I hope the city and its residents are taking reverent care of those old Indian burial mounds...
Supernatural forces the reason this city has dodged hurricanes for nearly a century?For nearly a century, the Tampa Bay area in Florida has been largely void of any direct landfalling hurricane strikes -- and some locals believe the reason can be chalked up to a supernatural force.
In 2017, Hurricane Irma appeared to be headed straight into the Gulf of Mexico toward the St. Petersburg and Tampa area, before it turned into Marco Island instead, 146 miles south of St. Petersburg and Tampa, allowing the area to largely avoid a catastrophic direct strike.
“That has been our story for nearly a hundred years now," Rui Farias, executive director of the St. Petersburg Museum of History said in a conversation with AccuWeather National Weather Reporter Jonathan Petramala. "That the hurricanes are heading right for us and just veer off course.”
For centuries, the Tocobaga tribe inhabited the coastline of Tampa Bay, surviving on a diet consisting mostly of fish and shellfish. The tribe began dying off due to war and disease brought by a Spanish explorer and his men in the 16th century. Although the timeline is somewhat unclear, the tribe had been completely wiped out some time before 1800.
Large burial mounds remaining from the Tocobaga civilization are still present today, with the oldest one located overlooking Old Tampa Bay. However, only a few have survived the development the area has undergone in modern times. Many people think the mounds could be providing supernatural protection from hurricanes.
