The month of October is filled with haunted houses, horror movies, and other festivities to get you and your friends in the spooky spirit. Soddy Daisy’s small town of about 13,280 people may seem void of terrors and scares, but it may not be as boring as you think.
Soddy Daisy used to be a coal mining area. The job was an important one, but not a very respected one. During this time of coal mining, there was a very beautiful woman with a very wealthy father.
Because of this wealth, her father met with a town clerk and soon enough she was betrothed.
This town clerk was young and well-respected – perfect for the pampered girl. The only problem was that she did not love him.
The truth was that someone else had her heart. Someone who wasn’t “good enough” for her. He was a coal miner who worked the Black Track – or Durham Street as you may now know it. He was not well-known. He was not well-educated. And he was not wealthy.
If she were to cut off her engagement to the town clerk it would be the scandal of the century, her father would be volatile, the town clerk would look like a fool, and the whole hierarchy of Soddy Daisy would come down. But she was in love with the coal miner, so she only had one choice.
One night, after many trysts and meetings, the lovers decided action must be taken if they wanted to be together.
The two lovers found the town clerk, so quietly, so giddily, so blissfully in love, and murdered him.
Once they were sure he was dead, they ran hand-in-hand together as fugitives. They were going to runoff somewhere to get married and leave everything behind to start anew. Together.
It was all working perfectly.
Until something unexplainable happened.
The couple passed Big Soddy Creek on their way out of town, and the bride somehow drowned.
We don’t know how it happened or how her love was unable to save her, but she died in the cold waters, all her plans dying with her.
She is now The Black Track Ghost, said to wander Durham Street soaked and shivering from the cold dark waters she was pulled out of after dying.
If you haven’t seen her yet, be glad: seeing her is a warning to your own loved ones death.
