What local Urban Legend do you have?

Discussion in 'Community Discussion' started by Gaming_Comander, Feb 16, 2020.

  1. Hello everyone! Im back from my hiatus, and I'll provide an update as to why in a thread after writing this one. But right now I need your help. As some of you may know I've written a book about superheroes who are constantly in a struggle to save humanity from supernatural and outlandish threats. I'm currently working on a new book where Urban Legends, which are supernatural beings whose main purpose is to scare the living crap out of you, take the role of the heroes. However, despite the fact that I have over 100 Urban Legends hailing from over 15 countries, I still need more to make some scenes more interesting. This is where you come in. Each country and city has its own list of Urban Legends, like how El Chupacabra takes resides in Mexico or how in San Antonio, Texas there is the Donkey Lady.
    I know that there are some really odd and unique Urban Legends wherever you live. And I'm asking that you tell me who they are and what their story is. This is greatly appreciated and to anyone who does I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
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  3. Ah! La Llorona! A glorious yet tragic Urban! She'll make a great addition to the story! Thank you
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  4. Not really a urban legend... but there's a house in the small town near me that's supposedly super haunted. My dad's childhood friend lived there so he would spend the night there as a kid and crazy stuff would happen. Doors slamming, footsteps, and weird noises.
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  5. Actually, our town (Amersfoort, the Netherlands) does have an urban legend! I'll see if I can find it later, as I don't quite remember it. :) It has to do with the virgin Mary, if I'm not mistaken, so maybe not fit for your book. ;)
    Edit: I just realised that "virgin Mary" (which I have often heard) is a bit of a strange term, as Jesus actually had brothers, so Mary did not stay a virgin. :p
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  6. Any Urban is welcome! I'll do some more research on it to see if there's anything notable, thanks!
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  7. I’ve got two.

    The Liver Birds - Liverpool was given permission to form a guild in 1229, which gave the borough permission to use a seal - they chose to have a bird, whose species was left ambiguous, with a piece of laver seaweed in its mouth. Over the hundreds of years, the bird morphed into a cormorant and when Liverpool - now a city - requested a coat of arms in 1796, they requested a cormorant with a piece of laver in its mouth as their symbol. In 1911, the Royal Liver Building was opened to the public - atop the building stands two liver birds, their wings outstretched; they’re called Bertie and Bella. Bertie overlooks the city, while Bella overlooks the River Mersey. Legend says that if they ever fly away, the city containing over 500,000 people is completely destroyed.


    Purple Aki. He’s a 6’5 bodybuilder that is a boogeyman in Liverpool and its surrounding area - his name is said in schools, adults laugh about him, my dad met him in a gym once; and I made a new friend recently by making a joke about getting membership to ‘Aki’s Gym’ and exercising with her. Wouldn’t put this one in your story because he’s a convicted offender it’s just funny lmao
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  8. Interesting. And what a name: Akinwale Oluwafolajimi Oluwatope Arobieke.

    I read into the "Miracle of Amersfoort" a little:
    In 1444 Geertje Arends went from Nijkerk to Amersfoort (which are fairly close together, by the way) to enter into a monastery. She had taken a statue of Maria made of white pipe clay with her. She thought it was too ugly to take into the monastery, though, so she threw it into the canal.
    In the following days Margriet Albert Gijsen, a maid, got a vision three times that told her to go to a certain place beside the canal. When she did so, she found the statue under the ice. She placed the statue at home and burned a candle, which burned for 3 times as long as usual.

    Not that remarkable, is it? However, it was apparently quite significant in that time: shortly after the statue was found and the story circulated, thousands of pilgrims headed for Amersfoort. In fact, Amersfoort became probably the most important Dutch place of pilgrimage above the rivers.
    A lot of things happened because of this, but most significantly to me is that with the earnings of the pilgrimage, shortly after 1444 a tower was built. This tower still stands, although as usual with such old buildings some parts have been rebuilt (and some multiple times). It is quite an impressive build in any case!

    This tower was part of a church, but the rest of the church exploded in 1787, killing 17 people. For some reason the functionality of the church had changed to a laboratorium for assembling grenades. :confused:

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