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...
Mormons are... interesting. I'm friends with one current and one former.
ReplyDeleteIn Beowulf, Grendel is named as a spawn of Cain.
ReplyDeleteMormonism is full is really weird shit.
ReplyDeleteThose crazies think that Jesus walked on water! LOL
ReplyDeleteFor a project I am working on I am looking into and paying more attention to all things bigfoot adjacent in folklore, cryptozoology and conspiracy theories surrounding them, and I know this may sound strange but cain = bigfoot is average on the weird scale compared to some of them.
ReplyDeleteKeep posting stuff you find and you'll be top Jason in no time.
ReplyDeleteRight now I am contested #1 Jason. I am pretty sure Jason Bossert ye'd me as the #1.
ReplyDelete"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here."
ReplyDelete-- Mitch Hedberg