PARANORMAL & MONSTER LEGENDS

[CreepysFan]

   

 ANNABELLE

   

  Back in the seventies a nurse was given a large sized Raggedy Ann doll by her mother, soon after the nurse and her roomate (also a nurse) would repeatedly return home to find the doll had been moved.  She always left it on the bed, and when they returned it would be on the floor or in the chair.  After a while it would be found on the livingroom sofa or near the front door.  The nurse contacted a medium, who then told her the spirit of a 7yr. old girl named Annabelle Higgins who had died on the property was inside the doll.  The medium told them the girl was asking if she could stay with the two ladies, and they said yes.  After that the nurse always referred to the doll as Annabelle.  The boyfriend of the roomate hated the doll, and one night threw it across the room.  That afternoon he fell asleep on their sofa and dreamed the doll was choking him.  He woke up coughing, and there were bruises on his neck.  On another night growlling sounds came from the bedroom of the dolls owner, and the roomates boyfriend went into the bedroom to check it out.  As soon as he looked at Annabelle he clutched his chest in pain, slash marks were on his chest which soon dissapeared.  The Exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren were called in and interviewed the two nurses.  The Warrens told them their first misstake was to keep paying attention to the doll instead of getting rid of it, and their big misstake was to invite the influence to stay with them.  The Warrens performed an Episcopal blessing of the home and took Annabelle with them.  While driving away the Warrens felt themselves the object of vicious hatred, and their new car repeatedly stalled and a few times the breaks failed.  Growlling sounds were heard at the Warren residence until Annabelle was placed into a glass case with a warning sign on it.  One visiter to the WArrens home challenged Annabelle to do something, and two hours later died in a motorcycle accident.

[Unknown Primate]

I remember that story about that creepy-ass Annabelle!  That's why I never bought my daughter a Raggedy Ann doll!

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

I hate Doll Ghost legends/stories, they always creep me out, did any of ya'll catch the episode on "Destination Truth", they investigated
the Island of Dolls, man talk about a creepy place, check it out,if ya can find it on youtube, or ya might be able to watch it their website.




Pythian Home, Layafette,Indiana

It is an old Nursing Home where many of the people who lived there died. There are many things that happen in there from lights turning on unexpectedly, to hearing footsteps, and even feeling something brush up against you. One of the stories are, there was a murder in on of the bathrooms. When the body was taken out, three women went in and cleaned it up. One of the women new the girl that was murdered and she went back to pay her respects. When she walked into the room, she found exactly as it was before they started cleaning. Now around the time of the anniversary of the girl's murder, all the gore returns. There still is no use cleaning it up. It still comes back.

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

Sneak Peak at Island of Haunted Dolls

South of Mexico City in the last of the old Aztec canals, there is an island that visitors claim is overrun by thousands of haunted dolls. The island's caretakers hung up these dolls to ward off the spirit of a young girl who had drowned there while visiting the island. Don Julian, the caretaker, was found dead in the same canal where the young girl drowned. Now, locals claim his spirit also haunts the island. Josh and team's chilling nighttime pursuit amongst the throng of sinister dolls yields some of their compelling on-camera evidence yet!

One of them just winked on the show. Seriously creeped out.

[CreepysFan]

  Mount Misery Road, Long Island

     

     The indians of Long Island warned settlers that the area on top of the old hill had evil spirits.  They had stories of strange lights and a "Man-Beast" with red eyes.  In 1840 a hospital was built on top of the mount for the insane, but burned down to the foundation soon after killing many patients.  Between 1900 to 1910 a number of people in the area vanished with no trace.  One area within the Nature Preserve area is known for it's uncanny sudden silence, as if the sounds of night insects just switch off.  A family reported following a car in the fog on the dirtroad part until they came to the dead end. The car was nowhere to be seen,and nowhere it could have gone in the thick trees. Some have seen a Woman In White walking on the side of the road, but if you stop she won't be there.  There have been sightings of a large black human-like creature in the Nature Reserve area, as well as a black hound with glowing black eyes.  A woman's ghost haunts a nearby cemetery, which may be the same as the walking Woman In White.  In the early sixties there were several UFO sightings and stories of Men In Black.  Nearby Sweet Hollow Rd also has it's share of ghosts.  A female camper was molested and hung herself from North State Bridge underpass over Sweet Hollow Rd.  Her ghost has been seen hanging from the underpass.  Urban legend says if you stop your car beneath the underpass and put it in nuetral, something is suppost to push the car.  There's also another urban legend about a ghost cop stopping cars on Sweet Hollow with the back of his head missing.

[Unknown Primate]

These stories are great!  That Mount Misery Road sounds creepy as hell.  And yes, Doc, I did see the dolls on D.T.  That damn near wins fist place as a CREEPY destination!  Freaky, freaky, freaky!

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

ROANOKE ISLAND


The image is one of the most haunting in American folklore: Eleanor Dare cradling her infant daughter as they struggle through a vast wilderness, seemingly forgotten by her father who brought them to an unfamiliar land, then left them to fend for themselves.

In the four centuries since their disappearance, Eleanor and Virginia Dare have become true American heroines, players in an epic unsolved mystery that still challenges historians and archaeologists as one of America's oldest. In 1587, over 100 men, women and children journeyed from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and established the first English settlement in America. Within three years, they had vanished with scarcely a trace. England's initial attempt at colonization of the New World was a disaster, and one of America's most enduring legends was born.

The lie of the land of modern Roanoke Island appears much as it did at the time of the colonists' arrival. The low, narrow island lies between the treacherous Outer Banks and the mainland. Although it is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, it is a verdant oasis compared to the harsh winds and pounding surf of the barrier islands. Instead, Roanoke is characterized by thick marshlands and stands of live oaks teeming with wildlife--a much more hospitable site for settlement.

In 1584, explorers Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe were the first to set eyes on the island. They had been sent to the area by Sir Walter Raleigh with the mission of scouting the broad sounds and estuaries in search of an ideal location for settlement. Amadas and Barlowe wrote glowing reports of Roanoke Island, and when they returned to England a year later with two Natives, Manteo and Wanchese, all of England was abuzz with talk of the New World's wonders.

Queen Elizabeth herself was impressed, and she granted Raleigh a patent to all the lands he could occupy. She named the new land "Virginia", in honor of the Virgin Queen, and the next year, Raleigh sent a party of 100 soldiers, craftsmen and scholars to Roanoke Island.

Under the direction of Ralph Lane, the garrison was doomed from the beginning. They arrived too late in the season for planting, and supplies were dwindling rapidly. To make matters worse, Lane, a military captain, alienated the neighboring Roanoke Indians, and ultimately sealed his own fate by murdering their chief, Wingina over a stolen cup.

By 1586, when Sir Francis Drake stopped at Roanoke after a plundering expedition, Lane and his men had had enough. They abandoned the settlement and left behind a fort, the remains of which can still be seen at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site today. Ironically, a supply ship from England arrived at Roanoke less than a week later . Finding the island deserted, the leader left behind 15 of his men to hold the fort and returned to England for reinforcements.

Raleigh was angry with Lane but not deterred from his mission. He recruited 117 men, women and children for a more permanent settlement, and appointed John White governor of the new "Cittie of Raleigh". Among the colonists were White's pregnant daughter, Eleanor Dare, his son-in-law Annanias Dare, and the Indian chief Manteo, who had become an ally during his stay in England.

Raleigh had since decided that the Chesapeake Bay area was a better site for settlement, and he hired Simon Fernandes, a Portuguese pilot familiar with the area, to transport the colonists there. Fernandes, however, was by trade a privateer in the escalating war between Spain and England. By the time the caravan arrived at Roanoke Island in July, 1587, to check on the 15 men left behind a year earlier, he had grown impatient with White and anxious to resume the hunt for Spanish shipping. He ordered the colonists ashore on Roanoke Island.

The colonists soon learned that Indians had murdered the 15 men and were uneasy at the prospect of remaining on Roanoke Island. But Fernandes left them no choice. They unloaded their belonging and supplies and repaired Lane's fort. On August 18, 1587, Eleanor Dare gave birth to a daughter she named Virginia, thus earning the distinction of being the first English child born on American soil. Ten days later, Ferndades departed for England, taking along an anxious John White, who hesitantly decided to return to England for supplies. It was the last time he would ever see his family.

Upon his arrival in England, White found himself trapped by the impending invasion of the Spanish Armada. Finally, two years after the stunning defeat of the Armada, he again departed for Roanoke Island. He arrived on August 18, 1590--his grand daughter's third birthday--and found the Cittie of Raleigh deserted, plundered, and surrounded "with a high pallisado of great trees, with cortynes and flankers, very fort-like". On one of the palisades, he found the single word "CROATOAN" carved into the surface, and the letters "CRO" carved into a nearby tree.

White knew the carvings were "to signifie the place, where I should find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon betweene them and me at my last departure from them...for at my coming away, they were prepared to remove 50 miles into the maine". He had also instructed the colonists that, should they be forced to leave the island under duress, they should carve a Maltese cross above their destination. White found no such sign, and he had every hope that he would locate the colony and his family at Croatoan, the home of Chief Manteo's people south of Roanoke on present-day Hatteras Island.

Before he could make further exploration, however, a great hurricane arose, damaging his ships and forcing him back to England. Despite repeated attempts, he was never again able to raise the funding and resources to make the trip to America again. Raleigh had given up hope of settlement, and White died many years later on one of Raleigh's estates, ignorant to the fate of his family and the colony.

The 117 pioneers of Roanoke Island had vanished into the great wilderness.

In the following years, evidence as to their fate was slow to emerge, but some intriguing accounts exist. In 1709, English explorer John Lawson visited Roanoke Island and spent some time among the Hatteras Indians, descendants of the Croatoan tribe. In A New Voyage to Carolina, he wrote "that several of their ancestors were white people and could talk in a book as we do, the truth of which is confirmed by gray eyes being found infrequently among these Indians and no others."

In the 1880s, with the approach of the Roanoke Colony's 300th anniversary, a North Carolina man named Hamilton MacMillan proposed a theory that holds some credence today. MacMillan lived in Robeson County in southeastern North Carolina near a settlement of Pembroke Indians, many of whom claimed that their ancestors came from "Roanoke in Virginia".

According to MacMillan, the Pembrokes spoke pure Anglo-Saxon English and bore the last names of many of the lost colonists. Furthermore, "Roanoke in Virginia" was how Raleigh and his contemporaries referred to Roanoke Island. The Pembrokes also had European features: fair eyes, light hair, and an Anglo bone structure. MacMillan's findings, published in 1888 pamphlet, gained a great deal of attention from the academic community and renewed interest in the lost colony.

Other less plausible theories and some outright trickery surfaced in the mid-1900s. A series of mysterious rocks first uncovered in 1937 in eastern North Carolina seemed to solve the mystery. The original stone, dubbed the Eleanor Dare Stone, was found in a swamp 60 miles west of Roanoke Island by a traveler. It was covered with strange carvings, which, when deciphered, appeared to be a message from Eleanor Dare to her father, indicating that the colony had fled Roanoke Island after Indian attack.

Over the next three years, nearly 40 similar stones were unearthed from North Carolina to Georgia, and when pieced together, related a fantastic tale of the colonists' overland journey through the southeast, culminating in the death of Eleanor Dare in 1599. Although the academic world was skeptical, the media had a field day and were forced to eat their words in 1940 when an investigative reporter exposed the entire saga as an elaborate hoax.

In the past 40 years, scholars have discovered previously unknown records in the Spanish and British archives that may point the way toward a logical, if not provable, solution. Many historians now believe that after White's departure from Roanoke in 1587, the colony split into two factions, and the largest segment of the colony departed for the Chesapeake Bay, their original destination. Lane had explored the Bay area in 1585, and the colonists probably had maps made by White himself.

When John Smith and the Jamestown colonists arrived in 1607, Smith took up the search for the colonists and discovered that they probably had been in the area. In his dealings with the hostile Indian chief Powhatan, he learned that the colonists had lived among the friendly Chesapeake Indians on the south side of the Bay. Threatened by the intrusion of white men into the region, Powhatan claimed to have attacked the colonists and murdered most of them. As proof of his claim, he showed Smith "a musket barrell and a brass mortar, and certain pieces of iron that had been theirs."

By 1612, the Jamestown leaders had received numerous reports that at least some of the Roanoke colonists were living nearby. They sent out several search parties, but had no success, and soon gave up the search.

What became of the remainder of the colonists left on Roanoke Island? Scholars speculate that they were left behind to meet White upon his return from England, but soon fled to Croatoan, leaving the mysterious carvings behind as a signal to White. Spanish archives reveal that they were gone by June, 1588, when a raiding party put in at Roanoke Island only to find the settlement deserted. Scholars assume that they were then assimilated into the Croatoan tribe.

Today, the north end of Roanoke Island is regularly visited by historians and archaeologists hoping to uncover new evidence as to the fate of the colony. So far, none has been forthcoming. The post and the tree bearing the carvings have long since vanished, although many of the live oaks in the National Historic Site were seedlings during the colonists tenure. No archaeological clues as to the whereabouts of the Cittie of Raleigh have ever been uncovered, and the 500-acre park remains mostly an enigma, apropos to the events that unfolded here 400 years ago

[Unknown Primate]

I hate Doll Ghost legends/stories, they always creep me out, did any of ya'll catch the episode on "Destination Truth", they investigated
the Island of Dolls, man talk about a creepy place, check it out,if ya can find it on youtube, or ya might be able to watch it their website.




Pythian Home, Layafette,Indiana

It is an old Nursing Home where many of the people who lived there died. There are many things that happen in there from lights turning on unexpectedly, to hearing footsteps, and even feeling something brush up against you. One of the stories are, there was a murder in on of the bathrooms. When the body was taken out, three women went in and cleaned it up. One of the women new the girl that was murdered and she went back to pay her respects. When she walked into the room, she found exactly as it was before they started cleaning. Now around the time of the anniversary of the girl's murder, all the gore returns. There still is no use cleaning it up. It still comes back.

I LIVE in Lafayette!  That house (mansion) is indeed, a creepy sight!

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

That's why I posted it, I have been looking at Haunts in Lafayette, and will be posting more, that way you can go visit them, and
tell us what you find

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

LAKESHORE ASYLUM/KNOXVILLE,TN

Just off of Lyon's View Drive there is an old building (not pictured). For years, horrible tales have circulated about it. This building was once known as Lakeshore Asylum, and was part of the larger Lakeshore Mental Health Facility. The building has long since been abandoned and separated from the Institute. It was here that many atrocities are said to have taken place.
There are many stories about what happened at this site, including abuse of patients. In the past, mental health facilities were not known for their humanitarianism. Apparently, Lakeshore Asylum is no exception. Huge rats ran about the area. There are many tales of sadistic workers beating and abusing patients. Reports say that this went on well into the 1960s, when the lake level was risen, cutting this building off from the rest of the facility. Many more tales have been told than this, including a legend that an evil entity exists there. During the 1970s, the building was used for Satanic rituals.

Today, the "evil entity" is said to still reside there. It's also said that you can still hear the screams of patients as they were beaten, and chains and shackles being thrown around. It's as if all the pain and agony that occurred there still exists.

There was an underground movie made about these events entitled Saint Lucifer's.

HERE IS MORE ON THE MOVIE



That damned place is a shrine in the antechamber of Hell."

That's how a 19th-century postmaster describes an East Tennessee monastery in the fictional story behind Saint Lucifer's, a grim and gruesome independent horror film being produced in Knoxville this summer. The monastery had been, according to the story, the scene of a series of brutal child-torture ceremonies in the 1850s, and had long been regarded as haunted by a ravenous ancient demon named the Hungry One.

The Hungry One's lurking malevolence had been felt before the events at Saint Lucius monastery, first by the Cherokee inhabitants of the area and then by a group of white settlers who were consumed in a nocturnal onslaught of the demon's pet giant rats. And his presence was felt after the monastery closed, when the site was home to the Saint Lucius mental asylum, where the maniacal administrator, Dr. Leviticus Hayes, enacted bloodthirsty and sadistic rituals on the patients.

And, as the movie has it, the site is still haunted by the Hungry One.

John Riggs, a local self-styled mentalist, investigator of paranormal activity, and the screenwriter for Saint Lucifer's, says the movie is a mix of local legends and facts based on an abandoned mental asylum off of Lyon's View Drive. The asylum really was once part of the Eastern State and Lakeshore mental health facilities, and Riggs says horrible stories about the area have circulated for years. While tales about the monastery and the settler-devouring rats are fictional, Riggs is convinced that there's a sinister force at work behind other stories, like the supposed reports he mentions of abuse and cruelty at the facility between the 1940s and '60s and the rumors of satanic activity at the abandoned building in the 1970s, after land around the building had been flooded, cutting it off from the rest of the Lakeshore facility.

"It's a mixture of fact and urban legend," Riggs says, sitting in the tiny west Knoxville office of Ambrosius Productions, a commercial video and film production company that is helping to produce Saint Lucifer's. It's a strange place for the birth of a horror picture, housed as it is in a manicured suburban office complex with pristine landscaping and what seems like acres of parking. Heavy and jocular, with a gleam in his eyes that's more mischievous than sinister, Riggs thumbs a heavy book titled The History of Witchcraft in his large hands as he talks about the movie. "I thought it would be a great place for a movie, that something evil lived there and got out. I know a little bit about the history of Lakeshore—my grandmother was a nurse there, and she talked about the rats and abuse, and I worked there a couple of years while I was in college. A lot of gruesome things happened out there. You have to wonder if more than human evil was involved."

Riggs joined David Roberts and Andy Anderson of Ambrosius and producers Harry Dinwiddie and Sergio Valenzuela last fall to found Otherworld Pictures. Except for Dinwiddie—"I cry at Benji movies," he says—the group shares a love of horror movies, from classics like The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to '50s camp like The Giant Leeches, a copy of which perches on a table in the Ambrosius office. They all drop references to H.P. Lovecraft and the Basket Case movies like other men talk about sports statistics.

None of the five had any experience in the film industry before beginning work on Saint Lucifer's. Roberts had worked as a projectionist in Texas while he did freelance video production work, and says he used to spend more time watching movies at the theater than watching television. Riggs, who performs mental tricks under the stage name Jon Saint-Germain and writes trade books for magic societies, simply focused his interest in the supernatural and the stories about Lakeshore into the screenplay, his first. Now they think they can not only sell Saint Lucifer's, but that they can establish East Tennessee as a hub of independent filmmaking.

Since the fall, Otherworld Pictures has tried to create a national underground buzz with its website  and the endorsement of the white-guys-in-makeup shock-rap duo Insane Clown Posse. ICP will appear in a brief cameo and add new music to the soundtrack, along with their associates Twizted and local hard rockers Galaxie. Hundreds of ICP fans have logged on to the guest book at the Saint Lucifer's web site, though most of the messages they've left are unprintable.

None of the members of Otherworld Pictures will reveal plot details, nor will they reveal the special effects that will be used in the movie. But information about the legends around the abandoned asylum and the movie's characters has been available on the website for several months, leaving fans with plenty to speculate about. And there are several shots of the Hungry One's glowing yellow eyes.

"There will be obvious comparisons to The Blair Witch Project because of the Internet thing," Roberts says. "With the story there's no comparison, but we learned a lot from that. We learned that you can build an audience."

The story centers around four college students and, presumably, their fight against the newly-unleashed forces of the Hungry One.

The stars are all veterans of the Knoxville stage: Michelle Torres plays Abigail Brennen, a young woman with a lifelong interest in the occult whose aunt, a practicing witch played by Nancy Dinwiddie, uncovered the lurking evil at the asylum in the 1960s; Jack Paglen plays Rob Clifford, a young man with a tormented past who is obsessed with Abigail; Kathleen Kaplan plays Deana Montgomery, Rob's girlfriend and Abigail's roommate; and Damon Pitt plays Josh Collins, described by Torres as "the hunky nice guy." All four of the principal actors have worked together in the University of Tennessee's Clarence Brown Theatre, on productions ranging from The Seagull to The Threepenny Opera, and Torres and Paglen will travel together this summer to Slovakia for a performance of Orestia.

During rehearsals, the actors read from the script to prepare for their videotaped performances, adjusting their stage training to the different expectations of a film audience. "The specificity of action is different," says Torres, looking decidedly unhorrific in a lacy white blouse and bright red skirt. "Of course you pay attention to it on the stage, but generally, from night to night there are small shifts. On film you can't do that... On film, looking down or up is a big choice. It's a big change getting used to it."

These rehearsals, which will continue until shooting actually begins this summer, are generally low-key, but the incongruity of producing a horror movie in an innocuous office complex in Cedar Bluff has created some minor problems.

"The secretaries in some of the other offices have complained," Paglen says, grinning. "They said it sounded like someone was being murdered in here."

Murder may not be central to the plot of the movie, but it certainly plays a role in the events leading up to the actual storyline of Saint Lucifer's. A secondary character, who will appear in the prologue to the movie, is Dr. Leviticus Hayes, played by Clarence Brown actor Tony Cede-o. Hayes was the administrator of the fictional Saint Lucius asylum in the 1960s when reports of abuse first surfaced. The scion of a prominent Tennessee family and committed narcotic addict, he degenerates under the spell of the Hungry One into a debauched madman who performs unnecessary lobotomies on patients and engineers sadistic, unspeakable ritual abuse at the asylum. The abuse is eventually uncovered by Abigail's aunt and a state official, masquerading as an orderly, played by Steve Dupree. The asylum is closed, but the Hungry One's power lingers, awaiting a rebirth.

Riggs is introspective about the movie, insisting that it's not just a story about a monster living under a hill in East Tennessee who comes alive to devour a group of college students. He says it's not campy, like The Evil Dead, the one great classic of East Tennessee horror movies, and it's not a postmodern horror movie about horror movies.

"Philosophically, Saint Lucifer's is retro-horror, back to when horror had a story to tell," Riggs says, tugging at the trim salt-and-pepper beard above his ICP T-shirt. "It's got plot development, the mythic structure. There are even elements of the hero's journey in it."

But the filmmakers insist that Saint Lucifer's will be a terrifying picture. "There are two prologues, about 10 minutes each, that will have the audience either squirming or headed for the aisles," Roberts, the movie's director, says. "There's one scene where my first inclination was, 'I don't want to direct this scene.' Then I figured that if it got a response like that from me, what kind of response would it get from an audience?"

An eight-week production schedule begins in early June, with most of the shooting to be done, appropriately enough, at night at the John Williams home on Dandridge Avenue in downtown Knoxville. While it's not as creepy as the abandoned asylum building that influenced the story, Riggs says the Williams property has its own gruesome reputation.

"The lady across the street said it has a slave history," Riggs says. "There are unconfirmed rumors of dozens of bodies buried out there... There's supposed to have been a lot of spooky activity out there."

Unlike most feature films, Saint Lucifer's will be shot entirely with digital video, which Roberts says is just as good as traditional film but much cheaper and more easily adapted for computer-generated special effects. It's also a growing trend, he says, especially among independent filmmakers.

When production is complete, the members of Otherworld Pictures will try to sell the film to a major distributor for national release. With attention from the website and support from the ICP, the filmmakers expect Saint Lucifer's to draw big crowds across the country.

"It's a return to the good old supernatural horror-suspense stories," Roberts says, contrasting the movie to the recent trend of self-referential, campy Hollywood horror movies. "There's a big twist at the end, and you'll care about what happens."

It's hard to tell exactly how successful Saint Lucifer's will be. The producers won't discuss financing, and they have yet to get a distribution deal. And, though Roberts claims that the script is exceptional, no one outside the production has seen it.

The members of Otherworld Pictures, however, are committed not only to Saint Lucifer's but to several projects over the next few years. Roberts says they have other script ideas waiting for development, and that they intend to establish themselves as part of a noticeable East Tennessee film industry.

"Saint Lucifer's is going to be some pretty horrible stuff, and it's homegrown, made right here," Riggs says. "It'll be scary."

[CreepysFan]

  Though I'm from Columbia, S.C. (where your Third-Eye Man story came from and my Swamp Girl story came from), I'm currently living not far away from the Lakeshore Asylum here in Knoxville, TN.  I could arrange an extended stay for you at the main facility.   

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

I'd rather stay at the burned out ruins

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

POPE LICK MONSTER




Location of Sightings:
In the Fisherville area of Louisville, Kentucky

Earliest - Latest Reported Sighting:
Late 1940's to present

Description:
The Pope Lick Monster appears as a human goat hybrid with a grotesquely deformed body of a man, it has powerful fur covered goat legs, an alabaster skinned face with an aquiline nose and wide set eyes. Short, sharp horns protrude from the forehead and nestled by long greasy hair that matched the color of the fur on the legs.

Odors described during or right after encounters with this creature:
None Reported

Sounds - Speech:
It has mimmicked the voices of loved ones, and also has made strange disturbing noises.
Interesting Sighting Details:
A teenager acting on a dare is attempting to cross the Norfolk Southern Railway trestle over Pope Lick Creek, in the Fisherville area of Louisville, Kentucky. Looking down from the dizzying 100 foot trestle he would see the burbling water of the Pope Lick Creek. On a warm sunny day, the trestle would seem so harmless...so quiet...so guiltless of the death of many people. Because the Jefferson County is hilly and wooded, the acoustic of the area makes it hard to hear an oncoming train. You will only see the train when it is already on top of the trestle. The trestle has no walkways and ledges. It would take about 10 minutes for a train to pass the trestle.

Add to that the vibration of the speeding train. It would be impossible to hold on from the railroad ties. A person trapped on the railway would either be rundown by the train or face his death by jumping over the trestle. What does this bit of info about a train trestle have to do with the Pope Lick Monster, the creature has used this area to lure people to their death. Sightings of the Pope Lick monster began in late 1940s and early 1950s. It was said that a half man half Capra Aegagrus Hircusgoat (a goat) haunts the trestle. The human goat hybrid was seen to have a grotesquely deformed body of a man, have powerful fur covered goat legs, an alabaster skinned face with an aquiline nose and wide set eyes. Short, sharp horns protrude from the forehead and nestled by long greasy hair that matched the color of the fur on the legs.
The pope lick monster lures his victims by using hypnosis. He is also known to mimic voices. The victim would hear the voice of a loved one asking for help on the train trestle at night. Drawn to the voice and focused on helping the loved one, the victim will not notice the approaching train and would either be run down or plunge the 100 foot height to his death. The monster has also been known to attack a victim using a blood stained rusty axe. However, the monster prefers to harass its victims by pelting them with stones and making disturbing noises. It derives sadistic pleasures in terrorizing people who have the misfortune of coming to his domain.

The origin of the pope lick monster was never verified. It was said that the monster was the outcome of the perverted bond between a farmer and a goat. Others would say that the monster was a circus freak out to wreak vengeance to the people who have been cruel to him.


The monster was the subject of a 1988 film by Louisville filmmaker Ron Schildknecht called The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster.[1] The 16 minute, six thousand dollar film premiered on December 29, 1988 at the Uptown Theater. Most of the film was shot at the Pope Lick Trestle, but scenes showing the characters up on the trestle were shot at another safer location.

Norfolk Southern railroad officials were very upset about the film, as they thought it would encourage teenagers to visit the trestles. They found one scene in particular dangerously misleading. In the scene the main character, a high school student, narrowly escapes an approaching train by hanging suspended from the side of the trestle. In reality this would be quite impossible as there are few people that would have the strength to hang on for the 5 to 7 minutes it takes for the train to clear the 772-foot trestle; in addition, the vibrations from the train are so strong that the ground beneath the trestle shakes as the train passes, making hanging from the trestle to avoid being hit virtually impossible.

Because railroad officials were worried that the film would add to the death toll, the Norfolk Southern railroad issued a statement, read at the premiere, which warned of the trestle's dangers and informed the audience that anyone caught on the trestle could be prosecuted for trespassing.

[CreepysFan]

   

   ROBERT

   

Key West, Florida - It was well known that both Thomas Otto and his wife mistreated their hired servants.  One particular servant that took care of their son Gene, was well versed in the ways of Voodoo.  The servant made a doll for young Gene.  The doll stood three feet tall with lifelike features, stuffed with straw.  Gene named the doll Robert, and it became his constant companion.  The Otto's often heard Gene upstairs talking to the doll, what puzzled them was hearing their son answering himself in another voice.  Strange things began to occur in the Otto household.  Gene began to blame Robert for misshaps that occured, and a neighbor claimed to see Robert moving from window to window while the family was away.  Gene began having nightmares and would awake screaming.  The doll was eventually put up in the attic.  Years later when Thomas Otto died, the house was willed to Gene.  He moved back in with his wife.  Not long after he moved the doll from the attic to the turrent room, claiming Robert needed a window to look out.  Key West school children said they feared walking by the Otto residence because of Robert's mean glare.  Visitors to the home claimed to hear Robert mocking them.  Gene himself reported seeing Robert rocking by itself in a rocking chair at the turrent window.  Finally Gene had enough and moved Robert back into the attic.  Gene died in 1972 and his wife sold the property leaving the doll behind.  When a new family moved in, their 10yr old daughter soon found Robert in the attic.  It was not long before the girl began to have nightmares and claiming the doll moved about the room.  Now thirty years later, she still claims the doll wanted to kill her.  Robert is now kept in a glass case at the Key West Martello Museum, still dressed in his original sailors suit.  Should you visit the museum, do not mock Robert.  OR ELSE.

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

I remember seeing Robert on one of the Haunted/Ghost show that they show on the Travel Channel, he creeps me out.
There's no way ever, that I would have owned something like that, I would have burned it