The Mystic Mysterium

  Carin Streufert grew up in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, surrounded by a large family and many friends. She graduated from GRHS in 1990, and besides being a good student, she also played the saxophone in a band and was a swim team captain. She spent her college freshman year at the U of M in Minneapolis. She was beginning to think about a career in early childhood development. However, that changed forever on June 15, 1991, just two weeks before her 19th birthday. In the early morning hours of June 15th, Carin Streufert, a popular 18 year old girl, was kidnapped. She was last seen alive by her friends at approximately 2:25 am in the morning when she had left the Grand Rapids Perkins to walk home, but she never made it. Her disappearance was unexplained for several days, with the town in shock at the missing teen.  Until Guy Alan Sullivan walked into the Itasca County Sheriff's office at 3:00 am on June 19th. He told police that his friend Swanson committed the murder and over the...

  This one is close to my hometown and one of the few haunted locations I've been to. It's known as one of the most haunted cemeteries in Minnesota. Lakeview Cemetery is located in Buhl, Minnesota. It opened in 1913 and still exists today. Open to the public, the cemetery is still a paranormal hotspot of sorts with many visitors reporting supernatural occurrences.  But first, a little history lesson… Burials in Lakeview Cemetery first began in 1913 around the same time Shaw Hospital was built. The hospital housed people who were sick with mental illnesses and tuberculosis. Eventually, these patients died at the hospital and a new problem arose, there was no budget to use to bury them properly. The hospital decided then to bury them in what's called Potter's Field. The majority of these people buried in Potter's Field died in the first two decades of the past century. Most of the dead contained early immigrant miners or the very young who died during one of the two i...