Admit it, many of you like to tickle your nerves by reading eerie urban legends. Moreover, Halloween is just around the corner. On the eve of it, we have prepared one creepy story from each state. Let's start alphabetically - with Idaho, Iowa, Alabama, Alaska and Arizona.
Idaho: aquatic babies
The Native American legend of aquatic babies is found in several places in America, but the most common in Pocatello - in the Massacre Rocks Natural Park.
So, one day a severe famine came to the lands of the Shoshone tribe. Desperate mothers drowned their children in the river, so as not to see them die a slow death from hunger.
Some Idaho residents claim that when you sit on a rock by the river in Massacre Rocks, you will hear the cries of babies. Others say: these children have grown their gills and fins and are now taking revenge by luring victims to the depths.
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Iowa: Black Angel
The Black Angel is a 2.5-meter statue in Auckland Cemetery. It is shrouded in dark legends, probably because of its dark color.
According to one of the beliefs, pregnant women should not pass under the statue, otherwise they will lose their child. Others warn: if you touch or kiss (by the way, why ?!) the statue, you will die in the next six months.
Be that as it may, the statue is really gloomy. Although what other monuments should there be in cemeteries?
Alabama: Bridge "Hell's Gate"
The history of this bridge in the town of Oxford dates back to the 1950s. Once a car fell off a bridge into the river. The guy and the girl who were in it drowned.
Since then, 2 urban legends have been associated with the bridge. The first one says: if you drive your car to the middle of the bridge and turn off the headlights, the drowned vapor will appear in the car and leave wet footprints on the seats. Second: if you, driving across the bridge, look back in the middle, the landscape behind you will turn into a portal engulfed in flames.
Probably to protect homebrew ghostbusters from such "checks", the bridge was closed for passage. And walking on it is not recommended - the structure is badly dilapidated.
Alaska: the evil spirits of kushtaka
Everyone knows about the ominous Bermuda Triangle, but you may not have realized that Alaska is itself the Bermuda Triangle.
According to an LA Times study, Alaska has the highest percentage of missing persons.
And although many reasonably believe that in the harsh northern state it is very easy to get lost and disappear without a trace, the Tlingit Indians living in Juneau have their own explanation.
The Tlingits believe in kushtaka - evil spirits. Kushtaka know how to take on a human form and lure people with a sweet voice to the places of destruction.
Arizona: Slaughterhouse Canyon Ghosts
This legend began during the Gold Rush.
Once upon a time a very poor family lived in the canyon. One day, the father went to wander the canyon in the hope of finding at least some food for the children and his wife - and did not return. The family was slowly starving to death. Unable to listen to the hungry moans of children, the mother put on a wedding dress, killed the babies and threw their bodies into the river, and the next day she died.
And now, local residents assure, at night in the canyon the chilling cries of a mother who has lost her mind are heard.
Alina Dykhman