Ok, We just rolled in from a week long trip into entry #37, Lake Kawishiwi. We entered there and headed to Alice Lake via Square Lake, Kawaschong, Polly, up the river to Koma into Malberg then to the Kawishiwi River down to Alice. Super fun trip except for that first night on Kawishiwi.
I had read an article in the Spring 2000 issue of Boundary Waters Journal several years ago titled The Bell Lake Mystery. Many of you may recall it. Where a father and son card game was interrupted by the sound of running in the campsite at dusk and later into the night. That happened to us!
I kid you not. My son and I had wrapped up the day there after getting a late start due to a trip into Ely. We put in at #37 around six, paddled a bit, got water and found a spot for the night. After dinner and dishes, a short fire, we turned in looking forward to an early start the next day. We're in separate hammocks mind you so we're apart from each other. As I get cozy and start to relax, I begin to hear the sound of someone running thru the camp! It was NOT an animal.
I did not mention it to my son until we were headed back a week later and he said that he had heard it too, but thought he had dreamt it! We discussed it for a long time as we headed thru Wisconsin, into the UP on our way home.
Anyone else had that or a similar experience?
If you have that issue of the journal, read that article. I'm telling you, it was other worldly...!

So creepy, Pilot.

The Bell Lake Mystery, found in a long-ago BWJ, is very spooky. Very. It has a Blair Witch Project feel to it.

Were you close to any other campsites? Kawishiwi Lake is a mess this year with lots of people everywhere. It just doesn't make sense that someone may have ran through your campsite but you did not hear any other evidence of a human. Even if that IS the explanation, it's so wrong that someone would be that close (in) your campsite.

Did this happen only the one time? The forest floor can occasionally sound "hollow" if there is a dislodged rock or other anomaly causing where you step to sound like that. Could a big thumper rabbit be responsible?

I'm sure others will have theories.

Mike

Yes. Especially Angleworm/Home lake area.

Zwater: "Yes. Especially Angleworm/Home lake area."

I've heard this before. Any reasons for it? Or just eerie feeling area?

I’ve heard the same thing has happened to people on some of the sites near the Fishdance pictographs. Super creepy.

Tony

I think there are people on here that have seen, heard, and experienced things that they won't admit to.

Probably one of two things. Excuse me for not posting the usual links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z_VpVaPLWs

Or, could have been Forrest Gump before he quit running a few weeks ago.

Tomster

Zwater: "Yes. Especially Angleworm/Home lake area."

I'll let you know about the Worm after next week. But I will need actual evidence...sorry, not buying it until one can:
A) Observe
B) Measure
C) Repeat

My first night ever solo in the BWCA was on Angleworm. It was a few months after another hiker had disappeared. They found his gear and his clothes scattered through the woods, but not his body. It was assumed that he had succumbed to hypothermia.

I don't believe in ghosts but it did freak me out being in the same area he went missing. A combination of first night solo, hebe jebees from missing hiker and the really cold spring temps made for a long night.

airmorse: "I think there are people on here that have seen, heard, and experienced things that they won't admit to."

SAK. A few years ago. You know what I’m talking about...

naturboy12: "

airmorse: "I think there are people on here that have seen, heard, and experienced things that they won't admit to."

SAK. A few years ago. You know what I’m talking about..."

Oh do tell...

sns: "

Zwater: "Yes. Especially Angleworm/Home lake area."

I'll let you know about the Worm after next week. But I will need actual evidence...sorry, not buying it until one can:
A) Observe
B) Measure
C) Repeat"

The portage from gull (gun?) has Bigfeet. I’ve felt them three times, my black lab was never the same after his meeting. My daughter and her then boyfriend have also encountered this monster. No photos, sorry.

The bogs south of Aurora are said to have Bigfeet. I’ve loved snowshoeing through those bogs, searching.

Wallee13 has an incredible story about strange lights in the Q. Do a search on this sight and you'll find it. There is no way in heck I'd be able to sleep after seeing that.

jwartman59: "

sns: "

Zwater: "Yes. Especially Angleworm/Home lake area."

I'll let you know about the Worm after next week. But I will need actual evidence...sorry, not buying it until one can:
A) Observe
B) Measure
C) Repeat"

The portage from gull (gun?) has Bigfeet. I’ve felt them three times, my black lab was never the same after his meeting. My daughter and her then boyfriend have also encountered this monster. No photos, sorry.


The bogs south of Aurora are said to have Bigfeet. I’ve loved snowshoeing through those bogs, searching.


"

His name is Darrell.

I'm pretty sure what you heard was a snowshoe hare. I had the same thing happen to me several times on like my 5 or 6th trip. Sat outside the tent real quite under a full moon and sure enough he come running thru again. mystery solved. It really did sound like a human running.

I was attacked by a hare. I know rabbits, have raised many. Some are wonderful, the dudes can be awful. We had one, mr. nasty, walking by his pen was a scene from silence of the lambs. Wild rabbits have the same pathology

Mr. Nasty was nothing like whatever was lurking on the home lake portage. That beast was working in a team with a wolf pack. I have spent enough time in the north woods. I’m quite aware of what’s going on. That evening I was in the middle of a wolf pack, they were hollowing from every direction. They did not want me there. They knew I have been searching for the remains of the several hikers missing in these woods. Earlier that day I was certain I had found human remains. I ignored them at first, but went back to retrieve a sample. That’s when’s the wolves went nuts. I brought the vertebrae to the ely police. I’m certain that cop tossed the bone in the garbage.

I’ve run across creepy stuff in wabakimi, cliff lake. Old trapper cabin that was just strange. Weird totem carvings. In those days I am sure only native Canadians traveled these less than ideal waterway.

Creepiest was in ungava, northern Quebec. Spooky wilderness. We may have been the only white people to have ever been on this stretch of river. This stretch of river was unusual as it was mostly tall sand eskers. We all heard bells chiming and flute like whistling. Beautiful area but twenty minutes later we had a disaster in the next canyon. My canoe (of course) sunk in a huge hydrolic swell. We sank and were swimming, fortunately near shore but unable to pull out of the current as the banks were vertical cliffs. We got out. Our canoe and gear made the trip over a thirty foot falls. Fortunately our canoe was the infamous old town tripper. The tripper was designed to go over thirty foot falls. However the river warned us. We weren’t listening

airmorse: "Wallee13 has an incredible story about strange lights in the Q. Do a search on this sight and you'll find it. There is no way in heck I'd be able to sleep after seeing that."

I believe this was on Big Moose. Others have witnessed the same deal.

Maymaygwayshi / Fishdance Lake.

Previous thread on OP

Big Moose thread

jwartman59: "I was attacked by a hare. I know rabbits, have raised many. Some are wonderful, the dudes can be awful. We had one, mr. nasty, walking by his pen was a scene from silence of the lambs. Wild rabbits have the same pathology "

Was it like this.

Link

Sort of. On my typical trip I’m not wearing medieval armoire. But similar. I screamed, I learned that during high adrenaline encounters I scream like a thirteen year old girl. My daughter was impressed

jwartman59: "Mr. Nasty was nothing like whatever was lurking on the home lake portage. That beast was working in a team with a wolf pack. I have spent enough time in the north woods. I’m quite aware of what’s going on. That evening I was in the middle of a wolf pack, they were hollowing from every direction. They did not want me there. They knew I have been searching for the remains of the several hikers missing in these woods. Earlier that day I was certain I had found human remains. I ignored them at first, but went back to retrieve a sample. That’s when’s the wolves went nuts. I brought the vertebrae to the ely police. I’m certain that cop tossed the bone in the garbage.


I’ve run across creepy stuff in wabakimi, cliff lake. Old trapper cabin that was just strange. Weird totem carvings. In those days I am sure only native Canadians traveled these less than ideal waterway.


Creepiest was in ungava, northern Quebec. Spooky wilderness. We may have been the only white people to have ever been on this stretch of river. This stretch of river was unusual as it was mostly tall sand eskers. We all heard bells chiming and flute like whistling. Beautiful area but twenty minutes later we had a disaster in the next canyon. My canoe (of course) sunk in a huge hydrolic swell. We sank and were swimming, fortunately near shore but unable to pull out of the current as the banks were vertical cliffs. We got out. Our canoe and gear made the trip over a thirty foot falls. Fortunately our canoe was the infamous old town tripper. The tripper was designed to go over thirty foot falls. However the river warned us. We weren’t listening "

Ungava? Whoa! You da man! That's wilderness and its rivers treat us like meat.

Your wolf and cabin stories are killer too.

I've met the inexplicable a few times in my life. It's convenient when you're not alone, to have another pair of eyes on the event. I was camped on an island north of the Boundary Waters, an island where I've spent aggregate months. I was with an outdoor writer, a man as lean and tough as beef jerky and fearless as a wolverine. We had a campfire and he had his slender flask, but I was sober. When the lights, about a hundred yards distant and in front of another island's cliff, started flashing, we both watched in silence for about 60 seconds.

Being a writer, I formed a description in my head: First, there was a single line of lights, brief and brilliant and flashing prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, and perhaps 11, 13, etc., which was hard to tell, for it's difficult for me to recognize 11 and larger numbers in a brief flash. Then there were parallel rows of lights, also flashing, faster and faster, but sometimes reverting to a single row.

Finally, I said, "Do you see that?"

He did.

So, I asked, "Tell me what you see?"

And his description matched my words.

We watched and wondered for several minutes and finally I stood and said, "I'm going to light it up," using my tactical flashlight that turned night into day.

"No, don't!" said my paddling partner, the man without fear, and I heard fear in his voice.

So, I didn't and after about ten minutes, the lights were done and gone.

We both could have seriously written about the event and had our accounts published, but we both elected to not do so lest we be remembered as a Billy Bob and Betty Sue who were captured by aliens and subjected to anal probes. My friend did write a newspaper column about it, but laughed about it so readers couldn't laugh at us.

jwartman59: "Sort of. On my typical trip I’m not wearing medieval armoire. But similar. I screamed, I learned that during high adrenaline encounters I scream like a thirteen year old girl. My daughter was impressed "

"Run Away! Run Away!"

Multiple great mental images here...but mostly I'd like to see you wearing a medieval armoire:


Sorry, could not resist... :-)

jwartman59: "I was attacked by a hare. I know rabbits, have raised many. Some are wonderful, the dudes can be awful. We had one, mr. nasty, walking by his pen was a scene from silence of the lambs. Wild rabbits have the same pathology "

"That rabbits dynamite ! Brother Maynard, bring the Holy Hand grenade of Antioch."

Sorry.

Savage Voyageur: "

naturboy12: "

airmorse: "I think there are people on here that have seen, heard, and experienced things that they won't admit to."

SAK. A few years ago. You know what I’m talking about..."

Oh do tell..."

It fits much better into the "unexplained lights" phenomenon, or possibly in the realm of UFO's. No, I did not say aliens.

Anyway, I'm going to try to find my original post about it (it wasn't on this site) so I don't mix up the details. Suffice it to say 4 of us saw it, and not a single one of us could explain what it was. Size, speed, movement, and location in the sky matched nothing that any of us had ever seen before.

Nothing creepier than those dastardly snowshoe hares. They just sit there, silent, at the edge of your camp, sideways with that one evil eye watching you, sizing you up, then it will go munch a nuclear infected wild mushroom and come back with ten supersized friends with bad intent and eat you. In the most horrible fashion with those razor sharp, nasty, gnashing teeth tearing you to pieces, then stomping on your head with those grotesque oversized feet. I’d rather see an honest to goodness ghost than have those beasts lurking around my camp. Creepy hares creep me out. Too many bad horror flicks in my youth maybe.

Bearpath9: "

jwartman59: "I was attacked by a hare. I know rabbits, have raised many. Some are wonderful, the dudes can be awful. We had one, mr. nasty, walking by his pen was a scene from silence of the lambs. Wild rabbits have the same pathology "

"That rabbits dynamite ! Brother Maynard, bring the Holy Hand grenade of Antioch."


Sorry."

The count shall be three no more no less...

I was soloing the Sioux Hustler Trail. My first night was at the campsite near where the trail splits and crosses a portage. Near the east of of the portage there is a campsite. For people hiking the Sioux Hustler, this campsite is your first opportunity and if it is taken, you’ve got a few more miles to go.

So anyway, it’s kind of a strategic site. I got it. I’m in my tent, about to fall asleep, when I hear someone walking up to my tent. No voices, just footfalls. I wanted to offer to share, as it was getting dark and this “person” would have had to backtrack a few miles or go 7 more to the trail head.

Anyway, from inside my tent I say, “hello,” or similar and then climb out to greet the “person” and offer to share the site. When I get out, there is nobody.....

My dog was alerted by the footfalls as well.

The most likely explanation is that it was a large animal, but it definitely sounded like human steps and the steps were loud, animals generally move much more quietly than people. My dog smelled around the area, but nothing.....

Events like this are probably the back story to the myth of ghosts. However, no explanation really makes sense.

MikeinMpls: "So creepy, Pilot.

The Bell Lake Mystery, found in a long-ago BWJ, is very spooky. Very. It has a Blair Witch Project feel to it.


Were you close to any other campsites? Kawishiwi Lake is a mess this year with lots of people everywhere. It just doesn't make sense that someone may have ran through your campsite but you did not hear any other evidence of a human. Even if that IS the explanation, it's so wrong that someone would be that close (in) your campsite.


Did this happen only the one time? The forest floor can occasionally sound "hollow" if there is a dislodged rock or other anomaly causing where you step to sound like that. Could a big thumper rabbit be responsible?


I'm sure others will have theories.


Mike"

This was my though as well. The hares in that area and even up on LLC are huge thumpers and don't tread lightly! They've nearly given me a heart attack some nights as I've been lying in my tent :)

I want to buy into the snowshoe hare thing, but someone please explain how it comes without making a sound then literally runs thru the camp and then leaves without making any other sound? No leaves, branches... Nothing.
I know that there is a logical explanation. There has to be... Right?!

Dude, that’s the creepiest animal in the BW. They know things we will never understand. Shoo them away, and they will come back to the same spot, watching always with the left eye only, now more intent to haunt you, coming closer, closer, inch by inch, growing larger, eye always steady, unblinking, unwelcoming. That was my experience anyway. I would rather wrestle a bear, take on a pack of wolves with Swiss Army knife, butt heads with a bull moose than mess with a snowshoe hare. Too creepy.

We had a neighborhood dog in 2000'ish that roamed around Isabella, he had no owner but a few people took him in at times. We called him Dumb dog.
Dumb Dog was able to catch Snowshoe Hares in the summer time, and brought one or two into my yard when I lived there.
He appeared to have alot of lab in him.

pilot: "I want to buy into the snowshoe hare thing, but someone please explain how it comes without making a sound then literally runs thru the camp and then leaves without making any other sound? No leaves, branches... Nothing.
I know that there is a logical explanation. There has to be... Right?!"

campsite sites can be wide up , when the hare/rabbit is in cover more of a slow pace , then fast through open areas to get back into cover for protection. thats my thinking ?

Pilot, what you probably heard was a snowshoe hare. I’ve heard these many times before and it’s sounded just like that. One trip one was chasing another and they both ran into my tent.

Savage Voyageur: "Pilot, what you probably heard was a snowshoe hare. I’ve heard these many times before and it’s sounded just like that. One trip one was chasing another and they both ran into my tent. "

I bet that freaked you out!

jwartman59: "I was attacked by a hare. I know rabbits, have raised many. Some are wonderful, the dudes can be awful. We had one, mr. nasty, walking by his pen was a scene from silence of the lambs. Wild rabbits have the same pathology "

pilot: "

Savage Voyageur: "Pilot, what you probably heard was a snowshoe hare. I’ve heard these many times before and it’s sounded just like that. One trip one was chasing another and they both ran into my tent. "

I bet that freaked you out!
"

Haha, I was not in the tent at the time. It was crazy because they ran right into the Mosquito netting on the other side and bounced off.

I don't know about Bigfoot, or ghosts, or UFOs, or even hares in the BWCA, but I'll tell you this, that first time you almost step on a grouse during a portage and it flys up right in your face... Yeah, you'll need a new pair of shorts, and a shower, after that.

Did this happen only the one time? The forest floor can occasionally sound "hollow" if there is a dislodged rock or other anomaly causing where you step to sound like that. Could a big thumper rabbit be responsible?


I'm sure others will have theories.


Mike"

I was fairly certain we had a 400lb big bird running around our site on burnt lake a few years back. Just a rabbit.

this thread is making the hares on the back of my neck stand up...

Most startled I've ever been in the BWCA was this summer on Sawbill:

Earlier in the day we had seen an otter swimming around our campsite kinda checking us out. That night when it was time to turn in, I decided to go back in the woods a bit for one final pee before bed. When I had finished my business and turned around to go back into camp, there was the otter standing and staring at me from about five feet away!! Boy did I ever jump--just about ate my heart! The otter just casually ambled back down to the water but I was still shaking a bit when I got back into camp. The rest of the guys had heard me yelp and wondered what that was all about. Of course when they heard the story, they all thought it was hilarious!

OK so I’ve spent about a half an hour trying to understand what the bell lake mystery is. Can someone explain in a nutshell?

I’ve posted this before. I’m really glad that this hardly ever happens to me. I like to be super chill and confident in the woods. I don’t like to be scared. However, there is a woods near here that has scared me three times out of nowhere (over about 20 years of hiking). I really think something bad happened there. I can’t explain it. I avoided it for a while. Then, I thought this is stupid I’m going to hike there again. I hiked there for a year with no incident. Out of the blue one day I got that horrible feeling. And I had been super happy and not thinking negative. I ran/walked about 2 miles back to my car. Craziest feeling ever. It’s a sensation that’s some thing is there with me and it is not a good feeling.I’ve never had that particular feeling anywhere else. I find it annoying, because it’s a very peaceful woods and hardly anybody is ever out there. I like to go there. Maybe it’s a bobcat or some thing.

Many moons ago, my best friend and I were hiking at Starved Rock. Again, sunny day having fun laughing,… All of a sudden, I felt like I got some thing like a premonition to stop and go back to the car. The weird thing was she got the same feeling at the same time. We stopped talking and ran back to the car. We still talk about that to this day. We didn’t feel safe until we were about a mile away from the parking lot. I can’t explain what the hell that was because we both felt it at the same time. We’ve both concluded that either there was some thing supernatural there or there was some human there or we were heading into some kind of trouble and somehow we sensed it.

Anyway, thanks for scaring the crap out of me everybody Ha Ha Ha Ha I’m going to block all of this out now.

rtallent: "this thread is making the hares on the back of my neck stand up..."

I’ve noticed you’ve really got a talent for puns.

Our group of four guys were on Lake Four a few years ago. It was after dark, we were fishing with lighted slip bobbers from shore but sitting by the fire. All of a sudden we heard a huge splash. Not a splash from a beaver’s tail, but a splash like a bowling ball being tossed in the water. Very strange night after that wondering what could of possibly made that noise.

Savage Voyageur: "Our group of four guys were on Lake Four a few years ago. It was after dark, we were fishing with lighted slip bobbers from shore but sitting by the fire. All of a sudden we heard a huge splash. Not a splash from a beaver’s tail, but a splash like a bowling ball being tossed in the water. Very strange night after that wondering what could of possibly made that noise. "

I was camping by myself on Moosecamp a few years ago and I heard that same bowling ball thump sound. It came from across the lake, I heard it a few times over the space of an hour or so. I just couldn't figure out what it was. At first I thought someone was over there and had tossed in a big boulder, but of course no one was there.

Once I was in my tent, curled in a fetal position with my thumb in my mouth, I felt a lot better.

Dave

Savage Voyageur: "Our group of four guys were on Lake Four a few years ago. It was after dark, we were fishing with lighted slip bobbers from shore but sitting by the fire. All of a sudden we heard a huge splash. Not a splash from a beaver’s tail, but a splash like a bowling ball being tossed in the water. Very strange night after that wondering what could of possibly made that noise. "

My vote is a beaver. I have had many beaver express their displeasure at my prescence and their tail splash sounds exactly like a big rock, or bowling ball, being dropped into the water. They are active at night and night amplifies sounds.

This September on Lake Vera my buddy and I were eating breakfast and enjoying watching the mist melt off the lake one morning over coffee. I look over at him and not four feet away is a large snowshoe hare. It bounces off once we all notice each other. A few minutes later a mink bounds into camp and checks out our breakfast food. We easily shoo it away. But then for the next hour, while we packed up camp, the hare and mink played a came of chase through our camp running past us within a couple feet numerous times. My buddy swore he saw two mink but I only saw one at any time. I thought the mink was an optimist as the hare looked significantly bigger. The critter chase through camp generated a pretty good “thump, thump, thump” sound and this was while two people were moving around camp packing gear. In the still of the night it would have been loud and maybe spooky.

Portage99: "OK so I’ve spent about a half an hour trying to understand what the bell lake mystery is. Can someone explain in a nutshell?


I’ve posted this before. I’m really glad that this hardly ever happens to me. I like to be super chill and confident in the woods. I don’t like to be scared. However, there is a woods near here that has scared me three times out of nowhere (over about 20 years of hiking). I really think something bad happened there. I can’t explain it. I avoided it for a while. Then, I thought this is stupid I’m going to hike there again. I hiked there for a year with no incident. Out of the blue one day I got that horrible feeling. And I had been super happy and not thinking negative. I ran/walked about 2 miles back to my car. Craziest feeling ever. It’s a sensation that’s some thing is there with me and it is not a good feeling.I’ve never had that particular feeling anywhere else. I find it annoying, because it’s a very peaceful woods and hardly anybody is ever out there. I like to go there. Maybe it’s a bobcat or some thing.


Many moons ago, my best friend and I were hiking at Starved Rock. Again, sunny day having fun laughing,… All of a sudden, I felt like I got some thing like a premonition to stop and go back to the car. The weird thing was she got the same feeling at the same time. We stopped talking and ran back to the car. We still talk about that to this day. We didn’t feel safe until we were about a mile away from the parking lot. I can’t explain what the hell that was because we both felt it at the same time. We’ve both concluded that either there was some thing supernatural there or there was some human there or we were heading into some kind of trouble and somehow we sensed it.


Anyway, thanks for scaring the crap out of me everybody Ha Ha Ha Ha I’m going to block all of this out now."

Was it in St. Louis Canyon?

link

Wharfrat63: "

Portage99: "OK so I’ve spent about a half an hour trying to understand what the bell lake mystery is. Can someone explain in a nutshell?


Anyway, thanks for scaring the crap out of me everybody Ha Ha Ha Ha I’m going to block all of this out now."

Was it in St. Louis Canyon?


link "

No but I have a hard and fast rule never to hike alone to St. Louis Canyon. That’s probably the only place I won’t hike by myself. Too creepy, especially passing the crevice where the bodies were. It’s a gorgeous canyon, especially in winter when the fall freezes.

Our eerie experience was on the trail to Owl Canyon, further East.

Took my brother for the first time. Each had a solo tent. He was wiped out and went to sleep and I stayed up to stargaze.

I was sitting back by the water, had a small fire going in the pit. A giant hare started running around the camp and then hiding in the vestibule of my brother’s tent. He kept stirring and asking what it was. It was entertaining and I let it go on for a while before I went over and told him it was just a rabbit.

The next morning he said the rabbit spent most of the night right by his tent and he couldn’t get his mind to accept it.

I’ve never had any spooky stories while I’ve been in the BDUB, but I’ve called off a few solo trips basically at the entry point because things just didn’t feel right.

Head to far north campsite on Angleworm in the bay. A lot of old remanants behind the site. There is a "presance" back there. Thats all I'm saying:)

I was solo canoeing and camped out on an Island on Isabella Lake in October of 2007. I was enjoying my early morning cup of coffee, there was slight mist dancing above the calm water that morning as I reflected on my life and the beauty of the BWCA.
All of the sudden I heard this blood curdling scream.

I tried to focus my sleepy eyes off in the distance when I saw what appeared to be a woman with blond hair swimming across the lake a couple hundred yards away. Her neck and head were completely out of the water, but I could not see any part of her body, she was swimming at an unbelievable speed.
I hurriedly got in my canoe and began to paddle toward her, but I was making very little progress.
When she got to shore and walked unto the beach. I was about 150 yards behind her.

I can not get the sight of what I saw emerge from the water out of my head to this day.

It was a woman's head and neck on a deer's body.

I left immediately headed for the landing at Forest Center, leaving all my gear at the campsite.
I went back to Isabella and stopped by the Stoney River Cafe.
When I entered the owner said to me. "What in the Hell happened to you"? You are as white as a ghost.

I relayed my experience to him and he did not seem all that alarmed, and simply said.
"Oh you saw the She Devil"
I asked him "what in the hell are you talking about" and he told me this story.

Years ago in the mid 50's the loggers at Forest Center were suffering through a brutal winter and were holed up in the tar paper shacks, unable to get out in the woods and cut pulp wood.
Idle time is the Devils Workshop as the saying goes.
Anyway, the loggers children used a Ouija Board and accidentally conjured up an evil spirit that winter, who still roams the woods around Isabella Lake to this day.
The spirit is known as the "She Devil", she has a woman's neck and head on the body of a deer.
I have not been back to Isabella Lake since.

Ok, don't want to freak anyone out of the Isabella area. The above story uses alot of my imagination.

Did you go back for your gear?

I heard only the licentious need to fear the deer lady. Were you being naughty Linden?

Were you sampling those red mushrooms with the white scales?

Yes. In fact all of the BWCA is haunted. Stay away.

rtallent: "Were you sampling those red mushrooms with the white scales?"

No, it was the white shrooms wih the purple microdot scales.