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Redditor Stories- Redditors describe the weirdest story/myth their country has.
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- Jul 5, 2022
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Updated: Aug 20, 2023
Redditor Stories- Redditors describe the weirdest story/myth their country has.
r/forponderings I grew up pretty close to this small town whose name means “fragrant water” in my local language. How did that come to be, you say? Well well well I’m glad you asked. Apparently long long ago there’s a king who’s suspicious of his wife. He’s all like gurl you’re cheating, you gotta be! And the queen was like nooooo I’m not! I swear! But the king was not convinced, and kept accusing her. Eventually he decided that the queen is to be sentenced to death. Exasperated, the queen said: “fine, kill me. But then throw my body into this water right here and if I’m innocent the water will become fragrant,”. The king was like LOL yea right, go die now. /stab Well, she died. But they humored her and threw her body into the, uh… river or lake or whatever. It’s a body of water. Anyway, lo and behold, a strong flower fragrant starts wafting in the air, just as the queen said it would if she was innocent. The king fell to his knees, probably waving his fists to the clouds yelling a dramatic No0o0oo0000!!! And then they named the town Fragrant Water. After this legend of a lady who died of shittyhusbanditis, an extremely common disease back in the day. I’ll let yall decide what message / lesson they’re trying to convey by naming their town after this legend. Think before you stab your wives, I guess?
r/LastBestIdea Ogopogo in the deep Okanagan Lake of BC. It’s basically Canada’s Loch Ness Monster
r/therearenogoodnames9
While growing up on the East Coast of the US I would say that the Jersey Devil was the strangest one that I heard, with Chessie the Chesapeake Bay monster being the most wholesome (mostly because of all the children’s books about Chessie).
r/ladyOrthetiger Some groundhog crawls out of a hole and predicts the seasons.
r/sour_honey_ In Monterrey México, there’s a creepy urban legend about a dog eating cereal with a spoon, and believe it or not, a lot of people are afraid of.
r/Astramancer Johnny Appleseed is a trip. He wandered around planting apple seeds and the story talks about how he fed westward expansion. Except… apples from seeds? You’re almost certainly not going to get an edible apple. You can make fermented hard apple cider from them, though… He didn’t feed expansion, he boozed it up. And this is a children’s story!
r/TheCunning Woman_ The little town I lived in has a child’s grave in the older part of the cemetery. It is the only grave in the entire town that has a spiked fence and stones on top of where the body would be. It sticks out when you walk through the cemetery. Further, there is about 6-10 feet where there are no other graves, not the parents, no other kids or relatives. Local teens started circulating a myth that the child was born to a witch who was subsequently murdered after birthing the child. The myth goes that when the child died, they put spikes and stones on the grave to stop the child from rising and killing the towns people as the child would have been a witch as well. This myth circulated so widely that the cemetery put up a little board on the grave saying that the extras on the grave were to prevent animals from digging up the body. It didn’t make as much sense to the town teens as it’s was the only grave in town with those safety measures. People, mostly teens, still to this day go give gifts to the lonely child, lovingly refered to as the Witch Baby, from coins to stuffed animals and flowers.
r/FineBahnMi In 1967, the then Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, swam out to sea and was swept away. It was said that he was caught in a ‘rip’, and dragged out by the current. One of the biggest search operations took place in order to locate him, but was unsuccessful. His body has never been found, and this has generated a whole bunch of theories. But yeah, pretty weird.
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