folklore Archives - Spooky Southcoast https://spookysouthcoast.com/tag/folklore/ Taking You Into the World of the Paranormal for Over 10 Years Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:49:28 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://spookysouthcoast.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Spooky_512x512-1-32x32.png folklore Archives - Spooky Southcoast https://spookysouthcoast.com/tag/folklore/ 32 32 Dr. Andrea Kitta – Urban Legends, Folklore and Slenderman http://spookysouthcoast.com/dr-andrea-kitta-urban-legends-folklore-slenderman/ Wed, 22 Nov 2017 20:52:52 +0000 http://spookysouthcoast.com/?p=3254 Folklorist Dr. Andrea Kitta joins us to discuss her work with urban legends, folklore and Slenderman.

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]]> The Red Headed Hitchhiker of Route 44 http://spookysouthcoast.com/red-headed-hitchhiker-route-44/ Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:40:56 +0000 http://spookysouthcoast.com/?p=3505 People from New England survive on a history of oral tradition passed down by word of mouth in accents that sound funny to the rest of country. Whether it is the sports they play or the lives they live, the people are natural storytellers. Many things that happen within the Triangle become the subject of local lore, and in turn much of the mythos of the area seeps into the people’s collective consciousness, turning explainable shadows into ghosts. The truth might be somewhere in the middle...

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]]> Pukwudgies Myth or Monster http://spookysouthcoast.com/pukwudgies-myth-or-monster/ Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:10:29 +0000 http://spookysouthcoast.com/?p=3536 The Pukwudgies have haunted the forests of Massachusetts since before the first European Settlers ever thought about setting out for a new land. For centuries they tormented the local Native Americans and crept their way into their creation myths and oral history. They could easily be passed of as...

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