For many years, citizens of Chatham County in Siler City, North Carolina believed the Devil had presumed his position for eternity in a vast circle in the middle of an evergreen pine forest in which nothing is said to grow in the circle or remain in the circle after dusk each night. There have been several speculations about what is said to go on in this circle verses what actual goes on in this circle, which does have several highly-possible explanations but not any exact one. The story, and retellings of the random circle in the middle of the woods originally came from immigrants from England and Scotland who had settled in the Apps and Uwharries of North Carolina, known by Americans as the Scotch-Irish, and was officially named as “The Devil’s Tramping Ground” by old American Folk tradition (http://www.northcarolinaghosts.com/piedmont/devils-tramping-ground-scary-truth.php). The Devil was a most definite force to be reckoned with in the Scotch-Irish culture. The Scotch-Irish, somehow-someway, came to the conclusion that the barren circle…show more content… Anything left in the circle whether it be people testing out the myth or object put into the circle, astonishingly appear outside of the circle from a half mile away from the circle up to a mile or more away from its original location (http://www.northcarolinaghosts.com/piedmont/devils-tramping-ground-scary-truth.php). People who have taken their pets for walks and have wandered off their path and come across the circle, say that no animal will come near the circle, that they dig their paws into the ground refusing to get any closer to it. Which can be supported by the continual studies on animals, which have found that animals can sense supernatural forces and can sense danger before human-kind can
