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Local Legends
Every town has a history and culture unto itself. And part of that history is legends. What are the local legends around your town or state? Are there mysterious creatures lurking in the dark or haunted locations best avoided?
In northern Wisconsin, there are two legends known by most everyone.
One is of the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag]Hodag[/url]. A fearsome creature with "the head of a frog, the grinning face of a giant elephant, thick short legs set off by huge claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long tail with spears at the end". It's diet consisted solely of white bulldogs. This, however, was a hoax perpetuated by prankster Eugene Shepard in Rhinelander, WI. In 1893, Shepard created a fake creature in a cage which he charged people to see. Occasionally, he would move the "Hodag" with hidden strings, terrifying the viewers. When a team of scientists heard about the rumors and decided to investigate the creature, Shepard was forced to unveil his hoax.
The second myth revolves around not a creature, but a location. [url=https://www.prairieghosts.com/summer.html]The[/url] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerwind]Summerwind[/url] [url=http://coolinterestingstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140127-003206.jpg]Mansion[/url]. Built in the early 1900's by Robert Lamont, it was situated on the shore of West Bay Lake. Early on, the maids working for the Lamont family claimed the mansion was cursed, but were not believed. Later, it is said that Lamont himself saw an apparition and fired his pistol at it. Despite the hauntings, Lamont owned the house until his death. After that, that house was bought and sold many times. One of the more well known owners were the Hinshaws, who would own the building for only six months. During this sort period of time Arnold Hinshaw suffered a nervous breakdown and his wife, Ginny, attempted suicide. After a time, the house would stay abandoned and become a meeting place for young delinquents, In 1985, the house was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, but people still go there to this day. The current legend is that anyone who takes a brick from the building will be cursed and followed by misfortune until it is returned.
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1 ReplyArmadillo bears. Scary shit, man.
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Goat man. That's some scary stuff right there
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Edited by Quantum TItanIX: 9/29/2016 11:26:20 PMI'll look up some for Rhode Island Edit: Here they are: http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/rhode-island/urban-legends-ri/ Great, Freddy Kreuger is based on a Rhode Island legend. I didn't want to sleep anyway
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I've never heard any legends revolving around Olympia.
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1 Replymost of the stuff around my area revolves around places more so than cryptids. Vermont has a lot of haunted places in it. 1. [u]The University of Vermont[/u]: "is not only the largest higher education institution in Vermont, it has more haunted buildings than anywhere else in the state. UVM has bought many former homes in the city and turned them into campus buildings. One such building is the Counseling Center and people have reported seeing there the ghost of Captain John Nabb, the house’s former owner. Nabb causes havoc by knocking over buckets and slamming doors and windows. The nearby Public Relations building was once owned by one John E. Booth, and some think that he makes banging sounds around the building and speaks when no one else is around. One of the most haunted buildings on campus is the Bittersweet House. Multiple people have reported seeing full body apparitions there and the ghost is believed to be Margaret Smith, who lived a solitary life in the house after becoming widowed at a young age until her death there in 1961. Some have seen, in detail, a woman with neat hair and a long dress. Other people have claimed to see a blurry version of the woman. Perhaps one of the most tragic stories on campus is the residence hall Converse. In 1920, a young medical student named Henry committed suicide there. Students have experienced lost items, and unexplained movement of doors and windows." 2. [u]the Brattleboro Retreat Tower:[/u] Formerly known as the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, the Brattleboro Retreat is still a treatment center for mental health patients. It was founded in 1834 and today there are 58 buildings on a sprawling 1000 acres with only 20 of the buildings being modern, and the remainder built between 1838 and 1938. One abandoned and closed-off building, the Retreat Tower, was built between 1887 and 1892 by patients. Legend says that the tower was closed shortly after being built because too many patients jumped to their death. One of the most common sightings today in the tower is a ghostly figure jumping but never hitting the ground."
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2 Replies[url=http://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/loxahatchee-acreage/man-accused-of-tossing-gator-into-wendys-drive-thru-window]In Florida, we have different types of legends...[/url]
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1 ReplyBack in the times of the Civil War there was a lady (named Sarah Jane) and her child who lived down by the Neches River in TX. When the confederate troops came through, she supposedly put her child in a basket and put him in the river out of sight. After the soldiers left, she went to go retrieve her child, but the basket was long gone. She was said to have hung herself that night due to her immense amounts of grief. Legend has it that her wailing ghost haunts a road named after her to this day.
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Well nothing happens in NSW. Victoria is where the crazies are and the awesome dream time stuff are in Queensland/NT
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11 RepliesSee, when you google anywhere in Australia followed by "legends" you get famous people. So, not sure if it counts but the only famous person (worth mentioning) from the NT is Jessica Mauboy.
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My hometown - Know for its soul festivals, and pies.
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In this one nearby village that there is a legend that at a certain time at night a ghostly black red eyed hound will chase you. There is also this one guy who was killed during the war of the Roses known as sir Thomas Vaughan, he was buried at this one chapel and he started haunting and possessing animals. Another dog related story which follows the same Vaughan family known as the black dog of Hergest. It was the inspiration for sherlock holmes: hound of baskervilles.
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Well, I live kinda close to the Winchester mystery house.
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The Majestic Theater in Chillicothe. Even though I'm sure it's not true I grew up hearing that in the civil war they stored bodies in there and that the place was haunted. My school choir sang there a couple times and that place is creepy as blam!
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2 RepliesThere was once robbin hood where i lived in my area.
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I don't have a story in quite that detail. But supposedly where I live a woman had her hand cut off by a bunch of kids who wanted her expensive ring and left her to bleed to death. Supposedly, the blood is still there. It's not.
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Here in East Anglia (UK) we have a hellhound that supposedly burst into a church during a service and killed people, then ran away leaving scorch marks on the door which can still be seen to this day. Cool shit.
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Jack Daniels
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The Rougarou In the Cajun legends, the creature is said to prowl the swamps around Acadiana and Greater New Orleans, and possibly the fields or forests of the regions[citation needed]. The rougarou most often is described as a creature with a human body and the head of a wolf or dog, similar to the werewolf legend.
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2 RepliesGrowing up, three counties over there was Bunny Man Bridge. There were also several stories in Fredricksburg (VA) as it was the location of (and has a cemeteries for) battles in both the Revolutionary and Civil War.
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There's a place in Edmond Oklahoma called the blue cave or something like that. Anyways it used to be a fallout shelter or something because back in the cold war they thought the last place they would bomb would be Oklahoma. So they made one there but guess what. No nukes were launched. So now it just sits in a Forest and pretty sure there's a video about a guy exploring it and he finds a lit fire in the cave part. It's kinda scary because of normal stuff like that
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I am also close enough to the Michigan border that many people from my area have gone to see the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulding_Light]Paulding Light[/url].
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During the Civil War, the Confederacy had a garrison in my hometown and when the Union attacked it from the coast the part of the defense held by noob militia turned and ran, which compromised the entire defense. In order to evade capture, the southern garrison had to swim across a river to the next town over and some of them had to throw their rifles into the river to make it across. Lots of people have gone looking for those rifles. Only one has been found that I know of.
