Corn Demons
i asked my resident Nebraskan friend to share their thoughts on Corn Demons (copied and pasted so it’s accessible)
“Yeah corn entities are huge. There’s debate on whether or not it’s aliens or spirits and in my opinion i think both are true.
Because I say it often but people have gotten lost in corn fields when it seems like it would be easy to just pick a direction and move straight until you find an edge, the reason it can be so disorienting can be because of fear, yes fear of being lost but also the fear people can pick up as a result of the energy around them.
I had friends who detasseled in the summer where it’s just a bus of kids that get driven around to different farmers fields and they go into the field, take off the corn tassel and drop it on the ground. They get told everyday to stay in your rows, move quickly, and don’t fuck around in the corn. And detasseling is an annoying job. corn flies, husk cuts, early early mornings and hot hot sun make it a job that pays really well, but people would quit almost everyday just because for reasons they couldn’t always explain, they didn’t feel safe in the fields.
Also depending on where you go the entities in the corn are different, smaller farms (usually sweet corn farms) are hit or miss. Because as long as you respect the fields and the entities in the field know you mean no harm, you’re usually fine. But the bigger feed farms where it’s all profit and no care really for the land, those are where you get the crazy hussle and bussle of entities that Want You Out Now.
There’s also always the basic rules of respect where if you’re driving past fields at night, do not look into them. Do not try and see if you can spot anything in the fields, and definitely do not make eye contact with anything in the fields even if you think it’s just a raccoon. Because speaking from personal experience, sometimes the raccoon will stand up and suddenly be 7 feet tall.”
