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.
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 Dorcheated A1 on -
TD,
When I was in high school there was an abandon house out in Elm Grove in a pasture. I was told back in the 1860's a plantion worker killed the owner of the plantion in a fit of rage.In order to hide the body, the plantion worker cut the body up in small pieces and boiled the flesh off the bones. When the plantion worker went to get the head it was gone. It just so happened that every Friday and Saturday night the plantion owner could be found wandering the plantion looking for his head. So of course the big thing in school was to load up a car on Friday or Saturday night and see if they could find the plantion owner wandering around. The only thing I found wandering around was more drunk and stoned people like me lol. -
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Permalink Reply by herefordsnshale on
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I cruised a big tract of timber down near Saratoga in the summer of 2007 and one of the other foresters on the project told me about that old story. I love stories like this too.
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Permalink Reply by M. Mcwilliams on
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The exact same story as the Saratoga Light is told about Crossett, Arkansas.
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My scariest personal experience, after 20 years of working in the woods happened in the early 90's. I was marking a tract of timber in a remote part of Shelby County Texas and walked up on a grown deer that had been freshly killed. The hide was peeled off from the shoulders to the back flanks, hanging in flaps and a light coating of leaves and pine straw had been raked over the carcass. I stood there for a minute trying to figure out what had happened, the time of the year was late winter, long after hunting season closed, it was too far from houses or roads to be poachers or to have been hit by a car and wandered off to die. My next move was to get away from there quickly! I left and didn't come back to the tract for several weeks, by then there was nothing left but bones. Looking back on it there are rational explanations, it could have been sick and been killed by coyotes but I still wonder about it sometimes.
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Permalink Reply by Lightfoot on
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Interesting story, herefordsnshale.
Hunting way back in some private woods once, I found a dead crow on the ground with a single large drop of blood clinging to his head. I touched the blood. It was still warm.
I don't remember if I looked for a wound. I don't think I did. I probably just left the vicinity asap.
I guess he was shot a distance away and made it that far, falling to the ground just before I wandered along. -
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Things like that do make you wonder, you wouldn't think a crow could go far with a head shot.
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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on
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Rosebud,
Great story, I must say you have us all beat with that one, but hereford's is kind of spooky too.
I'm not down for stuff out in the woods, you know like the Legend Of Boggey Creek or Big Foot, that movie scared the hell out of me. A friend of mines farther had a camp right outside Fouke Arkansas and this was probably about 4 or 5 years after the movie had came out. They asked me if I wanted to camping for the weekend, I said Fouke you man, I ain't going nowhere that place. -
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Permalink Reply by Dorcheated A1 on
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Good one KB,
I bet New Orleans has more ghost stories than anyother city in the United States. That's freaky place coming from a freaky guy. -
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Oh yes, the Fouke monster, when you think about it we have several legends right here in our area. The same man who made the BOGGY CREEK movies (Charles B. Pierce) also made a movie called THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN about the "Phantom Killer" In Texarkana in the 40's. That case was never solved.
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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on
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Charles B. Pierce made some good westerns, I remember the color was great for that point in time. I think it was the Bells of Autum where Jack Elam had that 3 legged dog that the camera would allways catch from the side that didn't have a leg, showing the dogs privates.
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I don't think if I have ever seen BELLS OF AUTUMN. I remember WINTERHAWK, SACRED GROUND, and GRAYEAGLE. I read somewhere where he borrowed $16,000 I think it was, from a trucking company in Arkansas to finance the first BOGGY CREEK movie.
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