[–]▶ 323f7d (5) No.15551331>>15551472 >>15551521 >>15551588 >>15555184 >>15568075 >>15579787 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]
You have any local myths from where you live that would make for good vidya enemies? doesn't have to be much, just a boogey man your parents scared you with when you were a kid. As an example when I was little people used to joke about gammel Gäddan, a giant pike fish that was so strong it could pull you down into the water. It also has several hooks in its jaw due to all the fishing lines it has snapped. probably helps that pike fish are already pretty evil looking and will eat anything it can. they would make for a perfect enemy, A giant fish with hooks in its jaw terrorizing the sea.
I am certain there has to be other ghost stories and myths from around the world like it.
▶ 978b99 (1) No.15551352>>15551364
Nothing too interesting, certainly not as cool as a giant, hook-jawed fish. Ours was an abandoned mansion complex up on the mountain side that was supposedly haunted and contain torture dungeons. After graduation though I found out it wasn't abandoned and merely had a richfag family that kept to themselves.
▶ 323f7d (5) No.15551364
>>15551352
> richfag family that kept to themselves.
But did they have any torture dungeons?
▶ c3fbd8 (2) No.15551368
>In Finnish mythology, a Näkki (Estonian: Näkk) is a Neck, a shapeshifting water spirit who usually appears in human form, that resides in murky pools, wells, docks, piers and under bridges that cross rivers.
>They are principally known for pulling young children into the depths, if they lean over bridge railings, docks or otherwise look into water surfaces to see their own reflection and touch the water. Näkki is a fine example of a spirit enlisted by parents to guide children away from unsafe practices.
>According to Nordic mythology, during Midsummer's night, Näkki rises from the water to dance in the middle of the celebrating people.
>It is also said that although Näkki is very beautiful from the front, their backside is hairy and extremely ugly. Other stories tell that a Näkki is an ugly "fishman" which can at will turn itself into a beautiful woman who either is extremely voluptuous or has three breasts or alternatively into a silvery fish, horse or a hound, which are only ways to lure their unwary prey to the water. Näkki is also called Vetehinen or Vesihiisi (water fey, see Hiisi).
▶ 015502 (5) No.15551372>>15551450 >>15551984
In the countryside in my general area some parents used to spook their kids so they wouldn't run off into the fields telling them there was a sheet iron pig, as in a literal covered in sheet iron, who would chase and eat them were they to go out at night alone.
▶ 662d48 (7) No.15551405>>15551450 >>15586806
The closest myth to my hometown would probably be the Dahu, but it's actually a joke myth created to make fun of clueless tourists.
It goes like this - in the alps, there are a lot of wooden chalets pretty far up the mountains. Sometimes, there's no electricity and you spend the evening in big rooms lit up by fireplaces. Booze is often involved.
If there's a dumb tourist, most typically a Parisian, playful mountaineers will sauce him up and tell the tale of the Dahu, an odd animal, something like a small stocky deer that has legs shorter on one side than the other. So he can easily run alongside a mountain's flank. They're elusive, but easy to catch - all you have to do is take a large bag and a friend along. One takes the bag and stays downhill, while the other goes uphill. The idea is that the Dahu fucking loves raspberries, so if the guy uphill shouts "what a delicious berry !" while standing behind the Dahu, the animal will turn around, lose its balance, and stumble right into the bag like an ass.
Of course, it's done to trick rubes into going into the mountains at night and shout about raspberries like assholes.
▶ 9fa200 (1) No.15551429>>15551450
In Southeast asia, we got this fellow called Penanggal. Which is a old or young women sorcerer that use demonic mean to gain beauty.
This thing fly around a village which happen to have a women in labor, to drink her labor blood and eat her newborn.
Using them as flying sucking enemies would be great.
Also my uncle tell this weird stories about women in a closet, she usually lure young boy with her giant breast, when the victim getting close she will hug and smoother them in her breast until they die suffocated.
▶ 323f7d (5) No.15551450
>>15551372
I can totally see a metal pig working as an enemy.
>>15551405
I dont know how you would fit that into a game but I really want them to, that is hilarious.
>>15551429
Penanggal sounds fucking brutal man. At least the closet monster has tits.
▶ 695081 (1) No.15551472
>>15551331 (OP)
Well I've got Sayona and Chupacabras. The latter being self-explanatory, the former is the ghost of a beautiful woman that shows up when people speak of women in the woods. As night progresses she'll ask to share someone's sleeping bag/hammock. Once everyone is asleep, she guts and eats the unlucky asshole, though at that point she looks like something else entirely. Something more evil.
▶ c2e7b8 (4) No.15551477>>15551503 >>15551524 >>15552283
Ausfag here, typical stories abound in abo folklore.
We've got yowies, which are basically our local Bigfoot/Sasquatch flavour monster. Though they have been turned into bigfoots (bigfeet?) more traditional lore states that these giant men things were the original inhabitants of Australia who were here before the abos (who arrived 50,000 years ago) and are more like the "race of giants" that is common in world mythology.
We also have bunyips that live in billabongs (small lagoons that form after rains and slowly dry up) that will pull people in and drown them.
There's also a curious creature I remember as a kid that, if you went bushwalking and got lost and fell asleep beneath a tree, it would come down out of the tree and suck your blood with tentacle suckers, and then swallow you and fall asleep in a food coma, then spit you out. You would wake up all red and slimy, and slowly turn into one of these creatures.
▶ 4eaac6 (2) No.15551503>>15551533 >>15555176
>>15551477
>>15551477
>We also have bunyips that live in billabongs (small lagoons that form after rains and slowly dry up) that will pull people in and drown them.
Only in love.
▶ 000000 (1) No.15551521>>15551588
>>15551331 (OP)
Never give ideas for free.
▶ 662d48 (7) No.15551524>>15551550
>>15551477
>There's also a curious creature I remember as a kid that, if you went bushwalking and got lost and fell asleep beneath a tree, it would come down out of the tree and suck your blood with tentacle suckers, and then swallow you and fall asleep in a food coma, then spit you out. You would wake up all red and slimy, and slowly turn into one of these creatures.
I remember reading about it. Isn't its name yara-ma-ya-wo or something?
▶ 015502 (5) No.15551533
>>15551503
>Fluffy snek
Have monstergirls have gone too far?
▶ f726a3 (2) No.15551544>>15551550 >>15551571 >>15551666 >>15553452 >>15567821
It brings me great melancholy that the Jersey Devil only had one vidya appearance, and it was in a telltale game.
▶ c2e7b8 (4) No.15551550
>>15551524
>yara-ma-ya-wo
Yeah it has a real weird name that sounds like that.
>>15551544
> local monster appears in shitty Telltale game
> anon gets upset
< f726a3 will remember this.
it has no effect on the plot or the gameplay
▶ 96b372 (1) No.15551571
>>15551544
Think of it this way: the less it appears, the less it can be ruined.
▶ 252baa (5) No.15551588>>15552028 >>15553700
>>15551331 (OP)
>>15551521
Said the jew.
People get ideas from everywhere. Entertainment WANTS to appeal to people and appeal with ideas they themselves like.
Hell I've used ideas in a RPG maker video game i'm making that I found here because I thought it was cool or a good hook, and changed it and molded it to my liking.
>>15551331 (OP)
Mothman. Supposedly before a bridge collapse he scared a couple of people on the road, but never harmed anyone. After the bridge collapsed he never showed up or had reports afterwards.
He could be able to see the future and was only trying to scare people away from a disaster, but tragically was considered the cause of disasters whenever he shows up.
In real life, It could have just been a hallucination that happened around the bridge area because people had a subconcious feeling about the said bridge, since they drove across it so many times to get to work, the minuscule feelings and sightly different sounds that bridge made under stress could have been noticed by the subconscious, and in the process could have caused a hallucination due to a misinterpretation of the environment.
Like how if you have a cat and it dies, and you look at places where it used to sleep, you may for a small time hallucinate as if it were still there until you look hard enough, which has happened to me in my case for two weeks in succession because I had her for 20 years. I still miss her
Stress and fear can cause your brain to play tricks on you.
But in his case, this one was weird because he was a mass hallucination and the 3 people who saw him all described him with the same features, even before the story went to press and with no prior contact with each-other to conspire.
▶ 5f0002 (1) No.15551607
The Moon-eyed People are good fodder for fantasy.
Principal traits:
>Nocturnal; reflective, bright-blue eyes.
>Pale white skin as a result or by proxy.
>Somewhat short.
>Some grew beards with stark contrast to their skin color.
>Hung out mostly underground and conduct night raids.
Wait, fuck, they're dwarves. Goddamn Cherokees.
▶ f02892 (1) No.15551639
Not a myth but a historical event. There just aren't any good games about the Alamo. The biggest of Texan legends. Although, it would probably be labelled "racist" now to make a game about white Texans killing off Mexican invaders.
▶ f49bc8 (3) No.15551666>>15551758 >>15553452
>>15551544 (checked)
>only had one vidya appearance
you're wrong there.
▶ 0a5e25 (2) No.15551668
The only thing I have is that, according to my parents when I was 5 or 6, a big cat escaped from a local zoo (my city doesn't have a zoo) and was seen prowling about the streets.
▶ 6a6f7b (2) No.15551687>>15551712 >>15551719 >>15551736
>The Trauco is a mythical entity who inhabits the woods of Chiloé, an island in the south of Chile. It has a powerful magnetism that attracts young and middle-aged women
>Whomever the Trauco chooses will go to him, even if she is sleeping, and fall enraptured at his feet. No woman can resist his magical attraction; all have sexual intercourse with him. Some men of Chiloé fear the Trauco, as his gaze can be deadly.
▶ 32467d (1) No.15551712>>15551723
>>15551687
Sounds like some sad thirsty incel's fantasy more than a folk tale.
▶ d89820 (1) No.15551719
>>15551687
sounds like the plot of a NTR hentai
>fat, bald, ugly, old goblin fucks everyones gf
captcha cumolh
▶ 252baa (5) No.15551723>>15551753
>>15551712
That's Chile for you.
There's a more modern myth in Japan about a toilet paper demon in a red cloak. It asks you from under the stall if you want red paper, or blue paper, and if you take either, you die violently in the stall. The only way to prevent your death is to very politely decline the offer, because if you're rude, you also die violently.
So you could use the urban legend in a murder mystery game, where a serial killer copies urban legends and youkai by compulsion during his killings.
▶ 5e1552 (1) No.15551729>>15551734 >>15551750 >>15553988
I've got a myth, but not from where I live. There were a bunch of small island nations that assumed that the white man's massive ships and bizarre obsession with trading stemmed from being a race that had no land to call home. They assumed whites were oceanic nomads that closely guarded their incredibly advanced technological secrets, even in the face of death, because they couldn't understand a society where not everyone understood how to make everything in it.
That strikes me as a really cool race for fantasy vidya. Supertech permatrading oceanic nomads on massive village-sized ships.
▶ 894b05 (2) No.15551734
>>15551729
>Supertech permatrading oceanic nomads on massive village-sized ships.
Homeworld, though in space.
▶ 662d48 (7) No.15551736>>15551738 >>15551755 >>15551775
>>15551687
<He conveniently left out the last part
>When a single woman is pregnant and no one steps forward as the father, people assume that the Trauco is the father. Because the Trauco is irresistible, the woman is considered blameless. The Trauco is sometimes invoked to explain sudden or unwanted pregnancies, especially in unmarried women.
▶ 894b05 (2) No.15551738>>15551753 >>15551759
>>15551736
So, it's a cuck demon?
▶ 252baa (5) No.15551750
>>15551729
They're not wrong tbh, minus the oceanic thing. Vikings were kind of like that but for other reasons.
▶ 03adae (4) No.15551751>>15551816
>The Pombéro, is a mythical humanoid creature of small stature being from Guaraní mythology. The legend, along with other mythological figures from the Guaraní, is an important part of the culture in the region spanning from northeast Argentina northward through the whole of Paraguay and southern Brazil. The Pombéro is said to capture particularly ungrateful girls, and force them to kiss him, and later, force them to have sexual intercourse with him.
I swear, everything down here tries to rape you
▶ 015502 (5) No.15551753>>15551767 >>15551794
>>15551723
Most japanese paranormal stories are pretty dumb. There was that ghost girl with a fucked up face that would ask you if she was pretty. If you said yes she'd kill you because she's insecure and thinks you're lying, if you say no she'd kill you because you were being rude. The only way to escape is telling her that you'll think about the question and then walking away.
>>15551738
It's a demon that lets women get away with casual sex.
▶ 252baa (5) No.15551755
>>15551736
>literally a cuck demon excuse used to take blame away from a woman for sleeping around
Fucking hell, that's even worse
▶ f726a3 (2) No.15551758
>>15551666
But Satan, that design doesn't look anything like the Jersey Devil
▶ 662d48 (7) No.15551759
>>15551738
It's written "single woman" right there.
▶ 947c85 (1) No.15551767>>15551794
>>15551753
Almost every Japanese demon can be defeated with politeness. They may be horrible monsters that will kill and eat you, but they aren't rude.
▶ 6a6f7b (2) No.15551775
>>15551736
>conveniently
Honest mistake
i'm not from the south anyway.
▶ 015502 (5) No.15551779
>Iara, also spelled Uiara or Yara or Mãe das Águas (mother of waters), is a figure from Brazilian mythology based on ancient Tupi and Guaraní mythology. The word derives from Old Tupi yîara = y + îara (water + lord/lady) = lady of the lake (water queen). She is seen as either a water nymph, siren, or mermaid depending upon the context of the story told about her. The Brazilian town of Nova Olinda claims the Cama da Mãe D’água as the home of Iara.
>Iara is a beautiful young woman, sometimes described as having green hair, light brown or copper-colored skin (as that of an Indigenous Amerindian from Brazil, or of a caboclo) and brown eyes, connected to a freshwater dolphin, manatee or fish body (the Tupi word y did not have a distinct meaning, being used in general for any riverine or freshwater lacustrine place) who would sit on a rock by the river combing her hair or dozing under the sun. When she felt a man around she would start to sing gently to lure him. Once under the spell of the Iara a man would leave anything to live with her underwater forever, which was not necessarily a bad thing, as she was pretty and would cater for all needs of her lover for the rest of his life.
A'ight
▶ 3392cc (3) No.15551784>>15551798 >>15553468 >>15553671 >>15555020 >>15555042
In Argentina we have "La luz mala", or "The bad light"
The bad light is a wispy light that shines just above the ground and it is made out of toxic gases and decomposed bones. It is said that this light makes a noise of screams of pain and terror. Some people who have supposedly followed and survived have only found broken pottery and human remains.
▶ 252baa (5) No.15551794
>>15551767
>>15551753
That and maintaining and repairing things. Or enduring something.
Like the Zashiki-warashi who gives you good luck as long as you maintain your home, or the Mokumokuren that possesses a door screen and replaces holes in it with eyes that can be defeated by replacing the screen but is otherwise harmless.
Or in other cases they're just items that gain souls after 100 years of use like Tsukumogami.
Yokai and urban legends in japan sprung from superstitions combined with japanese perceptions of politeness or endurance. Mixed with warrior's stories and tall tales, these myths were born. So Yokai can literally be anything.
▶ 03adae (4) No.15551798>>15551807
>>15551784
one of the ways of fighting the luz mala was biting the sheath of a knife, right?
▶ 3392cc (3) No.15551807>>15551815
>>15551798
Yeah. If that doesn't work, you need to use a Cold weapon.
▶ 837adb (1) No.15551808
>Old Green Eyes is a North American ghoul like creature reported to have been sighted among the corpses of American Civil War.
>The Battle of Chickamauga -- which was fought on the 19th and 20th of September, 1863 near Snodgrass Hill, on the Tennessee-Georgia border – was one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, second only to the Battle of Gettysburg in regards to number of casualties.
>Indeed, it is said that so much blood was spilled on the battlefield that a creature of great malice was drawn to the devastation
>A beast with green, glowing eyes is claimed to have haunted the land long before the arrival of the Civil War
>After the Battle of Chickamauga, some reported seeing such a creature moving among the corpses near Snodgrass Hill
>Such reports allegedly described the monster as being human-like, with eerie, green eyes and a huge, deformed jaw, from which terrifying fangs protruded.
▶ 03adae (4) No.15551815
>>15551807
so the cunt is weak to enchanted weapons
▶ 4eaac6 (2) No.15551816>>15551822
>>15551751
The whitest monster of Argentinia.
▶ 03adae (4) No.15551822>>15578187
>>15551816
there's another monster that uses his dick as a belt, literally
▶ 3392cc (3) No.15551836
Moñái is one of the seven legendary monsters of Guaraní mythology. This creature has an enormous serpent-like body with two straight, colorful horns over his head, which serve as antennae.
He can climb trees with ease and slide down to hunt the birds on whom he feeds and dominates with the hypnotic power of his antennas. Because of this he is called "the lord of the air".
▶ 024bdf (2) No.15551984>>15553634
>>15551372
Was it a completely mechanical pig or some kind of unholy animal-machine chimera?
▶ c3fbd8 (2) No.15552028
>>15551588
>Mothman
This was actually used in Castlevania
▶ d1b0ae (1) No.15552115
!!
here in my parts of world is monster!!
it is monster you no see, it look like man, same as you.
but it want to stop for talk, and when you talk it only ask question
it ask question and then use answer make money
we call monster here "Daita Myna"
▶ 929601 (2) No.15552283>>15553988
>>15551477
>Bunyip
in America a bunyip was some kind of small, nocturnal, vicious pack-hunter the Scoutmasters would tell stories about to young Boy Scouts. Or at least it was something my Scoutmasters had mentioned. I don't think they tried very hard to convince any of us, but the worry seed of wandering off in the dark got planted nonetheless.
Pretty sure they described it as cyclopic with big fangs. May or may not have been rabbit-like, that could've just been me thinking bun = bunny.
In Virginia there's tales of a road stalked by a pack of bloodthirsty ape-like creatures. Dark eyes, possibly baboons, jump like kangaroos. They leap onto cars and start bashing on the roof and windows trying to break in or drive the vehicle off the road, where the passengers will be easy prey.
▶ 760cee (5) No.15552362>>15553054 >>15553931
Don't forget the Flatwoods Monster.
▶ 4a4ecb (1) No.15552584
There are rumors of people spreading a deadly disease by fucking them. Apparently they get off on the idea of spreading this disease, and the government has stepped in to help them.
t. Commiefornian, why didn't Kim nuke us?
▶ 6dcd75 (2) No.15553013>>15553988
Don't forget the fiercest creature to roam the Australian bushland…
Also, the Cassowary is pretty fucked too.
▶ aed92c (2) No.15553054
>>15552362
It's literally the final boss of tumblepop
▶ e93911 (2) No.15553452>>15553487
>>15551544
looks more like a skinwalker in my opinion
>>15551666
good taste
▶ e93911 (2) No.15553468>>15553694 >>15555020
>>15551784
My grandad grew up near a old cemetery, and swore that some nights you could see a ball of light floating through it with no form nearby
Sounds similar and terrifying
▶ 0a5e25 (2) No.15553487
>>15553452
Telltale made it, that's why it's a fucking garbage depiction. The Jersey Devil is an upright dragon.
▶ 015502 (5) No.15553634>>15553676
>>15551984
It's just a large pig wearing sheet iron armor. It came back to me that the story was that some old guy got so pissed at children being children that he made an armor for his biggest pig and set him loose on the little shits, and at night it still roamed around looking for children to eat. I can't really find anything about it on the Internet, it might have just been a very local story.
▶ 03ad3a (2) No.15553671
>>15551784
lol thats the sun faggot
▶ 024bdf (2) No.15553676
>>15553634
Sounds like an Earthbound boss.
▶ 929601 (2) No.15553694>>15555020
>>15553468
Wisps/Orbs are a common thing all around. Some of them try to lead people into danger.
▶ 47b0a0 (1) No.15553700
>>15551588
That's because it was an owl. The mass hallucinations came afterwards based on the description. But the original sightings was definitely a perched owl.
▶ 1e0e7a (1) No.15553931>>15553945 >>15553962 >>15553999
>live in the east coast wannabe knock-off of Los Angeles, no one gives a rat's ass about this sort of stuff
>it's mostly just the occasional haunted house, which is fine but not quite the same
>closest "local" legends are probably tommyknockers or the Jersey Devil
I hate it here so much.
>>15552362
I'm pretty sure they used them in Majora's Mask.
This sort of thing is one of my favorites. Something that sort of blends fairy, ghost, and alien into one ambiguous entity that defies any sort of explanation. David Lynch did this sort of thing nicely, too.
▶ ffd371 (3) No.15553945
>>15553931
I'd fuck the flatwoods monster assuming it's a cute girl
▶ d719af (1) No.15553962
>>15553931
>Jerseydevil
Why are you bringing up that talentless hack
▶ c2e7b8 (4) No.15553988>>15554136 >>15554206 >>15584463 >>15586813
>>15551729
Saw that recently in a LindyBeige video on a white headhunter called John Retton (I think?)
Good watch, though he does ramble quite a bit, but he's charming enough that his digressions don't grate too badly.
>>15552283
Honestly, sounds like the scoutmasters heard something about a "bunyip" from Australia and pulled some shit out of a hat.
>>15553013
Cassowaries and dropbears are real. This thread is about mythological creatures anon.
I've looked at a cassowary, met its gaze. It was like looking evil in the eye. They will rip you to shreds given the chance, with toe-claws like a deinonychus.
Semi-related, here's a bird that moves just like a fucking dinosaur.
▶ aed92c (2) No.15553999>>15554960
>>15553931
Did you play Jersey Devil? It's not amazing but it's a pretty fine game.
▶ 80bf6f (1) No.15554136
>>15553988
>here's a bird that moves just like a fucking dinosaur.
Technically all birds move like dinosaurs, since that's what they are
▶ 03ad3a (2) No.15554206>>15554957
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15553988
thats not a dinosaur, this is a dinosaur.
this thing is aggressive and has sharp claws that can peirce you to death.
▶ 6dcd75 (2) No.15554957>>15555023 >>15555030
>>15554206
HOLY FUCKING DICK I HATE AMERICANS DRAMATISING THINGS.
It's clear this cunt knows sweet fuck all about them. They're not even remotely close to as dangerous as he's making out. The only reason they have such a reputation is because some retard 9 year old pissed one off and it got a lucky kick in and happened to gut him.
More people die here from kangaroos (like 1000 per year) than the 2 confirmed deaths from a fucking Cassowary.
▶ 094f58 (1) No.15554960
>>15553999
Checked for patrician taste
▶ 760cee (5) No.15555020
>>15553468
>>15551784
>>15553694
Sounds very similar to onibi and kitsunebi or hitodama.
▶ 662d48 (7) No.15555023>>15555030 >>15573430
>>15554957
"The cassowary is the most dangerous animal on earth" is a listicle meme on par with "cats have a zombie virus that controls your mind". It's factoids that build sensationalist bullshit over a tiny core of truth, and then ignores everything we know about the animal.
Shit, cassowaries are pretty common zoo animals, and they don't put them behind glass or a fuckhuge moat like they do for big cats.
▶ c87872 (1) No.15555030>>15555040 >>15572302
>>15554957
>>15555023
>t. notabird
First it was giant spiders, then the emus, and now the auscunts are letting all the dumb flightless birds shitpost rampantly. What's next? Venomous snakes? Screaming koalas? Man-eating sharks? ' The abbos?
▶ 760cee (5) No.15555040
>>15555030
yfw anti-cassowary propaganda was actually created by the emus
▶ 8864b4 (1) No.15555042>>15555082
>>15551784
It's called ball lightning.
▶ 760cee (5) No.15555082
>>15555042
>ball lightning
That doesn't really clear anything up.
▶ 37d4d8 (4) No.15555176
>>15551503
>Someone typed this using one hand
▶ 37d4d8 (4) No.15555184>>15555604
>>15551331 (OP)
My grand parents used to warn me about the hook man, some guy living in the well pulling down kids when they would peer into the well. Wouldn't work too well in a game, I suppose. I did have a nightmare that may be serviceable recently, though.
>Wake up in a morgue
>take off the corpse cloth and get up
>in a row with a whole bunch of corpses
>each has a blood soaked cloth
>one of them gets up and produces a knife
>it has no eyes and no mouth
>starts stumbling towards me
>notice a knife on my table
>have to find the correct corpse and ram the knife into its heart to kill that thing chasing me
>All the other corpses failed the game
▶ 97d384 (1) No.15555333>>15555354 >>15555374 >>15555381 >>15556196
When I was a kid I was told there were hags that came up from hell underneath your house and skittered about in the crawlspaces to find the children's bedrooms. At night they would push floorboards up slightly to look for children awake after dark. If they caught your eye you would be paralyzed-- while they would crawl into your room and take you down underneath the house to eat you.
▶ 0a37a9 (1) No.15555354
>>15555333
That's fucked up. I guess that explains why you're here now.
▶ 28a84a (1) No.15555374
▶ 662d48 (7) No.15555381
>>15555333
That would make for a good monster in a survival horror game. Enemies that hide in places you don't expect are usually pretty effective.
▶ f49bc8 (3) No.15555604>>15555621 >>15556057
>>15555184
>the hook man, some guy living in the well pulling down kids when they would peer into the well. Wouldn't work too well in a game
Sounds like it'd be a pretty cool addition to a game that has many dangers in it. Like finding holes/wells and if you either peek inside or get too close, a bunch of hooks come flying out and drag you in.
▶ 662d48 (7) No.15555621>>15555672
>>15555604
Project Zero 2 wii edition has this mechanic, you can slowly peek in holes, between cracks and curtains. Some have spectral hands that try to grab you if you don't pull out in time.
▶ 2da197 (1) No.15555629>>15555672
>tfw the only spooky thing kids told eachother is some pedophile in a van
I wish there was something cool to talk about that isn't the Wendigo and Yeti. Only other thing I can think of is Spirit Bears which are just albino grizzlies and bad stuff only happens if you kill them all.
▶ f49bc8 (3) No.15555672
>>15555621
Sounds cool.
But I'm liking the idea of this massive deserted town that you could theoretically walk through safely (a few keys, a few items, then you can go), but any wrong turn or poking in any bad place will show one of the nasty creatures inhabiting it.
>>15555629
I had ONE legend when I was in school. Because the schools we went to often had several parts that weren't used, the legend was that there was one hallway that lead to another set of double doors that you couldn't see through the windows of. by passing through them, you'd end up in another hall with more double doors in a sort of infinite loop.
▶ e9873b (1) No.15555719
Eh, aside from Hell Town there isn't so much besides spooky scary cemeteries.
▶ 37d4d8 (4) No.15556057>>15556233
>>15555604
Now that I think of it, there's a national legend that if you ever move a stone marking the outlines of a farmer's field, you'll be doomed to haunt the field and move around marking stones once you die.
▶ 760cee (5) No.15556196
>>15555333
Great, now your digits have summoned the hag!
▶ 4b0199 (1) No.15556233
>>15556057
That sounds like old German folklore.
We have a lot of stuff like this, like a mass in the middle of the night where only the dead attend, and if someone living enters by accident, he comes back old and grey, if at all.
Also all kinds of deals with the devil, ghosts of medieval noblewomen and lost souls who just want redemption by someone saying a prayer for them.
▶ 355f9d (1) No.15556253
In our region, there is a small lake called "Holy Sea". It is said that the lake originally was home to an abbey, but the monks inhabiting it eventually gave in to lust and gluttony to such a point that god himself flipped his shit and caused the entire abbey (monks included) to sink into the ground, only to fill the resulting hole with water.
Today, the area serves as a natural reserve; with students from all around the area routinely visiting the Holy Sea on class trips to study the swamp. Virtually everyone knows a friend of a friend which found a cross pendant or a rosary swept upon the shore of the lake.
As for the game idea - imagine a recent earthquake unrevealed a small opening at the bottom of the seemingly natural lake, leading to a large cavern which houses the (now underwater) ruins of the monastery.
Playing as local archeologist Jürgen Pfeiffer, you and some of your colleague don diving suits to explore the derelict abbey, only to find that not only has the interior of the ancient building remained relatively dry, but that it also connects to tunnels leading to significantly deeper caves beyond the surface - caves in which the monks of old worshiped gods and entities that by far predate Christianity…
▶ 046c5e (1) No.15556549>>15556667 >>15567965
Aside from the more well-known myths here like La Llorona (the wailing mother that laments and is looking for her children/crazy woman that killed her children), La Planchada (a nurse who always looked pristine because she wanted to score with the doctors) , there are some other modern stories or lesser-known myths in Spicland.
>la mulata de cordoba, a mulatto woman that rejected a noble's advances, but she never seemed to age so they accused her of being a witch; when she was in jail she drawed an image of a boat, asked the guard how did it look, he said that it looked quite realistic, and she entered the wall and sailed away on said boat
>a rich family had a daughter in a wheelchair, so to make her feel better, they built their expensive new house with her in mind, with tracks for easy wheelchair travelling; wheelchair girl was exploring the house when it was being built but fell off a cliff in a part that didn't have a window or protection of any sort, plummetting to her death; parents finish the house and try to sell it, but a couple of workers and a child died by falling from the same spot, rumor said that the ghost girl pushed them
>ghost bus appears on a mountain range, you can board of and it will take you to the next town; everything looks normal, but when you arrive at the town, never look back at the bus or you'll see it in flames and full of corpses; there was an incident of the driver accidentally driving the buss off a cliff, killing everyone
>two elderly ladies lived alone and people said rumors that they were witches, people assured that they made clay figurines that came to life; some guy kills the ladies, guy is killed some time after, but police observe that the guy had been strangled and had mud on his neck, and they found tiny footsteps leading up to the old ladies' home
>college town were I studied had another small town next to it and was said that witches used to live there but they started dying out of old age; it is said that the last witch wrote and buried a scroll somewhere and told to never unearth the scroll, lest the town will meet its doom
▶ 37d4d8 (4) No.15556667>>15567980 >>15568034
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>>15556549
>a rich family had a daughter in a wheelchair, so to make her feel better, they built their expensive new house with her in mind, with tracks for easy wheelchair travelling; wheelchair girl was exploring the house when it was being built but fell off a cliff in a part that didn't have a window or protection of any sort, plummeting to her death; parents finish the house and try to sell it, but a couple of workers and a child died by falling from the same spot, rumor said that the ghost girl pushed them
That sounds hilarious. Imagine buying that house, and every so often you stumble across a skeleton in a wheelchair riding those tracks like a rollercoaster before crashing through a window, plummeting down a cliff in a majestic parabolic arc while yelling like embed related.
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▶ 650e31 (1) No.15562519>>15563613 >>15567813 >>15568034
I mean, we're basically a villain in every FPS game from 2007 to 2015-ish. t.slav But uh, the first real person ever considered a vampire is from a city near me, and so is some spooky fish demon that tried to fuck up some kids in 2005.
▶ 85da60 (1) No.15563613
>>15562519
And Hitler was the final boss of every FPS game before that.
▶ ee7cff (5) No.15567813
>>15562519
Do you ever worry about vampire watermelons?
▶ 3a7119 (1) No.15567821
>>15551544
>Jersey Devil
shows up a few times in SMT
▶ 08a8bd (1) No.15567927>>15572338
Close to where I used to live, there was a mountain. It was the tallest mountain of the region, taller than all hills within an radius of 20 to 30 kilometers if I recall correctly, though it isn't particularly tall either. Maybe 800 meters above sea level at it's peak. It's more like a plateau, but with hills and alleys on top. I am not sure how large the area on top is, but I don't think that matters.
As far as that goes, it's not that special. But it's history makes it the perfect setting for a horror game.
The first documented mention of this mountain goes back to early medieval times, and even back then it was known for being a coalmine. Thee top of the plateau is covered in a thick layer of basalt rock, and below that are rich coal deposits. There are hundreds of little coal mines all around the mountain, many of them abandoned, a lot of them completely unrecorded and unknown. You can take a hike, go off the beaten path, and literally stumble upon a hole leading deep into the mountain. Some of the mines even connect to each other. Some are collapsed, some are still standing, very few are flooded, because the basalt cover on top of the mountain prevents water from going down into the coal. It's a network that to this day remains uncharted.
As time progressed and the basalt on top of the mountain became more valuable than the coal, large basalt rock quarries began to form on top of the mountain. Eventually a fire broke out in one of the coal mines, causing an underground fire to burn to this day. Some mine shafts are full of smoke, and occasionally you can see the smoke pour out of a hole. Towards the end of WWII the Germans apparently used the caves and mines as bunkers, especially the population of the surrounding villages decided to carry up some beds and supplies in case they ever had to hide from the coming soviets. Some families dug out proper rooms and homes in case they had to hide for prolonged periods.
After the second world war, coal mining was stopped, because coal was no longer as valuable. The basalt rock operations however picked up dramatically. Most woods that were left on top of the mountain were cut, and it turned into a crater landscape of black rock and coal fire smoke.
As environmentalist groups advocated for more humane treatment of the mountain, and prices for basalt dropped after the reconstruction efforts throughout Germany were mostly finished most mining equipment was abandoned, and forests recaptured the terrain slowly.
The military kept using the mountain for a long time until the end of the cold war, as it was right at the beginning of the fulda gap, close to the border. Some say they hid ammunitions, supplies and artillery pieces deep within the basalt rock, but as the military was scaled down, nearly all of their operations shut down in the region.
So there is that. A mountain with a long history, many caves, mines, abandoned bunkers, quarries, craters, holes, smoke and dark forests growing over black rock.
The perfect setting for spelunking.
▶ 25edd7 (3) No.15567932>>15567937
i have one that would make a good survival horror game
>old hunter type lived in a farmhouse on the edge of town
>towards the end of his life went a little looney and ordered a bunch of monkeys from some weird circus supplier
>basically a crazy fuck with an army of monkeys
>dies alone, isn't discovered for months until his son goes to check on him
>monkeys have gone fucking feral - rumors that he had a bunch of "make your own meth" bottles laying around and the monkeys all went bad
>rumors the basement is a meth lab full of fumes and the monkeys go down there to get cranked out
>animal control called
>monkeys maul one of the dudes
>farm house burns down (again, likely because of meth lab)
>meth monkeys unaccounted for, potentially roaming the town
▶ ee7cff (5) No.15567937>>15567946
>>15567932
Modern take on The Lurking Fear?
▶ 25edd7 (3) No.15567946
>>15567937
heh, sure.
there's also an older legend about a spirit of a lynched nigger that lives in a tree and teleports the tree to kill wypipo. can you tell I live in the south yet?
▶ 25edd7 (3) No.15567948
the tree one is often used to discourage DUI heh
▶ f5a1f1 (1) No.15567965
>>15556549
I swear I ran across photos of that wheelchair house at some point but cannot find anything online now. I vaguely recall an unfinished concrete spiral ramp and photos of it under construction with exposed rebar.
▶ e6c765 (1) No.15567980
>>15556667
It's almost parody of horror, you think something spooky is happening with the wheelchair then it goes out the window.
▶ c2e7b8 (4) No.15568034>>15573455
>>15556667
>a skeleton in a wheelchair riding those tracks
pic related
>>15562519
>the first real person ever considered a vampire is from a city near me
details? genuinely interested in your local lore
▶ a20baa (1) No.15568075
>>15551331 (OP)
Unidentified (no plates) black Volga with white curtains in windows or white tires. Driven by priests, nuns, american agents, secret police agents, party members, jews, vampires or satanists. They kidnap children and either sacrifice them or make them into drugs for leukemia or whatever for the rich and influential. Or worse.
I don't remember much anymore and it died out decades ago. Not to mention it wasn't very detailed in the first place. People just made it up on the go, changed it to conform to whatever purpose they needed.
▶ ca5ca3 (4) No.15572266
Not sure how much of it is true since it was my aunt telling a story at a family dinner. She lived in a small mountain town for a while (our family is largely big city type and she was sick of that at the time), and heard stories about a certain "Sodden Crow".
As far as monsters go it's as simple as it gets. It's a crow that appears to be drenched in water. But its behavior was strange. He was only ever seen at night (crows are normally diurnal) and if you got close to it, it would stare at you, but not like a normal bird would, like in pic related. He'd face you, at an angle it shouldn't be able to see you. Flashlights don't spook him, and he only flies away if approached too closely.
As far as my aunt could tell, it wasn't really linked to any incidents or given supernatural significance beyond the foreboding name they gave him, but the townsfolk did wonder what the fuck was his deal.
I'm thinking an eerie, unnatural crow could easily serve as a recurring sight in a game, possibly indicating either danger or secrets are near.
▶ bfcdff (4) No.15572302>>15573363
>>15555030
u fucking wot m8? 95% of spiders are completely harmless and can't even bite you.
The dangerous ones live in the wilderness and shithole countries anyways.
So, man the fuck up, /v/. You faggots would be scared of your own shadows if you could.
▶ bfcdff (4) No.15572338
>>15567927
I wish my local mountain story was as interesting.
>Old German asshole found some large deposits of gold in the mountain
>Never told anyone specifically where he found it other than cryptic clues
>Still a mystery where exactly he mined to this day
>During the gold rush miners would shoot to kill if you approached their digsite.
>People still die trying to find this cache as recently as 2012 due to underestimating the desert wilderness (allegedly).
Could still make an interesting setting in the past or present with some tweaking.
The only mythical monsters we have here, if all the spoopy stories I hear on the internet are true, is Skinwalkers from Navajo legends. This wasn't a "local legend" I heard growing up though.
▶ 6d7fe8 (1) No.15572420
I'm in South Carolina and we don't really have any good monsters, but what we do have is a shitload of ghosts. We have women that an heroed after getting stood up, vanishing hitchhikers, entire towns haunted by families that killed each other off in feuds, and every other bridge built before the 1990's is haunted by at least a few niggers or babies.
▶ f24615 (1) No.15572454
In Southern German folklore, there's a creature called the Nachtkrabb. Often depicted as a large, black, birdlike creature, the Nachtkrabb abducts children he finds outside after dark.
▶ 82a094 (1) No.15573336
Skinwalkers. Skinwalkers everywhere.
▶ ee7cff (5) No.15573363>>15573902
>>15572302
I live right in the midst of black widow territory so I've encouraged the little fellow to live in my house to protect me.
▶ 297786 (1) No.15573430>>15573495
>>15555023
>meme on par with "cats have a zombie virus that controls your mind"
…except toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii infection) is real, and it does alter mammalian behavior.
▶ 022824 (1) No.15573451
>Donyet
It's a kind of goblin that comes out at night and steals horses. They're fucking crazy and love speed.
>Caga Tió
Log of wood that shits outs presents when you hit it with a stick.
You could work these into vidya somehow.
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▶ ca5ca3 (4) No.15573495
>>15573430
And his point is that a real microorganism somewhat affecting rats has been overblown into the meme that cat owners are all mind controlled.
▶ a8f649 (1) No.15573511
We have
>Rapemonster
>Ghost Ship
>Siren that drowns you
>Witches
>Witches' golems
>Basilisks (the lame chicken ones)
That's kind of it.
▶ bfcdff (4) No.15573902>>15573932
>>15573363
Funnily enough Black Widows aren't that dangerous. Even if they bite you chances are it'll be a dry bite, one with no venom, since they don't want to waste calories reproducing it. They'll only inject if you really piss them off. At least that's what I read.
▶ ca5ca3 (4) No.15573932>>15573985 >>15578147
>>15573902
It's even less of a threat than that. What you said is true, but you also left out two facts. First, black widows are rather tiny spiders, reaching 13 millimeters of length at most. And second, even if you get a full dose of venom, all you're getting is a week of all your muscles hurting. Death is extremely rare, and treatment is usually just painkillers.
▶ bfcdff (4) No.15573985>>15577887
>>15573932
Yeah I should have mentioned that too, thank you.
▶ ca5ca3 (4) No.15577887
>>15573985
The big bad threat of the black widow is deeply ingrained in western culture, but it's pretty much 100% based on the itty bitty spider's threatening color scheme and the badass name that came from that.
The fact that a pillar of the MCU is a supposedly super strong woman that's basically some bitch with martial arts moves and weapons and yet is still a mainstay of the capeshit universe is rather fitting.
▶ edb9ef (1) No.15578100>>15578147 >>15578311 >>15584786
Spic here, witches are entirely different creatures in our local folklore, they're not old spellcasters with funny hats, they're more like skinwalkers or the korean kumiho than anything else.
>unmarried, beautiful women
>supposedly make for great wives, but they will insist you go sleep early or will even resort to drugging you so they can go outside to eat
>they don't wear special robes or anything, in fact they have to remove their skin before going out at night to hunt
>can turn into fireballs
>their prey are mostly small animals like dogs, cats, rabbits and birds
>but their favorite are unbaptized children of all ages, preferably newborn babies
>they go for unbaptized children because those are considered "fair game" in the eyes of god
>they make a small cut in their bellies to suck all the blood and then swallow them whole
>in some tales they cut or bite their throats first so the children are unable to scream and wake their parents
>sometimes they keep a little blood in a vial so they can cook delicious meals with it for their husband and kids, if they have any
>seeing one in fireball form in the mountains/hills brings terrible luck and/or death
>are impervous against most melee weapons and firearms, the only way to kill one is with a blessed silver weapon (be it a sword, spear or even bullets) or by finding their skin and pouring salt on it, that way they are unable to return to their human form at dawn and are burnt to a crisp by the sun
In the most traditional and ass backwards parts of the country there's even an stigma against light skinned and pale women with light brown/blonde hair and blue/green eyes, and it's really unfortunate because said places are the only parts of the country where you can find a "white" hispanic girl, it'd be nice to see one of those in a videogame, but they always portray the infinitely less cool european witch.
▶ ffd371 (3) No.15578147
>>15573932
It's still pretty relatively bad to other spiders
t.arachnophilliac
>>15578100
Fuck she's hot
▶ 1e2cdc (1) No.15578187>>15578202
>>15551822
Here, have some pictures
▶ ffd371 (3) No.15578202>>15578346
>>15578187
>that last one
absolutely beautiful, i would date her.
▶ 323f7d (5) No.15578311
>>15578100
>tfw no ghost GF with pale skin and long dark hair.
life ain't fair man.
▶ c45709 (1) No.15578346
>>15578202
>a swarm of 20 or 30 fuck you to death
Id do it
▶ e6f0e8 (2) No.15579787>>15579812
>>15551331 (OP)
Antero Vipunen was basically a giant who slept underground, maybe he could be turned into multiple enemies who could grab you after you
on top of climb hills that are actually their bellies
▶ e6f0e8 (2) No.15579812
>>15579787
climb on top of*
▶ b018e4 (1) No.15579816
Florida allegedly having the Fountain of Youth appears in Expeditions Conquistador (which fits with where that idea originated) and nowhere else.
▶ d6caed (1) No.15584463>>15586813
▶ 2e50f8 (1) No.15584549
the jersey devil the real horrifying thing about new jersey is our absolutely dreadful gun laws
▶ 74a017 (1) No.15584656>>15586782
Just an evil witch. It's sad that most adaptations go with the generic green-skinned witch on a broom rather than something like pic related
▶ f12f6e (2) No.15584693>>15584738
Oh shit, OP, we also had some tales of Gammelgäddan and its antics. I'm sure you're familiar, but let me add the Skvader in here. A Swedish meme-animal that a taxidermist just sewed together because he could.
▶ 546957 (1) No.15584721
There's an abandoned farm near my town where the owner apparently got possessed by a demon, the local priest tried exorcising it but instead of banishing it the guy just died and the demon started haunting the house, so the rest of the family just boarded up all windows and doors and GTFO.
Also a restaurant that's really a front for either a drug den or a loli brothel, depending on who you ask.
▶ dbacdb (1) No.15584738>>15584744 >>15584750
>>15584693
Looks like a Wolpertinger.
▶ f12f6e (2) No.15584744
>>15584738
Yeah, I've noticed the similarities. Though the Skvader doesn't have horns or sharp teeth
▶ 862170 (1) No.15584750>>15584796
>>15584738
There's plenty of joke animals like that. The (((Scots))) have the Haggis, in Oregon they have tree-dwelling octopi, and so on.
▶ 7d2951 (2) No.15584786
>>15578100
>they go for unbaptized children because those are considered "fair game" in the eyes of god
So Mexican witches are law aligned demons?
▶ 7ab2a7 (1) No.15584796>>15584861
>>15584750
>The (((Scots))) have the Haggis
Any relation to the """"dish""""?
>tree-dwelling octopi
Beyond Rad™
▶ 7d2951 (2) No.15584861>>15586806
>>15584796
Haggis the dish is made of haggis the animal. IIRC they are small 4 legged mountain creatures. They live at the tops of the mountains and have asemtirical body plans, one side of their legs is shorter then the other, and as a result they can only walk around in the mountain in one direction. There are actualy 2 kinds of them, one that can go clockwise and another they can go counter clockwise. They are capable of breeding with one another but cannot due to the fact that they cannot face the same direction to mate.
As for the Pacific Northwest tree octopus, its an endangered species but there are local conservationist efforts to keep it around. Part of what makes the conservation efforts so hard is that they make nests out of dollar bills.
▶ 3e2849 (1) No.15586763>>15586806
Not an enemy, but I would love to see a cuhrayzee game about Ural-Batyr.
>rides a lion instead of a horse
>seeks to find and destroy Death
>slaughters so many enemies their corpses pile up and become literal mountains
▶ ee7cff (5) No.15586782
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>>15584656
The best Baba Yaga.
▶ abd3bc (1) No.15586806>>15586948
>>15584861
That's literally the same thing as the Dahu mentioned here >>15551405
I know converging myths exist, especially since that creature isn't all that elaborate, but it's strange to me to see scotland have a myth similar to the goddamn Alps.
>>15586763
That sounded like an hindu myth with this scale of batshit destruction, but I was surprised to see it was from a completely different ethnic group.
▶ ee7cff (5) No.15586813
>>15584463
This is a dinosaur.
>>15553988
This on the other hand is a fucking Skeksis.
▶ 8e321f (1) No.15586948
>>15586806
Ural-Batyr is a bashkir myth, and there has been a lot of cross-cultural communication through Turkic tribes.