Hermit Known As "John The Baptist" (Dallas: house, live)

[koki]

Back in 1964 I was walking through the woods with my Dad when I ran into this man that looked just like Charlie Manson. This man would take scriptures out of the Bible and write them on pieces of paper and hang them in the trees. Needless to say, I was afraid this person. Especially when my Dad scooped me up and took me home. My sister told me that this guy was a hermit and he lived in the woods with his mother, sister and Uncle Charlie. She knew this because the woods was a popular place for parties and she had run into John herself,...in the dark!
When I got older I would go hiking in these woods and yes, I ran into him again. He was very nice, but strange. John would dig a huge hole in the ground, put a car hood over it and throw dirt over the top to hide it. He had these dugouts all over the woods. This is where he would write scriptures. His family lived in an old broken down wooden house on Jim Miller Rd. and Scyene Rd. across from the minature golf course.
This man hung a cable way up in a tree and would swing from one side of a deep gulley to another. Just like Tarzan.
Does anyone know of this hermit called "John The Baptist"? What ever became of him?

[tycobb2522]

He moved to Lakewood.

[Korel]

Originally Posted by tycobb2522

He moved to Lakewood.

I love it!

[mdpylot80]

I remeber crazy John the Baptist. We used to hang out in the woods with him. He made the cable that went across the creek or gulley depending on rainfall. He was harmless and used to protect us younger kids from the teenagers when they tried to pick on us. He did have the old dugouts with the old car hoods as roofs. He and his hilbiily family lived across from the East Dallas hospitial. It was just east of Hunts drive in. Their house burned down in the mid 70's and they just disappeared. It was a unique place to have the woods and hillbillies right in the middle of the city. Great memories of spending hot summer days at the cable listening to old john tell his crazy stories. He had the woods littered with bible verses on the twigs of the trees.