Urban Legends

[Fairyelf]

Does anyone have any neat cool urban legends..
i think this has been done before but this forum is a great place for them.
I have one!! Let me start..
Ok its the story of La Llorona (the Weeping Woman)
I grew up with this story it was much said in my area...I live in South Texas.
Near the Mexican Border.

I grew up being told it happened around my area..Maybe in Mexico..Im not quite sure.
I found a story about her online and thought id rather send the link than type the whole story here.
Its sad.

Legend of La Llorona (http://www.literacynet.org/lp/hperspectives/llorona.html)

[Aurin]

You want urban legends... www.snopes.com

[Seren_]

I live in a town called Leamington Spa (England), the birth place of a particularly notorious occultist called...Aleister Crowley (and also Wynn Westcott, one of the founders of the Golden Dawn).

One urban legend I doubt you'll find on snopes concerns Crowley and his hometown...my sister told it to me when she was doing her dissertation on him.

Apparently, although Crowley never really had much to do with Leamington after he moved away, he did come back a few times. There are tales and rumours that there was some kind of magical battle that took place at a nearby mansion called Guy's Cliffe - this place itself is rumoured to have all kinds of hauntings and masonic associations (the masonic associations are actually true), and as a result of its own rather gory history (beheadings, broken hearts and suicides etc) and Crowley's actions, it has come to be something of a "cursed place". It was burnt to a ruined shell by an accidental fire caused while the BBC were filming episodes of Dr Who there.

Anyway...the reasons for Crowley's alleged involvement in a magical battle are unclear, but do seem to have involved other prominent members of the occult community such as Wynn Westcott and more than a few Freemasons. Crowley apparently came out on top and as a parting shot, cursed Leamington Spa by erecting a "stone circle" around it (consisting of pebbles strategically placed around the boundaries of the town), meaning that anyone born in Leamington would never be able to leave the town and lead a happy life, or stay away for long.

Certainly the stuff of legend. Almost certainly a big pile of tripe as well...

[Iris]

Ooh ooh ooh...yay! Urban legends!!

http://www.halloween-website.com/urban_legends.htm

Some of my favourite Urban legends are Bloody Mary, the Hook, and the one about the killer in the back seat of a woman's car.

[Gwynna Star]

Does anyone have any neat cool urban legends..
i think this has been done before but this forum is a great place for them.
I have one!! Let me start..
Ok its the story of La Llorona (the Weeping Woman)
I grew up with this story it was much said in my area...I live in South Texas.
Near the Mexican Border.

I grew up being told it happened around my area..Maybe in Mexico..Im not quite sure.
I found a story about her online and thought id rather send the link than type the whole story here.
Its sad.

Legend of La Llorona (http://www.literacynet.org/lp/hperspectives/llorona.html)


Good Urban Legend, but very sad indeed. :sniffsnif I've never heard of that one before. Thanks for sharing it! It seems that many nationalities have their own legends.

[Laurelei]

I've got one from my locale, although I'm not sure how widespread it is.

Seven years ago, I wanted to go and play in the local woods across the road and down the hill from my friends house with her. It's not been made safe for walking through, but we knew some old steps that led down to a clearing area. When her mother didn't let us go, I asked why. She told me that she'd heard a story years ago that there was an old well somewhere in the woods, and that someone had been thrown down it hundreds of years ago because they were accused of being a witch (I think all that is feasible; the woods have been there that long and I'm pretty sure there was civilization nearby far enough back in time). Her mother wasn't sure wether the well had been filled in, and was worried that it might be still open and hidden beneath the undergrowth. For years, I was sure that she olny said it to scare us away from playing down there.

However, about a year ago I went down there with two Wiccans. Looking around, we found what appear to be very old stone ruins. One of them suddenly got a really creepy feeling standing near them. So we looked around a bit more, tried to figure out what they were... and my friend got more and more disturbed. I eventually looked underneath a large shrub a couple of meters from the ruins. And we found what looked just like a filled in well. :ghostie:

Okay, that was lame :p.

[turtlerain46]

In my hometown there is a bridge from the turn of the century that everyone refers to as "cry baby bridge". The story goes that some men had kidnapped a local baby and when they couldn't get the ransom money they wanted that they put the baby in a sack and threw it over the bridge into the river below, and that now if you stop on the bridge and listen, you can hear the baby's cry. Of course it's just the wind blowing through the steel rafters, but it's still a great legend.

[anagarically]

hmmm, turtlerain46, where abouts do you live. In my hometown, there is the same legend. Very creepy bridge, very creepy crying. Just wanted to see... is a great place though... that whole area is.. for the paranormal.. not far from there... is an old.. old.. old.. cemetary.. child cemetary from the late 1700's... early 1800's... really creepy at night.. in the fog...