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The Devil’s Stomping Ground
The Devil’s Stomping Ground, a new horror film, isn’t just making an impact in movie theaters; it’s also making an impact locally. The Devil’s Tramping Ground, known to locals in North Carolina, served as the inspiration for the film.
The movie is based on a real place in North Carolina.
In the film, a group of college film students travels to the “Devil’s Stomping Ground” in rural North Carolina to make their senior short film. Unfortunately, the pupils are away when their footage is uncovered the following day.
Moviegoers should be aware that this Hollywood production is based on the Devil’s Tramping Ground, an actual location in North Carolina.
The enigma surrounding the Devil’s Tramping Ground appears to have always been present in North Carolina folklore. But every story must start somewhere. Many would be astonished to learn that there are documented reports of the tramping ground from the 1700s and oral histories from before the United States was even founded.
A transfer recorded in the 1784 Chatham County Deed Book refers to the Devil’s Tramping Ground as “the Poison Field tract,” indicating that the highly desolate location was well known enough to have a name even at that time.
Locals have pondered the mystique of the immutable, dead dirt that surrounds the…
