Devil’s Tramping Ground
Growing up, I heard this story while in the Boy Scouts. After the Internet came of age, I looked it up to make sure it’s what I heard. In central NC, there was a...
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The Ghost of Mud Lake
One hundred years ago an old German decided to take a short cut to his house in the dead of a cold Wisconsin winter. The short cut was over the frozen surface of Mud...
Microsoft will pay you to forward this email
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing his fortune. Should you ignore this, you will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies...
The Shadow Man
Nobody knows for sure who, or what The Shadow Man is, but it may be the ghost of a man who was convicted of stalking and kidnapping children. He was caught at a home...
The Seaman Oleander’s Song
Years ago, in the age where the pirates roamed the seas in search of treasure and pleasure and trouble, a scalawag called Oleander was thrown overboard by the ship’s captain when he was falsely...
How the Pussy Willow got it’s name
In Asia, there was once a great city which was built so long ago that even the name of the city and of its people has been forgotten. Everything about it is wiped from...
They Got Rid of Robert Lefou
Robert Lefou was a very unlucky kid. His mom had died of a brain tumor when he was only two years old and his father was a drinker. The boy had very bad grades...
The Giant Purple Octopus of Lake Ontario
Back in 1999, me, my mom and her boyfriend at the time were walking by Lake Ontario when some kid came up to me and said that there was a giant purple octopus living...
The Reason Why Mr. Rogers Wore a Sweater
UrbanLegendsOnline comments about Lee Marvin and Mr. Rogers We always want to be respectful of the military as we are proud to be Americans and to live in the US. The stories below were...
The Watcher
The little girl had discovered her, a small figure carved on a wooden plank hanging on the kitchen wall. The girl stood there awestruck, studying the image. Etched on the wood in lines and...
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