Dakota Datebook: Ghost Stories

Oct. 31, 2018 — Today is Halloween, a good day for ghost stories, and North Dakota has no shortage of them. Legends have been floating around for years of the “Kindred Lights,” the “Grim Reaper” in a Baptist church near Fredonia, the “Fatal Stump” near Belfield, and the “Gas Chamber” on the deserted Oss farmstead near Hatton.

In Grand Forks, in the Altru Hospital, a staff elevator seems to make un...