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The Curse In 1931 the cult leader Father Devine, who claimed supernatural powers, placed a curse on the Village of Sayville. He said "Sayville sowed seeds of its own destruction."
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One of the reason that the shows like Sabrina are about witches, and
another show involves fighting demons is because there is huge belief in urban
legends and myths among the kids of Sayville. The town is full of big spooky Victorian
homes, numerous swamps, old cemeteries, and dark woods.
A popular belief is that the Roosevelt estate is haunted. The mansion is set
back in a swamp, and up into recently was in disrepair and overgrown. There was a
crazy man that use to roam the swamps, protecting the house. Kids would be dared to
go into the house at midnight. Supposedly President Roosevelt would wander the swamps.
There is a lake called Lake Ronkonkoma that is very deep. It is believed by
Kids in Sayville that it is bottomless. Before the white man civilized the area,
there was a tribe of Poospatuck Indians living in what is now Sayville. In this
tribe there was a princess. She was in love with an Indian prince from what is now
Bayport, on the other side of Brown's River where she was forbidden to go. One
day they snuck off together to Lake Ronkonkoma and took their canoe to a romantic
spot after dark to make love. The spirits did not approve of this, as people on
opposite sides of the river should not mix. So the boat sunk, and their bodies fell
forever and ever down into the bottomless lake.
So every year the angry Indian princess kills two lovers and pulls their souls
to the bottom of the lake. And every year at least one young couple dies.
This is
an old picture of a swamp in Sayville.
A church
in Sayville next to a swamp.
The southern part of the town is made up of old Victorian houses that looks like the house that Sabrina lived in. There was an old black lady nicknamed Harriet Tubman. They said she was house. As there are so many old house there are many ghost stories.Amityville is a nearby town, and sports team rival to Sayville.
Many kids were afraid to go into the dark, spooky basement of the High School.
At one time there was a High School called the Old 88. It was a big, spooky looking
Victorian building. The kids in the town say that when it burnt down many kids
inside did not make it out alive. The kids turned into ghosts and demons. Although
these kids are now ghosts and demons they want to escape to world of the living so
they can drag people down into hell. There are urban legend stories amongst the kids that there
are horrible things in the basement and are afraid to go there. On one website a
former student said, "wonder who those strange people are in the basement." According
a researcher at FIU, "...it was NOT meant to compare the YEARBOOK people to vampires at all."
Thus, the stories of vampires in the basement was not true.
Between downtown Sayville and swamp is an old cemetery. Buried there is
Lorelei. She became a prostitute at the start of high school, and was killed by her pimp boyfriend.
Then an old black fisherman pulled up red stuff in a bayou. It was her.
She had all her teeth pulled out one by one. One of the dares among teenagers is to
go visit her grave at mid-night since that is when she is awake.
The old Roosevelt mansion was supposedly haunted.
The noodleman is a particularly scary urban legend of Sayville. The noodleman
visits elementary school children at night when they are asleep. He looks like
actor Peter Lory with the body of a donkey. What is does is tries to break into
kid's houses when they are alone at night. He comes by way of nightmares.
There was an old farm along Broadway Avenue leading out of town. Supposedly
there was a ghost of a farming that would use a hoe to till the soil late at night.
He was white and transparent.
The most popular urban legend is about a teacher. Many years ago one of the
High School kid's father disappeared while clamming on the ice. The man disappeared off the
face of the earth. But 6 month's later someone who later became a teacher was
clamming on the water and pulled up what looked like spaghetti. It was the kid's
father. He fell asleep on the ice on the bay while clamming because he was drinking.
This one is the most popular because it is true.
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"Salem Village" No one is really sure exactly why
Sayville
is called Sayville. One theory is "Sayville" is a contraction
of "Salem Village," the original name of Salem, Massachusetts. Salem = Say ; Village = Ville ; = Sayville Old houses in Sayville. Looks like Salem, MA. |
Creepy old Victorian houses are common in Sayville.
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This is an actual grave near swamp in Sayville. It is the grave of Philippe Regis Denis de Keredern De Trobriand who fought in the New York Infantry in Civil War. It is located in the graveyard of the old stone church pictured above. |
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