what's your local urban legend?

We have a few. There's Casey, the skeleton sitting at the bar of the Officer's Mess at the military college, apparently in a practical joke at end of term, he was locked in a supply cupboard. They forgot about him and found him at the start of the next term - dead, from dehydration. You have to shout a beer for Casey when ever shouting a round.

There's the ghost of a deceased PM who haunts the hotel suite he died in - pointing to our Parliament House.

The smell of acrid burning flesh can be observed at an old settlers cottage at dusk, the same time of day a young girl burnt to her death accidentally, years ago...

There's the coffins in the lake - washed there when a neighbouring town flooded (years ago), and apparently the spirits haunt the lake because they were disturbed.

There's heaps more (I recently went on a ghost tour of the area and we were told all these and more - I had already heard most of it....)

La Llorona (The crying lady). It is said that years ago, a woman drowned her children in the river. And on certain nights, you can here her at the river crying.

This story has been around for many years in the northern part of New Mexico. As a child it freaked me out. Now I just think it's silly.

I live in Sacramento, Ca and we have the Governor's Mansion downtown. It's a big white house that sits on the busy side of the neighborhood, but its abandoned.

Rumor has it that one night back in the 19th century when Governors actually occupied the place during their term in office, one Governor's his wife let in a homeless man one stormy night who turned out to be a homicidal maniac and chopped them all to pieces. No governor has lived there since and its sad to be haunted.

A mansion called Mudd House on Mudd House road. Supposedly slaves killed their owners or something. The place is abandoned but is heavily guarded.