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5 min readThe Levee That Led Somewhere Else
The woods in Louisiana are a particular kind of hell. "Take a normal, perfectly good, pleasant forest," the narrator begins, "and a little bit of poison ivy. A hell of a lot of boars and deer, and then as much mud as you can imagine. I'm talking metric tons of the stuff." His family's 57-acre property in the bayou country has a seventy-year-old levee running along the northern border, a ramshackle piece of redneck engineering that keeps the house from flooding whenever the creek swells. After every bad storm, someone has to check it. That someone is always him.
The routine was supposed to be simple. Walk the trail, inspect the levee, come home. But on this particular evening, after he'd put off the chore until after an early supper, the woods stopped behaving like woods.
The Trail That Wouldn't End
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:01) **Louisiana Backwoods Setup** - The narrator describes the hellish terrain of their 57-acre Louisiana property: constant mud, mosquitoes, flooding, and a 70-year-old levee that keeps the house from becoming a swamp.
- 2 (05:22) **The Warning About Levees** - A direct advisory: never check levees alone, wait until the mud dries, and avoid doing it near sunset.
- 3 (05:56) **The Creepy Walk Begins** - The narrator heads out after a rainstorm; the woods are unnaturally quiet with bugs and birds slow to start.
- 4 (07:01) **The Deer Rub Anomaly** - The narrator notices every tree within reach has been stripped of bark by deer, with broken antler nubs and blood on the ground.
- 5 (08:37) **Getting Lost in Familiar Woods** - What should be a 30-minute walk turns into hours; the trail never ends, and the sky doesn't darken as expected.
- 6 (09:34) **The Trees Turn Black** - The trunks around them start looking diseased, blacker than they should be, even for sunset.
- 7 (10:30) **The Beast in the Levee** - A low rumble grows from behind, and the narrator sees something massive, black, and watery tearing down the levee trench at incredible speed.
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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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