Famous hauntings/urban legends from your country/region

[rustyshiv]

I search the forum but didn't find any threads like this so I made my own, also I didn't know where to post this so sorry in advanced if it's not the right place.


Texas is full of famous hauntings/urban legends.


McDow's Hole- People have reported to have seen a headless women that walks along the creek bed with her head in one arm looking for her baby. Legend goes that, her family lived in a small house in the late 1800s. When her husband left her and the baby alone while farming, indians came in killed her and threw the baby into the creek. People have reported that their cars would stall, banging on the outside of cars, and some instances of a ball of lightning chasing passersby.

I'll post some more later. What are some of the most famous hauntings/urban legends of your country/state.

[Don]

Great thread.

But unfathomable for a Spaniard.

[Foxy]

Ok, some Italian ones .

Otzi
People who work about Otzi, the mummy of the ice found on the Alps in 1991, mysteriously die. Already 4 people have died, all have worked about Otzi.

Ghost autostoppist

A woman asks for a lift to a man. During the travel the driver and the girl makes short speechs to the man, then she steps out and enters in a house. In leaving the car she forgets something in the vehicle, so the man decides to knock on the door to return the object. The door is opened by an old lady who answers that no girl lives there anymore, the only one was her granddaughter, died many years before.

The Mexican dog

A woman is spending a vacation in Mexico, were she finds a beautiful dog. She starts to give him food and on evening she takes it home. They start to become friend and she decides to take the dog in her country. At the frontier she hiddens the dog in her case and once in her country she puts the dog on her bed and the two sleep together. The day after she discovers that the dog has red eyes and slobbers. She thinks it is rabies so she brings the dog to the vet. The veterinaire controls the dog and sentences that it is not a dog but actually a big swerer rat.

The licked hand

Two parents must leave at home their little girl, she's scared becouse she doesn't like the silence in the house, especially the little sounds she ears here and there. Lucky there is her dog with her and she feel safe.
First time she ears some noises from the bathroom she caresses her dog, and the dog licks her hand. She feels the noises again and again she caresses the dog and the dog licks her hand. The third time she decide to go to the bathroom and control what is the source of the noises.
In the bathroom she finds her dog in the bath surrounded by blood and with the blood somebody has written: <>.

Mammy's helper

There was Tom, a little kid who really wasn't able to don't wet himself and he was already enough old. So the mammy used to tell him:<< Next time I'll cut it so you'll stop to wet yourself>>. The little sister listened and reapeted her mother's words. Once the mom came back home and found the little girl with bloody scissor in a hand. <>.



Others are: Cicciolina was virgin, in Louisiana crocodiles come out of the bathtubes, Heaven and Hell exist (Italians put it on this plane).

These are just some, there is a whole site in Italian speaking about urban legends. I could go on for hours.

[Foxy]

The bug in the ear

A woman in sunbathing on a beach when she feels an harsh sting at her ear. She goed to the doctor and the doctor says that a flea has entered in her ear, but too deeply so it's the case to wait that it goes out spontaniously. Indeed she waits and some days after the flea goes out. The woman so tells the doctor: <>, but the doctor replies: <>.

A finger in the tomato sauce

A woman buys a can of tomatos, opens it and put the sauce in a casserole to prepare the sauce. After some minutes she sees something floating in the sauce. She thaught it was a piece of cork. It was instead a human finger of a worker in the factory where the can was produced. The finger has been milled by a machine.

This legend was told me when I was at the elementary school by a schoolmate and at the time I didn't know that it was the legend, even becouse she told me that the protagonist was his brother that had found a finger in a tomato can. In other version the finger floats in a bottle of pickles.

The pharmacist

A shy guy endly obtains a date with a girl. He says it to his friends and they encourage him to go until the bottom, sexually speaking, and to buy a pack of condoms. As his father is pharmacist he goes to a far pharmacy to buy them. Here the pharmacist, a very sophisticated and mundane gentleman, seeing that the boy is very shy encourages him too: <>.
You cannot imagine his face when he discovered that the girl of the date was his daughter.

[Foxy]

Jammed!

Two secret lovers make sex only in the car, to don't reveal their relation. But one night they were a bit too hard and remained jammed. No way they were able to cut themselves free, so endly they are forced to call for a help.

This legend was told by a collegue of my boyfriend while he was working in the hospital in this version once a couple made sex too hard and remained jammed. They came here (in the hospital) rolled in a sheet, very embarassed becouse everyone in the waiting hall was looking at them.

Super hero style

In the night a woman give a terrible scream. The neighbours run to see what has happened, know down the door and enter in the bedroom, finding her roped to the bed, totally naked. In front of her , on the floor, her husband faint, wearing the costume of Spiderman. It seems that for a strange erotic game he had climbed on the wardrobe and then had tried to throw himself on the bed to free the imprisoned wife. But on the path he found the ceiling fan and the blades were working.

AIDS Mary

A man goes to a bar where he meets a very beautiful woman. They start to chat and there's a feeling between them, so they go to her house and have sex. The day after, when he wakes up, the woman has vanished, leaving a written with the gloss on the glass: Welcome in the world of the AIDS.

Female version: a woman goes to a bar and meets a very handsome and romantic guy. He's very polite and they go to her house. They have sex the whole night, but the day after, when she wakes up, the man has vanished leaving to her only a black rose with a massage: Welcome in the world of AIDS.

[Crossbow]

The Sol pit

In the middle of the forest of the Veluwe there is a gigantic hole, with water at the bottom. It is situated between the villages Ermelo and Putten. People say that in the past there was a monastery at the same spot. This monastery was not a friendly one.... no.... it was an evil one! The monks where not behaving themselves at all. During the night they drank a lot of alcohol, danced, cursed, and did everything that monks should not do. At one Christmas night during a big storm, the monastery disappeared in the ground, leaving a big hole behind. Since that time this place is haunted from midnight till the next morning. At some nights people saw the ghosts of the monks wandering over the dark water in a blue mist. They heard the plaintive singing of the monks......

But the next morning when it's light again this place is so peaceful and serene, that it is difficult to imagine what has happened during the night before.

[rustyshiv]

An old man dies by getting bite by a rattlesnake. His grief stricken son inherits his father's hand made boots. Only to die by getting poisoned by the same fang that was still embedded in the old mans boot.

Another one is a man who met a grisly end when he was skiing and ran into a nest of water moccasins(I didn't want to go swimming for months after I heard that, when I was younger)

[Foxy]

I posted some urban legends, but if you refer to classical fol legend in Italy we have:

The sabba of Benevento

This southern Italian village in Middle Age was a Longobardian dukedom and when Longobards arrived there they were still pagan and brought some pagan costumes. In particular some knights made rituals around a tree to Wodan. With the time under that tree a circle of witches started to practise, during some nights, a satanic sabba. The city is now famous for its witches and its evil forces. The city is also cited in the famous Malleus Maleficarum (the Manual of Evil Spells) in which it was described how to recognize witches.

[Pallantides]

The White Lady of Fredriksten Castle

The white lady or in Norwegian known as "Den Hvite Dame" is said to reside at Fredriksten Castle in Halden, Norway.

She was once the fortress commander's mistress. After her lover was killed by a cannonball fired by Swedish forces attacking the fortress, his remains were never recovered. She killed herself by jumping off the fortress wall.

She has been known to appear near the white tower at midnight. Retellings include waving at people or staring out across the city. Others have claimed she turns the fortress spot lights off just before appearing.

[rustyshiv]

A lot of good ones, they can be famous ghost stories, folk tales, tall tales whatever, I like hearing them.

Here's one from Texas.


After cow punching for about 50 years. A Texas cowboy went on to his reward. There was considerable excitement in heaven when he reached the pearly gates. The arrival of a real texan cowboy was considered something of an event in heaven. Saint Peter himself came right over and insisted on giving the cowpoke a tour. Things were right friendly-like until the cowboy spotted half a dozen cowpokes staked out like broncos. "Why are all those men staked out?" he asked. Saint Peter replied "Those are cowboys from the panhandle, every time we let them loose, they try to go back to Texas."