It started with a piece of family folklore.

Janice Petri was just a baby when her parents brought her and her brother to stay at their grandparents cottage on Ossipi Lake for a week-long family vacation.

But the first night would be their only night.

Was the cottage haunted? The energy was unsettling, dark, cold.

My parents are absolutely not involved or interested in the supernatural at all, which that's what made this so weird, that they felt that way and yet they were not never even considered ghosts or anything like that that was not

their thing. Neither parent could sleep a wink that night. They waited for sunrise to signal their

chance to get out.

At 4 o'clock in the morning as soon as they could see the boat and the trailer to put the boat on the trailer and get out of town.

That's exactly what they did. They left the cottage.

And they had to tell my grandparents something, so they said, well, you know, it was really hard not

having a washer and dryer and having, you diapers from you know a toddler and a baby because

pampers didn't exist back then and so they said they really decided that it wasn't going to be

vacation at all you know doing it that way and they'd rather take day trips.

And my grandparents bought that, you know, so nobody had to say anything about how they felt about

the cottage.

Janice's grandparents sold the cottage about a year and a half later.

About three years after that, my father read a really interesting article in the Boston Globe magazine

about a horrific murder that happened in a cottage in Ocipi on the lake.

And my father called up my grandfather and said, could that have been your cottage?

And my grandparents knew about it all along.

Janice had heard the story from her parents of that strange night at the Ossipe summer cottage.

She decided to take a closer look.

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