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...
I guess it doesn't look enough like a 1960s perception of an astronaut that Däniken could sell it.
ReplyDeleteIf you google "Vinca aliens" it shows that reptilian conspiracy people are all over this connection. Phew.
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan of the Lepenski Vir sculptures. At least 7000 BC.
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Ancient alien/reptilian conspiracy people are usually all over anything that's older than 400 years and even vaguely unknown or weird. :)
That's a good one. Obvious Deep One or hybrid there.
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ReplyDeleteJust call him Tripod.
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