A myth that puts off kids from visiting Haimdular...(excuse spelling)..

All best urban legends are vaguely based on a fact, which gives them credibility.

The legend goes that a series of tunnels run beneath Haimdular and the tunnels lead to a series of dungeons. The dungeons are not used now but used to be where prisoners could be kept and where it was impossible to escape from. Many years ago a number of corpses turned up in the sea and around the same time it was rumoured that a very tall, thin, hooded man would roam the streets. He was known as The Emaciated because of his starved appearance...but it wasnt the starved look of the man that sparked the legend but the beast that he would pull behind him on a leash that was said to look like a very panther like cat but with huge claws like an eagle. The legend has it that unwary visitors to Haimdalur awaken the Spectre if they make a certain sound over the hidden tunnels...no one is sure what sound it is but it grates on the ears of the beast and he wakes hungry. The stranger or strangers are hunted down and led to the dungeons where the Spectre feeds his beast with human entrails extracted from humans while still alive..the corpses are thrown in the sea.

There is a faded, rather blurry photo of the beast in the Haimdular museum taken 20 yrs ago, with other recent sightings recorded. 12 corpses have been found in the sea, disembowelled.

Scientific explanation is that a very vague rumour once circulated that prisoners who were executed were whisked away to an underground place to have experiments carried out on them and this urban legend developed around that. The rumour was squashed as ridiculous but the legend lives on.

the Island Kingdom of Ӧlgard

Super Admins