Are there any spooky legends from where you grew up?

Question

Ghost stories? Strange creatures? Local legends? Locations would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Just a half mile from me is the Haunted Bridge. I drive under it every day. It's listed on the Haunted Indiana webpage.

Answer 2

Virginia is supposed to be the most haunted place in America because of all the Civil War battlefields and shipwrecks.

Answer 3

Strange creatures? Yes when we moved in.  

Answer 4

None that I know of.

Answer 5

We have the same spooky stories that every small town has. Nothing original.

Answer 6

I live in Medina NY, in the country not the town, just up the rd on a dairy farm we had crop circles...does that count?

Answer 7

The below is for the State of Illinois and some of its suburbs.  They list allll kinds of unusual goings on.

http://theshadowlands.net/places/illinoi...

Answer 8

My mom grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. Joplin Mo. had the Joplin light. It could always be seen from a distance but would move if you came closer. People used to come from miles around to see it.

Answer 9

LA LLORONA.....

The story of the La LLorona, was told to us....

if we did not get inside before the street light s came on the La LLorona would get us........

It has been around since at least my great great abuela was around and some say was brought to the new world by the Spanish. The story is of a woman who kills her children, then herself - usually in despair or to get back at a lover. She is seen wandering around villages or hillsides or river banks, usually wringing her hands and weeping. She is thought to be a bad omen when spotted

Answer 10

I grew up in New Jersey.. and there's the legendary "Jersey Devil."

Our home town also had stories of ghost hauntings of a couple who was murdered in their attic... and another story of a woman who committed suicide in her basement.... there's always stories!

Have a Sneior day.

Answer 11

Where I lived there was the Winchester House built by Sarah Winchester, her husband was the one that built the Winchester Rifle. The house was built from 1884 - 1922 Continuously. 160 rooms, 47 fireplaces. Tiffany Art glass windows, 2 basements, 40 bedrooms, 367 stairs, I think her bedroom had a glass area where she could look down in the kitchen to make sure the servants didn't poison her. Stairs that went no where.  There is a legend that goes with it, something about a ghost and if she didn't keep building something would happen in connection to the Winchester Rifle. I just don't remember it.  It is a fascinating house to go through.

Answer 12

Yes there is. We have a place called, Waverly Hills which was a Sanatorium for tuberculosis patients years back. It is a very eerie building. It has been abandoned for many years, and is said to be haunted. Ghost Hunters visited here in Louisviile Ky and featured Waverly Hills on it's program. It's very interesting, and the Waverly Hills website tells of it being haunted, and also very interesting history about the magnificient building. My husband and I walked up the back hillside just after we moved here, up to the point where it said, 'No tresspassing!' The building is awesome, and there are renovations going on there. At Halloween there are scheduled tours, and I believe at other times of the year as well. Take a look at the website links below. I believe there may be pics of some of what Ghost Hunters documented.

Answer 13

New Orleans has tons of spooky legends.  We have the Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, the ghosts of slaves at the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter, the ghosts of Jean Lafitte and his pirates, the many ghosts that haunt the plantations around here, and swamp monsters. No one around here gives ghosts a second thought.  As for the strange creatures, if you visit the French Quarter you will get to see all you want.

Answer 14

There were tales of the red-headed man who lived in the woods. He was a crazed child murderer who stalked the woods at dark. To be honest the parents and teachers in my area probably started the rumors in attempt to keep us out of the woods at night. Whoever started the stories was definitely prejudiced against gingers or Scots though.

Answer 15

Pretty tame around here for centuries.  California is the birthplace of make believe EVERYTHING from down Hollywood way however.

In San Diego there is the Hotel Del Coronado which is diffinately haunted, been there many times.  There also are haunts in La Mesa Ca. not far from San Diego, this lovely small city with million dollar homes is built on sacred Indian burial grounds. Some homes there are haunted.  I know that for a fact.  Oh my the La Mesa real estate people will have this answer deleted, no doubt, but tis true.

Answer 16

I grew up in Reading, PA & there were a lot of ghost stories in the surrounding area: Indian burial grounds, etc. My mother, daughter & I went on a ghost tour one time which ended up in a barn at midnight, where they served us sandwiches in a place where the farmer supposedly killed vagrants & made sausages out of them. I thought it would have been better if they served sausages!