An Introduction to Traveling with Urban Legends

Obviously this blog isn't going to actually have the ability to take you to somewhere else, physically, in the world.  However, the goal is to take you there in spirit.  To feel as though you are actually being terrified in those locations, as opposed to the darkness of your room, with only the light of your screen to keep the Bogey Man away.

Once in a blue moon, a person is lucky to grow up in an area ripe with urban myths and legends.  I was one of these fortunate souls, who also happened to take a semester on the psychology behind urban legends.  And trust me, it's a fascinating few lectures.  But, these articles aren't to delve into the phenomena of the mind, but instead the phenomena of how an ordinary story, spot, or sound can become something otherworldly.

With these stories, you, the reader, will be taken from Virginia, to Ireland, to Australia and then to the Virgin Islands, and back again.

Let's start then, shall we?