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[DynoReads]

Every community has them, scary or spooky stories, about a place, or a character who lived there. Let's share our local legends....

 

[DynoReads]

Gudgeonville Bridge and Devil's Backbone/Oxbow

 

The Gudgeonville Covered Bridge had always been a popular place to visit because of superstition that surrounds the bridge. Locals believed that the bridge was haunted. A sheer cliff made of shale, nicknamed the "Ox's Bow," flanked the bridge. Many people erroneously believe this cliff to be called the Devil's Backbone, but that is actually a two sided cliff some miles away. Unexplained screams in the middle of the night from the surrounding woods was said to be the result of children who have fallen from the cliff to their deaths.

Another unexplained phenomenon was the sound of hooves on wood and occasional braying coming from the bridge. One story is that a mule was beaten to death on the bridge by its drunken owner because it refused to cross the bridge. Another story involves the mule having a heart attack from being spooked by a calliope playing on a barge going down on the nearby canal. (This second one is not possible, as the canal was gone before the bridge was built)

 

The story as I was told: Obidiah Mills, a farmer, had taken his mule to town to sell his crop. Got drunk and was stumbling back home after midnight. His mule balked and refused to cross the bridge. Mr. Mills picked up a stick and beat the animal trying to force it across, and beat the poor creature to death. The stories differ on the time that passed, some say the next market day, others the next year. After a rainy trip to town, Mr. Mills started home when the rain cleared at midnight. He was found dead on the road before the bridge, covered in mule hoof prints, but there were no hoof prints in the mud around Mr Mills.

Edited October 11, 2015 by DynoReads

[W_L]

Spider Gates Cemetery: Leicester, MA

 

8 ways in, no way out

 

Supposedly at night, there are 8 gates of hell that will send wanderers into death and eternal torment

 

Really cool amateur youtube on this Cemetary

 

Edited October 11, 2015 by W_L

[rustle]

This one's from East Texas, in the heart of the Big Thicket, a huge forested area so overgrown with underbrush, the Natives used to walk around much of it, rather than try to push through. Originally settled by Anglo settlers during the Civil War, deserters from both sides hid in the Piney Woods and built a life there. But the area didn't begin to be developed until the railroad came through, carving swaths through the vegetation.

 

In the 30s, one of the abandoned railroad right-of-ways got turned into an unpaved road. It's got a County Road number, but everybody calls it Ghost Road. Out there, it gets awful dark under the trees, and travelers on that road at night have often described a spectral glow on the road, like a railroad lantern. They say it's the unquiet spirit of an unhappy railroad worker who fell asleep on the tracks, carrying his lantern, looking for his head.

[Mikiesboy]

Hockey Hall of Fame, in Toronto, Ontario

 

The building was originally a Bank of Montreal branch. It's famous for being haunted by Dorothy Mae Elliott. Dorothy was 19 year old bank teller who shot herself in the upstairs ladies washroom in 1953. Hall of Fame employees have seen flickering lights, doors and windows that open themselves and sounds of screaming and moaning. Some employees have refused to go upstairs due to feelings that they are being watched. 

Edited October 11, 2015 by Mikiesboy

[Defiance19]

The Amityville Horror House.  Amityville, Long Island NY

 

 

 

 

 

Ronald DeFeo slaughtered his family in their sleep, claiming the voices in his head told him to do it. Another family, the Lutzes bought the house and moved in with their kids. Then the weird stuff started. The dad woke up the same time of the murders, every night. There were voices telling them to get out. The kids started sleeping the in the same positions that the murdered DeFeo children were found. They saw demon apparitions, a pig with red eyes, smelled perfume and feces. Doors open and slammed shut, things would be moved around, and they discovered marks and welts on their bodies that could not be explained. They finally moved when they could not take it any more. I think they lasted 2 months. There's books and movies dedicated to this horror. People still claim to see eyes in the windows at night.. 

 

 

If you drive by in the day or at night, it's the creepiest feeling. Whether that's from knowing what happened, it's weird!  

[jfalkon]

In my area there is a place called Devil's Gate Dam.  Supposedly one of the founders of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab released some evil entity into the dam.  The weather channel  recently did a story on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gYlFc8s9A4

[MrM]

My city plays host to America's 'Most Haunted House'. The Whaley House!

It is now a museum at Old Town State Park in San Diego. Many ghost hunters, researchers, and lay persons have experienced the ghosts that still haunt the Old West landmark. It was San Diego's city center for many years during the 'Cowboy Days'. You can visit it today and on Halloween I think they have special hours so you can visit during the Witching Hour.

The Whaley House: http://whaleyhouse.org/hauntedfolklore.htm

 

San Diego has been considered second only the New Orleans for being Americas Most Haunted City. Here are some other places where we have spooky legends! This is probably because San Diego is such an old city with a lot of history.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2013/oct/16/haunted-sandiego-places/

Edited October 12, 2015 by MrM