The Feather Lady

The story of the Feather Lady had been around longer than anyone can remember, generations told their kids about this and in turn they told their eventual kids. It was in a small town of Caldwell, Texas that the legend was told but just outside the town about a ten minute drive was an old country road which had a typically Texan red rock road as an entrance that led to a small community called Cade Lake pronounced (Kay-Da-Lake) and this was where the legend of the Feather Lady was born.

It is said that there once was an old lady who lived pretty much a hermit lifestyle but this was by choice she preferred to keep to herself, she saw people and the world as trouble and didn't want any part in this so kept herself hidden away in the woods by the lake in what was basically a small shack of a house. She was on her way to feed what she called her " Friends" the animals that inhabited the area, when she was crossing a road and struck accidentally by two boys in their pick up truck.

The boys panicked as it was clear the old lady was dead on impact and also there was no way a lady of her age could have survived such impact. So after mulling over what to do they decided to bury her rather than ringing the police through fear of the consequences.They waled into an area of the woods that was hidden from view of roads and any houses, on their way dragging her old, pale corpse feathers started to fall from birds that sat in the surrounding trees and stuck to the lady so the boys in their state of consternation decided to just bury her feather covered.

Later that night the boys who lived in a trailer sat down to watch a movie hoping to distract themselves of what happened earlier. As they were starting to nod off they could hear a scratching sound at their door as if the pet dog wanted to get back in so they opened the door but nothing was there except a gathering of birds on the clothes line directly opposite the trailer door. Over the next week this sounds continued to happen and more birds started to gather but strangely it was all types of birds who started making noise that grew louder as the night/s went on. The caw of the Crow, the hoot of the Owl, the chirp of the Mockingbird and the cluck of the Chicken could all be heard from inside the trailer.

This grows to an unbearable point one night, the boys sitting in the trailer covering their ears when suddenly the windows and door smash open and there stands the old lady they buried, completely rotten and covered in feathers. She was like some kind of human-bird hybrid , her bones stuck out and on her face she had what looked like a beak. Her eyes are sunken black pits of clay and birds lay on her outstretched arms pecking at her clay filled eyes while disturbingly singing at the boys before attacking them both.

The two boys were never seen around again and all that remained inside their trailer were feathers and human bone. Nowadays it has turned into a bit of a scare prank for parents or camp leaders to play on the kids, they would organize someone to scratch at where they were staying at night and dress up as the feather lady which always frightened the kids.

It is said that the feather lady still stalks those who have done bad in that region of the woods of Cade Lake. If you do hear some sort of scratching at night or indeed notice an unusual gathering of all types of birds outside your home then pray they aren't here for you but some say if you hear the noise or see the birds then it is already too late....