henry
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this happened a couple of weeks ago, on afternoon of sunday 12th march in fact ... and not far from the locus of the bizarre night in mississippi
i have been gradually exploring backroads of the mississippi delta by car over the last period, stopping and checking out historic blues places and also aesthetic and or roadside/decrepit/spooky places
i was driving in vicinity of the towns of lexington/ebenezer/benton, not especially heading anywhere other than loosely to jackson, southwest on highway 432 which runs between benton and pickens (other thread)
i passed a cool abandoned building set back from the road that seemed possibly former defence/military but with no fencing or signs around it, spun around further on and pulled into the entrance driveway and parked
building set back and clear to the road with just grass in front, tall trees behind and other side of the road (south) also lined with tall trees
i spent 20 minutes wandering around, taking photos, looking in open vents where panels had been kicked away etc, was very atmospheric, the whole time i didnt see another vehicle or person ... at some point i noted the sound of what i believed were crows, sound had started low and grown in volume gradually ... i felt the sound was coming from the line of trees on south side of highway 432
during my explorations the crow sounds got louder and although i couldnt see any birds, sound did seem to emanate from roadside trees ... i then started to think i heard human voices in amongst the crow calls, i initially put this down to birds using similar patterns and sounds, however i started to feel like 30 minutes was plenty of time spent, so i walked out to the road to get a last wide shot of the entire building in its surroundings, which i did from the centre of the road as there were no vehicles and only the noise of the birds, which hadnt got much louder despite me walking almost to the treeline
for final final shot i walked forward about 20 feet maybe onto the grassed area directly in front of the building, at this moment i started to hear what i definitely felt was the sound of boisterous humans within the sound of the crows, sounded like a party of twenty-somethings larking around and calling out to each other, i looked around and there was nothing, no people, no birds even
i took the photo, turned towards my truck and as i turned my body from behind me a very clear and loud voice said YALL COME BACK NOW ... i turned my head but kept heading to my vehicle, nothing was there, no person no bird (i actually thought i would see a bird standing on the ground beside where i had stood, that had somehow managed to mimic this saying)
well i was in my truck pretty quick and out of there
i have been gradually exploring backroads of the mississippi delta by car over the last period, stopping and checking out historic blues places and also aesthetic and or roadside/decrepit/spooky places
i was driving in vicinity of the towns of lexington/ebenezer/benton, not especially heading anywhere other than loosely to jackson, southwest on highway 432 which runs between benton and pickens (other thread)
i passed a cool abandoned building set back from the road that seemed possibly former defence/military but with no fencing or signs around it, spun around further on and pulled into the entrance driveway and parked
building set back and clear to the road with just grass in front, tall trees behind and other side of the road (south) also lined with tall trees
i spent 20 minutes wandering around, taking photos, looking in open vents where panels had been kicked away etc, was very atmospheric, the whole time i didnt see another vehicle or person ... at some point i noted the sound of what i believed were crows, sound had started low and grown in volume gradually ... i felt the sound was coming from the line of trees on south side of highway 432
during my explorations the crow sounds got louder and although i couldnt see any birds, sound did seem to emanate from roadside trees ... i then started to think i heard human voices in amongst the crow calls, i initially put this down to birds using similar patterns and sounds, however i started to feel like 30 minutes was plenty of time spent, so i walked out to the road to get a last wide shot of the entire building in its surroundings, which i did from the centre of the road as there were no vehicles and only the noise of the birds, which hadnt got much louder despite me walking almost to the treeline
for final final shot i walked forward about 20 feet maybe onto the grassed area directly in front of the building, at this moment i started to hear what i definitely felt was the sound of boisterous humans within the sound of the crows, sounded like a party of twenty-somethings larking around and calling out to each other, i looked around and there was nothing, no people, no birds even
i took the photo, turned towards my truck and as i turned my body from behind me a very clear and loud voice said YALL COME BACK NOW ... i turned my head but kept heading to my vehicle, nothing was there, no person no bird (i actually thought i would see a bird standing on the ground beside where i had stood, that had somehow managed to mimic this saying)
well i was in my truck pretty quick and out of there