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bassdave
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Posted: Mon Nov 3rd, 2008 09:35 pm |
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| this past weekend i had the pleasure of sitting around a roaring campfire in mentone al..about 1 mile directly in behind the zoo..now the zoo is in middle of the woods..lions , tigers and bears..the whole nine yards..you can hear them roaring at nite....at my buddies house sitting by the fire..it will chill you to the bone..but his father-in-law was there..an older guy from another generation...i was telling him about my interest in bigfoot..then he told me this story...he said when he was younger there was a hollow up by them called steelhead branch hollow..it was a really bad place that you really didnt need to be in...especially at night...so the story goes that there was a big booger in the woods..this story he said was to keep people scared off the place so the moonshiners would not get caught up with..they made booger tracks in the creekbed, he described them to me..they were about 17 inches long and human..just giant sized in his words, to be found and they would make a bullhorn with a 55 gallon barrell and rope with beeswax on it to make the gosh awful noise of a booger..anyway it worked he said nobody would set foot on this place for fear of a booger...he never said the word bigfoot..just booger..this was in the early 50's....but it made me wonder about other stories that have been handed down through the ages from grandpaw to uncle to uncle....mentone connects with desoto state park where miss gena found the trees and possible rock throwing this past weekend...makes one wonder ......they might really be a booger up there in the woods....not making or sipping moonshine.....ps..its good shine..i've had it and surrvived it...lol..but never again....maybe..........but it was an interesting inlightening story of another time.....bassdave
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Posted: Tue Nov 4th, 2008 12:10 am |
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| Kool story bassdave. It does make you wonder.Sounds like you can't make your mind up bout that shine.LOL
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Posted: Tue Nov 4th, 2008 05:30 am |
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I wouldn't be surprised if there were more than a few legends concocted to keep people away from moonshining operations. We've found more than a few old moonshine vats, etc., in the woods, especially around cave entrances with streams, and once a friend and I stumbled on what appeared to be a not entirely abandoned still (we, however, abandoned the area pretty quickly and quietly).
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grump13
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Posted: Wed Nov 5th, 2008 03:05 am |
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| been there , the name is 'still house hollow, and it is true the moonshiners concocted that tale, at one time the men in that neighborhood would not go out of the house at night, this was in the '50s , my aunt told me a tale , when i was a kid, about a varmint of some kind that screamed like a woman,and moved fairly fast, until the sound faded away, she said it sounded like it jumped off of Desoto Falls, I thought it was a panther, until i got to reading BF reports, the rim of the gorge of Desoto Falls was only 1/2 mile or less from where she lived, A BF could have traveled that rim and then gone into the gorge, which would account for the fading away sound, this happened in the fall of the year for several years, this is about 3 miles north of Desoto Park. directly east of Camp Cloudmont, there is a road across there now, and a covered bridge across the river, The Bowed trees in Gena's pictures were probably a result of ice, That mountain will ice over at the drop of a hat. Ive seen the trees on that hill next to the zoo ice over and there would not be any where else, ive seen this once. the man i told u to get in touch with only lives about a mile and a half from Desoto State Park.
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Nokosee
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Posted: Thu Nov 6th, 2008 03:57 pm |
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bassdave wrote: this past weekend i had the pleasure of sitting around a roaring campfire in mentone al..about 1 mile directly in behind the zoo..now the zoo is in middle of the woods..lions , tigers and bears..the whole nine yards..you can hear them roaring at nite....at my buddies house sitting by the fire..it will chill you to the bone..but his father-in-law was there..an older guy from another generation...i was telling him about my interest in bigfoot..then he told me this story...he said when he was younger there was a hollow up by them called steelhead branch hollow..it was a really bad place that you really didnt need to be in...especially at night...so the story goes that there was a big booger in the woods..this story he said was to keep people scared off the place so the moonshiners would not get caught up with..they made booger tracks in the creekbed, he described them to me..they were about 17 inches long and human..just giant sized in his words, to be found and they would make a bullhorn with a 55 gallon barrell and rope with beeswax on it to make the gosh awful noise of a booger..anyway it worked he said nobody would set foot on this place for fear of a booger...he never said the word bigfoot..just booger..this was in the early 50's....but it made me wonder about other stories that have been handed down through the ages from grandpaw to uncle to uncle....mentone connects with desoto state park where miss gena found the trees and possible rock throwing this past weekend...makes one wonder ......they might really be a booger up there in the woods....not making or sipping moonshine.....ps..its good shine..i've had it and surrvived it...lol..but never again....maybe..........but it was an interesting inlightening story of another time.....bassdave
Uncle Edwin used to make a contraption like that with a 5 gallon lard can, length of leather strap doped up with "rawsin" (resin). When he pulled it through the hole in the can (bottom) it made a howl that would send the dawgs packing under the porch. I spec it mighta run a few "boogers" up a tree or even under the porch with the dawgs as well!  Last edited on Thu Nov 6th, 2008 03:58 pm by Nokosee
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grump13
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Posted: Thu Nov 6th, 2008 05:07 pm |
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| i have heard of contraptions like that but never saw one, they used catgut for the string, i tried to picture a catgut u could pull through the can, i was a kid at the time
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