Which Urban legend/ghost story is popular in your area?

[Nikepallas]

More importantly has anyone had a 1st or 2nd hand experience with it?

[Minimus]

1. a young girl hitchhiker that asks to be dropped off at her house

but when the driver gets there she disappears and he finds out from her parents that she has been dead for awhile. Or something like that.

[RagingInMiami]

3. The man picks up the girl and as he is driving her home

She mentions that she is cold and he gives her his jacket. When they get to his house, she disappears inside and he drives home. He returns the next day to get his jacket back and an older lady answers the door.
When he asks for the girl, the lady breaks down crying, telling him her daughter has been dead for years. The man says that's impossible and explains that he gave her a ride home the night before.
She takes him to the cemetary and on the girl's tombstone is the man's jacket.

[charlie]

5. That old chestnut

made the papers, with quoted "witnesses", when I was living in Hampton Roads VA decades ago. The story made the hitchhiker a hippie-type guy who asks the driver if he knows Jesus. Whatever the response, he replies, "well you'd better get to know him, he's coming back soon" before disappearing, leaving a fastened empty seatbelt.

[Sporadicus]

2. The Grey Lady

Supposedly the ghost of a former librarian who inhabits this place.



Here's a webcam that monitors the 'haunted' rooms at all times.

http://www.libraryghost.com/

[The Straight Story]

4. Buxton Inn (and another place where I used to live)

And I have stayed there several times (and will be again next Feb/March). It is located in Granville, Ohio http://www.buxtoninn.com

I won't detail my experiences there, but I did have some when I used to live in a small town in south central ohio. I lived above a store in a huge place built in 1865. 14' ceilings, long place where you could see from the kitchen to the playroom, dining room, living room, bedroom.

It was originally a doctor's home and office. We had many strange things occur there.

One night while my wife was away visting her family in CA I decided to take a photo of the house to send her mom. I set up the camera on the tripod in the kitchen and clicked. The pic I could tell would be blurry so I snapped a second one.

I didn't get them developed until later. And then sometime months down the road finally scanned them (even the blurry one as I was trying to clean it up, to little avail).

When I did scan they were huge and I noticed something I had not before. Sitting on the bed one could see what appeared to be the head of a child. It was a sillouhette as the room was dark except the streetlights coming in from outside, but there was nothing on the bed in the first blurry photo (and the bed was made and nothing was on it, I was sleeping on the couch while she was gone).

Many other things happened - one morning I got up to go work and the candles in the dining room were lit. I went to bed after the wife had and I didn't light them. These same candles had fallen off before, and once shattered a sterling silver candelabra we had.

My daughter, 2 at the time, would often point into the room (and the kitchen) and say 'mommy, whose that?' and no one was there. She even ran crying once from a room. She seemed to think it was a little boy.

Another odd incident. I was home alone while she was on another trip and my daughter's blues clues doll would go off and say uh-oh. It did this 4 times over the hour on the low toy shelf in her play room (between the kitchen and dining room). I called my wife and while talking to her it did so again. We joked about it being the little boy and I went in and moved it to a high shelf. Didn't go off again that night (though it did later when daughter came home and it was floor level).

I still have the pic (it is large). Will see if I can dig it up if you would like me to send it.

[Minimus]

6. I used to live in Maryland

near where a civil war battle took place and there was this area of road that had a slight incline and the legend is if you put your car in neutral and sit at the bottom, civil war soldiers will push your car up the hill.

People swore it happened all the time. I tried it with a friend on the back of his Harley but it did not work for us.

[WildClarySage]

7. Mothman

is the big UL in these parts.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

19. Must be in West By Gawd too then....

I drove thru Point Pleasant tonight... Funny I drove thru the real "Mothman" Town but it was filmed up home in PA while I was in Nursing School. A bunch of saw Richard Gere....I can't tell you how many times I have been across the bridge they shot a lot of it on.... The Town is up home is named "Kittanning"...Hehehehe, Kinda cracks me up.

[murielm99]

8. Resurrection Mary is a common story in Chicago.

But in my small community, we have a legend about the ghost of a former school janitor.

There is a big, old building in the center of town that used to be a school. It has been remodeled into apartments now.

Anyway, the building has a long and checkered history. It is supposedly haunted and cursed by the ghost of a janitor who hanged himself in the attic when his wife ran away with someone else.

The hanging part is true. You can find the story in old newspapers. The curse may be true, also.

The cops in town like to break in rookie cops on Halloween night by telling the new cop to go to the attic of the old school, where a light has been left on, and a break-in has allegedly occurred. When the new cop comes back from investigating, and turning out the light in the attic, the veteran cops tell him about the legend of the janitor.

[NYC Liberal]

9. Most of those "urban legends" are probably true here.

So much crazy shit in NYC.

[pres2032]

10. Gettysburg: too many to name

a few of the ones from the college are:
A Soldier that appears atop the cuppola on the main Administrative building and "stands guard" over the campus. Two secretaries took the elevator to leave that same building and ended up in the basement where they were transported back to the battle when the building was used as a hospital.

A Civil War Officer which haunts the theatre. He has a favorite seat for performances and supposedly people who sit in that seat at the start of a performance end up leaving or finding another seat. he also takes a liking to females and appears to them. My friend, a theater major, has heard someone running down the hall in the basement when he was the only one there.

A woman in black haunting the building with the Poli Sci, Math, and computer sci departments. Supposedly she made a pact with her boyfriend to jump to their deaths from the bell tower and she did it, but the guy hung on the bell at the last minute. Now she walks around the building looking for another guy to take the "leap" with her.

Skeletons were found when they were building the new campus library, probably civil war soldiers. Their spirits like to hang out on the third and fourth floors.

One night my friends and I were looking at a meteor shower on the battlefield and my one friend went off on his own and heard pleas of "help me!" from an invisible spirit.

I was camping outside on campus with a couple other guys and I felt someone run by and there was no one there.

some scary stuff!

[NaturalHigh]

11. Crybaby Creek

Supposedly, a car ran off the bridge during a flood and a baby died in the car. At night, you can still here the baby crying. From what I understand, that is a very common "rural" legend.

[koneko]

12. The Bridgewater Triangle

It's a large swath of land in Southeast Massachusetts. Covers a good dozen towns in, yep, you guessed it, a triangular shape. Depending on which town you're in, there are all manner of unexplained phenomena - UFO sightings, Bigfoot, cattle mutilation and other X-Filey type things. The one story that scares the crap outta me is from a town that is at the Southwesternmost corner of this triangle, about an otherworldly hitch-hiker.

Here's a link to a description.

http://www.masscrossroads.com/redhead

Mind you, when you grow up in this region, there are all manner of ghost stories, from the early settlers in Plymouth to the witches of Salem & beyond. But this story gets me every time.

[Ron Green]

13. The Hook Man of Lovers' Lane was a popular one when I was growing up.

The couple making out in the car had the radio on softly, when the announcer interrupted with news of an escaped insane murderer with a hook in place of one hand. The girl got scared and insisted they leave; pissed off, the boy guns the car out of there, and upon their arrival at a gas station the bloody hook is discovered hanging from the door handle.

:scared:

[TahitiNut]

15. Yup. That was the most popular here in Southeast Michigan

... when I was in high school. I'd guess some father who failed to turn his daughter into a chrome-hunter spread that one.

[Kire]

17. here, too

only, the hook man was usually found wandering the train tracks

[Reverend_Smitty]

14. Apparently my campus is haunted

A few of them reportedly have been roaming the Rowan campus for years.

Thomas Whitney, a wealthy glass manufacturer whose estate became the campus in the 1920s, supposedly still walks the grounds in Victorian attire, frowning at all the changes that have taken place.

And the ghost of Elizabeth Tohill, drama teacher from 1930 to 1956, reportedly shows up at rehearsals for student performances.

"Once she was said to have joined the chorus line during a musical performance," Stansfield and Martinelli write. "A videotape showed an extra unidentified dancer in the back row."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jersey/counties/burlington_county/cities_and_neighborhoods/9690797.htm?1c

and
Glassboro - Rowan University - Footsteps heard late at night in dorm rooms and strange, low whispers. Occasionally, objects move by themselves and lights flicker.

Glassboro - Rowan University - Bunce Hall - Bunce Hall (1st building constructed on campus) a ghostly lady haunts the upper floor and bell tower area.

Glassboro - Rowan University - Wilson Music Building - When the concert hall was build during the early 70s, a workman fell headfirst from the still unfinished catwalks. Every once in a while, theater works catch a glimpse of him during shows.
http://theshadowlands.net/places/newjersey.htm

Also I heard a story about a Married couple who met in the 1920's as students also haunt the oldest Academic building.

I never saw any of these ghosts myself so I donno if they are true

[Reverend_Smitty]

16. Ohhh this is freaky too

http://southjerseyghostresearch.org/cases3/04061.html

Damn, these people did research in the spooky auditorium that is "haunted" they felt as if they are not alone :scared: I don't ever want a night class in that place!

and a dorm investigation...I lived very close to this place http://southjerseyghostresearch.org/cases/investpage010.html

[Baja Margie]

18. Lots of them

http://gotthere.com/sandiego/Ghosts/index.htm

and

http://theshadowlands.net/places/mexico.htm


A story from my great grandmother on my Father's side. Madeline was only four years old when she became deathly ill. She had suffered with a fever for over a fortnight and her little body was listless, pale, grey, clammy. Noone thought she would survive another day. Outside, a blizzard raged over the Badlands, there was no help, no doctor, only time to wait for a child's death and to wrap the Rosary beads around one's fingers and pray for God's intervention. Two more days passed, it was just before midnight, when from nowhere a
Black buggy pulled by four black horses pulled in front of the darkened farmhouse. The horses were rearing and neying and you could see the white vapor coming through their nostrils, held in check by a hunched driver who was also dressed in black. Edward and Margaret came down the front porch, peering with a latern, not knowing what to think. The door of the carriage opened, and an arm came out, signaling them to come closer. Inside, another man dressed in black with a black tophat reached into his vest pocket and pulled out a vial of liquid. He handed the vial to Edward and said, "Give this to the child." Suddenly, the horses reared and you could hear the whip in the air, and the buggy was gone into the snowstorm before their eyes. They gave little Madeline the liquid from the vial, and she recovered completely in a matter of time. To this day, noone knows who the stranger in the black buggy was.