253- LOVE THOSE "URBAN LEGENDS!".....THANGS THAT GO, UH, BUMP IN THE LATE NIGHT AIR!!!.....

1) Waller Mill Park after dark, after closing! Two have shared with me what they heard after closing last summer, in June, and one year later this June. Gates were closed...a little girl's voice was heard counting outloud in the direction of the present bike and hike trail that once upon a time were the RR tracks from the main C&O line over to Camp Peary. An urban legend tale long ago mentions that there was an accident along those RR tracks involving a little girl.....
2) 1910 cave-in in downtown Staunton...at least four sinkholes suddenly appeared in the middle of this old town. One two-story house disappeared completely. A man and a boy, entrepreneurs, paddled people, for 10-cents, around on the small lake, until it too slowly disappeared. An urban legend spread, back then, that there was a huge subterranian lake under that town. This adventurer did, once, wade in a submerged creek down, underground, to a waterfall in the center of that town...Central Ave. at W. Beverley...ALL underground, being able to look up under store buildings that very few have ever known existed! Did I see any urban legend "monsters"? Maybe for another blog....
3) Our Lake Matoaka urban legend: at times, after midnight, something in the dark waters of the many fingers of the Lake created a sudden clatter of ducks and geese into the air! Just before the Lake's squawking episode all is an eerie quiet...noisy frogs stop their clamor...the insect sounds cease. Something long and dark is said to glide through the water, with a strange head and neck, only, protruding a bit from the water. Once, a few students set out to record, sight and sounds, after midnight one spring late night. They made their way far back into the small coves and fingers of the Lake, deep into the woods, where very few had ever ventured. The three crept along the Lake edge that adventurous night after midnight. What they observed and heard that night was recorded in one's notebook...those notes mysteriously has since disappeared....
4) Richmond, our Capital city....have read about a parcel of urban legends there, especially in Hollywood Cemetery and around the 1925 train cave-in on Church Hill, East Broad Street. (Can check an earlier blog on that 1925 train cave-in)