Tell me about the local folklore of your city/town/village.

pues en mi pais solo hay relatos desde un monumento a la humanidad donde aparecen ovnis hasta demonios y brujas en la selva

>>17733913
Statues to humanity? UFOs? Demons? Witches? Whaaaat?

>Post WW2
>War veteran gets executed for raping local village girl. Shortly before execution, the veteran exclaimed that he would reincarnate in a specific place.
>Short time later, baby was born at the same location he claimed he was going to return in with a birthmark at the same exact location as the fatal gun shot wound inflicted on the veteran.

>>17734880
And that baby was you!

There is nothing here. That's what they say.

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>>17733903
Paranoid schizo. As if the NSA gives a fuck about you.

Also tripfags go home.

>>17734896
I am home.

Just some boring old swamp monster. Sludgy thing, like 10 meters long, and just kind of chills and hides--doesn't do anything sinister. Locals sometimes say that it really likes beer/soda cans, but I think that's just an excuse for them to litter the shit out of the swamp, because the monster doesn't seem to be eating the cans.

>>17734898
Your home is >>>/trash/

>>17734903
>implying trash is worse than x

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>>17734908
Okay, have fun there then.

>>17733903
in what way could asking about local folklore be considered data mining?

The most a person could get from your answer the town you live in, which they could get from your isp anyway, you fucking loon

>>17734920
But /x/ is home

>>17734931
No one wants you here.

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>>17734936
Oh, woe is me, then

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>>17734943
>I am the voice of reason here.

>>17734943
HEY, DOES ANYBODY LIKE THIS GUY?
>inb4 no one does

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>>17734943
>voice of reason

>>17734965
Not worth it. Tripfags go to >>>/trash/

>>17733844
I attended a paranormal investigation at my local pub and encountered a ghost. Not sure how to feel.

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>>17734979

Hungary
pretty cool folklore in general
similar to polish, like the one you can see in the Witcher series
I've only seen a Lápi Lidérc so far and I'm not even sure about it

>>17734986
Actually, no. It is possible to be a genius without being autistic.

>>17734996
lol

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>>17734996
Do you seriously believe you're a genius?

Sure, here is a story of my local town.

So the story goes like this.
They was a woman named Helen who lived in a large mansion. Her daughter was having a party in this mansion while she was away. Somehow, She caused the house to burn down with her in it.

Helen, struck with grief, hung herself under a bridge. If you go to the top of the mountain that this mansion once sat on and call "Helen come fourth" she is said to appear and chase you away. There have also been rumors of her appearing in the backseat of your car while driving under the bridge where she killed herself.


>>17734986
Ha, You people that bitch about tripfags are the problem, not the tripfag themselves. Contribute or fuck off.

In my village they tell of a pale, skinny, freakish looking creature that was once human, but years of staying in a room playing japanese porn games and living on wierd internet sites and stuff turned it into something else.. something hideous that can never regain it's humanity and rejoin society.

I never saw anything like that though so idk, probobly bullshit.

>>17735047
Why do you need a name? There are tons of places to form an online identity. Can't you just be anonymous so we can judge you by your contributions instead of your retarded ego?

>>17735076
>Is on /x/
>Thinks their IQ is 12 points off from Stephen Hawking's

>>17735076
Nothing special. I score 144 on Stanford-Binet and I'm not a genius. IQ tests/societies are bullshit anyway.

My friend said there was a ghost in his house and it communicated with him but I never saw it.

Oigan alguien me puede imprimir un trabajo sobre la maravilla de los garbanzos?

>>17735133
Jajajajaja. Hombre, por favor, hablo englese

>>17734986
calling that douche autistic is an insult to autistic people

>>17735115
you think if you throw in a little demeaning thing about yourself it makes everything youre saying any less cringeworthy

wolf-men
giants
a well demon / spirit
a crossroads demon who messed with a number of different people. All recall similar experiences.
a pterosaurus flying thing that is said to live in the nearby swamp. My cousin (whom I trust) said he saw it himself.

I'm skeptical about most shit generally but several encounters with these beings made me reconsider. I don't buy it all 100% but people had stories (all similar) about these things for as long as my great grandfather (at the very least) can remember. It's a real old village in the middle of nowhere. These forests and swamps here are old as the planet and are largely uninhabited.

>>17735187
Well yeah! I mean, everyone can relate to being a faggot. That's what makes us human.

>>17735115
"I was tested"
You mean you took the Sanford-Binet online IQ test, full of insanely easy to answer questions? Do you want to hear my score?

>>17735210
I hope someday you are embarrassed by your actions.

>>17735213
Nope. I was kinda messed up in the head as a kid so I've seen a lot of therapists and had lots of evaluations going on.

>>17735213
He was probably tested at school, since he was also tested for autism. Clearly has emotional problems. Explains why he tripfags all over /x/ instead of doing something productive.

>>17735220
>I was messed up as a kid and hence I've been with a lot of therapists
>The evaluations they did on me proved that I am a genius.
K. You even told us your results from Sandford-Binet like they mattered.

>>17735223
That just means he's wasted potential and is going around boasting about it. GG. But look at us all, taking his bait. We should be ashamed.

>>17735229
>be ashamed
Why? At least we know that we're wasting our time here. I'm perfectly happy spending 5 minutes telling a tripfag he's socially retarded.

>>17735223
I actually have a plan.
>>17735219
I will go down in history as the greatest faggot.
>>17735226
Trust me.

Apparently my neighbourhood was built on top of an ancient First Nations burial site.

>>17735252
tripfags belong in >>>/trash/

i'm sorry that idiot guy is even in your thread, OP.

in my area we've got goatman stories on the indian reservations, also this is wisconsin so apparently slenderman lives in the nicolet forest.

in one town there were rumors of kids being kept in barrels on a creepy compound that has guard cars out watching anyone who drives by 24/7. they're a cult, they were also rumored to (if i remember correctly) have a hit list with the mayor's name on it? something like that, i just remember hearing about it but it probably wasn't true.

>>17735282
You're the most useless tripfag ever, that sure you are.

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>>17735297
Lo and behold, the source of impurity

>>17735297
If you love /x/, you will know better soon.

>>17735309
Well at least an equally useless namefag's got your back
>>17735297

>>17735308
Who is the artist of that image?

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>>17735334

>>17735334
Anonymous?

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Come on down, the mountains around, it's fun. All year 'round!

>make thread at work
>leave tab open and go home
>get back to work today
>tripfag has ruined my thread

>>17737446
Sorry, NSA

>>17733844
There's this tale in rural places in my country. It involves a Brujo who shapeshifts into a bird and flies over houses doing sounds.
He was nicknamed "TueTue" because of the noice it does so if you're ever home and hear that you have to say 'come tomorrow'.

Legend says that the next day, a man will come knocking on your door. Tales vary with some saying you have to give it sugar/salt, invite him over for meal, etc..
If the Brujo is to ever be recognized he will die in the next 3 days.

>>17737480
>If the Brujo is to ever be recognized he will die in the next 3 days
I don't get it. Everyone knows of that guy and he's still alive?

>>17737480
If he's ever recognized while roaming or when he's invited over. They are usually hermits so they lay low.

For example, I once heard a story from a teacher.
She vividly remembers the day she was staying over at her grandma and she heard the "TueTue" sound. Grandma said 'come tomorrow' and as mentioned before, a man appeared the next day.
She told me about how freaked out her grandma was saying 'oh shit, the Brujo is coming, follow my lead, don't ask questions'.

So the man comes inside the house, greets everyone and sits down for tea time. She then recalls that her grandpa (popular man in the village who knew everyone) came into the house after work and very naturally greeted the guest like if they were already acquainted.

She then told me that they found the man's lifless body in the middle of the woods after a few days

this
>>17737522

for
>>17737491

>>17737522
>If he's ever recognized while roaming or when he's invited over. They are usually hermits so they lay low.
Well, of couse he's always recognized when he comes over because he baits people to invite him.
>For example, I once heard a story from a teacher.
Shouldn't teachers be teaching stuff, and not telling childhood stories?
>She vividly remembers the day she was staying over at her grandma and she heard the "TueTue" sound. Grandma said 'come tomorrow' and as mentioned before, a man appeared the next day.
Because they knew it was him, he was recognized right there.
>She told me about how freaked out her grandma was saying 'oh shit, the Brujo is coming, follow my lead, don't ask questions'.
Ohshit, the brujo is already ded. Shame on them.
>So the man comes inside the house, greets everyone and sits down for tea time. She then recalls that her grandpa (popular man in the village who knew everyone) came into the house after work and very naturally greeted the guest like if they were already acquainted.
Well, duuh
>She then told me that they found the man's lifless body in the middle of the woods after a few days
He was dead when he made the toottoot sound.

>>17737555
nah, nah... TueTue's are evil. They fly over cause they want stuff. If you ignore them and don't invite them over they're said to curse you that's why everyone says 'come tomorrow'.
He picks people he knows wont recognize him but this one was unlucky

>>17737576
What if he tuetued over someone prepared to countercurse him or reflect his curse back at him?

where I live there's a story about a lake monster who supposedly killed and ate a woman in the 1700s and her husband killed it but there was another, theres a really old gravestone in the graveyard with a picture of the monster on it,its supposed to be hers

The Clown Lady of Davenport.

http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/bill-wundram/the-woman-in-the-white-face/article_bef5ad88-d72b-11de-9e3b-001cc4c03286.html

All we have is the ghost of some old bitch that walks around a library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Library

>>17738146
http://www.willardghost.com/

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>>17738090
That's a subtle spook anon, thanks for sharing.

About 10 minutes away from me (Cherry Valley, Illinois) Is a road named Bloodspoint. Apparently kids died in a school bus accident over a bridge, and a witch supposedly hung her kids and then herself on the bridge. There's an abandoned house in the middle of the woods surrounding the road, which has satanic symbols painted all around and inside. I've been on the road about 5 times. I stopped at the old old cemetery at the very end of the road (supposedly haunted too) but got spooked when I heard a car coming on the crossroads, but I saw no headlights. It is also rumored that a black truck will tail you, eventually running you off the road. You can read more about it here http://www.ghostresearch.org/sites/blood.html

>>17735047
>come fourth
So who's the three that are supposed to come before her?

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The Beast of Bray Road is a hairy humanoid with canine features that was sighted near the towns of Delavan and Elkhorn in Wisconsin, mainly during the 1990s.
The earliest reported incident happened in 1936 outside Jefferson, Wisconsin.
It was labeled a werewolf in local folklore.
Most cryptozoologists have decided to label it a Bigfoot in order to avoid dealing with the scientific absurdities involved with werewolves.
However, some people think that it is a cryptid canine instead.

People like to make shit up. I've heard countless stories that turn out to be completely unfounded or straight bollocks. To be fair some things do get quite confusing when you look in to them because later events seem to coincide with place names pretty well.

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in my county there is a a urban legend called the hairy hands there has been a number of people who drive over the bridge in pic related who say they see very hairy disembodied hands grab their steering wheels and try to make them crash there have been a number of crashes and even deaths supposedly because of the hairy hands

>>17733844
My town doesn't have any good ghost stories, but I think we have a good set up for one.
There was an abandoned school building in the middle of town. Unused for decades, it became a suburban home to bums and squatters who'd come out from the nearby city, until one day it was burned down in an arson.
Don't you think there's a good chance there could be some homeless ghosts wandering nearby who perished in the fire?

Village and area have the standard UK Wild-Big-Cats myths. Our particular village had its own story that there was a large black cat - a panther, maybe - stalking around the fields and woods.

>Be walking dogs one day
>Halfway across field, wood ahead
>Been to this wood 100x with dogs before
>Suddenly both dogs stop and snarl,
>Hunker down to floor staring at wood
>Won't respond to me at all
>Try to keep walking but they won't budge an inch closer to the tree line
>Look but I see nothing
>Their snarling gets louder
>ohshit
>Turn and walk quickly away

Big cat in wood is my guess. Dogs sense it somehow and shit bricks.

Where I'm from - western parts of Sweden - there's this tale about a local cholera-cemetery. The site itself is old as fuck, situated pretty much smack-dab in the middle of our town (which essentially stretches in a semicircle around a densely forested tiny-ass mountain). It's not an especially remote place, but getting there's still a bitch due to the sheer elevation and overgrowth. Just one of those classic spooky-ass hard to get to places. Buncha tiny, barely recognizable gravestones scattered haphazardly across an uneven, mossy clearing.

Anyways, legend has it a group of ten or so men from town took people afflicted with cholera up there and just straight up murdered them to prevent it spreading further -- fearing for the safety of their own families. Ended up killing about fifteen or so people. Burned the bodies and buried the ashes. Granted they'd die anyways, but i'll bet they didn't go out quietly.

So, one day they bring this young kid up there, and apparently he - prior to being beat to death - says something like "The people of this town might one day forget, but this forest will have witnessed every last second and bring vengeance upon thee in our stead." (roughly)
Fast forward a few weeks and three of the men who participated in the killings were found brutally murdered in the forest. Disembowelled, emasculated and strung up in the trees by their own skin. The rest reportedly succumbed to the illness themselves.

Been there a few times at night and fuck me if it hasn't looked like something straight out of an 80's slasher film-set every time. Can't say I believe it one bit, but it makes for a good story.

In the country town that I spent my teen years there was a bridge called china man bridge. It had one of those old country town stories to it, namely that it was a country town of all white people mostly of german heritage. So the generic story is that its called china man bridge because he hung himself there but knowing the time that it happened and the xenophobic nature of the town its always been accepted that he was actually lynch mobbed.
The haunting part of it comes from the large number of deaths associated with the bridge following that. heaps of cars going off of the bridge into a relatively deep creek.
the story is busted though because it was an old school bridge originally made for one car to cross at a time, and is at the bottom of an L road so that after driving down a long road at high speed if you dont know the area well enough you will fly off the bridge and into the creek. its also at a weird spot in the creek where a lot of run off goes into the creek/gully so kids playing in water would usually get swept into there and drown.

>>17733844
There is this tale, from mountain village in serbia.some hunter was hunting fox, when it was forbidden at that period of the year to go on a fox hunt.so he shot this fox and it screamed like a human child..earlier that day he saw a pale man dressed in all white standing on a bridge.the man said : go on.you have nothing to ne afraid of me. Few days later the hunters son died.

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>>17735339
Richard Moult.

No experiences but there's the story of Sava Savanovic, a vampire that lived in an old mill, he would drink the blood of farmers coming around to mince hay, and moths would be an indicator that he is close by. The story comes from around 1720, his mill is located in Zarozje, Serbia.

>>17739791
Someone should post pics from serbian folklore half a year ago on /x/ i created the thread then but im not at my pc now so i didnt got the pics. But i know some of you got the, so you got my blessings to post them.

>>17739833
I ain't got shit. Make sure you post up a thread with the pic, i'd love to hear some, all i know is sava and a few others from my countryside around Avala.

>>17733844
pasadena ca ghost train
every night around 10-12 you will hear a train whistle from old town to pcc, it was there before the gold line and its the old time train whistle

>>17734936
I want him here

>>17737480
>If the Brujo is to ever be recognized he will die in the next 3 days.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read on this board, congratulations.

>>17739845
Ma, i am from balk too, so yeah..but currently im working the night shift(spooooooky) so im not at my pc where i got the pics.gonna make a thread on balkan mythos these days thought.

Nothing paranormally spoopy, but there were once rumors that one of the cooks at a local fast food joint used to add his own cum to the place's mayo-based sauce.

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>>17734996

I know my country has a thing about black doggers

>>17733844
People think there's a beast in the forest because I chased a boy ages ago. They think it's a gorilla like creature now.

>>17741430
Details.

Or are you just a hairy old pedo?

>>17741432
Nah, we were the same age. I was camping and we heard someone walking at dusk and I chased him for the hell of it. Chinese whispers turned it into a horrible beast that was chasing him and I just never corrected it.

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>>17733844
I live in middle-southern america (North Carolina) and we have a form of boogy-man called a Boo Hag which is a shadowy think that watches you while you sleep and steals your life force.

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The Fremont Ghost Light
>Not my town but close by.
>The story gets a little different each time it's told
>Basically a man gets too drunk goes walking on the train tracks.
>The train comes, somehow, decapitates him.
>Now on warm summer nights, if you stand in the right spot, you can see the light of his lantern bobbing down the track, looking for his head.
>That's been some 90 years ago, now the town's went to a different kind of spooks and I wouldn't advise going at night.
I've never seen it, but I want to believe.

>>17733844
20 miles from the Great Dismal Swamp in southern US.

There's a 6 foot tall bipedal pig that harasses peoples dogs at night.

>>17737582
>the Triple Nine Society accepts a minimum qualifying score of 151 for Form L or M, 149 for Form LM if taken in 1986 or earlier, 149 for SB-IV, and 146 for SB-V; in all cases the applicant must have been at least 16
Only with SB-V, but even with that you are barely in. Still, I doubt you are older than 16. Also the Stanford-Binet test is the easiest IQ test, I would say scoring 148 there is barely above avarage. And 999 was founded by a bunch of pussies who were bullied in the ISPE for their incompetence. It only exists so retards like you can circlejerk and feel good about your 'high' intelligence.

just some generic haunting garbage about a murderer from the rhine.

I live in the UP of Michigan near a Native reservation, other than all the Native urban legends, apparently there's a "Dog Lady" living in the swamps that abducts kids or something

>>17741470
All gore?

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I live in Burbank next to Griffith Park and there have always been rumors about the park being a meeting place for cults. It's not uncommon to walk through the old LA zoo and see pentagrams drawn and sometimes even with animal remains on them. It's said that before the zoo closed down many of the animals had been neglected and died in their cages. There's also table 29 where a couple was crushed to death by a tree, and whoever sits at that table feels like they're being suffocated. For whatever reason the ashes of the couple were spread around the table.

>>17733844
Bell Witch, and a cat girl called the "Wampus Cat". We have a number of others here, but those two came to mind
yay tennessee

>>17741818
Alex?

>>17733844
Not far from my town i norway there is an old huge farm/house from the 1800's witch is rented out to weddings and such that is said to be haunted by an old angry lady(cant remember what her deal was). I was there at a birthdayparty, and the host told us about this old lady and joked about it.
Anywho.. ive never been the one to believe in such things and ofc called BS.
anyway, I later went up to the attic with my sister and some kids, and i was taunting and making fun of the old lady to show herself, just to fuck with the kids.
..A little while later we sat downstairs again and talked and suddenly something grabbed my shoulder really hard. Needless to say i almost jumped out of my seat and turned around, and saw that my sister sitting next to me also did the same thing, only no one was behind us. At the same time i also got this strange fealing like something was really angry with me. I know this probably sounds stupid, but we did not even talk about it when it happend, we just sort of shrugged it off.
You deside, but i for one wont make fun of ghost's again, thats for sure. the old hag scared the shit out of me

>>17733844
I live in a town in England which used to be a huge open field between trade towns. Apparently it used to be a proper hotspot for highwaymen, so god knows how many people were robbed, murdered or raped on the same ground I walked to school every day. There's the odd obligatory myth about phantom highwaymen and sounds of spectral horse carriages, but I've never known anyone who's witnessed anything.

There's also an old tudor hall that was one of Henry VIII's country retreats, complete with old ghost stories about one of his wives roaming the passageways.

>>17733913

Well in my country there are only stories a bout a monument to humanity in the jungle where UFOs appear, even demons and witches

>>17741858
You're version of the wampus cat is a woman?
Huh.
I've always heard tell of the wampus cat being a big black cat that stands on two legs. But again, like with these things, it's always a different story each time.

>>17742392
Shit
Your*

We have this area of hills called Green Mist because as the name
>implies
you can see green mist rising from the ground at night. There was an old military base up on the hills and rumor says the green color is caused by depleted uranium in the ground. There are also legends of a "pigman" that roams the hills at night and chases people off his property.

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I live in Kansas and I've heard somewhere near me has a graveyard where supposedly satan comes to earth in physical form once a year.

>>17733844
Not really paranormal, but I grew up out in the Mojave Desert, near Joshua Tree National park.

This odd Swedish immigrant named John Samuelson moved out to that remote area in the 1920s. Rumor is that he was fleeing something on the East Coast, either the law or a failed marriage.

He lived out in the middle of the desert for many years and carved a bunch of his ramblings into the rocks.

http://stowell.org/jtree01/samsframe.htm

A moose running through a camp between 2am and 4am is a sign of good luck where I come from. I've had it happen multiple times, pretty neat.

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Charles Camselle hospital, sure I misspelled that, but anyways its supposed to be haunted. It was a tuberculous for natives from the north. Tales of abuse and mass graves on the grounds are there.
When I was younger I saw all the lights alternate randomly at different floors years before construction started. Also had a fluorescent tube fight with my brother there so I got some good mercury exposure as a youngin.

>>17742790
tuberculous hospital*

>>17733844
I live in Maine. The local legend here is that sometimes a Quebecois will visit your store while speaking English and being polite. Probably BS though.

>>17733844
The only folklore I know is the Wisconsin werewolf

>>17733844
I live in Arizona south of Phoenix, I grew up hearing about the "lost Dutch mine" in superstition mountain (where it gets its name sake) it's said if you go looking for the mine you will disappear, I've never done it but I have hiked superstion, nothing special, just a mountain

>>17742829
That's horrifying, remember to shoot on sight, or it will nag you about being its own country, and mutter in French about respect

If you ever find yourself in need of adventure up in the UP, then you should investigate the fish market mysteries. There's a friendly little gas station on US-2, they sell gas station stuff along with great homemade fish and jerky. But that shop has interesting history and secrets. I investigated it myself after being given instructions by members of the shop's inner circle.

Like most stores, it goes dark and closes up at night. But for a brief window of time, about 30 minutes in the middle of the night on the first saturday of each month, the lights will be on and the door will be unlocked. Walk in at this time. Do not speak to the cashier. Buy a jar of pickled eggs and a gag license plate, then ask to see "Big Jack". The cashier will lead you to the huge basement and you can meet the big guy yourself. He's 7 or 8 feet tall with a booming voice. He'll drink beer with you and tell you the story of the fish market. Afterwards you will be asked to join the group. To do this you'll have to take an oath to never shop at the rival meat store, the Cut River Store. Then you'll have to drink from the silver mug and you will be given a coin which you can later show to the cashier to get a discount on beef jerky.

>>17742611
Did you ever play new Vegas?

>>17737480
Mexican legends are weird

The San Marcos(Tx) municipal airport's CAF hangar apparently houses the ghost of a dead soldier or two. The hangar holds a bunch of old war planes and is run by a bunch of old dudes. When my dad worked at the airport (not in the CAF hangar, but close by) he told me a story about how he saw this old almost-transparent air force guy from WW2 up on the second level of the hangar. Said it gave him the worst chills of his life.

>>17741447
Or you know... Depression

We have this weird story about a picture of a naked lady that hangs in the attic of this abandoned house where they used to break flax.
But it's only there once a year and supposedly some old guy puts it there.
The weird thing is that I have heard this from different groups of people who were all roughly my age and no one else seems to know about it. Like some sort of secret that only my generation knows of.

>>17735065

Have you tried looking in the mirror yet?

>>17742392
Tennessee had the wampus cat, a cherokee woman who didn't know her place

They say that the Wampus cat used to be a beautiful Indian woman. The men of her tribe were always going on hunting trips, but the women had to stay home. The Indian woman secretly followed her husband one day when he went hunting with the other men. She hid herself behind a rock, clutching the hide of a mountain cat around her, and spied on the men as they sat around their campfires telling sacred stories and doing magic.

According to the laws of the tribe, it was absolutely forbidden for women to hear the sacred stories and see the tribe's magic. So when the Indian woman was discovered, the medicine man punished her by binding her into the mountain cat skin she wore and then transforming her into a terrible monster - half woman and half mountain cat. Ever after she was doomed to roam the hills, howling desolately because she desires to return to her normal body.

>>17742902
Oh I used to play little league with big Jack's boys. Spoopiest pizza parties ever

My Village has some cozy folklore.
Folklore holds that the churchyard will never have more than 99 yew trees and that should a 100th grow the Devil would pull it out.

There was also Pan worship but its died out now...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)

>>17733844
I like that picture.
>steps outside comfort zone.

>>17733844
In my small Texas hometown there is a bridge dubbed "screaming bridge."
Back in the 40's, a girl was gang raped and thrown over the bridge and left there to die. Authorities found her weeks later... The legend is that if you park your vehicle on the bridge, turn off the lights, place keys on the dash, and honk the horn 3 times, you would hear her screams in the distance. Of course, as you all know, (like everything else in /x/), it's all bullshit and proves that people will believe anything if you sound convincing enough. But seeing that this is in a small hick town in Texas, there is no surprise there.

mostly duendes which are like leprachauns but a tad more annoying and mischievous, sometimes even evil. Some people here will atribute any normal/paranormal occurence to a fucking duende, like a kid having an imaginary friend or things dissapearing from you house.
Usually duendes appear when there's a new baby/little kid in the house and will try to fuck them up bc jaleous duende, or if you mock them or the house you live (and that's obviously theirs).
People have different methods to guard kids from duendes, like dressing the baby with their clothes inside out while they sleep, putting a belt under crib, etc.
Also for some reason higueras (on phone to lazy to find the exact translation to this) is a tree that duendes use as home. Some people even cut these delicious trees off bc of that belief. Others leave candy/toys under them as offers.

Mos stories repeat themselves but I've heard a few interesting ones from friends.

I've heard stories of a local fisherman who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for being the best fisherman in town. He began catching so many fishes, he didn't want to stop fishing. So he stayed in the river until nighttime. Since he normally fished during the day, he didn't carry a torch or anything like that, so he couldn't see in the darkness... but he didn't want to stop fishing. So he burned the only wooden thing he had on him in order to produce light: a small cross he always carried around.

After that, the guy lived a normal life. But, when he died, God told him that if he wanted to get into heaven, he had to gather every piece of ash from the burned cross.

The legend, as told by my great grandfather, says that if you go to the river at night without any light, you hear a man sobbing. If you follow his cries, you'll meet a man kneeling in the river, as if looking for something. As soon as you see him, he follows you until he catches and kills you. The only way to get him off your back is to bring a torch or a flashlight and shine it towards the river. He will then jump in, and you won't see him resurface. My great grandfather said he did it with a group of friends, though they didn't stick around to see if he would resurface, they just hightailed out of there!

>>17738209
Good idea. We wouldn't want hard science like Bigfoot lumped in with the bullshit werewolves.

What the fuck is this? Cryptobiological mortgage credit swaps?

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>warlocks, witches, werewolves, ghosts
>picrelated, Kaduk. If you said "Kaduk, take [name]" at a certain hour he'd arrive and kill the guy you named
>various house spirits
>various personified diseases: cholera, plague
>a dragon that lived under a rock and made excellent shoes and shirts
>a troll (?) woman who got shot
>a spirit that strangled people who went to sauna alone

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>>17733844
I live in a small village in western France, around the "Grand Lieu" lake.

We've got two major legends here :

- The lost city of Herbauges. Back in time, there was a city instead of a lake, and people from that city were knowed to be very bad (violent, homosexuel, rapers, etc...). And one day, god decided to flood the city under water.
Yep, you get it, it's the EXACT same story as Sodome and Gomorrah in the Bible. The only difference is that every morning, you can hear the city's bells ringing if your travelling the lake in boat...

- More interresting : the Cheval Mallet, pictured on this post. It's a horse that walks around the lake every night. If you see it, you'll think that he's a very beautiful horse, and an irresistible force will encourage you to try to ride it. When you mount the horse's back, he'll began to run so fast that you'll fall on the ground. He will then trample on you to death.
More info in Wikipedia :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheval_Mallet

>>17735272
Stopped reading at slenderman

>>17738377
And if you listen closely, you'll hear a voice saying "dooooooon't maaaaasturbate so muuuuuch or you'll wiiiiiind up like uuusssssss."

>>17743670
Painswick?

>>17737555
cinemasins: the post

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>>17735308

>>17733844
In my hometown there was always stories of shadow people living in the forests just outside of town. There was also weirdies who thought that mole people lived underneath Mt. Shasta which was a little bit outside of town.

I moved down to Sacramento, only noteworthy thing I've heard of are the houses about 5 miles up one of the main streets in my area where their used to be a japanese internment camp, supposedly they're haunted as fuck.

>>17734996
Too bad that's not the case

Over 200 legitimately haunted houses in my hometown, a restaurant on Main Street is haunted, an elementary school just outside city limits is haunted, several other spooky/spoopy things have happened in my town.
Source: Lived in 2 of the haunted houses, one is haunted by my maternal grandmother.
Other one was haunted by a doctor or patient of said doctor. That fucker had OCD or something. We had to have our furniture arranged in a specific way or it'd go crazy and break things.
Can share stories of living in them.

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I don't have any story anon
But have an image of chilean mythology anyway
:^))

>>17745615
Same guy as this.
There was another instance I've heard a first-hand account of.
Several years ago there was an exorcism done by a local pastor in a boarded up building on Main Street. He refuses to tell anyone which exact boarded off building. I might have a recording of his account on one of my laptops from his lecture on it in his World Religions class. I'll check when I get home if anyone is interested.

Small town resident here:
>3 women were raped and mutilated, their bodies thrown into the river, it was prolly the biggest event here, was in the news and shit.
>River is now completely polluted and lifeless.
>So of course, one of them was indigenous and it's her spirit in the river and yadda yadda.

>There's a mysterious group of people practicing african witchcraft around town, they'll place a dead frog with a sewn mouth or something like that on a random house. The local church has even made a taskforce for that shit. No one's come forward yet, but there isn't really an investigation going on.

>The standard haunted house. Small spooky stuff like the lights turning on and off when it was on sale with no one staying in it, and people have heard voices calling them inside at late hours of the night, they're always alone.

That's it.

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Here's my contribution:
>There were woods behind my elementary school
> People say that a long time ago a hunter was hunting
> Had to fight off a bear
> Bear swipes off the hunters head
> As his body falls to the ground his gun goes off, and the bullet hits a tree that's half fallen over
> Tree falls over and crushed bear
> Locals said the ghost of the headless hunter and the bear haunt those woods

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This family in my town went missing like they just vanish one day they didnt take anything with them and left their newborn baby. No one seen them since and apparently when police investigated the house they found journals on the beds in each bedroom and each journal had every page filled with this W 90 T 88 37 99 T 767 90 T 767 789 65 T 37 228 H 90 65 no ones been able to figure out what it means

>>17742472
>green because of uranium
I want this meme to end

>>17733844
Mississippian pygmies.

>>17742943
Get out. This isn't a place where you are welcome.

Nothing I can think of in my town. But in my county there's a legend where you race against the devil around an old church. If you win you get good luck and if you lose you get bad luck. You know you lost when you feel a strong gust of wind blow past you.

Fairies hang out in cross roads.
They may talk to you at night in their fairy language, random shit you can't understand.
If you respond they'll take your voice or something.

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My town's got a really goofy one:

There's a small gas station store called Davis Market, and supposedly it's at some sort of universal crossroads. Legend tells that if you purchase something from the market, you're fated to return to this city. Doesn't matter how far away you move, you will inevitably be drawn back here by some mystic force.

There's only one way to break the curse, and there are two steps to it:
1. nail a shoe to this one particular tree at the local university
2. go to the geographical center of TN (also located in my town) and piss on it

There's a absolutely nothing
My culture used to have some sorts of fairy-like creatures but nobody believes in such things anymore, at all

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Glasgow's a really old city, there's a ghost sighting in almost every single building. The old museum of transport used to be a war mortuary and had loads of ghost sightings, as well as a few hospitals and such, bridges being haunted, etc etc
Pretty much the entire place is considered SPOOPY but no-one gives a shit.

>Live in Australia
>Aboriginal dreamtime bullshit is a real snooze fest and feels like half of it was thought by children
>Megafauna was killed off so no giant animal-bros anywhere
>Ghost stories are literal copy-pastes from hollywood movies
>Scariest thing is going to a bar on a friday night and not wanting to get assaulted by some two-toothed fuck named Jonno.

Seriously though, Australia is the worst for this kind of stuff.

>>17748591
man that sounds liek some shit made up by the gas station guy to sell tater chips and lottery tickets to retarded dingleberrys

>>17741850
Went there recently. Tons of photoshoot shit was going on for some reason. Wasn't very spoopy sadly.

>>17733844
None.
I live in a rural boring shithole in Québec and there is no exciting legends legend of spoopy creatures roaming the woods or ghosts like you have everywhere in the US.

And no, Windigo doesn't exist.

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Ohio Grassman aka sasquatch
There are several documented sightings in the nature reserve across the street from my parents' house. I'm pretty sure I came within fifteen or twenty feet of one in my parents' woods, and we've had several encounters with them and maybe something else too at my friend's house nearby. I have a hard time going in my woods without a gun anymore, though I don't think it would do any good. I might start sitting out in my car at the edge of the reserve at night and watch/listen for them.

Texas, small town. we have a legend of a man in a black suit, I've talked to dozens of people and they all have a story about him. Dating back to the 40s was the earliest story I have, he's the boogeyman here

Massachusetts, small town Shadow People had many experiences when I was little no recent encounters.

>>17750599
Earliest one, near the river there was a bar and one night while the town men were there a man peered into the glass window, everyone immediately got silent, the man looking in had red glowing eyes, was wearing a suit, and had a top hat. He looked in for about 10 seconds and then turned around and walked away. Everyone in the bar started praying and went home. This was in the 1940s and I have interviewed multiple witnesses at the local nursing home.

>>17748729
Australia has enough real horrors to worry about, it doesn't need any folk-horrors

>>17745005
ye

>>17750961
Truer words have never been spoken.

We had a legend about the woods behind our Catholic high school called the Sister Woods. It was the forest next to an old convent in the town, before it became a city. The forest was supposedly haunted by the spirits of the nuns who had a private cemetery within the limits of the woods.

There were rumors of sighting and curses brought about by the kids who went back into the forest to cut class and smoke the marijuana pots. Some stories talk about the decrepit gravestones getting disturbed, and kids being stalked by the spiteful spirit of a nun until they'd confess their sin at church.

Always sounded like bullshit to me, transparently trying to scare kids into being better Catholics. The first got torn down in the last 30 years to build a new sports ball field, so it doesn't matter now.

>>17734931
>>17734940
>caught samefagging
Forgot to change your name back before replying, you attention whoring autist.

>>17751045
???

>>17735205
>wolf-men
>giants
>well demon
>crossroads demon
>pterosaur

where do you live and when can I move there?

>>17735205
interested. tell us more

I live in an extremely small town in rural Virginia. There's a train tunnel that was always rumored to be haunted. I've never walked through it because my fear of a train coming while inside was always scarier to me than spoops. I just figured it was a made up tame to give teenagers somethinget to do on Halloween night, but I later learned while reading a local history book that a train hauling coal derailed while entering the tunnel I the mid 20s. It killed everyone that was on the train.

>>17751094
Sorry for terrible errors I'm on mobile. Lol

>>17733844
there's a road out in the country near where i live called "post boy road"

a post boy was murdered there for the mail he was carrying. it was something like 200$. but back then that was awesome loot.

anyway, I would explore the wood near there. there are some firetrails and some gasline trails.

one night, my friends and i got drunk at a bonfire, and decided to play capture the flag at 1am. this is my account of what happened.

>i wore a thick gray trench coat because i was young and thought it was cool. i imagined it was like the elf cloak from lothien. (this was 11 years ago)
>i liked to hide behind trees and scare the girls.
>made quite a bit of scare capital.
>decide to up the game and go deeper in the woods, nearer where i think they're hiding the flag.
>hear nothing for 15 minutes.
>decide to look for someone.
>flashlight on, walk around for several minutes
>see a boy in the woods.
>sup brah
>he seems disinterested in me. and he's wearing really dorky clothing.
>try to talk to him.
>he won't listen.
>he keeps teasing me. egging me to follow him
>every time i get close, he's somewhere further ahead.
>after climbing a long hill, i eventually find a road.
>great
>look up and see the old tree branch hanging over the road
>the branch the postboy was hung from
>holy shit.
>look at where the kid was, there's nothing.
>look back at the branch, the kid is hanging from it.
>"please help me down" he says
>run to the tree, try to untangle the hemp rope.
>it takes forever. in fact, it takes like 30-45 minutes to try and untie this rope
>someone runs up and finds me.
>"dude, the game's over, we've been looking for you for hours"
>i dunno man, gotta get this kid down
>look down, there's no rope. i'm staring at a tree.
>nothing
>end up going back with my friend and drinking a lot more and then going to sleep.

wake up the next day and still don't know if it was all real or not. alcohol man.

>>17735205

Tell us about the well demon and crossroads demon

>>17751072
>Sniper hunter
>Rough looking Lumberjack
>Caver, urban exploration
>Troll
>Fruit bat
>Rouse 10/10

>>17738546
UK has those too? I'm in Tennessee US, and we got black panthers here. "Officially", we don't, but there's been so many sightings so often that it's not considered unusual. Most of the locals don't even know that it's considered a cryptid since they aren't supposed to be native to here.

My brother saw two of them up close just a couple years ago. He was outside his house smoking a cigarette and talking to his GF on the phone. Said he heard something running on the gravel of his driveway, turned around, and two black panthers were running up the drive way towards him. He said he about shit himself, but they ran right by him and into the woods. They both had thick red collars on them, he noticed, and when he told me about this that's when I thought of a simple explanation; people get them as exotic pets, and they get loose.

I've seen them myself a couple times (sans collars) on the side of road while driving. My grandpa blew out a tire swerving off the road about 5-6 years ago, trying to avoid hitting a deer being chased by one that ran out in front of him.

A couple towns over there's a particularly quiet country road that winds through a forest. Local rumor is if you park your car at the top of a hill on the road at midnight and turn everything off, the ghost of a girl that was killed on the road will come out of the woods and walk in front of your car. Tried it with my sister once, I didn't see shit.

>>17751169
In uk, all really really wild life is dead, only the soft animals live on... obviously apart from whimsy gay dog lovers thing, an thug dog ghetto toast beasting they're pets as an armed weapon,{police and thugs, an stupid people}

You have small sharks that patrol the waters, as well as crabs and jellieslims going coastal... in uk.

Might get hit by a stag, but doubtful as they act like right pussies, same as all cattle herds mentality being dulled down an deanimalised species.

Everythings really scared of man in UK, only captivated animals are deanimalised completely.

All animals think after a while they wanna be human...

>its a major fk up.

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Northern Wisconsin - The Hodag

Face of a toad, body of a dinosaur, and spikes on the tail. A guy made a really elaborate puppet and convinced locals he caught a live Hodag. Then the Smithsonian got involved and he was forced to admit the hoax.

>>17735308
Regular Show?

>>17738546
Get one of those dogs bred to defend against bears and go hunt the puss.

Caucasian Ovcharkas or those hungarian(?) giant mop looking dogs

>>17733844
Come from a town near Lake Minnetonka called Orono in Minnesota. One day me and my friends in high school started a local legend based off of something we all saw/heard when we were camping one night. We call it the LongLake Beast (the city of Long Lake is between Orono and Plymouth)

The LongLake Beast makes the sound of childrens laughter as it stalks the night. It takes the form of a large two-headed greyhound dog that walks upright. You know those dog videos where the greyhounds stand up with their front legs tucked up all cute? Like that but it has two heads, its too big, and it looks all mangy looking. We still believe this thing is real and it seems to prefer to come out during the summer when people are enjoying campfires which is just about everyone in the lake Minnetonka area.

>>17751198
Go Angel Bay in North Wales about January/February, and try get between a mother seal and its pup.

>>17742907
yes

Live in the town Ed Gein did all his murders......nuff said

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I live in the Pine Barrens, so Jersey Devil and Slenderman. Neither of which exist because I used to ride my bike through a deep forest from 12am to 2am every night alone for a year straight and, while very creepy on some nights, I saw no evidence of either.

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BLACK SHUCK GON FUCK U UP BRUV

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there are occultist rituals on mt ainslie near where i live

>>17755005
Well for starters of fucking course their wouldn't be evidence of slenderman at all. He was literally a fictional character made up for some guys youtube channel. Dude who made the videos even admitted to it all being fake.

Wish you kids would stay off of /x with this bullshit.

>>17755212

That doesn't nullify the Jersey Devil variable, you complete assclown.

>>17739997
see
>>17737522

>>17755256
Did I say anything about the jersey devil though ? No I didn't candyass.

Now if you would kindly go back to bed before your mom realizes you are awake and using the family computer again that would be great.

>>17734900
Thats shitty about the litter.

My apartment is haunted and the dogs know it.

I live in Cleveland Ohio, which was the crossroads for the underground railroad. Also lots of crime. Lots and lots of crime.
>Bone Thugs N Harmony is from my city. Listen to Mr. Oujia ad Crossroads and those kinda sum up the ghosts of Cleveland.