Traditional Legends

Far from the beaches and tourist mouse traps lies a different Florida. A land with Indigenous name places and where rivers are the color of sweet tea from the tannins. This Florida is a mysterious land where Spanish moss drips from the arms of ancient oak trees and swamps with all manner of dangerous creatures swim. Here, there are fathomless springs. No one even knows how deep these springs are or often, where they begin. What lurks beneath the mysterious watery depths of Fl

The stories I had quietly carried for years, the night visitors, the warnings, the ancestral echoes never left me. Instead, they began to change temperature. They wanted water. They wanted air that pressed close to the skin. They wanted heat, rot, and movement.

Granny was always drawn towards the unusual and mysterious as a young girl.

The Skunk Ape of Florida is a mysterious creature that has been reported in the swamps and forests of the Sunshine State for decades.