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The wendigo of The North

The Wendigo of the North, this once feared north woods demon was and is, very real to many in the northern woods. Many legends and stories have circulated over
the years about a mysterious creature who was encountered by hunters and campers in the shadowy forests of the upper regions of Minnesota. The spirit is said to
have a unquenchable appetite for human flesh and the many forest dwellers who disappeared over the years were said to be victims of the demon.

The Native Americans had their own tales of the Wendigo. The Inuit Indians of the region called the creature by various names, including Wendigo, Witigo, Witiko
and Wee-Tee-Go but each of them was roughly translated to mean "the evil spirit that devours mankind". In the late 1800’s an explorer translated Wendigo to mean
"cannibal" of the forest dwellers.
Native American versions of the creature spoke of a gigantic spirit, over fifteen feet tall, that had once been human but had been transformed into a creature by the
use of magic. Though all of the descriptions of the creature vary slightly, the Wendigo is generally said to have glowing eyes, long yellowed fangs and long matted
coarse hair. They are tall and lanky and are driven by a horrible hunger. (Possible Sasquatch?)

The Wendigo is said to be summoned any time a settler or native resorts to cannibalism to feed them self or family members. This practice has long been
discontinued with the civilization of society, but the legend lives on in many forms.

Native Americans in the late 1800’s still feared the legend of the Wendigo, to the point they would actively track them down and massacre the demons. One of the
most famous Wendigo hunters was a Cree Indian named Jack Fiddler. He claimed to kill at least 14 of the creatures in his lifetime, although the last murder resulted
in his imprisonment at the age of 87. In October 1907, Fiddler and his son, Joseph, were tried for the murder of a Cree Indian woman. They both pleaded guilty to the
crime but defended themselves by stating that the woman had been possessed by the spirit of a Wendigo and was on the verge of transforming into one entirely.
According to their defense, she had to be killed before she murdered other members of the tribe.

North of the border the legend exist also in Northern Ontario near the Cave of the Wendigo, and around the town of Kenora, Many sightings of the demon creature
has been spotted by traders, trackers and trappers during the trading years.

Settlers had a different belief, there demon is a talisman. An ill fortune teller of approaching doom. It is said that upon a sighting of these hideous creatures a family
member will come to pass on soon.

The Ghost of Minnie Quay- Forester

Just off the eastern Michigan coast on the shores of Great lake Huron,
lies the small village of Forester Town. This small village has only a
handful of residents that are year round, although in the summer time
it is bustling with campers, fisherman and sportsman looking for a
peaceful vacation. The families will gather around the camp fires and
spin tales of the Lake Huron coast... and especially the ghostly legend
of the PHANTOM Minnie Quay... a tale that has its roots in fact, not fiction.

This tale starts at an abandoned tavern along a desolate street with the
name "Quay" and the year "1852" lettered above the door. This
establishment once belonged to James Quay and his wife, Mary Ann who
had come to Forester from New England. Their eldest daughter Minnie
was nearly fifteen-years-old when she died in April of 1876. This is her
tale of love and despair.

At the time of Minnie's death, Forester was a busy lumbering town and a
busy ship port for boats hauling lumber to various places on the Grand
Great Lakes. The busy pier boasted several warehouses at the time (the
pilings of the pier can still be seen jutting out of the water today) and
people from town came every day to see what ships had docked and to get
the latest news from the outside world.

Minnie Quay, like many curious young girls who lived in small villages ,
her heart was easily taken by a worldly Great lakes sailor who visited
such villages. No one knows for sure what his name was but the
relationship was greatly disapproved of in town, especially by Minnie's
parents. The Quay's refused to accept minnies love of such a man.

In the spring of 1876, word reached Forester that the ship that this
young man had been working on had gone down in a storm. Minnie was
heartbroken, especially since she had not been able to say goodbye to
him the last time that he had been in port, due to her parents
disapproval. A few days later, she committed suicide by plunging off the
town pier and into the cold waters of Lake Huron to attest her love.

Minnie was buried in the Forester Cemetery on the north end of town.
But she does not rest in peace.

To this day you can still see the young girl Minnie agonizing over her
lost love, wandering the roads and shores of the cold lake Huron. Many
young women have reported the sensation of Minnie calling them to the
icy waters of the great Lakes to join her. It is even said that one girl
drowned after claiming that she saw Minnie one night... Suicide? Or
simply the invitation from a ghost who is lonely in her watery grave of
despair?

Ghost Lake

Mysterious Ghost lake is an oddity of nature, nestled above the rocky shore line of Lake Huron's
Georgia Bay .

The lake's water is a milky sheen, created by a marl bottom. As the full moon glances off it you can
only imagine the ghostly legends that surrounds this gem of nature.

Through out evolution the native water foliage and species of fish that live below the surface has
adjusted to this unique enviroment.The lake boasts it own species of lake trout, a jet black with a
white under belly. Even the flesh is milky white.

The local natives have a different tale of this freak of nature..

The legend that has survived the centuries tells the story of a large group of natives who had
journeyed to the lake and set up a camp to fish in the late weeks of winter.A native village of huts
had been built on ice, to facilitate the harvesting of the teeming numbers of fish that lived in the
lake.

One day without any warning there was a loud, almost deafening bang. The natives who had not
been on the ice at the time looked up from their shoreline positions just in time to witness the ice
disappear into the depths of the lake, taking with it the homes and the people who recided in
them, to a watery grave.

A few natives survived the catastrophic event by hopping from one small ice floe to another until
they reached the safety of the shoreline. The native legend suggests that the whiteness of the lake
bed is due to the bones of those who lost their lives that day.

But Ghost Lake is unusual also for its location as much as it is for its color, it teeters on a sharp
cliff above Georgia Bay of Lake Huron.

Hideous Pig Face Man;

This is a story that originated in the logging areas of Northern Minnesota. The story quickly spread through the logging camps of Minnesota with
countless sightings of a mutated man.

It began in the fall of 1929 in a prosperous logging camp. This camp was the most successful of all camps in the woods. The crew could cut faster and
clear more land than crews twice their size.

The driving force behind this is a towering man named Jed, the crew foreman. He was a surly man with few friends on his crew. He would drive this crew
well in to the night time and then force them up early in the morning . Well as the story goes the crew was getting more and more frustrated with his
demoralizing behavior, that after one extra long shift they plotted to finally do something about their boss.

They got together and crept toward his tent, quietly they opened the flap and pulled him from the tent. In a frenzy they started beating him with axes and
sticks until he stopped twitching. Fearing the consequences , they buried him deep in the woods and when the next morning came around they told the
company boss he had gotten drunk and wandered off in the woods.

A few days later as the guilt burdened a young man who took no part in the beating. This young man hiked back in to the woods to offer an apology over
the shallow grave . But to his astonishment the grave was empty. He quickly ran back to the camp but to his horror there was blood everywhere.And over
a twitching body stood this towering grotesque figure. His head was misshapen, one shoulder was lower than the other, an eye was missing ,his nose was
crushed, only a couple of teeth were left and in some places there was bare flesh.

The kid cried out in a shaky voice, JED!

The figure stopped beating the poor man with an axe to look up and let out a moan. Then he continued to beat the helpless man to death.

There was many sightings shortly after the massacre and all who have seen him agree, If you hear a moan get out of the woods.

Ghost lake Legend-Lake Huron / The Ghost of Minnie Quay- Forester / The Legend of the Wendigo of the North / Hideous Pig Face Man/The Mothman Sightings

Stories Contained with in these pages

The Mothman of West Virginia.

A creature was witnessed by several creditable witnesses on November 15th 1967 in the area of Point Pleasant West Virginia.

As witnesses David and Linda Scarberry along with close friends Steve and Mary Mallette was driving pass an old munitions factory just out side of
Point Pleasant they observed what appeared to be a very large winged man with glowing red eyes near the gate buy an old generator.The Creature
took flight and chased them at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour.

The following night Mr. and Mrs. Marcella Bennet were returning to their car after visiting a friend near the munitions plant when they spotted the
same beast near the back end of their car. They returned to the safety of the house to phone the local authorities only to be peered at through the
window by the curious creature.

Again on the 24th the winged creature was spotted flying over the munitions plant by four more witnesses.

These sightings repeated until December 15th 1967 when the Point Pleasant Silver Bridge collapsed plummeting 46 people to their deaths.

Is the creature an Omen, foretelling of impending disasters?

Is he relic of creatures that once inhabited the area?

Is it a paranormal phenomenon yet to be proven?

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Paulding Lights

Watch the dark woods and glowing meadows when you visit the picturesque northern Wisconsin and Michigan woods and you might be lucky enough to catch a
glimpse of one of Wisconsin's oldest tales. The
Paulding Lights.

Local residents have witnessed the haunting lights from long ago, the first officially reported sighting was in 1966.

A carload of teen-agers had stopped one clear evening along a swampy area of the old Military Road called Dog Meadow. Suddenly the car's interior was
filled with a bright , glowing light . The frightened young
people fled to report their experience to the sheriff. Since the first report, many have witnessed the exact same phenomenon, but no one has an explanation for it.

This haunting legend's lore lies with in the tales about an old switchman that worked the near by rail road tracks.

Locals say that one night, about fourty years ago, a railroad switchman with lantern in hand, was crushed to
death between two rail cars while attempting to signal the trains engineer.

Others say that an engineer was murdered near the old railroad grade where the lights have been
witnessed.

A third story tells of a mail carrier and his sled dogs who were mysteriously slain a hundred years ago at Dog Meadow.

The mysterious lights have appeared on a regular basis near the area that all three of the tragedies have taken place.

One motorist, coming up over the crest of the gravel road that runs parallel to the old abandoned track bed, came face to face with a bright single light, thinking it to
be a one-eyed car, the terrified motorist pulled off
the road to avoid a head-on collision. But to his surprise there was no other car on the road.

One frigid winter evening, a group of snowmobilers came upon the illumination . Not knowing what to make
of it and terrified , they tried to surround it . But with no success. The haunting light disappeared as quickly
as it had appeared.

On another night, a local drunk from a near by town , took a shot at the light but it also disappeared. The light
is said to be the size of a weather balloon according to witnesses. Most agree that it appears to move northeast , although some say that it just sits and hovers.

On a hot June evening in 1977, Elmer Lent and Harold Nowak of Wisconsin decided to check out the phenomenon. A newspaper account said that no sooner
had they parked their car on the gravel road than the
light appeared . They stated that it appeared to be a bright spotlight shining directly at them. It moved closer, backed away, appeared at an angle from time to time.
To Elmer Lent, who grew up in the shadow of a
railroad yard, it looked like the headlight of a n oncoming locomotive .Suddenly a smaller light appeared below the large light and slightly to the right. Lent recalled
that "the two, at times, seemed to move together,
then apart, one or the other disappearing, then showing again." The movements, he reasoned, were those a switchman would make in signaling with a lantern.
Sometimes the light changed color from white to red and
occasionally a dim green. Lent judged the lights to be "two or three blocks away."

After watching for an hour or so , Lent, still skeptical of any supernatural basis for the phenomenon. Determined to catch the pranksters responsible Lent and
Nowak started up the tracks on foot As the two
approached the mysterious lights seemed to disappear down over the next rise . But half a mile later they illuminated the night sky with an eerie glow. With no
explanation for the mystery, the pair turned around and
the lights reappeared over the rise. When they reached their car,other observers said that, in the men's absence, they'd seen a large red light above a small white one
in the middle of the road a block ahead of them. These lights would have been between the men and their car.

Two hours later, the men drove ahead for some distance, parked, and shut off the headlights. The lights reappeared, the large headlight and the smaller one
beneath it beaming down the middle of the road. A
minute later, the headlight vanished, and the smaller light, Lent said, "seemed to touch down and burst into three."

The outer two lights disappeared, but the third remained, about two hundred feet away. Nowak snapped on the headlights but the light in the road didn't move.
Then,several minutes later, it rose slowly to a height of four or five feet and vanished. Of his experience, Lent, still perplexed, said,"No teen-agers, no flashlights, no
strings attached."

Though many have attempted to explain these away as environmental events or local pranksters. The frequencies of the haunting would lend itself to being a
true, legitimate northern Wisconsin haunt.

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