What is the legend of the hairy toe?

Answer 1

What you are about to read is based on true events that occurred on Friday the 13th of March 1987 at roughly 11:29pm. The woman in the story goes by the name of Mary Aldridge, who wrote a series about sightings she had had in the woodland where she lived. She dissappeared after officials found a letter discribing her fear of a possible 'reaping'. Mary Aldridge was never seen after this event. You may be alarmed by what you read.

Once there was a woman called Mary who went out in the woods to dig up some roots to cook for her dinner. She spotted something funny sticking out of the leaves and dug around until she uncovered a human toe. Mary was extremely hungry, she hadn't eaten a proper meal for weeks, there was some good juicy meat on that toe which she thought would make a delicious dinner. So Mary put it in her basket and took it home to her cottage in the woods.

When she got back to her cottage, Mary boiled up a pot full of this toe meat and it slowly simmered into a soup like mixture, which she ate for dinner that night. It was the best meal she'd had in weeks! Mary then went to bed that night with a full stomach and a big smile on her yellow teeth.

Along about midnight, a cold wind started blowing in the tops of the trees around her house. Local officials reported new of a large black cloud or some sort of stom covering the sky above. Mary awoke and peered out of her window. She says she may have gone mad, but she knows she could a hear a strained croaking. The words seemed odd, it was is if someone was whispereing, "Hairy toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!"

Inside the house, Mary stirred uneasily in her bed and nervously pulled the covers up over her ears.

From the woods there came a loud thud noise as the wind whistled and jerked at the treetops.

She could hear the hollow whisper once again, coming from the clearing in the Forrest accross from her cottage, "Hairy toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!" Inside the house, Mary shuddered and turned over in her sleep.

A stomp, stomp, stomping sound came from the garden path outside the cottage.

The night creatures shivered in their burrows as a hollow voice howled: "Hairy toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!"

Inside the house, Mary snapped awake. Her whole body shook with fright as she listened to the breathy noises in her garden. Jumping out of bed, she ran to the door and barred it. Once the cottage was secure, she lay back down to sleep.

Mary the saw the front door of the cottage burst open with a bang, snapping the bar in two and sending it flying into the corners of the room. There came the loud thudding noise again, like giant feet walking up the stairs. Peeping out from under the covers, Mary saw a huge figure filling her doorway.

"Where is it Mary, it has gone."

Mary sat bolt upright in terror and screamed, "I ATE your hairy toe!"

"Yes, you did," the ghostly figure whispered gently as it advanced into the room, gliding slowly towards Marys bed.

No one living in the region ever saw Mary Aldridge again. The only clue to her disappearance was a giant footprint a neighbor found pressed deep into the loose soil of the meadow beside the house. The footprint was missing the left big toe. Locals also believe this is the reason as to why many of the villagers had also experienced these 'reapings' and felt ghostly presences since this date.

The story was originally told by a local man Thomas Esscott, who reportedly heard Mary screaming into the night and when investigating, found a large bloody severed toe pressed against the window of her bedroom. Even historians cannot figure out the myth behind this truly bizarre haunting.