At the Stroke of Midnight

Chasing the Legend of Booger Jim

By: David Knight

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

On the eerie eve of All Hallows' in the year 2000, a chilling autumnal darkness descended upon Cherokee Falls, South Carolina.The crisp October air bit at exposed skin as Sarah, Mark, Emily, and Ben’s battered Ford Explorer bumped along the curvy road leading to Cherokee Falls, its headlights cutting fleeting swaths through the inky blackness of the northern Cherokee County woods. A palpable weight, a cloying blend of damp soil, decaying oak, and pine, permeated the air. The earlier exuberance of their laughter, a vibrant countermelody to the ghoulish porch lights shimmering in the distance, had evaporated, replaced by anxious titters broken by stretches of unnerving quiet. Their journey of these four teenagers to Cherokee Falls, held a far more profound purpose than mere Halloween revelry. They hunted a myth. This wasn't some sensationalized urban legend plucked from a silver screen spectacle. No. This was Booger Jim. A name breathed in hushed reverence around crackling hearths, an ancestral narrative passed down through northern Cherokee County, South Carolina, for generations. A tale that induced a profound, bone-deep chill, not through graphic violence or monstrous imagery, but via a slow, insidious dread that burrowed its way into the very core of your being. Bound by a spectral enigma—the chilling legend of Booger Jim—four teenagers find their fates inextricably linked. Their perilous journey compels them to attempt to unravel the terrifying secrets concealed within Booger Jim's ghostly heritage; however, their midnight pilgrimage to Cherokee Falls, undertaken by the four restless and curious teenagers, will unearth unsettling truths, of Cherokee Falls, and the legend of Booger Jim....