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- Aug 25, 2012
This is more of a “ghost story” than a paranormal sighting.
Early in the Civil War a Michigan regiment was stationed at Old Fort Wayne Detroit. Late one night a strange figure appears in the woods around the fort. This strange figure moved about the woods howling, screeching and greatly frightened the guards. Now Irishmen were sure it was a banshee but another possibility existed. The Nain Rouge had returned! For those who are not aware, the Nain Rouge or Red Dwarf has been a harbinger of doom in the Detroit area ever since the founder of Detroit, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, encountered the evil gnome on July 30 1763 and struck at it with his cane. Ever since Cadillac’s ill-fated encounter, the appearance of Nain Rouge always beings Detroit great calamity, the evil gnome is still occasionally observed and Detroit suffers yet again from the Nain Rouge curse.
A search of the woods the next day did not discover a banshee nor the Red Dwarf. Instead the searchers discovered a naked insane women who had discarded all of her clothing had had spent the night wandering about the wood growling and howling. The mental condition of the women prevented her suppling either her name or the location of her home. The frightened men returned to their duties and the encounter was soon forgotten. The regiment’s destiny was to suffer unusually high casualties in a war of huge casualties. An insane naked woman or an evil trick by the infamous Nain Rouge? You decide.
Early in the Civil War a Michigan regiment was stationed at Old Fort Wayne Detroit. Late one night a strange figure appears in the woods around the fort. This strange figure moved about the woods howling, screeching and greatly frightened the guards. Now Irishmen were sure it was a banshee but another possibility existed. The Nain Rouge had returned! For those who are not aware, the Nain Rouge or Red Dwarf has been a harbinger of doom in the Detroit area ever since the founder of Detroit, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, encountered the evil gnome on July 30 1763 and struck at it with his cane. Ever since Cadillac’s ill-fated encounter, the appearance of Nain Rouge always beings Detroit great calamity, the evil gnome is still occasionally observed and Detroit suffers yet again from the Nain Rouge curse.
A search of the woods the next day did not discover a banshee nor the Red Dwarf. Instead the searchers discovered a naked insane women who had discarded all of her clothing had had spent the night wandering about the wood growling and howling. The mental condition of the women prevented her suppling either her name or the location of her home. The frightened men returned to their duties and the encounter was soon forgotten. The regiment’s destiny was to suffer unusually high casualties in a war of huge casualties. An insane naked woman or an evil trick by the infamous Nain Rouge? You decide.
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