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What makes a site haunted? What strange and unexplainable experiences must be witnessed before we will believe? Many sites in the Midwest have claims of the paranormal. Once I remember seeing an article in one of the supermarket tabloids claiming that there was an entrance to hell just outside of the town of Devils Lake, ND. A few area residence boasts of odd poltergeist events taking place in the recent years, but few can contend with the one location that I can say is truly haunted. It was more then the bizarre photographs, mysterious readings or bone chilling rush of cold air through an empty room that convinced individuals that what they encountered a phantom.
Along a long secluded country road in the plains of northwest Minnesota is a farm that has been the scene of reported paranormal phenomena for years. The owner of the farm Mel Nygaard, says that the events here began not long after he purchased the property from the state. After moving in Mr. Nygaard wanted to reconstruct a small building for some of his animals. Mother Nature had destroyed the previous structure over the years and all that remained of it was the building's foundation.
The legend actually begins long before Mr. Nygaard's purchase and likely long before European settlers established the area. After some extensive research about the area and its native inhabitants, it was learned that Mr. Nygaard's property is located along a well-traveled route taken by Native Americans. As the natives would travel each winter along the river to the warmer southern climate, the property would often become caught in fierce early winter storms. Many of the weak travelers (children and the elderly mainly) would not be able to handle the brutal cold and would succumb to the frigid temperatures. Believing that water had much spiritual power, they preferred to lay to rest there dead as close to the water as possible. It just happens that there are many small springs and ponds on what is now Mr. Nygaard's property, which made it a perfect burial ground for the travelers. Although many of the remains had been removed a few decades ago, it would be impossible to locate all of the corpses.
As the property changed hands so did the stories of the haunt. Early stories tell about domesticated animals such as horses and dogs being spooked and refusing to travel in certain areas of the property. There were also tales of travelers being over come by chilling winds on hot summer days as if it had passed right through there bodies. When the property was settled originally in the early 1900's, rumor was that the first family was cursed. The couple was expecting their third child and purchased the acreage and moved there with their two twin daughters. Many a disturbing incident occurred soon after they erected their home and barns. One October evening a horse was spooked by a glowing orb and knocked over a lamp starting the shed on fire trapping one of the twin girls and killing here. The mother was very distressed and lost her third child via a miscarriage. Then the very next October, the father murdered both the mother and daughter when he was in a drunken rage. The father was found incoherent and speaking in strange tongues. He was sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was never carried out as he doused himself with lamp oil and lit himself on fire in his jail cell.
More recently, persons visiting the farm have witnessed glowing orbs, even capturing some on film. Sometimes the orbs will pass right through a person's essence sending a spine tingling, bone chilling sensation throughout their body. Many times the animals around the farm have acted strangely as if they had been spooked by something that was out there, but not seen. Although the disturbances are not always present, they do catch people off guard and often will scare even the bravest of residents and visitors. It can safely be said that this is THE HAUNTED FARM!