The area I hunt here in SC is an old rice plantation, and I am talking like early 1700s old. So some bad slave stuff used to happen there.

There used to be a house right at the edge of the dyke before it goes up onto the hill, where the main plantation house used to be (burned to nothing in the Civil War). But, there is an old well, that still works, down by this place I have a stand. I have acctually shot 5 deer out of already this year.

Now this stand is a 20' ladder, and it is leaned up againest an old cypress tree, just about dead even between the two old dykes (no water anymore, except in spots when it rains, just big old growth cypress and gum). The stand, for whatever reason, shakes, like someone was climbing the ladder, even when there is absolutely NO wind, and you are sitting dead still. I am not talking about a shimmy, I am talking about a knock you out of the tree shake.

I call the stand the "Haunted House" stand. Doesn't really bother me, I think it could be the top of the tree shaking, lots of woodpeckers hang around it, who knows. At any rate, I love to mess with people I bring as guests and let them sit there. I always make up some stupid story about slave abuse, and some junk like that. They always end up at the car 30 min before dark, white as a sheet! Never fails!