Picnic Point

Rumors

Indians years ago believed that the point was haunted. They told of several Indian families that lived on the point leading happy lives until their children were carried off by witches who fattened them and then ate them.

The grieving Indians prayed to the spirit called Earthmaker. Earthmaker caught the witches and returned the children to their homes. He turned the witches into hackberry trees. They still stand at the end of Picnic Point, waving their branches mournfully and moaning into the wind.





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