Balladeer’s Blog presents another neglected American horror legend for Halloween Month.
THE SOUL GEM OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
On the former peak of Mount Monroe in New Hampshire’s White Mountains there used to glow a large light as if from a gigantic ruby or carbuncle. The Native Americans claimed it was a huge stone that fell from the sky one night in the far-distant past. They called it the Soul Gem in their language and they believed it ate the souls of anyone who touched it.
No one within living memory had survived an attempt to reach the Soul Gem. Over generations multiple expeditions were mounted but all ended in horror. Stories spread that the souls captured by the gem knew new lives as the living trees which at one time were said to grow there. Continue reading
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