Does your town have a spooky myth or creepy story that only locals know about?

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Does your town have a spooky myth or creepy story that only locals know about?

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Answer 1

Yes, in my town, a youngster who was lost in the woods for 3 days suddenly showed up on his mom's porch and would not stop talking about the old women in the woods who's feet never touched the ground.

Spooky....

Answer 2

There are two. There is a lady that walks one of the most popular streets in my city pushing a pink bicycle with a black bag in the front basket. I've been told that she lost her son and daughter in a house fire and went insane. Supposedly, the bike was her daughters and the black bag is filled with the insurance money from the house. The second is a bridge filled with graffiti of the names of the people that "died" there. People love their stories. Good luck to you.

Answer 3

Sure. There's an urban myth of civil war age tunnels that lead throughout the city's vast underground. Some people believe it and others know better; however kids still often get trapped in the sewers yearly searching for the tunnels. One side says that the tunnels lead between Union forts and others say the tunnels we're for the underground rail road. Neither are true.

Indeed such a tunnel, one at least did at one time exist, but no longer does. Two centuries ago when this city was villages dangerously sharing land in Indian Country there was tunnel for evacuation purposes in case of an Indian raid. That tunnel lead a fair distance away to a guarded safe house. Neither of these places exist anymore however.

It's just good history these days...but the tunnels are still just a Myth. A true myth really as they really we're based on an actual place and just exaggerated.