I don’t remember all the legends around it. I found this though.

Oct 23, 2023
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The Strange, Awful Truth Behind Utah's Eerie Stone Cross

For decades a crudely constructed, 20-foot-tall cement and stone cross stood in a hollow on the northern outskirts of Kaysville, Utah. Marked with a large...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kays-cross-utah-legend-truth

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Would love a thread of what’s the scariest thing that’s ever happened to you.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/22/23 11:02pm

54-10

BlueCoug

10/22/23 11:03pm

That was a miserable night. Worst game I have sat through.

Busting Coveys

10/22/23 11:23pm

3-0

BYU Grounds

10/23/23 9:54am

Almost got struck by lightning

JOPE

10/22/23 11:08pm

That would be terrifying

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/22/23 11:10pm

Busting Coveys

10/22/23 11:22pm

Lightning once struck a huge maple tree in our front yard while my wife and I

Japan Coug

10/22/23 11:58pm

That happened to me on my mission. We were riding our bikes home at night in a typhoon. Nearly knocked us off our bikes.

durandal

10/23/23 8:43pm

Witnessing a murder and rolling my car multiple times.

bluesloth

10/22/23 11:13pm

Can we get the stories to them?

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 6:37pm

Companion and I were were the only witnesses to a guy point blank shooting

bluesloth

10/23/23 6:57pm

Whoa both of those are intense. The drug deal on the mission is similar to my

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 7:31pm

On the sleep paralysis, did your companion offer to make you oatmeal?

RealSimsShadY

10/22/23 11:14pm

What?

Trent

10/22/23 11:33pm

I think he’s referencing the ether bunny

Poncho punch

10/23/23 12:31am

You may be right

RealSimsShadY

10/23/23 12:35am

Sleep paralysis story posted below.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 7:43pm

It appeared I was in an active shooter event in Vegas right after the huge shooting there. It was some kids shooting in

shimmy

10/22/23 11:16pm

That would be scary

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 6:42pm

I def want to hear the mission experience w/evil from the other side. Country?

Nittany Cougar

10/22/23 11:18pm

Just replied to the original thread, you can find it at the bottom.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 7:15pm

Kay’s Cross. I haven’t heard that mentioned since I was in high school in the 90s. Never went there though.

Busting Coveys

10/22/23 11:19pm

Same - never went but no shortage of stories from those that did.

Qhall

10/23/23 11:34am

What’s the story of Kay’s Cross?

HiLife

10/23/23 6:24pm

I don’t remember all the legends around it. I found this though.

Busting Coveys

10/23/23 6:37pm

That’s pretty accurate from everything I’ve researched and what a member of the

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 7:49pm

Here's my post from 2010..Times Square Bombing scare.

zephyr

10/22/23 11:23pm

About a year ago I was driving home from a NASCAR race.

FieroCoug

10/22/23 11:25pm

I thought this was going to turn into a joke pretending you lived some Texas

Trent

10/22/23 11:32pm

It was such a weird feeling. I kinda felt claustrophobic when I got there and I was almost too scared to move.

FieroCoug

10/22/23 11:38pm

RE: About a year ago I was driving home from a NASCAR race.

crimedog

10/23/23 7:43am

Mine:

Trent

10/22/23 11:27pm

How did she get that way? We have similar “freaky stuff” experiences.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 8:56pm

She described it as a spirit calling to her who was handsome at first and

Trent

10/23/23 9:28pm

Oh was she a sister missionary?

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:38pm

Yes

Trent

10/23/23 9:43pm

As a kid I often had to turn off the basement lights and run up the stairs. I’m not sure what was grabbing at my ankles

Busting Coveys

10/22/23 11:30pm

I used to walk home an night in Holladay on Wander Lane along a canal and it

Trent

10/22/23 11:36pm

Falling into a waterfall on the backside of Mount Timp and taking a wild ride

Hoopster

10/22/23 11:37pm

My 12-year old son was holding my 6-month old daughter when she suddenly lurched

Japan Coug

10/22/23 11:37pm

Not sure how you survived that trifecta

DrBYU

10/23/23 12:15am

1-something like that is every parents worst fear. Glad it turned out okay. 2-

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:02pm

Hobbitville in SLC. People say that place is an urban legend, but while walking

Odysseus

10/22/23 11:40pm

Wow. I haven’t thought of Hobbitville in a very long time. We never walked

m0resn0w

10/23/23 6:20am

What’s your question, Ody? Or is it a ‘I don’t care.’ reaction?

m0resn0w

10/23/23 7:23pm

I care

Odysseus

10/23/23 7:35pm

Like Kay’s Cross another place as a teen we would go to get scares, but I never

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:04pm

RE: Hobbitville in SLC. People say that place is an urban legend, but while

flatliner

10/26/23 10:02am

Departing out of SLC in an EMB-120 Turboprop (Brasilia) one of our engines over torqued due to a malfunction with the

Busting Coveys

10/22/23 11:42pm

I had to drive through Orem at night once.

Ted Lasso

10/22/23 11:51pm

Driving home from SLC airport at 2am in dead Winter. Hit black ice at point of

Hoopster

10/22/23 11:51pm

Had to be such an intense moment

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:07pm

I don’t scare easy if I’m alone. If my young kids are with me at the Grand Canyon, I clench their wrists as tight as…

Crowgar

10/22/23 11:52pm

I've had 35 years of nightmares of the family dog falling into Malad gorge after

Methusaleh22

10/23/23 2:20am

I have the “haven’t gone to class all semester” one about once a month and

provoprodigy

10/23/23 3:07am

It's so funny how this is a regular occuring dream for so many people

BYUFootballisBack

10/23/23 7:11am

I’ve had that dream several times. Thankfully it’s been a few years since.

HiLife

10/23/23 7:53am

Same. Even had those dreams several years after college.

Superman21

10/23/23 8:12am

And the class you haven't gone to is the piloting class.

ochobeeguy

10/23/23 8:24am

"I have a class I haven't gone to all semester."

AF_Puma

10/24/23 9:14am

For sure. Being a father of 3 kids age 4 and younger I totally get that.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:08pm

Lost in a cave. Only lasted maybe a half an hour but it was terrifying.

HugoStiglitz

10/22/23 11:59pm

No way I could handle it. I would be the epitome of panic

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:11pm

Saw a man shooting at my bishop on Bountiful Blvd. Then looked at me and ill

Kauai

10/23/23 12:34am

Cliff jumping on the Salmon River with 14 year old buddies in May. They were

Methusaleh22

10/23/23 2:13am

That’s a good post. 60ft is soooo high. I’m pretty sure I’ve never done more

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:15pm

Small plane stalled on take off, crashed through 65 KV power lines and

Frank Drebin

10/23/23 2:52am

Well that was rude.

Methusaleh22

10/23/23 4:11am

Next time tell the FAA agent you’re a woman and you’re gonna sue him.

Crowgar

10/25/23 11:43pm

I’ve got a couple…

provoprodigy

10/23/23 3:04am

When you looked back up, how many sets of footprints were in the snow?

Methusaleh22

10/23/23 4:13am

I only saw one set of footprints…

provoprodigy

10/23/23 5:55am

That #2 creeps me out.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:17pm

Went rappelling off a cliff with too short a rope

narf

10/23/23 3:19am

Your story gives me sweaty palms. I hate heights

Trent

10/23/23 7:37am

we did this in scouts at Lake Powell.

crimedog

10/23/23 8:01am

Shared this in the Ghost Stories category awhile ago

Jimo Dashen

10/23/23 4:29am

That’s freaking insane

YOHONOMOTO

10/23/23 6:11am

You turned off the car and debated whether you should leave or not? That is bad horror movie level decision making. 😀

5150man

10/23/23 6:18am

Well, me and fiance and…yeah

Jimo Dashen

10/23/23 8:20am

Question: What kind of mushrooms were on your pizza that night?

m0resn0w

10/23/23 6:25am

Honestly, I would think my mind exaggerated the experience but my wife remembers it exactly as I do, even though we

Jimo Dashen

10/23/23 8:22am

That’s a crazy story

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:35pm

Scariest thing? Probably the poor grammar on CougarBoard…

m0resn0w

10/23/23 6:14am

I lived on the Shenandoah river in WV in a very secluded location. We would

AF_Puma

10/23/23 6:40am

RE: I lived on the Shenandoah river in WV in a very seclude location. We would

sah22

10/23/23 6:57am

Only one bullet/shell?

HiLife

10/23/23 8:04am

It used to be a duck plug, but I've got a few more shells now, but the gun

AF_Puma

10/23/23 9:52am

Just remembered one from Island Park

Trent

10/23/23 9:53am

Got another about a Halloween haunted house

AF_Puma

10/23/23 10:29am

I thought you were going to provide details on your stories...

sah22

10/23/23 1:57pm

RE: I thought you were going to provide details on your stories...

machete

10/23/23 3:43pm

RE: I thought you were going to provide details on your stories...

sah22

10/23/23 4:01pm

I’m going to. I haven’t had time.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 6:31pm

I capsized my boat on the Shenandoah river in a very secluded location. Went up

Methusaleh22

10/23/23 2:29pm

Should have been scary but was not: getting shot in the legs in Mexico. It was

Hoopster

10/23/23 4:29pm

Whoaa why were you shot?

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 6:29pm

On a mission in Mexico and we were in a Subway sandwich shop during a robbery.

Hoopster

10/23/23 8:30pm

Thanks for sharing. Yes, you are blessed for sure!

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 8:40pm

Very weird that he actually shot you. What a jerk.

YOHONOMOTO

10/23/23 8:49pm

Story with the evil spirit on my mission in Huntsville, Alabama

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 7:14pm

Yikes. Did you have to use your priesthood?

HiLife

10/23/23 8:22pm

We did, but after it had entered the room

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 8:26pm

That’s interesting. Had a similar experience with a mission companion

YOHONOMOTO

10/23/23 8:57pm

Gives me the creeps thinking about yours reminding me of mine.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:50pm

I had an opposite experience within weeks of that other experience as well.

YOHONOMOTO

10/24/23 8:36am

oh thats interesting.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/24/23 5:15pm

Sleep paralysis or another experience with evil on the mission

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 7:42pm

Gee, thanks. I didn't know what that was so I looked it up...

sah22

10/23/23 7:56pm

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 8:34pm

Sleep paralysis sounds horrible

JuicyJam

10/23/23 8:15pm

My dad had a similar experience on his mission.

HiLife

10/23/23 8:34pm

Imagination can run wild.

crimedog

10/23/23 9:50pm

For sure!

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/23/23 9:51pm

You only have to worry about that in Colorado

sah22

10/24/23 5:44am

With no other options to get there I once rode BART from the Oakland airport

neboutefan

10/24/23 8:47am

I wish I would have written down this experience to remember the details clearly

AF_Puma

10/24/23 9:42am

Thats a really good one.

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/24/23 5:19pm

This should be sent to the podcast Angels and Seerstones. Great podcast.

Trent

10/24/23 7:11pm

RE: Would love a thread of what’s the scariest thing that’s ever happened to

flatliner

10/26/23 10:36am

Board name checks out

bYuFB

10/26/23 10:43am

My wife has had countless interactions with spirits when patients were about to

AF_Puma

10/26/23 11:17am

Would enjoy hearing more details to your stories and some of your wife’s

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/29/23 11:02pm

I was home alone with two little kids for several months when our son decided to announce to me that he had wanted to

Black Diamond Bay

10/26/23 1:44pm

My Scariest Story followed by a few others. Very long.

Wife_Apologist

10/26/23 3:09pm

Those were great. Thanks

Tuskaloosa Cougar

10/29/23 10:59pm

Hiked the Appalachian Trail in WV with Scout troop in the fall one year.

AF_Puma

10/27/23 7:15am

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