LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE

Everyone has had stories told to them about strange things that have happened to themselves or others. I for one like things that can't be explained, the spookeer the better. Some will never tell their story out of fear that they will be rediculed by others. I would like to hear some of these stories, wether they are true are false, a story is a story.

I will start off with one that I heard about the "Saratoga Light". This would be a railroad story told to me first by my cousin and then by railroad people. The story goes that there is a RR crossing around Beaumont Texas and you can look down the tracks and see a light and there is another crossing that you can look back toward the first crossing and see the light. My cousin had heard the story of the Saratoga Light and wanted to see for themselves if they could find the source of the light. If I remember correctly the story went that a brakeman was decapitated by a train and he was looking for his head with his railroad lantern (the light). My cousin told me that you could go to each crossing and see the light. A group of them went out and were going to walk the tracks starting at each crossing and move toward each other until they found the source of the light. Before the two groups met on the tracks the light disapeared.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on April 11, 2009 at 5:47
It was the Winds of Autum, I googled him.
Permalink Reply by herefordsnshale on April 11, 2009 at 6:13
I'll have to look for that one on Amazon, I thought I had seen all of his movies. The Boggy Creek monster is one of the four major stories of the Bigfoot legend. The others are the Patterson Tape, the Ape Canyon Incident, and the story from President Theodore Roosevelt's memoirs about the two trappers in the remote canyon in Idaho. Mr. Roosevelt heard the story from the surviving trapper who was working as a cook in a hunting camp.
Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on April 12, 2009 at 0:50
Hereford,

A lot of people do not know there was a serial killer in Texarkana. That was a weird story,I saw the movie once but have never seen it again,
Permalink Reply by intrepid on April 12, 2009 at 4:44
"The Town That Dreaded Sundown" - was the name of that movie. It was pretty chilling to me when I first saw it.

As I remember the killer was never caught.
Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on April 12, 2009 at 6:02
Intrepid,
Your correct he was never caught, the way he killed those folks was bizar. Well he's probably dead now, or at least let's hope.
Permalink Reply by herefordsnshale on April 12, 2009 at 9:22
I have never researched the real story so I don't know how accurate the movie representation was. The "trombone attack" was a classic! Wasn't the actress who played on GILLIGAN'S ISLAND the victim in the movie?
Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on April 11, 2009 at 7:41
Rosebud,

I was always curious about it too. There is something striking about the architecture. Maybe it's just the gothic style of it. But every time I pass it I just stare. It just makes you want to go out to it and touch it. It now has a chain link fence around it that really detracts from it's beauty. The least they could have done was put a wrought iron fence around it.
Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on April 11, 2009 at 13:22
I'm curious about the rocks along the Red River on the Shreveport side just North of Stoner. They've always looked out of place to me. I'm wondering if there is a story attributed to them.
Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on April 11, 2009 at 13:33
Parker, I am not a native son of Shreveport so I am not familiar with what you are talking about. Hell I had to look on the map to see where Talortown was. I do live on the left desending bank of the Red River (Bossier Side) but more than a 120 miles South of Shreveport. What do the rocks look like?
Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on April 11, 2009 at 13:37
They are a rust color and rather large on a high bank of the river. They've always looked out of place to me.

I'm not from here either.
Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on April 11, 2009 at 13:47
They were probably put there to cut down on erosion or to shift the river to the other side to steal land a long time ago. A river can steal land just like an individual.
Permalink Reply by sesport on April 11, 2009 at 16:57
I'm not sure, but I believe the pond & boulders were put there when the amphitheatre was built back up in the woods. I don't think there's really a story there, but I vaguely recall a drowning in the pond at the amphitheatre. In the late 70's and early 80's the park was the "soundstage" of the time. I guess Festival Plaza now fills that purpose.

Now there might be some old stories associated with the old homes on Austin Place and Oakland Cemetary near there.

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