Whats up people hope youre having an awesome day, Im your host Ayman Hasan and welcome
back to another video here at most amazing top 10.
Back with more urban legends today, because urban legends are great and we love them and
you love them so its a win win situation for all us except those of you who are watching
this at night alone in your bedroom.
Im praying for those people.
Be forewarned i tried to save you, This is the Top 10 Scary California Urban Legends
- Part 2.
Starting us off with number 10 is Suicide Bridge.
Starting off strong yknow how i am.
Built in 1912, the Pasadena Colorado Street Bridge is a scenic drive.
Its on a river bed, it has lamps, theres an old charm about it that makes it romantic
almost.
But its also the site of many atrocities.
Over 100 horrible suicides have taken place at the bridge that the bridge is actually
called Suicide Bridge by most.
It garnered such a reputation that in 1993 they installed a suicide barrier on the bridge
to try and lower the numbers.
The stories of the suicides are also very hard to digest.
In 1937 Myrtle Ward took her 3 year old daughter to the bridge after her husband left her.
She threw her daughter off the bridge and then leaped herself, thankfully her daughter
landed in a few thick branches which slowed her descent and left her unharmed but Myrtle
plummeted to her death.
Many have seen her ghost on the bridge and in the riverbed below forever looking for
her daughter.
Another story is more recent taking place in 2008, a man stabbed and killed his wife
and grandmother and then killed himself.
And that was only 2 stories out of countless ones.
So of course with that much death there are that many ghosts.
Spirits haunt the bridge, including a man wearing glasses and a woman that continuously
keeps mimicking her fall off the bridge.homeless people camping under the bridge have reported
hearing eerie cries and sounds at night and the ghost of a man who whispers ‘her fault’
to anyone that walks by.
Obviously referring to whoever drove him to take his own life.
Coming in at number 9 is Alien Blood.
I actually read about this story a few years ago and i didnt realise how much of a lasting
impact it left on California but i guess it really did.
Back in 1984 at Riverside General Hospital, a woman named Gloria Ramirez was admitted
to the ER to have her blood drawn.
But as soon as it was drawn the foulest smell filled the room and her skin started becoming
oilier and oilier.
Then like flies the medical staff started dropping, half started passing out while the
other half lost complete control of their limbs.
5 members ended up being hospitalized and one even spent 2 weeks in intensive care.
The weird occurrence affected over 2 dozen members of staff which left a skeleton crew
to try and save her life.
They failed and she died 40 minutes later.
Till this day no one has any idea what happened or what it was about her blood that took down
23 people.
They dub it the legend the alien blood that poisoned the hospital.
To me i feel like science has a lot of answers and when its something comes up that they
cant answer, and nearly 40 years still havent been able to answer.
That is worrying.
At number 8 we have The Lady in White.
Because every urban legend video would not be complete without at least one ghostly lady
in white.
Hailed as one of the most famous Californian urban legends, the legend is about the thing
that probably makes California famous.
The hollywood sign.
The sign that has been the backdrop of countless instagrams and movies is said to be haunted
by Peg Entwistle a famous actress from the early 1900s.
Thats so hollywood isnt it, an actress haunting the sign.
It like came full circle.
But anyway the legend goes like this, after an excruciatingly harsh review of one of her
movies,. one people dubbed a career ending review, she decided she couldnt take the thought
of her career ending so she decided to end her life.
She climbed to the top of the H in the sign and threw herself off it.
So based on that many people claim a lady in white can be seen hiking in the off limits
area near the sign around the place she killed herself.
But if you find yourself up there and are hoping to see a beautiful actress, youd be
quite wrong.
What appears is an eerie woman with hollowed out eyes and a skeletal face.
If she finds you there alone, she can influence you to follow in her footsteps and end your
life too.
In the century that followed her suicide, many suicide cases have been reported in the
area and in 2012 police even found a mans mutilated body parts and decapitated head
right where she killed herself.
Filling our number 7 slot is The Prop of Nu-Pike. so Elmer McCurdy was a famously notorious
outlaw who died in the early 1900s.
In 1911 his embalmed corpse became a sideshow act through Texas for people who wanted to
come gawk at the criminal and his displayed body.
He travelled or rather his body travelled all over America eventually landing itself
in Long Beach California.
There his body was mistaken for a prop and was hung in a funhouse at Nu-Pike Amusement
Park.
The truth was only discovered in 1976 when a film crew tried to adjust him and ended
up dislodging his arm.
Imagine going into that fun house as a kid expecting mildly scary props and then coming
face to face with a real corpse.
Id never go to an amusement park again legit.
Now at number 6 is Old Stage Road.
Now Old Stage Road is located in Salinas and its been the site of horrible deaths, gang
related ones, lynchings, and a Japanese concentration camp was even located there during the wartimes.
So due to all that death, countless ghosts and spirits haunt the road.
But the story comes from redditor moonriver7811 who said his aunt told him a story of when
she was young and pregnant.
Her and her husband decided to take some backroads as a shortcut and ended up on Old Stage Road.
she was looking out the window for a while she she suddenly saw a woman.
The woman was keeping pace with the car and just turned her head to look at his aunt and
what she saw scarred her.
Her skin was so pale, so pale it looked almost transparent, her hair was like white hay she
seemed 100 years old.
But it wasnt even her appearance that freaked his aunt out, it was the hatred and anger
in her eyes.
The uncle stepped on the gas and they managed to get rid of.
The user after hearing the story decide he should go to the road as well.
At 3am drunk.
The friends went there and stopped near Hangman's Tree and decided to walk on the road not stay
in the safety of their car.
One of the friends decided to pee on the tree, douchebag and its not surprising they pissed
off some spirits after that.
They got back into the car and were switching between CDs when they heard a loud GET OUT
on the radio.
After hearing it and realizing it was none of them they drove for their lives.
Half a mile later one of the friends who had been asleep screamed saying she had the worst
nightmare.
She never remembered going back into teh car and said she was walking down the street and
turned around and saw that the car wasnt there.
All of a sudden an old lady with rotten teeth and claws tried to bite her and thats when
she woke up.
Despite the road being old as hell, murders continue to happen on and around it.
Coming in at number 5 is Bigfoot.
Its like the most well known urban legend of all time id argue it was the first one
ever too.
But anyway coming in second to Washington, California has the most reported Bigfoot sightings
in the US.
The creature which is said to be a giant hairy human ape creature of sorts is said to live
in the wilderness.
Yosemite National Park is said to be the most haunted national park in America because it
was Bigfoots first home.
Campers have apparently seen it wander into their camps to which of course theyve screamed
and run away but the weirder part is Bigfoot has been said to scream even louder and run
too.
Which is a bit cute im not gonna lie.
In 1962 on Mount Shashta a woman claimed to have seen Bigfoot give birth which a) i didnt
even know it was female and b) now we have a mini bigfoot on our hands?
But i guess that was nearly 80 years ago so its probably adult bigfoot now.
Either way i honestly feel like its a harmless creature so why dont we leave the poor thing
alone?
Its not harming anyone i mean its never harmed anyone.
At number 4 are The Gates of Hell.
A deserted road in Antioch called Empire Mine Road has a gate on its side that locals call
the Gates of Hell. and at first glance it honestly looks like a run down graffitied
gate.
Most people wouldnt even notice it driving by but driving by wont do anything to you,
its crossing the gates that could hurt you.
The first legend about the gates is about an insane asylum that it used to be the entrance
to.
And it was one of those horror movie asylums, straitjackets, lobotomies, shock treatments,
the whole shabang.
Because of that many believe the ghosts of deceased patients stalk the area and some
even suffer from the same illness that they did in real life.
And the spirits around asylums are usually angrier than ones found elsewhere.
If you cross the gate, you could very well be attacked by the ghosts.
One group of explorers felt rocks being pelted at them and when they got back into their
car they felt a giant creature leap onto the hood.
The second legend is that it was a slaughterhouse that sat near the gates and that the spirits
haunting it are of the animals.
But the slaughterhouse was also home to a horrific murder that happened in 1995.
A man came running and screaming out of the slaughterhouse head to toe dripping in blood
claiming his girlfriend had stabbed him, before medics could get to him he died.
So there is a lot of bad energy surrounding this gate.
Filling our number 3 slot is the Statue.
A girl named Jessica was babysitting for a rich family in California so you can imagine
that the house was massive with rooms upon rooms inside.
During the night in question the parents went out for a movie and so the dad told Jessica
once the kids are asleep she could go watch TV in the living room.
Not really to entertain her, mainly so she wouldnt wander and snoop around the house.
The kids go to bed, and Jessica starts watching TV.
i mean she tries watching it but cant ignore the clown statue in the corner of the room.
Even though she found the statue a bit of an out place in line with the other decor
she let it go but after a while it started freaking her out too much.
She called the dad asking if she could switch rooms because the clown statue was freaking
her out.
The father replied saying get the kids and leave the house and call the police, she started
asking why but he told her to do it and now.
She ended up getting the kids and going to the neighbours and calling the police.
When she later called the dad he said that they didnt have a clown statue and that the
children had been complaining of a clown watching them sleep but they had assumed it was just
a nightmare.
Listen to your kids people.
Ive heard so many variations of this legend but i had no idea it originated in California.
Now at number 2 is The Mass Murder.
Now this is an urban legend that circulates in California around Halloween time every
year.
The legend has been around for decades but it really gained traction in the social media
age.
The legend starts with a photo from 1962 of a bunch of masked figures posing for what
seems like a halloween party.
Everyones in a white face mask but the figure in the middle is in a black hooded one.
Legend has it moments after the photo was taken the black hooded figure locked all the
doors to the party and then went and killed 7 of the party members before escaping from
the scene.
No one has any idea who the man, the only thing ever found about the case was the mask
itself.
Ugh i just dont like people in masks on halloween from way back when the masks are always so
scary, these days dressing up for halloween isnt scary but back then it actually was.
And finally at number 1 are The Witches.
East Bays Black Diamond Mines are one of the scariest places in California.
At the end of the 1800s early 1900s the area was a thriving coal mining community, and
the people who lived there are still buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
There are so many ghost stories surrounding the mines but the most popular one is the
story of Sarah Norton and Mary.
Sarah was a widow who married Noah Norton and it was widely known that she was a witch.
One day her services were called for in the town of Clayton but on the way there she was
thrown out of her buggy and killed.
In life she was a religious pious woman who emphasised how she didnt want a funeral, yet
the locals of Somerville felt she was owed one.
The day of her funeral a terrible storm hit the town and it was delayed, the following
day another storm hit but this time the towns livestock also came charging through it.
The townspeople realised that that couldve been Sarahs spirit telling them she didnt
want a funeral under any circumstances.
Since then her ghost has been seen floating around town but mostly lurking in Rosehill
cemetary.
Now onto Mary.
it was a very common name back then as you can imagine so we dont know what her last
name was but her occupation was being a nanny.
But strangely enough every single child she cared for ended up dying and so the town accused
her of witchcraft.
And usually in these cases an innocent person is accused but with Mary thehy actually found
evidence of her sorcery rituals.
She was hung soon after and is said to be seen near the mines wearing full white.
Honestly what is it with ghosts and wearing white?
And there you have it guys!
California is filled with some messed up scary urban legends, the less i do these videos
the more they scare me when i do.
Just me?
For the californians out there watching this how many of these had you heard of before?
And what are your thoughts?
Talk to me below.
But as always guys im your host Ayman Hasan and ill see you next time.