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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1092070" data-attributes="member: 1710">Heh. Yeah, and doing a search on killer clowns is useless because all you get are links about this movie! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Ah Wright-Patterson... The stories you hear about that place. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Haunted Ohio books by <a href="http://www.invink.com/" target="_blank">Chris Woodyard</a> are a good source of "true" Ohio Ghost Stories. No boogie men or sasquatch though. <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=";)" />There is a place not far from where I live that quite a few teens looking for a scare head to. Traveling down the road buildings begin to become more sparse, it's quite loneley out there. Eventually you pass The Last Church of Christ (if that doesn't sound ominous, what does?) and soon turn onto Legend Road. The name is probably what draws people.Legend Road is a twisting dirt road surrounded by claustophobia inducing woods. The trees are right on top of the road. At night you can stick your hand out of the car window and feel the temperature suddenly drop when you turn onto the road. It's almost always foggy there at night. Suddenly the fog gives way and you see on your left a set of large tanks, for oil I think. There are three of them and the center tank supposedly contains a gate to hell. It has a rusty inverted pentagram and 666 on it, put there by pranksters I'm sure. Supposedly the tanks are painted over but the writing always comes back. How something so goofy as a gate to hell in an oil tank ends up a part of so many urban legends I do not know.Further down the road is a small church with an equally small cemetary beside it. The headstones mostly date from the 17-1800s and the writing is faded on most of them. Like the rest of Legend Road, the church is totally surrounded with trees. Over the door there is a semicircular piece of wood where there used to be stained glass. Letters on the wood spell out "Wildwood Chapel".All sorts of things have been said about this church and what goes on in it, but I'd say none of it is true. You know how urban legends start...Supposedly people have seen bigfoot type creatures out there (some even say werewolves, pfft). They probably see lots of beer out there too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The woods are dead quite at night except for the occasional cracking twig noises coming from just inside, which are unsettling for anyone standing near the trees. If you've ever seen a show about bigfoot and heard the recordings of the unidentified howl/scream that some think might be made by the creature, well, you hear that out there too sometimes.Many people have gone there at night and claim to have been chased away by people in pickups and vans. I don't doubt it. It's probably the locals trying to protect the church from vandalism. In fact, it's illegal to be in a cemetary at night around here.things seem to have settled down out there since the road was paved. Personally, I don't think there's anything going on out there except teens that aren't familiar with the area going there because they think it's spooky; but this thread is about urban legends, and the aptly named Legend Road is a good example of how a little spooky ambiance and some teens who want to be scared can come together to create a persistant myth.Besides, everyone knows the gate to hell was at the the front door of my high school.</blockquote>

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