1 Urban Legend from Each State

[@jeannewilson1655]

As a true New Orleanian, the swamp monster is a rougarou -- pronounced roo-gah-roo. Any good Cajun would pronounce it like that. Grunch Road was the common urban legend in the 70s when we would go to an undeveloped area in New Orleans east or City Park and toss someone out of the car and take off leaving them to face the Grunch.

[@melance]

I came here to correct this. I've never heard it pronounced like she did before. It's also been called the garou garou.

[@johnhawes9773]

Roo jarooooo

[@ItalianCountryball11]

I love Louisiana urban legends, they are just so cool.

[@chesterwilberforce9832]

True, although the word almost certainly evolved from loup garou, loup being the root for wolf. Cajuns always find the laziest way to say anything. (Coonass here.)

[@Deez52]

Rip gambit

[@SquiresIsle]

An urban legend from my Oklahoma town that I'm part of... there's a creepy old hospital-type building hidden on a dead-end street. The windows are boarded up. Inside, furniture is scattered around the wrecked rooms. Some walls and part of the ceiling have been ripped out or collapsed. It's spooky and off-putting. Legend says it's an abandoned mental hospital. I worked there as a dishwasher when it was still open. It was an assisted living center for the mentally disabled. The state underfunded it (surprise, surprise) and they ended up shutting down very suddenly a few years after I left. The building was shuttered and left to rot, and enough time has passed that the legend has grown up around the remains. I'm still waiting for some supernatural hunters to come knocking. "Cottonwood Manor... now there's a name I haven't heard in nigh on twenty years..."

[@annieemerrell2225]

I've seen many episodes on TV on travel channels and history channels. Very spooky. Have a gr8t day!!!;)

[@Hellswarmglow]

Please be chewing on a bubble blowing pipe at the time!

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

The real MN urban legend is that someone was sober when they told a person their real opinion and we're not considered impolite about it.

[@LavenderLydia]

I am highly annoyed that these are not in alphabetical order.

[@TheRoadhammer379]

I agree

[@26.2MilesOutsidePartsUnknown]

Preach 🙌

[@michaelsilver253]

I was overjoyed

[@living_dead_girl1990]

Get over it Karen 😅

[@lisacaraway9759]

They are grouped by types,states don't work that way.

[@erinmalone2669]

I’ve heard the story of somebody that digs up a cactus to take back home to find that weeks later millions of baby spiders come out. Has anyone else heard this one?

[@joanhoffman3702]

This actually happened in real life: I was a museum volunteer many years ago. One of the scientists came back from vacation with a small cactus. It went through the agriculture inspection just fine, but a few weeks later, insects started emerging from it.

[@montananerd8244]

Lol I'm sure it's happened but it's also an urban legend, that one goes back to the 1980s maybe even earlier.

[@dsxa918]

That's so 'obvious'... once I fell asleep on an anthill etc

[@agricolaterrae]

That runestone story actually makes up a verse in a song one of my reenactment groups sings. To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: "Ninety years before Columbus, well, we sailed the ocean blue/Left a runestone in Wisconsin just to show what we could do/But now it's the foundation of a backyard barbeque/And the Fyrd goes traveling on!"

[@joanhoffman3702]

That’s hilarious! 😂😂😂

[@chesterwilberforce9832]

I remember reading as a kid about archeological finds of tall Nordic skeletons in Michigan that predated Columbus by a thousand years.

[@firstcynic92]

37:35. The Kensington Runestone is NOT an urban legend. Whether or not it's genuine, it is real. You can see it in a very nice museum in Alexandria, MN.

[@tfordham13]

It counts

[@Cruznik02]

“La Lorona” huh 🤔😂🤦‍♂️

[@invisibleninja86]

Yeah, love Erin, but that pronunciation almost made me a weeping woman.

[@flamshiz]

ahoy's Polybius documentary is one of the best youtube videos I've ever seen. highly recommended for those interested in the legend

[@DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables]

I'm originally from New Jersey and I never heard about killer rabbits. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ChristianCarrino-cr5xt]

I live there

[@HayTatsuko]

My main Final Fantasy XIV character is named after a west-Alabama legend.. She was a side-paddlewheel steamer that traveled the waters of the Tombigbee River during the first few decades of the 1800s, and even hosted ex-President Millard Fillmore on one trip. She met her unfortunate demise on the morning of March 1, 1858, after her cargo of cotton bales caught on fire. About a quarter (28) of her 105 passengers and crew perished in the frigid river waters, but many more were saved by the alertness of locals also on the river that horrible night. The _Eliza Battle_ is the Ghost Ship of the Tombigbee, said to appear as a burning apparition upon the river near Demopolis on cold winter nights, and is considered to portend ill omens of things to come on the river. That being said, your choice for Alabama was not bad at all! That one is almost as good as the Carrolton Courthouse Face in the Window -- supposedly that of an innocent free Black man, Henry Wells, lynched for an arson he didn't commit. He famously cursed that his face would always be in the loft's window -- and it remains, even though many of the building's other windows have been damaged by hail over the years.

[@mictos7705]

Even in fallout 4 if you play the nuka world dlc they poke fun at Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen which is pretty awesome

[@oddmott7653]

Okay, i grew up in Defiance County Ohio. Not in Defiance itself, but Ney, which was ~10 miles away, and I've never ever heard about a werewolves in the area. Furthermore, i used to hike all around in the woodlands of the area & never saw anything close to spookums level. Closest thing to unusual i ever saw growing up was an elaborate jungle gym made of wood logs built in the middle of the woodland valley in my backyard (which floods regularly, so it's long, long gone unfortunately).

[@kevinmcfadden9553]

Yeah. That was a terrible legend from Ohio. There is Gore Orphanage, Ohio State Reformatory, Big Foot in Salt Fork, Malabar Farm legends and ghosts, etc.....

[@Gidister]

I'm from and still live in Defiance. I've heard of the story but always thought it was just a silly thing. Never thought I would hear it here. I do remember hearing about mountain lions occasionally being spotted every several years. But yes there are some rather strange things in the woods around this area.

[@kellidinit3725]

I’ve lived in Ohio my entire life, almost 58 years, and that’s one I’ve never heard, and I thought I heard them all. From Lake County myself, and we head the melon heads urban legend that was usually associated with gravity hill. Gravity hill is real and was even featured on Ripley’s Believe it or not. Melon heads, just a legend.

[@tfordham13]

And? There others who have heard of it

[@jamesburkhart9100]

People are in the Hoover dam. They weren't placed there, they fell while they were pouring cement. They couldn't stop pouring, thus bodies inside She sounds very confident about that one, less so with some of the other wilder stories. Which is odd...

[@cammourer8246]

I came to say the same thing plus as memory serves theres a plaque with the entombed workers names on it.

[@chesterwilberforce9832]

www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/history/essays/fatal.html#:~:text=The%20%22official%22%20number%20of%20fatalities,equipment%2C%20truck%20accidents%2C%20etc. No evidence of anyone falling into the cement while pouring. A possible source for this legend come from another large dam project being built around the same time: Montana’s Fort Peck Dam. At the time the world’s largest earth filled dam-as opposed to Hoover’s concrete kind-eight workers were buried alive.

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.

[@laurenandrews511]

Family legend: a revenuer (like a bounty hunter for moonshiners in the 20’s) was decapitated and his head was found and brought back by a dog running across a neighbor’s cornfield. They never did find the rest of the revenuer. Unrelated fact, we were definitely making moonshine on the side in those days.

[@tfordham13]

Do people say they see there ghost

[@chesterwilberforce9832]

Once two strangers climbed on Rocky Top, looking for a moon shine still. Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top. Reckon they never will...

[@DFX2KX]

"in the Ames, Iowa area" woah THAT made me perk right up! I remember that! My roommate of the time was kinda freaked out. The 'fake infant/fake injury/fake car crash' is actually a thing that has occurred in a few places around the country, so it's not the most unbelievable of chain-texts

[@btetschner]

That introduction of the film Urban Legend (1998) is classic!

[@flamshiz]

man door hand hook car door!

[@trustyshooter5]

I once farted so hard my back cracked- AL

[@catebrooks6779]

I heard #13 under the most authentic circumstances: camping between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on Hawai'i Island in the early 90s.

[@stapuft]

steinbecks dark watchers are an easter egg in "super mario galaxy 2" the community has dubbed them the "hell valley sky trees" for some odd reason though.

[@Shinntoku]

I mean, the community calls them that because that's what the filename for them is

[@billblaski9523]

​@Shinntoku lol right. Fool said "for some odd reason"

[@jadedserenity8653]

I love that you mentioned Huggin’ Molly! I actually lived in abbeville a couple of years ago and the people really embrace the urban legend. They even have a restaurant named after her right on the Main Street of town with her full story displayed by the front door!

[@Rachelpinter]

I have lived in CT for my whole life and this is the first time im hearing about the Winsted Wildman or the melon heads.

[@kclarke5796]

Interesting video! I'd love to see a video like this for Canada! We have so many ghost stories here, especially in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

[@colosine]

My dads home town had an urban legend about a road that would cause you to die if you drove it at night, ends up it was true, the city had to fix the road after several people died driving it

[@lehmentippie5898]

Right after the Kansas Hamburger Man, I got a Taco Bell commercial. Nothing wrong with that at all. 🤔

[@robindew9072]

We have an old Urban legend in Ky. It's about a witch named Hatti. The tale says she was killed by locals because they suspected her of being a witch. Her grace stood apart from all the other graves. It was always told to the teens that if you went to her grave at night bad things would happen to you . Plus there were stories that you could hear her witch scream at the midnight hr thru the grave yard. Those tales terrified a lot of teens

[@tfordham13]

Hatti? With that name she does sound like a witch

[@MrNobody91]

8:43 where I live in Mississippi, ours is Stuckeys Bridge, look it up!!!

[@TF856]

Back in the seventies urban legends were floating around our high school. And several of them got combined to make a pretty good story. It's about a girl on her way to her senior prom in Tilden Park with her boyfriend and they crash and she is seen standing on the road trying to get a ride and then she vanishes when they get to their destination. And then her mother enters the picture hiding out in the park close to where the prom was going to be and kills the boys showing up with girls because that's where her daughter was killed. The girl was known as the White Witch Of Tilden Park.

[@lewilbur]

Woooaaah! The Pennsylvania train story must have been the inspiration for Infinity Train! Love it!

[@jenniferferguson1517]

Accidentally ending up in the infield at the Indy 500 is a scary thing! 2 words: snake pit! If you know, you know!

[@manaash4316]

"why are there so many entrances to Hell in the continental United States?" Me: [gestures vaguely in Canadian]

[@joanhoffman3702]

😂😂😂

[@Roadiedave]

I can confirm that Riverdale Rd. in Colorado has quite a few surprises. Like a creepy roundabout, that haunted golf course, and that spooooky animal shelter. Legend has it, if you go straight when you get to 120th ave. you'll end up in a lake. Seriously. I live 3 blocks from Riverdale. if you listen carefully, you can hear....horses, riding lawnmowers, and that one a-hole with the jacked up truck that revvs his engine every night at midnight.

[@UpstartScarf]

I goddam near ended up driving into that lake while cruising around past midnight when I was 17. Thank goodness my friend screamed. I don't know anything about the spooky animal shelter (not sure I want to) but can't believe the bloody speed limit signs weren't mentioned

[@Roadiedave]

@@UpstartScarf What? The ones that go mystically from 45 to 55 to 35 but only when there's a cop there?

[@claysoggyfries]

I love urban legends🗣️ 💯 🔥

[@kjg1600]

i’ve never heard of a kid stealing a penguin as an urban legend in massachusetts 😭 i thought you would’ve mentioned the dover demon

[@Sinjinator]

Ok, in central Texas, I want to start a music festival called Lollachoosa! 😂

[@carlos.-.618]

1:44 That pronunciation killed me 💀

[@pm10926]

That pronunciation of La llorona could have easily been corrected with minimal research

[@erindavis9772]

Another one for North Carolina is the one about the Maco light, or ghost light. It's supposed to be about a train conductor named Joe Baldwin who was said to have been decapitated in a collision between a runaway passenger car and a locomotive near Wilmington NC in 1867. It's said that the conductor noticed that the car he was in had become detached from the rest of the train. It says he knew another train was following so he tried to signal the oncoming train. The engineer didn't see him and collided with the car he was in and he was decapitated. Years later people would report seeing a white swinging lighting along that section of the track. I'm from NC, and my sister once told me that my dad had told her he once saw the light

[@karlhungusjr1]

"deep in the woods" of hutchinson kansas? ok....

[@fluffyflareon4152]

was patiently waiting for my state and my TOWN came up with one ive never heard of. i fear

[@tsteeleosuou]

John Denver's favorite state was colorado

[@jennyparham8626]

"almost Heaven, West Virginia"

[@-superduper-]

I can confirm in North Dakota we have stairs that lead straight to hell. Been there before, the souls of the victims are nice and very welcoming ♡

[@workout4780]

"atleast its not another carnival cruise" im dead 😂

[@ngcmhaven]

#2 sounds like the game Diablo.

[@patmassey-wease5215]

...😊 15 seasons of 'SuperNateral' helps too ..

[@FakeFreckles]

I drive sleepy hollow road regularly and never knew there was a legend associated, super cool!!

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

Moral of the Utah story: don't be a jerk and take stuff from protected lands! Souvenir shops may be overpriced, but go there if you want something.

[@adamlivingston6599]

I have that same copy of The Witch of Lime Street. I love that it glows in the dark!

[@Think890]

Someone found that TElltale Lilac Bush @mentalfloss! Love it, I'm so glad we didn't just get a mothman story!!!

[@RutabegaNG]

HarlaN Sanders was granted the ceremonial title of Colonel by the stars of Kentucky, he didn't just start using it on a whim.

[@reppepper]

Did the Robert Johnson segment get edited? It seemed incomplete.

[@LicheLordofUndead]

The same rumor about Space Mountain at California Disney Land since I was a kid, I am 65 now

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

The one from Arkansas is in quite a few random horror stories collections ranging from childhood classic horror story books to adult aimed horror story books

[@HeliosKou]

Growing up in NYC, we always heard about gators in the sewers. Im surprised that NY didnt get Sleepy Hollow though as the urban legend

[@joe-vz6hx]

That's not really an urban legend; it's just a fairy tale which even the most gullible person would never believe.

[@PeachysMom]

It’s a story written by Washington Irving

[@Patrick_Knowlton]

The Pennsylvania one sure sounds like it inspired Infinity Train!

[@julietteoscaralphanovember2223]

Was the first ghost's name Resurrection Mary? I've heard that story many times before

[@sbcee2220]

Why must the Lizard Man be our cryptid? Damn you, Bennettsville!

[@IAmSweetPea]

OMG Morgan’s Corner is the EXACT same story I was told as a kid….. in Missouri! Wow

[@tonyhill6721]

I always thought the Philly ghost bus was something for the tourist trade

[@lyndsae77]

I’m glad there are so many entrances to hell. It probably makes the check-in process a lot quicker. 😂

[@fodonogue3]

Arizona has a few goodies, but my hometown area has our own similar to la llorona/the woman in white/etc! San Pedro River area, down by Sierra Vista/Tombstone, we have a tale that a mother ran from an abusive husband and drowned her children and then herself in the river. Around the old bridge right off of East Charleston Road is where a lot of activity from her has said to happen. Used to always be terrified of driving down that road at night because of it and still kind of am.

[@AmiKey-id5lj]

28:18 I used to live in garretson and the palisades are open to really anyone. You can go to devils gulch, usually there’s just teens acting like they can contact the dead but it is believed by the locals that the jump was actually made. Not so much an urban legend, just a genuine story or tale. Wish our actual legends were on here lol, the Sioux tribe does not mess around with their sightings.

[@Pratchettgaiman]

I can’t take a cryptid called “the Grunch” seriously

[@mamaof3kids4keets28]

I live in ND and have NEVER heard the "urban legend" spoken about here.

[@victoria_hathaway]

I’m surprised that Diana of the Dunes wasn’t mentioned for Indiana!

[@Ally3-pd4zq]

Should've done bunnyman for VA. Never heard of that vampire one.

[@bignerdoncampus4527]

I live in Vermont and have never heard of Frozen Hill People, but I have heard of Emily's Bridge and expected that to be in this video.

[@utopia19876]

Just for future circumstances where it comes up. La llorona is not pronounced like that, it almost sounded like you said “Lalo”. Great video tho!

[@TheUnatuber]

The Mothman will *not* be ignored!

[@vociferateforme]

It's true. Providence, RI is a vacuum black hole that won't release you.

[@ItalianCountryball11]

I learned about the La Griffon the other day.

[@Papakhan9636]

I'm from Arkansas and never heard this story Tilly Willy bridge is the most famous Arkansas urban legend in my area

[@montananerd8244]

A real urban legend in Montana (that one is not a story we've ever told) is St Urhu's Day! The holiday for Finnish saint who never was...but we still drink to him every March 16.

[@MissyGzz]

The 1st one has also been told in South Texas

[@tomandaj1]

There are no woods anywhere near Hutchinson Kansas. It’s nothing but open prairie

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

Dammit, Minnesota never gets to have any fun!

[@theresaduffy8222]

The arkansas story is also a Chicago legand and the basis of one episode of Growing Pains.

[@Apophis324]

With Polybius being brought up and a passing mention of the ET Atari game almost made me assume Mimal the Elf was going to pop up in this video as well (those who know, know). I guess that's not an urban legend of one state though.

[@kevinkennedy3042]

I noticed you didn't mention Michigan.

[@kevinmcfadden9553]

It was the creepy old boat.

[@AhimsaKerp]

I wonder if the Tennessee legend is where the children's song "Ghost of Tom" comes from?

[@oliviagore7067]

Ghost of John.. long white bones with the skin all gone

[@selenedismukes8530]

TN's Bell Witch is definately worth a review but ... (it may be true).

[@BethJoan]

I lived in Ames Iowa when this circu. Nobody took it seriously.

[@robinsmith5442]

I heard of a story in Bolivar Missouri of a country church that was haunted by a priest that hung himself inside,.

[@MycaWildGoose]

I drive across riverdale road every once in a while luckily always in the daylight

[@chefdobbs9272]

Gordon Light in Arkansas is a good one to mention.

[@CharmedPop]

I'm from Kanas and was eating a hamburger while watching this. No plans of grinding anyone up as of now though!

[@baileyjoy1088]

Ahhh I grew up in Apache Junction 😅 the supes are so fun to hike

[@therongjr]

Ugh, I'm so irritated that every time Pennsylvania is mentioned, the default is Philadelphia!

[@lBELLACOl]

La llorona has never been told as a vanishing hitchhiker

[@arriusnyne884]

Did I miss anything illinois? Don't recall hearing anything about it, or am I wrong?

[@katchin1514]

The Mothman depicted in the movie w/ Richard Gere.

[@joe-vz6hx]

The Arkansas one is OK, but how does the Fouke Monster not get the nod? And really some of these it sounds like someone just made up for the video.

[@hylianmango8272]

Forget Homey, John Gacy is from Chicago

[@dirtrider88]

thanks for doing it in alphabetical order or even by region.

[@TylerMitchell-o4u]

Actually there’s only one of the Disney being frozen theories is untrue

[@jphilb]

Should have played Phantom 309.

[@Figgy5119]

I guess I don't get what the Michigan Le Griffon urban legend is supposed to be. There was a real ship, and it really disappeared, so what part of the story is the urban legend?

[@jmanj3917]

41:15 Colonel Sanders was given the honorary rank in the Kentucky military