So What exactly is the "Black Fork".
It is The "Black Fork of the Poteau River". It is a very clear, cool running fork of the incredibly brown and nasty Poteau River, which snakes through our county. I offer these two facts as further evidence of the void :

It is the ONLY river in the state that flows NORTHWARD continuously, AND its the only river in the U.S. known to flow BACKWARDS when it reaches a certain level during the summer droughts.

Like I said...it's a strange place we live in. So why the Blackfork for an investigation? Well, if you havent yet, read the 'Cavanal Mountain' investigation.

I'll wait on you.

Ok, we'll resume, now that you're back. Its for all of the same reasons you see listed in the Cavanal investigation link.  We live in the Void. 

Additionally, I've heard stories of albino deer(believe it or not), spooklights, mutated frogs, and even alligators in the Black Fork. There are, for a FACT 100+ pound gar in the Black Fork.  If your unfamiliar with a Gar, it is a long, slender fish, that can grow to weigh as much as 150+ pounds, and has a long snout with rows of SHARP TEETH.

Moving on.

We needed something fairly tangible to investigate, other than just generalized weirdness, so we dug deep into our memory's...and sure enough, after dusting the cobwebs off of some of our "High School Days" files in the back closet of our mind, there she was...

...the bloody girl in a dress of some sort, looking for something in the brush along the river. The story we were told in High School was that she was in a bloody prom dress, and that she was looking for a shoe.

This reeks of the old school "Moral" stories girls would be told to keep them from going out and partying after prom and doing things they shouldn't be doing. (cont. below)

The main thing to remember is this: This is what we do.  Legends.  Folklore.  Myths.

When you live in the void, you never write anything off. Heck, you may go out looking for girl in bloody prom dress and come back with El Chupacabra in a sack.

So we set out to investigate this local legend.  The best information we could gather was, as the story goes:

"...So the young girl set out to go down in the bottoms with her prom date, for some "alone" time.  They bought beer at the local store, and by the time they reached the bottoms he was already drunk.  He careened down the old dirt road alongside the river, driving far faster than the car could safely handle.  He missed a curve, flipping the car and killing them both.  He was thrown into the river, and they say the apparition is that of the girl trying to either find him in the underbrush or find her expensive shoes that her mother had bought her just for her senior prom."

We set out to look for her and her boyfriend.

We may have found them both.

Weird stuff man.

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Justin
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