June 10, 2025 • 14 mins
Stories told around a campfire sometimes stay with you for your entire life. This one was told to me when I was very young, about an outcast who was wrongfully accused, and returned to seek revenge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on the Carolina Storyteller, I'm gonna be going
back to my days of use and telling the story
of a misjudged person who decided to take an eternal
revenge on the townsfolk that killed him. Stay tuned. This
is the Carolina Storyteller.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Is the dive words for shadows, creep stories rise as
the camp artieves. John the voice of haunts, and thirl
with every sale he fence off, will Echoes whispered Tonight's saucy.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
By the fire light of fierce time lie the general
lot of storyteller jide through the spelkching than five fangles
of dark.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Missing night n the night.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Sell tread every harvey a path we tread seen extens.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What Welcome back to the Carolina Storyteller, folks. On your Storyteller,
Jonathan Dnis, You know, I tell some of these stories
so often into so many people that sometimes I forget
what stories I haven't told you all, you know, because
I've gone through so many, especially from where I've grown up.
(01:37):
You know, stories like Oldland Church and Alice Flagg and
Lavonna Fisher and the Plaid. I these were stories that
I heard as you got a child, you know, not
even a teenager eight nine years old. These were the
legends around town. The Soldier in the third floor, the
Headless Century of Wedgefield, the ghost lights, the Lady and
(02:03):
White heard all these stories, but sometimes I forget to
tell one or two simply because there's so many. It's
a lot to keep track of when you learn all
of this folklore. So today I'm going to go back
to those days when I was a boy scout and
(02:25):
I would go out camping, and we would sit around
a campfire, all of us not even in our teens yet,
sharing ghost stories. You know, things like the plaid I
taily Bone, the tale of the Headless Century, you know
the ones I've wont mentioned just now. But there's one
(02:46):
that I missed, and it's of oh fat Eye. No understand,
I said fat Eye, not plat. I remember the plait
I is a cryptid, but all fat Eye. This is
a ghost story. This took place back in the I
(03:06):
don't know, early nineteen thirties. Now. No one ever told
me Bad Eye's name, but apparently he was a slightly
deformed man that lived off of in his zone outside
of Georgetown, down Sheep Island Road. No, not Sheep Island.
I'm sorry, South Island road going towards South Island, and
(03:33):
he lived in this old wooden shack back in the woods,
all by himself. He had this deformity where one eye
was just extremely large compared to the other, and I'm
talking like saucer plate large. He had two eyes. One
was normal size, one was four times its regular size.
(03:56):
Base was deformed, and people of course pastored him and
hackled him proer, which is why he stayed out of town.
I mean, you wouldn't want to go where people were
making fun of you for how you looked. You generally don't,
so he kept to himself. He farmed off in the woods.
But children being children, would grow curious. They want to
(04:21):
see the man with the deformed eye. So eventually, as
the legend of him grew, and as years passed, children
began to go on to his property to sneak a peek,
and then it became a dare to go up the
Old Bad Eyes house and knock on the door harassled
that eye. As he got older, the harassment continued to grow,
(04:49):
and then something changed. Kids would go missing when they
went down the road towards Old Bad Eyes, never to
be seen from again. The police would go out there
to see what was going on. Old Bad Eye would
be up in his cabin by himself. He had his guns,
(05:13):
he had his knives, he had his fishing gear, and
he said he'd never seen him except for the ones
that would come knocking on his door. He didn't know
what happened to him. And this would happen a few
more times where someone would supposedly go down towards Old
Bad Eyes place, go to check and see the monster, supposedly,
(05:38):
and they'd never come back. Always some use. Then it
became a rumor Old Bad Eye was killing these kids
out in the swamp. So the oh, you know how
townfolk are You heard the story of Lavonia Fisher. When
(06:00):
the townfolk have enough of a problem and they think
that they have a solution, they generally just go with
that solution without gathering all the facts. And remember, granted,
he was different, he was deformed, and he was a
hermit an outcast from society, but it was never said
(06:24):
that he was mean. In fact, generally he was believed
to be very kind hearted and very forgiving. Even when
he would come out and see the kids, he wouldn't yell.
They'd just be scared at his appearance and run. Some
(06:47):
even said that he was upset that they wouldn't talk
to him because he really wanted a friend. But the
town folk they didn't care about all that. They knew
that something was happening down that road, and that when
them kids went down that road, they didn't come back.
So they went down that road and they went to
(07:11):
Old Bad Eye's house, a large group of them, and
they beat the man, threw them in his house and
burned it to the ground. They killed Old Bad Eye
(07:32):
them on their way back, it just so happened that
a few of them cut through a patch of the woods,
and in that patch of the woods, one of them
didn't make it out. That's because patch of the woods
ran through a swamp of pluff mud. Pluff mud is
(07:53):
the stuff that we have and South Carolina where it
feels like ground until you actually step in it. And
pluff mud can actually suck you down like quickstand, only
ten times faster and much worse. It's basically swamp quicksands.
(08:16):
And as these men were making their way through, one
of them just happened to step in an area of
pluff mud and he got sucked down and before his
friends could rescue him, he was gone. He was under
pluffmund can go down six feet. I mean I myself
have walked through and stepped in a spot of pluff
mud and my leg gone down to my knee all
of a sudden. Fortunately it wasn't that bad. But that's
(08:41):
when we knew we had to be careful where we were.
It's very common, and that's what had happened to those kids.
They'd gone sneaking through the woods, try to sneak up
on old pat eye, and they'd gotten trapped in pluff
mud and drowned. Now a lot of people when they
(09:02):
realized that, they of course felt guilty, but there wasn't
much they could do. Oh bad I was dead, wasn't he.
Well that's where the legend takes its supernatural turn. See
down there on South Island. Down in that area, it
was real good for camping, hunting, fishing. You had rivers
(09:27):
going towards the ocean, lots of fish, lots of wildlife, deer,
all kinds of stuff. And it was just a few
months after all bad I was killed. A father and
son were out on a camping trip when they heard
something in the woods and they huddled around, grabbing their
(09:52):
rifles and looking around as they heard but sounded like
somebody walking through the woods. They called out. No one responded,
and so the father started inching out towards the woods,
telling the son to stay back by the fire. And
the son did as he was told, and as he
(10:15):
got further out into the shadows, suddenly the sun saw
a form appear from behind a tree right behind his father,
and it just snatched his father up and broke his neck.
Then the figure turned and looked at the child, and
(10:36):
it was Old that Eye, staring him down. And Old
Bad Eye turned around and walked right back into the woods.
Never since, it's been set that if you camp in
those woods, stay out of the shadows, because Old fat Eye,
(11:00):
who never heard anybody, is out for revenge. And if
you go in the shadows at them woods at night,
Oh bad Eye is going to come out and get you. Now,
I was told this story when I was ten, and
I haven't really heard it that many times, but it
was always a very popular one with me. Now what's
(11:23):
interesting is is that it's not the only story of
Old Bad Eye. In fact, a lot of people believe
that Old Bad Eye was actually a story that came
off of the very real criminal story of the groundskeeper
(11:44):
and when You're Episcopal Church's graveyard, the one who was
gunned down by the police after a vicious murder of
a young woman. And I'll get to that story sometimes,
but the two did share several similarities, including the extremely
(12:05):
large men and having deformed faces, and though being kind
not being treated kindly. Should always remember that just because
someone's different from you doesn't mean you shouldn't show them
kindness or that you should fear them at all. In fact,
(12:27):
sometimes those who are different from you want nothing more
than to just live their life and be friendly. And
had the people allowed Oh Bad Eye to live his
life and just be friendly with them, perhaps he wouldn't
(12:49):
be haunting those woods to this day. Well, folks, that's
our story for today. I hope that you enjoyed it.
I hope that you found it educating. You can always
catch more by going to patreon dot com port Slash
the Carolina Storyteller and seeing all kinds of stuff from
(13:11):
this show Valmont, not just paranormal and everything in between
that I've got going on. And as always, remember we
have our merch store on prinifive. Just search the Carolina
Storyteller or check us out on YouTube at the Carolina Storyteller. Basically,
if you type in the Carolina Storyteller, you're gonna find me,
because that's who I am. This is the Carolina Storyteller,
(13:34):
Jonathan Phoenix signing off and remember stay spooky, my friends.
I'll see you next time.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The shadows Cream story rise as the kivarives John with
every sale, head fed song, echoes, whisper the night tross me.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
By the fire light of fierce tell a lie. As
a general latter storyteller Jian through the spot gree of
pas in fight fangles a dark missing night in the
knight of the night to the lads heals a frightened
(14:28):
dread every heartbeat a path we dread, seen fancy
This week on the Carolina Storyteller, I'm gonna be going
back to my days of use and telling the story
of a misjudged person who decided to take an eternal
revenge on the townsfolk that killed him. Stay tuned. This
is the Carolina Storyteller.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Is the dive words for shadows, creep stories rise as
the camp artieves. John the voice of haunts, and thirl
with every sale he fence off, will Echoes whispered Tonight's saucy.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
By the fire light of fierce time lie the general
lot of storyteller jide through the spelkching than five fangles
of dark.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Missing night n the night.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Sell tread every harvey a path we tread seen extens.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What Welcome back to the Carolina Storyteller, folks. On your Storyteller,
Jonathan Dnis, You know, I tell some of these stories
so often into so many people that sometimes I forget
what stories I haven't told you all, you know, because
I've gone through so many, especially from where I've grown up.
(01:37):
You know, stories like Oldland Church and Alice Flagg and
Lavonna Fisher and the Plaid. I these were stories that
I heard as you got a child, you know, not
even a teenager eight nine years old. These were the
legends around town. The Soldier in the third floor, the
Headless Century of Wedgefield, the ghost lights, the Lady and
(02:03):
White heard all these stories, but sometimes I forget to
tell one or two simply because there's so many. It's
a lot to keep track of when you learn all
of this folklore. So today I'm going to go back
to those days when I was a boy scout and
(02:25):
I would go out camping, and we would sit around
a campfire, all of us not even in our teens yet,
sharing ghost stories. You know, things like the plaid I
taily Bone, the tale of the Headless Century, you know
the ones I've wont mentioned just now. But there's one
(02:46):
that I missed, and it's of oh fat Eye. No understand,
I said fat Eye, not plat. I remember the plait
I is a cryptid, but all fat Eye. This is
a ghost story. This took place back in the I
(03:06):
don't know, early nineteen thirties. Now. No one ever told
me Bad Eye's name, but apparently he was a slightly
deformed man that lived off of in his zone outside
of Georgetown, down Sheep Island Road. No, not Sheep Island.
I'm sorry, South Island road going towards South Island, and
(03:33):
he lived in this old wooden shack back in the woods,
all by himself. He had this deformity where one eye
was just extremely large compared to the other, and I'm
talking like saucer plate large. He had two eyes. One
was normal size, one was four times its regular size.
(03:56):
Base was deformed, and people of course pastored him and
hackled him proer, which is why he stayed out of town.
I mean, you wouldn't want to go where people were
making fun of you for how you looked. You generally don't,
so he kept to himself. He farmed off in the woods.
But children being children, would grow curious. They want to
(04:21):
see the man with the deformed eye. So eventually, as
the legend of him grew, and as years passed, children
began to go on to his property to sneak a peek,
and then it became a dare to go up the
Old Bad Eyes house and knock on the door harassled
that eye. As he got older, the harassment continued to grow,
(04:49):
and then something changed. Kids would go missing when they
went down the road towards Old Bad Eyes, never to
be seen from again. The police would go out there
to see what was going on. Old Bad Eye would
be up in his cabin by himself. He had his guns,
(05:13):
he had his knives, he had his fishing gear, and
he said he'd never seen him except for the ones
that would come knocking on his door. He didn't know
what happened to him. And this would happen a few
more times where someone would supposedly go down towards Old
Bad Eyes place, go to check and see the monster, supposedly,
(05:38):
and they'd never come back. Always some use. Then it
became a rumor Old Bad Eye was killing these kids
out in the swamp. So the oh, you know how
townfolk are You heard the story of Lavonia Fisher. When
(06:00):
the townfolk have enough of a problem and they think
that they have a solution, they generally just go with
that solution without gathering all the facts. And remember, granted,
he was different, he was deformed, and he was a
hermit an outcast from society, but it was never said
(06:24):
that he was mean. In fact, generally he was believed
to be very kind hearted and very forgiving. Even when
he would come out and see the kids, he wouldn't yell.
They'd just be scared at his appearance and run. Some
(06:47):
even said that he was upset that they wouldn't talk
to him because he really wanted a friend. But the
town folk they didn't care about all that. They knew
that something was happening down that road, and that when
them kids went down that road, they didn't come back.
So they went down that road and they went to
(07:11):
Old Bad Eye's house, a large group of them, and
they beat the man, threw them in his house and
burned it to the ground. They killed Old Bad Eye
(07:32):
them on their way back, it just so happened that
a few of them cut through a patch of the woods,
and in that patch of the woods, one of them
didn't make it out. That's because patch of the woods
ran through a swamp of pluff mud. Pluff mud is
(07:53):
the stuff that we have and South Carolina where it
feels like ground until you actually step in it. And
pluff mud can actually suck you down like quickstand, only
ten times faster and much worse. It's basically swamp quicksands.
(08:16):
And as these men were making their way through, one
of them just happened to step in an area of
pluff mud and he got sucked down and before his
friends could rescue him, he was gone. He was under
pluffmund can go down six feet. I mean I myself
have walked through and stepped in a spot of pluff
mud and my leg gone down to my knee all
of a sudden. Fortunately it wasn't that bad. But that's
(08:41):
when we knew we had to be careful where we were.
It's very common, and that's what had happened to those kids.
They'd gone sneaking through the woods, try to sneak up
on old pat eye, and they'd gotten trapped in pluff
mud and drowned. Now a lot of people when they
(09:02):
realized that, they of course felt guilty, but there wasn't
much they could do. Oh bad I was dead, wasn't he.
Well that's where the legend takes its supernatural turn. See
down there on South Island. Down in that area, it
was real good for camping, hunting, fishing. You had rivers
(09:27):
going towards the ocean, lots of fish, lots of wildlife, deer,
all kinds of stuff. And it was just a few
months after all bad I was killed. A father and
son were out on a camping trip when they heard
something in the woods and they huddled around, grabbing their
(09:52):
rifles and looking around as they heard but sounded like
somebody walking through the woods. They called out. No one responded,
and so the father started inching out towards the woods,
telling the son to stay back by the fire. And
the son did as he was told, and as he
(10:15):
got further out into the shadows, suddenly the sun saw
a form appear from behind a tree right behind his father,
and it just snatched his father up and broke his neck.
Then the figure turned and looked at the child, and
(10:36):
it was Old that Eye, staring him down. And Old
Bad Eye turned around and walked right back into the woods.
Never since, it's been set that if you camp in
those woods, stay out of the shadows, because Old fat Eye,
(11:00):
who never heard anybody, is out for revenge. And if
you go in the shadows at them woods at night,
Oh bad Eye is going to come out and get you. Now,
I was told this story when I was ten, and
I haven't really heard it that many times, but it
was always a very popular one with me. Now what's
(11:23):
interesting is is that it's not the only story of
Old Bad Eye. In fact, a lot of people believe
that Old Bad Eye was actually a story that came
off of the very real criminal story of the groundskeeper
(11:44):
and when You're Episcopal Church's graveyard, the one who was
gunned down by the police after a vicious murder of
a young woman. And I'll get to that story sometimes,
but the two did share several similarities, including the extremely
(12:05):
large men and having deformed faces, and though being kind
not being treated kindly. Should always remember that just because
someone's different from you doesn't mean you shouldn't show them
kindness or that you should fear them at all. In fact,
(12:27):
sometimes those who are different from you want nothing more
than to just live their life and be friendly. And
had the people allowed Oh Bad Eye to live his
life and just be friendly with them, perhaps he wouldn't
(12:49):
be haunting those woods to this day. Well, folks, that's
our story for today. I hope that you enjoyed it.
I hope that you found it educating. You can always
catch more by going to patreon dot com port Slash
the Carolina Storyteller and seeing all kinds of stuff from
(13:11):
this show Valmont, not just paranormal and everything in between
that I've got going on. And as always, remember we
have our merch store on prinifive. Just search the Carolina
Storyteller or check us out on YouTube at the Carolina Storyteller. Basically,
if you type in the Carolina Storyteller, you're gonna find me,
because that's who I am. This is the Carolina Storyteller,
(13:34):
Jonathan Phoenix signing off and remember stay spooky, my friends.
I'll see you next time.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The shadows Cream story rise as the kivarives John with
every sale, head fed song, echoes, whisper the night tross me.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
By the fire light of fierce tell a lie. As
a general latter storyteller Jian through the spot gree of
pas in fight fangles a dark missing night in the
knight of the night to the lads heals a frightened
(14:28):
dread every heartbeat a path we dread, seen fancy
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