Urban Legend: a local story of unknown origin involving incidents of the past that include supernatural elements and tend to be believed as true by the local community. These stories are generally passed on by word of mouth.

Whether it is on Halloween night or simply sitting around a campfire with your closest friends, telling ghost stories and urban legends is a popular American tradition. Now, the Lincolnton-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce and the Lincoln County Development Authority are asking you to write them down! They are looking for submissions of these stories detailing the time, place (locally), characters, and plot. They do ask that all stories are historical and entertaining in nature, involve a supernatural event, and are believed to have a non-fiction origin.

These stories will be featured in a Halloween story telling to be held at the Welcome Center October 31, 2009 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. All stories can be submitted to sbanks@lincolncountyga.com or dropped of at The Welcome Center between 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. no later than October 1, 2009. For more information, please call (706) 359- 7970.