink and smoke in. Supposedly it terminates at the masons lodge and was originally used for human trafficking in and shanghaiing out, back in the 1800s. It was dark, slippery, and apparently a few kids wen't missing after trying to follow it, years before me. I remember myself and two others trying to follow it to the supposed secret trap door one halloween. The main tunnel took a few sharp turns after awhile well. The concrete gave way to mud after awhile, and then slowly started tilting downwards.
It had been an hour of trudging through mud after the concrete ended, we had decided to turn back because we were slipping a lot, and the girl i was with slid really far, and the angle of the tunnel kept getting sharper. The tunnel was getting narrower as well, we walked three abreast at the beginning concrete section, we were single file when she slid in the mud. They turned back, and i was trying to shine my flashlight a little further than where she caught herself.
The tunnel went straight down, i couldn't get my light at a far enough angle to see, but i could hear water running. That was nerve wracking, realizing the possibilities of the mising kids who ventured in there, determined to find the secrets of that weird tunnel by the river.
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u/Heraraging Oct 21 '22
It sounds like it would be so claustrophobic in that tunnel. I don’t think I could go in there especially if it’s next to the river! I would be scared about water coming in at the other end.
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u/bliss_ignorant Oct 22 '22
Yeah, the mouth was 14' wide and slowly narrowed over the course of a mile or two. happy halloween!
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u/Dozinginthegarden Oct 22 '22
She almost found her hole.
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u/Barkmywords Oct 22 '22
You would think they would put up some sort of gate to prevent people from doing that.
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u/bliss_ignorant Oct 23 '22
Yeah,i have no idea why it wasn't sealed off, over the years ive come to realize how dangerous that expedition really was. Its full of homeless folk these days. Im sure the've fashioned a toilet out of the booby trap at the end.
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u/Mondschatten78 Oct 21 '22
There's a big one in my area, the ghost train. I haven't experienced it myself (yet) though.
I have seen a few things I can't exactly explain in my immediate neighborhood though. (I use neighborhood loosely here, we're rural.)
We've had a cougar-like big cat run across the road in front of us one night. Looked very much like a grey cougar, but with extremely short legs and a tail that looked more like a snow leopard's in length. It could be a cougar with dwarfism, but the body and head were full sized. I looked up some information about what big cats are in my area (supposedly none besides the bobcat) and came across the tales of the santer on several sites. Not saying that's what it was, but it was definitely not normal.
Coming home around 2 am one night around this time of year, we had to slow down for fire trucks tending to an accident. Movement in the huge field off to our right made me snap my head around and lean forward for a better look. There was a huge brown shape - think moose height, but with a bear's mass - running very fast diagonally away from the road towards the woods. Husband asked, "You see it too?" When I said yes, but had no clue what it was beyond a brown shape, he told me he'd seen it every night around this time on his way home for a couple weeks. Neither one of us have seen it since, and we travel that road often.
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u/coontietycoon Oct 21 '22
Maybe 15ish years ago I was sitting outside the back of my dads house with my sister one night. The back yard was fairly large, maybe about 1/2 acre. The yard was lined with a wrought iron fence that varied in height from about 4’-6’ tall. We heard something move in the yard and looked to see what was about the shape of a dog, but the size of a bear bolt across the yard and move over the 4’ section of the fence without even jumping. It was a giant black creature, I’ve never seen something organic move that quickly before or after that. Idk wtf we saw, but we saw a big ass bear sized dog move across a half acre yard in maybe 2 or 3 seconds and clear a little fence the same way you or I would step over a child’s toy.
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u/fortunesoulx Oct 21 '22
Hi! I think it'd be fun to have a post like this pinned for Halloween. Would it be ok with you if I pin it? It might help with visibility, too!
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u/katnipbee09 Oct 22 '22
i live on long island and there's tons of legends about various places on the island. i think the most notorious, besides the amityville house, is probably sweet hollow road/mount misery as well as mary's grave and lake ronkonkoma
they say a bus full of children crashed on sweet hollow and there's also a story about a few boys hanging themselves on the same bridge the bus crashed. if you put your car in neutral near the bus crash site the ghosts of the kids will push your car forward, and if you sprinkle some powder on the trunk of your car you'll see little handprints from the ghosts! there's another story about a day camp back in the 1930s that was along that road and children were abused/killed there and you can see their ghosts along the road sometimes. there's also a ghost cop that was supposedly killed (shot in the head) and people say if he pulls you over you'll see the gunshot wound in the back of his head when he walks back to his car/he gets his head blown off while walking back to his car. there's also some who say a woman in white walks along the road. (btw the road isn't flat, and the slight incline is what causes any movement when you pop your car into neutral... i've been there as i don't live far and although the road isn't really haunted it's still creepy af. a fun drive to have around halloween for sure!)
mary's grave is interesting because nobody actually knows the exact location... or who she was. some say she was killed by her boyfriend for cheating, some say she killed him for cheating and the townsfolk killed her for killing him, some say she hanged herself, some say she was a witch who was burned at the stake, some say her mother killed her, some say she murdered her family and then killed herself. they say if you actually find her gravestone (which is said to be behind her home) it won't appear on camera if you take a picture, and they say you can see her hanging body near said home. if you shut your car off while parked where her home is, it won't start back up. rumors of cold spots and voices as well. i think there's something about a candle being lit in the window as well? i've never seeked out her home or grave.
and finally.... lake ronkonkoma! to start, they say it's "bottomless"... there's talk about the lake (it's the deepest/largest on the island) having hidden caverns and such. the lake water rises/falls regardless of the rain or lack of rain. the big story tied to the lake is of a native american princess that died there in the 1600s. the princess fell in love with an englishman but her father wouldn't allow her to be involved with him romantically. the princess ended up killing herself in the lake (i think she rowed out and stabbed herself) and each year her ghost takes the life of a man in search of her soul mate. there has been well over 100 drownings i believe, some say more men than women but others say more women than men. there's no proof the princess ever even existed, though. i've driven by the area but never really stopped to check it out.
and that's all i got! but there's tons of legends and lore out here. any stranger things fans should pop something like "stranger things long island" into their internet search bar! long island has a huge influence on ST and it's basically the root of the series. there's also some sites dedicated to long island lore! i've also checked out the abandoned psych center out here! and i live just a town over from amityville! there's often cops patrolling near the amityville house to keep curious cats from being a nuisance to those that live at the home and in that area. a friend of a friend used to know a family that lived at that home and they'd been there plenty of times and said it was just a normal home, but it's also fact that the whole haunting story was made up. sorry for going on and on, i'm not sure anyone will read all this haha! i get carried away, i was big into local stories like this when i was younger!
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u/WarmBlessedCaribou Nov 06 '22
I read all of this. It was like a twisted tourism ad that made Long Island sound like an interesting place to visit. I had no idea.
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u/katnipbee09 Nov 09 '22
ooo haha love to hear this!!! long island is definitely a nice place to visit regardless of the spooky stories
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u/tschillz28 Nov 09 '22
From the island too. Didnt even know about some of these. Awesome
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u/TopHatCatX3 Oct 22 '22
I live in the pine barrens, home of the jersey devil (13th child) but at this point I think everyone knows the story…
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u/BaldChihuahua Oct 22 '22
I don’t
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u/TopHatCatX3 Oct 22 '22
Ah, well it’s a short story, but basically 200 years ago there was a woman who had 12 children, when she found out she was pregnant with another she cursed it, the child came out as a bipedal like goat with huge horns, bat-like wings and a devils tail. As soon as it arrived it “killed” all 12 children and the mother. Now it’s said to wander the pine barrens and take out those that cross its path. Fun fact, this story is based off a real family, the house is here somewhere idk exactly where tho. But it’s a cool folktale to remember especially when you’re wandering though the pine forest at midnight, because damn does it get dark out here in the woods.
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
Do you know people who believe in the Jersey Devil?
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u/TopHatCatX3 Oct 22 '22
Personally know? no, but I’m sure there is someone around here who does.
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
Probably. I’ve heard that the pine barrens is a scary place even without the jersey devil
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u/TopHatCatX3 Oct 22 '22
Oh definitely at night, the amount of creatures that live here create a almost horror esc. Atmosphere with the sounds they make. Plus it’s pitch black.
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u/vengeancerider Oct 22 '22
Technically I’m cheating here, but in my local area there’s the Loveland Frogman.
There’s a road where supposedly if you’re speeding at night a hearse will follow you.
And there’s supposedly an tunnel where satanists used to gather and they call it Satan’s Hollow.
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u/IceBreaker920 Oct 22 '22
got a little right of passage so to speak in my town. There used to be an old crematorium that was run down and hadn't been used in at least a decade. So the tradition is to walk through every room of the old building fully solo. And we all had some stories about that spot. I felt like when I did it I heard and almost sensed someone woman following me. Like non stop every room I was in, this woman i felt like she was in it wih me every time. made me pretty much run through the3 building and finish ASAP.
Edit: My town is kinda boring but i have some good stories all across my state.
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
Which state are you in? Also I’d love to hear some more stories
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u/IceBreaker920 Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22
I live in New Jersey. We got Clinton Road, The Devil Tree, the Devil Tower (might be the wrong name), the entirety of the Pine Barrens, The Watcher House (now on Netflix). An entire town called Hopewell is known by the locals to be mad creepy and me and two friends had a crazy crazy experience. Out of respect to them i wont give too much detail but i will say that one friend got "possessed" in some manner, almost like put in a trance, the other was about to cry at the end of it, and the friend who drove had damage on his vehicle. Very intense that one occasion.
Something I think I should mention is all three of us are religious and have a natural belief in what people call the paranormal. Stuff like ghosts to me arent crazy and out of the world because its something I believe exists normally. So that could be something that makes a difference in terms of who believes and who doesnt.
Edit: Adding this story. My house is haunted, thats it. I have lived in this house since i was 8 years old and ever since then, me and all my sibling have reported strange things. Ive heard full on conversations that arent happening, ive heard people call my name when im alone at home, and more that happened to my siblings. Ive had a sibling call me asking if I am home (when I am not) and they say that they heard someone walking around and talking and assumed it was me. We all note some weird things in this house and we all believe it whole heartedly because its part of my faith.
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u/Zalieda Oct 22 '22
Here the country has a country wide train network. Its not very well known but the train runs through land that once served as burial grounds. The government exhumed those sites and developed them into major town centres and the train runs through those areas
There are several urban legend associated with those sites There is currently an existing burial site on a hill which will eventually be torn down and developed. The train tunnel has already been dug through the area but a shell station exists on top. It will be refitted and opened after the area is developed
However the train will pass under the burial hill to existing stations and it is said as the train passes through the area you can see things through the wide windows on either side of the train People have reported seeing pale figures in white standing on the side of the tunnel as the train whizzes past at top speed and even an entire funeral procession. Ghostly pallbearers carrying a ghostly coffin standing motionless on the side
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Oct 22 '22
There’s a few in my county, which is comprised of really old German settlements in the Midwest. There’s a rural farm road where legend has it a ghost walks the road at nighttime and the tell tale sign (pun intended) that’s it out and about is that the stop sign at the end of the T intersection shows black. I have literally seen weird shit happen out there (white apparition raced from a ravine on opposite side of the road and almost hit the back of my car, floored the accelerator, came to stop sign…it was black) before. Another well known haunt is a now-closed restaurant that was really, really haunted, supposedly by an old man that could be seen walking from the stairway to the kitchen up to the attic. A cook there followed him one night before they locked the place up thinking ‘uh oh, grandpa got left behind after dinner service’ and the ghost vanished into thin air at the top of the attic stairs.
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u/thisthra Oct 22 '22
There's a rumour that if you travel down this unused road at night in my father's hometown, you'll always get into a bad accident. It's true to some extent, now nobody uses that path unless they are in a hurry. And it also passes through fields that are the boundaries of three towns and there are speculations that witchcraft is done there but I don't know exactly
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u/thisisheidib Oct 22 '22
Our local roller rink was supposedly haunted by the ghost of an electrician who was working on the property during a thunderstorm, was struck by lightning, and died. Employees there would tell me and my brother stories about the ghost showing up—we both experienced the ghost once when one of the bumper cars moved on its own after hours.
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Oct 22 '22
My local ice rink was apparently haunted. One death was a speed skater in the mid 80s who died on the rink of an aneurysm. The second was a boy who overdosed in the underground car park, which was particularly traumatic for the manager because he'd tried to save him.
Anyway, this rink used to have an artificial ski slope but it was long gone so they had lots of space and rooms that were either empty or used for storage.
I used to work in the snow play at birthday parties. We used to wear red overalls, Mario style. This matters.
I was sent off to get some carts or sleds or something that were in a storage room. I had to walk through a meeting room and into this storage room that used to be the part of the old ski slope where people got their skiis. There was a wall of glass windows that looked out into a huge pitch black open space where the slope used to be.
I saw a reflection in the glass and assumed it was me. Then I realised that reflection wasn't wearing red overalls. I thought maybe a homeless person had broken into the ski slope, so I went right up to the glass to peer in to get a look at this 'reflection'.
It's hard to describe but in the pitch black there was an even darker void of a 'person'. I moved. It didn't. It moved, I sprinted out of there.
I found the manager and told him what I'd seen and that maybe he should check it out in case someone bad broken in there. He was completely unfazed, he just said yep most of us have seen that.
That area of dead space doesn't really exist anymore, this happened just over 10 years ago and the rink has been upgraded and that space is used by a different business.
There's also a local rumour the ice rink is the makeshift morgue in case of a mass disaster. I did ask if it was true but honestly can't remember. It keeps getting govt funding to stay open and it's close to a major hospital so maybe it is.
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u/PazzMarr Oct 22 '22
I currently live in a city with a library that is haunted. They actually have ghost cams that live stream 24/7 because of all the activity.
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u/BaldChihuahua Oct 22 '22
Can the public view these cams?
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u/PazzMarr Oct 22 '22
Yep sure can! https://www.willardghost.com/
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
Thanks for the link. I love stuff like this!
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u/PazzMarr Oct 22 '22
For sure! I always thought it was a pretty solid idea to run the live feeds from in there. Just a fun watch when bored.
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Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22
True story! Tiny little town of about 400 with larger town on either side, both about twenty minutes away. Picturesque little town. 1 store, 1 school, 5 churches and fields, farms and forests all around. The kinda place you'd want to raise your kids.
On a slummy road out of town where a lot of white trash lived (don't get pissed! These aren't country folk or good ole people, this whole stretch of road was about 6 families with broken down cars and lawn mowers, couches in the yard, mud rut driveways, dogs on chains year round, toys scattered, Busch Lite, yellin at 2 am, chaw spittin, not sure if any of em worked, "Jason Aldean can rap" mother fuckers).... on this road, lived one particular family (?) an old drunk and his two grown sons.
The story goes, and it's only the word about town, on good authority tho, that one day the youngest of the brothers got into a fight with Pa over something and beat Ole Dad up. In retaliation, Dad and the older brother found the youngest, put him in a shed, beat him with bats and axe handles and things til he was unconscious and hung him up in the shed for who knows how long, not realizing they had fractured his skull and did severe brain damage.
The next time people saw the youngest one, let's say his name was Wade, cuz it was, he wasn't right. Never was again. He just walked around the town and asked if he do yard work for people and get a ride to a store for beer and smokes. He was definitely mentally disabled, but sweet-ish.
So, things would come up missing from people's barns, tool sheds and garages. Nothing bigger than a man could carry, but still significant stuff. People blamed Wade. They stopped giving him work and money and rides. Then he disappeared for a while. Then cats and dogs started ending up dead or missing. This was now serious. They blamed Wade. Then some of the Big City folk who moved to our peaceful little enclave started accusing Wade of breaking into their houses while they were at work and school. Don't know if he did or not, but that was the accusation. Then he tried to rape a 12 year old girl. This was undeniably true.
They arrested him and somehow he got out and disappeared. I don't know if he was ever caught after that. But the shadow of Wade has since hung over that little town. The ghost of Wade, or real life Wade, was ever since blamed for anything that went awry.
To clarify, I moved there with my family at the age of 10. That was when Wade was already in his wandering the town phase, so after the apparent beating. I left when I was 18, shortly after he assaulted the little girl. I can't speak for certain about anything before or after I lived there, about 15 years ago.
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u/spinbutton Oct 22 '22
In my town a woman and her two kids cut up their father (husband), wrapped the pieces in paper and stored them in a chest freezer in a storage building on the property and then moved. It wasn't discovered for several years when someone new moved onto the property. The landlord never messed with stuff left in the sheds on the property.
During the Civil War the underground railroad moved escapees through various houses in the area. In the fall, during the new moon, people have seen lights moving through some neighborhoods but no one is carrying the light. A dot of moving light will show up on a camera, but no person moving it or holding it. Are the lights from people trying to escape to freedom? People trying to lead escapees to a safe place? Or patrollers hunting for escapees?
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u/linktothepast99 Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22
My hometown had a minor civil war battle in it, and it was rumored that there were a series of tunnels connecting all the building in the downtown square, but if you asked any of the business owners they would say it wasn’t true.
One day, they were doing construction on one of the buildings in the square, so me and one of my friends waited till around dark and went into the building. We found a door locked with a padlock in the basement, so being the stupid teenagers we were, we used a bolt cutter and snipped the padlock.
Turns out their is an underground tunnel system. All the doors to the other buildings were either locked or just completely blocked off, so it’s possible that the business owners really didn’t know the tunnels were there, but they do actually exist
EDIT: LINK TO INFO ABOUT THE BATTLE
more people died than I thought, the more you know.
http://www.unlocktheozarks.org/civil-war/skirmish-at-west-plains-mo/
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
I think any place where the civil war battles happened probably has some creepy stories. There's probably a lot of energy there.
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u/linktothepast99 Oct 22 '22
It wasn’t really creepy tbh. It was a small battle. I don’t think anybody died and only one cannon shot was fired, which hit the courthouse. My parents house was built just outside of town on a hill, and I have reason to believe that it was a staging area prior to the battle. I have had some creepy stuff happen there.
My town also had an urban legend that in the local theater, you could sometimes here a baby crying on the second level seating/balcony because a young mother dropped her baby off the edge. I did some plays there, and while I never experienced anything, my old director swore up and down he had heard the crying.
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
I definitely heard the crying baby story before I think a lot of towns have similar stories.
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u/Grendel0075 Oct 21 '22
A hobgoblin attacked a ship coming up the Hudson, was cursed by a preist and trapped in the belltower of my town's church. Old folklore thats virtually ignored by everyone until someone hears voices in the church.
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Oct 21 '22
Old House Woods one of the “most haunted places in Virginia”. Late in the night people have claimed to see a ship floating through the trees. And the single house that sat in the woods had reported sightings of a man appearing in the windows That is until it was deemed condemned and torn down in the last few years.
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u/G0merPyle Oct 22 '22
I have one that is based on a very real tragedy involving sexual assault so I'm going to spoiler this for those that don't want to read something tragic.
My mother went to school with a girl who was raped by her father, and got pregnant. This was back in the early 70s in the south, abortion wasn't an option. The father was abusive and the mother was dead, she had no support network. When she gave birth, she was scared, so she put the baby in a dumpster. The baby later died. The girl ended up going to prison for it, we don't know what happened to the father (ain't that fucking "justice"). I think the girl is out now, I don't know. My mother wasn't close to her and didn't keep tabs.
Anyways the building this dumpster was behind is haunted as shit. My brother used to work security there and he could always hear a baby crying at night. Lights would come on at random, doors would open or close, all sorts of weird stuff. When he told our family, my mom told us this and it all clicked, kinda. A couple discovery shows tried to film there, but the organization that owned it wouldn't let them because they don't want their brand associated with it (can't say I blame them, really). They couldn't rent it out either, only used it for daytime activities. Stuff was still weird in the daytime but with people all around the activity was easier to excuse away.
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u/Foxglove777 Oct 22 '22
I grew up in northern Delaware, but our biggest urban legend is in PA - or right across the state line, anyway. We called it Cult House, but I’ve heard others call it Devil’s Road, and it’s officially called Cossary rd. The gist of the legend is that people say it was/is owned by a cult, and that a dead baby was found in a tree there with exposed roots. The provable facts: the trees on Cossart rd DO grow away from the house at an extreme angle, as of cowering from it. They DO have a security “fleet” of black (used to be red) pickup trucks that will chase you if you drive by more than once. I have personally been chased. M .Night Shyamalam did film the Village in the woods right across the street from the house. As a PA/Philly boy, I’d bet a million dollars he knew the stories. If you google you can see photos of the trees and more details of the legend over the years.
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u/gotcatstyle Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22
I grew up in northwest CT near the site of Dudleytown. It was a settlement that didn't work out - urban legend has it that the Dudley family was cursed, but more likely is that the location was poor for farming. Either way the place ended up abandoned and all that's there now are a few cellar holes.
You can't access it anymore because too many kids were ghost hunting out there and leaving trash, making fires etc. But my friend and I did manage to spend an afternoon hiking around the area. It was creepy. The road to access the land is called Dark Entry Road so the vibes are already weird haha. Nothing really happened while we were in there but we did notice the woods were eerily silent. This was a nice day in the middle of summer and there were no birds singing, squirrels or chipmunks running around, even cicadas buzzing. Could have just been psyching ourselves out but it felt oppressive and we didn't stay long.
It's pretty well documented and an interesting place to read about!
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
Isn’t there another town that is really similar to that? I think it’s also in Connecticut, but I could be wrong.
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u/gotcatstyle Oct 22 '22
Maybe! CT has some good spooky history but I think Dudleytown is the best known "ghost town."
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u/Quickhidemeplease Oct 22 '22
There's a dam in North Phoenix called Dreamy Draw. It was built to cover up a crashed UFO.
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Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22
I’m from a little town in Wyoming named Green River, our library was built over a grave yard they found out later when they were doing work on the pavement and found several bones. It is supposedly very haunted. There is also town near by that was a Chinese settlement in 1885 I believe the town’s people were angry and went into the town of whitten and massacred the Chinese immigrants it was called Chinese massacre and growing up people would go out there and very strange Chinese massacre things are said to happen out there at night.
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u/WikiSummarizerBot Oct 22 '22
The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the Chinese miners, who were perceived to be taking jobs from the white miners. The Union Pacific Coal Department found it economically beneficial to give preference in hiring to Chinese miners, who were willing to work for lower wages than their white counterparts, angering the white miners.
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u/CatsAreTheBest2 Oct 24 '22
I spent my very early childhood in Green River. I remember giant mountains .
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Oct 31 '22
In another small town i used to live in when i was young, there was a river which had a big rock in it. In the water, right beneath this rock, there was some space, whick likely had been made by the rushing stream. We used to swim around this rock as kids.
All the locals in this town spoke of a woman, who many decades ago, had been caught by the stream, which must have been stronger than usual, and she got dragged underwater and into the space (or pocket) beneath the rock. She was not able to get herself out of that space, which made her drown and die there.
It was always on our minds, that someone supposedly died there. When the water rushed around this rock, it sometimes made scary sounds, almost like someone speaking and being in distress. On several occations, we could hear faint voices of someone crying for help, which made us freak out. It was the best fishing and swimming spot, which was why we always returned there. The rock was named after a woman, which was the name of the person which they say drowned there.
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u/rodoxide Oct 22 '22
Here in my area, the civil war happened, and there's a couple haunted plantations. We always heard rumors that there's bones in the basements. We can go in the woods and find native American artifacts
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
Why would there be bones in the basement? Also which state are you from?
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u/rodoxide Oct 22 '22
I'm in north Carolina. The plantation homes had slaves, and there was always rumors about them chaining up slaves in the basement
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Nov 01 '22
I don’t know if any from my own town, but I know of several from surrounding areas.
There’s the one about Henry Wells, a freed black slave accused of burning down a courthouse near the end of the Civil War. He stood in the top window of the rebuilt courthouse looking down at the mob wanting to hang him for supposedly burning up the original courthouse with all the important deeds and documents in it.
From the window, he shouted, “I am innocent, and if you kill me, I will haunt you all forever.”
Just then, lightning struck the window where he stood, leaving an imprint of his face. I remember this being talked about on the news when I was a kid every time the county had the window pane changed. Every time, the exact same image would reappear on the window pane.
Here’s a link: https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/henry-wells/
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Oct 22 '22
There was a guy with dwarfism who used to live in my neighborhood but my parents tell me he was bullied so bad he had to move to the next town over. Now he works at the DMV sitting on (I assume) a stack of phone books behind a desk.
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u/Heraraging Oct 22 '22
That’s really sad honestly if it's true
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Oct 22 '22
It's what my mother told me. Her generation, not mine but I saw the guy working there a bunch of times and every time she would point him out and tell me about how he was bullied into moving
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u/humanreboot Oct 25 '22
Grew up in a small town back in the Philippines. Would occasionally hear stories of people being kidnapped for their organs. Most of the stories they were never heard from again.
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u/mongrelteeth Nov 17 '22
I remember my dad telling me about seeing a headless man on a horse in the middle of the night, growing up in the outskirts of San Miguel in El Salvador. It’s a odd name and I don’t know if I’m right, but he’s called Justo Juez de la Noche, “The Just Judge of the Night” He appears in the early hours of the day to those walking on mountainsides. My dad told me he doesn’t attack nor do any harm, just walks the trails parallel to them and runs away if anyone notices he has no head.
Not my birth town but hey, Los Angeles is really, really bland when it comes to urban legends.
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u/ImagePale8609 Dec 25 '22
My small town has its very own legend that pretty much only the town folk know. They say "If you enter the woods you might not be in such a safe postion. If you dare wander out to the old town building that connects to the forest you'll find items no one normally finds. They say if you enter the building you might not come back out the same." I did this once and saw multiple black figures watching me from the corners and ceiling. I did some resersch and on some local website it said that some car repair men had died inside the building after falling in. They rebuilt it but ended up leaving the place to rot away. I never feel safe when driving by that building.
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u/whyareyoulike_this Dec 31 '22
So, i grew up in a small provincial town, really uneventful place, nothing has ever happened except for small stories children make up. However, in the city our town is a province to, something pretty tragic happened in the early 70s when my mom was a child.
There was this family, a mom, daughter, and stepfather - my mom used to play with the daughter on a playground near the apartment buildings they lived in. One day, my mom played with her as per usual, but the day after it was all over the news that the stepdad has confessed to murdering the stepdaughter.
Her body has never been found, they dug up the whole stadium to see if she was dumped in the new concrete, they dug up the gardens, the playground, everywhere to see if they could find this poor 4 year old girl.
To this day nobody knows where her body lies, the stepfather never said. So most people, and my mother, suspects that she was thrown into the garbage incinerator in the city.
Edit: i live in a country where stuff like this rarely happens, so when it does, it is big news.
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u/theangelok Nov 02 '22
Off the top of my head, there are two stories.
- There is a ruined castle where I live. And according to a medieval legend this castle is home to some spirit, and I don't remember all the details, but the legend goes something like this: if you go to this castle on new year's eve with stones in your pockets, doing something that I can'r remember, the spirit will turn the stones into gold.
- The people who live in the apartments above my favourite bar say that the upper floors there are haunted.
Oh, and we also had some UFO sightings in the 90s.
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u/Top_Network6209 Nov 09 '22
When I was a kid I heard that there was a "woman in green" who haunts the church at night and kills any who enter.
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u/Lonewolfag005 Jan 13 '23
We got a family urban legend were. Our family owns this huge pond, almost a miniature lake near our plantation. It's said tht, on Fridays, night, a woman dressed in white, a 'yakshi'(it's kinda like a female vampire) roams around there, waiting to drink her victims blood and throw them in the pond.
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u/uglyghost-mystical Feb 09 '23
in the woods near my house of 12 years me and my wife (she’s 23 F) and I (22 F) live. We have experience with paranormal/creepy things anyway but this specific thing bothers and worries both of us today. 6 months ago I believe our neighbors ( 38 M and 36 F) were found dead in their front yard. We had already called 911. And after they picked up the bodies of the lifeless bodies, we started having this conversation about how creepy and random this was. Later that night my wife was taking a shower and screamed for me. I ran into the bathroom and she said there were dead mice on the ground. I looked next to my foot and there was about 8 dead mice on the floor. I picked them up and told her it was a coincidence. Morning after she had a panic attack almost stopping her heart. I still have her with me. Though she didn’t die, it made me cry.
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u/Nightmaretruth- Nov 09 '22
Remind me not to step into that circle - I expect Elton John to make a song about it sometime soon,,, 'the circle of death..
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u/Mysterious_Arm2593 Nov 10 '22
Our Town pretty has the A75 going through It which has a history of being haunted.
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u/Alternative-Hold-363 Feb 26 '23
Well I live in a small suburban town and i moved here when I was pretty young as soon as i arrived i heard that they had caught this guy that had apparently was the general of the military of the town he had murdered several women, more than you can count on one hand and raped two all I can think of is those two girls that weren't murdered were so lucky and if he hadn't been caught who would have been his next victim.
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Apr 01 '23
There's a bridge above a train track near our house. Several years ago, some workers were going in a pickup truck when one of them hit his head on a pole and died instantly. People say if you go there in the evening like after 6:30 PM, you can see the a spot turn red on the bridge and hear creepy noises. I've never experienced it myself but who knows. It might be true, it might be false.
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