π Legends of United States
οΌ File legend10 legends and folk tales from United States, mapped to where they were born and retold one by one.
Melon heads are said to be small, pale, big-headed humanoids living in the woods of three American states: around Wisner Road in Kirtland and Chard...
At 1140 Royal Street in New Orleans' French Quarter stands the mansion once owned by Madame Delphine LaLaurie, a socialite whose name became bound ...
The Hope Diamond is a 45.5-carat blue diamond in a case on the second floor of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the most f...
In May 1803 a group of Igbo captives, sold near Savannah and shipped towards St. Simons Island, rose against the crew of the small vessel carrying ...
The legend of the crossroads is the darkest and most seductive tale in American blues, and it clings above all to the guitarist Robert Johnson. As ...
Bloody Mary is the ritual that has terrified sleepover guests and schoolyard dares across North America for generations. The rules are always whisp...
Paul Bunyan is the giant lumberjack of North American tall tales, and the striking thing about him is that his story can be dated layer by layer. I...
Resurrection Mary is the most famous ghost in Chicago: a young woman in a white dancing dress who is picked up along Archer Avenue, southwest of th...
The Bell Witch is the best-known haunting in the United States and one of the few with a named family, a dated span and a place on the map: the far...
The Headless Horseman is the ghost at the heart of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the tale set in the real hamlet of Sleepy Hollow in New York's Hu...