Sunday, July 10, 2011

Devil Worshippers in Ellen Trout Park, Texas

http://lufkindailynews.com/life/community_news/article_4522d61c-aaa0-11e0-a58c-001cc4c002e0.html

The Lufkin Daily News [TX]
10 July 2011

Rumors of devil worshipping in Lufkin, many of which take place at Ellen Trout Park, have been circulating at school lunch tables since the 1980s

By JESSICA COOLEY/The Lufkin Daily News

[...] Charlotte Henley, Ellen Trout Zoo director of educational services, has lived in Ellen Trout Park, not far from the stone benches, for the last three decades and had no knowledge of the devil worship rumor until she got a phone call from a Lufkin Daily News reporter last week. She didn’t have to do much asking around before finding a source close to home.

“I talked to both of my kids who are now grown and they had heard the same rumors — rumors of people being over there sacrificing animals and tying rags to trees,” Henley said. “My daughter told me that any tree they tied a rag on was supposed to die.” [...]

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