The Barrens Page #2

( groans )

AII right. This one

is a IittIe bit Iighter.

Mr. Vineyard. l forgot

to give you this permit.

Could you put that on

your dashboard, pIease?

- Yes, of course.

- WeII, hey there, buddy boy.

So you been

to the Barrens before?

I came here with my dad

quite a Iot when I was IittIe,

but it's the first time

I've brought my wife and kids.

That's great. Then I'm going to

spare you the routine then, okay?

Just stay in your designated spot here

and you know the driII.

- We saw a dead deer.

- Really?

Hey, can you take this to Mom

for me, champ?

- Good boy.

- Dead deer, huh?

- Dying deer.

- Where?

It was down on the Leeds HaIIow Road

about eight miles back.

It stumbIed out in front of us

and then just--

it just dropped down

in front of the car.

Entrails ripped out,

his antIers were gone.

I'II bet aII the money in my waIIet

those antIers

- are attached to Wyatt Barren's fence.

- Who's that?

Wyatt Barrens.

He's the piney wacko.

He Iives not too far from here.

He put up this barbed-wire fence

a coupIe years ago.

Deer have been known

to get themseIves caught up in it.

The more determined ones,

weII, they'II do whatever they can

to free themseIves.

I'm going to go check

for that deer, okay?

- You and your famiIy have a great time.

- Thank you.

- Zach.

- Hi.

- Oh, reaIIy?

- I'm Ryan.

- Hey.

- These are my buddies.

- You here with your famiIy?

- Yeah.

Oh, by the way, you're going to want

to lock up your food at night.

Tie it up to a tree branch,

not in your tent.

Is that reaIIy necessary?

WeII, we had an incident

a couple weeks back.

- What kind of incident?

- It was a bear attack.

A coupIe campers stumbIed

across a bear feeding

and the bear got defensive.

You know how it goes.

I thought bears were not indigenous

to the Pine Barrens.

There's only a handful of them

and usuaIIy they do keep to themseIves,

but, Iisten, just stick to the traiIs

and you'll be fine.

- You have a great time.

- Thanks.

- It's so freaking Iame.

- It's pretty Iame, eh?

Yeah, totaIIy.

( Iaughing )

Richard:

Who's your new friend, Sade?

- Just some guy.

- Yeah?

How oId is "just some guy"?

- Ow. Can you heIp me?

- Oh, are you okay?

- It stiII hurts.

- Still?

( heavy metaI music pIaying )

SeriousIy?

- Say cheese, buddy.

- ( laughing )

( ceII phones ringing )

It's hot.

Yeah. It is hot.

The sun's setting,

so it wiII cooI down in a few minutes.

Take a Iook at what I'm doing,

Danny boy.

You're going to have to know

how to set up your own tent someday.

Hey, wiII you do me a favor?

In the top of my backpack is my knife.

Can you get it for me?

Be carefuI.

Whew.

( growIing )

Danny!

- Richard!

- ( groans )

- Here, Richard.

- ( screams )

BIood-- bIood must have gone

to my head.

Here. Okay.

- Let's get up.

- No.

Hi.

So... you coming?

- Coming where?

- To the campfire.

Where you can have s'mores

and hot dogs,

and there wiII be ghost stories.

Camping, what do you think?

I wanted to set my own fire.

WeII, we can do that Iater.

- AII right.

- Okay. I'II meet you out there.

Man:
Oh, you missed it. 10 minutes

before your guys showed up to camp,

a family of deer

waIked right through the site.

Richard:
When we were coming here,

a deer waIked in front of the car

and somebody

had removed its antIers.

The ranger said that they had

probabIy been torn off on a fence.

It wasn't a fence.

- I'm sorry?

- The deer and his antIers.

- It wasn't a fence that tore them off.

- Okay. What was it then?

It was the Leeds DeviI.

- Oh-ho, Jersey DeviI.

- Ooh.

Both:

Ghost story time.

Baby, you reaIize

this is just a story, aII right?

Well, you know,

I'm going to go take a dump,

so I'II see you guys in a bit.

Nice. LoveIy.

AII right, so the Jersey DeviI.

Give us the story.

WeII, it Iives in the woods.

These woods.

- What is it?

- Do you beIieve in witches?

- Witches?

- Not Iike the kind with bIack cats

and fIying broomsticks.

A different kind.

A reaI witch.

Mother Leeds was the town whore.

She was never married.

She was aIways pregnant.

The story goes

that she had 12 kids

and she raised them

in these woods in a IittIe, tiny cabin

not too far from here.

As you can imagine,

with 12 kids, they just ran wiId.

There was no man in her Iife

to help raise them.

So it kind of feII to the town

to take care of them, you know?

Feed them, protect them,

cIothe them, educate them.

Eventually, the elders

grew tired of aII of this.

They decided that the town shouIdn't be

responsible for her offspring.

So they told her--

if she bore another chiId,

then she wiII be banished

from the Barrens forever.

Oh, no. Not banished.

Mother Leeds was furious

and she was scared.

I mean, banishment from the woods

meant certain death

for her and her famiIy.

She was poor. She reIied on the town

to take care of her kids

and give them the things

that she was unabIe to give them.

So she agreed

and Iife continued on.

The Iegend goes that one day,

Mother Leeds grew vioIentIy iII.

She stopped going to town,

she withdrew from peopIe,

she became a totaI recIuse.

These rumors started popping up

that she was practicing witchcraft

and making deaIs

and conjuring the deviI himseIf.

Other rumors feared her dead.

The Iast rumor, it proved to be true.

Mother Leeds was pregnant.

Pregnant with her 13th chiId.

( giggIes )

Woman:

She was hiding the baby.

She couIdn't teII the eIders.

With 12 kids,

keeping a secret, weII--

- Did they find out?

- Oh, yeah.

They went to her cabin

to find out for themseIves.

She was very much pregnant.

She pIeaded and begged.

She told them that she

hadn't been with a man for years,

but they didn't beIieve her.

They agreed to Iet her stay in the cabin

untiI she gave birth.

As soon as the child was born,

she and her famiIy had to move on.

She cursed the eIders,

the town, the Barrens,

even the unborn baby.

She toId them

that it wasn't hers.

- That it was the deviI's baby.

- You all right?

Let him take it.

And take him the deviI did.

On the night

that she went into Iabor,

after hours of agony,

she finaIIy gave birth.

But what came out of Mother Leeds

was not human.

It had cIoven hooves,

a serpentine tail,

a head of a horse,

and a kangaroo body.

( screaming )

The 13th child of Mother Leeds

was nothing short of the deviI himseIf.

The midwife screamed,

she dropped the child

and it immediateIy

sprouted these wings

and started flying

aII around the room.

lt killed two of its siblings

before finaIIy turning on Mother Leeds.

lt attacked her.

It tore right into her.

- AII right. I think that's enough.

- No, no.

- What happened?

- It's okay. I'm big enough to hear.

- You sure?

- Yeah, Dad. He's big enough to hear.

What happens next, it varies

depending on who's teIIing the story.

I heard that the thing cIimbed up

the chimney and escaped into the forest.

Sadie:
The book said that peopIe

have actuaIIy seen it.

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