Exploring North Dakota's Urban Legends: Myths and Folklore in the United States

Howdy y’all, and welcome back to our journey across the United States where we’re coving myths and legends about every state of the union. Today, we’re traveling through North Dakota, and while you don’t hear a whole lot about this place - you’ll be surprised to know that there’s plenty of cryptids, ghouls, ghosts and more lingering in the dark of this horrifying place. If you’re new here, I invite you to subscribe to the channel! It’ll never cost you a dime, and its the easiest way to make sure you don’t miss our next video on Ohio. With that, sit back and relax because we’re visiting North Dakota.

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00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Tagus, North Dakota - the abandoned town
05:15 - White Lady Lane
11:54 - The Taku He, North Dakota’s Bigfoot
16:19 - General Custer’s Haunted House
22:22 - San Haven Sanatorium’s Ghosts
26:17 - The Miniwashitu - North Dakota’s River Monster
29:03 - The Fargo UFO - The Gorman Dogfight
34:31 - Ghosts of Bismarck North Dakota
40:59 - The Legend of Blxxdy Knxfe’s horse
43:59 - The Horace Mann Elementary Elephant
47:18 - Outro

Credits:
Abandoned Town videos & videos of the woods - Matthias_Groeneveld, pixabay
Boardwalk video - ChristianBodhi - pixabay
Woods at night video - Iconikmg - pixabay
Video of the moon - Hans - pixabay
Bridge video - u_ti9zy4gcrc - pixabay
Newspaper videos - olenchic and mrpixel000 - pixabay
“Bigfoot” Video is the original patterson gimlin footage which is public domain.
Video of the night sky - Bernhard_Schuermann and adege - pixabay
Bismarck Ghost Photos/videos:

Video of the school - klimkin - pixabay
Ferris Wheel Video - BreakDownPictures - pixabay
Other fair video - My_Walking_Diary - pixabay

Elephant videos:
Md579 - pixabay
Gavinllo - pixabay
Victoriabbosa - pixabay
Mda621326 - pixabay
Arunkumar_Purakkattu - pixabay
Needvid - pixabay
Mds524680 - pixabay
xBriantcx - pixabay

Music throughout - Lightless Dawn - Kevin Macleod

[Darkwolfpocco]

Update: Do not tresspass on the area of the first story. The owner will shoot at you to get you off his property.

[Meii_catz]

It's so cool hearing about folklore from my own state, I've never heard of these things before but that's most probably because I live in the city, but either way this was a really cool video. Thanks!

[MiscellanAtlas]

I’ve been looking for a video like this for a while. I’ve lived in North Dakota my entire life, and have always had a huge interest in the paranormal. I never see anyone covering anything that happens here (sometimes it feels like the rest of the world doesn’t know we exist) so this was amazing to watch!! Seriously, thank you!! P.S, even though I love spooky things, I’m sure I would faint if I ever witnessed any actual supernatural occurrences. I’m a huge chicken lmao!

[nannynan]

All of your videos are good, T! This one included ...the delivery of these stories is really easy to listen to, clear and not monotone. so nice to hear good HUMAN narration. Thanks for taking the time and doing all the research:)

[Vazic-.-]

North Dakota is really cool and many don’t know. We have our own weather blocking system called The Bismarck Bubble, we tend to block out the worst of the worst for storms.

[spudnikflyover]

I know an ex-firefighter from Bismarck who claims that there are old prohibition tunnels downtown and that they would have to periodically inspect them to make sure they weren't collapsing or inhabited. I legit don't know if he was pulling my leg or not, but that would definitely explain some of the hauntings you described.

[smokenjoe]

Following directions and saying hello from mandan nd! Thanks for giving us nodak peeps a little love.

[joshuawestra]

I grew up in the area around Walhalla and it was a right of passage to walk down "white lady lane", which is a little dirt road that runs along the creek that Eddies Bridge spans, at night. I personally have never seen anything but the area is creepy and people are sure to keep items (rope hanging from the bridge or white cloth tied to trees) near or on the site to keep the legend alive.

[TheRealWolz]

I'll be honest, i live in bismarck and I've never heard of any of these! I'm glad you went through the effort to find stories for this state. I thank you for the work and this was a great watch

[IndependentOreo]

My family has talked a lot about the houses they lived in, in bismark being haunted! my dads childhood home was haunted and the last house he lived in was haunted too.

He had the police the clear the house on two separate occasions due to the noises between the walls and in the basement he was always hearing but they found nothing.

Once when his sister came over they both said they heard the back door open, someone kick snow off of their boots, and walk inside, but the door was still locked when they checked.

When he was moving in he found holy water that was left by the last owner.

Lots of ghost stories from bismark.

[BunBunlee]

My mom used to work at Peacock Alley as a bartender. She and her other coworkers hated going into the basement to stock up on alcohol and whatnot. They would always feel a huge sense of dread whenever they would go down there. Also, she would see glasses and silverware move and sometimes get knocked over (mind you, my memory is a little foggy so this might not be 1000% accurate) and she undoubtedly heard noises upstairs - as if there was a gathering of people hanging around. She did not have that job for very long lol. The food is pretty great though.

[kingreticence]

Living in the somewhat middle of ND, very interesting video definitely gonna share this with friends.

[HikingForLoot]

Upside down cross is also a symbol for St. Peter as he was martyrd crucified upside down

[XOguitargurlOX]

😂 imagine that, a museum built to have big groups visit is chilly, sounds like some good building planning!

[logical_harm]

Hello. I moved to Bismarck as a kid and have lived here for most of my life. I often enjoy driving around at night and looking at the old buildings that populate the downtown area. The buildings there give off an eerie vibe, and there are known to be tunnels underneath the downtown area, which I believe were also there from the prohibition days. I think I heard somewhere that most of them have been collapsed, though.
I also worked at a butcher shop in town for five years, only recently quitting. That building was built in 1936 and has always given me the creepiest vibes whenever I was alone there, whether that was staying late, coming in early, or coming in the middle of the night to use the restroom or switch out the smoker, I had been in there alone many times and always heard creepy and saw stuff. Firstly, no matter where I was in the building, in these odd hours when the building was almost empty, I would constantly see shadow people turning corners or just walking by. When I was away from the entrance or front of the store, sometimes I swore I heard the front door bell swing and chime as if someone had just entered. Other weird things happened here and there, such as the sound of coolers doors opening and closing, or the sound of someone walking in the back room. The basement was the worst. It had much less remodeling done than the main floor and was pretty much just used for storage. I would not be surprised if it was haunted down there. I could swear on multiple occasions i could hear footsteps, things moving/falling, or very soft voices down there, as well as the noises I mentioned before coming from upstairs. Another aspect of the downstairs of that building was what I and some other coworkers always thought was a tunnel entrance, like the ones I mentioned before. It looked like an entrance and was pointed towards the building (also old and creepy) across the street. Lastly, the elevator shaft that ran right next to the stairs. That was by far the creepiest and least furnished thing in the entire store. It was like looking into the past every time I opened the door to look up and down the shaft. Really weird and creepy vibes from that specific area of the building. Who knows what things could have happened in that building, but it always gave me really terrifying vibes.

[Wheaty]

Good video Ive heard a few of these legends here in our state but not all of them. You refered to North Carolina instead of North Dakota in one spot as well. I know a couple people that have visited San Haven and have strange stories to tell and sightings that were unexplainable.

[Antilib]

Had never heard of the Fargo elephant story. Something similar happened in Devils Lake, ND, back in the 1940’s! The library had old newspapers available for viewing these old stories. Her name was Vera!

[cj-uhxl]

This is such a underrated channel that needs more subs

[TheEasyLike]

As someone who moved to North Dakota I hadn't heard of all of these stories, only the hell town and the sanitarium. But ghosts in Bismarck was a new one

[fl]

So many trees! The palm trees were especially nice touch!