It's a mysterious location in North Carolina, shrouded with physical manifestations that

confound today's latest science.

A perfect circle in the woods, wherein nothing will grow at all.

And it's been doing this for centuries, stories say the local First Nations people knew

all about it too.

At least that's what everyone says.

Let's find out if the history books agree.

The Devil's Tramping Ground is today Unskeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Devil's Tramping Ground

Deep in the remote woods of North Carolina is a place that few have visited.

It's quiet there, often loansome, and sometimes terrifying.

In the moon, rips through the clouds at midnight, it's said that Devil himself appears, and

tramps in a crazed ring, around and around, leaving a perfect circle of dead earth where

nothing will grow.

The woods have closed in around it, but that profane circle remains, a zone of oblivion

that sucks the life and the spirit from any who dare to visit.

It's called the Devil's Tramping Ground.

Here's a description from a ghost hunting website.

The Devil's Tramping Ground is a mysterious, perfectly round and absolutely barren circle

about 40 feet in diameter in the Pine Woods of Chatham County.

...