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...
Ugh. I am probably technically evangelical, but this half-assed Hallmark preaching sucks major ass
ReplyDeleteEdit: def a solid fantasy death cult though!
Yep, death cult.
ReplyDeleteChurch is the best place to get murdered. We should all be so lucky to be murdered in church.
ReplyDeleterawstory.com - Fox News host says church is the best place to get shot: ‘There’s no other place we would want to go’
not The Onion!
ReplyDeleteGod delivered his children from this evil world sounds like the Cathar heresy! Is this pastor an Albigensian?
hahah OMFG "they were close to Jesus at the time of their death." well I just...I can't...man.
ReplyDeleteDown with the omnipresence heresy! Jesus is only in these patent boxes, available at the low low price of $30,000 with attractive financing options.
ReplyDeleteThis guy is disturbed.
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