π Legends of United States
οΌ File legend8 legends and folk tales from United States, mapped to where they were born and retold one by one.
The Hope Diamond, a magnificent deep-blue gem now resting in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., is said to carry one of the most famous curses in...
Along the Sea Islands of Georgia, among the Gullah Geechee descendants of enslaved Africans, endures one of the most haunting and hopeful legends o...
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 slumber-party dares across North America for generations. The rules are simple an...
Paul Bunyan is the towering lumberjack of North American tall tales, a giant so vast that, folks swear, it took five storks to deliver him as a bab...
Along Archer Avenue on the southwest side of Chicago drifts one of America's most beloved phantom hitchhikers: Resurrection Mary. The story usually...
In the early 1800s, the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee, claimed to be tormented by an unseen entity that came to be known as the Bell Witch. It be...
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...