Subject: Strange things in your town.
Posted by: mountaingoat
Date: Mar 28 13
I grew up in a small town.
There was a creek running about 4 miles from the locomotive depot and Willow Park Lake. They used to dump old diesel in the creek and every now and then the creek and lake would catch on fire.
We used to be proud that we drank Ducks milk. Donald Duck was the milkman but if you called him Donald instead of Donny you better run.
We had a family named Chicken who called their house The Coup.
Posted by: mountaingoat
Date: Mar 28 13
I grew up in a small town.
There was a creek running about 4 miles from the locomotive depot and Willow Park Lake. They used to dump old diesel in the creek and every now and then the creek and lake would catch on fire.
We used to be proud that we drank Ducks milk. Donald Duck was the milkman but if you called him Donald instead of Donny you better run.
We had a family named Chicken who called their house The Coup.
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honeybee4
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It is said that a woman had two of her kids drown in the river on Elgin Avenue, two miles north of where I live.. She attempted to try and save them but in turn lost her own life. Since then it is said that she can be seen walking in the bushes with a lantern calling for her kids and asking for someone to save her kids, and if anyone enters the water in an attempt to save them she then takes them under in return. I have been there many times and have never witnessed anything strange, so I don't know whether to believe this or not. Reply #1. Mar 28 13, 11:13 AM |
boxjaw 
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When I was just thirteen, I began living in Darmstadt, Germany. A few kilometers from there to the south, above the small village of Muehltal lies Burg Frankenstein. My friends and I used to walk up the somewhat steep slope to visit the ruins of the castle. When we started attending Frankfurt American High School, we learned it was better to have a friend with a car. That changed things. Strange smoky, musical things happened there. Some may have even happened to my friends and I. . . I just don't remember. Reply #2. Apr 17 13, 11:58 AM |
blindcat78
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In my town of Beaumont, Texas, USA, next to our newspaper; we have a huge fire hyrend that is paint with the dalamation colors. Reply #3. May 26 13, 5:46 AM |
rockinsteve
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There USED to be a guy that would walk around naked in town! Don't know what happened to him, he may have been put in a mental hospital. Reply #4. Dec 04 14, 2:26 PM |
| rockinsteve
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And no, that guy was NOT me! Reply #5. Dec 04 14, 6:46 PM |
Mommakat
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The strangest thing in town????? Well at long last a few years ago we finally got a rail service to the city. In their wisdom (questionable) the local council commissioned a female sculptress to do a sculpture to erect at the station. The result was the most hideous monstrosity I have ever clapped eyes on. I thought it was a version of a kangaroo with a neck like a giraffe, but was informed it is a tree. Well if trees look like that why bother with conservation.....LOL Reply #6. Dec 04 14, 9:51 PM |
| rockinsteve
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That's funny, Mommakat! It's hard to believe some things are considered to be "art"! Reply #7. Dec 04 14, 10:24 PM |
HairyBear
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I lived in Miami for a short time, and while there, there was a newspaper article about a large piece of crumpled metal that was going to be hauled away to be recycled when someone discovered that the crumpled piece of metal was actually a piece of "art" that the city of Miami had paid $60,000(!!!) for. Reply #8. Dec 09 14, 4:20 AM |
Mixamatosis
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There's a story (well verified apparently) that Edward VII was going up our raod on his way to the races when his car broke down. His language was so bad a local woman had to send her children indoors so they would not hear it. There's a man that lives in our road who closes every open gate he passes when he walks up the road and sometimes picks up litter and puts it in the bins provided, but I've not seen him for some time now so he may have passed on. There's another man who walks around the area in a tricorn hat, a long black coat and long leather boots like someone out of an 18th century pirate story. Reply #9. Jul 27 16, 6:18 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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Another "event" on my road. The other day I was walking past the garden of a house not far from mine when I looked over and saw a man standing there staring at me. He had no shirt on and in his hand he held a machete. I quickly walked on and was relieved to hear him using it on the garden as I left. It was a bit of a worry. Reply #10. Aug 15 16, 12:08 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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I have a couple of memories from when I was a child. My sister and her family lived in a road that connected with our road and a house almost opposite hers had a lot of garden gnomes in the front garden. One day a man walking up the road stopped in front of the garden, took his hat off and bowed low to the gnomes. He also spoke to them but we didn't hear what he said. There was also a house in her road where even in the 1960s there was no electricity and it had gas lighting. An old lady lived there and a friend who lived next to my sister and I used to go to the house where the old lady would give us lettuce and greens for my friend's chickens. The house was full of old horsehair furniture and there was a room full of stuffed animals in glass cases. It was a bit spooky. The old woman could sometimes be seen at local grocers haggling for a reduction in the price of veg that wasn't perfect. We assumed she must be very poor but when she died it was reported in the local paper that she left over a million pounds in her will. That was a lot of money in the 1960s. She was rich by any standards. Reply #11. Sep 11 16, 12:09 AM |
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