The Allagash Lake, we're up there for the experience, for the pure pleasure of canoeing
absolutely remarkable and kind of mind-blowing in 1976 in Allagash in Maine.
Yeah on the Allagash water system. Yeah.
Yeah. There you go. Yeah. You got innovative. So I think maybe one of the most interesting parts of this whole experience that is kind of inextricably linked with it. You can't kind of separate it is just the landscape of Allagash itself.
Well, originally the Allagash water system, which is now a national park system.
The national park system was originally part of the logging industry. Prior to logging trucks going out into the forest, you sent teams out in the forest. They would cut the trees, put them on the lake, float them. And that was, they were moved down the Allagash river all the way to like Fort Kent and Allagash, uh, the village of Allagash.
water could grab them and get everything moving again. So the Allagash system still has part of an
So that was a year before, or that was three years before this, uh, Allagash event.
You guys are at Allagash.
and we were trying to get up to the Allagash River or the Allagash Stream, which flows in
from Allagash Lake.
got up the next morning and continued our canoe trip. That was when we tried to get up to Allagash Lake.
the next day after that, we had canoed up, tried to get to Allagash Lake, but found it impossible.
But, but it is like, I've heard podcasts on the Allagash many, many times.
It was you four at Allagash.
Uh, but if you do go to the library or get a copy of his book, the Allagash abductions,
work after the Allagash where I was training myself to be a school teacher to work with
you said that John Norseen, you spoke to John Norseen and he was at Allagash in the 19, in 1976,
uh, go off and, and Allagash and they were testing to see how well they could track these people.
But this was near, was it near Allagash?
Yeah. 90 miles away from Allagash.
In 76 when he was at Allagash?
corroboration for this really you know healthy vindication for you know allagash as well oh
back before i went up to the allagash i was making production pottery i was making bowls and cups and
this event in on the allagash i had this epiphany i mean it was like an epiphany is the only word i