[OT] Local or Urban Legends

[Krieg]

Re: Re: Roanoke

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[The_Universe]

nevermind...

Double post

 

[Krieg]

Re: nevermind...

Double post

That seems to be going around! lol

BTW it looks like you beat me by <1 min.

 

[Krieg]

Re: Roanoke

I'd be willing to bet that just about everybody has a local "crybaby bridge", "deadman's curve" (or devil's backbone) & a road with either satanic cultists or a witch living on it.

 

[Pants]

Re: More Roanoke

The Roanoke colony was seeded in 1587 by several men and women handpicked by Sir Walter Raleigh. The colony was left on Roanoke island, while the ships that carried them returned to England, planning to return with supplies in 6 months to a year. For various reasons (including England's war with Spain), he ships did not return as they were supposed to.

When Raleigh FINALLY did return (1-2 years late), the colony had been abandoned, and the crew of the ships surmised that they had been driven out by an Indian attack...but no bodies were found, buried at the site.

Carved on one of the palisades of the fort was the word, "Croaton" and on a tree, "Cro." The crew then supposed that this was the name of one of the tribes that had taken them in...maybe a chief. However, none of the tribes had seen the colonists, and none of the colonists themselves were found.

The mystery endures. None of the colonists were EVER found, nor were any of their bodies. However, there were stories of the odd blue-eyed native american filtering in throughout the colonial period. Nothing conclusive, though.

There it is! (the legend, anyway...I can hardly guarantee truth!)

Many thanks.
Now, I thought that there was something odd about how the name CROATON was carved into the tree, like it was carved too high up for any human to normally get to?

 

[Krieg]

Re: Re: More Roanoke

Many thanks.
Now, I thought that there was something odd about how the name CROATON was carved into the tree, like it was carved too high up for any human to normally get to?

I've never seen mention of that in the various accounts I've read (including quotes from John White himself).

To add to what was posted above, John White had instructed the colonists to carve a Maltese Cross onto nearby trees as a signal to him if there were problems and they had to flee. They were also supposed to carve the same Cross wherever they fled to.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

The only thing I remember that was really Urban Legend-y as a kid was that there were killer clowns (everyone had one of those stories, right?) living in the broken down, junked, ice cream truck in the woods behind my parents house. The rumor was they killed kids and hung them in the truck on meat hooks. Creepy stufff when you are 8 years old.

There was a rash of "killer clown" sightings across the United States during the 80's. Most of these sightings involved men in clown makeup and riding in vans. The vans were usually spotted near playgrounds and schools. Sometimes the clowns tried to lure children into the van, brandished knives, or exhibited some other menacing behavior.
Sometimes these reports indicated vampiric activity as well. These supposed incidents may or may not have been the inspiration for the D20 Modern vampire illustration in which the vampire is dressed like a clown.

More information on the 80's Killer Clown flap can be found in the book Mysterious America by Loren Coleman.

Also of Possible Interest:
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization You can check for sightings by location (I'm in Stark County for the curious among you ).
The Midnight Society Strange things in the New Jersey area.
Strange Nation Unusual phenomena in Australia.
The Shadowlands Ghosts and Hauntings.

 

[Dagger75]

We got this in Florida. The skunkape. I think its bigfoot, or a lost northerner

http://www.floridaskunkape.com/


We also have Snow Birds in south Florida. They are a large migratory species of mammal that come down to Florida from Oct to about to April. They have been known to grind all traffic to halt. It is rumored that they do have vehicles that go in speeds upwards of 65 MPH but cruise at about 32 on the highways. They have also been know to stop at every Palm Tree, Alligator, and Store that sell sea shells they come across.

Thats all for Urban legends in Florida.

Oh something about some dang triangle is supposed to be around here to.

We have UFO's but thats just usally the rockets that do lift off from around here occasionally.

 

[Dirigible]

See what really happened at Roanoke was that they were having a big party, lots of soup. Then...they ran out of bits of bread to dunk in it...and all hell broke loose. The lone survivor of the brutal canibalistic soup-inspired massacre stumpled off into the woods, where he tried to carve the name of the thing that had brough such horror upon the colony... but unfortunatly, he was poorly educated...





In and around Auckland, there are a lot of tunnels, bunkers and gunt turrets, dug during WW2 in case the Japanese tried to invade.

Supposedly, somewhere under Devonport there's a underground chamber, secretly connected to the defense tunnels. It's rumoured to contain American WW1-era bombers in storage. Although some more outlandish tales mention chemical wepaon stockpiles.

 

[The_Universe]

There was a rash of "killer clown" sightings across the United States during the 80's. Most of these sightings involved men in clown makeup and riding in vans. The vans were usually spotted near playgrounds and schools. Sometimes the clowns tried to lure children into the van, brandished knives, or exhibited some other menacing behavior.
Sometimes these reports indicated vampiric activity as well. These supposed incidents may or may not have been the inspiration for the D20 Modern vampire illustration in which the vampire is dressed like a clown.

That's interesting...I guess I just assumed that the clown was a ripoff from that Steven King movie..."IT." Just the commercial for that movie scared the bejeezuz out of me when I was a kid!

And Dirigible, you are a gentleman, and a scholar. "Crouton." I'll be laughing about that ALL day. I can see him, chewing on the remains of a buddy, chipping into the tree...."Crouton!"

LOL. Priceless.