They use their shapeshifting spiritual powers for evil and embody the complete opposite of Navajo cultural values. Skinwalkers are medicine men who have been lured to the dark side. The roots of the skinwalker legend can be traced back to Navajo folklore. It’s said speaking about skinwalkers will draw attention to you and make you a target of their vicious attacks. This legend is so deeply embedded in the Navajo culture that even talking about these sinister entities is taboo. Could it be the Monster of Elizabeth Lake? 6. The credibility of the picture has long been disputed, but it sounds familiar. The beast has also been linked to the Thunderbird photograph, an 1890s-era photo that shows several cowboys posing with what appears to be a pterodactyl-like creature.
The Monster of Elizabeth Lake is described as over 50 feet long with bat wings, the head of a bulldog, the neck of a giraffe, six legs, and a nauseating stench. The beast is even said to have appeared to later settlers, who said bullets bounced off its back. Other settlers arrived in the 1850s, but strange screams at night, unnatural noises, and apparitions spooked them out. He built a ranch by the lake in the 1830s, and a fire (the origin of which was never determined) burnt every single structure to the ground in a single night. Spanish settler Don Pedro Carillo was the first to spot the monster. As if that isn’t spooky enough, the lake lies directly on the San Andreas fault line.
Spanish missionaries named the lake Laguna del Diablo, or Devil’s Lagoon, and indigenous lore also supports claims that the Devil created the lake. If you swim deep enough, you’ll find a secret passageway to the underworld. The Monster of Elizabeth LakeĪccording to this urban legend, the Devil himself created Elizabeth Lake near Palmdale in Los Angeles County and put one of his pets inside it. “The Lady in White” is a perennial ghost story, but visit the park at dawn, and you just might see for yourself. She has also been spotted floating over the Kern Island Canal. Eyewitnesses have reported a ghostly figure of a woman in a white dress walking through the park, weeping softly before disappearing. The Lady in Whiteīakersfield Central Park in Bakersfield, CA, has been the site of many paranormal sightings since it was established in 1921. You can allegedly hear the mother’s screams at night in the haunted canyon. Instead of watching them die, she killed them before taking her own life. As the story goes, the mother couldn’t bear to hear her children’s cries. His wife, Luana, and children were left to starve. Times were tough, and the father would leave for weeks at a time to search for food and gold, until one time he didn’t come back. One family who headed west built a cabin at the base of Luana’s Canyon outside of Kingman, AZ. Slaughterhouse CanyonĮveryone wanted a piece of the Gold Rush. The Syfy network show “ Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files” even included the Fresno Nightcrawler in one of their episodes, and the footage was deemed “unexplainable.” 3. However, in 2007, surveillance footage revealed a biped with two long legs and a small head walking through a Fresno resident’s front yard. In the late ‘90s and early 2000s, reports of a strange cryptid walking around Fresno, CA, at night began popping up. No one has ever seen a Dark Watcher up close, and legend has it if you try to approach them, they disappear. They’re described as wearing wide-brimmed hats, capes, and walking sticks, and are only visible at twilight or dawn. The Dark Watchers, or Los Vigilantes Oscuros, are large, seven-foot-tall, phantom-like human figures that stand motionless atop the mountains, watching travelers below pass by.
The shadowy figures have even been referenced in writer John Steinbeck’s short story “Flight,” and in the titular poem of Robinson Jeffers’ collection “Such Counsels You Gave to Me & Other Poems.” These mountains were once home to the Chumash indigenous tribe, whose cave paintings depict dark figures looking down from the mountains. This spooky urban legend takes us to the Santa Lucia Mountains of California’s rugged Central Coast. You’ll want to read these with the lights on. Curious about the folklore, spooky stories, and urban legends that have come out of your home state? Keep scrolling for eerie, unexplainable, hair-raising urban legends. There’s nothing like a scary story that sends shivers down your spine, and California and Arizona are brimming with them.
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