When I was a kid in the suburbs of Chicago, adventure man Oliver Montgomery park up on the boarder of Minnesota and Canada. the name implies the place was small but Montgomery is a million acer nature preserve so big you could go days without seeing another soul. we would go on camping trips up there weeks of canoeing and scavenging seeing bears, mousse and deer sleeping under star soaked skies. the park was isolated and so pristine you could actually drink the water straight from the lakes but I won’t be going back to Montgomery any time soon, not after what happened to a girl named Francis Brandywine. Francis was 17 at the time. black hair and with a reckless determined to always leave the well-drawn path to break new ground and be alone.
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one night after her family went to bed Francis took the row boat out planning to find a quite spot in the middle of the lake lay on the bench of the boat and look at the sky and maybe write in her journal so she left the shore rowed for about 20 minutes when she felt satisfied that she was over the lakes deepest spot she laid down on the bench looked up at the night sky the stars were very bright the arura burials was shimmering like a neon lasso she was feeling very peace full then she heard something strange it was like a knock (knock, knock)she sat up guessing the boat had drifted to shore but she looked around the boat and she was still half a mile from shore she leaned over the side to see if she hit anything but she saw nothing no log no rock she laid back down she told her self it could be any number of things a fish a turtle a stick that had drifted under the boat she relaxed again and soon fell in a contended reverie she had just closed her eyes when she heard another knock this time it was louder a crisp (KNOCK,KNOCK) like the sound of someone knocking hard on a wooden door except this knocking was coming from the bottom of the boat now she was scared she leaned over the said again it had to be an animal but what kind of animal could knock like that 2 quick knocks in rapid succession her mouth went dry she held onto each side of the boat now she waited to see if it would happen again the silence stretched out a few minutes passed then as she just began thinking she
one night after her family went to bed Francis took the row boat out planning to find a quite spot in the middle of the lake lay on the bench of the boat and look at the sky and maybe write in her journal so she left the shore rowed for about 20 minutes when she felt satisfied that she was over the lakes deepest spot she laid down on the bench looked up at the night sky the stars were very bright the arura burials was shimmering like a neon lasso she was feeling very peace full then she heard something strange it was like a knock (knock, knock)she sat up guessing the boat had drifted to shore but she looked around the boat and she was still half a mile from shore she leaned over the side to see if she hit anything but she saw nothing no log no rock she laid back down she told her self it could be any number of things a fish a turtle a stick that had drifted under the boat she relaxed again and soon fell in a contended reverie she had just closed her eyes when she heard another knock this time it was louder a crisp (KNOCK,KNOCK) like the sound of someone knocking hard on a wooden door except this knocking was coming from the bottom of the boat now she was scared she leaned over the said again it had to be an animal but what kind of animal could knock like that 2 quick knocks in rapid succession her mouth went dry she held onto each side of the boat now she waited to see if it would happen again the silence stretched out a few minutes passed then as she just began thinking she