What you are about to read may surprise, disgust and intrigue you all at the same time. My name is Barkley C. I am an amateur archaeologist who loves mysterious history and strange artifacts rumored to be cursed or haunted. Back in 1999 I went to New Orleans for a little vacation and to explore some old voodoo sites outside of the city in nearby swamp land. While out in countryside I would stop and talk to any old timers that I could find to ask about local legends especially those related to hauntings, witchcraft or voodoo.
I met an old black man named Roy and he proceeded to tell me some interesting stories about voodoo cults who practiced their craft deep in the swamp land. He told me of people mysteriously going missing while entering what was known as the black water swamp where the voodoo cult had an old shack and had gatherings. He told about some mysterious items he had seen as a boy when hiking in the swamp near the voodoo place. He said there was a clearing that had an alter look to be like a Catholic church alter but instead of jesus there was a skull statue of a monkey, a Hanuted looking Monkey. In a circle Around the statue of the Haunted Monkey were dozens of small statues of a Monkey with a Rooster. Roy said that he was so scared seeing this place, this haunted place as he says, that he ran home and never went back.
I was very intrigued and convinced Roy (a couple of shots of whiskey and a cigar convinced) to take me to this haunted place. When we got there it was nearly dark, you could see a small shack way back off the road but there was a chain acrossed the drive entrance and we could go no further. I noticed a for sale sign in the driveway that looked extremely old and rusty and I figured it must have been forgotten but I wrote down the number anyway.
Two days later as I was packing to leave New Oleans I decided to call the number, to my surprise the real estate agent said the places was still for sale and that it was extremely low priced. The price was so low I could hardly believe my ears, hell even though it was just acres of swamp it was easily worth far more than he said they would take for it. I kept saying to myself that it's crazy, it's crazy why would you want to buy acres of old swamp land with a spooky history and run down shack but I just could not help myself and so within a week I bought the place.
A few months went by and I decided I would go down and camp on and explore my new swamp property. The first night was creepy as hell camping near the old shack. The folowing morning I headed deeper into the swamp to see about finding the haunted monkey alter Roy had described. I found a spot that had a large boulder that was nearly flat on top and there were dozens of rocks and stumps arranged in large circle around the big rock as if for seating. I started digging around a little bit a few shovels here and a few shovels there. Within 45 minutes I found a strange small gold monkey head. It was real gold, wow real gold so I frantically dug around the area and what I found next totally freaked me out. It was a skull, not a human skull but a monkey skull.
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