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5 min readScary Stories - The Backwoods
The levee was supposed to be a routine check. After every bad storm in rural Louisiana, the narrator's family sends someone out to inspect the seventy-year-old earthen bank that keeps their property from flooding. This time, the walk should have taken thirty minutes. It took hours, and the woods were wrong in ways that had nothing to do with the weather.
The narrator sets the scene carefully, grounding the listener in the physical reality of Louisiana backwoods: metric tons of mud, mosquitoes that arrive at dusk, poison ivy everywhere, and a small creek that swells dangerously after rain. The levee is described as "one of the only useful pieces of redneck engineering to ever exist" — a ramshackle barrier that keeps the house from becoming an "impromptu lake." Checking it after storms is the narrator's job, and it has always been uneventful.
The woods start changing
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- 1 Scary Stories - The Backwoods
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- 3 (01:00) **Setting the Scene: The Louisiana Woods** - The narrator describes the brutal reality of the Louisiana backwoods: poison ivy, mosquitoes, and endless mud, along with the family's 57-acre property and the aging levee that protects their home from flooding.
- 4 (06:11) **The Creepy Walk Begins** - After a recent storm, the narrator heads out to check the levee, noticing the woods are unnaturally quiet and slow to come alive with bugs and birds.
- 5 (08:37) **Lost on a Familiar Trail** - What should be a 30-minute walk stretches into hours as the narrator realizes he's walking a trail he knows by heart but never reaches the levee.
- 6 (09:48) **The Trees Turn Black and Diseased** - As the light fades, the tree trunks around him begin to look blacker and darker than they should, almost diseased, though the air smells normal.
- 7 (10:29) **The Thing in the Levee** - A low rumble grows from behind him, like an earthquake or train, and when he turns, he finds himself staring down the length of the levee—and something is coming.
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Show Notes
We learnt one thing as kids, when your playing in the backwoods, always stay away from the water
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