Favorite East Texas Halloween "Traditions"

Macksimus

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Anyone ever gone out to Shiloh or any other "haunted" spots?

I've got a couple of stories, but they'd take a few more people on here to help me remember them all.

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4:14p, 10/31/05

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Been to Shiloh. How about Big Woods?

When I was in high school there was a scavenger hunt every year that usually got a few people arrested. If it wasn't for a major accident on loop 281, I would have been one of those people.

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9:30a, 11/1/05

I did the Big Woods thing too.

I saw some freaky stuff that would be unbelievable to anyone who wasn't there to witness it.

People dancing around a fire and all sorts of crazy stuff... We got the hell outta there.

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11:17a, 11/1/05

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Jefferson, Excelsior Inn?

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11:19a, 11/1/05

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The story behind Big Woods is that supposedly there was some Satanic worshipping going on out there many years ago. I imagine what you saw were some wannabes.

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11:39a, 11/1/05

quite possibly wannabees...

but none the less, we got the hell out.

Stuff like Kelly Wilson (girl from Gilmer) happens in deep ETX, and we wanted no part of it.

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2:54p, 11/1/05

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Hey Macks, you've never been to Big Woods. The place you are thinking about is Talley bottoms out by LeTourneau.

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8:37a, 11/12/05

where's Big Woods?

i remember being able to see a "ghost" by the railroad tracks on some road off Highway 80.

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3:48p, 11/12/05

I think what you're talking about 1 is where you can stop on some train tracks and have your car pushed...

But according to my brother there was some Hwy 80 ghost thing too, if you had your lights on bright at the right angle, a ghost would appear.