Here's a list of the scariest urban legend (In my opinion) from your state! Now this list is in alphabetical order and will have to be broken up into a few parts so this is from A to G. Enjoy and if you have a better one, leave yours in the comments below!
Alabama: The Dead Children’s Playground
Hunstville Alabama has a park situated in the middle of the hundred acre Maple Hill cemetery which was founded in 1822. It’s a hotspot for the ghosts of children who come and play on the playground at night. They recently removed the equipment of the park but returned it upon protests from the locals.
Alaska: Igloo City Hotel
In Cantwell, Alaska along an isolated stretch of highway there is an oddly shaped hotel which lies abandoned. It was originally built in the 1970’s and never completed, though nobody really knows why. Whatever the reason, some who have driven past the deserted building at night report seeing strange lights and a woman in white staring out from its windows.
Arizona: The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
There’s an estimated 600 people that have lost their lives in the Superstition Mountains, many of those people died searching for the missing gold of Jacob Waltz. Skeletal remains and bodies without heads have been found of those who went missing searching for the gold. Whether there’s a curse or something even more sinister, I doubt we’ll ever know.
Arkansas: Highway 365
The story goes that on many a stormy night, drivers travelling down this road have come across a young hitchhiker dressed in white. She will ask for a ride home and upon reaching the destination she will vanish, though those who visited the address she gave them will knock on the door to find an eldery couple living there who promptly inform then that the passenger was their daughter who has been dead for years.
California: The Hollywood Sign
In 1932 a young aspiring actress by the name of Peg Entwistle leapt 45 feet to her death from the letter H of the Hollywood sign. To this day there have been numerous reports of sightings of a blonde woman dressed in old fashioned clothing. In more recent times, the 2011 murder of Hervey Medellin by his then boyfriend Gabriel Campos-Martinez involved Campos-Martinez chopping his lover into pieces, throwing his head in a 99 Cents Only bag and dumping it near the famous sign.
Colorado: The Gates of Hell
According to local legend, on Riverdale Road in Thornton, CO there was the Wolpert mansion, which burned to the ground after the owner was provoked by demons to commit a murder/suicide, so he set fire to his home which killed himself and his family within and all that is left is a large iron gate, which they call the gates of hell.
Connecticut: The Melon Heads
Okay, so this one isn’t exactly unique to just this state but it’s certainly one of their biggest urban legends none the less. The story has it’s variations of course; some say the melon heads are asylum patients, abandoned and left to forage for themselves they resorted to incest and cannibalism and that’s what lead to the deformed children and others say a mad doctor used orphaned children to experiment on so that he could cure his own child from some horrendous disease.
Delaware: Maggie’s Bridge
Route 78, Seaford is the site of Maggie’s bridge and the tale that a young pregnant woman died during a car crash. The story goes that if you stand on the bridge at night and shout ‘Maggie! I have your baby’ you’ll hear or see the desperate mother to be.
Florida: Robert the Doll
This doll was the inspiration for the Chucky from the Child’s Play movie franchise and a heck of a creepy story. Robert was once gifted to painter and author Robert Eugene Otto by supposedly, a servant that practiced voodoo and black magic. Eugene’s parents often heard him talking to the doll and assumed the answers they heard were came from their child simply changing his voice. Eugene said this was not the case, Robert could talk and neighbours claimed to have seen Robert moving from window to window when the family was out. Currently Robert is 111 years old and lives in the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida and his mischief making hasn’t stopped.
Georgia: Mary Meinert
Although the St. James Episcopal Cemetery in Atlanta may be most famous for being the resting place of murdered beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, there stands a memorial to a lady named Mary Meinert. The large marble statue depicts Meinert cradling two babes and according to legend, those who have visited her grave at night have heard the disembodied sobs of the dead woman as well as witnessing her statue crying tears of blood. Visit her on Halloween night and encircle her grave three times asking how her children died to summon her ghost.
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