CSS EP-14 (PART ONE) THE CREEPIEST MYTH FROM EVERY STATE. ALABAMA TO MISSOURI.

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That gets you a twenty dollars credit if you sign up for a paid plan and help support my show. Thanks everyone. Crazy Strange Days podcast presents your Crazy Strange Stories episode for teen I am Mixed Strange, I'm your host. It is the spooky season, so we're gonna head over to grunge dot com and check out their list of creepiest myths from every state. Every area of the world has its own myths and legends that are passed down through the ages, twisted by decades long games of telephone. These stories may have some truthful origin, or could simply be one of many tales uttered by his natural born storyteller with a knapsack and a grizzled beard. The stories may have deep metaphors meant to endow a sense of virtue on the listener, bring a sense of beauty and wonder to a certain locale, or more often than not, scare the living daylights out of children and teens. These myths may have ancient roots in the indigenous cultures that once inhabited the land or the mother countries that colonize them later, and if so, you can't expect stories of ancient monsters and tricksters with lessons attached to traditions almost forgotten. If the stories are derived from more modern times, they tend to exaggerate real life tragedies, often with bits and pieces stolen from Hollywood driven narratives. Regardless, these tales have a tendency to sit as seeds in the back of your mind, waiting to grow into a full blown panic when darkness falls and the shivers of loneliness set in. In Every one of the fifty states has its own creepy miss These are the creepy among them. Alabama a playground for deceased children. If you want your blood to instantly run cold, the sound of disembodied children's laughter will surely do it for you. This is why a small playground connected to the Maple Hill Cemetery outside Huntsville, Alabama, wins the list for this state. According to Atlas Obscura, the playground exists to give a bored children something to do while order relatives visit the plots of their deceased loved ones. But the living children aren't the only ones said to visit the little park. Some believe, as advanced local explains, the spirits of dead children play on the equipment at least as often as the visit visitors. Many claim to have seen the swings moving on their own the telltale orbs of spectral inhabitants, or even the apparition apparitions of the child ghosts themselves. Local lore gives two block backstories. Either the children buried in the cemetery haunt these grounds, or the eeriar of the two. The bodies of children abducted in the sixties were buried where the playground now sits, and their restless spirits entertain themselves. How any child at such a location would Alaska screams of women and children lure fishermen to their deaths in Alaska, it's not the tale of spectral beings that sends chills up the local spines. This myth has a monster at its core. As Sky History UK tells it, there are creatures known as the kush Taka inhabiting the Alaskan waters. These beings are said to be shape shifting creatures that turn into otters and mimic the sounds of women and children in distress in an effort to lure unsuspecting fishermen to their demise. The older legend from which this story was born, though, gets even darker. According to esoterics, Kushtaka tales come from the indigenous ting get in Schwan peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Yes, I butchered that apologies. The actual legend says the Kushtaka would search out lost or drowning people within their hunting grounds and do one of these three things turn them into taka the preferable fate, rip their ill fated victims to pieces, nope, not for me, or simply take away their immortal soul wou, preventing them from continuing the cycle of reincarnation, and sentencing them to then internity of oblivion. The nothingness of empty eternity is a fate more horrific than an early death. Arizona Keep the children inside at night so they don't fall to the lah Rona na. This Arizona myth, according to Only in Your State, has roots in Aztec lore and has since been made popular across the state as a way to keep children indoors after nightfall. Typical boogeyman stuff. The story of La la Rona is terrifying enough to have been made into the popular film The Curse of La La Rona. According to Vanity Fair, the tale goes like this, A long time ago, a woman named Maria married a rich suitor and bore him to children. The husband stopped paying attention to Maria on the rare occasion he was home and noticed only the children. Soon Maria discovered him with another woman, the real reason behind his neglect. Engaged by what she learned, the excuse me. Enraged by what she learned, Maria drowned her children. Regret filled her almost immediately, and she screamed out to them in grief before, in some versions, drowning herself as well. Her spirit was denied the luxury of heaven, sentenced to walk the earth as a restless shade in search of her children. If children pass a body of water at night, it is said she will drag them in and drown them, like she did her own brood. Some say she does the same to cheating husbands. All in all, it's best to avoid her in general, just in case. Arkansas a hitchhiking specter. You never know what you're going to get when you pick up a hitchhiker. There's a chance they'll be smelly, a chance they'll be the perfect road companion, a slim chance there'll be a wanted criminal, and so on. But these things get a little more chilling along Arkansas Highway three sixty five, where the hitchhiker you pick up could be the wandering spirit of a deceased young woman. Countless stories like this legend has it. According to kf SM five News, the figure of a young woman is seen walking across an eerie bridge south of Little Rock, her white dress torn. With the woman looking so down on her luck, passerbys are more than willing to give her a lift to the house she always seems to be going to, but once they arrive, the woman vanishes into the chilly night air. The house is said to be that of her mother, who will gladly explain about her daughter's death and her periodic hitchhike home to anyone who knocks on the door. The Arkansas State website adds more to the story, saying there's a rumor of a boy who'd given this girl a ride home. He handed her his jacket to help warm her after her walk in the crisp rain. Like always, she disappeared. He knocked, and the mother explained afterward he visited her grave, only to find his jacket hanging on her tombstone. California, a burned figure attacking campers. That's that would be a horrible experience. No doubt, terrifying wildfires are somewhat common occurrences in California, but only one of these ravaging natural disasters has produced the psychopath known to the valley as char Man. Some time ago, more specifically, in the summer of nineteen forty eight, a large fire blazed through the valley. According to the myth, as detailed by Backpacker Verse, the area was isolated due to the limited technology of the era, and some households were forced to wait days for assistance. One such place was a small cabin where a father and son had lived. The building was devoured by the fire, the father killed by the flames, leaving the son as the sole survivor. He'd been badly burned, some might say charred, but he made it something more than His flesh was changed by the heat, the smoke, and the pain he endured. A piece of his mind was broken, turning him in to a monster. As testament. When the police arrived on the scene, they found the corpse of his father hanging, skin flayed from his body from a nearby tree. It said the char Man, the creature the sun became, still terrorizes the valley and will attack unsuspecting hikers and campers so he can collect their skins like he did his father's. Colorado, The Gates to Hell are on Rivendale Road. Riverdale Road, an eleven mile stretch of road running between Thornton and Brighton, Colorado, is said to be one of the most haunted roads in the United States, and there are plenty of creepy mists that surround it. It's thought to be so haunted, in fact, that many, according to KUSA nine News, suspect the road houses the actual gates of Hell somewhere along its winding curves. The most prominent urban myth about this road has to do with a phantom jogger who attacks cars traveling its pavement or parked on the thin graveled shoulders. The jogger is said to be the spirit of a soul who became the victim of a hit and run while trying to catch a little exercise or so are community now claims. The restless shade now travels the road at night, banging on the sides of traveling cars, or worse, if you're unfortunate to park along his street, the footsteps are all you'll hear as the jogger approaches your vehicle to beat on its doors and windows, And if you should be unlucky enough to let the specter reach the driver's side door, you might just join him. In the in between between the ghost Jogger and a spectral Camaro said to race drivers to their deaths, it might be best to avoid Riverdale Road altogether. I want to hear about the spectral Camaro, but Jogger's not so scary. Next up, Connecticut, the deformed melon Heads eat human flesh. They also have this story over this little uh legend over in Ohio as well. There's probably many more places just like Resurrection Mary in the Girl Hitchhiker stories. Connecticut, the deformed melon Heads eat human flesh. Hidden away in the world hoods of Connecticut or a group of people you'd never want to meet. The melon heads, as they're called by the locals, live down thin country roads on the outskirts of towns where the woods get thick. According to the New England Historical Society, they rarely ever come out of hiding, but CT posts say they'll toss rocks at your car to drive you away from their land if you get too close, and that's far from the worst these people will do. There are several theories about where the melonheads come from, escapees from a mental institution, a group of lost colonizers, or possibly a family banish from a nearby town for the crime of witchcraft. No one knows for certain, but most agree these people have suffered strange physical abnormalities after general of inbreeding. These people are said to be small, but with giant heads and a hunger to match. They'll eat anything from small crawling critters to the flesh of people. Supposedly, they have a taste for teens and are often blamed by the more superstitious folks. When a teenager or a hiker disappears in the woods over to Delaware, the screams of a tortured soul may send you running. Most ghost stories involve an unfortunate person who met a terrible demise, the pain of which trap their souls in a purgatory here on earth, and the ghost rumor to haunt Loom's Pond in Delaware is no different. The story that's told by Only in Your State says that during the nineteen seven entry, a young girl ran away from a bad home situation to seek refuge in the woods around Loom's Pond, an area that's now the swamp trail. Well. What looked like a wilderness haven from the trouble of her home life turned out to be the haven of someone more sinister than the girl meant to encounter. Having escaped her hardships for mere moments, the girl ran across the camper. The man attacked the young girl, sexually assaulted her, and killed her. Absolutely hate that it's pure evil man. Her body was shortly found thereafter, but despite a full man hunt, the murderer was never captured. It is rumored that the inconsolable shade of the young girl is still wandering the trail. Her cries can be heard echoing through the trees, sending a chilled down the spines of even the most courageous. Now listen up. This is kind of important. If you were someone you know, maybe the victim of child abuse, Please contact the Child National Child Abuse Hotline at one eight hundred. For a child, it's one eight hundred four to two two four four five three, or contact their live chat services. If you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available. Visit the Rape and Abuse and Incest Natural National Network website or contact RAINS National Helpline at one eight hundred sixty five six Hope Hope is four six seven three one eight hundred six five six four six seven three. All right, Moving on, Florida, A river runs red with blood. It's unclear how far back this myth dates, but if you believe the story, then it can be traced back to around the Civil War. According to legend of via weird Us, there was a woman who was once kept a slave before having been freed, after which she moved to Wachula and served as the town's midwife. From here, the story goes different ways. The woman was either distraught that her own child was taken from her when she was in bonds, as described by Florida Travel Life, was concerned for the food supply, or couldn't bear children herself. Regardless, she began smothering babies after delivering them. The woman would carry the remains of the newborn and buckets to the river and dump them off the bridge jeez. Before long, the locals began to notice that more babies died under her care than anyone else, and she was soon banned from her job as midwife. This caused the woman to go even more crazy. She was now being haunted by her geeds. Supposedly, if she came near buckets, they would fill with the blood of the babies she'd killed. She tried desperately to empty the buckets of the blood into the river, but they just refilled. That was until she fell in and drowned. If you stand on that bridge under a full moon, or so it said, you will still see the river run red with blood. Skip up north to Georgia. A lake filled with ghost towns. In Georgia, as noted by Mysterious Universe, there's a lake filled with historic landmarks, bridges, businesses, and ghost towns. It's a fifty thousand acre man made body of water known as Lake Lanyard. To build this monstrosity, over two hundred and fifty families and several buildings and cemeteries had to be ushered out to new locales. Much, though was left behind. Forests were buried by millions of gallons of water. Entire towns were swallowed by the rushing flow, left fully intact with streets, buildings, parks and all. But there's one thing rumored to be below the lake's surface, and that's the souls of those who used to live there. The lake is creepy enough on its own. The abandoned derelic boats, and buildings below the surface will send shivers up your spines, but the disproportionate number of deaths on the lake is the fuel that powers myth. Boating accidents, drowndings, and cars careening off the road to land, and Laniers laneyears waters add to the lake's mystery. It's said that the ghost town towns plural below the water's surface are the reason behind lakegoer's misfortune, as the spirits trapped within, reach within, reach up and pull those unfortunate souls down into the depths. The argument then becomes whether it's ghosts or a curse that made this lake so unlucky, but many agree it's something paranormal. The Great Island State Hawaii a creature that devours human flesh. In the city of Honolulu, there's one house believed to be the home of a creature so terrifying that few dare enter the building, the Kaimuki House. According to Only in Your State, this home is rumored to be inhabited by a Japanese ghoul known as Kasha. Spooky kind Investigations. A paranormal investigation and research group describes this creature as a ghost from Japanese folklore that's only called up when a person commits an impressive number of evil deeds in their lifetime. Upon their death, the ghoul arrives to drag sinning souls to hell. But the legend seems to have a bit more to it, Ain't it always a bit more? The creature in the kai a Mookie house is said to feast on the flesh of humans, and there have been several reports attesting to the horrid nature of this building's inhabitant. The popular myth seems to be traced back to a fictional story written by a man named Glenn Grant, but the locals have been talking about it for decades, as it made clear by the As is made clear by the police reports reaching back to the nineteen forties, Apparently, a couple had the police called on them by a neighbor when they heard banging sounds from inside the house, but when the cops showed up, the couple attributed the noises to a being trying to attack them. In other supposed scenarios, the kasha had attempted to kill or did kill children all right back to the mainland Idaho. The water babies will drag you under. Some myths go so far back that their roots are difficult to trace. They become so woven into local culture that they're just a part of everyday life. Such is the case of the water babies at Massacre Rocks State Park in Idaho. As the Other Idaho's State Journal tells it, the myths begin. The myth begins with a local Indigenous American tribe and a time when famine plagued the state. Fearing having too many mouths to feed, they decided to put the young ones out of the misery. A quick death was better than starving over the course of weeks or months, and the more mouths meant less food for everyone else, so they drowned the in the Snake River. The story is known to differ between sources, but the idea remains the same. Babies were drowned in Snake River at Massacre Rocks, according to one of seven point nine light FM yacht Rock Baby. Some people think the ghosts of the infants now inhabited inhabit the waters, while others believe they sprouted gills and became some sort of monsters. Regardless, it's said you can hear the babies crying at night from the Snake River, and if you get too close, they'll drag you down with them. Illinois. The Seven Gates of Hell in Collinsville. In the town of Collinsville, Illinois, an urban legend dating back around four years claims that this area has an elaborate mechanism that allows one to open a gateway to Hell, according to Warm Soda mag but it's not something the locals would ever want to do. Who would want to do that? Surrounding the town are a series of old railroad trestles rumored to have been the spots for lynchings, satanic rituals, meetings for the KKK, and all sorts of other nasty things. Today these trestles are covered in graffiti and look fairly derelict, which is a little creepy if you were just hanging out by one telling ghost stories under a full moon. But don't be mistaken. The locals believe they hold a devilish power. As the legend states, if you were to drive through the seven trestles, getting the final one at at exactly the stroke of midnight, you'll open a portal to the devil's realm. Hellhounds will come bounding out from the rift and drag you straight to internal torture. The story of the last people to attempt this feat didn't end well. Supposedly, in the seventies, a group of kids dropped acid before trying their run ended in a deadly crash before they even reached the seventh Gate. Of course, no one knows how much of this was Evil's presence and how much was a pink elephant dancing on the hood Over to Indiana, a green beast beneath Ohio River. There might be a monster lurking under the Ohio River around Evansville, Indiana, or maybe the beast has died or left long ago, but the mists surrounding it is creepy, as much in coincidence as it is in story. The date was August twenty one, nineteen fifty five. As exemplar explains, a couple of women wanted to enjoy a nice day soaking up the sunshine during a swim in the Ohio River. Miss Darwin Johnson and Miss Chris Lamble hit the water expecting nothing unusual to happen that day, but a green beast with clad hands had a different idea. The beast rose from beneath Johnson, locked its claws around her leg, and with a powerful jerk, pulled her violently beneath the waterline. Lamble, seeing her friend drop so quickly, screamed with bright Jnsoon must have been a strong woman, because she fought her way out of the creature's grip and made it back to the surface. The creature grabbed her again, but this time she lunged for Lambele's craft or raft. Excuse me making such a ruckus, It must have scared the beast away. It was the only sighting in that particular area. But interestingly the event happened on the same day a group of gobbling creatures were famously reported not far away in Kentucky, Iowa. Kissing the Black Angel would lead to an early grave. An oddity can seem supernatural under the right lighting, stoking the flames of myth that goes that gets passed down through generations. This is surely what happened in the small city of Iowa City, where the Black Angels reside in a peaceful cemetery. As go Iowa Awesome explains, there are several different stories surrounding this statue, and all of them are miles from coming close to the truth. The myths say a husband placed the bronze statue over his late wife's grave, but the statue darkened to black because he was terribly unfaithful. Officially, a woman named Teresa Felderwert commissioned the statue, but other stories say she was a sinner or a witch whose evil deeds cause the bronze to tarnish. However, the origin story unfolds. Other myths about the Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery remain the same. According to a untless Obscura, the locals believe if you kiss the angel you'll be asking for an early death, and some think women who walk beneath its blackened wings while pregnant will miscarry. However, you look at it, the mists make her out to be one nasty statue. Jump over to Kansas Ground to Hamburger by the Hamburger Man, that sounds awesome. I've never heard this one. Let's find out together. If you find yourself near the sand hills outside of Hutchinson, Kansas, it's best to leave as quickly as you can because Hamburger Hill is home to ghules of sorts that'll turn you into paste. The legend has been around since the late fifties, according to Mysterious Heartland, and goes something like this. A being known as the Hamburger Man stalks Hamburger Hill looking for unsuspecting hikers. When he comes upon one, he'll attack, dragging them back to his little shack, where he murders them with a sharp hook and grinds them up into hamburger. The origin of the being isn't quite known, and it's debated whether he's a man or a ghost. The Wichita Eagle, for example, says some think he's just a man who was a disfigured in a car accident or by a house fire, maybe while serving in a war. It's not important, though, since all the sources say if you meet this man, there's only one way your story ends ground up and served for dinner. So delicious. Hopping over to Kentucky, a murderous trickster goat man. Kentucky is reportedly home to a mysterious creature of his own, and this one is a murderous trickster who takes on a form similar to a satyr from Greek mythology. The Pope Lick Monster, as this beast is called, seems to be a mix of trickster lure in that story about the troll living under the bridge. According to Atlas Obscura, this creature calls the Pope Lick Trestle Bridge home, hence the name. The half man half goat being waits for people to come by, and then he uses some form of hypnosis, potentially a sort of siren song to lure people into his bridge. The public bridge isn't decommissioned by any means, It's very much an active trainway. Under the Goatman's spell, his victims walk the tracks into a passing train runs them over. There are other stories about this being that claim he jumps down from the bridge to land on cars like some sort of psychotic daredevil. Whatever the case may be, people have died at the Pope Lick Bridge from accidents while trespassing on the trainway. It's head down South the Louisiana, a deformed clan of people haunts Grunch Road, Louisiana. Tale about the people at the end of Grunch Road is surely one of the weirder legends out there, but given the state's melting pot heritage. Nobody's all that surprised. Somewhere back in the Bayou, Donald Lane, formerly called Grunch Road, lives a clan of dwarfs and albino folk. According to ninety seven point three of the Dog, It's said that these people were hassled all the time by residents. You treated them as some sort of local freak show. Nobody likes to be the local freak show. The group wanted nothing more than to live in peace, avoiding the world and the jerks that made their lives living hell. They became more and more secluded until interbreeding and inbreeding left them barely looking human. Still, they were treated as freaks, that is until pets started disappearing. By the time people began to go missing, everyone knew to leave them alone. Best things. Louisiana talks of a rumor claiming these people hired a type of beast to protect them and drive off anyone coming too close to their territory. Others say they made a deal with the devil. One thing is certain, you wouldn't want to meet them at the end of Grunch Road. Up north to Maine, Catherine of Catherine Mountain, as far as miss from Maine are concerned. Most of them are fairly benign, but that isn't to say the state doesn't have any creepy miss As the Bangor Daily News makes clear, the myth of Catherine of Catherine Mountain as local seeing things. The story goes that a woman believed by some to be Catherine Downing, who died in eighteen ninety two and was buried in a nearby cemetery, lost her life in some tragic accident. What type of accident it was is obscure. Reared by history. The spirit of Catherine is said to be seen wandering near the thousand foot mountain that shares her name along Blacks Woods Road. But if you should come across the spirit, you have a choice to make help her or flee. If you choose not to help the last soul, the legend says, you'll be cursed with the sort of bad luck that sends your vehicle uncontrollably swearing off the road. Great State of Maryland. The demon truck owns Seven Hills Road. The state of Maryland, like many of the older states on the East Coast, has a rich world of folklore and local mythology, probably due to the vast influx of colonists and immigrants from Europe who brought with them bits and pieces of their native traditions. The demon truck that's believed to inhabit Seven Hills Road, though, isn't quite so old, since motor vehicles weren't common when the state first became into being, but that doesn't make it any less cretastic. According to Weak and Weird, Elcott City has one of the weirder haunting myths around. The community is believed to be one of the most haunted in the United States, and the essence of all that spiritual activity has spread to inanimate objects. Instead of this legend surrounding a human spirit, it's said that the ghost of a truck is what plagues the pavement of Seven Hills Road. The road itself w winds around seven large hills, hence the name, and if the locals claims are correct, it seems to be fairly dangerous, mostly because young drivers find it fun to hit the hills at top speed. Many in the area believe the accidents caused on this road aren't due to the daredevil's speeds alone, but are caused by the phantom headlights said to appear behind vehicles and drive them off the pavement. Up next Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Massachusetts say it fast the weird people of the woods. Some myths are fairly modern, while others have roots in older traditions, and this creepy one from Massachusetts can be traced clear back to legends from the indigenous Alguonkolan tribes, long before colonizers set foot on American soil. According to native languages, the creature of this myth may be small, but they're said to be said to wreak plenty of havoc as an article from Massachusetts Paranormal Crossroads via Spooky South Coast explains, the common myth of the puck Wedgies is alive and well in Bristol County, I fricking love puck Wedges, where some locals believe these two foot tall humanoid demons haunt the woods. Once believed to be helpful creatures in the days before the United States, the puck Wedges are now said to cause a number of disturbances, ranging from messing with hunters in the woods and throwing stones to abducting people who find themselves too close to their land at night. What's crazy about this myth is that people still claim to see these creatures roaming about, but they are appears. It seems to have been influenced by European myths of nasty little folk like gnomes and trolls. Michigan Meet Chigan a monster who preys on campers. Man, And you know, I used to be an avid hiker. Man. I've seen some weird stuff out there, but there are so many monsters stories monsters prey on campers. Hm, I must be lucky. Torch Lake, just to skip away from Lake Michigan, is one of the most gorgeous inland lakes in the United States. According to Forbes. It's not the biggest thing around, but it's sufficiently deep at two hundred and eighty five feet and houses plenty of big fish for fishermen. Apparently, it's also home to a mall monster who preys on those unaware on its waters, including local campers. The myth of the Torch Lake monster likely persists thanks to the generations of storytelling at nearby camp heyo Win a Hut heyo Win a Hut. But just because this myth is spread by children doesn't detract from its merit. The monster, as ninety nine point one wfm K tells it is believed to be some weird chimeric cross between a lizard and a mountain lion and gets blamed by locals for the drowndings that occur in the lake. With Torch Lake being a fairly impressive tourist attraction, stories of mysterious drowndings without known causes are less than rare, so the myth lives on through these tragedies. The creature, also described as a sea panther, is said to rise out of the water at night to feed on stragglers still within the lake's boundaries. All right over to Minnesota, you bet ya an ancient man eater of a legend in Minnesota, one of the most terrifying legends retold in bastardized from Indigenous American stories, is said to roam the thick timber that covers the northern portion of the state. And this isn't the kind of beast you'd want to encounter alone in the woods, or even with a group for that matter, Just stay away. According to Park Rapids Enterprises, the wind to Go, one of the most feared man eaters in all of the mythology, has been reported in the state as far back as the end of the Civil War. The beast feasts on the flesh of humans. But the creepiest part of this myth is that the windigo is said to have once been a human itself. The legends claim men who turn cannibalistic for one of many reasons, starvation, belief that it would transfer power, or simply because they were Jeffrey Dahmer sick, transformed into these creatures that are eight to fifteen feet tall, covered in white fur, and cursed to yearn for the meat of their former species for the rest of their days. This myth has been popularized in movies and TV shows like Supernatural, Huge Fan for years now, which probably has something to do with the windigoes popularity. Alrighty, heading down in Mississippi. A man's odor that turns women homicidal. I always thought it was just my actions that got me in trouble with women, right, Marie. Not all creepy mists have to do with damons or ghosts or the paranormal at all. Some surround strange biological phenomena and government conspiracies, much like that the one that had people in Mississippi quite riled up. In the fifties. A mythical disease called merk critics was believed by some to have infected the population of Mississippi in the fifties. According to Urban Legends Online, it supposedly caused men to emit a body odor after eating too much lead that's odd like from drinking certain types of paint. When a woman smelled this odor, it would drive her into violent and often murderous insanity. There are even rumors of a riot occurring due to the spread of this mystic sickness. If you likely, you likely won't find evidence of any of this, though, since the government is said to have covered it up. Who the hell drinks paint? There was even a book published about the incident that claims the smellmen were emanating affected every woman on a hormonal level, but only the pretty women are the ones who became killers. Hmm mmm mmm mmm mmm. Missouri. The dangers of zombie road down to misery. As this list makes quite apparent, hauntings don't necessarily have to be centuries old houses or sacrificial sites hidden away in remote woods. They can also occur on things as commonplace like bike paths. That's what many popular myths say anyway, it likely has something to do with the spooky nature paths have with heavy tree cover and take on as the sun goes down, and Zombie Road in Wildwood, Missouri is just that sort of place. Lawlerford Road, known to the local folk as Zombie Road, is a short hike, but within that minuscule stretch of pavement there's enough supposed paranormal activity that it's considered one of the most haunted paths in the country, or so dangerous, Road says. Having one of the largest known Indigenous American burial mounds in the US located along its stretch doesn't hurt either. The stories of Zombie Road are plentiful, from the rising of spectral Indigenous spirits and Confederate soldiers to child ghosts and the lost souls of industrial workers. But the most chilling myth, as only in Your State explains, is the tale of a terrifying man who lives in a shack by the road. Now, the mythical man allegedly attacks couples who are looking for an inconspicuous location to get away from it all. So that was part one. We'll have another part two, and we'll knock out the last twenty five. Just split it in half, so the first one is Alabama and Missouri and the second one will start at Montana all the way down. So I hope you enjoyed it. I had fun. I enjoy lists like this, you know, top tens and fifty states and all that. So I'll have the link in the show notes, and I'll have a link to support the show in the show notes as well, if you so choose to do that. That'd be fantastic. Five star rate and review as always, because that drives the algorithms to put more ears on this podcast, and I can do some different stuff once I start cooking here. Appreciate you. I've been mixed, strange, and I am out of here. They do anybody at Day the Ladies. 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