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5 min readScary Stories - The Backwoods
The levee on the family property in Louisiana runs along a stream that floods every time it rains. Without it, the house would be surrounded by an impromptu lake. So after every bad storm, someone has to go check it. The narrator is the one who gets sent out into the muddy hellscape of the woods trail to do it. It's routine. But this time, something was wrong from the start.
The woods in Louisiana are not pleasant forest. They are poison ivy, boars, deer, and metric tons of mud. If you want to avoid foot-blistering hell and mosquitoes, you wait for a two-week dry spell. It loves to rain. It loves to flood. The levee is seventy years old, already there when the family bought the property, a piece of redneck engineering that keeps them from choking on swamp water. The narrator checks it after every bad storm, which come once or twice a month, sometimes back to back, sometimes once a year.
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- 1 Scary Stories - The Backwoods
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- 3 (00:45) **Setting the Scene: The Louisiana Woods** - The narrator describes the brutal reality of the Louisiana backwoods: endless mud, mosquitoes, rain, and a 57-acre property protected by a ramshackle levee
- 4 (05:55) **The Creepy Walk Begins** - On this particular trip, the woods feel wrong from the start: unnaturally quiet, then a tree falls directly in front of the narrator
- 5 (07:00) **The Bizarre Deer Damage** - Every tree within reach shows signs of violent deer rubbing, with blood on broken antler nubs, far beyond normal behavior
- 6 (09:55) **Lost on a Familiar Trail** - A 30-minute walk stretches into hours; the narrator marks trees but never passes the same one twice, and the sky refuses to darken
- 7 (11:44) **The Thing in the Levee** - A low rumble grows into a deafening roar as something massive, black, watery, and beady-eyed tears down the levee trench toward the narrator
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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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