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The Dismal Damsel

In the Great Dismal Swamp bordering Virginia and North Carolina, lives something… more than human. They call her the Dismal Damsel. She wanders an abandoned cabin South of lake Drummond that was built by a family of escaped slaves in 1862. Their eldest daughter swam daily in the lake, where she befriended a shapeshifting frog, Aogan. When the lake flooded, killing her entire family, Aogan spared her. He gave her gills and immortality in exchange for being protector of the lake.

She has no voice, but some say you hear gurgling, just before she drags you into the lake's heart.

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Prompt: A real or fabricated urban legend.
Word count: 100 words exactly

This legend is made up, but based on a real place called the Great Dismal Swamp  .