đź”” A bell rings somewhere above the Kentucky hills. Sutton Metcalfe looks up and sees the same buzzard circling overhead.
Why won't it leave him alone?
🎧 Hear “The Belled Buzzard” on The Moonlit Road:

đź”” A bell rings somewhere above the Kentucky hills. Sutton Metcalfe looks up and sees the same buzzard circling overhead.
Why won't it leave him alone?
🎧 Hear “The Belled Buzzard” on The Moonlit Road:
đź”” NEW STORY: THE BELLED BUZZARD
A Kentucky murder. A terrible secret. And a buzzard with a bell around its neck that won't go away.
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Poe knew the border of death was shadowy at best.
Across Southern pine barrens & red clay crossroads, the unquiet dead linger as "restless walkers" - flesh & bone finishing old chores until forced to cross running water. Some never truly sleep.
Close their eyes with silver coins, or they’ll come back walking.
Coastal Southern tradition warns that an unkept wake draws the restless dead back down the dirt lane - not as mist, but as muddy feet returning to the hearth they left behind.