Supernatural Urban Legends
Hi everyone, I’m Sherry Soule—waving from
California, where it’s getting pretty foggy! Well, it’s the start of summer
here, and even with the fog burning off by afternoon, I’m cranking the air conditioner
and chatting on Twitter about my love of YA books.
Thanks for letting me stop by today as part of
my Moonlight Mayhem Blog Tour this summer. It’s a thrill to get to be a guest
and fellow booklovers such as yourself.For those of you who haven’t heard of my
epic blog tour, it’s not too late to join the fun!
To celebrate the release of Sherry Soule’s new
YA novel, MOONLIGHT MAYHEM coming this July, she has put together a few mysterious
and intriguingurban legends that surroundthe eerie township of Whispering Pines,
California…
Urban Legend #1
Some researchersbelievethat certain demon races
areactually the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim.
(They are also considered to be Shadow People.) The origination of the Nephilim
began with the legend of an archangel named Raziel.Urban legend states that
Raziel escorted a sect of angels that were to instruct humans in morality.
Unfortunately, these angels began to educate
man in sciences that God had deemed to be forbidden. These subjects
included astrology, divination, and magic. The tutelage went on for
centuries, until the angels began to pine for the human females.
After the fallen angels, or sometimes known as
the Fallen, had sexual relations with
the women, their unholy union resulted in the hybrid offspring called: Nephilim,
whichare the direct descendants of the antediluvian Fallen. Nephilim are
also known as the Grigori or the Watchers.
It has been insinuated that
one of the main reasons for the great flood, was not only to punish man, but to
cleanse the earth of the Nephilim created from the union of fallen angels and
human women. The flood banished most of the Fallen and their offspring into a
Sheol.
So, do you believe
in the Nephilim? What do you think will happen if they are ever freed?
Urban Legend #2
One haunted house claim that continues to be an urban legend is the
infamous, Ravenhurst Manor in Whispering Pines. Books and stories have been
written based on its hauntings and its reputation as one of California's most ghostlyplaces.
Ravenhurst Manor’s
first owner was a woman and dark sorceress named, Rowan Broussard. After her
death, the estate was used as an all girl’s boarding school for many years. Thesixty
room Gothic mansion was listed for sale with the resident ghosts. Other odd
things that occurred in in this house were: doors and windows that opened or closed
on their own, cold drafts, whispering voices,and some visitors even claimed to see
a dark shadowy figure roaming the halls.
However, Ravenhurst
is most famously linked to the disappearance of six children during the years
of 1964 through 1967. (After the school was closed, the estate became the
property of the town before it was sold to an wealthy, oil magnate.) After the
children’s' bodies were discovered buried within the walls of the house,
obviously from less than peaceful circumstances, the town buried them in Silent
Hollows Cemetery.
Did these Children buried on unconsecrated ground, lead
to the strange tragedy that would make this mansion so famous?
Urban Legend #3
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Ah, let’s move on to the zombie apocalypse!
Another interesting urban
legend states that on September 28, 1941, during an eclipse,a zombie was
spotted in Whispering Pines. To make matters worse, a fire at the local mill
had swept through town. As day turned to night, more zombies appeared. Many
townsfolk mistook the undead for dazed mill workers. After the residents
received hugs from the zombies, they were bitten by theseparanormals, and soon the
epidemicspread across the town like wildfire.
To make matters worse, the roads and bridges
connecting Whispering Pines to the rest of the Bay Area had burned in the fire.
The townsfolk had no way to escape. Scores of people become lost when they
chose to venture into the dark depth of Deadwood Grove rather than face the
insatiable zombie menace.
Within days, the Paranormal Research
Group(PRG) converged on Whispering Pines in a variety of aircraft. They
established a base on the south side of the forest and went about the process
of extermination. It took two weeks to secure the town. A total of 500 people
were plague-ridden, an enormous number considering that there wasn’t a zombie
vaccine available at this time.
Whatever the case, Whispering Pines’s zombie
outbreak affected just under 600 people, making it one of the worst cases in
U.S. history.
Are you prepared for a zombie apocalypse? What if zombies start
showing up again?
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Otherworldly Creatures. Dazzling Magic. Fiery Romance.
Shiloh Ravenwolf
thought she was getting used to the strange events in Whispering Pines, until
the full moon brings another surge of supernatural threats to her coastal town.
Ferocious wolves, deadly necromancers, and shambling zombies have descended
upon the neighborhood, so Shiloh needs to gain control of her magical
abilities—fast!
It sucks that she
has a crippling fear of the dark, which for a demon hunter can be an epic problem.
When her classmates
are attacked by a mysterious creature and her father is murdered, Shiloh vows
vengeance. Forcing her phobias aside, she forms an unlikely coven of
supernaturally gifted teens to help her eradicate this menace. Except that's
not all Shiloh has to worry about. She’s battling a different monster within
herself and struggling not to become the very thing she fights: evil.
But with demon
blood inside her—anything can happen…
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