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Mhm. It's nothing. There's a bunch of grass, bare ground. Oh, everybody when I was, everybody went to the Tramp, Devil's Tramping Ground. Even some of the classmate boys in our area, they would dare to go over there and camp out overnight. But there's nothing except, a little space of ground where nothing grows and weeds all around it.

"In 1977, you could drive a car all through the flatwoods and it comes out at the Devil's Tramping Ground. And it's an old dirt and, you know, the lumber trucks, so you had to hit it at the right time or you'd be stuck out there. But you could drive a car 5 miles all the way through it, but you better drive about 10 miles per hour. When I was a kid, and I was a little too young, these guys would go spend the night at the Devil's Tramping, and they claimed they woke the next morning, and been moved out of the path, or that their hair--they saw their hair was standing straight up, or the car wouldn't start."

The stories I've heard have been, you know, that the devil 'tramp' that little spot out and if you go there it's evil. They used to do a Halloween trail through there or something. I don't do stuff like that, life is scary enough.

[Have you ever been?] No, I'm too scared. My friends and I always wanted to go in high school, but we never went [What have you heard about it?] So, I've heard that the devil walks around in a circle every night to--I can't remember for what purpose but he's doing it [His steps] Yeah, he's getting his steps in and that when you--if you like camp there, leave stuff there, it gets like moved out of the circle or it gets messed up