The Manchak Marshes in Louisiana are located near New Orleans. These places are also called "Ghost Swamps". Gloomy unyielding trees overgrown with moss look down upon the people wandering into these ruinous lands.
Swamps have always been a dangerous and unpredictable environment for humans. Those who have gone to the swamps know: it is worth being in the middle of the swamp, when suddenly there is a strange ringing in the ears, dizzy, legs become cottony, and light flickers in the distance …
The wandering lights, which can often be seen in the swamps, are often mistaken by travelers for the lights of their homes and go straight into the swamps. These small marsh luminaries are usually at the height of a person's raised hand, and due to the omen of imminent death, they began to be called "dead man's candles."
In Germany, they say that the lights in the swamp are the ghosts of those who stole the land from their neighbors. The Finns, on the other hand, called the swamp lights "lecchio" and believed that these were the souls of children buried in the forest. In Northern Europe, they believed that the lights in the swamp were the spirits of ancient warriors guarding treasures.
Be that as it may, an inexplicable fear grips a person who finds himself in a swamp, fear of a slow death in a bog, because the death of a person caught in a bog lasts from several minutes to several days … but not here. In the swamps of Manchak, a person in trouble is just an easy, long-awaited prey.
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Many escaped slaves once laid down their heads here. Having escaped from the cruel owners, they tried to hide in the swamps, but the huge alligators - the ancient inhabitants of the Louisiana swamps, did not leave the unfortunate a single chance for life.
The local peace is occasionally disturbed by the emerging corpses of people - these swamps have ruined many lives. Among the mutilated dead people come across not only local hunters, but also missing tourists.
In these parts, they sometimes whisper about some terrible creature, emitting a chilling howl in the twilight. Considering that there is a legend about a curse imposed on the swamps in the XX century by a captive witch, then perhaps alligators are not the worst thing to be afraid of here.