Nightmare-Alley

I'm sure some of you have heard of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. If not, it's a Lakota reservation that's near the Black Hills of South Dakota and it's one of the places that help perpetuate the stereotype of Native American reservations being bad places to live due to the poverty, homelessness, crime such as rape and murder, drug use, alcoholism, child abuse, and the most infamous of the problems, suicide. Sadly, it's mostly teenagers or younger who commit suicide. One of the beliefs in the Lakota tribe is a type of suicide spirit called "Walking Sam" or "Tall Man" as he is also called. Walking Sam appears as a 7 foot tall man, who has a lean f