[ABOTU]

My brother wanted me to say that everyone thought a girl at their school went off to join SOuth Korean army. it was a lie of course.


The good folks at Tuttle Crossing Mall in Columbus, Ohio breathed a sigh of relief towards the end of April 1998 when phone calls about the horror story then circulating on the Internet began to decrease. It began to look as though they had finally put the damaging old rumors behind them.

As the stories went, a female shopper had left the mall to return to her car and found she had a flat tire. As she set about changing it, a man in a business suit approached and offered to help. She accepted, and together they installed the spare tire without incident.

When they were finished, the helpful businessman asked the woman for a ride to his car, which he said was parked on the other side of the mall. For some reason his request made the woman uncomfortable, so she politely declined. He became insistent. Fearful of his intentions, the woman told the man she had more shopping to do and fled back into the mall, where she reported the incident to security officers.

Later, when she went back to her car accompanied by the officers, the "good samaritan" was nowhere to be found. Since the deflated tire still needed repair, she drove to a nearby garage, where a mechanic noticed that that the tire had been slashed with a knife. It was also discovered that the man had left his briefcase in her trunk.

"She opened it," the story concludes, "and the only things in it were some rope and a butcher knife!"

Link, but it's proven fake here


In a quiet west-side neighborhood of Columbus Ohio, lies a small neatly kept cemetery. surrounded by a low, gray stone wall with a plain, spiked iron fence erupting from its top. This quiet cemetery hardly gets a second glance from passers by, or from the school children that play in the adjacent schoolyard, but this ground has quite an interesting and tragic story to tell. It is the final, resting place of 2,260 Confederate soldiers.

During the bloody years of the American Civil War, Camp Chase served as a primary training camp for the Union Army. As the war wore on, Camp Chase was used as a prison camp to hold captured Confederate troops. The camp officially became a prison on July 5, 1861, when the first group of prisoners arrived from western Virginia. Camp Chase was known as one of the worst prison camps of the era, with terrible conditions and severe over crowding, the camp held up to 9,425 prisoners. More than 2,300 men died here of malnutrition and disease, 2,260 of them were buried in the camp cemetery, in long rows of graves marked by simple stone tablets. With so much heartache and loneliness in its past, it is no wonder that this cemetery has witnessed a long history of strange occurrences.

One of the more persistent and recurring apparitions, is that of the "Lady in Gray." The specter of a young woman, dressed in a lady's gray traveling suit, a typical fashion for women in the late 1860's, is seen walking through the cemetery. Her head held low, she appears to be weeping. By some accounts, she has been witnessed walking through trees, tombstones, and even disappearing through the stone wall surrounding the cemetery. The "Lady in Gray" is thought to be the spirit that frequently leaves flowers at the head of one of the graves. These mysterious (fresh) flowers have been seen many times over the last 130 years, and always at the same grave stone. On several occasions, local residents have reported hearing the sounds of a woman weeping forlornly, coming from inside the enclosed plot, when patrolling police officers have investigated, no one is ever found.

this link,

[MK ULTRA]

We have a two headed,six legged Fox that prowls the night.
One half of it is normal but the other is disfigured and evil.Its two extra limbs barely touching the floor,narled up and mutated.Its bad head always fighting with the good head.
It lives somewhere in Crane Park,only coming out at night to go through rubbish and is even rumoured to of killed a few cows recently.

[wrighty]

Is that true. Cool but very scary.

[immyownenemy]

I live in North East UK, not much happens. Whitby's not far off, a few stories from there but I know not of them.

My band practices in a boxing club, that place is the scariest place ever. Last time we heard breathing from the back behind a curtain, today I heard women walking down stairs and talking (the back parts are all locked), then we started to receive some German talking through the guitarists amp - I never knew it was possible to pick up any German radio on an amp, did you? There's an air about the place.

However, I'm open minded about ghosts unless I'm having an encounter, I'd rather tell myself I didn't see a ghost and carry on.

Apparently a man commited suicide by jumping off a bridge in midday, landed dead center in the middle of a schools playground. Yes, it was breaktime. I can't verify this sadly, but I remember hearing it somewhere around here.

[Zane Zackerly]

Here in New Mexico (and West Texas) there is La Llorona (pronounced Yorona).

Supposedly a woman murdered her children and chopped them into pieces. She threw the pieces into the Rio Grande.

Now she is doomed to walk the river banks, irrigation canals, etc., looking for her children because she can't enter the afterlife/Heaven/whatever until she locates them.

Now, I'm not saying the legend is true, but many people have reported hearing the sound of a woman crying around waterways just after sundown.

[Rare and Unusual Human Creature]

Well, I'm in New Jersey, and there is alot of weird stuff here. (Weird NJ Magazine) The biggest legend, of course, is The Jersey Devil. But I'm not really familiar with any particular tales from close by.

[JennRose]

About 45 minutes from where I live now there is a an old burned-down mansion with a very creepy history. It's called Corpsewood and it's supposedly haunted. Our very own Michelle's actually been there and has promised to take me!

This ink has some "adult themes" in it, but nothing graphic: http://www.graveaddi...om/corpsem.html

And where I grew up there was a lake/river monster called Altamahaha (I'm serious) in the Altamaha River.

http://www.gabooks.com/altahaha.shtml

[Artemis.the.Hunter]

in one place i lived, there was a legend that there was a werewolf that lived up on the hill. now, i had a friend who scared easily, and me and another friend decided it would be hilarious if we stood outside his house at 1 in the morning, howling like wolves and making as much noise as possible my friend NEVER went out after dark, because of that he still doesn't know what we done

[Knowledgetruthfreedom]

I live in North East UK, not much happens. Whitby's not far off, a few stories from there but I know not of them.

My band practices in a boxing club, that place is the scariest place ever. Last time we heard breathing from the back behind a curtain, today I heard women walking down stairs and talking (the back parts are all locked), then we started to receive some German talking through the guitarists amp - I never knew it was possible to pick up any German radio on an amp, did you? There's an air about the place.

However, I'm open minded about ghosts unless I'm having an encounter, I'd rather tell myself I didn't see a ghost and carry on.

Apparently a man commited suicide by jumping off a bridge in midday, landed dead center in the middle of a schools playground. Yes, it was breaktime. I can't verify this sadly, but I remember hearing it somewhere around here.

That sounds scary, hearing breathing behind you? That must have been an interesting experiance. These are all great, i hope to hear more!

-Mateo

[rickfury188]

Uh...sorry I accidently posted twice so I edited this one. Read my next post please.

This post has been edited by rickfury188: 17 August 2005 - 08:09 PM

[rickfury188]

I live in Brownsville, Tx, and beause we are on the American/Mexican border, we have a lot of history and folklore/ghost stories. I found one about our local college called Fort Brown.

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[TaintedDoughnuts]

We have scary neighbors who never come outside, does that count as a legend? I think the worst we have in Southern California is the Chupacabra( ) and gossip

[Jeenuh]

Here in New Mexico (and West Texas) there is La Llorona (pronounced Yorona).

Supposedly a woman murdered her children and chopped them into pieces.  She threw the pieces into the Rio Grande.

Now she is doomed to walk the river banks, irrigation canals, etc., looking for her children because she can't enter the afterlife/Heaven/whatever until she locates them.

Now, I'm not saying the legend is true, but many people have reported hearing the sound of a woman crying around waterways just after sundown.

Omgah, another new mexico person.


Maybe some people should post threads with their stories so we have more threads to discuss

[oni1983]

well i live in malta, europe (for those who dont know where the tiny island is ) and we have a lot of prehistorics temples and hypogeums (which are practically underground temples). now there is this one particular hypogeum called Hal Saflieni which is also a World Heritage Site. It's not an urban legend as it truly occured. What happened was that a group of around 20 young students with their teacher went to tour the place and got lost in the tunnels of the hypogeum and were never found. this happened truly but it is creepy. It was reported in the newspapers of the time and today if you want to go to visit the temple you cannot do this on your own and many of the tunnels have been sealed off to stop persons from having the same fate as those students.

[Yelekiah]

Two-headed Turtle. Yeah, I know-it sucks.