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Stillwater, Minnesota Ghost Sightings
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This tale is a New Year's story which took place back in the 1970s. Two young girls on their winter break from school were sledding in McKusick's ravine near Owens and Laurel streets on Stillwater's North Hill on New Year's Day. Bored with sliding, they began exploring the ravine. Suddenly a loud commotion which sounded like a car wreck erupted in the air above their heads frightening and confusing them, so they grabbed their sleds and ran for home. When
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they returned to school the next week one of the girls told her story to a teacher who was an ''old Stillwaterite''.
This long time resident told
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the girl that there used to be a trestle style wood bridge spanning the ravine where there now was a dead end. According to the teacher, back when autos were just becoming more common some New Years revellers were returning home on New Years morning. They tried to cross the icy deck which had been designed for horse and buggy and plunged head long to their deaths in the ravine!
Evidently this was not the first manifestation of this tragedy. On a New
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