The strangest urban legend in each state

Pleasure and Airy (Michigan) at nightmare - inducing (Hawaii)


We all heard the stories. Whether a "observation" ghost or monster "observation" or another-other creature-observation "- a complete theory of bonkers on Gator's infested sewers - no matter where you go, you are required to meet a legend urban or two. And although some are fun and areted, as the thread of a cereal guru imported a bouquet of black fur squirrels, many seem to be lifted directly from a stack of unused horror movie scripts. The most frightening part on the part of these legends, however, and the thing that gives each narrative a tear of credibility - is the fact that the two states do not share the same.

This is true: among the urban legends of our land, you will find a different story (usually terrifying) around every corner corner. So, without any other teenage, we gathered the strangest in all state stories that persisted and became more and more twisted with each truly told. But just warning: some of these tales can become grizzly enough. This should not be a surprise, though. After all, it is only the human nature of believing a touch of danger - or so the story goes. And for more information on the best preserved legends of our country, do not missThe 40 most durable myths in American history.

1
Alabama: Playground for children dead

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Parents are probably not too eager to bring their children to play on these monkey bars. In the playground adjacent to the most important and oldest cemetery of Alabama, those who are about to pay their respects to the dead have claimed to see swings that moved alone and even the occasional ghost of a child playing . And for more locations to crawl skin across the United States, make sure to check the15 most haunted places in America.

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Alaska: the triangle of Alaska

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Enveloped enough mystery to compete in the infamous triangle of the Bermuda, the triangle of the last frontier extends between Juneau, Barrow and Anchorage. More than 16,000 people have disappeared in the triangle of Alaska since 1988 (whoThe manualReports are a rate of missing persons more than twice the national average). The notable disappearances include the 1972 disappearance of the leader of the American majority of Hale Boggs, when he and many of his staff have disappeared in the airspace above the triangle, should never be found. And for some ideas on other picturesque locations that could be a bit safer to explore, do not missThe biggest hikes in the world.

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Arizona: Skinwalkers

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A legend arising from the Navajo tribe, it is believed that the skinwalkers are normal people during the day, which then turn into animals and make perverse acts (you know: as tormenting the others) at night. Becoming a supposed skinwalker involves committing one of the most odious acts of all: murder a close family member.Navajo is still tight on the legend because they believe that skinwalkers continue to exist between them. And for more trivia linked to the bizarre state, dare onThe strangest summer tradition in each state.

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Arkansas: the monster Boggy Creek

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Alternatively known as Fouke Monster, this beast is the unique tour of Arkansas on the legend of Sasquatch. A Hulking monster would have seven or eight feet tall, the hairy creature has supposedly been traveling through the Arkansas since 1834.

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California: the Hollywood sign haunted

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Like many legends, this story is rooted in fact. A starlet in the early 1900s named PEG Endwhistlemade Is to commit suicide by hurting the "H" of the Hollywood sign after reading a nasty criticism of a cinema critic. The Iffy surface of stories insisting on this enthusiasm, which is now called the lady in white, continues to haunt the sign and sometimes appear as a horrible skeleton figure in hikers in the area.

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Colorado: underground city of Denver International Airport

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Reported at home of underground bunkers, secret society meeting places, foreigners and even lizards, Denver International Airport is always a focal point for Colorado's rumor. Dia Execs happily capitalized on the marketing potential available from these strange legends and even went to maintain a "plot costume party" and open aMuseum style exhibitionIn 2016,containing illustrations of some of the most ridiculous plots. And for some insider flyers tips, make sure to check13 Airport pilots hate flying.

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Connecticut: the house at the bottom of the lake

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Resting in the disturbances of Lake Gardner de Salem is a fully intact house; so much is confirmed-by theCURRENT HARTFORD, Not less. So-called, the house flowed below the surface when a family tried to move it through the frozen lake in the middle of a 19th century winter. The really narrow part is that, to date, fishermen report stributic musical notes on the surface of the lake, emitting supposed to come out of the piano from the hall room.

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Delaware: The Ghost of Justice Chews

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Dover is suitable for the ghost ofSamuel Chew, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware in the 1740s. Apparently, the male was not granted to the respect he deserved for this position because he often mocked his unfortunate surname with a false chorus. sneezing every time he walked. (Ah-Choo!) The legend has his ghost continues to haunt Dover, ready to feel justice on someone else who dares to make fun of his last name.

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Florida: Skunk Singes

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Think Bigfoot, but more feel. Floridians fervently believe in the existence of this evadolished creature - in fact, a researcher has devoted his life to hiking through the marshes of the state in search of the Skunk EPA and even opened a Skunk Ape Research Centerin Ochopee.

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Georgia: the ghost town of Lake Lanier

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It seems that the flooding of an abandoned city with gallons of water to build an artificial lake of man could have disastrous consequences. At least that's what believed to have arrived with Lake Lanier. The lake has acquired a tragic reputation in the number of abnormally high accidental deaths and homicides that have occurred on and close to its waters from an entire community, including a race track, was submerged by the Lake Construction Project in the 1940s.

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Hawaii: night steps

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Said to be the spirits of the ancient Hawaiian warriors, theHuakaiipo, orMarchers at night, Rumors are rumored to browse the island at night, walking in one line while singing and wearing torches and weapons. The legend has that, if you have attended the marchers' night and you do not find you face to face the ground to demonstrate your respect, they might simply kill you on the spot.

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Idaho: water babies

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They may seem adorable, but the fact that this legend stems from a location called massacre rocks should lend a clue that these babies are more frightening than they have not seeming to it. According to the legend, the Shoshone tribe has experienced a terrible famine centuries ago and mothers have drowned their children so that they do not have to die an agonizing death by famine. Some say that you can always hear moaning infants if you are sitting quietly by massacre rocks.

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Illinois: the man who disappears

Consulting a bus at Egypt, Illinois, and you could simply catch a glimpse of the man disappearing. You will not know when you look at them for the first time, because it looks like a normal man, but without fault, it will disappear mysteriously once the bus passes under a bridge. So-called, he died in the bus many years ago and his ghost continues to relive his last moments on the earth.

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Indiana: the cemetery 100 marches

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Strange things happen in aRemote County CemeteryIn Brazil, Indiana. So-called, if you rise the cemetery steps, counting strong that you climb, you will be welcomed at the top of the macabre spirit of the first first entrepreneur of the cemetery, which will proceed to show you, via a vision, how you will meet your end . When you return the cemetery steps, be sure to count in high, if you arrive below the same number as when you have climbed, the vision will be accurate. But if you reach the base of the steps to a different number, the vision will not be reality.

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Iowa: the black angel

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The most bizarre aspect of this statue in the Oakland cemetery of Iowa City is the fact that it has not always been black - it was originally launched in a gold bronze In 1912. She had since become black coal and city murmur that the wickedness of people buried under it dropped and brought it to blacken. (In reality, the phenomenon can probably be tracked until the oxidation process.) Has the legend that if a pregnant woman is heading under the statue, she will make a miscarriage, while others hold that If someone touches or kisses the statue, they will be dead within six months.

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Kansas: the devil chair

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Contrary to what its name suggests, this icon of the popular urban legend is in fact not very president. The story goes that someone pushed a farmer in his well in the late 1800s, and when a smell of vile started emanating from the well, the answer was just climbing up. Over time, the well, which is now sitting at Smack-DAB in the middle of the Alma cemetery, was somehow sealed with the name of the "Devil's Chair", and it says that if someone does the 'Error sitting, it is likely to never be seen yet.

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Kentucky: The Bluegrass Sleepy Hollow

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Certainly, no headless rider has been spotted here, but if you spend enough time on this two-mile road stretch (well named Sleepy Hollow), you may find you that you were hunted on the road by a hearse which seems possibly out of nowhere. . And if you do not know the legend of the original Sleepy Hollow, learn the real legend behind the headless rider by entering the50 famous people who never existed.

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Lousiana: the grung

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Did Louisiana Lore have an exclusive boss of dwarfs and albinos, a collectively called Grunch, used to linger on the fringes of what is now New Orleans. Some warning tales warn that that day, the grunch will try to attract your vehicle by placing wound goats on the roadside.

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Maine: The Legend of Colonel Buck's Tomb

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It does not take a long time to notice the brand strangely fit, resembling a leg, which stains the grave of this former justice of the peace. The rumor has Colonel Buck ordered a burnt witch at the stake. His leg was headed with inflamed outbreak and, in retaliation, the witch has put an eternal curse on Buck's final rest. The tombstone would have been completely cleaned several times, but the leg-shaped spot continues to reappear, keeping the living rumor.

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Maryland: Goatman

Do not be confused with Bigfoot, the Goatman is a sinister creature that often frequents George County lovers, on the ranger of adolescents without a mistrust. AsThe Washingtonian reports, The most scandalous part of this story is the insistence that Goatman results from a series of cruel experiments at the USDA installation of Beltsville.

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Massachusetts: Pukwudgies

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Pukwudgies may seem adorable, but pay attention: these tiny and capricious creatures could be dangerous. According to the oral tradition of Wampanoag, these high knee diabolic creatures have a gray skin and are known forces.

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Michigan: black squirrels

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The existence of these rare and black jet creatures is irrefutable, but their origins in the Michigan region, as well as their possible possession of arcane powers (similar to black cats) remain a source of restraint.The story continues Kellogg W.K. Kellogg's cereal guru imported black squirrels with the goal of eradicating red squirrels, which he hated. And for more trivia of cerebral melting on these fur guys, check the40 most amazing animal facts.

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Minnesota: Kensington Runestone

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Discovered in 1898 by a Swedish farmer on his Minnesota farm, theKensington Runestone Is a tablet inscribed with cryptic runes, believed to be among the remains of a Scandinavian exploration in North America in the 1300s. But is it plausible? Does the tablet contain crucial information that the explorers wanted to transmit to the one who recovered it? Until the code is cracked, the truth, such as the meaning of brands, remains a mystery, which means it's a game just for a lot of speculation.

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Mississippi: the epidemic of Mercritis

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What younot have Heard from the Mercritis, the disease where ingest too much lead causes hormonal secretion that causes women to turn into delusional maniacs and homicidaies? This is because it probably does not exist (if you take health professionals today, that is to say). But so-called, in the 1950s, a small town of Mississippi Unnamed has experienced an epidemic of this non-existent disease.

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Missouri: Zombie Road

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Originally an access road for gravel quarries, this path now abandoned, wrapped in a dark awning of trees, has become the ideal place to pin a number of hidden tales. The favored tale is that the health figures, humanities will follow just behind those who dare to test their luck by browsing the path.

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Montana: the ghost self-stopper

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A good basic rule: if you drive to Montana, you may want to turn around around the 87 motorway - at least, if you want to avoid having aGhost HitchhipRoll on your windshield. Several drivers claimed to be assaulted by the body of a Native American man suddenly striking their vehicle. So-called, it is the ghost of a stopper that was struck by a car decades ago. The Good News (ISH): The ghost does not seem to leave bumps when it is struck!

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Nebraska: mutant radioactive hornets - from Asia

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After theFukushima DaichiCatastrophe of the nuclear power plant in 2011, a series of urban legends fell on the effects of radiation reaching up to the United States. For some Nebraskans, it manifested itself in an adversarious belief that giant Asian horns had not only been exposed to radiation and became four times their typical waist, with venom 2,000 times stronger than ordinary hornets, but that These mutant insects had buzzing all the way from Asia in the heart of the American Midwest. And for incident insects of terror thatActually exist, learn about the30 most dangerous bugs in America.

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Nevada: zone 51

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New Hampshire: The Legend of Goody Cole

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During the witch tests of New England, in the 17th century, a single woman in New Hampshire state has never been convicted of "witchcraft": Goody Cole. Unlike most "witches", she sat several years in prison before dying a natural death. Nevertheless, the Ghost of Cole haunted his hometown of Hampton. The townspeople blame for each local accident, and it is said to wander in the streets in the form of a woman similar to a ghost who asks where she can find a memorial for Goody Cole. And for more information on the Witches of New England, do not miss30 crazy facts that will change your vision of history.

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New Jersey: the observer

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Just after a family bought his dream home in Westfield, a stalker namely"The observer" Beat them with a series of letters, claiming, among other things that his own family has "looked at" home for generations. The letters also asked when the family would fill the house with "young blood". Although it is not clear if there is a truth to such a scribble, it was enough to scare parents and their three young children to move in the house.

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New Mexico: Chupacabra

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Rabirs and grumbling, with inflamed bright eyes and spikes protruding from its back, and the ability to suck your blood andfly-The Chupacabra is indeed a frightening and legendary legendary beast. While many southern states have gone in the legend of Chupacabre, New Mexico is unique in that it has experienced the most "observations" of Chupacabra ".

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New York: sewer alligators

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Believe it or not, the idea of ​​alligators itinerant the sewers of New York once was not entirely implausible. In the early 1900s, the rich New Yorkers brought floridian baby alligators to the great apple to stay as pets. When they decided that their animals were not as cute as they hope, they supposed them to rinse the toilets. In fact, in 1932, theNew York Times reported That a group of adolescents had attended a GATOR sit on the Bronx River. Nowadays, it is not as probably as likely as there is a band of reptiles swimming through the sewage of eight million citizens. And yet, the legend persists.

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North Carolina: The Beast of Bladenboro

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After the pets were killed and mutilated in the small town of Bladenboro in the 1950s, the city dwellers were suspected that Chupacabra could have reached their small community. Then suddenly, the attacks stopped. For 50 years, everything was going well, until similar attacks begin to cover again in 2006. The conclusion: aStrange and blood beast Hides in the woods around Bladenboro.

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North Dakota: Legend of the Cemetery de la Rivière

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The cemetery of the river is one of those places where the fabric separating our world from the world of spirits is particularly thin, or the local legend has so. So-called, if you perch a right recording device on one of the mausoleums, the sound to strike will reverberate from the inside.

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Ohio: The summer wolf

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In the summer of 1972, the city of challenge, Ohio, claimed to have witnessed aFlexible beast man Near railway railways on a series of nights. The beast has been described as all you expect from a loup Garou: Hulking, hair covered and wear shred clothes. Apparently, the local police made the observations quite seriously to open a file to further study the reports. Although none of the eyewit numbers have been reported since it has long ago, the legend of the summer wolf lives.

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Oklahoma: Cry Baby Bridge

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Boggy Creek Bridge can no longer be used, but if you dare to venture on the site on Friday 13, you are likely to hear the frenetic sounds of a crying baby. It is because on a particularly stormy night in the 1920s, a woman crossing the bridge lost control of his horse and his cart, which inadvertently entails his baby to fall to his death in the boiling river. below.

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Oregon: Polybius video game

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Allegedly, in 1981, the government led a psychological experience in the form of an arcade video game calledPolybius, which was published in Portland for a month of a month. As the legend did, the video game was similar to a drug, in that it induced debilitating hallucinations, while allowing government officials to extract information about players through the machines. 'arcade.

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Pennsylvania: Charlie No-Face

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Sometimes a little fact can be struck savagely proportion. In the early 1900s, aHillsville's boy has been electrocuted by a trolley thread, resulting in lifelong defiguration, precisely that most of its melted facial features. Naturally, it has become a recluse in an adult, but rumors about its strange night activities have abounded and continued to grow more and more absurd. Today, the inhabitants of Pennsylvania insist that Charlie No-Face has become a radiophonic green man silhouette that repels an abandoned freight tunnel with the ability to stall all bold intrusion cars in his tunnel.

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Rhode Island: the devil's footprint

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If you look quite closely at the Devil's foot in northern Kingstown, Rhode Island, you can simply distinguish the imprint from a human foot, with the printing of a split hoof directly next to it. The legend has years ago at this very place, an Amerindian woman fled after committing a murder. As she ran, the woman would have argued for the devil to save her and suddenly a man appeared. He appeared as the devil before trampling his foot in the ground to reveal his split imprint, proving his claim - and the evidence is launched from the stone to date (or said).

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South Carolina: the blue lady

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The tumultuous hurricane of 1898 claimed the life of the Hilton Head Head Head Headholder, but his little girl, Caroline, young as she was, knew she had to keep the light burning. It continued to jerk off the perfidious stairs, adding more oil to the outbreak at the top of the lighthouse, desperately trying to keep it on - until finally, the waters also claimed it. But it was not the end of Caroline's story. Today,ghost Is rumored to fly near the lighthouse, dressed in a blue dress, looking for his father. Sometimes, especially before hurricanes, we say that you can hear his cries that echo the old lighthouse. And for ideas on a phantom lighthouse, you definitely haveshould Visit, do not miss50 destinations so magical, you will not believe that they are not in the United States.

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South Dakota: Walking Sam

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In a particularly troubling manifestation of Bogeyman, the "Saming" of South Dakota said to make real ravages, especially among teenagers of the Sioux tribe. According toThe daily point, in 2014 alone, an alarm103 Adolescent suicide attempts Have been awarded to walk Sam, a shady and unwelded silhouette that attracts young people to commit their own death by convincing them that they are worthless. Although the actual cause of these suicide attempts can be linked to a range of factors, including cyberbullying, stories of influence of walking continue from surface.

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Tennessee: Tom to the skin

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Once, an unfortunate man named Tom was caught in the act of adultery - and the disdained husband apparently testified to skip her living. The skeleton of the skin of the skin is said to the path of whirlposses with a hand knife, prepared to teach anyone who starts the same lesson he has learned the difficult situation. And for more lovers of Jilted,It's the age when men are most likely to cheat andIt is the age where women are most likely to cheat.

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Texas: The Candy Lady

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Another urban legend rooted in an ounce of truth, Candy Lady said to be a Terrell woman who became crazy in the 1800s after the end of her daughter died at the age of five. She spent a time stay in an alienated asylum, but after her liberation, a number of children in the region disappeared. The legend is that the woman would build camaraderie with her victims children leaving sweets on their window sills, subsequently write notes on candy packaging that convince children to come out and "play". If we had to guess, we would say Texans have probably helped to perpetuate the story of Candy Lady as a reminder that gives to reflect on their children never accept the candies of foreigners.

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Utah: the curse of the petrified wood forest

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It is wrong with the visit of the Petrified Forest Wood of Utah, as such. Just do not break the rules of the park and pocket a piece of wood at home with you, or you could end up cursed.Desert News Reported that each year, Kendall Farnsworth Park Manager receives several parcels containing fossil wood flashes, accompanied by apologetic notes detailing the way the life of the shippers have terribly shot to bring back the rear of wood with them. And if you plan a trip to see the forest for yourself, on the boneThe top 25 wheels for the Summer Road Trips.

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Vermont: Curse Brunswick Springs

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The good news: The water in Brunswick Springs assumed healing powers, at least according to the tribe of Abenaquis. The bad news: If you are trying to enjoy off the sources, you are probably doomed to the massive failure. At least, this is what four hotel fires and a series of bad luck led the people of Vermont to believe.

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Virginie: The Woman in Black (X2)

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Virginie is full of enigmatic women dressed in black, apparently. The state does not include one, but two urban legends rotating around feminine characters mysteriously black-wrapped. In 2014, a woman dressed in black head to the feet was spotted walking the roads, and a series of rumors mounted on what she could perhaps until. The other legend goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, when theRoanoke timeshas published a series of articles on appearances of aghostly Dressed in black, which appeared so-called only married men.

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Washington: Stairway to Hell

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Just east of Seattle, a local cemetery once contained a set of thirteen steps that descended to an underground grave. The legend felt that when you planted your feet on the thirteenth step, you will be struck by a vision of hell if the stopping heart he will make you knock on the pure terror. The stairs in question were razed at the supposed bulldozer (if they have never existed in the first place, which is), but the curious people continue to browse the cemetery at night, the search for the stairs.

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West Virginia: The Mithman

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Mothman, a mythological mixture of man and insects with frightening red eyes, we have thought of terrorized Western Virginia since 1966, when two first-end graves of the amazing creature. Since then, the observations of the Mothmanare multiplied, But it does not seem to have inflicted a lot of damage over the decades. And to find out where the legend of Mothman has arisen, do not miss20 famous rumors we all want it was true.

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Wisconsin: The Hodag

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A cocktail of pretty much all the imaginable animals (frog head, the crocks of viper, the face of an elephant, a bristle back of stuzaur, and, to do good measure, the hair of green color), the hodag Fierce requires a strict diet of white bulldogs. The creature is widespread to wander in Wisconsin's woods, and in bonhomia recognized as fictitious by most Wisconsin residents, the legend of persiste Hodag in various ways through the state, including several statues of its resemblance and even a Mascot of high school.

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Wyoming: Big Nose George

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Big Nose George may seem like a kind, Guy Chummy, but it's actually everything except. Hanging in the 1880s to be a horseed law with a penchant for the horse Larcins, the truly macabre legends stem from what happened to the body of Georgeafter his death. So-called, a doctor examining George's brain to try to uproot the cause of his criminal activity has decided to use George's skin for a number, including bizarre ends to get a new pair of shoes. After a barrel of whiskey containing the rest of the bones of the law wasdiscovered in 1950, Speculation continued to rise in the legends rotating around just who Big Nose George was really and what macabre horrors his body would have been submitted by the doctor.

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