5 haunted and urban legends in Kentucky

Creepy Christmas Creatures II

Jólakötturinn: This behemoth of a cat is a pet to the ogress, Grýla. It is known for eating people up whole who have not received any new Christmas clothes. 

Yule Lads: These 13 impish dwarves are known to cause alto mayhem during the Christmas seasons. Each of their names are based on the pranks they perform, such as Sausage Stealer, Door Slammer, Bowl Licker,  Window Peeper, Pot Scraper, and Candle Stealer.

Frau Perchta: Germanic goddess of winter, she is either described as an old hag or a beautiful young woman. Like St Nicholas and Krampus she rewards children who have been good with gifts, and punishes the naughty ones by cutting up their bellies and stuffing them with straw. 

Pere Fouettard: Translated in English as Father Whipper, he is the French version to Krampus and is St Nicholas's companion who punishes the naughty children. 

Scary Christmas

Seasons greeting true belivers. It must be that time of year again, presants, misietoe, snow, carols and Christmas specials. These maybe the things we associate with Christmas in America, but many cultures and countries have a rather dark history to the holiday.

The winter holiday predates the brith of Christ as a celbration of revival of the sun and returing of the greens of the earth. As the nights become longer, demons and dark spirits roam the baren wastlands in search for misbehaving children.

Krampus: A demon that accompanies  St Nicolas on Christmas Eve in the Bavarian countries. While good children are rewarded with gifts from St Nick, Krampus punishes the naughty. 

Kallikantzaros: Impish goblins hailing from Greece. They enjoy causing mayhem, espicaly on Christmas Eve.

Gryla: An ogress form Iceland that has been known to kidnap naughty children on Christmas Eve. She is the mother of the Yule lads and the owner to the Yule cat.

Boogers and Haints

The regions of the Ozark Moutians is filled with frighening folktales and ghost stories of ghosts, witches, and monsters that haunt the wilderness of mountians and forests. The ghosts and goblins are prefered to  be call boogers and haints. 

The word booger originates from the Old World English term of bogeyies of bogeymen. Goblin like entities that are known for terrorizing misbehaving children in the middile of the night.

One of the most iconic boogermen is Raw Head and Bloody Bones. The entity is discribed having a skined razer back hog, the eyes of an owl, the tail of a racoon, the clwas of a bear and the fangs of a mountian lion. 

Haints are what the people of the Ozark regions call ghosts or spirits, as dose the word originates from the Old World term reffering to haunt. The spirits confined to live in the woods, brooks and places of where they have died. 

Many sighting or reports of ghosts have been seen and hear in The Landers Theater, Springfeild Cemtery, and the Walnut Street Inn.

Even the roads are haunted by glow balls of light called spook lights. Some say it's the a headless hiker carrying a lantern seaching for it's head. Other cailm it's just the headlights of cars passing through. 

Devil Monkey

The Devil Monkey or Grave Diggers are dcribed as resembling a baboon with powerful kanagroo like legs, fanged teeth, and a long tail. The Devil Monkey has been sighted through out the Aplicaian Moutians of Kentucky. Reports of mutliated chinken and dogs were found by an old couple living in the western ares of Kentucky. Wiether it must have been an escape baboon from a traveling circus or a unkown speices of pimates that remain hidden within the unxplored wilderness of Kentucky.

Bigfoot sighting in Kentucky

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Daniel Boon meets Bigfoot

It's every day that famous people encounter supernatural entities in their life. One of Kentucky's founding father and frontiers man, Daniel Boon claimed he had shoot and killed a creature that he refered to as a Yhoo. The creature was discribed ten feet tall, hair covering it's entire body. Weither Daniel was just making it up or he did killed the creature, it will be apart of Kentucky's unsovled mysteries of history.