The Prayer Tree at Skelton Crossing

Luna remembers a cold October night in 2019, when she pulled into the empty lot beside Skelton Crossing's old grain elevator — a place the locals whisper about. She met an old woman named Etta Mae who was tying strips of cloth to the branches of a twisted oak tree. The woman claimed the tree could carry prayers to the drowned. Luna listened as Etta Mae told her about the night in 1972 when a school bus went off the bridge into the Millpond, and how the tree had been growing crooked ever since. She touched one of the cloth strips, and felt something that was not the wind. This is a story about grief that finds a shape, and about the things we leave behind in the dark. No one in Skelton Crossing will talk about the tree. But Luna knows why the branches are all bent toward the water. #PrayerTree #SkeltonCrossing #EttaMae #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #SmallTownHorror #FolkHorror #Grief #Millpond #GrainElevator #October #OldWoman #ClothStrips #TwistedOak #Drowned #Memory #Unsettling #TenFathoms #MaritimeHorror #DeepSeaHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo