“Belknap would often make threatening signs for any trespassers (most likely interested in the legend) with toad-related humor written on them”
Legend. Sounds like the sign on CodysLab Chicken Hole Base.
rather fascinating actually
Even though it was totally debunked as nonsense?
Every legend is nonsense, they are just not (yet) debunked. I like in stories like this, that the origin can be traced, as it’s only several hundred years old. You can imagine that all thousand years old stories of gods and other supernatural beings had a similar origin, but the context was lost. It’s a small glimpse into how human imagination works, how legends evolve
It’s also just how the suggestion of it being creepy creating the feeling of being creeped out (low grade fear) in an otherwise neutral setting.
