Urban Legends History

Some towns rise too fast. Gold strikes, oil booms, railroad expansions, tech surges—entire cities have appeared almost overnight, driven by opportunity and promise. And just as quickly, many of them collapsed, leaving behind empty streets, unfinished dreams, and stories that refuse to fade. Urban Legends of Boomtowns and Bust Cities explores eerie, place-based legends from towns shaped by sudden wealth and equally sudden loss. These are not sensational ghost stories, but quiet, unsettling accounts of abandoned districts, vanished populations, and communities that seemed to disappear the ...

Beneath the cobblestone streets and candlelit alleys of America’s oldest cities lie stories that never made it into the history books. Urban Legends of America’s Oldest Cities explores the whispered tales born alongside the nation itself—accounts of vanished settlers, sealed-off tunnels, cursed buildings, and crimes buried deeper than any archive. These are the stories passed quietly from generation to generation, shaped by fear, guilt, and the lingering presence of unfinished business. Each chapter focuses on a different historic city, uncovering legends rooted in colonial life, ...

In the sixth book of the United States urban legend series we head up to Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and Michigan. Inside you will read about the legends and folklore from these beautiful states. Some of these stories you may have heard, ut most are only known to the locals. This book contains some of the wildest stories and legendary beasts from these states. You will also learn the locations and read eyewitness accounts from people who have had personal encounters with these legends. Read about, witches, werewolves, vampires, demons, unknown creatures, phantom hitchhikers, ghosts, ...

The third book in the US urban legend series brings you more legends and interesting history. Some of these legends may be well known, but many of them are only known to the locals. Inside you will find history, legends, locations and eyewitness accounts.

Dive headfirst into the world’s oddest “facts”—and emerge a lot smarter (and more skeptical). In Truths Behind History’s Greatest Myths Vol. 3, you’ll explore: Nazca Lines & Göbekli Tepe: Were they alien airstrips and stonehenge-style temples built overnight? Or human artistry and pre-agrarian engineering at its finest? Antikythera Mechanism: A 2,000-year-old analog “computer” that could track eclipses, Olympic games, and planetary motions—no microchips required. Cryptozoology & Lost Tech: From giant squids inspiring Kraken tales to the Baghdad Battery’s disputed “...

A look into urban legends through each state in the United States of America. Some of these legends you may know, but many are only known y locals. Many of the stories include eyewitness accounts and some even share the locations and how to get there. Are you brave enough to venture into the unknown and search for these legends yourself?

This is the seventh book in the series of United States urban legends. In this book you will find legends, myths, and cryptids from the sates of Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana. Some of these stories are well known and others are only known by the locals. Inside there are personal accounts and directions to some of the locations where you can go to have your own adventures.

A look at Urban Legends from California, Colorado, and Connecticut. Some of these legends may be well known, but many of them are only known by locals. Inside are eyewitness accounts, directions to some of the locations and legends that are terrifying, shocking and unbelievable.

Welcome to the City of Angels—where every dream has a shadow. Legends of Los Angeles peels back the glittering surface of Hollywood to reveal the ghosts beneath the spotlight. In forty haunting tales of fame, obsession, and ruin, Los Angeles becomes a city alive with secrets: a phantom director still filming his masterpiece, a cursed headshot that erases actors from reality, and a talk show that won’t stop broadcasting—no matter how many of its guests are dead. From Beverly Hills mansions humming with regret to the haunted neon of Sunset Boulevard, each story captures a different side...

Shadow Altars: Urban Legends from Mexico City and the Ancient Pathways is not a collection of ghost stories. It is a map of fear as it actually operates. Across canals, hospitals, cemeteries, convent ruins, mountain roads, and narrow city streets, Mexican urban legends have long functioned as informal warning systems—quiet instructions about where not to go, when not to linger, and which offers should never be accepted. These stories do not demand belief. They demand attention. From La Llorona’s inverted cry to the sealed grave of El Vampiro de Jalisco, from institutional apparitions ...

In the last 50 years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s.

The borderlands of the paranormal include some bizarre stories. However, none are more strange or unsettling than the tale of what became known as the Philadelphia Experiment, an alleged effort during World War II to make a US Navy ship invisible by using electrical power.

Acclaimed military writer Mark Urban explores the extraordinary story of these military pioneers; the toughest and deadliest infantrymen in Wellington's Army. Immortalised in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels, the 95th Rifles were skirmishers tasked with acting as Wellington's advanced guard. It was new technology for the warfare of the time: they travelled light, moved rapidly, armed with the accurate rifles that would allow them to take shots from distance. The 95th Rifles were the prototype of the modern infantryman.

Dive into the untold truths of the Norse and Neolithic worlds—no horned helmets required. In Truths Behind History’s Greatest Myths Vol. 2, you’ll: Reexamine the Vikings: Were they unstoppable berserkers or savvy traders with a flair for dramatics? Break down Stonehenge: Beyond druid rituals and cosmic alignments, discover the real engineering feats and cultural forces that raised those stones. Shatter common legends: From “Vikings sailed in horned helmets” to “Stonehenge was a druids’ altar,” we separate fact from sensationalized fiction. Updated with fresh research and ...

Would you believe that a woman fell over 30,000 ft and lived? Would you believe the U.S.S.R dropped a nuclear bomb...on itself...on purpose? Would you believe a bear helped soldiers fight in during WW1? Would you believe . . . To all these questions as well as the others in this book, they all looked like tabloid headlines rather than factual stories to me when I first came across them. However, after careful research, I have discovered that each of the statements in the book is true. Prepare to be educated; the articles are fact-based – I am not making this stuff up! Prepare to have fun;...

About the Books: Introducing American Ghost Books, a spine-tingling series that brings the thrill of real ghost stories right to your bookshelf. Intended as companions to American Ghost Walks popular brand of spooky fun tours, each volume in this collection offers a concise yet captivating exploration of local legends, paranormal encounters, and eerie events that have shaped America's most haunted locales. "Ghosts of Lake Geneva" by Rita Mae Moore with R. Michael Huberty unveils the supernatural side of this picturesque Wisconsin town. Dive into tales of spectral sightings at grand lakeside...

In the eleventh book of the Urban Legends of the U.S.A series we head to some more creepy places to find legends and folklore from Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee. Inside are Native American legends and folklore from the deep woods and hills of the United States. Drive into legends about werewolves, witches, cryptids, curses, haunted roads, woods, hotels, trains, lakes, cemeteries, ships and roads. Read personal stories from locals about their encounters with the paranormal. Use the directions inside to have your own adventures hunting for legends and lore.

Have aliens already visited Earth? Who built Stonehenge and why? Could Bigfoot really exist? And what really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? A History of the Unexplained explores these questions and many more, providing a comprehensive and unbiased account of the world’s most enduring...

What if the truth behind history's greatest myths is even more fascinating than the legends themselves? Journey across centuries and continents to unravel the mysteries that have haunted the human imagination for generations. This gripping volume moves beyond simple debunking to explore the real stories, scientific truths, and cultural forces behind twelve of history’s most enduring enigmas. From monster-haunted forests to the digital ether, discover why these tales refuse to die. This meticulously researched book separates fact from fiction, revealing how real historical events, human ...

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with Black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the Black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of Black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between White progressives, business interests, and Black Atlantans. But Atlanta's political leadership has consistently mishandled the Black poor.