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Mary Culhaine and the Dead Thing
“My stick!” He said, “I forgot it in the graveyard. And …” “Oh dad! I’ll fetch your stick”, Mary said and ran out into the night. “No Mary, don’t do that!” But it was too late. Mary disappeared and ran as fast as she could to the graveyard. When she got there she saw the stick. She bent to pick it up and heard a voice coming from a grave. “Mary Culhaine, help me out!” She didn’t want to, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Children, Regional and Cultural
Teke Teke
Teke Teke is the ghost of a Japanese schoolgirl who roams the train stations of Japan. In life, this girl was a scardey cat and people are always playing practical jokes on her. One day at the train station after school, her friends decided to put a cicada, a bug that appears in the summer in Japan, on her shoulder. Sadly, this turned out to be a fatal prank. She was so scared she fell … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bridges and Tracks, Children, Ghost Stories, Regional and Cultural
Ghosts in Swedesboro, NJ
The Suicidal Man For a few years, I lived in a building in New Jersey. It’s an old building, built in the late 1800s, so it was always creaky and slightly unsettling. I never thought anything of it until one day my mother and I were sitting outside when an elderly man approached us. He asked if we live in the building, and when we replied with yes, he went on to tell us how he … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ghost Stories, Regional and Cultural
Picklebean’s Ballfork Creature
This legend has been told in my family for four generations now. Back in the 1940′s, my Great, Great, Great Grandpa named Francis Hatfield (Known by many as "Picklebean") was riding his horse (Yeah in Pike County we were still riding horses in the 40′s) down Ballfork mountain. It was dark and he was returning home from his job at the coal mines. He had to go up and back down the mountain to get … Read entire article »
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The Devil Baby of Hull House
The legend of Hull House is commonly known to the people of Chicago. Hull House was a settlement house back in the early 1900s for immigrants. A woman gave birth to a child whose father was the devil. The mother, disgusted by the child, abandoned the baby at Hull House. The owner, Jane Addams, hid the baby in the attic and raised the child. The child died at a young age. Now, if you look … Read entire article »
Filed under: Children, Regional and Cultural
The Black Lady of Bradley Woods
I grew up in a large town in Lincolnshire, England. As kids, we used to play in a large wooded area on the outskirts of town called Bradley Woods. In the woods is an ancient looking abandoned cottage by a pond and we told a story about it which went like this: Hundreds of years ago, a poor woodsman lived in the cottage with his wife and baby. They lived happily until the woodsman was pressed … Read entire article »
Filed under: Children, Ghost Stories, Regional and Cultural, UrbanLegendsOnline
Kuchisake-onna
A young woman who lived hundreds of years ago and was the wife or concubine of a samurai. She was very beautiful but also very vain, and she was discovered to have been cheating on her husband. The samurai, extremely jealous and feeling cuckolded, attacked her and slit her mouth from ear to ear, screaming "Who will think you’re beautiful now? That woman roams around during foggy evenings, with her face covered by a surgical mask, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Children, Regional and Cultural, UrbanLegendsOnline
The Wandering Bus
There is a bus in Philadelphia which SEPTA does not talk about. It is not listed on the website. It has neither schedule nor route. It drives the city in a pattern known only to its driver, and perhaps not even to him. Its electronic reader board never displays a number, only “SEPTA.” People who know it call it the Zero, the Random Bus, the Wandering Bus, or just The Bus. It is not a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cars, Regional and Cultural, UrbanLegendsOnline
Japanese Girl’s Suicide Drawing
The story is this, in Japan shortly before a teenage girl committed suicide,she drew this picture, scanned it and posted it online. In Korea this story broke out and it spread like wildfire. There are various posts around in Korean forums that say that the viewer gets drawn to the girls blue eyes,they say they can detect a hint of wraith and sadness within the eyes. Maybe the girl had died with so much sadness … Read entire article »
Filed under: Pictures and Video, Regional and Cultural, UrbanLegendsOnline
Haunted Gym
There is a ghost who haunts Charles Page High School in Sand Springs, OK 40 years ago, there was some construction being done in the gymnasium of the High School. There was an accident and the roof collapsed. One of the workers fell 60 feet through the ceiling and died that tragic day. The spirit of this worker haunts the school and has been the cause of a high turnover in the janitorial staff. Custodians come … Read entire article »
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