From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
These twins aren't so bad. You see the both of them right there. It's the triplets that are terrifying. You're focused on two of them standing there looking eerie, then their 3rd one comes up behind you with a knife.....
ReplyDeleteJust be glad you've got boys.
ReplyDeleteAny of those kids just standing there on their own after someone says "look really glum" would still be as freaky.
ReplyDeleteSo Jason Beighel, twins are more like Velociraptors?
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