Transcript
Glenn Washington (0:05)
There are people for whom stuff just happens. They are there when the house bursts into flame. They witness the robbery. Lightning strikes their tractor the very moment they step away. It's like the unfolding stories know that they need a witness. And they wait for certain people before they even begin to occur. From Snap Judgment's underground lair. My name is Glenn Washington. If the story's gonna happen, remember the details. Spook starts now.
Uncle Hugh (0:48)
I'm gonna put you on, nephew. All right, unc.
Sam (0:51)
Welcome to McDonald's. Can I take your order, miss?
Uncle Hugh (0:53)
I've been hitting up McDonald's for years. Now it's back. We need snack wraps. What's a snack wrap? It's the return of something great. Snack wrap is back.
Sam (1:04)
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Sam (1:52)
Sam.
Glenn Washington (2:37)
Now, you know, when you're out in the woods at night sitting around a campfire poking at the coals, folks get to telling scary stories, right? Well, you know the one person in your group that just has a knack for telling the best stories? The kind of storyteller that can make you scream, jump out your seat, make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Well, spooksters be afraid. We found a master storyteller. His name is Todd Naron. And if you're not already around a campfire, may I suggest that you dim the lights and get real cozy.
Sam (3:17)
Spooked. My name's Todd Nairn. Todd Curtis Nairn. I'm from North Carolina. And I sure would enjoy telling you a couple of these stories today. Little Barbara Nichols was just. Was a little girl I knew when I went to grade school in Corinth. Holders we were Both in the first grade together. And she was beautiful. And, well, all the boys thought she was beautiful, but I knew I did. But I didn't ever tell nobody. But every day I tried to get a little closer to her. She really didn't show me a lot of attention. I guess you could say she was my first love. She was just beautiful. Well, like I said, me and Barbara, she came to my little grade school in Corinth Horizon. We were in the first grade together and also rode the same bus to and from school. Her mom and daddy didn't have much money. She lived down an old path in a. It was actually a little shack way back then that nobody had lived in, but some old farmer had rented it to them and they made a pretty, pretty good place out of it. One day when she got off the bus, see, I didn't think. She thought nothing of me. But when she got off the bus and started walking down the path, there was a great big mud hole and she walked around it. She turned around right when she got out and threw over the mud hole and she turned around and she waved right directly at me. That's when I decided I was gonna love little Barbara and let the whole world know it. At least that's what I hoped for. But it wasn't meant to be, because on her walk home down that long mile path, she had to pass a little pond about an acre and a half big. And this is where the sadness and the horror begins. You see, Barbara didn't make it home that day and her parents went looking for her and couldn't find her. So they went down to the road and stopped people that were riding and asked him for their help. It was just amazing how many people just jumped into it and tried to find that little girl. They screamed. They walked every inch, every mile around that house. About nine o' clock the next morning, she was found by the banks of the little pond now called Barbara Nichols Pond and is still there to this day. Back where Barbara lived, about a mile off the road. There was a bunch of wild dogs back there that people had just let go and abandoned. Enough people did this that the dogs kind of banded together and to survive, they kind of had to be like a pack. And they would mostly kill just chickens and little goats and stuff like that. If you went by them on a motorcycle or something like that, they chase you. But I reckon if they ever got you, they got you. It seems those wild dogs were seen that day lying around that pond. And from Barbara's tracks and them dogs Tracks. It seems she must have been run into the water by them killer dogs to escape them from biting on her. And instead, my little barber drowned. I never did like them dogs, but I especially hated them after that. Well, everybody was really shocked. We just couldn't believe what was going on. I mean, this was really our first introduction. Introduction to death. It scared us. We're all scared. We all were hurt. And we started seeing strange things happen around that pond. We began finding dead dogs floating under, lying on the banks of it. They'd be swollen or rotting with bite marks where the turtles and catfish buzzards were tearing into them. People would take their dogs hunting around that pond. When you called the dogs back in, at least one dog was missing. And you would, like, go around and try to holler for the dog for the next couple of days. And nothing else left, you'd go to Barbara Nickels pond, and that dog would be there dead. And people just wouldn't hunt around there anymore, and they just left it alone. Everybody told their little boys and girls not to ever go around that pond. We all thought, you know, that Barbara Nichols had something to do with them dead dogs. But, I mean, we never saw anything happen. We just found dead dogs dead in there. I mean, we all kind of knew, being country folks. I guess since Barbara Nichols had to die in there, they did too. It had to be a good 12 years. I had graduated from high school and was still working on the farm. Well, I had Uncle Hugh, and he stayed in Wake county, and he wanted to go frog gigging. That's where you catch the frogs and kick the frogs and skim and eat the meat off the leaves. Well, he wanted to come to Johnston County. He wanted me to show him the ponds around Johnston county and go frog gigging. So I said, yeah. And he promised a good time, which by this time, I was a teenager, and that meant, you know, having some beer and stuff. Oh, frog gigging. That's one of the funnest things you could ever do. Take a little john boat, which is a little lightweight boat. You have a frog gig. Some people use a.22 gun, but he had a frog gig. Slowly go around the pond edge with a spotlight. I mean, a real strong spotlight. And you put it in the frog's eyes, and he'll stand just as still as he can be. And what you do is you got a gig, which is like a tiny little tripod for Neptune or something like that would use. And what you would do is you stick the frog, bring him in the boat, and you would kill the frog right off the bat so he wouldn't suffer. Then you would cut his legs off and put him back into the water. Kind of like the circle of life kind of thing. So we go to all the ponds and everything and nothing was happening. Nothing was happening. Probably seven or eight ponds. It was getting really embarrassing because we weren't getting nothing. And I told him that we would be getting some. So we. We didn't have enough frogs for one. For one person to have a meal out of. I said, I got one more pond we can go to. And I really didn't want to go to that pond. I didn't feel good about it, and I didn't even feel like I'd want to be a part of it. But I was kind of embarrassed that we didn't have nothing. I don't think I would have done it by myself. Well, I know I would have never done it by myself. But just having another person there gives you some kind of courage.