THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Upper Big Lake is haunted in local folklore by a fisherman who accidentally killed his nephew with a shotgun. According to the story, the nephew's spirit later pulled the fisherman beneath the water, and the uncle now remains as the lake's resident ghost.
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