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Pine‑Shadow Rendezvous & Diamond Doubt

“Smooth ride, brother?” he asks voice a straight‑razor lullaby while his boys fan out shadow to shadow guns zipped tight in wool sleeves

July 22, 2025

Johqu Bogart

Adirondacks, Americana, Brainardsville, Chateaugay, Chateaugay Lake, Experimental Storytelling, Folklore, Tall Tales

Chateaugay Lake, Chateaugay Lake Steamboat Pirate Syndicate, Legs Diamond, Merrill, Mordecai Vilecreek, Prohibition, rum-running, Tobacco Road, True Crime
Smoldering Shadows: A North Country Horror Tale of Cryptids, Wildfire, and Unspeakable Beasts

Rhythmic bone-rattling heralds insect-wolf beasts; survival hinges on a bear’s trail. A new horror stalks them through the smoky abyss.

April 14, 2025

Yog-Sothoth

Adirondacks, Americana, Chateaugay Lake, Experimental Storytelling, Folklore, Tall Tales

burning wilderness, Chateaugay Lake, cryptid inferno, fantasy, fiction, grizzly goliath horror, horror, mandible nightmare, Merrill, short-story, timber terror, writing
From Fog to Fury: How Three Local Youths Outwitted Ruthless Smugglers on the Lake

Nightfall shrouds Chateaugay Lake as courageous locals hijack illicit nets, sparking clash with criminal scoundrels in a battle of nerve and guile.

March 28, 2025

Yog-Sothoth

Adirondacks, Americana, Chateaugay Lake, Experimental Storytelling, Folklore, Tall Tales

#ChateaugayLakeCrimeCaper, #ChateaugayLakeCrimeChronicles, #FogboundFury, #NetRaidRevenge, #PaddleOfJustice, #SalmonRockShowdown, Charles E. Merrill, Chateaugay Lake, Merrill, Merrill House, The Old Guide’s Story
Mirrored Locomotive Reverie

Whimsical Railway to the Phantom Resort: Embrace the enchanting mystery of Chateaugay Lake, where a ghostly hotel blueprint and rail echoes transform vanished possibilities into a captivating, modern myth.

March 28, 2025

Yog-Sothoth

Adirondacks, Americana, Chateaugay Lake, Cthulhu, Experimental Storytelling, Folklore, Tall Tales

#ChateaugayPhantomDreams, #GhostTicketTales, #SpectralRailwayEcho, #VanishedVisions, Chateaugay Lake, Merrill
Howlin’ Hoodlums’ Moonlit Net-Tamperin’ Blues

Hoodlum haunt at Salmon Point: unscripted 1870s rebellion where daring boys, armed with wits and wry humor, dismantle oppressive misrule in liquid cadence.

March 25, 2025

Johqu Bogart

Adirondacks, Americana, Chateaugay Lake, Experimental Storytelling, Folklore, Tall Tales

adventure, Charles E. Merrill, Chateaugay Lake, Chateaugay Lake Sandbar, fishing, fishing gangs, game laws, hoodlums, illegal fishing, Merrill, poaching, retribution, seine fishing, seine nets, The Old Guide’s Story
Chateaugay Lake First Settled in 1816

Chateaugay Lake was first thrust on a waiting world through one William Bell, who came here around 1783. He had been at sea for some years, and had seen a ship go into the strait and get caught in a storm. He bought provisions and returned to Canada. It seems that he saw some French soldiers…

December 6, 2019

Yog-Sothoth

Adirondacks, Chateaugay Lake

Arthur F. Tait, Banner House, Merrill, Merrill House, Popeville, William Bell

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