Let us gather at the river, and sing as we step into the stream.
Let us gather at the river, and sing as we step into the stream.
“as their torches were extinguished by the ripples and the last braves were carried to the sea, that is the last anyone heard the song of the Pascagoula tribe.”
“the legend of singing river “
I still don’t understand why they would do that without a fight. I should have ended the damn thing with the sound of the current in the cat tails, the last song of the Pascagoula.
One of the first written accounts of the “Singing River” was that of Governor Perier of French Louisiana on his visit to the Pascagoula Tribe. “…while among the Pascagoulas or ‘Bread People,’ he was invited to go to the mouth of the river of that name and listen to the mysterious music which floats on the waters. The water formed itself into a towering column of foaming waves, on the top stood a mermaid. As the Indians and missionary looked on, the mermaid began to sing ‘Come to me, come to me,’ where upon they walked into the water never to be seen again.” There are similar stories in other parts of the bayou, such as the Singing River located in modern-day Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which is also links the strange sounds emanating from under the water’s surface with the disappearance of the local tribe.
Legend of the Singing River | National Postal Museum
Also a famous close encounter on that stretch of the Pascagoula whole I worked at the shipyard, 1974?
ten-foot-wide, eight-foot-high, glowing egg-shaped object with blue lights at its front hovering just above the ground about forty feet from the river bank. As the men, frozen with fright, watched, a door appeared in the object, and three strange Beings floated just above the river towards them.
The Pascagoula Abduction Incident - Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States - October 11, 1973 - UFO Evidence
Anyway, I never fished at the Gautier Flats without a cooler of beer and a big bag of weed, but Hickson did describe the sound. (Oct 11 1973 I moved to Gautier in 1974 and left 1975. I remember running into Hickson on the East Bank
The Pascagoula Incident involved two men, nineteen-year-old Calvin Parker and forty-two-year old Charles Hickson, both of Gautier, Mississippi, who were fishing in the Pascagoula River when they heard a buzzing noise behind them