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kclamken
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11/08/2005 07:44PM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
Sorry I haven't been on here in forever but school is kicking my butt lately.

I was calling some friends to get started planning next summers trip and one of my friends said he would not be going and told me a very strange story about something that happened to him last summer when we were on Ensign Lake. It happened at about 2:30am on May 16th when he went to go use the john. I am going to refrain from posting more about this right now because i want too see if anyone has had anything similar happen without my input as to what took place. I am tending to believe his story as he is a veteran and I trust him. Anyway, I would really appreciate if anyone has any info about anything strange that has gone on in the area of Ensign or Ashigan.

Anyway, I know this is a strange request but I would really like any input on this subject.

Kevin
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11/09/2005 09:38AM  
That area is a possibility for a near-future trip of my group. Never been there, so i can't comment. But if you still don't want to post your buddy's story, could you email me what happened so i know whether to rule out that route or not?

Thanx
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nolanbunch
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11/09/2005 12:03PM  
The suspense is killing me! Was it a ghost? A dead body? Seran wrap across the latrine?
 
Arkansas Man
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11/09/2005 12:07PM  
Sorry about school wearing you out, but it will be worth it later... I've been in Education for 26 years now and still love it!

Can you give us a hint as to the nature of the oddity your friend experienced??? We have all heard stories of various things, as well as Indian legends... but as Nolan said, the suspense of what happen is getting to us!! And I too am thinking of heading that way next year on a trip...

Bruce
 
DeterminedOrange
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11/09/2005 12:18PM  
I have heard many stories of odd occurrences in the BWCA. The one that freaks me out the most is the one about the sound of a human running past the tent and after quickly looking outside, there is no one there. Some claim to have had this occur multiple times in one evening in camp and others in broad daylight during an afternoon nap!
 
Scrubb
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11/09/2005 12:44PM  
Alright, now I'm intrigued. I'd like to hear anyone's stories of odd occurances in the B-Dubs. Especially this one.

Personally, the wierdest thing that has happened to me was the mysterious illness that befell my canoe-mate for the 20 minutes that it took to cross the longest portage of our trip. The illness was so severe he couldn't bear to help with the portage. Strangely, he recovered soon after we left the far side. Hmmm....
 
Bannock
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11/09/2005 02:29PM  
Saw a UFO in the Timber Frear Area about 10 years ago. A light hovering and moving about, then going super fast and disapearing, all in complete silence.
 
kclamken
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11/09/2005 04:30PM  
Ok, I know that this is gonna sound bizarre. My friend is convinced that there was a 2.5 to 3' tall "brown hairy man" watching him use the john. He said that the hairy man watched him until he was done, and when he moved towards it, it ran off into the woods.At first i was very skeptical, but the more I talk to him the more I am starting to wonder what happened. He is a veteran and an intelligent, lucid person, with alot of experience in the outdoors. I thought he possibly saw a coon, marten, or grouse, but he is adamant that the figure was humanoid. Also, I don't think he would have a problem with identifying the animals in that locale. The thing about this that is most convincing for me is the fact that he doesn't want to go back to the BWCA. He is usually the first person on board and the most helpful in planning. So if anyone has ever had a similar experience or heard any stories let me know. My curiosity about this is killing me.

Kevin
 
Scrubb
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11/09/2005 04:49PM  
That is odd, and I would probably not go back either after that.

I'm trying to think of what it could have been that he saw, other than a mini-bigfoot. The only thing I can come up with is a bear cub standing on it's hind legs. Could be mistook at 2 am for a 'brown hairy man' I guess.

 
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11/09/2005 05:07PM  
Did you're friend harvest some mushrooms along any of the portages?
Sometimes I see weird things after eating mushrooms.
 
DeterminedOrange
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11/09/2005 05:14PM  
Maybe he saw what the Indians called maymayguayshi. They spent a lot more time in those woods than any of the modern generations have.

Or then again, it could have been a small animal, a beaver, otter, marten, fisher etc.

Either way, I hope I or my wife never see one.
 
kclamken
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11/09/2005 07:27PM  
Does anyone know of any further reading on maymayguayshi? I read the chapter on indian folklore in magic on the rocks, but it doesn't have any real current info.

-as far as it being a bear, i considered this and I don't think he would have misidentified a bear.

-as far as mushrooms, he was sober when this happened.

thanks
Kevin
 
Mark Lawyer
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11/09/2005 07:30PM  
Wow. Hope my wife never sees anything like that when she's on the kaibo, either. I catch enough flack when there are spiders in the latrine.
 
adam
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11/09/2005 08:18PM  

A very odd story indeed. The mind can play tricks on itself, but at the same time everything is not explained. I have never heard a story about little men, or big foot for that matter, in the woods in the BWCA. As I mentioned in an email, there is a ghost story based on Ensign Lake, but they don't really have any simularities.

I think the smart think your friend did in the situation is not to follow the little man into the woods.
 
ShimmieShakes
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11/09/2005 10:22PM  
We camped on Ensign in June of 2002. My buddy was busy making our delicious dinner when something caught his eye, it freaked him out and he actually ended up dumping our stew all over :o( We were sad because we had to resort to sweet and sour tuna and deep fried ramen, I do not recommend this at all by the way, very gross. My buddy said he though he saw some eyes, but not animal looking eyes in the brush, but he convinced himself and us that he just freaked himself out and he was hallucinating. I don't know though, he wouldn't really talk about it after that so who knows.
 
11/09/2005 11:05PM  
Wasn't there someone on this site a while back talking about planning an expedition to the BW in search of Sasquatch? We never did hear anything back from him did we??? Maybe he found them or they found him???
 
Arkansas Man
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11/10/2005 07:16AM  
Now that really makes me want to do my solo there now!!! Nah just teasing I would go anyway... I am bigger than any sasquatch anyhow... ;-) Sounds interesting for sure. I am sure there are many things up there that could startle a person at 2:00 in the morning going to the john... That is why I carry a hospital bottle with me to use in the tent! What campsite was that on Ensign?

Oh, by the way... did he say it left on two legs or four? Bruce
 
SetTheHook
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11/10/2005 08:38AM  
Here's a little tidbit I found on a website, a similar description to most I've seen:

According to Ojibwe stories, the MAYMAYGWAYSHI is a little trickster spirit who is covered with hair, smells like fish, paddles a stone canoe, and lives inside a rock cliff. These little tricksters will steal your fish, cause your canoe to flip, snag your hook on an underwater object, push a rock under your canoe in the water causing you to stop suddenly in the middle of a lake, and raise a wind on an otherwise calm day. They will also come into your camp and cause your equipment to disappear when you aren't looking. In other words, any mishap on a canoe trip can be blamed on the MAYMAYGWAYSHI. Misfortune, however, will befall you should you anger or hurt one of these little spirits. Take care of this little fellow.
 
11/10/2005 08:55AM  
Was your friend sleep deprived? It don't take much to be sleep deprived. This can lead to all sorts of things you see; especially at night. Also does he or has he ever walked in his sleep? I know some people can sleep walk only once in their lives. It is very possible to only half wake up and go somewhere but still be dreaming. You could see anything in this state. That is what sleep walking basically is. The worst part about it is thinking you are wide awake but not able to come completely out of it. I think that is the best explanation for him. He wouldn't even need to be sleep deprived to sleep walk; just unlucky.

And Bannock I think I know what your UFO was to. Was there any clouds in the sky at all? I think it could have been ball lightning. Ball lightning can come in 3 different colors and change colors. It doesn't need a thunderstorm near by. It is silent and can move a different speeds. My dad had lightning hit his house when he was a kid and the lightning came out the TV and formed into ball lighting. It floated slowly threw the room then out the window. I have seen ball lightning onces as well. It was cloudy and all of a sudden a bright ball came out of the clouds, floated then took off fast while changing colors. Of course if it was a clear night then you didn't see ball lighting you saw a UFO ;)

Here is a great link for ball lightning:
http://www.tbns.net/mediapoet/tech19b.htm
 
woodpecker
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11/10/2005 05:01PM  
Come on, give this guy some credit.....
I'm not going to say I belive this story, but I certainly can't disclaim it either..... I do belive he saw something he could'nt explain...
Call me crazy, but If heard of stranger things ....and I truly can't say yes or no to the stories of bigfoot or sasquash.... and I do think supernatural beings and spirits are among us....There are just too many instances that are neither proved or disproved...

SO, what the heck... maymayguayshi lives, as far as I'm concerned....

Woodpecker
P.S. does anybody know where to find a picture of this little spirit guy other than on rock art and pictographs....???. I really am interested in finding one.
 
11/10/2005 05:21PM  
If the story is true the guy handled the situation a lot better than I would of.
If I was sitting on the thunderbox at 2:30 am and looked over and saw Chewbaka Jr. starring at me I don't think I would of been able to just calmly sit there and finish my business. I would of set a new speed record for running with pants around the ankles.

Did he go back in the morning to look for tracks?
 
DeterminedOrange
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11/10/2005 05:40PM  
About maymayguayshi, I have also seen the spelling maymaygwayshi and maymaygwetch. Anybody know the right way? Didn't Sigurd Olson mention something about these spirits?

I second Beavers motion about getting the heck out of there if Chewy jr. is watching me.
 
11/10/2005 07:10PM  
This is the only Maymaygwayshi pic I could find.

 
11/10/2005 07:43PM  
"Come on, give this guy some credit.....I'm not going to say I believe this story, but I certainly can't disclaim it either..... I do believe he saw something he couldn't explain..."

I'm not trying to discredit him or say he didn't see anything. I'm just saying that there is a very real possibility that he was sleep walking. You don't know your sleep walking when you are doing it. I also believe he thinks he saw something. Just like I believe that it could be a UFO that Bannock saw. I was just trying to come up with a reasonable explanation. I wasn't even going to bring this up. But if he wasn't sleeping then I think he could have seen a demon (I don't believe in ghosts). But I didn't want to say my opinion on this part because I did not want to take this thread in the wrong direction.
 
adam
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11/10/2005 08:11PM  
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Here is a ghost story about Ensign Lake. I think it is more applicable to ShimmieShakes:

"Pierre D'un Oeil"

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by Gavin Watt [c]

Up in the Boundary Waters on the northeast end of Ensign Lake there is a campsite on a point and it is real easy to find because there's two dead trees with a bar that people use to hang their food bag to keep it from the bears. We usually put a poncho over the bag. As you sit at the campfire and look east across the lake that poncho between those two trees looks like a hanged man. And sometimes we hang the collapsible-plastic 5 gallon water bag off one of the trees. If you are there on June 14 this year start the story about 8:50 CDT because the full moon will rise at 8:53.

This afternoon while you kids were still coming over the portage an old guy came out of the woods and he told me this story. About a hundred years ago there was a trapper lived up here named Pierre d'un Oeil; they called him that 'cause he only had one good eye. He did have a glass eye but it was just an old glass marble he'd found somewhere and it was a weird yellow-green kind of color and it seemed to glow. Nobody talked to old Pierre much and he didn't talk much to nobody. He went to town in the spring to sell his furs and maybe again in the fall to stock up. The folks in town were surprised one spring when he showed up with a wife, an Indian woman. Pierre said he'd traded with her folks up in Canada. A good deal he said she only cost him one gallon of whiskey and a good canoe. After a couple years the shopkeeper's wife had befriended Pierre's wife and was pleased to see one fall that she was pregnant. Well it was a long hard winter and it wasn't till late May that the ice went out and Pierre showed up in town. Mrs. Shopkeeper asked after his wife and Pierre got real dark and quiet and said, "She dead". "Oh no -- how". "She die havin' the baby". "And the baby" "The baby? I took it up to her folks in Canada". "Oh that's so sad". Well Mrs. Shopkeeper was worried and so she began some inquiries and became suspicious until finally an investigation was launched. They found the parents up in Canada and they hadn't seen Pierre or a baby. So the sheriff went out and found Pierre and confronted him and Pierre broke down and told how about in Feb. or March after being snowed in for 3 months the cabin fever got to them and they had a big fight and he went crazy and killed her -- with an ax And buried her out in the woods after the thaw. Well they tried Pierre in court and found him guilty and sentenced him to die since that was the law but they all knew about cabin fever and that Pierre although he was spooky was not a bad man so the judge said, "Pierre do you have a last wish?". Pierre said, "If you are going to hang me that's that, but let's do it someplace pretty -- there's a place at the east end of Ensign Lake where the walleyes bite real good in the middle of June -- let's do it there." So they did -- right over there between those two trees! And then the old man told me that as they were rigging him up he reached up an popped out that nasty yellow-green glass eye and handed it to the hangman who shuddered and set it in the notch of a tree and forgot about it. The old man said he put it in that tree right over there!

If you timed this right the moon has just cleared the horizon and is shining through that water bag and is glows like a big eerie yellow-green glass marble.

"Gavin D. Watt"
 
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11/10/2005 09:17PM  
I'ts good that we can all have fun with this story and not get too bent....it is kinda fun to see what everyone thinks of what this guy might've seen... Maymaygwayshi lives in the lore of our Native brothers

Woodpecker

 
11/11/2005 12:01AM  
Thanks a lot guys!!! I really had planned on taking a solo trip thru Ensign and over to Kek next year. Now you got me too worried about looking out for little hairy humanoid figures and "The yellow-green eye" I don't think I could sleep anywhere in that area!
 
adam
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11/11/2005 06:32AM  

Imagine what it was like to see a terrific northern lights show back before anyone had any idea what they really where.
 
nolanbunch
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11/11/2005 11:18AM  
Sounds like he could have seen Mad Dog Vachon. I believe he's Canadian, so perhaps he paddled in from Quetico. Plausible?
 
Bannock
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11/11/2005 02:50PM  
Was this it?

http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/StarWars/images/BookImages/ewok.jpg
 
knothead180
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11/11/2005 06:10PM  
That's a very interesting story, and a terrifying experience for your friend. I would tend to go with one of the tricks of the mind theories. It could have been a hypnogogic hallucination, which is usually, but not always associated with narcolepsy. Does your friend also fall asleep very easily, like while waiting for a traffic signal to turn green?
http://neurology.health-cares.net/hypnagogic-hallucination.php

On the other hand, maybe he really saw what he thinks he saw. After all, it's not like he claims to have seen a winged horse or a centaur. There certainly are three foot tall men in this world ( achondroplastic dwarves, hypopituitary midgets, and other conditions.) No doubt some of these little people are hirsute. So... a canoe party, including our hypothetical little person arrives on Ensign Lake late in the day. All the campsites are taken, so they quietly camp illegally near your site. Mr. Little Person waits until the middle of the night to sneak over and use the latrine, but winds having to wait on your friend, and then is run off.

Okay, maybe I have no future as a fiction writer, but I'll take either of these theories over mini-sasquatch. Anyway, thanks for starting a fun thread.
 
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11/24/2005 08:09PM  
What you saw was actually my little brother Mike, we call him "Fuzzy".
He told us about it the next morning and was very sorry about staring at you. He is a bit shy and has a complex about all the fur so he doesn't say much. He is a good kid though and can do a killer Muskrat impersonation.
 
woodpecker
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11/25/2005 08:03AM  
Good one!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA It's good to wake up to a laugh, thanks

Woodpecker
 
11/25/2005 02:37PM  
I'm a member of AA........sounds like your boy ought to cut back on his booze consumption. This sort of hallucination happens quite often, when a drinker cuts back on their drinking or goes on a spree.
 
Philo
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01/09/2006 01:53PM  
That thing he saw was probably the offspring of the gigantic bear I ran into on Ensign this fall.
 
01/09/2006 06:54PM  
I tend to agree with the sleepwalking theory...
I assume he was going number 1 and not number 2. I think it's very possible that he dozed off and dreamed it. It could very well have been based on some truth. There could have been some furry creature out there, and he noticed it but didn't completely wake up. When it was gone, he woke up, but could still hear the sounds in his head. I've heard this situation called a waking dream. This is why so many ghost/ufo stories happen while people are in bed.
Then again, weird stuff does happen. I am not trying to say your friend is a liar. And the fact that he won't go back to the BW sure is scary.

As to the Ensign story, I think I have heard this one. Also, has anyone heard of a story that explains the name of Neglige Lake? If you have, tell me what you know...
 
PikeMonster
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01/10/2006 08:53AM  
Mebe he saw the windigo. I heard this story about three indian braves who got lost in wilderness in the boundary waters- quetico area. They got lost far from thier village and no game would present itself. eventually they where stuck in a cave trying to weather a storm when on of the braves decided he was so hungary he could eat a person. He told the other braves they should go hunting again even though they were in the middle of a big storm. He decided he would go, and one of the others would go, and the third brave would stay and tend the fire. after a few hours the brave came back by himself, and said that his companion fell through thin ice and froze. However, the starving brave had consumed the flesh of his brother, and though it filled him up for the moment, he was now hungryer then ever, and only the tast of human flesh would satisfy him. soon he could not contain himself and killed and ate the other brave. any who, He is now know as the windigo, and is always starving, and always yearning for human flesh.
 
Imahumpya
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01/10/2006 04:16PM  
Beavers - that was hilarious.
 
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01/10/2006 05:02PM  
The story of the Indian woman reminds me of a story in a book "A Wonderful Country" The Quetico-Superior Stories of Bill Magie written by Dave Olesen

It told of a logger named Four Bottle McGovern marrying a Native woman from the Kawa Bay tribe. He liked to buy her fancy things, & negligees. The logging camp was based near Ensign Lake.

She cheated on him with a logging clerk. When her family came down to Ensign Lake to pick her up they couldn't find her. They went to a small nearby lake & found her floating face down, dead, dressed in a yellow negligee. (Now the lake is called Negligee Lake)

Her family found the husband in the woods and on the 90 rod portage near the Kawishiwi River & Alice, they hung him up. They took all his clothes off, hung his wrists over a tree and tied his ankles to another tree. They took a little knife & cut down through the skin enough so he'd bleed and left him hanging there.

The Canada jay birds came along and they started eating on him. The ate him up alive. But Four-Bottle McGovern had so much whiskey in his blood that the Canada jays all got drunk. They were flying into trees, laying on the portage and everything like that. So they always called those birds "whiskey jacks" after that! :-)
 
01/10/2006 11:18PM  
VoyageurNorth
That sounds like the right story. A few years back my bro told us a few stories he picked up while he was working in the BW. I couldn't remember them too well, but i remembered something about Neglige Lake. Thanks buddy.
Stubs
 
rebar
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05/13/2012 09:58AM  
quote DeterminedOrange: The one that freaks me out the most is the one about the sound of a human running past the tent and after quickly looking outside, there is no one there. Some claim to have had this occur multiple times in one evening in camp and others in broad daylight during an afternoon nap!"


Anyone know where I can find that story?

BTW.. When I was looking for a cabin to rent for this summer, I considered one north of Ely on First Lake. The owner, a professional women, told me about a 3'-4' hairy man who lives in the area. She wasn't joking. Thought it was a bit odd she told me, because some folks may not want to rent her cabin if they knew..
 
05/13/2012 11:43AM  
At 2:30 am in the dark of the woods I'd say the 2-3 foot brown hairy man has a good chance of being a fawn deer.
 
missmolly
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05/13/2012 12:03PM  
I don't care if it's true or not. I like a good story and that's a good one. I always believe the world is wilder and stranger than we believe. The Florida Panther and the Coelacanth are both examples of that. They were both believed extinct by scientists even though ordinary folks had known about them for years.
 
rebar
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05/13/2012 12:17PM  
quote missmolly: "I don't care if it's true or not. I like a good story and that's a good one. I always believe the world is wilder and stranger than we believe. The Florida Panther and the Coelacanth are both examples of that. They were both believed extinct by scientists even though ordinary folks had known about them for years. "


Let me write her and ask again.. I must have deleted the emails.

I think this is the story about the foot steps running through camp..

http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=forum.thread&threadid=136542&confid=1&forumid=12

Im looking for some history or folklore of the gunflint trail area. Burial mounds.. Cabin fever stories. Having documentation would be the ultimate because my party are skeptics.
 
05/13/2012 12:48PM  
quote missmolly: "I don't care if it's true or not. I like a good story and that's a good one. I always believe the world is wilder and stranger than we believe. The Florida Panther and the Coelacanth are both examples of that. They were both believed extinct by scientists even though ordinary folks had known about them for years. "

The 3-foot hairy guy was probably too small to have been this extinct beaver.

 
rebar
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05/13/2012 01:21PM  
quote Jeriatric: "
quote missmolly: "I don't care if it's true or not. I like a good story and that's a good one. I always believe the world is wilder and stranger than we believe. The Florida Panther and the Coelacanth are both examples of that. They were both believed extinct by scientists even though ordinary folks had known about them for years. "

The 3-foot hairy guy was probably too small to have been this extinct beaver.

"


Holly.. beaver. Whats that all about??

How about the burial mounds on Kawnipi, Basswood, Saganagaons, and Saganaga.
 
NorthernSunset
  
05/13/2012 01:24PM  
quote kclamken: "Ok, I know that this is gonna sound bizarre. My friend is convinced that there was a 2.5 to 3' tall "brown hairy man" watching him use the john. He said that the hairy man watched him until he was done, and when he moved towards it, it ran off into the woods.At first i was very skeptical, but the more I talk to him the more I am starting to wonder what happened. He is a veteran and an intelligent, lucid person, with alot of experience in the outdoors. I thought he possibly saw a coon, marten, or grouse, but he is adamant that the figure was humanoid. Also, I don't think he would have a problem with identifying the animals in that locale. The thing about this that is most convincing for me is the fact that he doesn't want to go back to the BWCA. He is usually the first person on board and the most helpful in planning. So if anyone has ever had a similar experience or heard any stories let me know. My curiosity about this is killing me.



Kevin"


May-may-gway-si-wuk.
 
05/13/2012 01:42PM  
I wonder if Bfoot knows this guy
 
05/13/2012 02:04PM  
quote DeterminedOrange: "I have heard many stories of odd occurrences in the BWCA. The one that freaks me out the most is the one about the sound of a human running past the tent and after quickly looking outside, there is no one there. Some claim to have had this occur multiple times in one evening in camp and others in broad daylight during an afternoon nap!"

Deer trotting or stepping slowly can sound like humans (or Bigfoot, as I recall from my childhood).
 
rebar
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05/13/2012 02:19PM  
quote rebar: "
quote missmolly: "I don't care if it's true or not. I like a good story and that's a good one. I always believe the world is wilder and stranger than we believe. The Florida Panther and the Coelacanth are both examples of that. They were both believed extinct by scientists even though ordinary folks had known about them for years. "



Let me write her and ask again.. I must have deleted the emails.


"


She just wrote me back and said.. "Ojibwe Little People"
Says shes seen them more than once in the daylight..
 
missmolly
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05/13/2012 03:07PM  
Some scary sounds up north:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVv3eLBejM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxtTumFcxk&feature=related

 
Savage Voyageur
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05/13/2012 04:18PM  
That area is pretty squachy. I will be there again in a few weeks.
 
RaisedByBears99
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05/13/2012 04:51PM  
I see my bride has finally made a comment.

Stone canoe people, or
May-may-gway-siwuk, are not malevolent, they are rather seductive, and should be avoided if you like your life as it is.
 
missmolly
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05/13/2012 05:35PM  
quote RaisedByBears99: "I see my bride has finally made a comment.

Stone canoe people, or
May-may-gway-siwuk, are not malevolent, they are rather seductive, and should be avoided if you like your life as it is."


Tell me more, please.
 
05/13/2012 05:38PM  
Ninjas
 
mr.barley
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05/13/2012 07:07PM  
It was Danny Devito
 
DeterminedOrange
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05/13/2012 07:08PM  
All kinds of hairy humanoid stuff here.

Bigfoot
 
05/13/2012 07:08PM  
cousin Its kids.
 
DeterminedOrange
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05/13/2012 07:13PM  
Data on MN sightings.

MN Bigfoot
 
05/13/2012 07:19PM  
I think the legend of the little people goes beyond the Ojibwe, as a few tribes had legends that included little people. Has to be something to the oral traditions passed down through generations.
 
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05/13/2012 07:30PM  
 
tom m
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05/13/2012 08:05PM  
a very interesting thread ,not to change the subject but where exactly are those kind mushrooms
 
rebar
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05/13/2012 08:52PM  
mushrooms?
hairy humanoid stuff?
Ninjas?

Come on.. Im looking for good believable stuff to base a campfire story upon.

http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=forum.thread&threadid=136542&confid=1&forumid=12

http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=forum.thread&threadId=8659&forumID=12&confID=1

http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=forum.thread&threadId=207637&forumID=12&confID=1

http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=forum.thread&threadId=73522&forumID=12&confID=1

 
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05/13/2012 09:11PM  
Almost certainly it was a mini-Bigfoot, which is actually just a dwarf Bigfoot, not a separate species. Best to always carry a camera to the loo after dark.
 
05/13/2012 09:40PM  
So we're still talking about this 7.5 years later? What a thread........

Aliens thinking BW latrines are secluded Interplanetary rest stops.



 
05/13/2012 10:22PM  
Now I have something more to think about on my solo in a couple weeks
 
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05/13/2012 10:24PM  
quote mooseplums: "Now I have something more to think about on my solo in a couple weeks"



Me too, in two weeks I will be camping on that lake in a hammock. hahaha
 
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05/14/2012 12:21AM  
quote Bannock: "Saw a UFO in the Timber Frear Area about 10 years ago. A light hovering and moving about, then going super fast and disapearing, all in complete silence."


I wish to God that I had not clicked on this thread!

Savage Voyageur... I feel your pain... In two weeks, I will be in the woods and afraid to look into the sky...
 
05/14/2012 12:16PM  
Cool stuff though
 
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05/14/2012 02:00PM  
Wow those r some creepy stories
 
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05/14/2012 03:52PM  
I think it would be worth it to prove to your friend if there is anything out there. I would go back to the same spot and take a trail cam just to see if anything shows up. Its worth the try.
 
05/14/2012 05:46PM  
quote kclamken: "Ok, I know that this is gonna sound bizarre. My friend is convinced that there was a 2.5 to 3' tall "brown hairy man" watching him use the john. He said that the hairy man watched him until he was done, and when he moved towards it, it ran off into the woods.At first i was very skeptical, but the more I talk to him the more I am starting to wonder what happened. He is a veteran and an intelligent, lucid person, with alot of experience in the outdoors. I thought he possibly saw a coon, marten, or grouse, but he is adamant that the figure was humanoid. Also, I don't think he would have a problem with identifying the animals in that locale. The thing about this that is most convincing for me is the fact that he doesn't want to go back to the BWCA. He is usually the first person on board and the most helpful in planning. So if anyone has ever had a similar experience or heard any stories let me know. My curiosity about this is killing me.



Kevin"


That's why the use of hallucinogens is strongly discouraged in the backcountry.
 
rebar
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05/14/2012 06:51PM  


That's why the use of hallucinogens is strongly discouraged in the backcountry."

Party pooper!

Seriously.. I had a solo twisted "ceremony" on warrior hill many years back. Didn't see a thing..

Short hairy man watched him for a while.. Not just a glimpse.
 
05/14/2012 07:03PM  
While camping at Iron Lake Campground on the Gunflint Trail in 1975 we saw a strange sight in a wet low area behind our campsite. There was an unearthly pale green glow near the ground like a glow in the dark skeleton or those stars people stick on their ceilings.

We set the hand rolled cigarette we were smoking down and went back into the woods with flashlights to investigate. There was no sign of the glow in the area as we looked around.

I suggested we turn the flashlights off and maybe it would reappear. Moments after turning them off and our eyes adjusting to the dark the glow returned right at our feet. It was a rotting log that looked no different than every other rotting log when light was turned on it.

I had heard of Will-o'-the-wisp and suspected that is what it was. But I told my friends it was caused by the ghost of a murdered person who was buried in unhallowed ground and that the glow was their soul making it's way to the afterlife.

Back at camp they were too scared to light the hand rolled cigarette back up and they slept restlessly.
 
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05/14/2012 08:29PM  
So, we've ruled out portage monkeys????

How about a flashlight equipped AR-16 for late evening latrine calls?

Am staying in the tent no matter what this trip!

 
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05/14/2012 08:37PM  
You want a scary story? I've got it. A friend of mine went to BWCA with me. He's a great canoeist, compact and nearly furry, so he doesn't need to bother with clothes and is happy sleeping in a corner of my tent, wrapped around my feet. Well, one night, he has to go to the bathroom and there's this other guy already there. Big guy. Wearing clothes. My friend waits politely, but this big guy wearing all this clothing freaks out, so my little buddy freaks out too and ever since that night, he won't go back to the BWCA, which makes me sad 'cause that little guy was a great foot warmer.
 
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05/14/2012 08:41PM  
Another reason the use a pee bottle at night, hahaha
 
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05/14/2012 08:45PM  
quote Zulu: "While camping at Iron Lake Campground on the Gunflint Trail in 1975 we saw a strange sight in a wet low area behind our campsite. There was an unearthly pale green glow near the ground like a glow in the dark skeleton or those stars people stick on their ceilings.


We set the hand rolled cigarette we were smoking down and went back into the woods with flashlights to investigate. There was no sign of the glow in the area as we looked around.


I suggested we turn the flashlights off and maybe it would reappear. Moments after turning them off and our eyes adjusting to the dark the glow returned right at our feet. It was a rotting log that looked no different than every other rotting log when light was turned on it.


I had heard of Will-o'-the-wisp and suspected that is what it was. But I told my friends it was caused by the ghost of a murdered person who was buried in unhallowed ground and that the glow was their soul making it's way to the afterlife.


Back at camp they were too scared to light the hand rolled cigarette back up and they slept restlessly."


I think some fungi bioluminesce, but I like your explanation better.
 
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05/15/2012 09:48AM  
You sure you weren't on Ashigan when this happened? The thing that I'm aware of, never usually strays too far from Solitude Lake, and it's closer to 3.5 fee tall. Also, your friend is not telling you everything. Ask him what it said, or he thinks it said. Tell him he doesn't really need to worry. He can go and enjoy the rest of the BWCA. Best not to go back around the Ashigan area again though. It will know. I don't think it's really like mind reading. More of a scent kind of thing. And don't go looking for it. That might not be a very good idea.
 
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05/15/2012 10:27AM  
This thread is an interesting read. I enjoy stories like this though I often poke fun at them. I'm guessing he saw one of these. They come in a few different color phases and are usually just curious. Their mothers can get moody though.
 
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05/15/2012 11:53AM  
quote Cletus: "You sure you weren't on Ashigan when this happened? The thing that I'm aware of, never usually strays too far from Solitude Lake, and it's closer to 3.5 fee tall. Also, your friend is not telling you everything. Ask him what it said, or he thinks it said. Tell him he doesn't really need to worry. He can go and enjoy the rest of the BWCA. Best not to go back around the Ashigan area again though. It will know. I don't think it's really like mind reading. More of a scent kind of thing. And don't go looking for it. That might not be a very good idea."


Whoa...can you say more?
 
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05/15/2012 12:21PM  
quote keysersoze: "
quote Cletus: "You sure you weren't on Ashigan when this happened? The thing that I'm aware of, never usually strays too far from Solitude Lake, and it's closer to 3.5 fee tall. Also, your friend is not telling you everything. Ask him what it said, or he thinks it said. Tell him he doesn't really need to worry. He can go and enjoy the rest of the BWCA. Best not to go back around the Ashigan area again though. It will know. I don't think it's really like mind reading. More of a scent kind of thing. And don't go looking for it. That might not be a very good idea."



Whoa...can you say more?"

+1???
 
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05/15/2012 12:26PM  
quote Cletus: "You sure you weren't on Ashigan when this happened? The thing that I'm aware of, never usually strays too far from Solitude Lake, and it's closer to 3.5 fee tall. Also, your friend is not telling you everything. Ask him what it said, or he thinks it said. Tell him he doesn't really need to worry. He can go and enjoy the rest of the BWCA. Best not to go back around the Ashigan area again though. It will know. I don't think it's really like mind reading. More of a scent kind of thing. And don't go looking for it. That might not be a very good idea."



I think we just found the troll.
 
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05/15/2012 01:03PM  
CHOOT 'em, Jacob!!
 
05/15/2012 05:57PM  
I do not dare tell this to my kids... I want them to think the forest is their FRIEND! Shhhhhhh.
 
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05/15/2012 07:25PM  
Musta been a turk. Italians and greeks are hairy, but not tall. I suspect he simply saw a turk looking for his goat...or his wife...or some combination thereof.
 
05/15/2012 08:00PM  
quote Beaverjack: "Musta been a turk. Italians and greeks are hairy, but not tall. I suspect he simply saw a turk looking for his goat...or his wife...or some combination thereof."

really?
 
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05/15/2012 09:01PM  
There is more that we don't know than we know. It could be that he...it...is... right behind you RIGHTNOW!
I totally beleive the guy saw it. I'm not sure I believe it was there, but I'm also not sure that's a detail that matters.
 
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05/15/2012 10:32PM  
At least you could never encounter more than nine two foot tall, hairy men simultaneously since that is the legal limit to parties in the preserve.
 
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05/16/2012 04:07PM  
My 14 year old son wants to practice his Squatch calls after dark. This will be his first trip to the BWCA. We'll see if he changes his mind once we get there...
 
rebar
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05/16/2012 08:43PM  
little people

There everywhere! There everywhere!

out to get me
 
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05/16/2012 09:07PM  
I saw a news story about this the other night....Found it!

Strange Sighting

Looks like they even got a good sketch of what it looked like.
 
09/27/2013 03:57PM  
bing Maymaygwayshi came up with this little bugger
 
09/27/2013 06:06PM  
1 member mentioned lightning balls, an older relative told me a story about 2 lightning balls traveled down the stack on the old wood burner stove one of those big cast iron ones(we were in the room with the stove as she told this story) they traveled down to the floor then track across the floor and 1 road over the tip of the other person's toe in the room, she said his toe was numb for years. 1 other member said they dont believe in ghost, WELL i live in a house that was built in 1888 and when we moved in we did some home improvements, OH there's ghost, spirits or what ever you want to call them. they do exist.
 
09/27/2013 06:18PM  
quote burntsider: "At least you could never encounter more than nine two foot tall, hairy men simultaneously since that is the legal limit to parties in the preserve."


LOL. Very nice.
 
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09/27/2013 06:32PM  
quote 3Ball: "
quote burntsider: "At least you could never encounter more than nine two foot tall, hairy men simultaneously since that is the legal limit to parties in the preserve."



LOL. Very nice."


+1
 
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09/28/2013 04:40PM  
quote kclamken: "Ok, I know that this is gonna sound bizarre. My friend is convinced that there was a 2.5 to 3' tall "brown hairy man" watching him use the john. He said that the hairy man watched him until he was done, and when he moved towards it, it ran off into the woods.At first i was very skeptical, but the more I talk to him the more I am starting to wonder what happened. He is a veteran and an intelligent, lucid person, with alot of experience in the outdoors. I thought he possibly saw a coon, marten, or grouse, but he is adamant that the figure was humanoid. Also, I don't think he would have a problem with identifying the animals in that locale. The thing about this that is most convincing for me is the fact that he doesn't want to go back to the BWCA. He is usually the first person on board and the most helpful in planning. So if anyone has ever had a similar experience or heard any stories let me know. My curiosity about this is killing me.


Kevin"


Your friend probably saw a groundhog.



Some are quite dangerous!

 
09/28/2013 06:37PM  
2010. SE Ensign on south shore camp with the gravel beach, then the camp sets up on a bench in the open with a bluff behind it. The crapper is up the hill on the right. This camp is not far from the very SE corner of the lake.
One of our party claimed he saw the same thing. It was well after dark....maybe 11 pm. Me and another guy were asleep, the other two were still up drinking wine. We heard the tale the next morning. He was on the throne and swore a little hairy creature about waste high.........same story. The guy by the fire said his fellow wino was really shaken up when he returned from the crapper. He wanted to stoke the fire and stay up all night.
The next afternoon he was persistant about "moving camp so we would be close to our tow-out at 3pm the next day. C'mon, we were on Ensign and the tow was at Newfound/Splash. We moved........ Mini-Squatch was the running joke for awhile and still is when that trip is mentioned. He has never laughed about it with the rest of us. He always replies,"I know what the hell a cub bear looks like...."
Who knows, but he's no rookie in any respect and gets really serious and a little quiet when it was brought up. He won't trip anymore either. I've heard about hootowls and pink elephants.....and now a little super hairy midget. I'd put it in the back of my mind until seeing this post.
 
09/28/2013 07:04PM  
I hadn't seen this thread before and it sent chills up my spine...
I was on a solo trip in 2004 and stayed on Ensign Lake one night, the same site that overthehill mentions.
As soon as I set up camp, I had the weird feeling that I was being watched. It soon went away, and I went about setting up camp and I didn't think much more about it. That night, after I had eaten dinner and was sitting around the fire I thought I heard footsteps and leaves rustling in the brush right behind where my tent was set up. I grabbed my axe and walked back there to check it out (fortunately it was not yet completely dark). I couldn't see anything back there, but it did sound like something was moving away from the site. I was shook, but I went back to the fire and wrote it off to the "solo jitters". When it did get dark I found myself going to the tent earlier than I normally would. I laid there, listening to the sounds in the woods and tried to fall asleep. I bet it was three hours before I finally dropped off.
Sometime during the night, I was awakened by a strange sound around the fire grate area. My door was facing away from the fire and I unzipped the door to try to peer around the tent to see if I could see anything with my flashlight. Just as I got around to the corner this little furry hand reached around from the other side of the tent and started pulling my leg...


















just like I'm pulling your's now. I never bring an axe.
 
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09/29/2013 07:17PM  
I have no idea if anybody in this 8 year old thread is serious. But this summer in the Porcupine Mountains I saw a porcupine coming my way mid-morning. I grabbed my camera and got myself in a spot near where he seemed to be heading. As he kept coming closer he couldn't figure out what I was. With the click of the camera shutter he was so curious he did something I didn't even know porcupines could do. He stood up on his hind legs to get a better look at me. And he could hold this pose for 20-30 seconds at a time. Honestly, I think he could have stood there indefinitely. Finally, as he got about 15 feet from me I had to yell to get him to turn.

If anyone is serious about seeing something like a short hairy man in the dark I would think this could be an explanation. They live in the BWCA, they're nocturnal, I have personally witnessed that when curious they will stand on their back legs to get a better view, and in the dark this would look very much like a short hairy man.
 
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09/29/2013 10:53PM  
quote onepaddleshort: "I have no idea if anybody in this 8 year old thread is serious. But this summer in the Porcupine Mountains I saw a porcupine coming my way mid-morning. I grabbed my camera and got myself in a spot near where he seemed to be heading. As he kept coming closer he couldn't figure out what I was. With the click of the camera shutter he was so curious he did something I didn't even know porcupines could do. He stood up on his hind legs to get a better look at me. And he could hold this pose for 20-30 seconds at a time. Honestly, I think he could have stood there indefinitely. Finally, as he got about 15 feet from me I had to yell to get him to turn.


If anyone is serious about seeing something like a short hairy man in the dark I would think this could be an explanation. They live in the BWCA, they're nocturnal, I have personally witnessed that when curious they will stand on their back legs to get a better view, and in the dark this would look very much like a short hairy man. "



+1 awesome pic!
I'll offer you one of a Porcy Mooning me:

Funny how with all the stories of UFOs, Sasquatch, aliens etcetera,
in this day of omnipresent pocket cameras no-one has gotten a good clear picture of any of these mysterious beings verifying their existence.
:-)
 
09/30/2013 12:02AM  
Holy crap gutmon on you had me hook line and sinker.

I stayed a night solo on Ensign on the east side upon a peninsula halfway up the lake, with an island site just west of my site. Place creeped me out a bit as the woods were very dark and dank behind the site. Nothing scary that night, just a dozen or so whiper-whils sounding off ALL night. Which is probably what keeps the three foot Sasquatch up all night, who in turn talks the porcupine into scaring the bejesus out of unsuspecting woodsmen that are making a late night dunny run.

I know that in all my years of getting up hours before dawn and sitting in the woods in complete darkness waiting for shooting light (deer hunting) I have seen and heard some strange things. Bobcat screams, owls in the tree your sitting under, grouse exploding under your feet at first light, deer wheezes and snorts (probably the worst), mice running up your leg, etc. but my favorite is the tree stump that runs through the woods. All silent and sneaky. And when you look back at where it started, there it is again!!

Silly stump. And I am convinced that spatial relations in the woods in the dark are completely out of whack. There is nothing solid and familiar to relate true size of an object to. To much randomness.
 
09/30/2013 11:40AM  
Great thread. Stories like this really intrigue me.
 
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10/01/2013 12:27AM  
once again..by 1910 half the bars in Ely would of had a stuffed one in the window if such a thing was walking around the woods.
 
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