We can go for months without seeing much sunlight here during our endlessly rainy winters, so it’s cool that others admire our darkness.
So, we’re used to mythology working its way into the fabric of our region’s cultural identity, and we love that it does. In fact, parts of Twilight were filmed less than a few miles from my home. This is the place where extraterrestrials are believed to shine lights over campgrounds in the forests of Skamania County (I’ve actually seen this phenomena), and where vampires and werewolves are rumored to maintain ancient battles lines in the rainforests of Washington State as referenced in the film, “ Twilight” (2008).
Cooper, of lost Spanish gold and pirate treasure buried on Oregon’s beaches hence the reference to it in the film, “Goonies” (1985), filmed in Astoria, Oregon. In fact, the entire area from Northern California to Vancouver Island in British Columbia is steeped in tales of ghosts, and UFO sightings of wraith-women who haunt meadows and lakes and, of course, The Bandage Man, the dog-eating restless spirit who terrorizes a strip of road along the Oregon coast. The Pacific Northwest is a land of myths and legends. It’s a hoax.īut it never bothered me that the whole legend/conspiracy theory of Polybius was only a myth. And since the legend claims that Polybius had first appeared in a neighborhood that I spent a lot of time in from 1981-2004, surely, I and others had heard about it, right? Nope. Since I grew up in Portland, Oregon, and had never heard of this legend before, and neither had anyone else I knew for that matter, I was intrigued. The game was supposedly contained in a plain, unmarked, black upright arcade cabinet ( just like in Robert Maxxe’s 1984 novel “Arcade”) and the name “Polybius” appeared only on the game’s attract mode. Just briefly for those who aren’t aware of The Polybius Legend: According to a 1990s post from online message board Usenet, Polybius was an arcade game that produced psychoactive effects on players as well as caused a host of physical and psychological ailments. Quote from “Arcade” by Robert Maxxe sits in my home arcade on Satan’s Hollow (Bally Midway 1982)
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