Maybe there's more to the legend of the Talladega Curse than meets the eye.
Legend says Talladega Superspeedway was built atop sacred land taken from the Creek Nation in the 1830s. It also says a medicine man looked back and cursed the land for all time as his people were being force-marched from Alabama to Oklahoma. Considering everything that’s happened there since 1969, the “Talladega Curse” may have been more real than skeptics realized.
When officials finally grew tired of the “cursed” talk, they summoned a Native-American shaman from the nearby Poarch Creek tribe to “restore balance” to the land. In 2009, Robert Thrower mixed four local plants, burned them, then lifted the ashes to the winds at the start-finish line and prayed, “Let this talk of a curse be no more.”Getty Images• Upwards of a dozen stars refused to run the first race because they didn’t trust the Goodyear and Firestone tires at 200-plus mph speeds.
“I don’t know what that experience was,” she said years later. “I don’t know if he felt an intuition or if it was actually a verbal voice. I know it impacted him enough that he wasn’t going to stay in the car. He always said it wasn’t because someone had gotten killed and that person was from Catawba, and he knew him.”
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