[Mandy74]

A big black panther type creature has been spotted in woodlands in Northampton. It's a little creepy as we don't have panthers wandering the countryside in England ! I would poo myself if I ever saw it!

[fawkes2]

l have an urban legend around where l live here it is ;

Service Call of the Month

Service call of the month from a Manitoba Gas & Electric residential customer ..

MGE received a call from a customer saying: "My power is out. When you come to fix it be sure to bring a truck with a tall enough bucket to remove the deer".

The customer service rep prudently trying to gather helpful information to help diagnose the problem asked, "What deer"?

The customer replied " There is a deer on top of one of the electric poles on Wilkes Rd about 1/2 mile west of perimeter Rd".

The customer service rep tried desperately to pull herself together and not laugh in front of the customer and replied" We will dispatch someone right way to investigate the power outage. Thank you for the call".

Upon completion of the call, the customer service rep proceeded to share the funny story with her coworkers in the office and they all had a good laugh.

Well, low and behold, the serviceman who repaired the problem stopped by the customer service office the following day with the attached pictures.

Sure enough, the poor deer had been hit by a train & landed on top of distribution feeder pole!

This post has been edited by fawkes2: 08 September 2005 - 10:16 PM

[Piney]

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.

My grandpop, Carl Pierce (Wadanaga) is in that book. It is just so F**** embarrassing. He cursed a highway, Rt 55 because they built it on one of our tribal burial grounds and gave the bones to a rival tribe who dumped them somewhere

lapi'che ni'tis

[kulam]

In the Phils, we have a local urban legend in BF Paranaque called the white lancer along aguirre road. one version goes is that when you go home late one night, a white lancer will race beside you, daring you to go faster kind of driving. but when he opens his window, you wont see anyone driving the car (this has been famous in the 80's, ut now i think the car would be an Evo 8 to cope up with the times

another is the headlight stabber. legends goes that one night a single driver was plying the same road (aguirre road) when a car behind him keeps on flashing the high beams and keeps blowing his horn. the driver ignores this until it reaches the point that he was so annoyed that he stopped his car and approached the car behind him. then the driver of the rear car explains that he saw someone with a knife behind the driver,and was about to stab him,thats why he kept on flashing his high beams and blowing his horn. the guy in the front car, visibly irritated, led the guy to his car to show him that he was all alone and nobody was behind him,lest stab him. but when they approach his car, they saw the headrest and some parts of the upholstery torn open, and lying in the backseat was a big knife. freaky?

[ChrisC098]

Theres a legend of Wilbur the Lawnmower man that mowed everyones lawns somewhere around the 70s but some kid killed him because he ruined something in their lawn (it changes from skatboard to a chewbaca action figure). Then years later the kid was mowing his yard and he was killed by the lawn mower.I'm pretty sure its not true but it's a cool story anyway, well in my opinion.

[wrighty]

Strange story.

[Paranoid Android]

There's an urban legend going around my uni (at least I assume it's an urban legend).

There's a youth correctional facility near our uni (don't ask) and there's always been stories of people walking from uni to the station at night where an "escaped maniac" has murdered the student with an axe.

I can't imagine that this is a true story - it all sounds rather amusing. None-the-less there are people who are scared to death of the path to that station and will walk the other direction (though it might be longer) to get to another train station.

Regards, PA

[Baldwin]

Most of my local legends revolve around fairies. Most of them occur when someone wanders off aimlessly or is by themselves blueberry picking. Most of the time they come out disabled physically or mentally. Others just report being enchanted. In my particular area there was a woman who had been killed, by stoning I believe, for being a prostitute or a witch I think. The name of the rock is "Bonners Rock" on Sick Hill. This happened around one hundred years ago my grandfather tells me.

[ABOTU]

Although this is not where I live now, I used to live in Texas. My aunt was a nurse and worked out a hospital in Austin I believe. I always heard stories of the "Ghost Comforter" when I was probably 5 or 6. it's about a lady who had apparently died in the hospital, and now whenever a patient was feeling lonely or scared, the patient would feel a comforting hand on their shoulder, but there was nobody there. Nobody was scared of her, everybody kinda wished she would come out more. My aunt no longer works there, but I thought I would share it.

[Sense_Gurl]

I live in Indiana and a couple of urban legends I have are:
Gravity Hill, very famous I suppose, a bunch of little kids died on these train tracks when the bus broke down and a train ran into them, now if you park on top of Gravity Hill, the kids will push you safely across, however if they don't that means your going to die by train! We did it once and got a across, also my older sister said that if you go there are midnight you'll see the accident, she did and saw it!
Then we have rollcoaster road, which is really fun to drive on btw, there's an abandoned house there where a single woman back in the early 1900s killed a bunch of men and buried them on her property.
This one is cool because it started a legend!
When my aunt was a baby, her mom took her to the gas station with her, she was in the frontseat in a carseat, and her mom was pumping gas. Well this station guy told her to get her baby and come into the gas station, so she did. Well the guy had called the cops and they came and pulled a guy out of the backseat of her car!

[iaapac]

In 1953, in the region of Mexico where I live, a 12-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a pedaphile at a place where a furniture store now stands. Her name was Amalia Peña Velazquez. Her body was taken and dumped in a well on a property that I now own.

Today, literally every employee of the furniture store has had an encounter with Amalia. She reportedly appears on the upper floor that is now a warehouse for furniture and the descriptions of her are consistent. Amalia's family lived on that upper floor before the building became a furniture store. There are also countless reports of people calling the furniture store and having a child answer and tell them that they have the wrong number. "This is not a furniture store," she says, "it is the Peña Velazquez residence!"
A couple of months ago I was in the furniture store at near the back of the store there were five white wrought iron rocking chairs. One was moving and it did not stop throughout the time I was there. I drew the salesgirl's attention to it and she smiled and said, "That's Amalia. She always does that. She also plays with the exercise equipment and we can hear the weights go bang against the floor."
Is it all true? I don't know. But I do know that there have been moonless nights when strange sounds have come from the well.

[TheLikeness]

In 1953, in the region of Mexico where I live, a 12-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a pedaphile at a place where a furniture store now stands.  Her name was Amalia Peña Velazquez.  Her body was taken and dumped in a well on a property that I now own.

Today, literally every employee of the furniture store has had an encounter with Amalia.  She reportedly appears on the upper floor that is now a warehouse for furniture and the descriptions of her are consistent.  Amalia's family lived on that upper floor before the building became a furniture store.  There are also countless reports of people calling the furniture store and having a child answer and tell them that they have the wrong number.  "This is not a furniture store," she says, "it is the Peña Velazquez residence!"
A couple of months ago I was in the furniture store at near the back of the store there were five white wrought iron rocking chairs.  One was moving and it did not stop throughout the time I was there.  I drew the salesgirl's attention to it and she smiled and said, "That's Amalia.  She always does that.  She also plays with the exercise equipment and we can hear the weights go bang against the floor."
Is it all true?  I don't know.  But I do know that there have been moonless nights when strange sounds have come from the well.

now thats creepy

[AlienChild]

we have a legend in loviisa...
"if u stay too long inside the walls of basion ungern, your spirit will stay inside the walls forever, and you'll never find peace in death"
it was a finlandian soldier who in the end of the 2:nd world war layed a course over the bastion, the legend says he was 20 years old when he died...
at night, we who live near the bastion still hear the screams of dying souls of mankind

This post has been edited by AlienChild: 11 September 2005 - 09:01 PM

[Piney]

we have a legend in loviisa...
"if u stay too long inside the walls of basion ungern, your spirit will stay inside the walls forever, and you'll never find peace in death"
it was a finlandian soldier who in the end of the 2:nd world war layed a course over the bastion, the legend says he was 20 years old when he died...
at night, we who live near the bastion still hear the screams of dying souls of mankind

That is cool! The Finnish, actually the Uralic people in general have an awsome culture and one of my theories is that they contributed to my tribal culture. They were using longboats before the swedes and might have visisted the coast of America. The Finns settled here with the Swedes in 1635 and many members of my tribe have Finnish and Swedish surnames.

lapi'che ni'tis

[cyberbud2000]

Anyone seen the movie "Picnic at hanging rock?" I live about 30 mins drive from there. They say in about the 1900s or 1920s, a group of 3 or 4 girls about 16 years old walked up ther at night, never to return. NO bodies were found either. and if you go up there at night you'll see the girls standing there and so on and so forth....