Here in my neck of the woods (Hahaha another bad pun my location is listed as the Big Thicket and well you get the idea.), there are a few legends and ghost tales that are interesting.

The entire Big Thicket region was considered haunted by the local indegenous peoples and as such it was largely uninhabited until the white man forced the Alabama tribe was forced off their lands. Still they only settled on the edges of the dense impenetrable jungle and never went into the heart of the thicket.

There are tales of guardians resembling bears or eagles feircely attacking anyone who dares to venture into lands considered forbidden.

There is a tale of a headless watchman on an old train track who was decapatated in an accident.

The boggy creek man is either a hermit or a swamp yeti who got lost.

Actual hermits live in their shacks and some of my ex-fiancee's relatives actually lived in the woods living off of the land jsut like their ancestors did.

The wildlife is diverse and unique and not particularly dangerous. Just stay away form wild pigs and alligators. Houton is also exotic pet capital of the world so some times there may be tales of an escaped emu, python, monkey out there.

There are no bears and panthers and wolves are scarce. I am hoping one day to own a wildlife refuge and rectify that.

The terrian is trecherous and all looks the same. It can look like a primeval forest untouched by man, but in reality you are only 2 miles from a major city. As a result, people foolishly get lost in there.

Witches like open clearings, hippies smoke weed in the state park and Satanists are in the abandoned saw mills performing foul rites to an unspeakable horror.

Speaking of weed Cannibas sativa can be found if you are lucky, but as my scoutmaster once said "Son half the forest is edible and the other half is smokeable toke up!"

Boyscouts pose no danger, but they are really geeky and horny and smell bad too.

Oh and of course there are giant spiders, but this ain't Modor so worry more about the snakes, lizards and escaped gorilla.

Vampire bats, fire ants and killer bees are the least of your worries. Sentient tree roaches give me the creeps.

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