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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 1091451" data-attributes="member: 1308">Oh, come on. We all know that those were <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095444" target="_blank">Killer Klowns from Outer Space</a>! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So, here's a few urban legends from Ohio:1) My hometown of South Point had an area called Tallow Ridge. Just a little backwoods spot up in the hills. People have been seeing strange things there for years, including 'bigfoot'-like creatures, will-o-wisps, and strange figures dressed in robes travelling deep into the woods. No one wants to venture close to the woods around Halloween, as there are supposedly Satanic/whatever rituals being performed. Of course, they say people have disappeared trying to investigate these sightings, but I don't know of any actual cases of that.The weirdest Tallow Ridge rumor involved Alestair Crowley. Supposedly, he declared that Tallow Ridge was one point on a pentagram that formed over the globe (based on mystic points he had 'researched'). According to this rumor, he had planned to enter a church in nearby Ironton, OH, and proclaim a challenge against God himself... but Mr. Crowley died a few days before he made the trip. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />2) Dayton, OH is home to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. On this base is the famous Hangar 18. Supposedly, after the Roswell crash, all the confiscated UFOs/parts were put on trucks and taken to Hangar 18 for study and storage. Years later, Area 51 was established and the ships were moved to that location, though some of the less interesting parts were kept in Hangar 18 for storage purposes.The best use of this rumor was the old War of the Worlds TV show, where a military figure took them to Hangar 19 to stop an alien from stealing an intact Martian war machine. After all, "What better way to divert attention, than to let people get close, but still be wrong!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />3) Middle-to-northern Ohio has vast cornfields.Kids watch Stephen King's Children of the Corn.Do the math. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />4) Again, South Point supposedly had a church used by Satanists. In fact, a close friend of mine said her aunt was a member of said church. These aren't the "sacrifice a kitten on the altar" Satanists, but closer to Anton LeVey's brand of Satanism. i.e. Do whatever makes you powerful in this life, in exchange for your soul in the afterlife.5) Berea College in Kentucky has a girl's dorm that's supposedly haunted. Girls sometimes hear someone running up and down the stairs and through the halls late at night, but when they open the door, no one's there. Supposedly, a member of the girl's track team used to jog up and down the stairs and hallways for practice, until she was killed on campus, decades ago.{Edited to fix a city. Can't believe I wrote Toledo while thinking of Dayton. Toledo is so much more boring! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> }</blockquote>

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