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Post by sportsjock on Jun 4, 2018 8:57:56 GMT -5
Have ridden the the trail from NB to B.G. many, many times, sometimes into late evening, but never had any feeling of spookiness...lol Mostly, fighting the mile after mile of uneventful, rural farmland landscape, lulling me into semi-boredom. Focusing on interaction with other joggers/riders/walker passersby remedies that.
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Post by DrTorch on Jun 4, 2018 9:08:02 GMT -5
In late fall when the sky is clear and the moon is full, i could see how that place was considered haunted. You gotta remember, the Black Swamp is a shell of what it once was back in a time where crossing a river was still a mean feat.
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Post by deathfromabove on Jun 4, 2018 10:48:07 GMT -5
Sports, Doc is right on with that. As a kid traveling at night in the car with dad and that moon is full it was very scary like that story of the headless horseman. I always expected the rider come chasing us all the way into town. Framers loved that moon so they could get their crops in before the winter. Over there the framers take their framing seriously. They would be out in the fields all day and all night just to get their crops in and out. Those where the good old days that I really miss and my kids never had the privilege to experience, like staying the week or weekend at either my grandparents house or my Aunt & Uncles place. And when I stayed at my grandparents, I would go out back where the Nickle Plate Road hade a small interchange yard there on the old Cloverleaf Division and I watch the trains there. Since my grandfather retired from the Nickle Plate all the engineers and conductors knew grandpa and they would ask them if it was alright for me to come along with them and they would drop me off at my aunts place. Being 6 years old at the time and riding in either the engine or the caboose was really something. I even got to blow the whistle along the way and when they stop at New Bavaria I would get out and walk to the fence and get the gallon jug of moonshine for them. Kids can't do those stuff now anymore. Oh to be a kid again.
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Post by sportsjock on Jun 4, 2018 12:32:30 GMT -5
Both of you have the most interesting stories to share. thanks.....
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Post by deathfromabove on Jun 4, 2018 17:49:18 GMT -5
Both of you have the most interesting stories to share. thanks..... sports, Your welcome. One of these days the 3 of us should get together and start reliving our stories, maybe we could write a book on these and title it, The Life and Times of 3 Worthless Nuts. ROFL
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