Greatest urban legend in Oklahoma, that someday the roads will be safe to drive a motor vehicle on. Us and West Virginia have some competition for worst roads in the nation.
@@nannynan5893 That's a funnier thing I noticed. There are actually decent drivers here, but I can't tell if it's because of the terrible road conditions or because there is a huge rural population that had to learn to drive truck and trailer.
Yep! I probably should have been more clear on there is an underground, but its distinct from the underground rooms built by chinese immigrants and the associated rumors.
No it goes deeper the levels are deeper and the oil moguls and even hobby lobby family all allegedly holds priceless valuable items down there. At least that’s what I heard.lol
@@MrChefT must be behind some "off limits" areas bc I've been down there plenty of times & saw anything like that. But if one could somehow slip through to wherever you're not supposed to go, then bingo
@@Catfish.KnudsenThere are several different entrances and not all of them connect to all parts. I've only been down there a few times but what I've seen is extensive. The tunnels run for miles and miles; filled with shops, restaraunts, vaults, and hidden areas that are privately owned. I almost feel bad for any invading force tasked with taking OKC. It will be damn near impossible to force the defenders out!
I’m a born Okie living in Osage County, OK. Well on my way to 70, I was today years old when I learned that the Karen Silkwood story took place in Oklahoma. 🤦♀️ As for folklore, we used to go to a bridge way out in the country to tempt the Catman to come scare us. Catman was said to have glowing red eyes. Never personally had any contact, thankfully. We also have a gravity hill out toward Matoaka. Interesting video, thanks for covering Oklahoma without portraying us Okies as unkempt and unintelligent.
@@kassandralevingston9874 why would anyone portray Oklahoma natives as dumb?? You’ve got so much to be proud of. Beautiful wilderness. Great universities. Rich history. I’d be happy to tell anyone who says otherwise to shove it 😂
@@foreverstorytime2566 People often only see us on the news when a tornado has struck. They see us at our worst. Maybe I’m just a little too sensitive. Thank you for your kind words about the people of Oklahoma.
@@kassandralevingston9874 Went to high school in Shidler America. I have a fondness for the Osage and always have. Especially in a wet spring and early summer when the green grass gets so tall it sways and dances back and forth in the wind. Moving with fluidity side to side as far as you can see. It's a beauty all it's own
I was born in Tulsa, and my (now husband) proposed to me at the Center of the Universe. Even typing this, I can't help but smile fondly at the memory. 💜
Lived in Tulsa all my life. I've been to Center of the Universe, but never heard of any of the rest of these stories. As far as cryptids go, I'm told our most famous is the Oklahoma Octopus. We also have a few bigfoot sightings, and we're pretty obsessed with throwing bigfoot decor around. My favorite, however, is the obscure Wolf Deer. I love living here, but our stories are kinda on the dull side. 😆 Thanks for not overlooking us!
The oklahoma lake octopus is a fake store invented for a hoax TV show called "lost tapes". Having grown up in Oklahoma fishing since the 1980's, I've heard all manor of tall tales about our lakes, from Catfish big enough to swallow a man whole to a banker being found tied to a chair in Grand Lake, I've never heard of this octopus crap until after that episode aired. I even got into it with the criptologist from the show who had no idea that lakes Thunderbird, Oologa and Ten-Killer where all man-made built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers starting back in World War 1. He literally believed these lakes where all naturally formed when the seas receded....
Right? I travel a lot, and one of my favorite touristy things to do is take walking ghost tours of cities. It's a really great way to learn about the history of the area. A Tulsa version of this would have to be for the physically fit or on a bus, because to have enough to make a tour, that's a lot of walking around downtown and a little into midtown.
Yooo. I stumbled across this video, and saved it to watch with my Oklahoma born and raised boyfriend. He was just like ":| I have never heard of any of this".
My grandfather owned a ranch in SE Oklahoma that was once a dude ranch and before that, it was a school. It was an old, huge log cabin that had been bricked on the outside. There was a place on his land that was documented as Belle Starr's hideout. Sadly, the hillbillies around there didn't like outsiders, and they burned down the main building that still had all of the guest log books from the dude ranch that had Gene Autry's signature in it. The old horse head shaped pool is still there to this day, but it is half filled in with dirt, so it isn't recognizable from Google earth. I am surprised you didn't mention the tunnels that still exist under downtown OKC today. I use to walk underground from the parking garage bu the Murrah Building to Leadership Square, completely underground. There are still shops there and restaurants where workers could eat lunch without having to drive anywhere.
I remember when the Chinese city was found under Oklahoma city. I was living there at the time. There were pictures in the news papers. It was during renovation of down town. I was in high school at the time.
I can't imagine how the Chinese immigrants managed to create this city without anyone noticing. I can understand their fear of persecution, The double standards biased against them and any 'other than white' people were very well established, however. Thanks for sharing.
It is a shame that Oklahoma’s folk lore and stories aren’t really widely known. A mixture of southern, mid western, and Native American stories make for some things.
as a born and raised okie, it makes me so happy to see this video. many people i know say how they’d rather live anywhere else, but every place has epic history. so cool to see fun facts compiled like this!
An Oklahoma legend that used to be quite popular in the old days was Flower Mound Hill or some say Flowering Mound, a legendary hill said to be located around McAlester. I learned about it as a teenager from a local newspaper covering the legend. The hill allegedly contains a cave that leads to bizarre underground chambers and enormous staircases. The legend told that monsters or demonic creatures came out of the cave to hurt livestock and three young men encountered the monsters in person when they explored the cave in the early 1900s. The young men were (according to the story) chased out of the underground chambers and up to the surface by bipedal monsters covered in hair and with clawed hands. One of the men was wounded by one of these monsters clawing him and they shot that particular creature with a pistol before escaping. The legend was popular enough when the local newspaper covered that story back around 2009, my grandmother said she remembered the legend from her time growing up in the area as a girl.
@@injohneer I'm searching with key words in a search engine but nothing about the story is coming up. If I find an article or link, I'll post it here. The additional details I remember are the hill and its cave were infamous before the three men explored it because creatures/monsters had been sighted coming in and out of the cave at night. People living in the area claimed to have seen these creatures numerous times. Livestock had been killed, mutilated, pets disappearing, and the locals thought it was demons/monsters from the cave. This was in the mid 1800s. One of the efforts made by the locals to stop the creatures from coming out of the hill was to build three large wooden crosses and erect them in front of the cave. Then, following the start of World War One, three local yong men decided to join up to fight in the Army and as a going away celebration, they wanted to explore the cave inside Flowering Mound. They had grown up hearing the legend and basically everyone in the area in those days knew about it. No one had actually gone into the cave, though, until them. They brought lanterns, torches, rope and other equipment that included pistols. They found that the cave led to a tunnel and the deeper they went inside the hill, the more tunnels and passageways they found. They allegedly saw enormous staircases carved into the walls of underground chambers that led down into the Earth. It was a huge complex of tunnels, chambers, and stairs that they followed further and further down until they smelled a terrible smell they compared to death or rotting flesh. They felt that they weren't alone as they got further down, lost their nerve, and decided to go back to the surface. On their return trip up the huge staircases through the chambers, the terrible smell followed them and they realized they could hear someone or something stalking them. Then they were attacked by a group of the "monsters/demons" and the creatures chased them up to the surface. The men said they were the size of men but covered in filthy hair and had claws. The three men scrambled out of there in a panic and were able to escape to the cave at the top but one of the men was hurt by a creature grabbing him and trying to drag him back down into the tunnels. The other two saved him by shooting that thing with a pistol multiple times. It let go of their friend while reacting to being shot and they were able to escape the cave. I wish I had more information on it because it's so interesting but that's the legend. My grandmother said everyone in the area had heard about Flowering Mound and its mysterious cave and monsters when she was growing up. It is obviously not as well known now.
When I was a kid in Tulsa, we called the brother's "Mattress Brothers". Today, from a very reliable source, one brother has been known to visit swinger's clubs.
Tulsa Hex House employee here (the haunted attraction, not Carolann Smith's housekeeper), - it's not "pretty much nothing now," it's alive and well with updates and renovations every year! Swing by sometime!
Haha, sorry to describe it as such. I think by pretty much nothing now I meant the original home, but regarding the haunted attraction when I’m in the area I’ll swing by!
Hello life long Oklahoman here. I've lived along the Arkansas River between Ponce City and Muskogee for most of my life.. Some friends of mine in grade school who are Ponca and Otoe Tribal members told me about an area cryptid or entity called Deer Woman. There are many stories about this thing and it is a well known legend among the locals in Kay County. I don't remember any in particular at the moment but it was terrifying to hear about as a kid. Always stuck with me. Could be a cool edition to the Oklahoma cryptids video
My neighbor who is native was telling me about the deer woman. Im not sure which town he said his family is from but there was apparently police dash cam footage of her floating around the community.
I grew up in Ponca City and my dad side of the family still live there. When I between 7 and 10 years late one night my cousins, best friend and I saw something go from running on 4 legs to 2 legs mid stride out in the neighbors cow pasture. The 5 of us could barely see it but we reacted to it at the same time. It was the late 80's and we lived out passed where the old river ended.
I worked for the Tulsa Hex House Haunt in 2019! My uncle worked there as an actor for years, really cool to see this covered! Honestly, the haunt has really gone downhill since the pandemic, I hope to see it back to its former glory one day!
As a 7th generation Okie, this is the coolest! I've always been interested in strange oral history, and to watch a video about my home state, even my home town- I just, I cant even explain how much I love this. Amazing work, amazing video!
I've lived in Oklahoma my whole life, and I am aware of most of these legends. I've never heard of Gandini's Circus though. I just googled the location and realized I've been living less than a mile from it for over 30 years. In my defense, it's a very overgrown area, but I don't recall any locals talking about. I guess I should get out more?
@@Bespelled22 Yes, you can see some of the old circus wagons at the entrance of the Endangered Ark Foundation. If you haven't been there you should. It is a habitat for ex-circus elephants.
Lifetime Okie here. That was a cool list. The Winganon cspdule is still there. I think most of Belle Stars activity with JJ was in the San Bois and Ouchita pronouncef Wash-e-tau mountians. Some of the coolest things I like to chrck out are ghosttowns. Several of the lakes have perserved towns with cars and everything from bsck in the 40's and 50's. Pitcher was abandoned because of an ecological disater in the early 80's and is a pretty creepy place with everything just left as it was because it was all contaminated. Good viddy.
I went to college at Tahlequah which is the town nearby the grave of Mr Ed. For awhile there was a yearly concert event in that pasture called "Ed Fest" which was a play on the nearby Edge Fest concert series in Tulsa. It was pretty great.
My boyfriend in the 1970’s had an uncle up in Tennessee whose home was on a mountain up just off of I-40. We went camping up on the site atop that mountain. Frank James is was supposed to have been buried right there atop that mountain. Interesting history.
Been to gandinis circus as recent as 2024. Stuffs still there. Definitely one of the cooler easy to get to abandoned places in Oklahoma. Probably the most well known and accessible one in the state. Its essentially a small forest where homeless sleep. During storms. Ran into a cool dude chillin like a cliche railroad hobo. Shared a few beers and talked about life choices. Definitely a nice place
As a Texan who is staying in Tulsa, Oklahoma for school, this is pretty interesting to hear my adopted homes weird folklore! Though, I do remember driving by the Space Capsule with my family! We were driving one night from a relative's house (about half of my family is from Oklahoma so I spent a lot of my childhood taking roadtrips up there) we passed by this strange shiny thing, thinking "What in the world was that?!" We turned around and sure enough, it was a space capsule! We decided to come back the next morning (after googling what it was) and got a few pictures with it.
I'm sure someone in the comments already mentioned it but with all the lakes that you mentioned I was surprised you didn't mention Optima the lake that never filled. it's near Guymon, where that long boring road is between Kansas & Texas.
having grown up in Stillwater OK, when we were in school (Ages 8 or so), on recess breaks we would often all collectively try to dig a hole to China because we were told this tall tale that if you could dig deep enough, you would link up with the underground Chinese tunnels (the ones in OKC discussed above) and that these would lead us eventually to China........ The teachers never stopped us and eventually, we had a hole dug so deep that the school got in trouble from the city and had to get a dump truck brought in to fill it lol... no shit....we had it soo deep we were crafting terrace steps to safely descend to the bottom lol. I think the teachers never stopped us because well it was the 80's and no one was watching us, either that or they were just happy we students were cooperating with each other as opposed to say the usual favorite recess activity; beating the shit out of each other lol
This is amazing to read 😂. Back in the 90's at recess we'd used to dig our fair share of holes, but we also played "Dragon Ball Z"... which was just a giant game of beat the crud out of each other. Good times. My kids had better not beat anyone up at recess, though.
@@foreverstorytime2566 🤣your reply got me thinking about the time this one classmate of mine, at recess, sprained his ankle trying to prove that jumping on a turtle is one easy way to attain extra lives......Super Mario had just come out and Oila!!! Epilogue: The turtle was fine..... my classmate however was in tears and had to go home lol....1980's, what a decade🤘
I really enjoyed this video. I hope you have Robber's Cave in one of these videos about Oklahoma. It's a state park now days near Wilburton. When we were kids we were told by our sadistic parents to go into the caverns and look for the robber's gold that they buried there. We were told about all the famous outlaws who hid there from the law. Also there was supposed to be an ancient Indian burial ground. If you accidentally walked over it, then the Indian ghosts would haunt you. So we spent hours with other kids looking for gold and hoping that we didn't accidentally walk over an ancient Indian's burial site. It certainly made it the best place to swim and climb rocks when we were kids in the 70s. I believe the parents had a little extra fun scaring us and getting us excited to find that gold so we could get a new bike or whatever was on the top of your Christmas list. On another note we were told emphatically that the gerbil story came from Hollywood from Richard himself. Of course we also believed you heard satanic messages if you played certain records backwards.
I grew up near the Wichitas. I read the iron door story in the book Coranado’s Children. As a teenager in the 1970’s I looked for the iron door. I am very very familiar with the elk mountain area having explored it extensively. But of course I never found the door.
I went to the parallel forest many times over the years. I never really thought of the forest as being scary, until I went there after dark. It is disorienting and very very dark. What was scary was when I went back to my car and before we left we were just talking in my car. When suddenly, and without warning, we all heard this loud(like right outside the car) gutteral scream then heavy breathing. Since there are wild bison roaming around i assumed that's what it was. Started my car and drove off as quickly as i could (meaning i had to do a complete circle to exit.) But never saw a bison or any other animal. Haven't been back since.
Both sides of the family were originally from Oklahoma. One side the Lees had a 1500 acres farm close to where OKC is now. The area was called long river, or long creek? 1900 to 1930s. Trying to track down more information abou this area.
I've been on the "magnetic hill" and, illusion or not, it's crazy! I highly suggest anyone try itif they haven't been before. 😮🤯😂 I grew up in Edmond and we used to hangout in the woods where that Grandini's Circus is. I was the one who stumbled upon it. Just walking through the woods and BAM!!! A huge metal clown face!! 😱💩🤣 This was before the internet and trying to get people to believe there's a dilapidated circus practically in your backyard was pretty difficult. 😂😂😂
My Dad was a sheriffs deputy for quite a few years. He's a smart downright honest and a nice guy to everyone he meets. He used to always tell me about how he was inside of an abandoned classic theatre and him and his partner found a latch on the ground so they opened it up, looked inside for a bit with their flashlights and saw it was VERY DEEP and VERY spacious down there and he actually saw buildings.. As well as seeing a lot of military equipment like tank, helicopters and wepons. He eventually talked to a lot of the elder locals around our area and dug up some really old newpapers and found that our city was actually built on top of a really old town or city. Apparently it was a very huge town or multiple towns under our city. I used to think he was telling me tall tales because I was a kid, but even years later as an adult his story is the same and insists it's true. Apparently there's these trapdoors in some wildly old buildings in our city that leads to different parts of this underground town. Does anybody else from Oklahoma know what I'm talking about? If you live in the southeast area of OK ask some of your grandparents about this. EDIT: Literally as I clicked play the chapter about an underground city in OKC starts playing. I'd like to say we live 4 hours from OKC so this must be something that happened quite a bit.
@@Amanda-x2s Im from McAlester. You can probably find the old theatre on google maps in the downtown area. Also, I learned that the bottom/Under the Eufala lake might have some similar things going on.
@@aggressiveprefector1 nice! I'm in The Fort now but I make trips back to get tacos from the place that's in the old general store lol how's things back home?
I literally live 499 feet from where the Hex House was (I googled the location after this video) and I had never heard the story until this video. I literally can see the location from my front porch. Always wondered about those stairs.. very cool video.
Omg, I grew up in Paul’s valley. Lived there for 20 years. I remember when they left the gate open to the state school and my parents took us to drive around it. There is a creepy playground in the back!
I live near Oologah Lake and the space capsule is still there even amid construction! Hopefully it will stay that way because the locals would not be happy if it went away haha
Love this video first time to your channel. New sub now. I've shopped in the underground mall OKC. I am from SE corner of Oklahoma. We in the hills are separated from the rest of the state especially topically Old worn mountains and the part of OK with out oil. Lots of old mysterious places. Thank you for this video.
It's a super popular spot for all the teenagers an young adults to go back reading around an hanging out on but some people are ignorant and they park on the bridge and roll the windows down a try to taunt spirits and the speed off but it's as expected I guess. It is a ready eerie but cool spot to hangout considering there's really not much to do in Weatherford lol
Recently found your channel, and its funny because the other day I was thinking its sad a lot of Americana, folklore and history are being quickly lost to time. Because I'm old and think about that stuff apparently. Everyone tuned into their phones, instead of what came before or what's around them. There's some dark spots in the American timeline, but the rest is pretty amazing and interesting. So was really happy to see what you do here and hope you grow fast.
@@Kendro311 thank you so much! I completely agree that folklore should be better preserved. I’ve been considering a call-in format live stream where folks could share their local folklore, or their regional variation of a well-known tale, or maybe just doing episodes sharing stories by state natives.
@@foreverstorytime2566 Absolutely! And personally I think that's a fantastic idea. We've grown to think all knowledge and wisdom is available in a Google search, but some of the best stuff is carried on through people and the stories passed down to them. And plenty of that can only be found through those that carry that knowledge. That's an exciting prospect, if I can come up with any ideas that might be useful to that end, I'll throw it at ya. I'd definitely love to watch those videos if it happens 👍🏼.
Oklahoma is a very strange place. especially with some of the naming conventions in the state. thanks for the video, learned lots of new things. had heard the one about the shore lines before, But it was a lot more specific. saying not that Oklahoma had the most coastline, just that the combined coastline was longer than that of the east coast.
Huh, never heard of him! I think he’s a bit better at actually stringing sentences together than me, but thanks for the comparison! Appreciate the support and thanks for stopping by my channel!
In Weatherford oklahoma theres also a house right down the streat from braums just like 2 blocks and a woman and her husband were nurdered in the living room and if you google maps the address you can still see her standing onnthe front porch. My friend lived in that house it had cold and sad energy it was depressing
407 East Franklin avenue is the address but I just looked and ig the pictures are updated but when my friends told me about it I looked it up and seen her
That's funny, I grew up a few blocks away from the hex house and never heard of it until now. Great stories! The one I remember from back then was the screaming bridge out in Broken Arrow, OK.
Worked as a haunter at hex house for a couple years. Its a cool little story that the haunt still encourages actors to look into to prep for haunt season. Pretty decent haunt for a bit, but i quit this past year so i have no clue how its doing now. I suggest checking out Asylum in Nowata or the scarefarm (not sure of the name rn) in tulsa
@@foreverstorytime2566 horrible company. They polluted an entire neighborhood in Columbus, Mississippi with their creosote railroad tie treatment plant. Poisoned thousands, causing heath issues and many deaths in addition to wrecking the ground water. The lawsuit has been dragging out for years with none of the families ever receiving any compensation.
Is the dude that made the video from Oklahoma? I'm only asking cuz that gerbil remark lol that is some goofy shit from back in the day that I don't know many younger kids that are from here even still heard of it, so I kinda find it hard to believe someone that ain't from here would have heard it lol it's funny he brought it up either way
Nope, I’m Ohio born and a TN native but I read a lot of old forums digging for urban legends/ghost stories/cryptids and the friggin’ gerbil story showed up too many times
Speaking of Oklahoma's shorelines. We may be landlocked but we can travel by boat to both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Take the Arkansas river to the Mississippi River down to the Gulf of Mexico. Then either head to the Panama Canal or hit the Atlantic. True story
In Hugo, Ok, where multiple circuses used to spend their Winters, there is a site called Mount Olivet Cemetery that contains the final resting places for many circus and rodeo performers, owners, and performing animals. Clowns! 😢 That is enough for me to call it creepy. Also, a real real re-entry vehicle is in Norman, Ok. Finally, the Masonic childern's home an orphanage in Guthrie.
@@muddy1052 thanks for the tips! Yep, covering a lot of these in my ghosts of Oklahoma video! Hadn’t heard of the real re-entry vehicle! I’ll look that up.
TH-cam knows all. The moment I started researching for this video (not on TH-cam) I started getting OK TH-camrs recommended to me (which is pretty awesome to be honest).
You are wrong that no proof was found about the Chinese tunnels. Downtown OKC has has a tunnel system with businesses to this day. When building the modern tunnel system, the Chinese tunnels where found. I used to work in the OKC underground. It's history is quite interesting.
@@MikeMookie From what I read the OKC underground construction only found isolated rooms dug underground, not series of tunnels connecting place to place.
My grandmother lives in sasakwa, Oklahoma and there was a lot of nights at 3am me and my bf at the time would go out for a really late cigarette, we would be talking and just trying to be quiet as to not wake my grandmother but we would always hear what would start as a rhythmic screeching that kinda sounded like an old metal door but then- it would turn into what sounded like two creatures talking to each other in this weird screeching language it was obviously two because they would almost be talking over on another the only thing that makes me truly believe it wasn’t doors of a building is because sasakwa had a population of like 100 people and I would time out the screeching noises and they definitely didn’t have any rythem to them at all anymore and I even heard leaves crunching like something was fast walking over where we were standing outside we would always get to scared to stay out there to long and ran back inside I used to have a recording of them talking but I since lost that phone
"...Edmond's mild climate..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tell me you've never been to Oklahoma without telling me you've never been to Oklahoma. We have some of the wildest weather in the country, with temperatures varying from over 100° F to less than 10° F in the same year, with many tornadoes and wildfires every year as well. Such a mild climate!
I've been living in Moore, Ok. full time since about 86 (from Yukon, Ok.) but is spite of a Tornado once in a while I still tell friends that I'd rather live here than in the panhandle! MY GOD I think that has to be the hottest AND the coldest place you could live?
The movie The Sons of Katie Elder was based off the story of the Marlow brothers, the town of Marlow was named after their father Dr. Williamson Marlow. It is an interesting story about them.
The Oklahoman was part of the conspiracy. Of course they didn't report it honestly. Kerr Mcgee was a very rich and powerful company. There is still a lot we will never hear about that story.
My brother and I spent quite a bit of time around Elk Mountain looking for the door. I believe the story does have some truth to it owing to the presence of Spanish helmets found in the Wichitas. The only thing we really discovered was Biff the Buffalo; a lone buffalo living on top of Elk Mountain (This was 40 years ago, so he's likely long since dead). On the Jesse James legend, Frank James retired to Elgin, OK and would ride his horse out into the Wichitas, staring at the land to try and find the spot where they'd buried the treasure. The problem, as Frank told it, was they had buried the treasure ($1M+ in Spanish gold) during a snow storm and he couldn't align the snow-covered topography he remembered with the land. I noticed you didn't list the Hater house in Lawton.
There’s a legend near Guthrie called wild cat curves. Story goes a circus wagon wrecked and the lions got loose and roamed. We still call it wild cat curves lol. Rt 77 in Logan county
I worked in the red brick condos that are behind the hex house property and they are in my opinion haunted. I heard noises as if someone was playing up stairs and it was loud. It happened several times with several different contractors and workers hearing the noises as well.
I do doordash and one order last year randomly took me out near Weatherford, right near Dead women crossing. The actual delivery address was in El Reno, which was maybe about a 20 or so minute drive from here. No reason to be there, yet the GPS decided to take me there. My name is also Katie 😰 This story in particular gave me chills 💀
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Greatest urban legend in Oklahoma, that someday the roads will be safe to drive a motor vehicle on. Us and West Virginia have some competition for worst roads in the nation.
😂 I’m sorry to hear that. I wonder if there are any stats on the worst roads in the country
@foreverstorytime2566 that'd be a video I'd watch.
Amen to that! Everywhere in Oklahoma feels like I either need an alignment or have square tires!
My state was voted 2nd worst drivers, Oregon only worse in Hawaii. If you've ever been to LA, you know we have to be really bad
@@nannynan5893 That's a funnier thing I noticed. There are actually decent drivers here, but I can't tell if it's because of the terrible road conditions or because there is a huge rural population that had to learn to drive truck and trailer.
I'm from OKC. There really is a underground city.
There are shops.places to eat... anyone can go down there.
Yep! I probably should have been more clear on there is an underground, but its distinct from the underground rooms built by chinese immigrants and the associated rumors.
City Is an exaggeration lol. That's all it is. Is a tunnel with some restaurants & pictures on walls & lights
No it goes deeper the levels are deeper and the oil moguls and even hobby lobby family all allegedly holds priceless valuable items down there. At least that’s what I heard.lol
@@MrChefT must be behind some "off limits" areas bc I've been down there plenty of times & saw anything like that. But if one could somehow slip through to wherever you're not supposed to go, then bingo
@@Catfish.KnudsenThere are several different entrances and not all of them connect to all parts. I've only been down there a few times but what I've seen is extensive. The tunnels run for miles and miles; filled with shops, restaraunts, vaults, and hidden areas that are privately owned. I almost feel bad for any invading force tasked with taking OKC. It will be damn near impossible to force the defenders out!
I love about 15 miles from Mr. Ed's grave. I see it everytime i go to Tahlequah Oklahoma ❤ Great video❤
Thank you so much! So cool you’ve seen it!
I’m a born Okie living in Osage County, OK. Well on my way to 70, I was today years old when I learned that the Karen Silkwood story took place in Oklahoma. 🤦♀️ As for folklore, we used to go to a bridge way out in the country to tempt the Catman to come scare us. Catman was said to have glowing red eyes. Never personally had any contact, thankfully. We also have a gravity hill out toward Matoaka. Interesting video, thanks for covering Oklahoma without portraying us Okies as unkempt and unintelligent.
@@kassandralevingston9874 why would anyone portray Oklahoma natives as dumb?? You’ve got so much to be proud of. Beautiful wilderness. Great universities. Rich history. I’d be happy to tell anyone who says otherwise to shove it 😂
@@foreverstorytime2566 People often only see us on the news when a tornado has struck. They see us at our worst. Maybe I’m just a little too sensitive. Thank you for your kind words about the people of Oklahoma.
@@kassandralevingston9874 Went to high school in Shidler America. I have a fondness for the Osage and always have. Especially in a wet spring and early summer when the green grass gets so tall it sways and dances back and forth in the wind. Moving with fluidity side to side as far as you can see. It's a beauty all it's own
I was born in Tulsa, and my (now husband) proposed to me at the Center of the Universe. Even typing this, I can't help but smile fondly at the memory. 💜
@@ilikekoalaandalpacas what a beautiful place to propose! Congratulations!
Congratulations🎉
Lived in Tulsa all my life. I've been to Center of the Universe, but never heard of any of the rest of these stories. As far as cryptids go, I'm told our most famous is the Oklahoma Octopus. We also have a few bigfoot sightings, and we're pretty obsessed with throwing bigfoot decor around. My favorite, however, is the obscure Wolf Deer. I love living here, but our stories are kinda on the dull side. 😆 Thanks for not overlooking us!
@@leoncaw326 thanks for the comment! Lots of cryptids (including the beloved octopus!) on my cryptids of Oklahoma video!
If you haven’t yet, you should watch BIGFOOTVILLE OKLAHOMA EDITION W CINDY BEAR.
The oklahoma lake octopus is a fake store invented for a hoax TV show called "lost tapes". Having grown up in Oklahoma fishing since the 1980's, I've heard all manor of tall tales about our lakes, from Catfish big enough to swallow a man whole to a banker being found tied to a chair in Grand Lake, I've never heard of this octopus crap until after that episode aired. I even got into it with the criptologist from the show who had no idea that lakes Thunderbird, Oologa and Ten-Killer where all man-made built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers starting back in World War 1. He literally believed these lakes where all naturally formed when the seas receded....
Right? I travel a lot, and one of my favorite touristy things to do is take walking ghost tours of cities. It's a really great way to learn about the history of the area. A Tulsa version of this would have to be for the physically fit or on a bus, because to have enough to make a tour, that's a lot of walking around downtown and a little into midtown.
Yooo. I stumbled across this video, and saved it to watch with my Oklahoma born and raised boyfriend. He was just like ":| I have never heard of any of this".
Great video I live in Bixby Oklahoma. I’m glad I’m seeing more videos of Oklahoma.
Thank you! Glad I could provide another video of your great state!
My grandfather owned a ranch in SE Oklahoma that was once a dude ranch and before that, it was a school. It was an old, huge log cabin that had been bricked on the outside. There was a place on his land that was documented as Belle Starr's hideout. Sadly, the hillbillies around there didn't like outsiders, and they burned down the main building that still had all of the guest log books from the dude ranch that had Gene Autry's signature in it. The old horse head shaped pool is still there to this day, but it is half filled in with dirt, so it isn't recognizable from Google earth.
I am surprised you didn't mention the tunnels that still exist under downtown OKC today. I use to walk underground from the parking garage bu the Murrah Building to Leadership Square, completely underground. There are still shops there and restaurants where workers could eat lunch without having to drive anywhere.
@@themrsedmonson thank you for the comment! I should have mentioned the modern tunnels and their distinction, yes
@@foreverstorytime2566 Lots of burnt down houses in leach Oklahoma. Someo f them are filled with children's toys, its very strange...
Haha, the Mathis Brothers story lives on. I'm 41 and heard about that when I was a teen. So funny! Great video!
I remember when the Chinese city was found under Oklahoma city. I was living there at the time. There were pictures in the news papers. It was during renovation of down town. I was in high school at the time.
Thanks for the comment! It’s a heck of a story. Honestly I really feel for the folks that used to live in those conditions.
I've been in Oklahoma my whole life, and OKC for a bit, yet haven't heard of this. Can you link me?
@@BarelyCounts www.kgou.org/oklahoma-news/2018-03-20/how-curious-a-chinatown-underneath-oklahoma-city
@@foreverstorytime2566Thank you!! ❤
I can't imagine how the Chinese immigrants managed to create this city without anyone noticing. I can understand their fear of persecution, The double standards biased against them and any 'other than white' people were very well established, however. Thanks for sharing.
It is a shame that Oklahoma’s folk lore and stories aren’t really widely known. A mixture of southern, mid western, and Native American stories make for some things.
@@shiny1556 Agreed, some of the coolest lore I’ve seen so far.
I love how your Oklahoma video is catching up to your Ohio video, just shows the weirdness of Oklahoma.
I hope that OK beats it, “Flyover state” my a**!
@@foreverstorytime2566 Oklahoma has gotta become the new Ohio XD
Well this was a great introduction to your channel! Can't wait to see the rest of it.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy!
as a born and raised okie, it makes me so happy to see this video. many people i know say how they’d rather live anywhere else, but every place has epic history. so cool to see fun facts compiled like this!
The response to this video warms my heart! Thank you so much!
In L.A. too from port's to downtown.
Born and raised moore Oklahoma, I'm so fucking proud of being an Oklahoman. Weird folklore for the win!
@@Courage_girl13 you should be proud! Thanks for the comment!
like all the tornados that keep hitting your town?
@@jch77 in our defense, we haven't had an F-5 in over a decade. Although at the same time, no one has.
@@Courage_girl13 You trying to jinx us? If we have one this fall or next spring, it's all your fault. 🤣🤣🤣
@Irisarc1 hehe, not saying I'd be happy for the destruction, but sometimes, we need our name in lights to place us on the map
From the sound to the visuals, everything is perfect, creating an absolutely terrifying experience! I couldn't take my eyes off the screen!
@@EchoesEerie so glad you enjoyed! Really trying to “up my game”!
An Oklahoma legend that used to be quite popular in the old days was Flower Mound Hill or some say Flowering Mound, a legendary hill said to be located around McAlester. I learned about it as a teenager from a local newspaper covering the legend. The hill allegedly contains a cave that leads to bizarre underground chambers and enormous staircases. The legend told that monsters or demonic creatures came out of the cave to hurt livestock and three young men encountered the monsters in person when they explored the cave in the early 1900s.
The young men were (according to the story) chased out of the underground chambers and up to the surface by bipedal monsters covered in hair and with clawed hands. One of the men was wounded by one of these monsters clawing him and they shot that particular creature with a pistol before escaping. The legend was popular enough when the local newspaper covered that story back around 2009, my grandmother said she remembered the legend from her time growing up in the area as a girl.
Got any more details / links to info on that story?
@@injohneer I'm searching with key words in a search engine but nothing about the story is coming up. If I find an article or link, I'll post it here.
The additional details I remember are the hill and its cave were infamous before the three men explored it because creatures/monsters had been sighted coming in and out of the cave at night. People living in the area claimed to have seen these creatures numerous times. Livestock had been killed, mutilated, pets disappearing, and the locals thought it was demons/monsters from the cave. This was in the mid 1800s. One of the efforts made by the locals to stop the creatures from coming out of the hill was to build three large wooden crosses and erect them in front of the cave.
Then, following the start of World War One, three local yong men decided to join up to fight in the Army and as a going away celebration, they wanted to explore the cave inside Flowering Mound. They had grown up hearing the legend and basically everyone in the area in those days knew about it. No one had actually gone into the cave, though, until them.
They brought lanterns, torches, rope and other equipment that included pistols. They found that the cave led to a tunnel and the deeper they went inside the hill, the more tunnels and passageways they found. They allegedly saw enormous staircases carved into the walls of underground chambers that led down into the Earth. It was a huge complex of tunnels, chambers, and stairs that they followed further and further down until they smelled a terrible smell they compared to death or rotting flesh.
They felt that they weren't alone as they got further down, lost their nerve, and decided to go back to the surface. On their return trip up the huge staircases through the chambers, the terrible smell followed them and they realized they could hear someone or something stalking them. Then they were attacked by a group of the "monsters/demons" and the creatures chased them up to the surface. The men said they were the size of men but covered in filthy hair and had claws. The three men scrambled out of there in a panic and were able to escape to the cave at the top but one of the men was hurt by a creature grabbing him and trying to drag him back down into the tunnels. The other two saved him by shooting that thing with a pistol multiple times. It let go of their friend while reacting to being shot and they were able to escape the cave.
I wish I had more information on it because it's so interesting but that's the legend. My grandmother said everyone in the area had heard about Flowering Mound and its mysterious cave and monsters when she was growing up. It is obviously not as well known now.
The gerbil thing is Mathis brothers furniture 😂
I didn’t say a word 😂
I looked it up thanks to you, and now I have the Eminem song "fack" going through my head 😂
Had to check that I wasn't the only one in the comments that knew exactly what he was talking about. 😂😂😂
When I was a kid in Tulsa, we called the brother's "Mattress Brothers". Today, from a very reliable source, one brother has been known to visit swinger's clubs.
He wrestled locally with the tri-state area a lot in the early 70s
Tulsa Hex House employee here (the haunted attraction, not Carolann Smith's housekeeper), - it's not "pretty much nothing now," it's alive and well with updates and renovations every year!
Swing by sometime!
Haha, sorry to describe it as such. I think by pretty much nothing now I meant the original home, but regarding the haunted attraction when I’m in the area I’ll swing by!
Hello life long Oklahoman here. I've lived along the Arkansas River between Ponce City and Muskogee for most of my life.. Some friends of mine in grade school who are Ponca and Otoe Tribal members told me about an area cryptid or entity called Deer Woman. There are many stories about this thing and it is a well known legend among the locals in Kay County. I don't remember any in particular at the moment but it was terrifying to hear about as a kid. Always stuck with me. Could be a cool edition to the Oklahoma cryptids video
@@moseyballad7954 yep, the deer woman is scary! She’s covered in my cryptids of Ohio video 😀
@@foreverstorytime2566 oh okay il check that out
@@foreverstorytime2566 every state has their own versions of some of these cryptids I guess. I thought that only applied to Bigfoot
My neighbor who is native was telling me about the deer woman. Im not sure which town he said his family is from but there was apparently police dash cam footage of her floating around the community.
I grew up in Ponca City and my dad side of the family still live there. When I between 7 and 10 years late one night my cousins, best friend and I saw something go from running on 4 legs to 2 legs mid stride out in the neighbors cow pasture. The 5 of us could barely see it but we reacted to it at the same time. It was the late 80's and we lived out passed where the old river ended.
I worked for the Tulsa Hex House Haunt in 2019! My uncle worked there as an actor for years, really cool to see this covered! Honestly, the haunt has really gone downhill since the pandemic, I hope to see it back to its former glory one day!
So cool to get a local that worked there commenting! Bummer to hear it’s gone downhill!
@@foreverstorytime2566 you really did a great job with this video! its nice to see people so passionate to learn too!
I work there now - come on back and help bring it back to its former glory.
I think it's pretty good, I'm interested to hear how it used to be better.
As a 7th generation Okie, this is the coolest! I've always been interested in strange oral history, and to watch a video about my home state, even my home town- I just, I cant even explain how much I love this. Amazing work, amazing video!
I’m from Oklahoma and this is amazing
So glad you enjoyed!
I've lived in Oklahoma my whole life, and I am aware of most of these legends. I've never heard of Gandini's Circus though. I just googled the location and realized I've been living less than a mile from it for over 30 years. In my defense, it's a very overgrown area, but I don't recall any locals talking about. I guess I should get out more?
I've lived in OKC my whole life myself and I'd never heard of it either.
I live across the street now, and don’t hear much about it. But growing up in edmond it was a huge deal in like high school.
@@cwalokie9559 Hugo used to be the home base of several traveling circuses
@@Bespelled22 Yes, you can see some of the old circus wagons at the entrance of the Endangered Ark Foundation. If you haven't been there you should. It is a habitat for ex-circus elephants.
@@cwalokie9559 id love to come and visit the area. Maybe next time im at Checotah I'll make a little side trip
You had me at Oklahoma...
Lifetime Okie here. That was a cool list. The Winganon cspdule is still there. I think most of Belle Stars activity with JJ was in the San Bois and Ouchita pronouncef Wash-e-tau mountians. Some of the coolest things I like to chrck out are ghosttowns. Several of the lakes have perserved towns with cars and everything from bsck in the 40's and 50's. Pitcher was abandoned because of an ecological disater in the early 80's and is a pretty creepy place with everything just left as it was because it was all contaminated. Good viddy.
I went to college at Tahlequah which is the town nearby the grave of Mr Ed. For awhile there was a yearly concert event in that pasture called "Ed Fest" which was a play on the nearby Edge Fest concert series in Tulsa. It was pretty great.
@@Aggronaut Used to love edge fest in the old days at Mohawk. Didn't know about Ed fest sounds cool
My boyfriend in the 1970’s had an uncle up in Tennessee whose home was on a mountain up just off of I-40. We went camping up on the site atop that mountain. Frank James is was supposed to have been buried right there atop that mountain. Interesting history.
Really loving these longer form videos!
Thanks! They’re a lot of fun to make, and I really don’t think the old 5-urban legend format did these great states justice!
23:50 you are accurate. There's a lot of location like that all over Oklahoma. We have so much hills so you can easily be fouled
Much love! The tunnels in OKC are now a giant museum ! The entrance of them is by the Skirvin Hilton!
Been to gandinis circus as recent as 2024. Stuffs still there. Definitely one of the cooler easy to get to abandoned places in Oklahoma. Probably the most well known and accessible one in the state. Its essentially a small forest where homeless sleep. During storms. Ran into a cool dude chillin like a cliche railroad hobo. Shared a few beers and talked about life choices. Definitely a nice place
As a Texan who is staying in Tulsa, Oklahoma for school, this is pretty interesting to hear my adopted homes weird folklore!
Though, I do remember driving by the Space Capsule with my family! We were driving one night from a relative's house (about half of my family is from Oklahoma so I spent a lot of my childhood taking roadtrips up there) we passed by this strange shiny thing, thinking "What in the world was that?!" We turned around and sure enough, it was a space capsule! We decided to come back the next morning (after googling what it was) and got a few pictures with it.
I'm sure someone in the comments already mentioned it but with all the lakes that you mentioned I was surprised you didn't mention Optima the lake that never filled. it's near Guymon, where that long boring road is between Kansas & Texas.
having grown up in Stillwater OK, when we were in school (Ages 8 or so), on recess breaks we would often all collectively try to dig a hole to China because we were told this tall tale that if you could dig deep enough, you would link up with the underground Chinese tunnels (the ones in OKC discussed above) and that these would lead us eventually to China........ The teachers never stopped us and eventually, we had a hole dug so deep that the school got in trouble from the city and had to get a dump truck brought in to fill it lol... no shit....we had it soo deep we were crafting terrace steps to safely descend to the bottom lol. I think the teachers never stopped us because well it was the 80's and no one was watching us, either that or they were just happy we students were cooperating with each other as opposed to say the usual favorite recess activity; beating the shit out of each other lol
This is amazing to read 😂. Back in the 90's at recess we'd used to dig our fair share of holes, but we also played "Dragon Ball Z"... which was just a giant game of beat the crud out of each other. Good times. My kids had better not beat anyone up at recess, though.
@@foreverstorytime2566 🤣your reply got me thinking about the time this one classmate of mine, at recess, sprained his ankle trying to prove that jumping on a turtle is one easy way to attain extra lives......Super Mario had just come out and Oila!!! Epilogue: The turtle was fine..... my classmate however was in tears and had to go home lol....1980's, what a decade🤘
Grew up in the 70’s, early 80’s in Ponca City, near you and we did that exact same thing. 😅
now i get why people were probably really joking/daring about various people digging holes to china
I really enjoyed this video. I hope you have Robber's Cave in one of these videos about Oklahoma. It's a state park now days near Wilburton. When we were kids we were told by our sadistic parents to go into the caverns and look for the robber's gold that they buried there. We were told about all the famous outlaws who hid there from the law. Also there was supposed to be an ancient Indian burial ground. If you accidentally walked over it, then the Indian ghosts would haunt you. So we spent hours with other kids looking for gold and hoping that we didn't accidentally walk over an ancient Indian's burial site. It certainly made it the best place to swim and climb rocks when we were kids in the 70s. I believe the parents had a little extra fun scaring us and getting us excited to find that gold so we could get a new bike or whatever was on the top of your Christmas list. On another note we were told emphatically that the gerbil story came from Hollywood from Richard himself. Of course we also believed you heard satanic messages if you played certain records backwards.
Thank you so much for all of the local insight! I’ll need to follow up on this at some point!
0:22 You’re going to bring up the magical spot where your car spontaneously rolls uphill, aren’t you?
@@Lopfff just for a minute 😂
Addicted to these state urban legends!
Many more on the way!
Binge watching your vids. Keep them coming.
I grew up near the Wichitas. I read the iron door story in the book Coranado’s Children. As a teenager in the 1970’s I looked for the iron door. I am very very familiar with the elk mountain area having explored it extensively. But of course I never found the door.
Well, I hope for your sake one day you can stumble on that door. I might need to pick that book up, sounds fun.
Discovering an actual urban legend like that would he mind blowing.
All I’m saying is as a resident Okie. The parallel forest is terrifying
Also a resident of the Wichita Mountains area, its not terrifying at all. I ammmm a ghost tho, so...
I took my children out there two weekends ago. It's not really scary, actually a really cool little trail.
I went to the parallel forest many times over the years. I never really thought of the forest as being scary, until I went there after dark. It is disorienting and very very dark.
What was scary was when I went back to my car and before we left we were just talking in my car. When suddenly, and without warning, we all heard this loud(like right outside the car) gutteral scream then heavy breathing. Since there are wild bison roaming around i assumed that's what it was. Started my car and drove off as quickly as i could (meaning i had to do a complete circle to exit.) But never saw a bison or any other animal. Haven't been back since.
From Tulsa. It’s cool to see these stories come together work pictures of the people
Both sides of the family were originally from Oklahoma. One side the Lees had a 1500 acres farm close to where OKC is now. The area was called long river, or long creek? 1900 to 1930s.
Trying to track down more information abou this area.
Yooo!!!
I'm from Oklahoma and happy to see more recognition on it than just tornadoes! We are definitely weird and have a great landscape!!
Glad I could shine a light on the other side of Oklahoma's fame! I’ve had such an awesome turn-out from your state I’ll probably stop by it again!
I've been on the "magnetic hill" and, illusion or not, it's crazy! I highly suggest anyone try itif they haven't been before. 😮🤯😂 I grew up in Edmond and we used to hangout in the woods where that Grandini's Circus is. I was the one who stumbled upon it. Just walking through the woods and BAM!!! A huge metal clown face!! 😱💩🤣 This was before the internet and trying to get people to believe there's a dilapidated circus practically in your backyard was pretty difficult. 😂😂😂
My Dad was a sheriffs deputy for quite a few years. He's a smart downright honest and a nice guy to everyone he meets. He used to always tell me about how he was inside of an abandoned classic theatre and him and his partner found a latch on the ground so they opened it up, looked inside for a bit with their flashlights and saw it was VERY DEEP and VERY spacious down there and he actually saw buildings.. As well as seeing a lot of military equipment like tank, helicopters and wepons. He eventually talked to a lot of the elder locals around our area and dug up some really old newpapers and found that our city was actually built on top of a really old town or city. Apparently it was a very huge town or multiple towns under our city. I used to think he was telling me tall tales because I was a kid, but even years later as an adult his story is the same and insists it's true. Apparently there's these trapdoors in some wildly old buildings in our city that leads to different parts of this underground town. Does anybody else from Oklahoma know what I'm talking about? If you live in the southeast area of OK ask some of your grandparents about this.
EDIT: Literally as I clicked play the chapter about an underground city in OKC starts playing. I'd like to say we live 4 hours from OKC so this must be something that happened quite a bit.
S.e Oklahoma do u live in? If u don't mind me asking? I'm from around poteau, Cameron, Williams area.
@@Amanda-x2s Im from McAlester. You can probably find the old theatre on google maps in the downtown area. Also, I learned that the bottom/Under the Eufala lake might have some similar things going on.
its pronounced HEAVE-in-er, but thanks for covering. That's the hometown!
Thanks for the tip on the pronunciation! Wouldn’t have missed it, though!
Hey I'm from heavener too
@@aggressiveprefector1 nice! I'm in The Fort now but I make trips back to get tacos from the place that's in the old general store lol how's things back home?
@@claywoodral7587 oh boring as always 😆
@@aggressiveprefector1 some things never change
I literally live 499 feet from where the Hex House was (I googled the location after this video) and I had never heard the story until this video. I literally can see the location from my front porch. Always wondered about those stairs.. very cool video.
So dang cool! Thank you for your comment!
Omg, I grew up in Paul’s valley. Lived there for 20 years. I remember when they left the gate open to the state school and my parents took us to drive around it. There is a creepy playground in the back!
On springer gravity hill, my mother took us out their when I was little and told me it’s a mother pushing the car off her baby
Woah, what a creepy take on the story. Thank you so much for the local insight!
Well this is cool! Some of these places are a lot closer to where I live than I'd have thought!!
I live near Oologah Lake and the space capsule is still there even amid construction! Hopefully it will stay that way because the locals would not be happy if it went away haha
I love weird Americana. I will personally distribute a petition for folks to sign if anyone tries to get rid of it lol
Love this video first time to your channel.
New sub now.
I've shopped in the underground mall OKC. I am from SE corner of Oklahoma. We in the hills are separated from the rest of the state especially topically Old worn mountains and the part of OK with out oil. Lots of old mysterious places. Thank you for this video.
If you like Oklahoma folklore, please, please, please check out local historian Jeff Provine. He’s an absolute gem.
Looking him up right now, thanks for the tip!
" That truck was goin' faster than a gerbil runnin past 3434 W Reno "
Bwahahahaahahaa!!!! LMAO
Matress Brothers
@@jasontilley71 now we know why he was always sittin' in a lazy boy on the TV lol
I spent a large portion of my childhood in weatherford and I never heard that story. I’ll have to ask my uncle about it. Great video!
Thank you so much! Hope it leads to a fun conversation!
I just moved from Weatherford I lived there for over 3 years an dead woman's was one of the first places my friends showed me
It's a super popular spot for all the teenagers an young adults to go back reading around an hanging out on but some people are ignorant and they park on the bridge and roll the windows down a try to taunt spirits and the speed off but it's as expected I guess. It is a ready eerie but cool spot to hangout considering there's really not much to do in Weatherford lol
Recently found your channel, and its funny because the other day I was thinking its sad a lot of Americana, folklore and history are being quickly lost to time. Because I'm old and think about that stuff apparently. Everyone tuned into their phones, instead of what came before or what's around them. There's some dark spots in the American timeline, but the rest is pretty amazing and interesting. So was really happy to see what you do here and hope you grow fast.
@@Kendro311 thank you so much! I completely agree that folklore should be better preserved. I’ve been considering a call-in format live stream where folks could share their local folklore, or their regional variation of a well-known tale, or maybe just doing episodes sharing stories by state natives.
@@foreverstorytime2566 Absolutely! And personally I think that's a fantastic idea. We've grown to think all knowledge and wisdom is available in a Google search, but some of the best stuff is carried on through people and the stories passed down to them. And plenty of that can only be found through those that carry that knowledge. That's an exciting prospect, if I can come up with any ideas that might be useful to that end, I'll throw it at ya. I'd definitely love to watch those videos if it happens 👍🏼.
Great work, thank you for this video
Sure thing, thank you for dropping by!
Oklahoma is a very strange place.
especially with some of the naming conventions in the state.
thanks for the video, learned lots of new things.
had heard the one about the shore lines before, But it was a lot more specific. saying not that Oklahoma had the most coastline, just that the combined coastline was longer than that of the east coast.
@@herddragon9215 interesting. Now that specific coastal distance I could actually see OK (and many other states) beating.
Lot of the small towns are eery. I live in spencer. Weird town.
Your voice sounds just like the guy from the channel, "Part Time Explorer", and I'm absolutely loving it! As a Tulsan, keep up the good work!
Huh, never heard of him! I think he’s a bit better at actually stringing sentences together than me, but thanks for the comparison!
Appreciate the support and thanks for stopping by my channel!
In Weatherford oklahoma theres also a house right down the streat from braums just like 2 blocks and a woman and her husband were nurdered in the living room and if you google maps the address you can still see her standing onnthe front porch. My friend lived in that house it had cold and sad energy it was depressing
407 East Franklin avenue is the address but I just looked and ig the pictures are updated but when my friends told me about it I looked it up and seen her
Thanks for this. I’ll see if I can find some info!
That's funny, I grew up a few blocks away from the hex house and never heard of it until now. Great stories! The one I remember from back then was the screaming bridge out in Broken Arrow, OK.
Glad I could teach you at least one thing, and so glad you enjoyed!
Sulfur OK, is supposed to have healing springs. So, that would go with the water idea you mentioned.
Worked as a haunter at hex house for a couple years. Its a cool little story that the haunt still encourages actors to look into to prep for haunt season. Pretty decent haunt for a bit, but i quit this past year so i have no clue how its doing now. I suggest checking out Asylum in Nowata or the scarefarm (not sure of the name rn) in tulsa
The center of the universe is awesome 👍👍👍
Can’t wait to make it there!
Watch for homeless around there.
@@foreverstorytime2566 totally worth it
I'm a new subscriber! Very interesting channel, good narration. ❤
Thank you for subscribing! I'm so glad you're enjoying it!
great channel. keep it up.
Doing my best. Thank you!
Im from pryor Oklahoma, glad to see sum folklore about my state
They straight up killed her on a rainy night on Portland ave while she was heading to become a wistleblower
Yep, seems like it. Cowards
@@foreverstorytime2566 living in OKC this story is well known as a corp&gov cover up.
Her wrecked car was towed to Crescent and sat on Main St for months. Scratches along the side made it clear a red car ran her off the road.
@@foreverstorytime2566 horrible company. They polluted an entire neighborhood in Columbus, Mississippi with their creosote railroad tie treatment plant. Poisoned thousands, causing heath issues and many deaths in addition to wrecking the ground water. The lawsuit has been dragging out for years with none of the families ever receiving any compensation.
Beautiful video, even being born in Tulsa I didn't know a lot of this :)
Thank you so much! Glad I could help you learn a fun fact or two!
Z104.5 The Edge??? That’s interesting!! That’s our alt rock station. 😊
Well if I’m in the area I know what I’ll be listening to! Yep!
Great channel, man
Thank you so much, really appreciate it!
I hope you do my homestate of Pennsylvania! Love your videos!
@@threestoogescritic3280 thank you! I’ve seen a lot of PA requests! It’s on my shortlist
I love the state of Oklahoma been here my whole life.
Hope I was able to do your state justice! It’s been a pleasure covering it.
Is the dude that made the video from Oklahoma? I'm only asking cuz that gerbil remark lol that is some goofy shit from back in the day that I don't know many younger kids that are from here even still heard of it, so I kinda find it hard to believe someone that ain't from here would have heard it lol it's funny he brought it up either way
Nope, I’m Ohio born and a TN native but I read a lot of old forums digging for urban legends/ghost stories/cryptids and the friggin’ gerbil story showed up too many times
I'm from Oklahoma grew up here and don't remember hearing about it....guess I better look it up
@@jrbubala at your own risk 😂
I no about this I'm from Southern Oklahoma 😂😂😂
Mathis's?
Great video Thanks 👍
Thank you!
Loving your channel
Thank you so much!
Speaking of Oklahoma's shorelines. We may be landlocked but we can travel by boat to both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Take the Arkansas river to the Mississippi River down to the Gulf of Mexico. Then either head to the Panama Canal or hit the Atlantic. True story
In Hugo, Ok, where multiple circuses used to spend their Winters, there is a site called Mount Olivet Cemetery that contains the final resting places for many circus and rodeo performers, owners, and performing animals. Clowns! 😢 That is enough for me to call it creepy. Also, a real real re-entry vehicle is in Norman, Ok. Finally, the Masonic childern's home an orphanage in Guthrie.
@@muddy1052 thanks for the tips! Yep, covering a lot of these in my ghosts of Oklahoma video! Hadn’t heard of the real re-entry vehicle! I’ll look that up.
That orphanage in Guthrie was bought and remodeled into a home or some sort wedding venue I think.
Born & raised in Guthrie,Ok. The movie cowboy, Tom Mix, brfore he became famous, tended bar in a saloon on the corner of 1st & Harrison st.
I’m from Oklahoma and I have a feeling that TH-cam knew because I saw this on my recommended!
TH-cam knows all. The moment I started researching for this video (not on TH-cam) I started getting OK TH-camrs recommended to me (which is pretty awesome to be honest).
You are wrong that no proof was found about the Chinese tunnels. Downtown OKC has has a tunnel system with businesses to this day. When building the modern tunnel system, the Chinese tunnels where found. I used to work in the OKC underground. It's history is quite interesting.
@@MikeMookie From what I read the OKC underground construction only found isolated rooms dug underground, not series of tunnels connecting place to place.
@foreverstorytime2566 no, there are definitely connected tunnels.
@foreverstorytime2566 the OKC underground association has plenty of photographic proof.
Live right by the abandoned circus, went there a lot as a kid and teen, it’s pretty creepy, lots of homeless live there and sleep there at night now
Oh wow, sounds dangerous for them. Those things look like they’re falling apart. I suppose it’s better than being exposed to the elements.
My grandmother lives in sasakwa, Oklahoma and there was a lot of nights at 3am me and my bf at the time would go out for a really late cigarette, we would be talking and just trying to be quiet as to not wake my grandmother but we would always hear what would start as a rhythmic screeching that kinda sounded like an old metal door but then- it would turn into what sounded like two creatures talking to each other in this weird screeching language it was obviously two because they would almost be talking over on another the only thing that makes me truly believe it wasn’t doors of a building is because sasakwa had a population of like 100 people and I would time out the screeching noises and they definitely didn’t have any rythem to them at all anymore and I even heard leaves crunching like something was fast walking over where we were standing outside we would always get to scared to stay out there to long and ran back inside
I used to have a recording of them talking but I since lost that phone
"...Edmond's mild climate..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tell me you've never been to Oklahoma without telling me you've never been to Oklahoma. We have some of the wildest weather in the country, with temperatures varying from over 100° F to less than 10° F in the same year, with many tornadoes and wildfires every year as well. Such a mild climate!
I've been living in Moore, Ok. full time since about 86 (from Yukon, Ok.) but is spite of a Tornado once in a while I still tell friends that I'd rather live here than in the panhandle! MY GOD I think that has to be the hottest AND the coldest place you could live?
A Belle Star story!! You really are alright!
She was the baddest in the whole west from the sounds of it. Love me some outlaw stories.
The movie The Sons of Katie Elder was based off the story of the Marlow brothers, the town of Marlow was named after their father Dr. Williamson Marlow. It is an interesting story about them.
Thanks for the tip on this! I’ve never seen the move, I’ll check it out!
That Silkwood story is very different from what I remember in the Daily Oklahoman in the 70’s
The Oklahoman was part of the conspiracy. Of course they didn't report it honestly. Kerr Mcgee was a very rich and powerful company. There is still a lot we will never hear about that story.
My mother is best friends with the stepmom of Silkwoods daughter and son.
I live in Oklahoma. I've seen the Heavner Ruin Stone. It was established as real. It's awesome to see.🎉
I'll have to see if I can find a alien mannequin. I'm going past the Space Capsule on the way to Allen's point to fish tomorrow.
Incredible 😂. Hope you have a good catch!
My brother and I spent quite a bit of time around Elk Mountain looking for the door. I believe the story does have some truth to it owing to the presence of Spanish helmets found in the Wichitas. The only thing we really discovered was Biff the Buffalo; a lone buffalo living on top of Elk Mountain (This was 40 years ago, so he's likely long since dead).
On the Jesse James legend, Frank James retired to Elgin, OK and would ride his horse out into the Wichitas, staring at the land to try and find the spot where they'd buried the treasure. The problem, as Frank told it, was they had buried the treasure ($1M+ in Spanish gold) during a snow storm and he couldn't align the snow-covered topography he remembered with the land.
I noticed you didn't list the Hater house in Lawton.
Geary Oklahoma
We’re still alive.
Mostly, some are twitching.
Holy shit😭 y'all fr alive down there?
@@Bunnyofdarkness still alive… kinda.
There’s a legend near Guthrie called wild cat curves. Story goes a circus wagon wrecked and the lions got loose and roamed. We still call it wild cat curves lol. Rt 77 in Logan county
Wouldn't build on the Hex House lot, even if they gave it to me. Great stories, lotsa weird stuff out there
Thanks so much! I wouldn’t either!
Crazy enough I went to a similar place in Paul's valley owned by the Chickasaw back in 2019
I got one from Albion Oklahoma that happened in 1965 in my grandpa’s barn . Only 20 air miles from Honobia Oklahoma and they’re real .
Sorry, what happened there?
@kevinpaddlety-jj5mg is probably talking about big brother of the woods.
@@DPain82 thanks for giving a name to the story. I’ll google this.
@foreverstorytime2566 he's referring to bigfoot.
I worked in the red brick condos that are behind the hex house property and they are in my opinion haunted. I heard noises as if someone was playing up stairs and it was loud. It happened several times with several different contractors and workers hearing the noises as well.
Interesting! Think the building is haunted? Any weird history there other than the “hex house” ordeal?
I think Cher played her in the movie Silkwood.
Meryl Streep played the role of Karen Silkwood in the film. However, both Cher and Kurt Russell were in the film.
I do doordash and one order last year randomly took me out near Weatherford, right near Dead women crossing. The actual delivery address was in El Reno, which was maybe about a 20 or so minute drive from here. No reason to be there, yet the GPS decided to take me there. My name is also Katie 😰 This story in particular gave me chills 💀
Oh jeez. Hey, I’m glad you ended up okay!!
Hey y'all ❤
Howdy doody!
@carolescutt2257 hey Southern girl! from a Bama girl's daughter :)
I loved Mr. Ed
Used to beg my parents to let me watch it but they thought it was stupid. God if they watched what was on TV now 😂