Only locals or the actual Indians have known the mystery of Deadman.
The voices and the moaning and groaning, like huge sounding voices.
It turns out the Deadman has hoodoos which are natural statues and beams with out a roof made of sand and red dirt.
When the wind swirls and speeds up it creates mystical sounds not heard anywhere else.
It can scare the most solid individual never mind a supersticious one
The voices are loud too.
Also about the mix up of elk and mule deer in the valley in the 60's.
I heard of it in the Fraser valley from a family who hunted Deadnman religously.
Some hunters from Sardis BC were hunting Deadman for mule deer buck.
-- They saw what appeared to be a massive bodies animal behind a tree, ass stickin out and they saw it had points so BAM! Down goes the heavy bodied deer.
-- These hunters from the valley hunted blacktail up the Vedder all their life.
When they walked closer to the massive buck with a rack like an elk.
Thirty nine inches wide - thirteen inch tines in perfect semetry, perfect four point.
They thought it could be an elk.
Scared they gutted it and dragged it with come alongs loaded it up started driving towards Savano when a truck came up behind flashng their lights off and on.
Pulled over and an Indian asked him," You shoot animal?" The guy says why? This animule has been saved and left to carry on my wayward son by the hoodoo man."
The guy shite his pants and said, " " It's a monster mule then, it's not a bull elk?"
The Indian fella says, " You and the Deadman have hindered the Hoodoo man and you will have to pay."
The Indian turned a you e and gone with the wind.
-- The hunters from Sardis were in a state of shock then drove to Abbottsford to the Taxidermist.
The Taxi says, " You know this particular buck is like no other mule buck i've worked with, other than it's huge, like a bull elk." " It's got two scars behind it's ears like a tatoo, never seen anyting like it Mister, you shot an only buck."
-- won't tell yah what happened at home.
Jel -- The Deadman Hoo do yah love?