Tell us where you live..
5by only telling us about your local or regional cryptids, folklore, ghost stories, etc. Anything that is general specific to your area.
For example: Near where I grew up you might meet the Dover Demon which is a small orange eyed demon first spotted in 1977.
or even closer to me you could find Spider Gates which is an old Quaker cemetery that allegedly if you were not careful you might find yourself in the pits of hell.
What are yours?
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Where I’m from? Sasquatch baby.
@riskybryzness So like… sasquatch, baby or Sasquatch baby?
@Targaryen yes
@riskybryzness @Targaryen
/image Sasquatch baby
Elsie the lake monster.
@Thumperchick I knew about this one I think I saw it on a thing on TV when I used to watch that.
America’s Most Haunted Hotel
https://www.americasmosthauntedhotel.com/
@rockblossom ooooh, I’d check that out.
The Exeter Incident; the Barney & Betty Hill Abduction (both allegedly involving UFOs/extraterrestrials); the Danville Devil Monkey(s); the Wood Devils of Coos County; the Legend of Goody Cole.
@ircon96 Going to read up on these, Thanks!
I live in a boring place now. But back in Junior High (it was that long ago) I lived next door to the house of the Miami Springs Trash Can Murder victim, and when we moved out of there, we ended up across the street from The Ghost Of Flight 401’s house.
@werehatrack That’s some luck… or unluck I guess depending on how you view it.
Heeere’s Johnny!
@Kyeh Must be hard to overlook something like that.
@Kyeh Wow…
@Targaryen I’ve been there but never overnight; it felt totally unremarkable in broad daylight.
Just thought of another one:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/blue-mustang
Blucifer, the demon horse sculpture that killed its creator!
One of tonight’s Mehrathon write-ups made me think of him.
Lost Dutchman’s Mine where the ghost of Jacob Waltz waits to sabotage anyone trying to steal his fortune.
Or the Jefferson Park playground, where the ghost of a girl who was assaulted and then murdered in the park — and now her unsettled spirit remains here, stuck for eternity.
@ruouttaurmind Sad, but interesting.
Near where I grew up is the Amityville Horror House.
@heartny Oh yeah that’s a crazy one.
I lived a couple of miles away from the “real exorcist” house for a handful of years as a kid.
@tinamarie1974 That must have been interesting. Did you ever go?
@Targaryen that was in the 80’s and I didnt even know I lived so close until maybe 15 years ago. So nope!
@tinamarie1974 That makes sense there was a “big” murder in my home town that everyone in town knew about. Never saw the house, but I heard about it from my HS librarian who was related in someway. Sometimes you don’t find out until years later.
@Targaryen well and also, my parents may have been concerned about how scared my sister and I would have been if we knew. I was 11 and she was 7 when we moved to a different area, so we were young
@tinamarie1974 When I lived in Monticello, AR I lived a block away from a house that was on the TV show Ghost Busters. Your basic falling down huge Victorian house. Toured it once on Halloween. They had all sorts of things rigged to pretend it was haunted. One of the tour guides was one of husband’s students (we both taught at the same university). She blew it gossiping about many of the “special” effects
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Oof that a shame too.
The Bear Lake Monster.
Ill defined, maybe a serpent, or a baby Nessie or such. Never found because radar/sonar shows the lake is bottomless. (False, 200’ max depth.)
Admitted as a complete hoax by it’s biggest proponent in 1894, but it “lives” on.
@blaineg every largish lake seems to want to claim its “monster”
Also that fearsome creature of comic book back pages: Sea Monkeys!
@blaineg Niiice.
@Targaryen As a kid I felt like a fool for paying hard earned money for what I could have scooped up myself about 5-10 miles from home.
@blaineg Just chalk that up to “life lesson” do people even collect Sea Monkeys anymore?
@Targaryen Looks like Sea Monkeys are a multimillion dollar business. And sexy?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-battle-over-the-sea-monkey-fortune.html?_r=0
I got nothing. I looked. But there’s nothing.
@lisaviolet That’s a shame. Well you can do what I did and read on some of these. I really enjoy all this kind of stuff.
@Targaryen I found something!
Between Mothman and Chessie
@rinrinrin Yup I’ve heard of Mothman but I’ll have to look up Chessie.
Growing up - Burn on big river burn on…
Home of the Gumberoo.
@ExtraMedium Interesting I never heard of this one.
@ExtraMedium @Targaryen He looks like he wants scritches.
When I came along, my parents’ house was three doors down from the corner of a pauper’s cemetary attached to a hospital for people with things like TB for which there was essentially no cure back then. The cemetary is still there, but the hospital was torn down quite a while back, and replaced by a recreation center.
@werehatrack Excellent, any good stories?
Also campfire tales of the Wendigo, but now I understand that they’re not native to the Rocky Mountains, so my scoutmaster was probably lying.
@blaineg Only one way to find out!
In between https://blairwitch.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Hills_Forest and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcist_steps
@cf1 Nice. I enjoyed the Blair Witch Project. Both the movie and the genius of it all.
Loup-Garou
@crow hello from somewhere close by!
couple hours north west of both the Grassman, and Mothman.
In a state of denial mostly.