Results for Local Tall Tales
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A middle aged man becomes the talk of the town when he shares a crazy story regarding his missing friend and creatures that live beneath a water pump house.
A curious woman attempts to get to the bottom of an urban legend in her town.
A teenaged boy wants to steal from his poor family to buy a girl balloons, but when he gets home his mother falls ill and he must help his family and community pray for her.
In a dark rendition of Red Riding Hood, a woman bored by village life longs for the dark mystery of the woods and the wolves therein.
A middle aged man comes across an old museum for Word Dolls on the side of the road, where he meets and older woman who tells him old horror stories from the farms nearby. She tells him about the Mower Manc, a murderer who used to roam the fields only for the Word Doll museum to disappear mysteriously afterword.
A man recalls his childhood near the woods and the creature which lurked within it.
A young girl spends her summer mostly alone, weaving in and out of the townspeople's lives and fantasizing about princesses and fairy godmothers
Two young boys cutting through a field at night encounter a ghostly tobacco plantation and struggle to free its inhabitants whose spirits are tied to the land.
A proud young lumberjack with flowing red hair challenges the respect and power of a local folk hero in the woodsmen's camp. The folk hero cuts off the lumberjack's hair in retaliation and the young man seeks revenge, leaving both men haunted by the consequences of his actions.
A small town devolves into fear and confusion as a man sits atop a flagpole for forty days straight with no food or explanation.