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With over 400 years of written history and even more centuries of traditions, the Eastern Shore is not short on tales that sound like the plot of a Halloween movie. A lesser known story that could be a B-roll monster movie or a psychological horror film is the legend of a creature living in the marsh near Craddockville. The legend is told in Ralph T. Whitelaw’s book “Virignia’s Eastern Shore” when he wrote the history of the home Craddock (sometimes Cradock) that is pictured with this post. The original home was built on the banks of Craddock Creek for Rev. Thomas Teackle in 1674. A century later, Teackle’s great-grandson, Col. Thomas Teackle III, owned the house during the Revolutionary War. Teackle was an officer of the Accomack militia, which made him the target of a British raiding party. The British set fire to the house in 1778 after they failed to find Teackle. A few years later, a new Craddock was rebuilt on the site of the original house. The Teackle family held a party to celebrate the occasion and as they felt some triumph over the restoration of their home and America’s victory over Great Britain. During the party guests were alarmed when they heard a scream come from the marsh. The scream was not from a person and sounded like an animal cry. Whitelaw continues to say the same scream was heard in the spring and fall for nearly every year since then.
Eastern Shore historian Thomas T. Upshur described the scream as a “yahoo” sound; so the creature was named the Yahoo. Others referred to it as the “Bogey of Craddock Marsh.” Over the years hunting parties searched for the creature during both the day and at night. Despite its loud call the Yahoo was never found aside from some unexplained and oddly-shaped tracks left in the marsh. The origin of the sound remains a mystery. Whitelaw speculated it may have been the call of a migratory animal that came to the marsh for mating season. Others insisted the sound did not come from any ordinary creature. Regardless of the source it has been several decades since the call of the Yahoo was heard.

Here is one of the hidden treasures on site at Buena Vista Conference Center. Linen thread on linen ground, made by Peggy Douglass at Madame Carpon’s School in Philadelphia in 1796.

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Hailing Hale-Byrnes
One of Delaware’s top historic sites, the state-owned Hale-Byrnes House off Del. 7 in Stanton, was listed June 2, 1972, on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1700s’ house is named for its first two owners, Philadelphia potter Samuel Hale and miller Daniel Byrnes, a Kent County native. Washington held war council there after the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge. A public campaign spared the house, set for demolition in 1961 for road-widening.
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