Harold the Scarecrow

According to L. Garza (2002) One day two farmers named Thomas and Alfred were best friends. When it got hot outside they would grab their cows and head to a cool green plain in the mountains. Normally they would stay there with the cows all summer and their work was simple and boring. One day the farmer Thomas said they should make a life sized doll and use it as a scarecrow. Alfred agreed and they decided to base the doll off of a farmer they both hated. His name was Harold so that’s what they named the doll. When they were mad they kicked and beat the doll. Once Al swore he heard the doll grunt and after that experience they left him alone. One night Al saw something that frightened him and it was the doll growing. Thomas agreed but they thought they were just imagining things. The next day they saw Harold get up and climb up on the roof, he then came down and stood in the garden. Alfred forgot the milking stools so he went to get them. Al never came back so Thomas went to search and all he saw was Harold with a bloody piece of flesh. (p.n.d.)

This story is very interesting and I think its kind of cool that a scarecrow came to life. I probably wouldn’t think so if I saw it in real though. The scary part is when Thomas sees Harold’s doll with the piece of flesh. This story is also kind of sad how they hate Harold so much they would make a doll just to beat it up when they were angry.

The Kraken

The Kraken is a mythological creature that was thought of by sailors who used it to explain the probably natural,  losses of ships. According to studies found by the Unmuseum (2012) ; this huge, many armed, creature could reach as high as the top of a sailing ship's main mast. Many ships were lost throughout this region (p. n.d). This interests me because it’s amazing because such a thing can really be true. I know from personal experiences that giant squids can be real. I went snorkeling one time and I saw a very large squid with my snorkeling group. The Kraken is said to easily grip and pull sailors off ships with its tentacles into the ocean where they drowned or where they were ripped apart by these tentacles. I personally myself do not believe in the Kraken. If such an enormous creature were real I don’t understand how man has never come up with video or proof of the Kraken.

The Bell Witch

According to P. Fitzhugh (2011) This story is the legend of the Bell Witch an evil being that attacked a pioneer family on Tennessee’s frontier land between 1817 and 1821 (pg.1). Different from the films and other stories, the bell witch story involved real people and is proven by witnesses and notes written by those who experienced the attack. This led Dr. Nandor Fodor a researcher and psychologist, to tag the Bell Witch story as America's best Ghost Story. (pg. 1)

 This story interests me because mostly because of the witches. How they haunted these pioneers back in the 1800s just interests me and makes me wonder what happened to them in the end. I also want to know what witches were like back then, did they have abilities or did they just place curses on people. My opinion is that they could only put curses on people.

The Loch-Ness Monster

Reports of a mysterious creature in Loch Ness, Scotland go back to around the 6th century, but the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, nicknamed "Nessie," got a boost in the early 1930s with several reported sightings and alleged photographic evidence. In 1934 an English surgeon named R. Kenneth Wilson took what is perhaps the most famous photo (sometimes called the "Surgeon's Photo"), supposedly showing a head and neck above the water and indicating a very large creature. Since then there have been thousands of reported sightings and countless attempts to find and photograph the "monster," despite repeated assurances by scientists that no such creature exists. (history.com,2012)This story interests me because it was passed down from the 6^th  century when a “beast from the water attacked and drowned” someone. The Loch- Ness monster resembles an ancient plesiosaur and its sightings were classified as tricks on the people and tricks of the mind.

El Chupacabra

The writer of TravelSouth (2011) states: The Chupacabra or Chupacabras is a creature said to inhabit parts of the Americas. It was first found in Puerto Rico, then Mexico, and America. TravelSouth (2011) says that the legend of los Chupacabras began in about 1992, when Puerto Rican newspapers El Vocero and El Nuevo Dia began reporting the killings of many different types of animals, such as birds, horses, and as its name implies, goats.  El Chupacabra basically kills and sucks the blood out of animals and people if it has the chance to.

TravelSouth (2011) found that at the time it was known as El Vampiro de Moca since some of the first killings occurred in the small town of Moca. At first they thought that the killings were done randomly by some members of a devil worshiping group, but the killings spread around the island, and many farms reported many losses of animal life. The killings had only had one pattern in common: each of the animals found dead had two punctured holes around their necks (TravelSouth, 2011).

TravelSouth (2011) found; Soon after the animal deaths in Puerto Rico, other animal deaths were reported in other countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Brazil, the United States and, most notably, Mexico. In both Puerto Rico and Mexico, the Chupacabra got to an amazing status. The stories were reported multiple times in both America and Mexico. I wonder whether these things could be real! They could be either an all new species or some sort of alien species all together! It would be amazing to see and study the Chupacabra. I sure am glad I don’t live there!

Vampires in Eastern Europe

Even today people of Eastern Europe believe that vampires exist. On January 2004, Toma Petre of Romania died. After he died, several family members had difficulties with illnesses and the only conclusion was that Toma was stealing their strength. The family felt the only thing they could do was dig him up and remove his heart. After that, they burnt it, mixed it with water, and the family drank the mixture. This topic interests me because even to this day people believe in vampires. The Toma Petres family thought their health was being drained so they burned Toma Petres heart and made a potion out of it.

David,Kulik. December 27, 2004

The Jersey Devil

According to the writer of Perpendicularity.com the legend of the Jersey Devil dates back to 1735. Perpendicularity.com (2011) found; one of New Jersey’s earliest residents, “Mother” Leeds, was wife to a drunkard who did little to help care for their 12 children. Perpendicularity.com (2011) states that when she discovered she was pregnant with a 13th, she screamed “Let this one be the Devil!” The child was born on a stormy night. Perpendicularity.com (2011) says the baby was born seemingly normal at first, the baby transformed into a hideous, growling creature with hoofed feet, clawed hands, glowing red eyes, bat-like wings and a forked tail. The devilish abomination then slaughtered its mother and father, several of the midwives and many of its siblings. It then flew up the chimney and escaped to the Pine Barrens.”


Weird NJ (2012) states that in 18th and 19th centuries the Jersey Devil was spotted throughout the Pine Barrens region, scaring local residents and any of those brave enough to traverse the vast undeveloped expanses of New Jersey’s southern reaches. Weird NJ found that unearthly wails were often reported coming from the dark forests and swampy bogs, and the slaughter of domesticated animals would invariably be attributed to the Phantom of the Pines. Over the years the legend of the Leeds Devil grew, occasionally even overstepping the boundaries of its rural Pine Barrens haunt to terrorized local towns and cities.

I myself think the Jersey Devil is real, I just think the stories told about how the Devil was made are a little fake. I truthfully think based on all the people who claim to have seen it and all those who have"disappeared" in the Pine Barrens.

~Wumbo









This is a video I found on the Jersey Devil:
http://animal.discovery.com/videos/freak-encounters-the-jersey-devil.html