Local terror

[Corpse Candle]

We all know about the big nasty horror monsters,myths and legends.
Such folklore myths like VAMPIRES,WEREWOLVES,MUMMY'S but do you have a local boogieman or local myth from your area that you would like to see become a film.
I have been working on a story based on the local folklore terror knowen as SPRING HEELED JACK.
This particular fellow reportedly terrorised my village (Barnes) he was said to have burning red hair,flaming white eyes and demonic in apperance.
He ran at fearsome speed could jump over houses robbed maids of their wages on pay day.
He was dark and deadly and with a bit of tweaking I know I can make him an horrific figure.
What about the rest of you.

[skweemkween]

Damn, that sounds creepy. I would go see that in a heartbeat.

I think the genre seriously needs more mythological monsters and folklore. I mean psycho-serial killers are interesting but c'mon, is THAT all Hollywood has to offer???

That why I really enjoyed JeepersCreepers so much!

I'll have to use my brain for the next couple hours to think of a local legend, other than the local retard who use to go up and down the street with a shopping cart stealing lawn furniture from people's yards, answering to the name of Ray-Ray.

[Krisellis]

hey iv herd of spring heeled jack too...about 13 years ago anyway im sure theres a picture some were taken from a late 18th century comic which depicts this jack guy

[teenkiller]

Around seven years ago around my neighborhood there was a guy who cut up two little children and then put them in a dumpster. Also theres a former child molestor who lives on my block. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[iRottenCotton]

Goat Man...a retarder man That has horns and hoof feet like a goat. He follows people home and he kills them with a crazy ass looking knife. Thats how I remember it when I was a kid.

[Hell Phantom]

I have a topic like this already but its a while ago, But I know a few mythes that would make good movies: Lochness Monster, The Jersey Devil and this one guy, can't remember what he was called but he lives in the woods around here and he lost his legs so he lives by growing long ass finger nails to help him eat and he walks on his hands. I think it is very stupid thing but some people thinks he's scary. Ok....

[Gorbs2000]

Well, if you want local folklore, there really isn't much in my part of Ohio, though Ohio is known for its very haunted history.

One of the best stories I remember, that would make a bad-ass flick, is off the "White Man" as the story is called. Evidently this guy lived on the frontier of Ohio way back when the Indians around here (Iriqouis, I believe) were a lot stronger and a lot more pissed off. One day, the guy went out into the woods with his son for the first time ever to teach him how to hunt. At home was his wife, who was pregnant with his second child, and the man needed more food than usual, so he stayed out hunting longer than usual. When he came home at night, his wife was dead and her scalp was nailed to the front door of his cabin.

The man went into a rage, and said before he died, ONE HUNDRED indians would pay for the death of his wife and child.

Throughout his entire life, the man killed any Indian he saw. He would bury their heads for two weeks, until they cured into bright white skulls, and then he would put them on special shelves he created, numbered from one to one hundred.

Finally, the man kills his 99th Indian, but he is dreadfully ill, and at last becomes bed-ridden. His son stays by his side and his father looked him stern in the eye and told him, "You have one year after my death to kill that last Indian boy, or its your head that will fill its place on the shelf!" and with that the father passed out and later that evening died.

Well the son, being a big womanly little bastard, didn't have the guts to kill Indians. And being it 50-60 years later, his father's homestead wasn't so "frontier". And a small village was erected and there really weren't too many Indians around. At the local bar his friends were making fun of him because they knew he didn't have what it took.

Well, 364 days past, and the son walked into the bar. His friends had a loaded rifle with them and told him, tonight's his night. The son didn't pay attention to them at first but they egged him on until at last he grabbed the rifle and shouted, "I'll show you!!" and stormed out of the bar. The friends all laughed and went back to drinking. Suddenly, they heard a gunshot crack from the distance and a loud, blood-gurgling scream. The friends all looked at eachother and then at the clock... 11:58. "Well, looks like he had balls after all." They all agreed.

A few days went by and no one heard anything from the son... a few more and his friends got worried. They figured he was just buzzing off the Indian killing and sitting at home crying in a corner or something. When they got to his cabin, however, there was an eerie silence. They called his name but no one came... and at last they went inside... The 100th place on the rack was filled alright... with the head of the son, rotting and covered in days-old gore...

I think that story is the shit for being supposedly true, and it would be a good twist to the genre being all "Historical Horror" and all, lol...

-Jeremy

[Strodefan822]

Oh, we have a really good one here...it's called Screaming Tunnels.
You see, like thirty years ago this eight year old girl was home and playing with matches and accidentally set the house on fire. She herself caught fire while trying to escape and ran from the house screaming. Just out front is a small tunnel used by pedestrians to circulate under a traffic bride. Well, she collapsed in the tunnel and burnt to death. Since then, it is said that if you go into the tunnel and light a match, you can still hear the distant sound of the young girl screaming.
Pretty cool, eh...the funny thing is that I've been there and the tunnel is terrifying whether or not you want to convince someone you heard anything...and this story has been circulating about it since my parents were kids.

[Boogeyman]

i wish we had some more fokelore and ghost stories that have to do with texas but the only thing i can think of has already been made into a film... leatherface (TCM)

later yall

[ZacharySmith]

A couple of years ago we had "Le maniaque au tournevis" ("The screwdriver maniac") in the neigborhood. He used to attack people with a screwdriver of course. Since then i can't help but think of how that guy must have been sick in the head! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Ghostface 2000]

Well i live in England and nothing mythical about this place.

[malaria]

Ghostface 2000. That's really not true. The myths r there, u just aint lookin' hard enough. When it comes to ghosts for instance, England is one of the the most Haunted countries in the world. And as my good mate Corpse Candle (Hiya mate) just pointed out if an English residential town like Barnes can have its myths its a good bet one of your neighbouring towns will have one or two. I've certainly heard a few in my time. Ghosts mainly. I attended a Haunted school for instance (Derwentwater) said to be haunted by Bloody Mary and The headless Earl of Derwentwater. And used to live near a church in East Acton, infamous for the yearly hauntings of a cloaked monk. I have a book of Hauntings where it is listed and once met someone who said he once worked there and had a ghostly experience.
He was working in the sparsely lit belfry when he saw something ethereal gliding toward him. He hadn't heard the myths but as it drew closer it started picking up speed and he could make out that it was a cloaked and hooded monk. He of course shat a feckin' brick and jumped down the stairs missing them completely in his haste and broke a leg. Brrrr.

[skweemkween]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ghostface 2000:
Well i live in England and nothing mythical about this place.</font>


You HAVE to be kidding, right? You just forgot the winking smiley face, right?
Surely you just don't sit around watching BBC1, right?
http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Corpse Candle]

I don't know if anyone can help but there is another grissly bogeyman.
I have forgot his name but he was supposedly obese he lived in a cave I think.
Also he had iron theeth and children were warned that if they strayed too close to his lair then he would snatch them and fest upon them.
He had a disturbingly macarb fetish for eating live babies.

[Kim_EZ]

My school has a legend sorta. My friends and teachers told me this. Besides my school being built on a supposed Indian graveyard, there was a murder - a boy and girl - in like the '60's or whatever (not too soo after the school first really opened). They were shot and nothing of it was ever heard of again. Since then, they say their ghosts haunt my school. The janitors don't even like to stay after hours; teachers too. Voices are heard at night and lockers are opened and slammed constantly.

In the front of our school, we have a school seal (kinda like a logo). It's surrounded by velvet ropes (like at theaters) so no one will walk on it. They say if you step on it, the ghosts are supposed to come and get ya.

A lame story indeed, but fun for Halloween 'round here.

[This message has been edited by Kim_EZ (edited 04-18-2002).]

[Darth_Evil]

Somewhere around where I live, there is this overpass where the kkk would hang their victims from. One of them was a pregnant lady. Her ghost supposedly haunts the overpass, seeking revenge. Add some kkk zombies and this would be an interesting flick.

[Mr Dark-Light]

Ok this is the last time I'm going to bring this South African leagend up. The Tokalosh, an invisable creature that is half a foot high that comes into you bedroom at night and carry you away to their underground kingdome, either to eat you or to make work for them. The only way to stop them from taking you away is to place bricks under your bed posts, so as to make it too high for them to reach. This leagend is still beleived by many of the locals here, today.