Please ignore the typo: IS, not IN
I remember meeting an old White Couple in Alabama, who are originally from Mississippi. We were on the discussion of the paranormal. They proceeded to tell me about ‘The Devil’s Punch Bowl’. Apparently folks from Mississippi collectively know about it. These peach trees that have grown out of the exact location, with the fattest, most delicious, and sweet smelling peaches you would be tempted to pluck, harvest and eat. However NOBODY eats them, out of fear of facing the ramifications of the past of Slavery and the Confederacy. Cursed fruit. At night you hear the wailing of spirits within the area. Is this true!?
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Don’t mess with the voodoo
It’s a real place and those things actually happened there. Any supernatural claims to the area are as dubious as any other place that claims to be haunted.
https://news.yahoo.com/the-devils-punchbowl-debunking-the-social-media-myth-of-a-civil-war-massacre-090017590.html
Are you asking us if the magical peach tree with succulent fruit trying to lure white people to their doom as punishment for slavery story that you heard someplace is legitimate?
Are you asking me if magic is real.
[Apparently it’s not true, but based on an actual event](https://news.yahoo.com/the-devils-punchbowl-debunking-the-social-media-myth-of-a-civil-war-massacre-090017590.html)
Of course there are tons of little urban legends like this across the US. I would always take them with a grain of salt.
Never heard that ever.
There are two “Devil’s Punchbowls” in Indiana but they are circular limestone formations that have flowing water running through them that is sometimes in violent flood.
Turkey Run
https://www.reddit.com/r/Indiana/comments/kut70u/turkey_run_state_parks_punch_bowl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Shades
https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarking-images/56d06d67-5db7-4ff1-94f3-3cdd836a433d_d.jpg
Has nothing to do with peaches.
It is because they remain cold because of the water and shade even in the summer and it’s a joke about “hell freezing over.”
I assume you are referring to the site of the alleged concentration camp in Natchez, Mississippi. People thought it was real for a long time, now historians are starting to question if it was all Confederate propaganda.
Mmmm… now I want some peaches.
I don’t know what you are talking about. There is a state natural area in Oregon called “Devils Punchbowl” though.
https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=156
There’s not going to be any definitive proof, but it’s up to you whether you want to believe or not.
I personally am neutral for most supernatural things. Maybe ghosts are real, maybe not, I’ve never encountered one but others say they have and as long as they aren’t hurting themselves or others it doesn’t really matter whether it’s psychosis, imagination, or real. I think mediums or psychics are possible, though they’d probably keep their skill a secret so the government leaves them alone, and think most alleged “psychic mediums” are either scam artists or entertainers depending on what they promise or offer, but scam artists and entertainers giving mediums a bad name doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
But you’re asking us the science behind faith. You deciding not to eat the fruit won’t hurt yourself or others, so it’s up to you if you want to believe or not.
Thank God we don’t have to live with the ramifications of slavery as long as we don’t eat those peaches.
> the exact location
and
> within the area
If there’s an “exact” location and an “area” where these paranormal happenings can be experienced, surely the folks you were talking with and other Mississippians can tell you where, right? After all, you’d need to know so you could avoid the consequences. Yet I’m quite certain not a single person can provide the location. What does that tell you?
It is fun to think about this being true, though.
I have never heard of this, so I don’t know any the details behind this. But no, the actual story is not real, it would be what is called myth or legend, because magic isn’t real.
No. Not true.
I’ve lived in the Deep South my entire life, and I’ve never heard of this.
Never heard of it, but now I want something peach
Dude. It’s MS.
Guarantee something bad will happen if you simply hang out there long enough.
Hurricane, flood, insane heat, random ice storm, you accidentally drink the water in Jackson….
Er, no. You can tell by the fantastical things: ghosts, devils capering about, curses, Mississippi, etc