What kind of myths are in your local area?

Question

I live in a new development by woods. Me and my friends claim there's a yeti that lives in them, angry because we've been taking away it's home. This rumor started last fall when I was walking my dog by the woods. Sticks crunched and I saw something big and white, maybe eight feet tall, moving around there. My dog saw it too, he was trying to pull toward it. I panicked and pulled him away from there. I told my mom it might have been a big dog, with a loss for anything else to say, but it was way too big.

My friend who lives a street away said he saw it in the same woods, very close to where I saw it.

His cousin, who lives on the same street as him, said he saw it on their three acre woods eating a rabbit.

Answer 1

Some of the most popular stories of Polynesia centered on characters who possessed extraordinary powers which derived from a supernatural source.
The Hawaiians called them Kupua and delighted in their adventures. They were born in non-human form, either as an egg which developed into a monstrous creature, or as a plant or inanimate object. They were usually brought up by their maternal grandparents who later supported them in their adventures with their magic. When they took human shape, their super-normal nature was apparent in their ability to transform themselves, stretch or shrink themselves, fly to the air, take giant strides over the land and perform great feat of strength. Tales about them are concern with how they slew monsters, rescued maidens, defeated rivals and even disputing with the gods in all sorts of games of skill, riddling competitions and trials of strength.

The most famous stretching Kupua of Hawaii was Kana, who was born in the form of a rope and brought up by his grandmother, Uli.
He was asked to rescue a woman who had been abducted and placed on an island-hill.
Each time Kana tried to reach her by growing taller, the hill grew taller too, lifting the girl further away.
Soon he became as thin as a cobweb and very hungry, so he bent over to Hawaii and put his head through his grandmother's door where she fed him.
She also told him that the island was really a turtle whose stretching power lay in his slippers.
Kana broke these off and rescued the girl.

Answer 2

There is a huge old tombstone in the cemetery. The kids call it "the witches eye"(the stone has an eye on it) She died when she was 23 and she supposedly killed her little brother. The tombstone faces the house that she used to live in and everyone says that she chanted and cast spells on people. I tried to look up some history on it but I am not really sure how to go about it. Some high school kids made a movie about it for a project for school. Of course it isn't accurate because it was so long ago and nobody in town knows anything about it. It would sure be interesting to know!!!

I am sure she was just a regular person, but I think that the fact that there is a creepy eye on the stone just got stories going!

Answer 3

A wind surfer went down in the ocean and never got back on his board. His body was never found but his car was parked not far from where the disapearance happened. Some think it was a shark or other sea creature that ate the guy whole.

Answer 4

Before moving south, we lived in an area in PA which reportedly was haunted by a gentleman who had hung himself in the old farmhouse on our property. We never experienced anything, but our neighbors had lots to talk about, mostly about seeing him walking the country road at night as though he was searching for something.

Answer 5

Here in Bedford we have the legend of Black Tom a Highwayman who was buried at a crossroads and who's ghost is still said to haunt the area that bears his name!

Answer 6

Florida has the Bermuda Triangle.

Answer 7

I live in Los Angeles. The myth here is that LAPD cops are your friends. Truly a MYTH!

Answer 8

The roads and highways in Orlando will be completed...and then not obsolete when they are.