What's your local scary legendary monsters ?

[alex]

As I looked at the number of views it was 666, no joke

[bgrimm77]

In 1984 there was a bigfoot sighting in Webster N.H. that made the local paper. In Ma. there is Satan(Dudley) Rd. in Billerica and Lollipop cemetary

[Mikey]

As teens we used to play on/in this bridge all the time.
For a short time (when it was new) it was the largest man made concrete structor in the world.

Paulinskill Viaduct - outside and inside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvKl4...layer_embedded

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[kennermike]

Well since I live in The Pacific Northwest its always been about Bigfoot in these parts

[johnnystorm]

When I was a kid in Blair County we had the White Lady of Wopsy Mountain...she was supposedly a bride who was killed on her wedding night.Her father did not approved of the marriage, annd gave chase to the couple as they traveled over the Wopsonock Mountain in their carriage. Near the top, the carriage overturned and horses & all went over the side. The brifde & groom were killed. The bride haunts the mountainside, dressed in her wedding gown. On certain nights, if a man drives alone over the mountain the bride will materialize in the car, looking to see if the man is her lost husband.

[johnmiic]

Here in NY we have Sleepy Hollow but that's upstate compared to where I am. There have also been some Bigfoot sightings upstate but nothing like you get on the west coast.

There's The Amityville Horror which is about 40 minutes drive from where I live. The house is up for sale again. The people there swear nothing has happened all the years they lived there.

There have been reports of UFO's in NY in the past. In the 1980's there was a report of one nearby in an area named Flushing by a local college.

Is anyone from Connecticut here? My friend lives up there and says there's tons of supernatural stories in CT. There's even a ghost town named Dudleyville.

[ODBJBG]

Spaghetti and Meatball.

Also Goatman.

[lepage]

This photo was supposedly taken in Sarasota (40 minutes from my house).

http://americanmonsters.com/site/wp-...e2_closeup.jpg

[Adam West]

The Bell Witch here in Mid-TN, which was part inspiration for the Blair Witch movie (and later the subject of another crappier movie).

http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/p...bellwitch2.jpg

http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/p...10L_AA240_.jpg

We also have a local haunted railroad track, which was a fun place for bored college students to hang out during the summer.

I live 5 miles from the supposed hills of the Blair Witch. There is no local legend in Burkittsville, MD regarding any Blair Witch and was told that the writers who lived in more suburban Maryland just picked a random small little town for their setting. I distinctly remember that the town residents became really upset when their little town became the fictional setting for this story. Lot's of stolen signs and grave desecration. Our real local monster is called the Snallygaster...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snallygaster

Apparently, became popular when Teddy Roosevelt decided to make a hunting trip when he was president to find the creature.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Here in Cynthiana, we have the Rohs Opera House (our local theater) and it is said to be haunted by several spirits, most famously, the Lady in White. The owners now host ghost hunts in the building after hours and have Ghost Walks around the town during Halloween season.

One of the tales they tell on the Ghost Walk is the legend of David Sheely. In the late 1800s, Sheely and his friends went fishing up in the night, and came in drunk during the AM hours with a mess of fish. Sheely demanded his wife clean and cook the fish, and she refused. He threatened to kill her if she didn't get up and cook. She still refused, and eventually the men went to sleep (or passed out). When they awoke the next morning Sheely's wife was dead. He was arrested, tried and hung for the murder. Years later on his death bed, one of Sheely's friend admitted to killing the woman. Sheely's ghost has been known to appear to people out walking near his grave.

In nearby Bourbon County, there is a covered bridge known as "The Haunted Bridge". I have heard various reasons for why it's haunted. There was a ritual you were supposed to do on the bridge to make a ghost appear or your car stall. It never worked.

There is a section of Harrison County here known as Devil's Backbone. Teenagers have been know to go to this section with Ouija boards, but I've never heard much of anything happening there. My friends did see a goat wandering around there once, which was a bit trippy.

Chris