Oregon – Polybius, Portland
In 1891, black video game boxes with no name on them started appearing in Portland arcades. Given the name “Polybius” by players (after the Greek historian), the video game supposedly doesn’t exist.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t a disturbing number of people who remember playing it, though. Some people claim they were kidnapped and found 60 miles from where they’d been abducted, with mental side effects from whatever happened to them. The game involved shapes, colors and geometric patterns and was only ever serviced by men in suits who didn’t talk.
Many believe that it was part of the CIA’s MKUltra program. And yes, this might sound like an internet rumor gone amok, but considering what we do know about the CIA…seems more likely to be true than not.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)