Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

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Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Here is part one and part two, incase you missed them.

Welcome to part three. Please comment your favourite legends from your state in the comments and enjoy reading!

Maine: The Sabattus Well Descent

According to legend in Sabattus, Maine there is an old cemetery with a long forgotten well sitting in the back of it. The story goes that a group of teens who were told that the well was haunted, dared one of their friends to go into the well and see, if anything, what was inside. They made a swing out of a rubber tire and some rope and the boy sat on top of that as they lowered him, slowly into the well until the darkness consumed him. After a few moments and no response from their friend, they quickly pulled the boy back up from the gloom and found that he had changed. His hair had become white and brittle; he was shaking and laughing over and over. They say that the boy now resides in the county mental institution, still laughing to this day.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Maryland: The Fletchertown Road Goatman

Teenager’s who frequent lover’s lanes in this part of Maryland, often tell the tale of the local goat man. Half man, half beast and looking for blood, he was created by a mad scientist in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, who was conducting experiments on goats when something went wrong and he accidentally created a fearsome creature, which to this day, roams the woods of Maryland.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Massachusetts: The Bridgewater Triangle

Just 30 miles south of Boston, there is a paranormal vortex known as the Bridgewater Triangle, which has been the site of numerous paranormal sightings and events. One of the first of such events was reported in 1760, when witnesses reported seeing a ‘sphere of fire’ in the area. Following that there have been animal mutilations and what appears to be ritual sacrifices, including a group of young calves, found maimed in a glade. As well as animals, there are rumors of human sacrifices committed by cults and mysterious carvings on the rocks surrounding the area.

The forest is also the sight of many suicides, UFO sightings and Big Foot sightings. As well as all this there is the Hockomock Swamp, a local marshy area which was of some significance to the Native Americans, as it is called ‘the place where spirits dwell’ and was found to be home to an ancient Native burial ground. Either way, it doesn’t sound like somewhere you’d want to hang around.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Michigan: Old City Orphanage, Marquette

Formerly named Holy Family Orphanage and built in 1915, this building was first home to eight nuns and sixty Native American children. The children were taken from their parents and adopted out to white families as a way to integrate them into society, a tragic crime that broke families apart but this was not the only crime this home was witness too. The nuns were psychologically and physically abusive to the children, known for administering cruel punishments upon those in their care.

The most famous tale, regularly recounted by the survivors of the orphanage is that of a young girl who went outside to play during a fierce snowstorm. She stayed out too long and wasn’t even dressed appropriately for the weather and as a result she caught pneumonia and quickly died. In their spite, the nuns left her frozen body out for all the other children to see as a warning. The building has long since been abandoned and it’s said you can hear the wails of children still rattling within the walls.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Minnesota: Anoka Asylum

Opening in 1898, Anoka Asylum admitted its first hundred patients who dubbed the ‘incurables’. They were there to live out the rest of their lives as they suffered from environmental and hereditary mental disorders. They weren’t there to receive treatment but were simply prisoners, housed in a hospital. 8 years later, 115 women were transferred to the asylum and over time, the trickle of more inmates meant overcrowding and of course, neglect and abuse. Patients suffered straitjackets and manacles, hydrotherapy and electro shock therapy and of course, medical experiments.

Beneath the building there is a maze of tunnels, dark and empty now, just as they were back when the hospital was up and running. Patients attempted to flee the misery of the place and made their way down the depths but simply ended up getting lost in the darkness. Those that couldn’t make their way out hung themselves from the overhead pipes. Their ghosts and the tortured souls of the others who died in anguish there are still heard to this day, their cries echoing throughout the tunnels in the dark.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Mississippi: Chapel of the Cross Cemetery, Madison

The Chapel of the Cross church is a small; gothic style, brick chapel which is 150 years old and is still in use despite being the site of much ghostly activity. The chapel and its connecting graveyard has visiting hours of 9am to 5pm until they are promptly locked up for the night – to keep out vandals but also to keep the privacy of its ghostly inhabitants. Sometimes you may hear the church organ playing late at night, despite the building being completely void of people as well as witnessing blood stains which appear upon the stone steps before suddenly vanishing.

The ghosts who roam the grounds include the old caretaker who lost his mind and killed his wife within the church, before hanging himself from the rafters and the vision of a young woman in her 20’s, wearing a wedding gown and weeping beside the grave of her beloved who died in a duel.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Missouri: The Exorcism House, St Louis

On the 9th of March 1949, Priests arrived at 8435 Roanoke Drive to witness a 9 year old boy lying in a bed that was shaking uncontrollably. Scrapes and welts had begun to form on his skin and objects flew around the room. As they tried to exorcise what they believed to be a demon, marks on his skin read out the greeting ‘hello’ and the devils face appeared on his leg. It’s said the boy’s aunt was a spiritualist who encouraged him to play with an Ouija board which in turn was the cause of his possession. It took Jesuit priests months to exorcise the demon but eventually he was cured and seemed to go on to have a normal life, although numerous books and films have been written about the case.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

Montana: The Flathead Lake Monster

The first documented sighting of this monster was in 1889, causing the legend that still circles today. The monster is said to be eel-like, spanning twenty, to forty feet and is blue to blackish in colour. Sightings have surfaced throughout the years but the most recent one was back in September of 2016.

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)

I hope you enjoyed part three, which inclueded all the states that start with M, please share your favourites and any suggestions you have for part 4, stay tuned!

Haunted States: The Scariest Urban Legends (M)
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