25 Urban Legends in Every US State (Part 2)

we did the first run of urban legends in every US state well Tristan and hope did but now I'm back for round two and boy does it get spooky of course it's not all Frison fears in this list we also have some adorable stories and some sad historical stories because as we said before the u.s. is rich with weird history full of ghouls goblins and killer maniacs from Montana to Wyoming we've selected the best urban legends from each state for you and if you're into the supernatural there are literally thousands more to explore I'm Michael Lewis 25 and here are 25 urban legends in every US state part 225 Montana phantom hitchhiker of Black Horse Lake Great Falls there have been many many reported sightings of this particular spook supposedly when you're driving along Black Horse Lake you may see a hitchhiker who's there and then isn't or he'll suddenly appear on your windshield as if you've just hit him but when you pull over he's gone according to reports he's wearing either jeans or overalls and has long black hair perhaps the ghost is stuck in a loop of his last moments on earth for Jude 24 Nebraska cannibalistic albinos Hummel Park in general people believe that homo park is haunted people hear voices see disembodied orbs of light cursed stairs that number differently going up and down and there's a general sense of isolation and are we the stupid people in a horror movie but the creepiest urban legend in this 202 acre wooded park started in the 1960s it goes as follows there's a group of cannibalistic albinos that have lived in the park for decades during the day they hide among the trees or up in the trees and if you stay after dark well you're staying for dinner because it's u23 Nevada or Nevada the water babies of Pyramid Lake Washoe County Nevada is home to not only Las Vegas but also area 51 since everyone knows about the aliens today I'm talking about spirits of dead babies that steal at least one fisherman a year known as the water babies of Pyramid Lake legend says they're ill or deform babies that were thrown into the lake by a local Indian tribe so they wouldn't be a burden on the tribe in winter or when food was scarce their spirits decided to linger people have reported hearing cries of the water's edge and if you hear babies cry during spring run the other way this story is based at least partly in truth a local potty tribe actually did this to some of their children and the children are understandably angry 22 New Hampshire wood Devils of Coos County 7 feet tall covered with greyish fur and then enough to hide behind the trees the wood Devils of Coos County walk upright on two feet and stick to the woods of northern New Hampshire near the Canadian border think of a tall thin pale bigfoot-type creature that stands really still and runs really fast though there have been many reported sightings it seems that the wood Devils mostly want to be left alone and avoid human contact rather than violently maiming any hapless hikers that come across their pass thanks wood Devils 21 New Jersey The Watcher westfield so in 2014 a nice and well-off family moved into their dream home that had been built in 1905 in an upper-class New Jersey town good for them then they started getting really creepy letters like really just awful letters this is from the first one which arrived in June of that year my grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s it is now my time do you know the history of the house do you know what lies within the walls of six five seven boulevard do you need to fill the house of the Youngblood I requested better for me they had children which just ups the creep factor the neighbors decided instead of installing shiny new door locks and a neighborhood watch to vilify the new family apparently the previous owners of the home had received letters as well and just refrained from putting that in the listing because who wouldn't disclose getting love notes from strangers like this who has the bedrooms facing the street I'll know as soon as you move in it'll help me to know who's in which bedroom then I can plan better the family that moved in 2014 has been unable to sell the home even at a loss 20 New Mexico UFO crash heart Canyon in 1949 a UFO crash supposedly happened not in Roswell but in Aztec New Mexico supposedly the crash site was intact enough that bodies of other world beings were recovered by the US government while this was proved to be a hoax in the 1970s the investigation was reopened in 2013 by the FBI kinda makes us question the whole it's totally a hoax paying guys 19 New York buried treasure Liberty Island are you ready for this one once upon a time when pirates like Captain Kidd roamed the seas the brie island was known as Bedloe's Island and there was no lady upon it Kidd was hanged in 1701 in eventually fort hood made the island home in the 1800s a psychic told to soldiers stationed there that there was buried treasure her instructions were to find the largest Flat Rock at midnight on a full moon and to bring a divining rod supposedly the boys found the treasure along with a pirate ghost the ghost was somewhat less than friendly and when the boys returned with fresh pants both the treasure and the ghost were gone 18 North Carolina the Beast of Bladen burrow in the early 1950s dogs were found dead drained of their blood in Bladen burrow in 1953 a woman went out to investigate why her neighbor's dogs were whining and she claims she saw a large cat-like creature feeling the yard over the next few days over half a dozen dogs died including one by decapitation eventually a human was attacked by said beast but the person lived and said the Beast fled into the woods the town has now embraced the urban legend hosting a beast fest every year beasts VES boasts a weird black cat mascot thing and a hot pink t-shirt country music and special guest appearances by Miss North Carolina and I'm sorry if it's Bladon burro and not laden burro that was sad I like dogs 17 North Dakota said Haven sanatorium San Haven once when you got tuberculosis there was a 50/50 chance you'd die because of this people ill with tuberculosis shipped off to places like San Haven sanatorium San Haven was a TB sanatorium until the epidemic died down in the 1940s when it became a sanatorium for the developmentally disabled if you're a fan of American Horror Story the parallels between the second season and San Haven might keep you up at night the complex is made up of over a dozen different buildings connected by underground tunnels and was closed in 1987 it's only 30 years ago by the local government after stories of abuse locals still argue about why it was shut down you don't have to try harder to imagine the angry and frustrated ghosts that roamed the complex including one of a teenage boy who died after the place was closed down while he was exploring apparently the patients missed their last feeding would you ever explore explore like that I would bourbon I would use that during the daytime I would not do it a night I did both I don't think I could do it have you ever seen ghosts no I have horror movies I can't do but I will totally explore things like this I've seen really yeah it scares me too much 16 Ohio Brubaker Road Bridge there are three ghost stories associated with this bridge one a woman had a baby out of wedlock and in her shame threw the baby into the river only to realize what she'd done and jump off the bridge herself if you visit the bridge at night supposedly you'll hear a baby crying too many many years ago a six-year-old boy was kidnapped and murdered on the bridge his ghost is very quiet 3 a car full of teenagers crashed and they all died sometimes driving across the bridge cars will stall out and in the quiet you'll hear someone knocking on the window it sounds really crowded guys we did it 15 Oklahoma hex house Tulsa a woman named Carol Ann Smith this was one of several names that she went by kept religious slaves in 1944 PSA having slaves it's just not cool no no no no she had convinced them somehow to go live in cages in the basement without heat or light and let them out to go to work and then they came back oh they came back they even gave Carol their paychecks Carol also lived off some dubiously collected life insurance policies of her late husband dead and maid who all died mysteriously Carol was eventually jailed and fled the state upon her release but the shocking case including why these people came back witchcraft probably most locals still believe it was a hex oh yeah 14 organ Polybius Portland in 1891 black video game boxes with no name on them started appearing in Portland arcades given the name Polybius by players after the greek historian the video game supposedly exist that doesn't mean there aren't a disturbing number of people who remember playing it though some people claim they were kidnapped and found 60 miles from where they had been abducted with mental side effects from whatever happened to them the game involved shapes colors and geometric patterns and was only ever serviced by men in suits who didn't talk many believed that it was part of the CIA's MKULTRA program and yes this might sound like an internet rumor gone amok but considering what we do know about the CIA seems more likely to be true than not I did cover this in the video game urban legends oh yeah so now it's it's a crossover episode I click that up here oh that's you smell nice thank you that should be amber and blackcurrant okay 13 Pennsylvania the seven gates of Hell York County there are two versions of the gates of Hell in the first one there were seven gates around an insane asylum and when the asylum caught fire patients were trapped inside a very literal burning hell if you go to the site now only one of the gates is visible before dark the second version is that an eccentric local man built seven gates leading deeper and deeper into the forest the whole town rejects these rumors claiming there was never an asylum much less skates to Hell itself in the town of Pelham 12 Rhode Island the fountain Providence Athenaeum probably if you really enjoy Rhode Island which fun fact is neither a road nor an island this isn't such a bad person on a fan stay away supposedly if you drink from the fountain that was put in in 1873 you're guaranteed to always return to Rhode Island the Atheneum which again sorry which is a fancy word for library her place of study is also where Edgar Allen Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman would go to hang out when they recording they were engaged but a condition of being was that post-op drinking anyone who knows anything about po knows that didn't stick and Edgar and Sarah were sitting in the library when some jerk who couldn't mind his own business delivered Sarah a note telling her that well Edgar had been drinking bow engagement and heartbroken Poe placed a curse on the fountain that whoever drinks from it shall never leave and though he died a year later his ghost still visits on occasion I've never been to Rhode Island wait yes I have no I have not I Drive through there no I went to Delaware it's really really beautiful though I'm sure it is what are we proud of I'm being haunted by Poe 11 South Carolina boo hags that is fun to say according to legend boo hags are a super gross combination of succubus and vampire with the attractive sexuality of neither they are skinless beings who sneak into your house while you sleep and gain their life from sucking out your breath and sometimes tear off a piece of your skin and wear it to keep themselves warm totally casual you know as you do when you're the hideous nocturnal supernatural being who has to steal the life force of others to survive that simple 10 South Dakota walking Sam over 100 suicide attempts happened between December 2014 and mid 2015 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation though some witnesses claimed it was as high as over 209 people succeeded in taking their own lives someone's young is 12 and this is not legend this is fact these attempts were attributed to walking Sam a figure from folklore described as being over 7 feet tall very slim having no mouth and carrying the body of men and women off if this sounds like Slenderman or the more well-known boogeyman you aren't wrong but the locals and Native Americans have talked about walking Sam since long before Slenderman was created in 2008 when walking Sam is spotted a surge of teenage suicides follow ix tennessee mausoleum at st. Luke's Episcopal Church Cleveland originally called st. Albans st. Luke's was established in 1867 in October of 1871 on st. Luke's Day John Craig miles the patriarch of a prominent local family took his granddaughter Nina for a carriage ride they were killed at a railroad crossing because John was an idiot and tried to race a train with a horse carriage nice the Craig miles decided to pay for a larger fancier church to be built with a marble mausoleum furred Nina John and the rest of the family they even commissioned a white marble bust of Nina from overseas to be kept in a niche behind the pulpit sadly the bus never made it to its new home as the sculptor shipped it aboard the HMS Titanic 40 years later some people have trouble moving on the most interesting thing about this whole thing is the mausoleum built for Nina and her family white Carrara marble shouldn't have blood red streaks running through it and yet it does Oh No yeah bad aid Texas headless horseman South Texas back in 1850 in the literal Wild West a man named vital was a cattle thief who mistakenly stole a herd of horses containing some prized Mustangs belonged to a well-known Texas Ranger when the Rangers found thieves nearly killing them was not good enough vital was beheaded and his body tied up right in the saddle to a wild pony attaching his sombrero adorned head to the back of the horse savage stories abound about the Headless Horseman who eventually became known as el muerto eventually the pony was caught and Vidal was laid to rest but people never stop seeing el muerto roaming South Texas on clear nights this is not the headless horseman story I remember not me this is not the Washington this is a little bit more like romantic and like yet nothing's more romantic than decapitating a person I just could see this being a whole story in the Wild West yeah maybe romantic wasn't the word yeah I don't know magic was the right word seven Utah American Fork Canyon American Fork Canyon is full of ghosts apparently to be fair many have died here from car accidents suicides and unplanned Falls off cliffs there's a cave haunted by young lovers who died tragically that even the park employees have reported experiencing strange and unexplainable things hands brushing her face in the dark whispering and approaching voices and locking doors for the cave only to hear voices begging to be let out on the other side but no one was there the trail to that cave was also haunted having cold spots even in the middle of summer and whispering and laughter in the early morning a ghost of a lost little boy of about four years old appears on one of the trails a man who's not yet realized he's dead stomps through the brush before glaring at hikers on another if you stay at the campground you can supposedly summon a ghost hearse by driving your car in a circle three times you can also possibly take an apparition home via hitchhiking ghosts that's if he's kind enough to stick around after your headlights have illuminated him he usually just disappears six Vermont black Agnes Montpelier black Agnes is the name given to a copper statue in Greenmount Cemetery it's a man sitting in repose with his head tilted back dressed in flowing cloth just to clarify despite the name Agnes is the statue of a man and if you sit on his inviting lap some pretty bad stuff is gonna happen to you the statue sits atop the grave of a greedy man named John Hubbard other oddities recorded that the statue includes screams glowing red eyes and death within a week after sitting upon its lap the actual name of the statue is Thanatos which is Greek for death five Virginia the Richmond vampire Richmond in Richmond Virginia there's a beautiful old cemetery called Hollywood it's now home to some fascinating people and apparently a vamp ww pool was a bookkeeper who died in the early 1920s at the age of 80 good life good work basic mausoleum in 1925 a railway tunnel near Hollywood collapse during refurbishment killing some of the workers supposedly a creature dripping in blood emerged from the accident ran straight for mr. pools resting place and disappeared inside when people checked the mausoleum it wasn't there and there's no back door sometimes a man is seen walking out of the mausoleum after dark one more creepy thing about the tunnel accident that did really happen they only ever found one of the bodies many men never made it out of the tunnel but only one body was found perhaps Richmond has more than one resident vampire for Washington steps to hell Maltby for reasons unclear a tomb of a wealthy family buried in Malta Washington decided that said tomb needed an escape route so they had a rear exit and steps built into the back thirteen steps to be exact which is either a very spooky happenstance or they knew full well what they were doing and did it on purpose either way if you go to the cemetery at night to send the 13 steps and turn around you'll experience a vision of hell several people have reported going at night shining a flashlight and not being able to see the bottom when they should and one person claimed they went down when they were 16 only to come back up and realize their friends were screaming at them according to the stepper he only went down six steps because he started to feel sick according to his friends he went down all 13 and disappeared for a time he said that when he left he felt hands shoving him out of the darkness that's kind of sweet ghosts pushing you out of possible gateways to hell thanks ghosts three West Virginia the Mothman that's right folks one of the most famous mythical creatures in North America was first spotted in Clendenin and 1966 while some men were digging a grave he's described as a large winged man-like creature with glowing red eyes it's still not clear how man-like with wings and red eyes translated to Mothman but Batman was also copyrighted so to wisconsin maribel caves hotel Maribelle first opened in 1900 as a therapeutic hotel and spa due to the natural springs mayor Bell Kane's hotel is now known to the locals as hotel hell everyone died in a fire in the 1930s and you can still find some remains on the third floor which is inaccessible due to a tornado destroying a lot of what was left yeah yeah it sounds like hell hell is accurate this wasn't the first fire either it was the third other rumors surrounding the property are plentiful murdering psychopath killing guests before committing suicide and now Capone being a frequent guest bootleggers regularly stopping by during Prohibition one can only imagine the ghosts that call Maribelle caves hotel home sounds like someone or something otherworldly really had it out for this place one Wyoming Jackalopes after two lists of creepy things to keep you awake at nights we're ending this one on a high note and my personal very favorite urban legend or cryptid the Jackalope cryptids are animals thought to be mythical like unicorns the Loch Ness monster etc although the Unicorn is the official animal of Scotland so the Jackalope is an adorable wild hare with antlers yes they're thought to be vicious when cornered and will defend themselves with their antlers in addition they can run up to 90 miles an hour that's faster than a cheetah they've been most commonly sighted in Wyoming and were first sighted in 1800 s in what would eventually become Wyoming my famous western guide John Colter just gonna stand here awkwardly waiting for my co-host to get back up here dude that was the cue that's why we figured out what the last sentence was so there we go here's Trustin alright so guys what are some of the legends that we missed about your state or even city let us know in the comments below or tweet your answer to us at least twenty five states and be sure to follow us on social media you can follow me at Hope Gold's on Instagram oh boy I've got Instagram at mirai M erra I put it on Twitter Michael B estrin here love you guys hi ya remember you guys can ask us anything in the comments we're doing that now like even if has nothing to do with the video just 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Published: Wed Feb 13 2019