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It’s not easy to find a fairy cross rock.
We listened to the rustle of grasses, the leaves in the trees, the distant traffic. But after a few days I realised there was no birdsong.
It’s Halloween, with snow falling in Stearns County. Almost All Soul’s Day. Time for a ghost story. A true story, which I retell more than half a century later.
Lake Osakis wore a black veil of birdlife – a coating of coots.
How is it that I never knew about fairy crosses, even though you can find them on the banks of the Blanchard Dam?