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In american madisonville kentucky there is a curious an urban legend that is very similar to the truth.
Once upon a time here you could find a white oak whose crown is from the right The angle looked like a woman’s head in profile. Locals called it Mandy Tree. People used to cover miles to take a look at this unusual attraction with your eyes. And the thing is that the strange oak, according to rumors, was mystical and showed this profile is far from easy So.
The murder of Mandy Holloman and the appearance of a mysterious tree
It is alleged that in the 20s of the last century a young woman lived here a housewife named Mandy Holloman. Once, when a woman was alone at home, someone went inside and shot her. Murderer never found. Suspected first came Mandy’s spouse, but he with easily proved that at the time of the murder was in the service. Someone said it was a suicide, however the police ruled that the miserable Mrs. Holloman became a victim intruder.
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Be that as it may, Mandy’s body was found under a window outside her house. Nearby grew a white oak tree, in which after some time a mysterious in a way lightning struck, completely destroying it. Another white oak appeared right in the same place, and when he grew up, then the neighbors with surprised to find that the branches of a tree fold into shape female head.
People began to whisper that the crown of the oak shows exactly the face Mandy Holloman, like a dumb rebuke to her killer, who did not answer before law for his crime. The townspeople were amazed at how much strongly tree resembled facial features, hairstyle and even tall the collar that the deceased loved to wear.
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For almost 4 decades, the tree has retained a sinister image women until a hurricane destroyed him in the 60s. Despite this, the legend of the mystic oak is still alive, and still here tourists come who want to feel Mandy’s sad story. They say that if you look at this place in the full moon, then in the background lunar disk, you can see the ephemeral branches of a tree – an oak phantom with image of an unhappy woman. Although many consider it clean the fiction generated by the violent fantasy of superstitious Americans, on in fact, ghosts of trees were noticed not only here. Plants, apparently, as well as people, they have both consciousness and soul, especially since in this particular case the white oak could be the reincarnation of Mandy Holloman herself …
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Unfortunately, the presented black and white photo – the only one on which an amazing tree was captured. Snapshot used by many American newspapers that wrote about this legend. The original image was sold in the 70s to an unknown private to the collector.
Did you find the weapon from which the woman was killed?
In the 80s, history suddenly received a new round. Human, who then owned this house, reconstructed his home and found in the wall near the fireplace a 5.6 mm caliber rifle. The man immediately attributed his find to law enforcement officers, and those having studied it carefully, it was reported that Mrs. Holloman was indeed could kill with this weapon. The case, however, did not open again in connection with his prescription.
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The rifle was handed over to the late grand-nephew of the late John Taylor Jr., who left her to himself as a sad reminder about the unsolved murder of his cousin and her mysterious the image that once embodied in the family tree – a mysterious white oak.
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