Do you know any interesting legends and myths?

There is a great place in WNY i heard of but haven't been......something about " eternal flame in a cave"?? Edit!!!!

Eternal flame falls!!! A lit flame that stays lit under a waterfall...

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I was just looking at youtube a few minutes ago for the series I found some...don't know if all are there...but hey it's something.

yes...I know there are tons around here...there is one I can't remember exactly where it is...but they say weird creatures come out at night. It's some old story I heard around Halloween time. It was on the news a few years back.
If you find any Blue please post them I am really interested in any from our area :)

Reminds me of the San Antonio railroad tracks.

it's said a school bus/train accident left several children dead at these tracks just south of San Antnio, tx.

I know one from around where I grew up, in rural Australia.

About 10 miles out of my little hometown there's a granite hill called Coffin Rock, and it has a coffin-shaped hole cut into it.

The story goes that in the 1800s an old farmer spent his last years carving the hole, with the intention that he be buried it in when he died. He wrote so in his will.

Well, when he did die, no one really wanted to bury him there, so they compromised. They left him in the hole for one night, then took him out and buried him in a cemetery.


The hill is, of course, haunted.

Try the bible.

thank you V honey!

yep I have heard that one too...the things some people will believe lol

There's alot of good ones there...I don't know where to start lol

Yeah!!! That's a great site!! I Forgot about it!

That's at Chestnut ridge! I can't believe I have never heard of this.

The flame is produced by a crack in the rock which allows natural gas to escape.

That's crazy...handprints and everything...

Thanks for sharing that AC!

Going to hike to see it is on my bucket list!!!

good one...but if anyone out there has old legends and myths from way back then that would be cool too :)

I don't live far from Chestnut ridge at all...I am gonna go see this in the summer :)

creepy!!!

Been there twice. It is pretty eerie.

The story is this, in Japan shortly before a teenage girl committed suicide,she drew this picture, scanned it and posted it online. In Korea this story broke out and it spread like wildfire. There are various posts around in Korean forums that say that the viewer gets drawn to the girls blue eyes,they say they can detect a hint of wraith and sadness within the eyes. Maybe the girl had died with so much sadness and anger that her spirit haunts the image, or maybe the image provoke sadness, similar to the song ‘Gloomy Sunday’.

The freaky bit is this, they say it is hard for a person to stare into the girls eyes for longer than 5 minutes, there are reports that some people have taken their own lives after doing so. People say the picture changes,as you view it there is a hint of a growing taunting smirk appearing on the girls lips or a dark ring grows around the girl or her eyes.

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thanks to everyone who posted...I was just speaking with Muse and she said Bea is the queen of legends...I hope she sees this thread lol but if you guys got any more that would be great. Be back a little later.

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My grandmother used to tell legends. There were plenty but I can not remember them all. I do remember one about a beautiful woman, she would stay at her window for hours, seducing men, and then when the men came close to her, she would open the door, they would realise she was a succub because of her feet, they were animal feet. Then, the succub would kill them.

wow...thanks 5thwheel

The coolest one involves Dozemary Pool in Cornwell England. Legend has it that it was the lake Arthur threw Excalibur into. I had a road trip in England a few years back and went visiting. It is on a persons property and he generously allowed us to visit. The gentleman had some interesting tales about the place. I thought it was eerie and otherworldly.

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cause of her animal feet? what? crazy stuff. I guess don't fuck with a succubus...and you'll be good..

damn Aunty I wish I could travel! I would want to go there lol

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Do you know the legend behind the Fairy Crosses?

Wild stuff.

Peace to you

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Isaiah 13:21
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

awesome...May the charms of the Fairy Stone make you blessed
Through the days of labor and the nights of rest
Wherever you stay, wherever you go
May the beautiful flowers of the good fairies grow.

Thank you Amy A!

Understand I think the most controversial "legend" is of the Sasquatch.

They are about 4 main descriptions, all across the world.

(we also "evolved" from 4 "prehumans")

If we find and kill/capture a "Big"

Kiss Darwinian (primate) evolution goodbye... and if that happens... the next best thing is what the Sumerians say..

Anyways.. Ill give you an analogy.

Why Can’t Hunters Find Bigfoot!?

The Panda’s story is a perfect comparison with
hominoids because they live in the same kind of
habitat (montane forest) and terrain (mountains)
as bigfoot/sasquatch and the almas/kaptar types,
but their mountains are covered with bamboo.
Written references to hominoids go back for
hundreds of years, and such mentions are found
in nearly every country. But the mainstream of
each century has dismissed them as useless
prattle. The same was once true for Pandas.

Ancient Chinese manuscripts often mentioned a
creature known to them as a Bei-Shung, which
meant white-bear. They were usually described
precisely as they turned out to be: black-andwhite
bears living in the rugged mountains of
Sichuan, eating nothing but bamboo shoots.
Every Western authority “knew” bears were
omnivores, so the bamboo shoots were laughed
off. Also, they “knew” bears could be black or
brown or white, but surely not the black-andwhite
coloring described by Chinese natives.

Most importantly, no Western authority had
ever braved the rigors of traveling to China to
study the matter, so they felt amply qualified to
pronounce the Panda an amusing local legend.
Finally, after 2,000 years of unaccepted reports,
in 1869 a French missionary/naturalist named
Father Armand David made his way to Sichuan
Province. Like most naturalists, he knew of the
legendary Bei-Shung, and he believed “official”
assurances that duotoned, bamboo-eating bears
were a highly embellished Chinese fable.
Ultimately, Father David saw the full skin of
one hung on a wall in a village elder’s home!

Finding out where it came from, he hurried to
the Bei-Shung’s reported habitat, a bamboo
forest high in a forbidding mountain range.
Upon arrival, he tried to hire local hunters to
bring him a living specimen. The locals were
hesitant, saying the Bei-Shung lived in very
rugged terrain and were extremely difficult to
find and kill, much less to try to capture one.
Father David took their reluctance as a ploy to
extract more money from him, so he offered a
handsome bonus. Chinese were loathe to give
offense, so these agreed to take a crack at it.
In one of history’s great quirks of fate, after
only twelve days the Chinese hunters returned
with a living Bei-Shung they insisted had been
secured only by astounding good fortune.

Their protestations seemed unlikely, but Father
David didn’t care if they were embellishing the
difficulty of their task. He knew their captive
would make history worldwide, so he didn’t
concern himself with the circumstances of its
capture or the high price he had paid for it.
For as great as Father David’s good fortune was
with the capture, his luck soured in transporting
his prize back to France. After a few days on a
ship, the wild Bei-Shung became so agitated
that it began ramming itself relentlessly against
the cage bars, clearly intent on breaking free of
captivity or dying in the effort to escape.
For humanitarian and moral reasons, Father
David had no choice but to euthanize it.

Having to kill his precious prize was a terrible
blow to Father David, who found solace knowing he
could still achieve his main goal of proving
beyond doubt that the Bei-Shungs did exist.
If he could do that much by himself, he knew,
well-equipped field teams would follow with
sufficient methods of extracting the living Bei-
Shungs they would no doubt easily capture.
He sent his “legend’s” preserved remains to a
Paris Museum, creating a worldwide sensation.
Presaging what will probably happen after the
first hominoid is officially presented in our own
time, the world’s foremost scientific institutions
in 1870 entered into a race to decide who would
put the first living Bei-Shung on display.

They sent legions of topnotch experts—hunters,
trappers, and scientists—swarming through the
mountainous regions of Sichuan, a region the
size of Arizona or Italy. All waited anxiously to
see who would be the first to bring one in….
And they waited . . . and waited. By 1900—31
years since Father David’s find—all museums
that financed expeditions had long since given
up. By 1910, western media had renamed the
Bei-Shungs Giant Pandas, and scientists had
shoved them back into the mists of “legend.”

Despite Father David’s stuffed specimen being
as real as it ever was, 41 years without so much
as a follow-up sighting convinced most experts
the panda was now extinct. Why? Because the
men who had searched for it were all highly
experienced woodsmen and skilled trappers.
Cavorting around bamboo forests in Sichuan’s
mountains looking for phantom pandas became
a frontier jaunt for daring sportsmen with time
and money to burn, like U. S. President Teddy
Roosevelt’s two sons, Teddy, Jr., and Kermit.
In 1929, exactly 60 years after Father David’s
misadventure, Teddy spied a panda in a tree
and shot it, sending a bullet through that poor
animal to puncture innumerable scientific egos,
and giving it an iconic name—Teddy’s bear.

Guys... It took a whole generation of time
to find a bear that is dumber than a box of rocks
eating bamboo..

Again, whats the most annoying question
to Interventionists? "If "Bigfoot" exists, then
why don't they have bones and fossils!?
Why haven't some hunters gone out and killed any?

#1. Did some of you know that there is not
ONE FOSSILIZED BONE OF A CHIMPANZEE? It is almost
impossible to manifest a fossil in such a dense
active area of land with such high diversity and heat.

#2 OK! lets go find a Bigfoot! Lets start by
foot-surveying 40% of the "uninhabited land" we
do not populate, then lets finally conduct a
thorough search through the vast expanse of the
lower montane areas to try to find a nocturnal
freak of nature, that is no doubt bigger,
faster, stronger, and believe me... Smarter
(in their element) than we are...

Again, We couldn't find a godforsaken bear eating
bamboo for nearly 100 years, before we finally
found one, they were considered mythological creatures.