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...
It took me a moment to realize that it was drawn/written on an envelope, rather than the paper was being warped by the contents.
ReplyDeleteAaron Gordon I had the same thought!
ReplyDeleteThat's what the paper wants you to think!
ReplyDeleteWow.
ReplyDeleteSo is that thing on top that's scribbled out v.1 of an elder thing? Not quite scary enough?
Shoggoth maybe? His writing is that of a mad monk.
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