I saw this on the history channel!
I looked up the paranormal side of my reservation and it turns out we have a uso too!
My tribe Spirit Lake known then as Devil's Lake is located in North Dakota has had many weird stories but found this most strange.
<a href="http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup/v05/rnd05_24.shtml">Here!</a>
1893: STRANGE CRUISE OF THE MINNIE H.
Devil's Lake in northeastern North Dakota is one of the most surprising features in the USA's Upper Midwest. The lake "spreads like a great inland sea across nearly thirty miles, although its irregular shape makes the distance from corner to corner, by water, more than sixty miles.
It's known to the Lakota, the indigenous people of the prairie (also known as the Sioux Indians) as Minnewaukan (Lakotiya for Magic Lake--J.T.), mainly because of its startling changes in water level.
Geological uplifts in the area have created a terrain in which all rainwater drains directly into Devil's Lake instead of the main Mississippi River region watershed. When I visited Devil's Lake, N.D. (population 7,800) in August 1996, rising waters were threatening to turn the city into the Venice of the Midwest.
"One of the earliest tales connected with Devil's Lake comes down from the Sioux (Lakota) and the Ojibwa (true name: Anishinabe), enemies in earlier centuries but later abiding by an agreement that made the lake neutral ground. The reason for the truce was a tribal legend common to both peoples. Two large war parties, one Ojibwa and the other Sioux, were engaged in a fierce battle on Devil's lake when an immense storm blew up and all of the warrios were drowned."
(Editor's Note: This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. In July 1942, a tremendous thunderstorm dropped eight inches of rain on Bayfield, Wisconsin, causing flooding all along Lake Superior's south shore. A similar storm could have flooded the Devil's lake basin in North Dakota.)
But Devil's lake does have its magical side. Consider what happened to a little steamboat called the Minnie H.
The Minnie H. was built and launched in 1883. The boat used to ferry passengers from the old Chautaqua grounds on the north shore to Fort Totten, N.D. on the south shore.
On July 17, 1893, the Minnie H. set out from her dock, bound for Fort Totten. Standing at the rail, enjoying the lake breeze, was J. Morley Wyard.
"'Along the shore, the trees in summer beauty reproduced upon the crystal surface,' he wrote in the Park River Gazette Witness."
"When the Minnie H. was in the center of the lake, Wyard said there appeared near the northern shore, west of Fort Totten, what looked like the hull of a large vessel, without mast or spar or sail, the color of new timber. The great ship was motionless, about a dozen miles away from Wyard's vantage point. An outcropping of shore called the Point of Rocks eventually cut off Wyard's view."
Note that this USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) was large enough to be seen by Wyard's naked eye on a clear sunny day at a distance of over 10 miles (16 kilometers). It could not have been a local ship. Fort Totten and Devil's Lake, N.D. are the only places where a ship that large could have been built. And such a project would have had people talking all the way from Bismarck to Fargo.
""Wyard's return trip across the lake a few hours later provided an even more amazing sight."
"'Far down the strait,' he wrote in the Gazette Witness, 'there appeared the glint of a sail, that, emerging from the distant outlet, came more clearly into sight. Though the air was breathless, (no wind--J.T.) the fairy craft swept along with wonderful rapidity until it might have covered ten miles in about as many minutes. Its rapid flight could be definitely measured. Upon the shore the taller trees were outlined against the sky, and the mystic yacht sped past them close under the hand, until it, too, like the sail-less and motionless hu;; of the earlier trip, disappeared at the boulder point near Fort Totten.'"
"An 1893 sailboat moving at sixty miles per hour? (100 kilometers per hour) It hardly seems possible, yet Wyard was q definite in his account."
That's North Dakota's Devil's Lake for you. A body of water, located thousands of miles from any ocean, and yet it boasts not one but two "mysteries of the sea"--a USO and a ghost ship. (See the books Historic Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott, Tor Books, New York, N.Y. 1995, pages 386 and 387 and North Dakota: A Guide to the Nirthern Prairie State, Knight Printing Co., Bismarck, N.D., 1938.)
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