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Mysterious Hoofprints In a wooded area near the town of Bath is a series of saucer-sized depressions in the earth that have mystified people for nearly 200 years. Nothing grows in the depressions, and debris placed in them will not remain. Legend has it that the depressions were made by the hooves of a spirited horse ridden by a young man named Jesse Elliott in a race shortly after the turn of the nineteenth century. Local people frowned on Sunday horse racing, but Jesse and a group of other young men scorned them. During one Sunday race, just after Jesse shouted, "Take me in a winner or take me to hell," his horse dug in its hooves, throwing Jesse into a nearby pine tree and killing him instantly. The hooofprints are unmarked but regularly visited. To find them, take the Goose Creek State Park Road off US 264. The site is about a quarter mile on the left, near a pull-off created by the vehicles that stop there regularly.
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