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Legend tripping

Legend tripping is a name bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent practice (containing elements of a rite of passage) in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event or haunting.[1] The practice mostly involves the visiting of sites endemic to locations identified in local urban legends. Legend tripping has been documented most thoroughly to date in the United States.[2]

Sites for legend trips[edit]

While the stories that attach to the sites of legend tripping vary from place to place, and sometimes contain a kernel of historical truth, there are a number of motifs and recurring themes in the legends and the sites. Abandoned buildings, remote bridges, tunnels, caves, rural roads, specific woods or other uninhabited (or semi-uninhabited) areas, and especially cemeteries are frequent sites of legend-tripping pilgrimages.

The Baird Chair monument in [6]

Kirksville, Missouri

outside of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois[7]

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

The , formerly in Pikesville, Maryland and now in Washington, DC[8]

Black Agnes statue

near Clifton, Virginia[9][10]

Bunny Man Bridge

Crawford Road in [11]

Yorktown, Virginia

Goat Man's Grave near .[12]

Rolla, Missouri

Hexenkopf Rock in [13]

Williams Township, Pennsylvania

Bloody Mary (folklore)

Ghost hunting

Haunted house

Kimodameshi

Stand by Me (film)

The Devil's Chair (urban legend)

Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live, by Bill Ellis (2001)  1-57806-325-6

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Encyclopedia of Haunted Indiana, Kobrowski, Nicole, 2008.  978-0-9774130-2-7

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Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook. Logan: Utah State University Press; McNeill, Lynne S. and Elizabeth Tucker, eds.; 2018.

Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for , Michael Kinsella, (2011) ISBN 978-1604739831

Ong's Hat

"Legend Tripping: The Ultimate Family Experience, Robinson, Robert C., 2014.  978-1-889137-60-5

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Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture, by Bill Ellis (2004)  0-8131-2289-9

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Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, by Bill Ellis (2000)  0-8131-2170-1

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Fine, Gary Alan (Spring 1991). "Redemption Rumors and the Power of Ostension". . 104 (412): 179–181. doi:10.2307/541227. JSTOR 541227.

The Journal of American Folklore

What's in a coin? Reading the Material Culture of Legend Tripping and Other Activities (2007), by Donald H. Holly and Casey E. Cordy. The Journal of American Folklore 120 (477):335-354.