MeatCanyon
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
A lot of bullshit out there, but this place is mentioned a lot.
It's been closed before, but I keep getting stonewalled when I ask for historical documents.
The thing is, I don't think the prison itself is the problem.
Two Canadian priests, Father Norbert Provencher and Sevier Dumlin, visited Pembina in 1818, before it was even an official township.
That was back then, when the Hudson's Bay Company was big around these parts.
That's how long ago it was.
Pembina was the biggest town in North Dakota then, so the trading post was full.
So the priest chose to sleep outside by where the Pembina River meets the Red River.
The folktale has it that the vision of a rotting woman came in the night and stole Provencher's life.
The two men bartered with her to split the remaining life between them.
The dates of death are right there on Wikipedia.
35 years later, after 1818 made their death year 1853, the year this prison was built.
The place they camped that night?
By the meetings of the rivers?
It's right here, isn't it?
He was dead serious.
I think there's some shit here.