At Campfire's Edge - Share Your Local Legends!

[DisneyDellsDude]

Anyone have any good campfire stories to share? There is still a month of summer left!
Ghostly encounters, UFO abductions, your game of hide and seek with bigfoot... Share what ever you've got!!
And at you're next bonfire, share some of these that you've read on here. See what happens once the fire has died into crackling embers. Are you sure that growl coming from you neighboors yard is just their dog?
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I'll start with mine, who we call the Boobooshaw...

This legend takes place one town away from mine, Port Washington, nestled along the Wisconsin shores of Lake Michigan.
The legend first poped up in the 1960s. No one is quite sure where this black, skeletal like creature came from, but rumors point to that he got off one of the big coal ships that would come in to port to deliever to the local power plant.

This creatue always sneaked around, never to be seen during the daylight hours.

Some believe it was just a tactic used to scare little boys and girls at the time. "If you don't behave, the Boobooshaw's going to get you!"

For others, it was real. Dogs would bark into the blackness of their backyards, the owners not having any idea what was going on. To their surprise in the morning, the would find small holes dug up in their grass or along the edges of their house. Others claimed to have actually seen the creature.

In the 80's-90's, the legend kind of died off. No one really talks about it anymore. What happened to the Boobooshaw you ask? Well, some think he just died off. OR, he could just be lurking around the woods in the area. Just waiting.
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Ok. So that was mine. The Boobooshaw is an actual legend in our area, and you can find one or two things on the internet on him if you really want to. I look forward to reading some of your stories, and will probably add another one later tomorrow.

 

[rainfully]

One cool legend I like is the Legend of the Piasa Bird from Alton, Illinois....

It's kinda hard to explain... but here's a little blurb about it:

http://www.altonweb.com/history/piasabird/

The legend goes back quite a ways... it used to scare me when I was little whenever we'd drive by the cliff painting! My dad told me the story a little differently then the "official" legend. He would say that sometimes you would drive by the cliff and the painting would be gone... that means the Paisa Bird was out flying around... hunting for his prey. Yeah... SCARY.

 

[myhappyplace]

Ooo how I wish I had something to share. What a great idea for a thread. I look forward to reading others.:wave:

 

[DisneyDellsDude]

Time for another story from Wisconsin...

The Bearwolf near Holy Hill.

From Wisconsinosity...

"In November of 2006, a DOT worker picking up animal carcasses along the roadway discovered a strange creature dragging a deer from the bed of his pickup. Although media reports classified it as a Bigfoot sighting, the witness described a wolf-like head with pointed ears on the body of a large black bear."​

That's him.​

 

[unkadug]

Investigating the Montauk Monster: The Story Deepens!

Yesterday, Gawker ran what appeared to be a photo of a bloated, leathery animal corpse — only it was like no animal anyone had seen before. A stout, hairless creature with a beak, claws, and the almond-shaped eyes familiar from renderings of space aliens, it looked, in short, like a monster. Hence the headline: "Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk." The photo had come over e-mail to Anna Holmes, the managing editor at Jezebel, from an employee at Evolutionary Media Group, in Los Angeles; Holmes passed it on to Gawker. Because it came from a marketing company, Gawker surmised, "our guess is that it's viral marketing for something." They later pointed to a Cartoon Network show, Cryptids Are Real, which features similar-looking chubby monsters. We called Evolutionary, where a woman named Alanna Navitski, who claimed to be responsible for the tip, swore it was not a viral-marketing campaign. "This is what happened," she said.

"I got this e-mail and opened it from my girlfriend who works at Harris Publications, which has nothing to do with anything. Anyway, my girlfriend's sister was there with her friends and one of them took the picture. And we were like, 'This is the scariest sht we've ever seen.' And so — I'm in marketing — we were like, 'Maybe we should send it to a few blogs and see if anyone else is as freaked out as we are.' We had no idea that it would turn into this. Now it's literally a beast of its own. But it has nothing to do with any kind of campaign."

In fact, this turned out to be true. A number of eyewitnesses say they saw the monster with their own eyes. "I saw the monster," says Michael Meehan, a 22-year-old waiter at the Surfside Inn, which sits above the beach where the monster washed up. "I just came walking down the beach and everyone was looking at it. No one knew what it was. It kind of looked like a dog, but it had this crazy-looking beak. I mean, I would freak out if something like that popped up next to me in the water."

So did anyone there, you know, do anything about it?

"This woman kept calling animal control," said Meehan. "She wanted to name it after herself. I think they came and got it. The carcass. Whatever it was."

But did they? The East Hampton branch of animal control referred Daily Intel to a supervisor who did not return calls for comment. And Navitski, of Evolutionary Media Group, says her friend's sister (who doesn't want to talk to the press, though Plum TV will host another woman, Jenna Hewitt, who claims she took a photo, tomorrow) says animal control never came. "They say an old guy came and carted it away," she said. "He said, 'I'm going to mount it on my wall.'"

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/the_monster_of_montauk.html

 

[Ilovewishes]

No local ones, but being from Britain, we obviously have the Beast of Bodmin Moor and, who could forget, the Loch Ness Monster.

I have been to Loch Ness and it is rumoured that in certain parts, the Loch is bottomless. Some say that there are more than one Nessy, maybe a whole family. Some say Nessy is a dinosaur. Who knows??

Here are a couple of links

http://www.unknown-creatures.com/beast-of-bodmin-moor.html

http://www.unknown-creatures.com/loch-ness-monster.html

I have driven through Bodmin Moor at night, and believe me, it's not funny when your dad stops the car, gets out and starts shouting "Here kitty, kitty, kitty!"

I nearly had heart failure that night!!

 

[CedarNewt]

Time for another story from Wisconsin...

The Bearwolf near Holy Hill.

From Wisconsinosity...

"In November of 2006, a DOT worker picking up animal carcasses along the roadway discovered a strange creature dragging a deer from the bed of his pickup. Although media reports classified it as a Bigfoot sighting, the witness described a wolf-like head with pointed ears on the body of a large black bear."

That's him.​

Interesting, I always heard that attributed to being the same creature as the Beast of Bray Road.