Water babies, according to Native American lore, can be found at Massacre Rocks State Park in Idaho and in Utah Lake , though one origin story is distinctly more upsetting. The Idaho water babies are believed to be the ghosts of young children that the starving people of the Shoshone tribe drowned in the river, choosing this death over one of starvation. It's said that if you sit at the rocks, you can still hear their cries.
While some stories claim that the babies simply drowned, others posit that they adapted , grew gills, and have sworn revenge on the living. In Utah, water babies are believed to be another type of creature altogether. According to Weird US, these water babies were a type of dwarf that lived in the lake and mimicked the sounds of babies crying to drown unsuspecting people. Different water baby legends can be found in Nevada and California, as well. The commonality between them all seems to be luring people into the lake to drown them.
World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Gabbi Shaw. Every culture has its own urban legends , myths, or spooky stories.
Insider rounded up the scariest urban legends from around the world, from Hawaii to Scandinavia to Egypt. The gjengangers are thought to be murderous ghosts that can touch people and mark them for death, according to Viking legend. Some believe water babies can be found throughout the US, but most famously in Utah and Idaho. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. The American counterpart to the Yeti is none other than Bigfoot. The Indian village of Kuldhara was seemingly abandoned overnight, and no one knows why, though there are a few eerie theories.
There are rumors that the Sydney Harbour Bridge doubles as a tomb for three workers buried inside. The first reported chupacabra attack was in Puerto Rico in Since then, there have been alleged sightings up and down North America. The chilling story of Beijing's ghost bus is sure to put some people off public transportation. The Loch Ness Monster of Scotland is perhaps the most famous urban legend of all time.
You don't want to come across the night marchers of Hawaii. When Greece's Bleeding Stone was destroyed, a curse apparently fell upon the city of Thessaloniki. Pinky Pinky made girls in South Africa afraid to go to the bathroom. Egyptian parents know that the way to get their kids to behave is to threaten them with Abu Regl Masloukha. The Scandinavian gjenganger is sort of like a ghost-zombie hybrid that haunts the living. The first mention of Arthur was in a 9th-century text written by a Welsch historian who said Arthur was a warrior king and winner of 12 battles.
It wasn't until the 12th century that King Arthur emerged as we know him today in History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, and the wizard Merlin emerged as key figures in the legend of King Arthur in this and further renditions of the tale. Gordian was an ancient Phrygian who, according to a prophecy, would become the king of Phrygia.
The prophecy foretold that the first man to enter the city with a cart would be the new king. When Gordian entered the city with his cart and became the king, he tied his cart to a tree using a special and complex knot.
It was then prophesized that the first man to undo the knot would be the new king. In B. After failing to untie the knot, he sliced it down the middle with his sword and became the king. Because of Alexander's unconventional methods, "cutting the Gordian knot" has now become a metaphor for thinking outside the box when solving a complex or unsolvable problem. The solution used when solving one of these problems is called the "Alexandrian method". Shakespeare was one of the first to reference "the Gordian knot" as a complex problem in " Henry V".
General Tomoyuki Yamashita was said to have hidden loot underground throughout the Philippines. The legend of Yamashita's treasure, or Yamashita's gold, is new compared to most of the other legends discussed in this article.
The treasure was actually stolen loot, consisting of gold items including bars and some antiques. In , divers allegedly found blocks of gold booby-trapped in an underwater cave. Some hypothesize that this is the missing treasure, but many anthropologists believe that whispers of the hidden loot were only rumors. Prester John is a mythical Christian king and priest who was said to have ruled in either Ethiopia or the Far East.
Prester John is believed to have been a king who ruled a nation somewhere in Europe during the 12th—13th centuries. According to the legend, he was a righteous man who led a great, wealthy kingdom.
His kingdom also consisted of magical objects and creatures. However, somehow, his kingdom disappeared. Although today many people call it a mythical story, it was believed for many centuries and inspired adventurers to hunt for the lost kingdom and treasure. Prester John was thought to have ruled in either the Far East or Ethiopia as a Christian priest and king.
The German chronicler Otto of Freising first wrote of him in the 12th century. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business, financial, legal, or technical matters. Oki I searched up the bloody Mary legend and found this site with a bunch pf comments debunking the myth so..
All the legends are great except the Bloody Mary legend is false. She did actually exist and she was in fact Queen Mary, King Henry the 8th's daughter. She grew up not liking the rules her father made.
When she became queen she started to burn people for not following her religion. A name for her started spreading around 'Bloody Mary'. As royalty she needed to have a baby to be the heir to the throne. Fortunately for her she got the symptoms of having one. Her belly grew larger and larger. The water of the flood eventually covered the mountains. Finally the flood stopped. Then one of the men, wanting to know if the water had dried up let a dove loose. The dove returned.
Later he let loose a hawk which did not return. Then the men left the boat and took the animals and the seeds with them. China The Chinese classic called the Hihking tells about "the family of Fuhi," that was saved from a great flood. This ancient story tells that the entire land was flooded; the mountains and everything, however one family survived in a boat. The Chinese consider this man the father of their civilization. This record indicates that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters were the only people that escaped the great flood.
It is claimed, that he and his family were the only people alive on earth, and repopulated the world. Babylon Gilgamesh met an old man named Utnapishtim, who told him the following story. The gods came to Utnapishtim to warn him about a terrible flood that was coming.
They instructed Utnapishtim to destroy his house and build a large ship. The ship was to be 10 dozen cubits high, wide and long. Utnapishtim was to cover the ship with pitch. He was supposed to take male and female animals of all kinds, his wife and family, provisions, etc.
Once ship was completed the rain began falling intensely. The rain fell for six days and nights. Finally things calmed and the ship settled on the top of Mount Nisir. After the ship had rested for seven days Utnapishtim let loose a dove.
Since the land had not dried the dove returned. Next he sent a swallow which also returned. Later he let loose a raven which never returned since the ground had dried. Utnapishtim then left the ship. Chaldean There was a man by the name of Xisuthrus. The god Chronos warned Xisuthrus of a coming flood and told him to build a boat.
The boat was to be 5 stadia by 2 stadia. In this boat Xisuthrus was to put his family, friends and two of each animal male and female. The flood came. When the waters started to recede he let some birds loose. They came back and he noticed they had mud on their feet. He tried again with the same results. When he tried the third time the birds did not return.
Assuming the water had dried up the people got out of the boat and offered sacrifices to the gods. India A long time ago lived a man named Manu. The only casualty of the day was a man we know in modern times as Peeping Tom. He couldn't resist seeing a naked Godiva, and when poor Tom sneaked a peek through his window, he was sadly blinded. For centuries, the Yupik, a group of native Alaskans, have shared the legend of the bow and arrow war. The conflict kicked off during an innocent game of darts when a boy accidentally struck his competitor in the eye with one.
An all-out brawl between the two families ensued, resulting in a series of wars that spread from Alaska to parts of northwestern Canada. More than 60, artifacts, the largest collection of pre-contact Yupik artifacts, are now on display at the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center in Quinhagak. After retreating to the Sierra Madre mountains in the Philippines at the height of World War II, Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita was given orders to construct an underground tunnel to house the looted gold that the occupying Japanese forces amassed from China and Southeast Asia.
Upon completion, to ensure the location of the tunnel remained secret, Yamashita trapped the project's construction crew, comprised of slaves and soldiers, inside the tunnel where they eventually died. After surrendering to Allied forces in September , Yamashita was convicted of war crimes and hanged, taking the location of his supposed treasure-stuffed hideaway to the grave.
So little is known about King Arthur, and yet his legend has lasted centuries and inspired one of the most famous literary characters of all time.
However, most historians agree that if King Arthur, the head of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, was ever a man of flesh and bone, he was likely a Roman military leader who saved Britain from invading Saxon forces between the fifth and sixth centuries A.
Spoiler alert: The fountain of youth does not exist. Augustine, Florida. Shortly after they were born in B. Luckily, the infant boys were rescued by a she-wolf who nursed them until a local shepherd took them in and raised the boys as his own.
Years later, Romulus and Remus agreed to establish a city in the exact spot where they met the she-wolf. However, the brothers, unable to decide on the city's location, or the city's name depending on which version of the legend you believe duked it out, and Romulus, in one of the world's most famous tales of fratricide, killed Remus.
And with his brother out of the way, Romulus established the city of Rome. Because this legend essentially tells the story of how Rome was built, you can visit the entire city to find artworks, sculptures and literature devoted to the two brothers. Located in present-day Colombia, they believed the lake was chock-full of gold thanks to an ancient induction ceremony performed by the Muisca tribe.
When a new chief rose to power, the tribe covered him in gold, and treasures of all sorts were dumped into Lake Guatavita to commemorate his first day on the job. After draining the lake, they pocketed some gold, but the treasures alas were nowhere to be found.
Today, he reigns as one of Buddhism's most revered figures. Born in in Thailand, Phra Luang Phor Tuad's parents realized their son's powers when they found him soundly sleeping while wrapped in the tight grip of a deadly snake.
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