i wanna hear some myths?

Question

i wanna hear something that a family member has told you...or something urban legend in your town/city...or something you have encountered...im so interested!

Answer 1

As for legends, if you want a creepy experience, go visit the Lake on the Mountain in the St. Lawrence River. It is on a piece of raised land 60 metres high that sticks out into the river, and has no apparent source. The local Mohawks thought it was bottomless and haunted -- not by a sea monster, but something else. They called it the Lake of the Gods and thought it was filled with their spirits. I can tell you when you stand on its edge it has a definite haunted feeling -- very lonely and electric at the same time. It's the kind of place where the water is crystal clear but you wouldn't eat the fish from it.

If you look at the picture carefully in this site, you can see that it is higher than the river around it, and has no water going in or coming out:

http://www.pec.on.ca/other/lotm.html

The other main myths I have heard are superstitions, that if a bird flies into a window, someone in the house will die. Another superstition: peacock feathers bring extremely bad luck to a house. Another: if you drop a knife on the floor by mistake, a man will visit you.

I have heard some scary myths and stories of Caribbean origin about Obeah women:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeah

A lot of these stories involved the suggestion that dreams had an element of reality, and that if you have a scary dream when you wake up, the dream is still alive and has the ability to get into your waking reality until and unless you eat something. This supposedly creates a barrier between the two worlds.

The urban legends I've heard most recently deal with September 11th and the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon being controlled demolitions, organised by the CIA and the Israelis. There was another one about the moon landing being a hoax, which I read was actually started by the Russian intelligence relatively recently to discredit the American space program (sounds like a hoax about a hoax which is actually a non hoax). Other recent ones I've come across revolve around the internet - hoaxes about viruses, or even about online personalities. (links below)

This nasty new postmodern trend in urban legends almost make me nostalgic for the older ones which were floating around in the 60s, 70s and 80s, which focussed on college dorms, suburban neighbourhoods, pop rocks candy, restaurant food, escaped convicts and old country roads.

There are lots of books on those 'classics,' the first one I read years ago was called 'The Vanishing Hitchhiker' (first link below) -do a google search on the author, Jan Harold Brunvand and you will get lots more:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aatpulbooks.htm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/RBGXE0NVJU5U/102-4317491-7812147?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Answer 2

There is a myth on my area, which I can't name, but it is called the ____________ triangle. It isn't the Bermuda, it is called that because every 50 years someone disappears. Two years ago was the 50th year but noone disappeared. That anyone knows of yet. A college student once disappeared there when she went hiking, 50 years ago. A few years later, a lady has a dream that a woman in hiking clothes asked her if they found her body yet, and later that day, her body was found.

Native Americans shunned the place, saying it was where the four winds (North, South, East and West) meet and only went into that area for burials.

Some people said that it was an escaped convict or serial killer, but serial killers usually pick all women or age for example, or there is something all their victims have in common which was not the case.

A man was riding a bus to a veterans home, and there were no stops and noone saw him get off the bus. He just disappeared leaving all his luggage on the bus.

Some theories are bigfoot, a rock that eats people if they step on it (local legend thing), aliens, a monster, serial killers, and interdimensional trapdoors

There are lots of strange disappearences, and there was even an x-files episode about it. I haven't seen it but I read part of the script. There was also a feature on the travel channel about it and somewhere around here, a group on yahoo.

Answer 3

If the toddler's heartbeat is a hundred and forty+ bpm then that's a woman... any much less then that's a boy... If the father constructive factors weight... that's a woman... in case you're donning extreme & around (like a basketball) then that's a woman... low & extra to the front (formed like a soccer) then that's a boy... in case you have extra healthy hair & proper dermis... that's a boy... if your hair is duller & you have destroy outs on your dermis... that's a woman... in case you're yearning goodies... nuts... culmination... and dairy products... that's a woman... in case you're yearning meat and greens or something bitter... that's a boy... in case you get morning disease that lasts very almost all day... then that's a woman... I additionally heard someplace that if your left breast is larger... then that's a woman... if this is the proper that's larger... then you definately are having a boy... if your age and the month of thought comes out to an odd variety that's a woman... even variety is a boy (surprisingly this one seems to be the main precise for my section from what I even have considered... worked on me and my chum... no longer one hundred% assure however) that's all that i will think of of on the 2d... as properly the hoop try. Take your wedding ceremony ring and positioned it on a string... swing it over your abdomen. If it swings in a circle... that's a woman... decrease backward and forward... that's a boy... and a few say that if it does the two or no longer something in any respect... this is twins. I even have heard such multiple distinctive the thank you to do the hoop try however... I never tried it. desire this facilitates... have relaxing... and good success!!

Answer 4

Okay... My great-grandfather back in Ireland (this wold've been back in the very very early 1900's, around 1911 maybe) was riding a horse down a dirt road at night back to town. It was very dark, and therefore hard to see. After traveling a ways, he starts to hear another horse coming up the road behind him or in front of him - he can't tell which. So he keeps going for a while, but the sounds get louder and louder, until it seems like the other person is practically on top of him. Out of the darkness comes another horse & man charging at him, and my great-grandfather tries to stop and move out of his way to avoid hitting the other man... but the horse & man go right through him. My great-grandfather's spooked, but isn't sure if what happened was a figment of his imagination, so he tries to put it out of his find until he gets back to town. When he puts the horse in the barn, he notices that his horse is shaking and covered in a cold sweat - but it was a hot summer night, so there's no way the horse would be freezing. My great-grandfather never used that road again.
This is just one of the legends we have in our family...

Answer 5

Once upon a time there was this woman named Mary. She was married, but she and Joseph had never been intimate. So one day, God decides to impregnate Mary. She is going to have a baby, but Joseph is not upset about that. Then, three guys come from a long way away by following a pointy star and they get to a manger - whatever that is - where the little baby is born among the cows and the sheep.

Answer 6

Okay here goes...true story its a fact
my dad and bunch of his Friends .drinking in the village center next to the village butchers. who laid a table with kebabs of all types as the evening progressed in to the night.
one of my dads friends who was the village tramp was dared
to drive a stake on a grave of a newly buried villager at the graveyard... the newly buried person was a sorcerer who would put curse on people make them ill or make people fall in love against there wishes she would do all sort of sorcery ..it was around 12 midnight nobody bothered to check the time.. my dad says he doesn't think they had a watch beat ween them.
tramp set of to do the task .hour gone by he hasn't returned two hour go by he still hasn't returned
so they all go looking for him he was never to be found after 37 years the whole village is puzzled ..the tramp spent his life 65 years in the village ..he knew no one out side the village.. his whole world was the village.. some people say when they pass near the graveyard they cane hear his crays.. my dad.says he herd it once... even the police are puzzled..

Answer 7

A monster that lives in Lake Erie....
My grandma once told me of it.

It only appears on the coldest day in winter
and it calls out for another monster of its kind.
Grandma always said that she heard it moaning in
grief in it's loneliness.

Answer 8

There was a temple of lord Shiva and a hunter used to worship it and offer meat hunted by him to HIM.once he did not hunt anything and hence offered his own eyes

Answer 9

on a road if cat crosses ur way it is said to b unlucky