RE: Vacation Travelogue, Day 2: Washington to Montana.
Well, It looks like you have only four adventures waiting for you in North Dakota.
The Devils lake Monster
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Only in the northeast
The local American Indians told the settlers stories of a great snake that lived beneath that lake, a serpent that instilled fear in those who saw it. According to a 1915 article in the Grand Forks Daily Herald, two well-known businessmen, a police captain, and the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, saw the Devils Lake Monster on different days, and at different points on the lake. Each gave a similar description. The creature was about two feet round, and about sixty feet long.
The Miniwashitu
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In the late 1800s, a man wandering near the river saw an enormous creature rise from the water. Red hair, thick “like a buffalo” covered the beast. The monster had only one eye, and a single horn thrust from its forehead. Its backbone protruded, nocked like “an enormous saw.” Terrified, the man made it home before he passed out, and later died.
Bigfoot
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I mean of course! This guy is everywhere.
These weren’t the first sightings of the creature in North Dakota. A man hunting said a “great ape” stalked him outside his mobile home in Minot, North Dakota. A newspaper clipping from 1908 also chronicles an encounter with Bigfoot.
Thunderbird
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American Indian stories of these flying terrors across North America are similar. Thunderbirds can create storms, shoot lightning bolts, and have been known to eat pets – and children.
Keep an eye on that cat!
And be ready for adventure.
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