“They Walk in Threes. Sometimes Four.”

The Dark Beneath: Scary Folklore & Whispers About Lake Tawakoni...

CASE FILE #7

In East Texas, silence isn’t empty. It’s layered. It hums beneath the pine needles and drips from the fog like something waiting to be remembered.

Near Point, Texas—just seven miles from Lake Tawakoni—locals whisper about the three men. Identical. Expressionless. Always walking. They appear in the early hours, when the mist is thick and the roads are quiet. No one knows where they come from. No one knows where they go. But they always return.

Each one bears a mark.

One has a scar across his throat.

One has a deep gash on his wrist.

One wears a strip of duct tape across his mouth, though no one’s ever seen him remove it.

They don’t speak. They don’t blink. But if you ask who they are, they’ll answer in unison:

"We were chosen."

And sometimes, there’s a fourth.

He doesn’t always appear. But when he does, the air shifts. The fog thickens. And those who’ve seen him say it’s not the wounds that haunt them—it’s the blood. So much blood. On his clothes. On the ground where he stands. On the doll that’s sometimes found nearby, carved in his likeness, soaked through and sealed like it’s been waiting.

No one talks about what happened to him. Not in detail. Just that it was too much. Too violent. Too deliberate.

Some say the four are ghosts. Others say they’re echoes of something worse. But the ones who’ve seen them up close—who’ve felt the cold in their bones and the weight in their

chest—don’t sleep well afterward. They say mirrors fog over. That wooden dolls start showing up in strange places. That something is watching.

Is it just a story? A local legend spun from fear and silence? Or is it something older, still walking, still bleeding?

You decide. Do you believe?

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For more Texas urban legends and ghost stories, check out Donna Ingham's book, Mysteries and Legends of Texas: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (Myths and Mysteries series)

Until the next body drops,

Loretta & David Allseitz

"Unmasking evil, one body at a time"