The Ghost of Hatchet Bay
The Ghost of Hatchet Bay
Based on a true story:
By: Michael Elijah Muhammad Clare
They say back in the early 1960s, there was a young woman from Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera pretty, quiet, and hardworking. She fell for a man who wasn’t just older, but married. He had a good job, plenty charm, and plenty talk. People used to say he could sweet talk the salt out the sea.
When she got pregnant for him, the whole settlement turn against her. Back then, that was shame of the highest order, especially when the man had a wife already living just ‘cross the hill. The story goes that one evening, the women from the town gathered up by the corner shop and said she had “bring disgrace to the Bay.”
They dragged her out near the old silk cotton tree by the curve the one just before the first speed bump and they stoned her. Some say the man’s own sister threw the first rock. Nobody ever saw the woman alive again after that night. But they say her blood stained the roots of that tree so deep, it never faded.
Soon after, strange things started happening.
Drivers passing through late at night began seeing a woman standing under that same tree wearing old-time clothes, barefoot, her hair down in her face. Sometimes she has a baby in her arms, sometimes the baby just sitting quiet by her feet.
If you stop, she don’t speak. She just nods and points down the road, asking for a ride.
People who stop say she gets in the back seat, quiet as a whisper. But when they reach near the second speed bump, she’s gone. Vanished.
Some say she can’t cross that bump, that’s the invisible line between Hatchet Bay and the settlement where the married man was from. The curse was laid that night when she died: her spirit would never cross into his town again.
Even today, folks say if you pass there too late round one o’clock or so you might see her. Sitting under the tree. Rocking her baby. Waiting for the man who never came back for her.
And if you’re real unlucky she might ask you for a ride.
Page Reply:
This is real no lie. I remember in 2017 I picked this woman up who couldn’t go past the same speed bump this story mentioned. By damn, I didn’t know about that back then, ain’t nobody tell me!
Lord have mercy…
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