Little Folklore fun

[Entsuropi]

So, this is where you should post all the fun little legends and myths you hear. I'll start off.

There is this lovely little castle in the Scottish Highlands. The name escapes me, but it was destroyed during the Jacobite rebellions. The English swine placed barrels of gunpower in it and detonated it. Then, about 150 years ago, some nutty Victorians decided to re-build it. The legend goes that one chap, who spend decades on this endevour, drew some rough designs of what he saw to be the castles floorplan in a dream. Then, when they went to Edinburgh to get the floorplans, they found them to be an exact match.

Probably the chap was lying about the dream, but its a nice little story anyway. Anyone else got any?

[Sminja]

Can they be erie stories? Like, local haunts, etc.?

[stacer]

I'm sure the Mormons on the board could all come up with folklore about the three Nephites.   I actually can't remember any specific tales, but there are so many variations on it that really, you could make up a story and add three big guys.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Three big guys walk into a bar...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

There's the story about the MTC President (it applies to any of them, it's told about them as soon as they are released) who goes to the temple to pray for the missionaries, and he looks out hte window of the Celestial room (which in real life, are frosted if I remember right) and sees the MTC surrounded by angels that look like Nephites fighting demons that look like Lamanites off the walls.

Because you know, they couldn't come in the doors. And angles always dress a couple thousand years out of style.

[House of Mustard]

Well, and it seems to me like those Lamanite demons are free to do what they will -- the MTC hardly seemed like a temptation-free zone.

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

Can they be erie stories? Like, local haunts, etc.?

Don't see why not.  Unless the others object for some reason, go for it.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

During the American Civil War in Virginia there was a very fat man who lived near Petersburg.
One day as the war was coming to an end he went out into his yard to wistfull watch the Union Soldiers march down the road, when suddenly four or five men in blue ran up to him screaming and hollering "Here he is by God! We found him!
The whooped and they hollared and the man became very frightend because he heard that the Yankees were hanging suspected spies. Well all the yelling attracted the attention of a young union Cavalry General named Custer who came riding up resplendent on his yellow colt. "What the devil is all this commotion about! he demanded authoritatively. The most Serious of the men looked at him and said... "Beggin your pardon general, but we found him.
"Found who"
"The man who swallowed our base drum sir!"
"Base drum" the general exclaimed, "well boy youd best cut out the whole orchestra while your getting that out!!"
At that the fat man fainted and everyone had a good laugh.

[Master Xaio]

Ok then, I heard about this from my dad who used to live up near there...
And I know there are *heaps* of variations to this, but I thought I'd post it anyway.

Up near Byron Bay, there is a stretch of road inland.  Now someone who lived along that road died.  She was quite a hitchhiker.  She was confirmed dead. (I can't remember how).  However, after she was dead, people kept on stopping to pick up someone who looked exactly like this girl.  They were all asked to drop her off at the same spot, somewhere the girl liked to hitchhike to before she was killed.  However, when they got to the place where they wanted to drop her off, she was no longer in the car.  No trace.  And when they were going at say 80km an hour, its a little hard to get out of a car unnoticed...

[Sminja]

Well, in New Jersey (I don't live there, my brother does, right now) there are many creepy tales and places, myths, if you will. There's a road (I'm not sure exactly what city its in) called Clinton Road, which is 10 miles long, and winds through the barren pines of this city, an undeveloped part of New Jersey. Somewhere alng the road, there is a bridge over a pond. Stories say that if you toss a coin, or object, into the pond, the ghost of a boy who was drowned there will walk up to the orad and give it back to you. Also, from New Jersey, legend tells of a mysterious beast who roams the forests, called the Jersey Devil. You have probably heard of it sometime or another. anyway, this thing terrorizes chicken coops, livestock, and the like. It's also been known to attack humans.  Go to www.weirdnj.com to find out mor about...well...weird NJ...

[Maxwell]

Just outside of karegaine in the tenebre nox woods live three evil demons known as the guinness loqui. they where once women, but have long since been cursed for their loose morals and explicit behavior. they were cursed with horribly ugly bodies and a taste for human blood, but not just any human blood, no, the blood of little children. It is said that if little children venture into the tenebre nox at night the guinness loqui will jump up out of the boomers and drag the children underground and drink all of their blood.