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5 min readScary Stories - The Backwoods
The levee on the 57-acre Louisiana property was supposed to be a simple piece of redneck engineering—a seventy-year-old dirt bank that kept the family house from drowning every time the creek flooded. Checking it after storms was routine, the kind of chore you do without thinking. But on this particular trip, the walk that should have taken thirty minutes stretched into hours, the trail never ended, and something came tearing down the drainage ditch that the narrator can only describe as "true evil."
The Setup: A Familiar Walk Turns Wrong
The narrator's family owns a wooded property in Louisiana, bordered by a small stream and protected by an aging levee. After every bad storm—coming once or twice a month—someone has to hike out and check that the levee held. The woods are normally full of what the narrator calls "redneck shit": old sheds, abandoned car seats miles from any road, random piles of sheet metal. Sometimes storms uncover old wells or forgotten structures. But this time, the walk itself started going wrong before anything overtly threatening appeared.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:01) **Setting the Scene: The Louisiana Woods** - The narrator describes the brutal, muddy, and mosquito-ridden reality of their family’s 57-acre property in Louisiana.
- 2 (05:20) **A Dire Warning** - The narrator breaks the fourth wall to issue a stark warning about the dangers of rural drainage systems and levees.
- 3 (05:56) **The Unevening Walk Begins** - The narrator heads out on his routine levee check, immediately noticing the woods feel "creepy and quiet."
- 4 (09:37) **Getting Lost in Familiar Territory** - The narrator describes a sudden, disorienting shift where the familiar 30-minute trail becomes an endless, looping path.
- 5 (11:22) **The Thing in the Levee** - The narrator finally reaches the levee, only to hear a low rumble that grows into a deafening roar from behind him.
- 6 (13:22) **The Desperate Escape** - The narrator scrambles up the steep side of the levee using ivy vines just as the creature blows past, sucking the air with it and leaving a rancid, rotting stench.
- 7 (15:33) **Crushing the Talisman** - Acting on instinct, the narrator crushes the effigy under his heel, feeling it was the only proper response.
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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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