Devil's elbow, Missouri

As a notorious stop on the historic Route 66 between St. Robert and Rolla, the ominous name "Devil's Elbow" inspired generations of ghost stories, including campfire tales of moaning sounds and floating apparitions near the riverbanks and forested bluffs at night; local folklore features tales of an isolated grave belonging to a woman outside of regular sanctified church cemeteries, which historically fed regional myths labeling her an "Ozark witch", though historians note off-site burials were common for practical or epidemic reasons rather than folklore malice. Aside from getting caught in a heavy thunderstorm while lost in the Mark Twain forest, getting stuck in mud and facing a tree blocking the one lane dirt road we were on, we did capture a few notable pieces of evidence while we were there.