If Maycomb were Disney World , the Radley Place would be the Haunted mansion. And the Finch kids aren’t the only ones who avoid it. A Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked. The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot from the Radley chicken yard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children Radley pecans would kill you. A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked. The kids assume the pecans will kill them the yard swallows balls and even the African Americans seem to have their own set of superstitions around it. It occupies a specific place in the community, a stand in for all the fears of the unknown.