What's your local scary legendary monsters ?

[johnmiic]

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

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I saw that on tv on Monster Quest and it's in a couple of Bigfoot books.

[jasonmego1277]

Growing up in Boston, It was always haunted ghosts and spirits no matter where you went. Most notable was Salem , Those blasted Witch trials seemed to haunt everything from Cemetary to church , to puritan villages. LOL ..... Witches and ghost sightings were mostly the lore.

[bizzaro megomauler]

there are many many many here but the most popular has to be the "Amityville Horror" there are entire encyclopedias of things that are legend here including "the legend of Sleepy Hollow", famous hauntings and historical sites.

[thomasjo_2093]

Here is ours:

Resurrection Mary is the Chicago area's best-known ghost story. Of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, the story takes place outside Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago.

Since the 1930s, several men driving northeast along Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery have reported picking up a young female hitchhiker. This young woman is dressed somewhat formally and said to have light blond hair, blue eyes, and wearing a white party dress. There are other reports that she wore a thin shawl, dancing shoes, that she carried a small clutch purse, and/or that she was very quiet. When the driver nears the Resurrection Cemetery, the young woman asked to be let out, whereupon she disappeared into the cemetery. According to the Chicago Tribune, "full-time ghost hunter" Richard Crowe has collected "three dozen . . . substantiated" reports of Mary from the 1930s to the present.

John

[YANOULI]

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

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Isn't that one of those skunk apes?

[Adam West]

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

Is it possible that Haunted Bridge is one of those optical illusion type things...put your car in neutral and it appears to go up hill?

That is one real legend in Burkettsville...not the Blair Witch. It's called Spook Hill and they might have even mentioned it in the movie. There were all kinds of Civil War skirmishes and minor battles around since we live close to Antietam and Gettysburg. The legend says a bunch of Confederate Soldiers were pushing a cannon uphilll when they were all killed themselves by cannon fire. A local farmer was given some money and asked to give them a proper burial. Apparently he dumped them in a dry well so if you put your car in neutral, the soldiers are known to push your car uphill. It sits on private property with a sign "No Trespassing" so we have never actually tried it but know people who have and they did say it does look like the car is moving up hill.