Lame Deer

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oddity-haunted/ There is a town in eastern Montana where the roads at night are not safe to travel or hitchhike. People talk of the hoofed man that picks up hitch hikers and take them to hell. The town has more murders per thousand than Washington D.C. but very little is said because of the location is so scary. The town has no store nor gas station. The post office is run out of a home converted to having post office boxes in the kitchen. The ghosts are many, and few do tell of the tales of who is missing or who has gone to hell. The story most people say is "oh, they have gone south" which may mean at this moment that or may mean a shallow grave. However, just a few miles away is the only bar for miles around. Jim Town is the name. The world's largest collection of beer cans in the Genesis world records in the 80s. That bar is haunted by no less than 30 ghosts says the tales. The first is about an old drunk who walking home in the middle of. the road was run over and dragged for six miles with his body parts smeared all along the road. You see the driver was drunk to and did not realize he had hit someone. The body appears at the door of the bar every time another person passes away in one of the towns close by. He is seen walking down the road. Then just passing the cattle guard he starts to fall apart. The second is an old Indian who got in a knife fight with the bartender. He bled out on the pool table. That occurred around the 4th of July, and well the bar has had to replace seven pool tables because each year since the table has pooled blood in it and sticks to high hell. The third ghost is a girl who was supposedly beautiful; she was fooling around with a lady's husband the lady waited until she was drunk and toke the girl out and butchered her and placed her skin on the fence behind the bar. She appears to women who use the lady's bathroom. That ghost shows up so often that the women always go outside to pee near the fence where she was butchered, and they pee there nowadays. The fourth ghost body is supposed to still be on the property. There is a pile of beer cans that has been collected since 1960s. According to legend in the 70s a white guy climbed to the top of the pile, and the pile caved in on him. No one knew he was missing for days. His car was stolen, and he had been a loser so no one was paying attention until his parents started to look for him. That was when people remembered him going outside saying he was going to play king of the mountain. The beer can mountain moves every so often. They say the movement is caused by his ghost trying to get out of the mountain. Only his hand was found years later, and that is how the story started on that one. Then there was the bartender who got stumped to death in the 60s. His ghost is supposed to throw beer at people, but I have not seen that one. Like I said there are many ghosts there. There are at least 30 stories I have heard and who knows how many more I have not counted. The last story I will tell tonight is of the cowboy drummer who was playing there on a Friday night. He had gotten wasted and for whatever reason got stuck on playing only one musical beat all not night long. He went outside to pee and was bitten by a rattlesnake without his knowledge. He finished his gig and got into his pick-up to sleep off his hangover only to never to wake up. The music he kept on playing was the song "Playing with the Queen of Hearts." All I can say is when I was cleaning up the place in the mornings sometimes the music box starts playing that song without anyone paying for the music.