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Long ago when I was younger, yearn for knowledge I did hunger, heard about a rumor going ‘round. Twas a legend told for ages, passed along as time turned pages, strange as any tale twas ever found. Rumor said that near the quicksand, lived a ghost back in the swampland, ghost of Boggy Creek always abound. Curiosity engulfed me, through the bog I yearned to sightsee, learning for myself the swamp’s mystique. In the backwoods shadows shaping, Cypress trees with grey moss draping; eerie was the scene at Boggy Creek. Sights and sounds were so alarming, fear of finding something harming, making me to feel so very weak. In the dark I wandered wading, light of day was slowly fading, slowly fading was the summer breeze. Wading through the swampy water, searching for the spectral squatter squatting in the swamp amongst the trees. In the shadows echoes screeching, piercing screams my ears were reaching, eerie screams that brought me to my knees. ‘mongst the Cypress lurked a vision, eerie figure prompts decision, my decision turn around and run. Running faster, screeches blaring, right behind the image glaring, thinking that my life was almost done. Suddenly was in the clearing, left behind the ghoul was jeering, jeering for more terrorizing fun. In the clear, my sweat was dripping, from the chase as ghost was nipping, nipping ever closer to my soul. In the sky the moon was waning, my composure was regaining, gaining back my strength from ghoulish troll. Ne’er again will I go wading, in the bog, ghouls haunt invading, tempting fate in baleful boggy bowl. It’s been forty years since searching, boggy mash for demons lurching, hoping just to get a ghostly peek. No more do I have a yearning, to this bog won’t be returning, wondering about this swamp’s mystique. I will tell you that the legend, never ever should be questioned, after showdown deep in Boggy Creek.
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