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Skull Cave

Mackinac Island, MI

A limestone cave on the bluff above Mackinac Island where the fur trader Alexander Henry hid during Pontiac's War in 1763, waking to find he had been sleeping among human bones. The cave was a Native burial place long before that, and the story is his own, from a memoir written thirty years later.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: mackinacparks.com/parks-and-attractions/skull-cave/

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