Legend tripping

Legend tripping is a practice in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event or haunting.

[1][failed verification] The practice mostly involves the visiting of sites endemic to locations identified in local urban legends, and can serve as a rite of passage.

Abandoned buildings, remote bridges, tunnels, caves, rural roads, specific woods or other uninhabited (or semi-uninhabited) areas, and especially cemeteries are frequent sites of legend-tripping pilgrimages.

It allows young people to demonstrate their courage in a place where the actual physical risk is likely slight.

[4] These transgressions then sometimes lead to local moral panics that involve adults in the community, and sometimes even the mass media.