Dead Man's Oak
 
After a couple years of searching I finally was able to close in on its location. Nobody for sure knows where it is I mean your dealing with over 1500 acres of woods back in here. Lots of swamps, woods, overgrown grass lands etc even getting to this place is hell. This investigation has three parts and this would be our most horrifying investigation of the night and dangerous one as well so please try to grasp what we are about to share with you.
 
Part I
 
We starts off hiking in the woods behind the hell house through a grass plain with high grass, brush and a few large trees spread out over an area. We found sort of a path that led us to the woods all I cared about is finding the oak tree which is said to be haunted by a headless horsemen who rides up on a white horse. One thing that stood out is the heavy wind which was blustering for about 15 minutes straight then it went dead no more wind just silence.
 
I did not like it back here I heard something moving around following us I do not think it liked Jason or I snooping back here. We found that the trail dead ended and there was fresh dirt which looked like a grave. It was very soft and dug like that of a grave. Even the grass was gone from this area not sure if anything is buried here but it was odd being its a heavy occult area then seeing the blood at the hell house nothing surprises me here.
 
I looked off to my right and we seen an odd track in the fresh mud. It was a giant foot print with 3 claw marks it looked like something prehistoric. I can tell you right now this track is like nothing I seen. I took a photo but tracks in the dirt do not appear very well unless you were to make a plaster cast of it. I can describe the print as wider then my hand with three deep impressions like long claws. Someone told me there are sloth's in FL not sure if this foot print would match one.
 
We walked away from the print and something came crashing threw the woods and quickly cross the trail. We seen an entire bush my height move. Something was out there moving around it seen us and you bet your ass I grabbed my sword quickly swung it around and held it right out in front of me. What was out there had intelligent and it knew we did not belong back here.
 
We took another trail which led us between some very old trees not sure the species but the trunk was thick and the leaves were small it had also a lot of tree moss draping them. On this trail we noticed lots of junk including a mattress just sitting right in the middle of the trail. From then on we stopped at the truck and arranged to conduct another part to this investigation one that would be a true battle of our skills.
 
Part II
 
We climbed over a gate on a private road which had grass growing on it. With woods on both sides, hills and curves we had no idea what would lay up ahead for us. We hiked for almost a mile and came up to a private trail it was dark and it went deep into the woods.
 
Now keep in mind at this point our lights are just about dim Jason had two spotlights both were out the other one we left in the car for later that night. My maglite was so dim I could not see a thing. It had very little juice so we basically dark hiked it down a very unfriendly path.
 
About a few hundred feet down the trail something was moving around it turned out to be a few boars and they heard us. They were starting to chase us and they were big. I did not run but the sword came out again as we could not see them but they were close in within 20 feet of our location.  These boars were pissed off and they were trying to hunt us down.
 
As we walked past them we jogged and got away we came up to some mounds in the woods which looked man made. On the other side of it was a creek which was fairly dry for the most part. On atop of the mound was a wood structure in the middle of the woods with an old rushed machine not sure what this was for but there is history back here.
 
We climbed one of those mounds took the trail both ways and it dead ended so we were stuck backtracking on the trail past the boars again lovely huh? Even atop of the hill all I could see for miles looked like woods, fields, and brush. We basically were in the middle of nowhere. I even seen a meteor shoot across the sky.
 
We did hike back to the original road we walked on and took that further south and again it split in a Y but in less woods so we took it. We spent awhile walking on a prairie there was fresh horse crap I missed a mud pie by a few inches. At this point Jason's legs were terrible cut up, my sneakers were soaked, and we were battling to find the dirt road where the truck was parked on.
 
As we spent time hiking here I heard off in the distance screams, shrills, and noises I cannot explain. I do not know what they were but I heard a few while hiking in this general area. Strangely enough the path took us back to machine in the woods after of course we found an old buried tractor. One thing obvious is that we were followed most of this investigation by what I am not sure but something was in those woods with us could it have been the horsemen looking for his head? Its very possible!
 
We had no choice but to climb a barbed wire fence to another field and estimate where the truck could be. I was in an open field still looking for the famed haunted oak tree. All we got was thorns, sand spurs, soaked ground, and high grass hitting us in the face. At this point my knee was in such bad pain but we kept pushing on for a half of mile till we came up to this wall of heavy forest. When I say heavy it was almost impossible to squeeze between the trees and brush. But I thought about it then I led the way and 15 feet later was a 6 foot fence. On the other side was the dirt road and truck in visible site and once again we pulled off another adventure
 
Meanwhile when we got back to the car we did do a few more places such as the Shingle Creek Grapefruit Plantation however I am going to skip over this and bring you the final part to Dead Man's Oak this would be the greatest part of our investigation of all.
 
Part III
 
I was driving and found what looked like a trail so I turned the truck onto it and all of sudden we were on a very rough hilly four wheeling trail. I was quite worried about possibly being stuck here but with 4 wheel drive and a truck I was able to drive back here with ease.
 
This area was my final hope for finding our Oak Tree. We drove over a pile of rocks, branches were hitting the truck, there was branches on the road, it was a rough trip and eventually it dead ended in this large clearing. It was not to large but a couple hundred feet. The road basically dead ended at this giant oak tree.
 
It was the only Oak we seen while hiking and driving around. It was also the most eerie oak of all as it was large at the base then twisted outward shot up a little then bent again and its branches all hung right over the clearing.
 
Some of the bigger branches on the tree were broke off not sure if its caused by people in the past hanging off of them. Rumor has it that dead animals use to be hung off it by the locals. It also appeared that this clearing may have had recent construction trucks as the tread marks were deep and wide. Its possible that one of them broke some branches on the tree.
 
But nonetheless this was our tree it had to be dead man's oak. This area was so cold near the tree Jason was rubbing his hands, I was freezing and the temperature dropped easily 15 degrees. There was a strong presence back here by this tree.
 
I called out the horseman Jason told me to stop he already had one headless horsemen incident up in NY when I challenged one lol he did not want a repeat incident:)
 
But we focused our investigation on the tree it was large, it was eerie, it was disfigured, scarred up and more then likely there were signs others have been back here. I did not see any vandalism, camp fires, beer bottles so maybe this was not the tree but from the description and information it fits the bill. The area is getting ready to be developed so chances are this old oak will probably be chopped down and stories of the headless horseman may cease to exist.
 
Although we did not see the white horse or the headless horseman it was apparent something was moving around out in them woods and when I called it out the movement picked up a lot as if it was becoming a little uptight.  Even though we spent hours hiking around different parts of these woods I figured the horseman could be anywhere in these woods.
 
Then the hardest part of this investigation was having to drive backwards and turn around on this narrow dirt road. I did manage it but It was hard and had to be done without me getting myself stuck like when we were at Bok Tower.
 
After this we did our final investigation of Shingle Cemetery but before I get into that I want to talk about The Shingle Creek Plantation, Babb House, and Prince House.