Episode 99: Do Not Go to Rock Island

Odd Trails

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True Crime, Arts, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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- Do Not Go To Rock Island, by scarythirdeye

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0:00.0	Odd Trails contains adult language and content.
0:02.6	If you have a story to share, send it to stories at oddtrails.com.
0:06.8	Enjoy the show.
0:07.8	Forget facts.
0:11.8	Forget logic. forget everything that seems real.
0:16.0	Just trust, believe. I mean. Oh, You know your life is just a dream, don't you? Welcome everyone. This week we have a single story titled Do Not Go to Rock Island by
1:02.4	Scary Third Eye.
1:04.0	We've broken this story up into two parts.
1:07.0	I will be starting off with part one, and Brandon will continue with part two after the break.
1:11.0	Enjoy. Rock. Rock Island is a state park located at the tip of Door County, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan.
1:41.0	It's a difficult place to get to. To get to the island you have to take a car
1:45.9	ferry from Ellison Bay to Washington Island. Drive across Washington Island to Jackson Harbor,
1:52.3	then take a pedestrian-only ferry to Rock Island.
1:56.0	No vehicles or bikes are allowed on the island.
2:00.0	Even though the island is relatively small at about 975 acres, it has an interesting history.
2:08.2	In the early 1600s, it was inhabited by a tribe of Potawatomy Native Americans, as well as a small fishing village
2:16.0	of European settlers.
2:18.9	Two groups did not trust each other and did have a few bad encounters that almost led the violence, but for the most part they lived peacefully together on the island.
2:28.0	By the 1640s, the Podwademy had migrated to other parts of Wisconsin. Shortly after the Podwademy had left the island,
2:37.0	some settlers from the fishing village reported seeing a new group of people on the island.
2:42.0	They seemed to be more white settlers, but they wore
2:45.8	strange clothes and kept to themselves. No one from the fishing village was ever able to talk to one of
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