Friday, October 22, 2021


Friday already? Wow!

Just dropping in to ask you today's question!

I think we've all heard a scary urban legend or two. Even local legends that may have sent 
shivers up your spine.

Growing up I remember a story about a house full of children that burned down. They say if you drive past where the old house stood, you can hear the babies crying. My older siblings and their friends all drove out there one time or another when they were in high school. Did they hear the babies? I've been told yes. But then, it could have just been the wind. Right?


Did your area have a scary legend? 
If not, what is the scariest story you've ever heard?

17 comments:

  1. Yes i'm sure many places in my home state did.

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  2. Before we moved to our forever home 5 years ago, we lived close to a town that was legendary for the Fouke Monster (which they made the movie The Legend of Boggy Creek from). It's a very sparse populated area and very often filled with very foggy nights. I can remember traveling through there a lot when we had sick relatives in the veteran's hospital in Shreveport during the wee hours before daybreak and the late hours long after sunset and saying a little prayer for no flat tires or car troubles while driving through the area. Can't say I "believe" in the monster, but didn't want to have much of an opportunity to find out if it was true either. :)
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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  3. In the next town over there's an old jail from the 1800's that's now a museum. They say it's haunted and people pay to spend the night.

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  4. Nothing scary here. Supposedly some gangsters in the 20s-30s stayed at a place nearby but that's the closest we have to any legends.

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  5. Wow, that sounds scary and very regional. The only scary thingsI remember from being a kid was the stories of poisoned Halloween candy, which were all to true. I was never allowed to eat a pixie stick.

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  6. Hi, Lisa! I guess the thing I remember most is the stories passed down about haunted houses. I definitely avoided them. As a teenager, I slept in a house I decided (the next day) was haunted. There were noises, during the night, I attributed to others in the house. Next morning, I found out it wasn’t them. I left that day and never went back. I heard others tell of odd things happening after I stayed there, though, so I wasn’t the only one.
    Pat T

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  7. when i was nine, our family moved from Pasadena, CA to Apple Valley onto a ranch. our house was about half mile from the road. half way in between on the other side of the road was an old trailer. abandoned. mom told us five kids not to go into it. it was not safe and very old. well, heck tell a nine year old that and curiosity rises. LOL a friend said it was because an old man had killed his wife and it was haunted. what? no such thing. so with another friend who also didnt believe it was haunted, we went into the trailer. soooo cooool. I mean it had an old wringer washer and very old kitchen things. it was a veritable treasure of antiques. even at nine i could figure this out. there was no dried blood anywhere. we went back a number of times just to investigate. dont know if mom ever knew, but i wouldnt put it past her that she did.

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  8. Our Urban Legend is the very true story of Evelyn Dick. She murdered her husband and dumped his body in King's Forest. They even made a movie about her.

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    1. Do you remember the name of the movie?

      Several decades ago, a woman here killed her husband, chopped him up and though his parts into dumpsters around town.

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  9. I was raised in a VERY small country town. We had an area that was called, "Crybaby Road". Legend had it that if you walked across the bridge at night, you heard the cries of a baby that drowned in the pond there. I never heard it, but many friends claimed they did.

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  10. There’s an eleven-mile winding road, Riverdale Road, connects Brighton and Thornton, Colorado is said to be one of the most haunted roads in the country and is home to urban legends of hauntings and phantom joggers.

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  11. No scary legend or scary story that I can recall.

    jtcgc at yahoo dot com

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  12. I live in a house that's over 100 years old and my family hears noises all of the time and doors opening and cupboard doors openings and things going bump in the night. We think it's our ghost "Fitzy" short for the one owner who lived a long time ago.

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  13. I can understand those who have never experienced anything not believing. And there are so many fake stories out there. People always treat me a little different after I've told them.

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    1. I've heard and even seen a ghost so it's totally real.

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  14. I live in a small country town, we have a rickety wooden bridge way out in the country that goes over a creek, call Green Monster Bridge. At night you can see green orbs appearing not only in the creek water but swirling around the bridge The orbs are dime to nickel size. My kids & I have seen these on more than one occasion. Way back when we first moved here (over 40 years ago) we were warned to not cross the bridge at night, the orbs will drag you down into the water & drown you. We've never crossed the bridge even during the day. nani_geplcs(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  15. I grew up with cry baby bridge and goatman nearby. Kids are still talking about them 40 years later.

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