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And without further ado, let's begin.

This happened a few years when I first moved to a small town in northern Minnesota for work.

I didn't know anyone there yet, so for the first few weeks I spent most of my time either working or sitting around the same couple local spots, just trying to get a feel for the place.

One afternoon, I was sitting at dinner off the highway, and this older lady at the counter randomly started talking to me. I guess that she

figured that I was new because I asked the waitress where the nearest grocery store was.

She ended up giving me a bunch of advice about the area too. Where not to drive in the

winter, which gas station overcharged, stuff like that. Pretty normal conversation, really.

But then, out of nowhere, she asked where I lived. I told her roughly which road my rental house was on and she immediately got

really serious, like her tone completely changed. She pointed toward the north side of town and

said something along the lines of stay away from the forest along County Road 12. I kind of laughed

at this because I assumed that she meant wildlife or something.

There are bears and wolves around that part of Minnesota after all. But she sort of shook her

head and said, no, I mean it. Don't stop near those trees. That place isn't right. My husband

literally disappeared out there. She said it in a really

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