Don't be afraid. Lock the doors. Turn out the lights. Inclimb into bed. It's time for

a hillbilly. Dead time. Stories.

In Ghost lore, a poteargeist is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical

disturbances such as loud noises and objects being moved to destroy it. Most claims of

poteargeists show them as being capable of pinching, biting and hitting, sometimes even

tripping people. They are also capable of movement or levitation of objects such as furniture

or cutlery or noises such as knocking on doors. Fowls smells are also associated with

poteargeist occurrences as well as spontaneous fires and different electrical issues such

as flickering lights. In this episode we will learn about an entity such as this in Texas,

known only as the prairie poteargeist.

The small town of Cisco is a center for oil and gas production, diversified agriculture

and manufacturing. But in the last century it was a tiny settlement on the vast frontier

of north central Texas. In 1877 a farmer named Bee Ge Woods and moved his family back

covered wagon to quarter section of land that he purchased six miles south of Cisco along

the Leon River. Corn and cotton grew successfully in this fertile soil with wild pecans growing

along the river banks. These products could be harvested and sold in town. In time the

pecans became the family's chief cash crop. The original house on the property was poorly

built and much too small for a large family. Woodson and his sons replaced it with a large

log cabin of three rooms. A main room and the kitchen downstairs with fireplace and chimney

and a sleeping room upstairs for the four sons who were still living at home. The 17-year-old

daughter presumably shared the main room with her parents. The cabin also had a covered

front porch and wooden floors within rather than the usual dirt floors. We've considered

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