The Folklore Hunter

The Man In Black Anomalist who Investigates all things Anomalous, Folkloric, and Paranormal

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

Hi Honey I'm home! Did you miss me?

It was a lovely Trip. I got to see a number of Heritage Sites, swim in the ocean, and visited a Haunted Pond in Charlottetown.

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

From the first to ninth of August I will be on a Family Trip to visit Relatives in Prince Edward Island. I've never been to the Maritimes before so this is exciting.

Maybe I'll get a chance to visit some Haunted Houses or see a Sea-Serpent. I might leave the Photography to my Sisters. I don't want the Photos looking like a Family on Vacation before encountering a Sea Troglodyte 😆

Seventeen hours is a long drive. Luckily I downloaded plenty of Audiodramas with Ambience by @realmdrifters and Apocalypse News Ambience by End Times Ambience.

Talk to you all when I get back.

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

@KirscheVerstahl I'm Canadian. I'm real. I was able to access CBC News Account here on Twitter.

[Boomer Shooter Art @boomshootart]

"Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

Jesus and Doomguy
Doom Slayer art by @Warl_Granada

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

@esri640 @stonetoss I feel this way about Sectarian Disputes except I'm Protestant not Catholic.

[TONY @TonyMichaelX]

*Celebrities dying at 80*

Clint Eastwood at 96:

[Wired4WondersTales @wired4wonder]

Late one foggy night along Highway 101, a driver hit a thick patch of coastal mist just outside Cannon Beach. Out of nowhere, a figure stumbled into the headlights.

It wasn't a hitchhiker. It was a man wrapped head to toe in filthy, blood-soaked bandages, reeking of decaying flesh. Before the driver could hit the gas, the creature threw itself onto the pickup bed, slamming against the rear glass until the truck screeched into town.

When they finally stopped, the creature was gone, leaving only a lingering stench and bits of rotting linen stuck to the tailgate.

This is the Bandage Man of Cannon Beach and it's one of the Oregon coast’s most enduring urban legends.

But where does the story actually come from?

Local lore says he was a logger torn apart in a brutal sawmill accident in the 1950s. Bound in emergency gauze to hold his crushed body together, he died before the ambulance reached the hospital.

When you dig into mid-century Clatsop County records, logging was indeed the area's primary industry. Industrial timber accidents were terrifyingly common along those isolated coastal routes before modern emergency medical services existed.

While no official record names a specific "Bandage Man," the legend directly mirrors the real-world anxieties and hazards of 1950s Pacific Northwest logging communities.

Over the decades, the story evolved into a staple of local folklore, passed down through regional youth camps and coastal drivers warning travelers about the dark turns near Cannon Beach.

Whether born from mid-century industrial tragedy or pure coastal folklore, locals still give the same advice:

If you ever find yourself driving the Oregon coast after midnight and smell rotting flesh through your vents, don't pull over. Just step on the gas.

[Kirsche 🥥 🧁 @KirscheVerstahl]

do you ever read some news headlines and wonder if we have been lied to about why witch trials actually happened

[Aidan Mattis @MattisRedacted]

My job ruins so many crime shows for me and that may be the second worst part

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

@WeebyRevy This is a Holiday I can get behind 👍🏻

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

@MattisRedacted Being called to master our Passions through Pius Logic (to paraphrase 4 Maccabees) instead of letting our Passions master us, is weakness? Curious 🤔

[Aidan Mattis @MattisRedacted]

Breaking: Laura Loomer calls Christ’s teachings “weakness”, exposing how she actually feels about Christianity.

[Cosmic Horror @CosmicHorror637]

I'm ridiculously excited for Control Resonant. The world of Control is so fascinating to me. I love the realty bending stuff going on in this game. The environment shifting looks awesome and traversing it is gonna be super fun. I'm going to take so many photos 😂

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

@Bugimus @MHuntington7 I just UFO. If I ever say UAP is if I'm in a discussion with someone who says UAP just so there is no confusion.

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

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[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

@temp_softmax

[The Folklore Hunter @folklorehunter]

I tell myself both of these things when I encounter strange things at work. I'm starting to understand why my co-workers are concerned about me.

[Outsider Aesthetics @outsidercore1]

keep going

[Mutual UFO Network @mufon]

Thank you all for the success of "Accidental Truth: NEXT", please check it out if you haven't already. Here's what's coming from Ron James in December:

[Phrog ☆ Jesus Fangirl @PhrogPollen]

Fastest way to know I'll dislike someone is if they post this crap

[Cosmic Horror @CosmicHorror637]

I love that in Nara, Japan seeing a deer in a place like this is the most normal thing in the world 😂. Nara is definitely on my bucket list of places to go before I die.