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...
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ReplyDeleteAgain? They published this claptrap back in 2014 too... and again in 2015... its not true and never was:
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Clickhole is a parody site, Joseph Teller.
ReplyDeleteActually they are a click bait site that's been doing this sort of thing to get attention and linkage for years. But since enough people don't know the logical thing to do is to ALWAYS give the Snopes link when encountering this sort of thing from anyone.
ReplyDeleteClickhole is the Onion's parody of sites like Buzzfeed and other clickbaity websites. The very bottom of the page has links to The Onion, AV Club, etc.
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