DIGITAL KIDS WORLD

    Alabama ghost story about a tired farm widow who visits the local witch a good night’s sleep – big mistake. When I was a kid back home in South Alabama, whenever I would get real rambunctious and wouldn’t go to bed, all my folks had to do was tuck me in and tell me about Old’ Sleepyhead – that crazy old woman who could never fall asleep. That story could always make me go straight to sleep the minute the lights were turned out. The story goes like this – many years ago, there used to be this old couple named Flowers who lived on a huge farm outside of town. Mr Flowers was a very prosperous farmer; with bountiful fields and lots of livestock. Even in the driest months, the old man still found a way to make lots of money off his land. And the more successful he got, the more his farm grew. Well, you know what they say about having lots of things – the more stuff you got, the more you have to take care of. Well, Mrs Flowers found that out the hard way. One hot summer afternoo...

    Cajun folktale about a beautiful girl who has the misfortune of choosing a real devilish mate.  Down in the bayou country there was once a beautiful girl named Marie. She was so pretty, so Jolie, that all the people called her Marie Jolie. She was as sweet as sugar cane, but if you did her wrong, look out, for that girl could show a temper as hot as cayenne pepper! Now Marie Jolie grew to be of a marrying age, but to her mamans disappointment, she wasn’t yet of a mind to be married. First, she wanted to have adventures and see the big world, so she found something wrong with every young man who came to court her. This one was too short; that one was too tall; the next one had the ears of an elephant. After a while her maman got impatient with Marie, for she worried that her daughter would wind up an old maid – a terrible fate in those days. So mamanss says, “Marie Jolie, it is time for you to take a husband. You can’t pick one to suit you, so me, I’m gonna do it for y...

    Creature story of a Depression-era farmhand who will take just about any job – even at a strange and deadly Mississippi farm. When the Great Depression hit the South back in the 1930s, it hit the South hard. Thousands of people wandered from town to town hoping to find a job, sometimes even leaving their families behind. But most of the time, all they would find was another group of people just like them, waiting desperately for the next job to appear. Some would say Jack was a lucky man. He was a rebellious young adventure-seeker who left his family a long time ago to ride the rails, and to see as much of the world as he could. But even a journeyman had to eat sometime, and Jack’s stomach had been rumbling like an angry bear lately. So he knew it was time to finally hop off the train and find himself a job – at least for the time being. One day, Jack’s train pulled into the small town of Abel, Mississippi – although it would have been generous to call it a “town.” It was ...

    Creature story of a Louisiana gambler who runs afoul of swamp vampires while on the run from the law. Hungry for the Gulf, the Dark River flows broad and wide after River Bend. The marshlands appear as the riverbanks fade. But if you go far enough into the marshes… The swamps begin. Now Chancy Fox was a gambling man, and a good one. So it was just damn laziness that ran him afoul of Sheriff Black Mountain Kincaid and his two brothers, Kennesaw and Stone. That was up at Swann’s Landing, right above Meridia. Chancy may have been lazy, but he wasn’t a total fool. He was up and out of there before that fifth ace he’d tucked up his sleeve hit the table. He figured as soon as he was outside of Swann’s Landing, he’d be out of the Sheriff’s jurisdiction and free. He figured wrong. Chancy Fox had offended something deep in Black Mountain Kincaid’s rusty soul. The Sheriff reached the limits of Swann’s Landing and just kept going. And where Black Mountain went, his brothers were sure...