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The Goatman of Maryland

añadido30 de agosto de 20261971

A half-goat, half-man with an axe, told of in Prince George's County outside Washington. The legend took shape in 1971, when a local paper ran a piece about a missing dog and rumours of a creature near Fletchertown Road; the article was picked up, and within a couple of years the story had acquired an escaped experiment from the agricultural research centre next door. The centre is real and still operating, which has helped the legend considerably — it has a building you can point at.

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Los Pine Barrens y el Diablo de Jersey

Millón y medio de acres de pinar sobre arena, donde pervive una leyenda de trescientos años sobre el decimotercer hijo de Mother Leeds. En 1735, cuenta la historia, ella dijo de mal humor que aquel hijo bien podía ser el diablo — y el recién nacido se transformó en una cosa alada con pezuñas y cabeza de caballo, salió por la chimenea y desde entonces vive aquí. En enero de 1909 se le denunció por todo el estado durante una semana entera: cerraron escuelas y aparecieron huellas en la nieve de los tejados.

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Bunny Man Bridge

A single-track railway underpass in Fairfax County, Virginia, known locally as Bunny Man Bridge. The legend puts a man in a rabbit suit with an axe here. There is a real basis and it is a modest one: in October 1970 county police logged two reports of a man in a white suit with rabbit ears who swung an axe at people near their cars and broke a window in a house under construction. He was never found. In half a century two police reports have grown into hanged children, an escaped asylum patient and a compulsory visit to the bridge on Halloween night.

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El campo de batalla de Gettysburg

En tres días de julio de 1863 unos cincuenta mil hombres murieron, quedaron heridos o desaparecieron aquí: la batalla más sangrienta de la historia de Estados Unidos. Los enterramientos fueron apresurados y a muchos muertos no se los llegó a identificar. Desde entonces se llama a Gettysburg el terreno más embrujado del país; los relatos se concentran en Devil's Den y la granja Rose, donde dicen oír órdenes gritadas de noche y ver figuras de uniforme caminando por donde estuvieron las líneas.

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Penitenciaría del Estado del Este

Una cárcel de Filadelfia que estrenó en el siglo XIX el aislamiento absoluto. Cerrada en 1971 y dejada en ruinas, sus galerías abovedadas figuran entre los sitios con más fama de embrujados de Estados Unidos.

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