Things on my grandpa’s dirt road farm that was actually pretty creepy in hindsight

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There was always a specific spot where anything mechanical would shut down. Cars would stall and a four wheeler would cut off

A graveyard that didn’t belong to our family sat beside the home. We don’t know the names on the gravestones

There was a skeleton in the forest. We don’t know who passed there

A home at the beginning of the road burned down but the chimney remained. I swear we could see smoke coming from it sometimes

There were figures in the wheat fields sometimes but they were too far away to see. Grandpa said they were neighbors and we should never talk to them

My great grandmas house sits next to my grandpa’s, abandoned, and we were told to never go in there

Sometimes at night when I couldn’t sleep, I could hear the sound of clacking coming down the road

Grandpa’s Farm Gothic

This is just American Gothic

this is just growing up in the midwest, y’all. add a few sheep skulls and a wendigo or two and it’s minnesota life.

At least two wendigos.  With just one, it’s hasn’t graduated to creepy, it’s just annoying.

Also, don’t forget the old clapboard outbuilding that is inexplicably filled with deer antlers.  No one knows how they got there or what the building’s original purpose was.  The Elders are firm that you keep out.

deer antlers and one rather threadbare stuffed wolverine that you tell yourself was NOT in a different pose last time you looked through the flyspecked window.