Local oddities, legends, and lore

[Uncle Dave]

Forgot about that one Uncle Dave. My neighbor has went and spent the night there before. They supposedly have these tours now where you can do that. I think I'll pass

I still believe "666" is the sign of The Beast. I've had friends go and came back so freaked out it was amazing. Ain't NO way I'm going to that place unless I'm with the Pope.

[Joneslab]

Not sure my hometown has many odd legends that I know of.

Right now there's a weird thing near my friend's house. It isn't a legend but is much more...sad.

There's an old man who lives down a gravel road there. He's apparently a notorious drug dealer even though he's in his 60s or maybe 70s. Outside his house someone has posted handwritten signs. These signs read DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE and AN EVIL MAN LIVES HERE, and for whatever reason the man doesn't take them down (or it could be that he does and people just keep putting them up). This house is set back in an isolate patch, and the signs are written in what looks like red fingerpaint, so if you were just rolling past it it has the look of something from Tales of the Darkside. But the true story is that people in this "neighborhood"* are just fed up.

* My hometown has very few actual neighborhoods. People build houses right beside the road for the most part. The people who put up those signs just happen to be near that old boy's holler or maybe on his road.

[CATHYnKY]

I grew up in J*Town as did my Mother and her siblings. We always told to stay away because of the "ghost" of The Pope Lick tressel. It is way up there!!!

[jpay]

We have the weeping lady in the Ashland cemetery.. an enormous bronze statue of a wife crying for her late husband .
The statue is huge!! Were she standing upright she would be over 7 feet tall.
She is said to walk the cemetery on the date of her husbands death...

[KevinHall]

We had Headless Hannah in my neck of the woods in Harlan County. You were supposed be able to see her when crossing Black Mountain into Virginia on foggy, rainy nights searching for her lost head. I forgot the story behind this now but she was apparently murdered on that mountain and found headless. I crossed that mountain many time in those conditions but never saw her. But never that stopped me from thinking about it every time.

[Old School]

Those album covers are great.

Isn't the whole purpose of using a ventriloquist dummy kind of lost when it's on an audio record?

Barren Cross...that cover might be the funniest one of all. I wonder if those guys still wear those outfits.

[Old School]

Does anyone remember a strange TV commercial that played incessantly on WDRB 41 in Louisville, I think in the early 1980s, but also maybe the late 70s or mid to late 80s, in which a robotic voice would say "969-5214...RETS"? I think it was for a local trade school in electronics or something like that.

[Blue Heaven]

Does anyone remember a strange TV commercial that played incessantly on WDRB 41 in Louisville, I think in the early 1980s, but also maybe the late 70s or mid to late 80s, in which a robotic voice would say "969-5214...RETS"? I think it was for a local trade school in electronics or something like that.

I remember that. Speaking of wdrb, Presto the Clown was a little scary looking.

[Old School]

I remember that. Speaking of wdrb, Presto the Clown was a little scary looking.

Yeah, and I don't know that he drew many viewers.

I'm having trouble remembering what shows WDRB 41 ran when he was on. G-Force/Battle of the Planets was one, I think. It was kind of a funky sci-fi cartoon.