Legends/myths in your area?

[fan-of-fans]

I can think of several here.

1) at the old settlement which is not mostly a ghost town, there was an old church which was torn down years ago. Some locals claimed that on some nights, the church could be seen standing and sparkling in the moonlight.

2) at another old settlement there's been stories of the spook light. I remember my grandmother telling of a story of her friend. She was sitting on her porch and the spook light appeared at her gate and started getting closer to the house, so she went inside. Lots of people would go out there at the intersection of two roads and claimed after a while the lights would appear and dart around.

3) the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel at FSC in Lakeland is said to be haunted by Frank Lloyd Wright. Supposedly there was an issue when the choir screen was installed and Wright can be seen looking at it trying to figure out the problem.

4) the lost lake ghost. There was a lake that dried up long ago and supposedly a woman can be seen barefoot fishing with a cane pole where it once was

5) also supposedly the downtown firehouse is haunted by an old fire chief.

 

[wayupnorth]

Since Stephen King lives here, there are alot of places he wrote about and he made them all scary. Even his home, that he and Tabby have lived in for nearly 50 years HAS to be haunted by now, since a big majority of his works were written in that old mansion. A mile from me is a beautiful inn that opened in 1814. Supposedly, 2 of the rooms there are haunted.

 

[goatfarmer]

Gravity Hill, your car will roll up the hill backwards.

https://digital.library.in.gov/Record/WV3_folklore-3938

 

[fan-of-fans]

Oh yes, I forgot Spook Hill. I've been there, it looks like you're rolling uphill in neutral, but it's really just an illusion.

 

[turbokinetic]

I live in Central Alabama.....

... so you need to know about Sloss Furnaces.

 

Every October this happens. People from all over the world come here for it:

https://frightfurnace.com/

 

The rest of the year:

https://www.slossfurnaces.com/

 

 

 

[norgeway]

We have

The Brown Mountain Lights, Tommy Faile had a top selling country song about them many years ago.

 

[askolover]

St. John's at Ashwood

Growing up, every time we passed this old plantation church on our way to Opryland in Nashville my parents would tell about the "Haunted Church".  Supposedly there was a bible on the altar that you could not change the page opening.  The story is not true.  I've been to a Whitsunday service at this church.  There is no electricity inside.  It's done just like it was when the 4 Polk brothers lived nearby and one brother, Bishop Leonidas Polk, built a church at the point where their four plantations met.  Leonidas Polk became the Bishop of Louisiana and is buried in Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans.  He was also known as the fighting bishop because he fought for the Confederacy.  He went to school with Jefferson Davis.

St. John's Episcopal Church (Ashwood, Tennessee) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[circlew]

Greg, thanks for posting about the church; didn't know it supposedly was haunted. I've been past it many times throughout my life.

 

[sudsomatic]

In Southern Indiana....

 

 

A legend I've heard since I was little is the Bond's Chapel Cemetery Chain-link Grave just outside of Orleans Indiana... I grew up nearby. It's a granite tombstone that has a 'ghostly'  imprint of a chain wrapped around it. It's not intentionally carved into the stone as a design but is more a suggestion of a chain. Legend says that the chain was not there when it was placed but just appeared over time.. and grew additional links over the years, and eventually wrapped around itself so that on one side the links form a Cross. Legend says the stone is cursed and if you desecrate the grave, especially if you touch the marker, you will later die in a 'chain related' death.

 

The backstory as to the 'why' it is cursed has about a dozen different versions but the one I always heard was that old Mr. Pruett was a logger who did long drives. Coming off of one of those long journeys he came home to find his wife in the arms of another man. In a rage he killed them both and hid the evidence, claiming the two ran off together if anyone ever asked where she was. He thought he had gotten away with it. However...  not long after, while loading his rig one of the huge, heavy chains that held the logs in place snapped free and whipped around, quickly decapitating the man. With her last dying breath the wife had cursed him with a horrible fate and the place where he lies is similarly cursed to anyone stupid enough not to heed the warnings.

 

 

 

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Villa Pastore

Villa Pastore it's a Villa on the hills surrounding my town.
It actually is more like a sort of small Castle.
Belonged to the Pastore family a rich and wealthy family now is abandoned and decrepit.
Which itself is very strange being it a very beautiful house that in no reasonable circumstances would have ended like it ended, at least it was magnificent.
My father actually went there many times during the 60s and at the time it tells me it was still full of stuff with wonderful wooden and Mosaic Floors.
The legend tells of a little girl, Elisa Pastore, the daughter, that in the late 1800s died because of a tower collapsing as she was playing the piano.
Beside so many people claims weird things happens when they are near the villa, like car motors shutting off, radios turning themselves on etc there is who claims of having heard a piano playing in the night, playing Beethoven's Per Elisa.
The villa got secret tunnels connecting to downtown, to the square with the Duomo and in fact from the well of the villa which is do far away you can hear the bells of the Duomo.
That is true because my town got secret tunnels under all over the town and every villa and castle was connected to it and my Mansion-Castle is too!

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Another thing I didn't mention is that during the 80s there was an attempt to restore the villa, but two workers died, mysteriously falling down in two different occasions.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

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[kenmoreguy89]

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Here the complete story.
Slightly different but here it is

Villa Pastore - Valenza Museum

alternanza4.altervista.org