“She had been there for quite a while before her body was found. “We had a lady in Sotogrande who hung herself in the pump house near the golf course,” Moore said. Hurst Police Chief Steve Moore, who grew up in Hurst, knows of a similar incident near the Backbone. “I still had to do my paper route that night.” Scoma recalled a night when he watched police investigate a young man’s suicide at a spot that’s now near the park’s western edge, within feet of where Devil’s Backbone used to run. If ghosts are born from tragedy, Rickel Park is a likely haunt. The Rickel family eventually donated the farm to Hurst for a park. “We’d go camping in the woods and tell scary stories to see if someone would chicken out and go home,” he said.īack then, Devil’s Backbone was a blocked-off, abandoned stretch of Bluebonnet Drive between Sotogrande Golf and Tennis Club and Bellaire Drive, slicing through the Rickel family farm in old Hurst. The stories are a legacy from when he was a kid and went into the woods with his buddies to dare and scare one another. Scoma “scares them silly” with tales like one about a kid found hanged in the vines and another about a coven of black-robed, torch-carrying devil worshippers who prowled Devil’s Backbone in the dead of night. It’s always better told late at night and in places like a road called Devil’s Backbone.Įach Halloween he takes his sons, Tony, 13, and Matthew, 10, to Rickel Park, where the Backbone’s last brief, unpaved remnant slashes through weathered oaks and thick strangles of thorny vines. Posted Octo– Fort Worth Star-Telegram – Terry Evans HURST - Mike Scoma believes that the most important elements of a ghost story are where and when it’s told. Now part of a Hurst park, ‘Devil’s Backbone’ is a ghostly road It was also said that foliage and crops around the river turned a deep red and died within days.īelow is an article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of a few other strange occurences. It is called Devil's Backbone because it is said that when they found the children the river had run red with their blood and the curves of river banks along with the morning sun shining off the blood filled water gave a glowing appearance to the water and the shape looked like a crooked demon's backbone. During the search they found the children hung and drained of blood.all dangling from trees around the river. It was during that night when a deranged man/mass murderer/homicidal ghost/witches/demons/killer ninja spirits (seriously someone said that) attacked the children in the woods and killed them all.the parents didn't find out till morning when they went looking for the kids. One night (some would say halloween but most agree it was in October) during a fall festival there were several kids playing in the woods, the end of the celebrating came and parents tucked in without really checking on their supposedly sleeping children. Way back when Hurst was still a new settlement children would play around what was a river (now the stream/creek that feeds through Rickle) and throughout the woods there. There are many different versions but the base story has always been the same.īasically it goes something like this. The legend of Devil's Backbone is subjective depending on who you talk to or what urban legend you are told. The road known as The Devil's Backbone used to stretch from Arwine Cemetary between Bellaire, down present day Bluebonnet, and up through Westdale Hills Golf Coarse. While doing some research on the park, we came across a few stories and legends of an old farm and haunted road that ran straight through this park. My family and I have been coming to Rickle Park for a while now and thought it would be a good spot for us to place our first night cache. You must use a flashlight to follow the reflectors throughout the park until you get to the "X" The cache is NOT at the above listed coordinates.
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