What's your local scary legendary monsters ?

[MysteryWho]

Great stories! Keep 'em comin'! There were lots of creepy places around where I grew up, but the stories were always vague and changed depending on which kid told you.
Of course, the native legend that was common in this area before was the Wendigo. Not so much a hairy beast, although he's been depicted that way, but more like a spirit that possesses you and makes you eat other people. It was a myth derived from people's fear of going hungry in the winter and resorting to Cannibalism. I read an interesting piece about Wendigo psychosis in early Canada. People back then who became mentally ill often took the legend literally and would eat their families and such. Similar to the religious delusions many mentally ill persons experience today in a primarily Christian society.

[Marvelmania]

Marge Schott

That's a great one!!!!!!

[jwyblejr]

Should we have Josh Gates look into some of these?

[Gorn Captain]

It's tall, real tall.
And hairy. It has a long goatee. Wears a scary long black leather coat.....
Big rings with skulls on it.

Locals refer to it as "Meule".....

[megoapesnut]

I was at home one time when I horrific creature burst in my room. It was big and hairy and drooling and I thought it was lights out....

It was m' wife.

Anyone who has seen Creature From Black Lake will recognize that one

[jimsmegos]

I grew up near where Arkansas' most famous "Vanishing Hitchiker" is reported to roam as well as Satan worshippers in the woods. Actually about 8 years ago I went out to the site of an old Indian and Negro slave cemetary near where the hitchiker allegedly roams and did indeed record an EVP of a female voice that clearly says "Help Me". Still gives me the chills.

[ramsey37]

I work third shift at the local Wal-Mart. Believe me, I see things on a nightly basis that would scare the wits out of any ghost or monster
George

[Mikey]

It's tall, real tall.
And hairy. It has a long goatee. Wears a scary long black leather coat.....
Big rings with skulls on it.

Locals refer to it as "Meule".....

.......

Seriously, I bet in Europe you guys probably have some good ones... and OLD ones

[Rextasy]

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





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

[LadyZod]

As thunderbolt mentioned, we have the Skunkape in FL... which really isn't scary. he's just smelly.

But FL has it's share of scary places.

St Augustine Lighthouse (as seen on Ghost Hunters), Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables (they have "Haunted" readings there), Artist House in Key West, Spook Hill in Lake Wales (not scary, just weird), Harder Hall in Sebring, that darn Chupacabra in Miami (channel 7 news had some fun reporting "sightings" in the 90's)...and of course UFOs in the Gulf.

All the usual stuff that can be found elsewhere, right? How about: The Bermuda Triangle!

[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.