In 2014, Thwaites made loads of redundancies and workers responded by altering the lights on the building. What random folklore do you know/have about your town?

by HoneyFlavouredRain

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  2. When I was growing up (early 2000s), a girl went missing)was kidnapped. She’s still never been found, not a body for that matter. Urban legend was that she ended up in one of the takeaways in town as the house special 

  3. “Excuse me, Mr Twat!”

    “It’s _Thwaite_!”

  4. To this day, no one is quite sure who used salt to trace a ~20m long dick in the grass of the hill which the governors mansion sat upon.

    After it watered in a few times and the salt killed the grass, you could see that dick from a mile away. Legend.

  5. Similar thing I found, I enjoy urban exploring. Whilst exploring a huge mill that’s untouched for over two decades after abruptly closing over night, I found [these pictures](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/DwGDj9A6nD) in the CEO office with the same guy crossed out each one. Was wondering if it was a pissed off employee.

  8. Cheating a bit since I’m not actually from Cannock myself, but there’s no interesting folklore or urban legends around my way and my dad and I went walking on Cannock Chase a lot when I was growing up—the Pigman. Supposedly, a man with the head of a pig who roams the forests and scrublands of the Chase. In fact, the Chase is a bit of an oddity generally—we once found a junked out old car in the middle of the woods, quite a way away from any drivable roads or tracks, and it wasn’t like it was just parts that had been dumped; it was in a right state, but still recognisably a somewhat intact car. Then there were those dolls a lady found nailed to some trees a few years ago.

  9. Lord Byron’s beloved dog Boatswaine caught rabies here and died. Think it’s my town’s only claim to fame.

  10. “It’s Thwaite”

    “Well, it’s spelled T W A T. TWAT”

  11. I live near the hq for a game called Runescape.  There was an area in game called the Wilderness which was an unsafe place where you could be killed and your items lost to your killer.  To stop rwt they got rid of the Wilderness and the local paper ran a story of some kid so outraged the he went to the hq and smashed some windows 😂

  12. The Kidsgrove Bogart

    >The Kidsgrove Boggart is a local legend of a ghost or phantom said to haunt the Harecastle Tunnel in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. The legend typically describes the Boggart as a headless woman, sometimes identified as Kit Crewbucket, who was murdered by boatmen in the tunnel. The Boggart is associated with the tunnel’s construction and the canal traffic passing through it.

    Kidsgrove is also known for a few other things, such as the birthplace of Reginald Mitchell (Spitfire designer) and the awful murder of Leslie Whittle by Donald Neilson (aka the Black Panther).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidsgrove

  13. Milton Keynes. 

    We have semi-famous concrete cows that were made by an artist shortly after the town was founded. They have been the recipient of various pranks over the years. Painted funny colours during the BSE crisis. Repainted as skeletons on Halloween. But the best is one I never saw but remember my dad telling me as a kid. Some genius or geniuses built a large paper-mache bull and mounted it on the back of the largest one. 

  14. Ibstock Bricks in the West Midlands is a great one.

    Company was shutting down and making all staff redundant. One of the last batches of bricks were stamped with the word “Bollocks” instead of “Ibstock”. You can find them for sale on EBay.

  15. A man who has never been identified used to walk up and down the high street. If he witnessed a woman sneezing, he’d go over and stab her arse/thigh with a thick needle or narrow blade

  16. Has it been that long since they did that? Blimey. Our latest contribution to the news cycle was that poor girl getting beaten up.

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