The story is about a cattle drover who was murdered and buried in a shallow grave under a big cotton wood tree standing next to an old road!
From a distance a young boy stands motionless in the shadows and watches as two figures labor by lantern light to bury their latest victim.
At the age of seventy six the old man tells his daughter of this story and what he had seen that night so long ago!
For sixty five long years he never spoke a word of this to any one always in fear that some one would find out he had seen what had happen !
Telling his story to his daughter helped her to understand why her father never wanted her or her brothers speaking to strangers passing by on the old road.
It also helped to explain why passer by’s had reported seeing a strange orange light floating through the air in the same location where the old cotton wood stood! !
This is a true story, the small boy was my grand father, the strange light well” some say that the light is gone but again some say that it’s legend still lives on along the banks of big beaver creek. Want to know more of this story? Well come on and go to Reno's Bridge!!
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