Essay On Pocomoke Forest

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The Pocomoke forest has an eerie history of ghost stories. Some of the scary stories about The Pocomoke Forest are the Cellar House, the Goat Man, the Boyfriend, the Hook Man, and The Marva- theater, all the story’s occurred in the Pocomoke Forest. It also has a rich history rooted here on Del-Mar-VA, with it vastness of forested land, the river and its swampy marshes. One of the scary stories that supposedly took place in the woods was called The Boyfriend. A couple was driving through the forest and they ran out of gas. The boyfriend left to get help. The girlfriend fell asleep, when she woke in the morning she started hearing strange noises on the window. Her boyfriend had told her not turn look out the windows, but she turned around and saw her boyfriend hanging from a tree upside down. His head on the trunk of the car (Burgoyne). Moral of this story is you should never run out of …show more content…

Many people have come together to enjoy an art form. Marva theater is named because of its location on the border of Maryland and Virginia.it was a vaudeville theater purchased by Dawson Clarke, he played piano for silent movies shown. Dawson Clarke was a mayor in Pocomoke. Curt lippoldt, also a mayor of Pocomoke. He had a heart attack and died just after his eighty-fifth birthday. People believe they are spirits in the theater. In the theater there was no paranormal activity until after their deaths. Things disappear and reappear when someone calls out to one of the men. People who work at the theater say toilet flush by themselves, lights go off and on without anyone flipping the switch. Emily, who works at the theater, says that “the theater is full of spirits” She claims to have heard voice and a scream from a small child, she fled the theater quickly. The theater has lots of old energy and the community loves it. Movies are played on weekends, tickets are five dollars and popcorn are one dollar, and the ghost are