Legends in your area?

[fan-of-fans]

Since it's fall I figured maybe to make a thread with legends around your house or area.

In the town north of me I can think of two. Supposedly there was a ghostly mail carrier seen walking around main street.

Another legend in that town is near where a lake once was but dried up year ago. Supposedly a woman can sometimes be seen standing and fishing where the lake was. Funny thing was I looked at a house there and didn't know anything about the area. I just saw lots of empty land around it. So this would have literally been behind that house.

In the town south of me, I heard there is a legend about an old church that was torn down years ago. Some nights it was said that you could see the church shining where it used to be.

Oh and there was also the ghost light story north of here. My grandma used to say people who lived in that area would see a light at night. She said one lady was sitting outside on her porch alone one night when it appeared. The light creeped up to her gate and she couldn't stand it anymore so went inside.

I can't think of any more at the moment.

 

[wayupnorth]

Stephen King lives about 10 miles from me in a creepy old big mansion. Just knowing all those scary books were written there is enough to send chills down your spine.

 

[gusherb]

Legends? How about something that actually happened. Back in the 1920s-50s there was a remote farm road just a couple miles from my house that was used as a dumping grounds for the Chicago mafia, plus people went there to commit suicide and some just died in accidents driving down it. They closed the road off in the 1970s. It was considered to be one of the most haunted roads in the country, kids used to sneak out and walk down it after dark in hopes of seeing spirits. Nowadays it’s just a bike trail that I go down all the time, I find it very quiet and peaceful hahaha.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Stephen King worked in a laundry at one time. He later wrote a terrifically frightening story called The Mangler.

 

[wayupnorth]

After Stephen graduated from The University of Maine in the early 70's, he married Tabitha and did indeed work in industrial laundry for almost a year before landing his first teaching position.

 

[joeekaitis]

The ghost of a young girl . . .

 

. . . is said to haunt the Rialto Historical Society.  Paranormal investigators still visit regularly and most claim positive results.  Still waiting for "Ghost Adventures" to shoot there.

 

The Inland Empire (Riverside/San Bernardino counties) has its share of gravity hills.  Some even have the obligatory railroad crossing where, according to the ubiquitous legend, a train plowed into a school bus stalled across the tracks, killing all on board.  The spirits of the children and driver push your car off the tracks to avert a similar disaster.  All have been debunked as optical illusions.

 

[tolivac]

Have the movie "The Mangler" on DVD-the machine in the movie looks more like a sheet metal rolling mill machine than a laundry machine.Suppose its to imitate one of those big pressing machine for sheets and such-the one in the movie had a "folder" that also mangled its victims.

 

[tolivac]

Sometimes at the transmitter site we see some strange lights that surround the property like stadium lights.Another time there was a bright amber light-like an HPS ligt-lit up the whole place!!!And it was above the levels of any of the towers and antennas.Folks that live next to the plant say they see UFO's around the place.Haven't seen them-but we joke the place is used by them to recharge their spaceships since the signals are beamed upward.

 

[turquoisedude]

There are rumours of a 'lake monster' in Lake Memphremagog, which straddles the Québec/Vermont border. I haven't seen it...yet!

 

[askolover]

My former hospital has a resident ghost.  She was there before I came around and I am sure she is still there since I have left.  Several have seen her.  Every time I saw her, someone coded and died shortly after.  My friend Jami called her the Tilly Witch.