• La
Santa Compaña is a folklore legend that describes a deep-rooted mythical belief in rural northwest of
Iberia,
Galicia,
Asturias (Spain) and
Northern Portugal. • La
Sayona is a legend from
Venezuela, represented by the vengeful spirit of a woman that shows up only to men that have love affairs out of their marriages. • The
Seven Gates of Hell is a modern urban legend regarding locations in
York County, Pennsylvania. Two versions of the legend exist, one involving a burnt insane asylum and the other an eccentric doctor. Both agree that there are seven gates in a wooded area of
Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, and that anyone who passes through all seven goes straight to Hell. •
Sewer alligators is an urban legend based upon reports of alligator sightings in rather unorthodox locations, in particular New York City. • The '''Shaman's Portal''' is an urban legend and located in
Beaver Dunes Park,
Oklahoma due to the strange disappearances that have occurred over the years. •
Shotgun Man is an urban legend of organized crime: as an assassin and spree killer in Chicago, Illinois in the 1910s, to whom murders by
Black Hand extortionists were attributed. Most notably, Shotgun Man killed 15 Italian immigrants from 1 January 1910 to 26 March 1911, at "Death Corner," the intersection of
Oak Street and Milton Avenue (now Cleveland Avenue) in what was then Chicago's
Little Sicily. In March 1911, he reportedly murdered four people within 72 hours. However, a check of the Northwestern University website on "Homicide in Chicago" shows shotgun killings in Chicago – but none in Jan–March 1911 – and only one killing at Oak and Milton Streets between 1900 and 1920 (reference only). • '''
Showmen's Rest''' is a mass grave where phantom elephants buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Forest Park, Illinois, are said to trumpet late at night. • El
Silbón (also known as the
Whistler) is a folklore legend that describes a spirit found in Venezuelan legends. He was a former farmer who become a damned soul after he killed his father. •
The Silver Train of Stockholm (also known as the Silver Arrow) is a silver-colored
ghost train that supposedly travels in the
Stockholm Metro rail system, where ghosts are said to be passengers being taken to the
realm of the dead. •
Skeleton in a tree is an urban legend alleging that years after the
defeat of St. Clair in 1791 at
Fort Recovery,
Mercer County, Ohio, the skeleton of a Captain Roger Vanderberg was found in
Miami County, Ohio inside a tree, along with a diary. However, no one of this name was a casualty of the 1791 battle; the story originated in 1864 from a Scottish novel. •
Skinned Tom is an urban legend from
Walland, Tennessee about a young man named
Tom and a bogeyman-type figure who came to a grisly end. • The
skunk ape (also known as the
swamp ape and
Florida Bigfoot) is a folklore legend that describes an ape-like creature that is purported to inhabit the forests and swamps of the southeastern United States, most notably in Florida where sightings have been reported from as far north as the Georgian border, south to the
Florida Keys. •
Slaughterhouse Canyon (or '''Luana's Canyon''') is a valley in
Arizona and has an elevation of 3,428 feet; the myth takes place during the Gold Rush. • The
Smith sisters is an urban legend about two young girls who were murdered anonymously while they slept in their bedroom. • The
Snarly Yow is a folklore legend that describes a mysterious giant black dog that has been sighted at various spots on
West Virginia,
Maryland and
Virginia. •
Snuff films (footage of actual murders and other depraved acts of cruelty being created for profit and/or personal entertainment) have been rumored for decades within the American film industry, with one of the first known films to be accused of the practice being the 1976 exploitation horror film
Snuff. • El
Sombrerón (also known as the
Goblin and sometimes
Tzipitio and
Tzizimite) is a folklore legend that describes a legendary character and one of the most infamous legends of Central America. •
The Spider Bite (or
The Red Spot) is a modern urban legend that emerged in Europe during the 1970s. It features a young woman who is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The bite swells into a large boil and soon bursts open to reveal hundreds of tiny spiders escaping from her cheek. • The
Spiteful Mermaid of Pyramid Lake is a man from the
Paiute tribe claimed that he fell in love with a mermaid in the lake who cursed the lake in her vengeance. •
Spook Hill is an urban legend that describes a gravity hill, an optical illusion in
Lake Wales, Florida, where cars appear to roll uphill. •
The Spooklight is a legend that is a ghost light reported to appear in a small area known locally as the "Devil's Promenade" in
Missouri and
Oklahoma. •
Springfield pet-eating hoax surfaced in September 2024 when a Facebook post reported that Haitian immigrants in
Springfield, Ohio were eating neighbors’ pets. The baseless charge went viral and was taken up by right-wing groups and repeated by presidential candidate
Donald Trump and his vice-presidential running mate
JD Vance. •
Spring-heeled Jack is a British urban legend from the
Victorian era involving the alleged sightings of a humanoid creature capable of leaping at great lengths and for reportedly assaulting several women in the streets of London. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. Later sightings were reported all over the United Kingdom and were especially prevalent in suburban London, the
Midlands and Scotland. •
Stingy Jack is a legend from
Irish folklore describing a mythical character who cheated the Devil and was cursed to roam the Earth for all eternity with a small ember burning inside a carved
turnip as his only source of light. He is sometimes associated with the holiday
Halloween while also acting as the mascot of the holiday, with his story possibly serving as the basis for the modern
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