The Flood Behind Dead Man’s Curve
A spooky drop of memoir.
5 min readSep 17, 2022
In southeast Missouri, outside Advance, headed east toward Painton on State Highway O, is a curve. It’s not the tightest curve I’ve ever seen — and not the loosest, either — but thanks to my mom, I grew up knowing that curve by its unofficial moniker: Dead Man’s Curve.
