What's your local scary legendary monsters ?

[Megotu]

Well growing up in Northeast Texas nar th eOK and LA borders, we had the Boggy Creek monster. Basically a riff on the Bigfoot monster. Plus, the Dallas area an hour east had the Lady of White Rock Lake.
White Rock Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basically a version of the vanishing hitchhiker...wiki text:
A well-known Dallas urban legend is the story of the Lady of White Rock Lake. The tale goes (there are a lot of area residents who claim the story is true) that the ghost of a girl in her early 20s will appear at night, dripping wet in 1920s dinner evening wear, and a car passing along the road circling the lake will stop. The girl tells the driver she had an accident and needs to get home. The driver will then drive to the address given, and when he (or she) arrives, the girl is gone, leaving only a waterlogged seat. The driver then learns after knocking on the door of the house that the girl was their daughter -- she died by drowning when she fell out of a boat on the lake at night many years ago. Some later stories report that the driver taking the girl going to the address arrives, and the house is no longer there: it was torn down years ago and is now the site of an apartment complex. Reports of the ghostly encounters were published in Dallas-area newspapers in the 1960s.

This legend is said to have been the inspiration for the bluegrass song Bringing Mary Home, written by John Duffey of the Country Gentlemen.[4] Their version of the song made the Billboard Country Chart in 1965. The song has since been recorded by many others, including Frankie Miller, Mac Wiseman, Red Sovine, Ricky Skaggs, and Daniel O'Donnell. It is now regarded by many as a bluegrass standard.
Long Island has stories about Brookhaven Natl Labs and Montauk have a weird following. Huge wiki entry here and odd reading..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project_(book)

[ODBJBG]

The Scalper.

Legend has it that he prowls all the local toy stores and buys up all the good stuff, then resells it in his caves of Ebay. He apparently is overweight and unwashed and a virgin as well.

[HardyGirl]

When I went to camp in NY, we had Three Finger Louie.

[mazinz]

the Eek. think that ones really, really local.

What a great thread! love reading things like this.



Nostalgiabuff,
I am in your neck of the woods, can you tell me more about this one, since I have never heard of it (or were you just joking and I totally misread your post)?

The only thing really that I can think of that was kind of near by was the Horrible Hannah legend from Camp Robbins or the mysterious car that would drive around the Meadow Hill area late at night and chase kids walking out alone. Both of those go back to the early 80's

[Mikey]

Besides the few common statewide generic ones I named at the start of this thread we also had a few locals ...

Shades of Death Road (the real name of the road)
This road was about a mile from where I grew up and it has a legend on it's own.
People were murdered on it in the late 1700's and their ghosts still walk it today.

Ghost Lake
On Shades of Death Road there's Ghost Lake ... a pond where many a drunken teenagers have seen ghosts ... The lake does give off a strange glowing blue hue on some nights.

Camp NoBeBoSco
Better known to the world as Camp Crystal Lake ... Didn't have any legends until after the filming of Friday the 13th

Quicksand Spook (no real name)
Back in the early 1800's a farmer along with his horse and plow was suppose to have sank in quicksand on a field in my town ... Some people see his ghost still plowing at night.

Troll Bridge
A small bridge where supposedly a troll lives ...

Hanging Bridge Ghost.
Back in the early 1800's a black man was supposedly lynched off this bridge.
In the 1950's the bridge was taken down and the land leveled.
His ghost still walks this area of the road.
--------- I personally don't believe this story one bit because in the 16-17-1800's this area was loaded with mostly Quakers and Quakers would not murder anyone - black or white.

Witch's Grave
A small family cemetary in the middle of a corn field surrounded by a stone fence.
Legend has it a witch along were her husband and children are all burried there.
I went in it.
There really is 5 graves in there.
Stones don't say what they died from

I could go on and on, but they're our main local ones.

[Captain]

With our native and wild west history, we have loads of local legends. big foot is of course one of the most famous.

In Northern Alberta, the Cree Indians spoke of the Wendigo. A creature that looked and smelled, like a long dead corpse, and would eat human flesh. The Wendigo has als obeen described as a large bear like beast that is covered in white hair, and walks like a man.....? Who knows?...Both descriptions leave me thinking I would rather not see one. I can still remember when I was a kid, we had a travelling museum stop by our school. Inside was a costume made by a Cree medicine man that supposedly was a Wendigo. Just the site of that suit freaked me out...It had a reel eery feeling to it as well.

One of the least known, yet one of the coolest, is the legend of Siksikum...which means "the Black one" in the language of the Blood Indians. Settlers called him the Black Rider, and Tom ThreePersons, a local western hero, called him Billy (or Billy Blazes) and wasnt shy about admitting he had made a deal with the rider. The rider was a white man who wore an all black outfit, rode a black horse with all black tack and gear. He would ride up to people (who were always alone) and offer them a special deal....their soul for prosperity. There are no modern sightings that I know of, but the Blackfoot, Blood, and Paigan tribes often reported seeing Siksikum...even before the white man was common in these parts.
One guy who refused to deal with siksikum, was instantly struck ill, and he was taken to the Catholic Church near Gleichen Alberta where several exorcisms were said to be performed before he was normal again.

Another popular monster legend is the monster of Lake Minnewanka. Your classic Ogopogo/Loch Ness monster. I think it was last seen in the eighties. I looked it up on the internet, and was surprised to see sightings go way back into ancient history. also of interest is the beast being reported in the Bow, Battle, Athabasca, Clearwater, and North Saskatchewan rivers in the province. Plus it was seen in many other lakes in Alberta...the latest, most prominent sighting being Saddle Lake.

As for ghosts...too many too mention. Those fellars are everywhere in this province. where I grew up there was an old school house sitting in the middle of a field, and it was said on some nights you could hear children singing, and see lights in the windows...I personally never saw or heard anything. There is also an old house sitting on a hill near what is now Spruce Meadows thats supposed to be haunted. A man was hung there for abusing and killing a child in the early nineteen hundreds. On the anniversary of the event, it is said you can hear either a childs screams, or a child weeping if you go up to the house. This one creeped me out, and I never went near the place.

Finally, there is the legend of the "old barn". This barn used to sit on a farm between Calgary and Chestermere Alberta. It burned down a couple years back...supposedly by the people who bought the farm since it freaked them out.There is an apartment building there now, as the area was swallowed up by Calgary The barn was supposedly haunted by the spirits of men who were hung there..Never heard what they were hung for? I used to drive by this place everyday to go to work, and have seen weird balls of light floating near the barn...which isnt wired for electricity!! In the 90's somebody went in there with a camera to take pictures...They didnt last more than an hour before they reportedly tore out of there running like crazy and told the land owner they saw men with twisted necks floating in the barn. They conveniently left the camera in the barn, and when they went back to get it, either the camera..or the film? was gone...dont remember which exactly anymore.

[MeerkatMego]

In Virginia we have Chessie, a Loch Ness monster type creature which lives in the Chesapeake Bay and adjoining rivers. There were regular Chessie sightings in the 70's, 80's and mid 90's, but I haven't heard anything about her in several years. Maybe she got tried of dodging speedboats and headed out to sea.

The city of Richmond, VA is rotten with ghost stories. If you believe the tour guides and ghost hunters it's over run with the ghosts of Civil War soldiers and spurred lovers.

[YANOULI]

The 25 foot long, great white shark that supposedly prowls the kelp beds of my favorite, local dive spot. I've seen some decapitated seals in the area, but most likely the victim of a boat prop...

SC

That's no boating accident.

[palitoy]

I grew up in a town with a large psyche hospital at the lake. There were tons of stories about people getting taken in the middle of the night by escaped patients.

We also had "Salem's lot" a supposed haunted field where people had died in a car crash and came back every night. The ghosts I saw there were mostly super high teenagers.

[enyawd72]

This is a great topic!!

I'm lucky enough to have FOUR scary local legends in NE Ohio!

1. Chestnut Grove Cemetery: Supposedly very haunted, contains mass grave of the Ashtabula Train disaster victims...many apparitions seen and photographed.
2. Tinker's Hollow: Stop on the covered bridge at midnight and shut you car off, you'll supposedly see a screaming witch and Old Man Tinker, who hung himself.
3. Bigfoot: Tons of sightings in and around the gulf, Rock Creek and Roaming Shores
4. Melon Heads: Strange Gollum-like demonic creatures with glowing yellow eyes said to inhabit the woods along the Chagrin River