Exploring Local Urban Legends: Blucifer and Boo Radley

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Urban Legends are stories that are made to be believable, but are “too good to be true.” Many Urban Legends occur locally. The story of The Demon Horse, or “Blucifer,” is a more locally told story. Another urban legend that is told locally is the legend of Boo Radley. Boo Radley was a teen that got caught up in a bad crowd and then grew up to be a shut in. The legend is that he walks around stalking people at night and that if you walk up to his door he will kill you. The story of Blucifer is actually fact filled in the beginning. A man, Luis Jimenez, started sculpting a 9,000-pound horse. Before he could complete the sculpture, it fell on top of him slicing an artery in his leg. The statue had killed him. Jimenez’s family finished the statue.

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