• Lillian Wineman, an eccentric pioneer woman who stayed with her belongings — even after she died, and her furnishings were moved into a local history museum
• The untimely deaths of two young brothers, found hanged on their homestead after they picked a drunken fight with the wrong crowd
• Ghostly sightings of the “Minnie H” steamboat and her captain, Edward Heerman, who patrolled the shores of Devils Lake at the turn of the last century
• The lost graveyard of doomed Jewish settlers, who tried to establish their own farming community during the late 1800s
• A mysterious “stairway to hell” discovered in a farmer’s field
• The ghostly shadows and cries of Indian warriors, drowned by the angry spirits of the lake during a terrible battle
• Regular sightings of “little people” — the nymphs and woodland elves who surround the reservation on the south shore of Devils Lake
• And a Loch Ness-style monster who lives in the deepest center of the lake

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