1 Urban Legend from Each State

00:00 Arkansas
01:01 Intro
03:00 North Dakota
04:06 Wyoming
04:54 Michigan
05:30 Maryland
06:10 Colorado
06:50 Kentucky
07:16 Iowa
08:27 Mississippi
08:57 Oregon
09:52 Louisiana
10:23 Kansas
11:02 Hawaii
12:22 Alaska
13:15 Oklahoma
13:59 Virginia
15:16 Ohio
16:11 Pennsylvania
16:56 Rhode Island
17:48 Tennessee
18:53 Idaho
19:25 Nevada
19:54 Georgia
20:42 Texas
21:46 West Virginia
22:50 Indiana
23:24 North Carolina
24:21 Wisconsin
25:08 Missouri
25:26 New Hampshire
25:49 New Jersey
26:18 Illinois
27:03 Vermont
27:56 Montana
28:18 South Dakota
29:10 New Mexico
29:51 South Carolina
30:47 New York
31:59 Delaware
32:58 California
33:54 Massachusetts
34:27 Connecticut
35:23 Arizona
36:15 Alabama
37:09 Maine
37:33 Minnesota
38:41 Utah
39:23 Nebraska
40:03 Washington
41:21 Florida

[jeannewilson]

As a true New Orleanian, the swamp monster is a rougarou -- pronounced roo-gah-roo. Any good Cajun would pronounce it like that. Grunch Road was the common urban legend in the 70s when we would go to an undeveloped area in New Orleans east or City Park and toss someone out of the car and take off leaving them to face the Grunch.

[SquiresIsle]

An urban legend from my Oklahoma town that I'm part of... there's a creepy old hospital-type building hidden on a dead-end street. The windows are boarded up. Inside, furniture is scattered around the wrecked rooms. Some walls and part of the ceiling have been ripped out or collapsed. It's spooky and off-putting. Legend says it's an abandoned mental hospital.

I worked there as a dishwasher when it was still open. It was an assisted living center for the mentally disabled. The state underfunded it (surprise, surprise) and they ended up shutting down very suddenly a few years after I left. The building was shuttered and left to rot, and enough time has passed that the legend has grown up around the remains.

I'm still waiting for some supernatural hunters to come knocking. "Cottonwood Manor... now there's a name I haven't heard in nigh on twenty years..."

[DCMarvelMultiverse]

The real MN urban legend is that someone was sober when they told a person their real opinion and we're not considered impolite about it.

[LavenderLydia]

I am highly annoyed that these are not in alphabetical order.

[erinmalone]

I’ve heard the story of somebody that digs up a cactus to take back home to find that weeks later millions of baby spiders come out. Has anyone else heard this one?

[firstcynic]

37:35. The Kensington Runestone is NOT an urban legend. Whether or not it's genuine, it is real. You can see it in a very nice museum in Alexandria, MN.

[agricolaterrae]

That runestone story actually makes up a verse in a song one of my reenactment groups sings. To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: "Ninety years before Columbus, well, we sailed the ocean blue/Left a runestone in Wisconsin just to show what we could do/But now it's the foundation of a backyard barbeque/And the Fyrd goes traveling on!"

[flamshiz]

ahoy's Polybius documentary is one of the best youtube videos I've ever seen. highly recommended for those interested in the legend

[mictos]

Even in fallout 4 if you play the nuka world dlc they poke fun at Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen which is pretty awesome

[HayTatsuko]

My main Final Fantasy XIV character is named after a west-Alabama legend.. She was a side-paddlewheel steamer that traveled the waters of the Tombigbee River during the first few decades of the 1800s, and even hosted ex-President Millard Fillmore on one trip. She met her unfortunate demise on the morning of March 1, 1858, after her cargo of cotton bales caught on fire. About a quarter (28) of her 105 passengers and crew perished in the frigid river waters, but many more were saved by the alertness of locals also on the river that horrible night. The _Eliza Battle_ is the Ghost Ship of the Tombigbee, said to appear as a burning apparition upon the river near Demopolis on cold winter nights, and is considered to portend ill omens of things to come on the river.

That being said, your choice for Alabama was not bad at all! That one is almost as good as the Carrolton Courthouse Face in the Window -- supposedly that of an innocent free Black man, Henry Wells, lynched for an arson he didn't commit. He famously cursed that his face would always be in the loft's window -- and it remains, even though many of the building's other windows have been damaged by hail over the years.

[DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables]

I'm originally from New Jersey and I never heard about killer rabbits. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[jamesburkhart]

People are in the Hoover dam. They weren't placed there, they fell while they were pouring cement. They couldn't stop pouring, thus bodies inside
She sounds very confident about that one, less so with some of the other wilder stories. Which is odd...

[laurenandrews]

Family legend: a revenuer (like a bounty hunter for moonshiners in the 20’s) was decapitated and his head was found and brought back by a dog running across a neighbor’s cornfield. They never did find the rest of the revenuer. Unrelated fact, we were definitely making moonshine on the side in those days.

[oddmott]

Okay, i grew up in Defiance County Ohio. Not in Defiance itself, but Ney, which was ~10 miles away, and I've never ever heard about a werewolves in the area. Furthermore, i used to hike all around in the woodlands of the area & never saw anything close to spookums level. Closest thing to unusual i ever saw growing up was an elaborate jungle gym made of wood logs built in the middle of the woodland valley in my backyard (which floods regularly, so it's long, long gone unfortunately).

[btetschner]

That introduction of the film Urban Legend (1998) is classic!

[manaash]

"why are there so many entrances to Hell in the continental United States?"
Me: [gestures vaguely in Canadian]

[lehmentippie]

Right after the Kansas Hamburger Man, I got a Taco Bell commercial. Nothing wrong with that at all. 🤔

[DFXKX]

"in the Ames, Iowa area"

woah THAT made me perk right up! I remember that! My roommate of the time was kinda freaked out. The 'fake infant/fake injury/fake car crash' is actually a thing that has occurred in a few places around the country, so it's not the most unbelievable of chain-texts

[stapuft]

steinbecks dark watchers are an easter egg in "super mario galaxy 2" the community has dubbed them the "hell valley sky trees" for some odd reason though.

[catebrooks]

I heard #13 under the most authentic circumstances: camping between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on Hawai'i Island in the early 90s.