Your local legend...???

Originally Posted by Mathew James

nj pine barrens - jersey devil - satan had sex with a virgin and a freak flew out, the thing is still flying around out there.

I remember hearing about the Jersey devil? It does sounds freaky! Have you ever gone out looking for it?

Originally Posted by Internal Queries

yeah, i saw that movie. we have it on DVD. i like it (how can you not like Depp?) but it's nothing like Washington Irving's original story. N. Tarrytown has been renamed Sleepy Hollow, which is, IMO, really lame because Irving specifically mentions N. Tarrytown in his story. i guess town officials decided that changing the town's name would bring in more tourists.

I have read Washington Irving's Tales. There is a different element you engage when you read the story. I guess it just grabs your imagination...

[Mathew James]

Originally Posted by nightowl

I remember hearing about the Jersey devil? It does sounds freaky! Have you ever gone out looking for it?

we would ride dirt bikes and camp out at night alot, but never went looking for it. it is not what they talk about in the movies. the only time it will take anyone and string them up is if they see it. me and several people have had close encounters with it, but we know not to look at it. had it walk around my head one time while sleeping. was on the ground sleeping with my helmet on and could see the shadow of it from some light that was coming off a fire that was going out, just laid there staring at the ground and listening to it walk around, then next thing it was gone.

That must have been quite an experience. How is it diffenrt from the movies?
So if you look at it, it will attack?

I think I saw something on it on that paranormal show done by the group from Penn. state...arrghh can't think of the shows name right now.

[Mathew James]

Originally Posted by nightowl

How is it diffenrt from the movies?
So if you look at it, it will attack?

I think I saw something on it on that paranormal show done by the group from Penn. state...arrghh can't think of the shows name right now.

maybe not the movies, but documentires that investigate it. imo it is trying to communicate with people but freaks out when it sees people starring at it. thats when it sticks small branches through the people and hangs them upside down in the trees.

Here is another spot near my town.

Point Lookout State Park

Often called America’s most haunted lighthouse, Point Lookout has had many documented paranormal activity since the 1860’s. Ann Davis, the spirit of the lighthouse’s first keeper, has been seen standing in the stairway and disembodied voices and strange noises have been recorded on audiotape. Also, other figures lost during the Civil War have been seen wandering the basement and grounds searching for graves that were moved a century ago.

Point Lookout was also the largest Confederate Prison of war camp during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, the Point Lookout area housed the largest prison for Confederate soldiers of the war. A crude fence was built around a swampy area to house the prisoners, who were only given tents for shelter. As the population grew, the tents ran out, and soldiers were left out in the elements. They subsequently died horrible deaths en mass from disease and starvation. It is estimated that 4,000 men died in this relatively small area, only to be buried and exhumed 2-3 times before they were finally laid to rest in a common grave which is now marked with a monument bearing their names.

Due to the frequent shipwrecks in the area, the lighthouse was built, but that didn't stop the violent deaths offshore. Accidents continued, culminating in the explosion of a Union gunboat with several mutilated bodies washing up on the shore. The lighthouse itself has also had its share of tragedy, with several keepers dying on the premises while on duty.

Add to all this a hotel that was the diamond of the park in the 19th century that burned to the ground, another ship that was lost in a hurricane offshore, and multiple small vessel accidents, and you begin to see why this place has so much supernatural phenomena going on.
http://www.mysticalblaze.com/GhostsMaryland.htm

There have been many sightings of civil war soldiers running across the roads, hearing of muzzle loading guns firing and extreme cold spots in the dog days of summer. Lots of history and lots of ghost!

The Cursed Ranch was a small acre ranch with a house on a hill no more than five minutes down the road from our dairy farm. In the midst of this redneck town called Black Creek, there were a lot of strange things that went on. The Cursed Farm was a part of the Black Creekers every day gossip, a major part of history as well. It was known as cursed because of the horrific and unexplained sequence of events, which happened there. The same thing happened to all the people that moved in there.

I heard first hand from my father, as he had always offered the new people who moved onto that land to plough and cultivate the fields and in return keep the silage for his cows. I also witnessed some strange things myself.

The first people who owned the land, were two rich brothers, Chuck and Dave, who owned diamond mines. There is a rumour there is still buried treasure somewhere on the land. The one brother Chuck moved into the house on the hill, with his wife - she was an eskimo woman. The other brother was off working at the mines. Their marriage fell apart, people witnessed her shooting off shot guns at him from their front porch. They say he was quite the drunk, a very happy laid back guy. He would go into the bars around Black Creek, insisting the woman had put a curse on him. He strongly believed it too. The whole neighbourhood could hear her screaming at him. One source told me, he had been quite the stoner, but he had spent a lot of time clearing that land with a tractor and a hoe. Chuck had a lot of big plans for the property, and he loved his work.
Then he died suddenly. It was left up in the air, whether or not it was suicide or murder. He was found in his garage gassed out, had an aneurism.
The other brother Dave, came back from the diamond mines. He bought the eskimo woman out of the estate, because he thought she had murdered his brother, and he moved into the house on the hill with his girlfriend.

Another man named Turkotz moved into the trailer which was below the actual homestead, he did not last long. After him Buffalo Bob moved into the trailer.
Then out of nowhere, Dave began to go insane. His girlfriend began cheating on him with Buffalo Bob who lived down in the trailer on the property.
He went ballistic. I still remember being a kid driving past the fence lines, and he had strung a huge sheet in the air, labeled with offensive language. He had all their furniture in their house, staged on the lawn near the main road.
He began obsessing about building greenhouses, and claimed he wanted to get into agritourism.

Around this time our farm employee Frank quit the job on our farm, and went to work for Dave. They dug out a huge pond on the ranch, and my dad went over to see a bunch of bones at the bottom, the pond was going to be to help the greenhouses. Dave only had a few more months, and his project would have been finished, of course he died before that. But he became paranoid that he was in debt and was poor - when in truth he owned a diamond mine. He would go around telling my father giant conspiracies of how he believed he was poor and bankrupt.
Dave’s weird behaviour was witnessed by my dad. Dave deliberately drove an excavator through his shop and said it was because he couldn’t open the door. There were booze bottles littered everywhere. He would talk to my dad in a Scottish accent he never had before. Then his voice would switch to another accent.
He owned big large white dogs, which would always run to the end of the road and greet me, as I would walk past. They were beautiful. My father witnessed him randomly shoot one while he had been talking to him. All of the white dogs disappeared.
Dave built a giant tower and left dead animal corpses to rot on top of it. Rumours got around thinking he was offering sacrifices or something. He ended up saying it was just because he wanted to attract the eagles so he could shoot them. Police and wildlife ministries got after him, but he never stopped.
He also decided to burn a pile of over 1000 tires. No one knew how he had got a hold of them all. He excavated them into a pile, and dumped gasoline all over them, lit them up. He ended up saying it was because it was cheaper than exposing all of them. But the fire raged out of control, caught the fields on fire, fire trucks and police were rushed to the scene (along with me, and the whole neighbourhood) huge billowing piles of black smoke with black soot falling everywhere.

Before he got the green houses finished, he hung himself. Frank, our ex farm employee who worked for him, hung himself the very next day.

Dave’s family came from Arizona to settle the estate, they finally completed the greenhouses and sold the property.

The next people who bought the cursed ranch were Heather and Al who seemed to be happily married at first. Heather was a native woman as well.
They allowed Buffalo Bob to stay on the property and work for them.
They broke up and went insane. Heather began cheating on Al with Buffalo Bob. Cycle happened all over again.
Bob worked on a fishing boat, one day he went fishing with his buddy, and the boat randomly sank, his buddy died, after that he went insane. He would always shoot at someone he claimed was stealing the potting soil. Did a lot of strange things.
When Al found out Heather was cheating on him, he moved off the property, but began stalking them, he became very violent. They had to get a restraining order. He would shoot at them.
So they decided to buy a guard dog. The dog was shipped in a car to their house, and once it got out, it turned into a real life cujo. You may still be able to find the newspaper reports on that. It took over 30 gun shots from the police, to kill the dog, and it attacked and caused injuries, and locked Heather and Al in the greenhouse. It greatly wounded a random thief stealing potting soil (so there was a guy stealing potting soil, but who steals potting soil?).
Then Buffalo Bob decided to ship a bunch of buffalos in and start a buffalo ranch. Which is where he got his name from. He used a tiny fence. They got out, went mad, and ravaged all of black creek, chased people down, dented cars, and a whole herd of farmers had to get together trying to shoot the buffalo down, but it's impossible to shoot a buffalo. So now we have buffalo in our wilderness. Somehow they managed to kill half the herd, the rest got away.

Anyways, to shorten the last bit, the ranch was cursed and everyone believed it. Lots of people lost people from that farm. Everyone that moved in after them, had the same cycle happen to them, cheating, and random deaths, insanity, and really odd events. One of the latest owners had a catholic priest in to do an exorcism on the ranch. “I would have had the Indians out there with their drums,” one of my neighbours told me. Funny stuff. But weird things still happened.
Things began to quiet down around 2 years ago, when these new people moved in, we keep expecting something weird to go down. Nothing has happened so far, so perhaps the exorcism worked. My dad is best buddies with the folks in that house now. The guy is a taxidermist, and his wife, they don't get along to well, he has his own plane, they fixed up the place real nice. But so far nothing horrible has happened. That place has had a lot of history, and for years i was terrified to set foot on that land. I still am. I don't like curses.

The Seven Gates of Hell

For a nice little town in southern Pennsylvania, York seems to be unusually blessed with portals to the underworld. One local legend speaks of Seven Gates of Hell in a wood on the outskirts of a town that some signs call Hallam and others call Hellam (we’re not making this up). If you go through these seven gates, you will go straight to hell, they say, but they insist that nobody has ever made it past the fifth gate.

The gates begin in the woods off Trout Run Road, which was once the scene of a tragic asylum fire. But if, as the church tells us, the road to hell is wide and well-traveled, and Weird PA has some doubts about this York county portal. The first gate is hard enough to see, standing as it does half-hidden by the undergrowth at a bend in the road. As if to confuse the issue, there are two other gates right beside it. But it’s the middle one, a buckled iron pipe affair with a loose, rotten frame, that they call the First Gate. The other two are merely distractions. And the remaining six gates? Well, here’s the catch: Gates Two through Seven are invisible during the day. But by the half-light of night, you can find them by squeezing past the first gate and tramping through the undergrowth of the protected forest behind it. (Of course, in the dark, it’s hard to see even the no trespassing signs liberally posted on trees, so the gates will be an even more obscure goal.) To your left, you find a large circular clearing that at least one coven of Wiccans use for their meetings and ceremonies. The gates stand deeper in the woods.

During our research trek (a daytime excursion, it’s true), we found no gates past the first one, but plenty of felled trees that would look like gates by night—bent boughs that even a closed mind could see as barricades to another world. Despite our doubts, I must confess, we stopped after going past five of these broken-down trees and decided to go back to the car. After all, there’s no sense in being reckless.

The local murder that made international news in 1928 will be revisited in a new exhibit scheduled to open at the Nelson Rehmeyer house on Rehmeyers Hollow Rd. This was the site of the infamous murder of the "Witch of Rehmeyers Hollow" also known as the Hex murder. After years of whispers, mis-information and ghost stories, the home of Nelson Rehmeyer will be opened as an historical exhibit in the summer of 2007. The exhibit will tell the true and complete story of local legend and Pow Wow doctor Nelson Rehmeyer known as the Witch of Rehmeyer’s Hollow. His murder in 1928 was a media sensation much like that of O.J. Simpson or Anna Nicole Smith is in our time. The exhibit will show actual items owned by Rehmeyer on the night of his death. Visitors can take the tour and turn back the clock to the night when 3 men came for a book and left with blood on their hands thus sparking the trial of the century here in York County. The exhibit will be open to the public by scheduled tours and special appointments only. An admission fee will be charged.

Interesting Ciqala,
Did anyone check the history of the land? Where did the bones come from in the bottom of the pond, any clue?

tmf,

So was the Pow Wow witch killed for his pow wow book?? Must have been some powerful old world magic in it huh?