The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-04-18
For the Citizen.
For the Citizen.
Mere about the Mysterious Sink
Hole.


For a quarter Of a century pre-
vious to our late civil war. very lit
+ tie was said about this sink hole.
f Only now and then you could hear
some old citizen relating some sn-
perstitious sIoEics to the Young
/ people about what had been heard
and seen there. But the Young
/ people Of the recent age, relying
more upon scientific facts than SUI
/ perstitiOn, paid but little attention
to these legends. At length the
war came, and Pulaski was invest
ed with Federal troops for the first
time. The Confederates being on
the south side of Tennessee river.
sent over a squad of about % men
to recounoitre and scout about Pu-
laski, In order to discover the enc
my's position. The night was
ircadfuily dark aud rainy. They
found themselves in the vicinity of
Vale Mills. They became aware
that they wero xear the enemv's
pickets, and fell back from the
main road and secreted themselves
near the mysterious sink hole.
They knew the place for some of
them had been there before, hut not
one Of them had ever heard word
about its being a haunted place. !
There they concluded to remain un-
til daylight, and then fall back to
wards the river again. They had
all dismounted and wcDe sitting
quietly at the roots of 4 tree near
by, drawing their blankets around
themselves to protect them from the |
continued rain which was falling, !
all were silent, some nodding, etc, I
when suddenly curious ;..asing
sound was heard, and, to their as
constituent, a ball of fire shet mp
ouf of the sink hole with a glaring |
light. to about forty feet high, ma
king everything visible as in day
light for feT moments, and then I
disappeared. The word was given, |
MY Cod! Yankee signals! we are
right in among them, every man for
himself" and such stampede there /
was! Next morning about day4 /
light they crossed Sugar Creek on /
their way over the river, where they |
reported to the writer the circum- |
stances of the preceding night.
But by this time they had found
that it was no Yankee signal, and
they were ali merry over their
scare. The writer related these
circumstances to DIR. w. p. Jones,
with q full history of the mvsteri-
Gus sink hole in by-goac years.
His reply was, Il am going to have
that money. Say nothing more
about it to anybody else" So he
put out straightway IN search of a
young man by the name of Vim.
Sular, who was celebrated for find
ing water, minerals and lost treas
ures with rod. He obtained the
services of Sular and started in
search of the sink hole, neither of
them ever having sren it. But
strange to believe, the rod carried
them directly to the place. They
obtained tools and began to dig In
the sink hole. They proceeded
with difficulty, the hole having been
filed up with brush, logs, etc, in a
decaycd condition. Having gone
down about eight feet, they became
alarmed from the fact that their
tools in digging created such an
hollow sound below them ,
that they were afraid CT falling
through ana getting in company
with the negro's bones and the sill
yer dollars in that awful chasm, be-
fore they were ready for it. Upon
this they finally agreed to dcsist for
the present, and resume work again
a. ter the war, when they could be
prepared for the emergency. But
Sular went into the Confederate
army, and fell. Dr.. Jones took the
consumption and died-thc writer :
alone being the only living
man on earth in possession Of all
the secrets of the mysterious sink
hole, who now sees proper to di-
yulge them to the public.
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