“People feel something push them as they go down the stairs.
Glasses move or break.”
Here’s a weird thing about me:
I simultaneously love and hate scary stories.
TLDR: I’m an absolute baby.
But like I said, I also happen toadorescary stories.
“I grew up in a small town, the Pine Barrens, home to the infamous Jersey Devil.
The legend goes that the Devil was the 13th son of the Leeds family.
“It wasn’t unusual as a kid to go looking for the Devil with your friends.
I can’t say we ever met him, but we did find the Leeds family graves.
Of course, large parts of that area are named after them.
Still, it’s a fun area if you like spooky.”
alissashu
2.
“The Haunted House with the Black Window in my hometown of Halifax, NS (Canada).
Every time the windowpane is replaced in this old haunted mansion, it automatically turns black and opaque.
There are two theories shared on the streets of Halifax…”
3.
People feel something push them as they go down the stairs.
Glasses move or break.
Ghostly figures appear in photos.
Luckily, its a protected site, and it is a damn good place to eat.
Its practically on the railroad tracks, so the whole place shakes when trains pass.
Really feels like what you want out of your haunted sites.”
kariflherbert
4.
“When I was a kid, we played at Hillside Park in Andover, NJ.
There were also old, dilapidated cabins out in the woods of the park.
It was a great place for kids to spend the days exploring.”
Also, the father of my fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Roseman, helped close it down."
Steven, 53, Jacksonville, FL
5.“St.
Francisville, IL, is a tiny farming community right on the border of IL and IN.
There is a beautiful historic railroad trestle called the Wabash Cannonball Bridge.
Thus, the legendary namePurple Head Bridge.”
seekyou
6.
“I lived in Freeport, IL, during the horrible polio epidemics of the mid and late 1940s.
The rumor was that eating green apples and drinking ice water caused polio.
My husband grew up in Marin County, CA.
The rumor there was that eating cherries and drinking cold milk caused polio.”
Anonymous, 83, Alabama
7.
“Belle Gunness was a local Norwegian farmer in LaPorte, IN.
She advertised for help on her farm, preferring men without close family ties.
She murdered these men and stole their belongings.
She was discovered when a brother of one of these men came looking for him.
Her home burned down, and it is thought that she escaped to California.”
Anonymous
8.
Literally, cheek to cheek, with a huge Neptune statue in the front.
The lore here is that law enforcement completely dug up the yard before all the statues were added.
The cops believe the ill woman died of natural causes, but her body was never found.
“One from the UK here.
A former landlord killed his boyfriend and took him out that way to be buried.
fellfromfiction2
10.
“I’m from Crenshaw County, Alabama, and we have Mary Daniels Bridge in Honorville.
She was supposedly a witch and drove off the bridge either with her baby or because her baby died.
There is a cheap documentary about it as well.”
bubblytiger44
(I thinkthis might be the documentary??)
Someone always knew someone who knew someone who knew the kid that was supposedly taken.
But it never seemed to happen to any we actually knew.
Matt, 50
12.
A prominent founding member of Lake Charles suspected his wife was having an affair with Jean Lafitte.
The husband ran off and was never heard from again.”
Anonymous, Lake Charles, LA
13.
“Back in the 80s, there was a circus in town.
They were using their elephant to help raise the big top when it hit an electrical line.
It electrocuted the elephant, which caused him to fall on his trainer and also kill him.
“In my small town of Lajitas, Texas, the mayor is a beer-drinking goat named Clay Henry.
He also takes bribes.
He was actually elected mayor.”
evildragon45
16.
“The town where I grew up has a cryptid that is a giant turtle.
It was supposedly covered by newspapers in Chicago at the time.
Due to this, my town’s nickname is ‘Turtle Town USA.’
We also have a fair called ‘Turtle Days’ each year.”
Anonymous, Churubusco, Indiana
17.
“In my town, there was a phantom bunny-cat mix.
It would hop around through the neighborhoods, spooking people.
You couldn’t tell if it was a bunny or a cat.
It was a weird hybrid that had us all talking.”
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