[Malaria_Kidd]

What great urban legends to read in one place!


The SYFY Channel in 1998 with their Beyond belief:Fact for fiction program was hosted by Jonathan Frakes. For some reason the smiles are covering the right side of this box.

Here is a link to a thread at Unexplained Mysteries...

http://www.unexplain...showtopic=77933

Frank Edwards book about true stories from America all absolutely true may have been where the SYFY group got it's story from Fort Wayne, Indiana? Travel southwest over 240 miles and that is where Frank's legend came from. If I have type Os I blame the Show All smilies.

The Chiller Channel has been showing repeats of Beyond belief:Fact or fiction. Maybe you can catch the show where Remember Pearl Harbor was the words and "Grafitti" was their topic. This skit ended showing a calender date two days before the actual day of the surprise attack. Actually the grafitti on the schools sidewalk was found exactly two years before the attack. To the day!

Does anyone remember that show and Jonathan Frakes summary of the story where he said this was fact?

This post has been edited by Malaria_Kidd: 10 September 2009 - 09:01 AM

[Bountykat]

Ooh, ooh!
I've got one!
I live in Houston, Texas.
Downtown, there used to be this hospital--Jefferson-Davis Hospital--that was said to be haunted.
The geniuses who designed it built it over a ****ing cemetery.
Seriously.
It was a variety of different things, medical hospital, mental hospital, juvenile detention center, etc
Being a hospital, I'm sure many people died there.
It was closed and condemned and eventually had to be torn down--I kid you not--because of a long and frequent string of odd happenings.
Everyone I ever knew who visited the condemned building told me that it was epic-ly weird and a lot of curious instances occurred.
I was too young to go there before it was torn down and rebuilt into an apartment building, but apparently it was a pretty terrifying place.

EDIT: It's on Wikipedia!! haha
http://en.wikipedia....s#United_States

This post has been edited by Bountykat: 23 September 2009 - 06:02 PM

[Mobhitmusicman]

Bountykat, on 23 September 2009 - 05:50 PM, said:

Ooh, ooh!
I've got one!
I live in Houston, Texas.
Downtown, there used to be this hospital--Jefferson-Davis Hospital--that was said to be haunted.
The geniuses who designed it built it over a ****ing cemetery.
Seriously.
It was a variety of different things, medical hospital, mental hospital, juvenile detention center, etc
Being a hospital, I'm sure many people died there.
It was closed and condemned and eventually had to be torn down--I kid you not--because of a long and frequent string of odd happenings.
Everyone I ever knew who visited the condemned building told me that it was epic-ly weird and a lot of curious instances occurred.
I was too young to go there before it was torn down and rebuilt into an apartment building, but apparently it was a pretty terrifying place.

EDIT: It's on Wikipedia!! haha
http://en.wikipedia....s#United_States

Awesome Got an Almost matching!!!

Danvers Hospital outside of Salem Mass was said to be built over the Location of the Thirteen Deaths of the Salem Witch trials!! and of course Haunted

In my neck of the woods! We have a house (now ugly condos where it stood) where a guy lived that everytime he entered a room, it would rain inside the house, Water would just materialize out of nowhere, They thought it was something wrong with the pipes. then the guy went nuts killed someone, got arrested, and when he was in jail, it would rain in the prison cell.
Weird but not quite legend spoke to an officer friend who witnessed this happening!

Unsolved Mysteries did an episode about it!

MMM

[Blackwhite]

My town, Bolton, near Manchester, has an ancient pub in its centre called Ye Olde Man and Scythe.

The first mention of it was in 1251, making it Bolton's oldest pub and one of the Top 10 oldest in Britain. It was, though, rebuilt in 1636, and the cellar is the only part of the original building still in existence.

This pub was also famous for its role in the English Civil War. For it was outside this pub in 1651 that James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (whose ancestor, Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, centuries later, gave his name to ice hockey's Stanley Cup) was hanged for his part in the war's Bolton Massacre.

Stanley was, of course, on the side of the Royalists against the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

On 28th May 1644, the Royalists, led by Prince Rupert, advanced on Bolton and slaughtered 1,600 of its inhabitants. Many citizens of the town were lined up in a row and were run through with swords.



On the night before his execution in 1651, the Earl of Derby had a last meal and a drink of ale inside the Ye Olde Man and Scythe with the landlord. A scaffold was erected right outside the pub. He was beheaded on 16th October 1651. Nowadays, a tall column with a cross on top marks the spot of the execution. And the actual chair in which the earl sat in whilst having his last meal in the pub, and the actual axe used to behead him, are still on display in the pub.

Of course, the earl's ghost has been regularly seen inside the pub. In one room, the ghost of a women in 17th century clothing is regularly seen. As is the ghost of a young girl named Jenny.

In fact, there are supposedly TWENTY ghosts in the Ye Olde Man and Scythe.

A particularly mysterious incident left one woman spooked after she left her seat to find her hands covered in blood!

Barman at the time Neil Rayner said he believed the blood had dripped through the ceiling, although there were no blood marks there.

This post has been edited by Blackwhite: 05 November 2009 - 08:07 PM

[Rhungobains]

Blackwhite, on 05 November 2009 - 08:04 PM, said:

My town, Bolton, near Manchester, has an ancient pub in its centre called Ye Olde Man and Scythe.

The first mention of it was in 1251, making it Bolton's oldest pub and one of the Top 10 oldest in Britain. It was, though, rebuilt in 1636, and the cellar is the only part of the original building still in existence.

This pub was also famous for its role in the English Civil War. For it was outside this pub in 1651 that James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (whose ancestor, Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, centuries later, gave his name to ice hockey's Stanley Cup) was hanged for his part in the war's Bolton Massacre.

Stanley was, of course, on the side of the Royalists against the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

On 28th May 1644, the Royalists, led by Prince Rupert, advanced on Bolton and slaughtered 1,600 of its inhabitants. Many citizens of the town were lined up in a row and were run through with swords.



On the night before his execution in 1651, the Earl of Derby had a last meal and a drink of ale inside the Ye Olde Man and Scythe with the landlord. A scaffold was erected right outside the pub. He was beheaded on 16th October 1651. Nowadays, a tall column with a cross on top marks the spot of the execution. And the actual chair in which the earl sat in whilst having his last meal in the pub, and the actual axe used to behead him, are still on display in the pub.

Of course, the earl's ghost has been regularly seen inside the pub. In one room, the ghost of a women in 17th century clothing is regularly seen. As is the ghost of a young girl named Jenny.

In fact, there are supposedly TWENTY ghosts in the Ye Olde Man and Scythe.

A particularly mysterious incident left one woman spooked after she left her seat to find her hands covered in blood!

Barman at the time Neil Rayner said he believed the blood had dripped through the ceiling, although there were no blood marks there.

Interesting stuff. That's one beautiful pub.

[Rhungobains]

I used to live in Hounslow, quite near the Heath, which was at one time considered one of the most dangerous places in England due to the old Highwaymen:

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Once part of the extensive Forest of Middlesex, and now largely buried beneath the runways of London Airport, Hounslow Heath was for more than 200 years the most dangerous place in Britain. Between the 17th and early 19th centuries, the Heath occupied perhaps 25 square miles. No one was really certain where its boundaries lay, and no one cared, for it was a tract of country to be crossed as quickly as possible. Though Hounslow itself was not large, it was after London the most important of coaching centres. Across the Heath ran the Bath Road and the Exeter Road, along which travelled wealthy visitors to West Country resorts and courtiers travelling to Windsor. All provided rich pickings for highwaymen lurking in copses bordering the lonely ways.

The first of the legendary highwaymen were Royalist officers who "took to the road" when they were outlawed under the Commonwealth. These were men familiar with the relatively new-fangled pistols, which gave them an advantage over their victims, usually only armed with swords.

Perhaps because they concentrated on the wealthy, the highwaymen became popular heroes. No one, except the victims, grieved when the dukes of Northumberland and St Albans were held up on the Heath at the end of the 17th century. And when one audacious villain pasted notices on the doors of rich Londoners telling them they should not venture forth without less than a watch and 10 guineas, the whole town was convulsed with laughter.

The legend now has it that at night you can still hear the gallop of highwaymen horses over the Heath - or something like that.

This post has been edited by Rhungobains: 05 November 2009 - 08:58 PM

[Ryinrea]

Their is a old graveyard called the Humble Nergo cemetery, it was used during the civl war. It supposed to be hunted, by shadow people ectt. But that about it in Humble, oh La Llorona, and I think Old town spring has some haunting of the area.

This post has been edited by Ryinrea: 05 November 2009 - 09:34 PM

[Slender_man]

In my town there is a grey tree that the say if you climb on and stay on for 20 minutes someone will call your name and then take you away to never be seen again. Also there a broken water foutain at my school. They say that some girl was murdered by have her head smashed into it. And that if you push the thing blood will come out. Sadly they took it out.

[MasterAdam]

According to stories passed down through the years, the elementary school I used to go too when I was in 3rd grade is supposedly haunted by a teacher who hung herself in the downstairs girls bathroom.

I don't think I believe that one but another one that I can actaully verify is that the school(Pleasent Hill) was built atop an old Indian burial ground. In the 60's(school's been around since the 20's) a skeleton was found under the school when they were building the stage in the auditorium. Ever since then, starnge things have been happening throughout the years. Especially when I went there. There was this one time when I was the last one to leave the classroom(teacher has also left) for recess. No one was in the hallway at the time. As I went to open the door which was securley shut, it flew open really fast! I went to see if anyone had done it but as I said before, no one was in the hallway.

Anyway, I have more stories if you guys wanna hear them.

[ElChupacabra]

There is a farmhouse near me that ppl say is impossible to walk to at night. My friend went once during the snowy season, he said he parked right out front, and tried to walk from the car to the farmhouse door, but he never got anywhere near, and when he looked at his foot prints, they just went in circles. During the daytime it's just a normal farmhouse.....

[brlesq1]

Don't know if this counts as a legend, but every January 19th, somebody leaves a half-empty bottle of brandy and a white rose (maybe its three) on Edgar Allan Poe's grave. His birthday was Jan. 19th.

[serz]

does anyone know were you can find out about urban legends from your area?