Urban Legends Map

wwkirk

Divine
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nivek

As Above So Below
Interesting.....but I'd like to slap the "person" that made that. The dingbat even left off bigfoot and Champ.

I didn't know bigfoot was considered an urban legend, I consider it a real living creature...

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nivek

As Above So Below
To some yes......but like the others it is still unconfirmed. They left off the Jersey Devil too.

That's not why I wanted to slap them anyway.

Well the title of the map is "Scariest Urban Legends" perhaps the jersey devil isn't very scary...:laugh8:

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coubob

Celestial
Cool thanks i didnt know this about Oklahoma Restless Oklahoma: Shaman’s Portal


Something strange is afoot in Beaver Dunes Park. Located in the panhandle of Oklahoma, the dunes are home to a legend involving the Spanish explorer Coronado, mysterious late night military excavations, Men in Black encounters, and enough mysterious disappearances to warrant the nickname “Oklahoma’s Bermuda Triangle.”

The story goes that Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, as he traversed the area on his quest to discover New World gold, ignored the warnings of his Native American guides to keep away from the dunes. The price he paid was to have three members of his expedition suddenly vanish before his eyes amidst strange flashes of green lightning–a description Coronado himself penned in his expedition diary, calling the phenomenon “the work of the Devil.”

Known by the natives as the “Shaman’s Portal,” the area has since been blamed for numerous such alleged disappearances, although none have been verified, especially in the last century or so. However, locals have claimed to witness mysterious military excavations conducted under the cover of darkness. In the Nineties, after receiving reports of unspecified “strange” findings from an Oklahoma State University archaeologist, one Dr. Mark Thatcher is said to have spent three years studying the area until he was shut down by men with military credentials who fit the description of the notorious Men in Black. It’s unclear whether Thatcher was part of another unidentified university geological team who is said to have studied the area in the mid-Nineties. This team supposedly took a number of geological samples and found strange anomalies that included ionized soil and electromagnetic interference. All of this has led some to believe that an ancient alien spacecraft lies buried beneath the dunes.

A flying saucer isn’t the only thing believed to be buried down there. Apparently, the area is also an ancient Native American burial ground. And we all know that building anything on one of those is generally a Bad Idea.

And the alien connection is only one hypothesis surrounding the area. Theories about the disappearances and the weird lights abound. Is the area a portal to another dimension? Were the missing people transported, or incinerated by the green lightning? Was this some kind of Native American magic meant to protect the tribal gold from greedy European explorers like Coronado?

As freaky–and kind of cool–as all of this is, unfortunately the only thing that exists in the way of real evidence is Coronado’s diary. Every other claim over the last five hundred years or so have been, shall we say, sketchy? Still, it seems that something happened to those lost explorers–something unnatural and extremely difficult to explain.

And that’s enough to keep me from exploring those dunes anytime soon.
 

Wade

Stare..... They are always staring
Any book that features the Dark Watchers (#5) is a o.k. in my ledger
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
since when are the loveland frogmen and the kentucky globins urban legends?
both were pretty well researched humanoid encounters
 
The "Portal to Hell" or whatever they called the silly crap for Kansas is an urban legend for sure. It's an old church where some college kids did some hazing with a made-up story. Dumb as... er, Hell. I used to drive by it often. It was still largely intact when the nonsense started. I think it's gone now, but the stupid story won't go away.
 

starsfall

Believer
The closest ones to me are the Pukwudgies or Annabelle, although I haven't personally heard of any encounters directly with the Pukwudgies, a family friend of mine did go to the Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, CT and told us that he did get some pretty weird vibes from the doll, and other things in the museum, and was told some frightening first hand stories while there...

One urban legend I vaguely remember is a haunted stretch of road in Massachusetts (I think it was Dudley road? there are more stories surrounding this road with tales of nuns being hanged, etc.) where people reported seeing strange things.

Another I personally find horrifying is the melon heads in Connecticut...

The Melon Heads

I've always wanted to drive to the road and check it out but have never gotten around to either...

More local of an urban legend in my area, there's a path behind a hill where my local library is located, right above a river. There's a few small waterfall "drops" along the way that eventually feeds out into a bigger river. Down on the path is a brick building, referred to as the "Powerhouse" that they used for maintenance of the falls, but it was shutdown a long time ago, and it's known that teenagers used it as a partying spot. The story is that a group of teenagers was down there partying, drinking, etc. and one of them went out on the concrete slabs above the water and jumped, but instead of landing where he intended, he somehow hit his head on something below and floated away with the current and down the falls.

Any parties that happened down there after that point were instead happening on a tiny beach inlet next to a power plant on the river, but people would always say they could hear screaming further down the river where the Powerhouse was, and could sometimes see someone standing on the concrete slabs.

As of now, the whole building has been fenced off a few years ago with razor wire and security cameras on top of poles, but when the story first started circulating years ago, anyone could gain access into the building.
 

starsfall

Believer
I remember there being some truth and a kid actually dying in the river when the story began circulating, I'm not entirely sure if he jumped from the slabs, but the article does say he jumped from the dam on the river, and the building is situated on one of the dams/waterfall drops...

Teenager found drowned in Chicopee River identified as Michael Diland of Chicopee

2011 was right around the time the stories started, but they didn't improve security of the actual building until around 2016.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
There have been numerous articles in newspapers from Topeka and Lawrence, probably Kansas City. By real journalists. None of that hodgepodge of blog comments and other unknown sources holds up under actual research. Here's another source I don't often quote (or even bother to read) but it is much closer to reality.

Keep the Hell Out of Stull! - CSI

Thanks, can't believe people are stealing gravestones or breaking them up over this urban legend, its one thing to go there and investigate the scene and hang out for some type of possible experience but to destroy and steal stuff should be obviously over the top behaviour...

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