Every night at midnight, the hanging tree creaked as if a very large weight attached to a rope had just been dropped from one of its thick, sturdy branches. Then a shadow would descend. Legend said anyone touched by it would be found hanging from the tree when the sun rose.
A spooky short read from September 2014, https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/the-hanging-tree/
Sammi Cox 