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Description: Beasts that will rip your flesh from your bones, others that prey on teenage lovers, a playground haunted by dead children and a curse that has lasted over 300 years! All coming up in Top 10 Scary American Urban Legends. 1. Alabama, Dead Children's Playground This playground adjacent to Maple Hill is Huntsville's oldest cemetery. The playground was designed to entertain kids while their parents visited the graves of loved ones. Residents have observed orbs of light going down the slide, seen swings moving on their own, and even heard giggling. Legend has it, that the spirits of children who've been buried in the cemetery come out to play at night. 2. Alaska: The Alaska Triangle The area ranging from near Juneau in the southeast to the northern Barrow region to the western metropolis of Anchorage has some of the most barren wilderness in the US and is basically Alaska's "Bermuda triangle" More than 20,000 people have gone missing without a trace in the area during the past half-century alone. Are they getting lost on extreme hikes, or getting attacked by wild animals or mythical beasts, nobody really knows. In 1972, a massive search turned up tons of conspiracy theories, but no bodies. 3. Arizona: Skinwalkers The Skinwalkers, are apparently creatures that want to rip your flesh off your bones. Like many ancient American urban legends, comes from Native American folklore. Skinwalkers are Navajo witch doctors that have become evil. Navajo medicine men are trained to learn both good and evil aspects of their power, and Skinwalkers are those who have become corrupt. 4. Arkansas: The Dog Boy Gerald Bettis, the only son of the Bettis family of 65 Mulberry street, Quitman, Arkansas was always a problem child. Bettis would find and torture animals, hence the nickname "dog boy". He allegedly imprisoned his elderly parents in their own home and murdered his father. Eventually, Bettis was imprisoned for growing marijuana on his back porch and died in a state penitentiary in 1988 and since then, there have been sightings of a 300lb half-dog half-man with glowing eyes haunting number 65 Mulberry Street. 5. California: The Horrors of Turnbull Canyon Located near Whittier, California Turnbull is a 4-mile loop trail that is presumably cursed has a lot of scary activity. The natives called it "The place of the Devil" where the ghosts of those slain for not converting to Christianity dwell alongside witches and Satanists, who reportedly used the place to sacrifice children, whose spirits now walk the canyon and dangle from trees. It also has the remains of the old insane asylum, where cults are practiced, gravity hills, and alleged alien encounters, it just goes on and on. 6. Colorado: Riverdale Road Riverdale Road near Thornton, Colorado has 11 miles of urban legends, a ghostly runner attacking parked cars on Jogger’s Hill, various demons, and even a phantom Camaro that speeds up and down the winding road. The epicenter of the evil is an old mansion where a madman supposedly burned his wife and children alive. Left behind are the barren, charred plot of land and a white-clad woman who wanders the area. She’s joined by the ghosts of slaves supposedly hanged from the now-charred tree. 7. Connecticut: Dudleytown In Dudleytown forest people have seen many paranormal phenomena, some describe an unnerving lack of wildlife in the area as well as floating orbs of light and sinister “wolf-like” black shadows, murmurs, and disembodied voices, as well as a feeling of general dread. It all started with Edmund Dudley who was beheaded for conspiring against King Henry VII and apparently the rest of the Dudley clan was cursed, they left England and fled to Connecticut in 1748. 8. Maryland, The Goatman. The Goatman was apparently a scientist at Beltsville Agricultural Research Center who had an accident whilst experimenting with a goat. The accident caused the scientist to mutate and now he eats dogs, screams like a goat at night, and attacks teenage lovers who frequent the local "Lovers lane" 9. Florida: The Skunk Ape The Everglades apparently aren't just home to Bigfoot, the Skunk Ape supposedly lives there too and is a relative of Bigfoot. A fully-grown Skunk Ape stands anywhere from 5 to 7 feet tall and weighs approximately 450 pounds. They mostly eat berries and small animals, and they apparently smell like a mixture of sun-baked animal carcasses and rotting garbage. 10. Hawaii: The Night Marchers The Night Marchers are supposedly the spirits of ancient Hawaiian warriors, dedicated to protecting the islands from all outside threats, They come at night, first, you'll hear the drums and then you'll see a group of torches the only way they'll spare your life is if you share a Hawaiian bloodline or if you lay face down and pee on yourself as a sign of submission. See more at brilliantnews.com