Wes Coffey

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1,436 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 17 Apr

Wes Coffey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It was a homemade wooden platform, nailed high up in a big white oak.
Papa built it when I was about fourteen.
He built it solid.
There's no way it blew down in three years.
But the tree was there, and the stand was gone.
And when I looked at the trunk, I could see the nail holes.
Somebody had pulled it down.
I figured neighbors, or trespassers.
I didn't love it, but it didn't shake me.
I sat at the base of the tree that morning instead, leaned against the trunk, and I didn't see anything.
Not a squirrel.
Not a bird.
I mean that.
I was out from 6 in the morning until 10, and I did not see or hear a single living thing.
Walking back to the cabin, I noticed the first of the markings.
I want to tell you about these carefully, because they're important.
There was a red oak right along the path, big tree, probably 40 inches across.
And on the side of the trunk facing the path, about chest high, somebody had carved a shape into the bark.
it wasn't words it wasn't initials it was a shape three vertical lines with a horizontal line across the top of them and beneath the horizontal line there was a small circle the whole thing was maybe six inches tall the cuts were deep maybe a quarter inch into the wood and they were clean fresh enough that the wood inside the cuts was still pale
I stood there looking at that tree for a long time.
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