Are there any scary ghost stories from the Boundary Waters? That’s a tall order, I gotta admit. I’m neither historian, mystery buff, nor ghost-chasing psychic with a hotline, so why should I know something so obscure?
Just so happens, that while working on another post, I recently came across a very mysterious native legend.
One of the first Europeans to write of the region was Alexander Henry the Older. In 1775, while navigating the Pinawa (just a little northwest of Lake of the Woods,) he writes:
On the thirteenth, we encamped at the Carryingplace of the Lost Child. Here is a chasm in the rock, no where more than two yards in breadth, but of great and immeasurable depth. The Indians relate, that many ages past, a child fell into this chasm, from the bottom of which it is still heard, at times, to cry.
So of course I wanted to find the place; see what it’s like today. And that’s where the mystery comes in.
While I’ve found the general locale that fits his description, I can’t find any more info on the ‘carryingplace.’ Nowadays, Henry’s description of the Pinawa Stream looks pretty wide — is the chasm even on dry land anymore? I’m not sure.
Wanna help solve the mystery? It’d be pretty cool to get lat/long coordinates of the place, or find someone who knows more about it — anything. So if you have a lead, or know someone who might, I’d love it if you would email me. That, or call my toll-free ghost-tracker tipline!!!
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