"A Strange Tale" by Allen Morse | LIAV ep.31
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English - December 27, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 20.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBooks Arts Comedy stories telling stories movies pop culture writing literature creative writing witty funny sts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Even the tallest of tales are rooted in some sort of truth...
Originally told by Allen Morse from the small town of Calais, Vermont, "A Strange Tale" speaks of a first-hand account of a handful of residents freezing their elderly and infirm in order to save resources enough to survive the brutal winters - only to turn around in the spring and return their frozen kin to perfect health in time to plant the spring corn.
My family and the Morses have history going back to the founding of the village of Calais, and I've heard talk of this as an old secret of the mountains before I ever discovered the published account. Did the founding families of Calais possess the secrets of human hiberation, or is this just another of Allen Morse's tall tales? You be the judge...
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