As We Continue To Jig Into The Spooky Season. The legend of Devil's Island on Lake Winnipeg involves local superstitions and a ghost story about a haunted cabin. One superstition says that pointing at the island brings bad luck or prevents you from getting home, while a local ghost story describes a haunted cabin that provided refuge for fishermen. Some people who have visited the island claim to have experienced unsettling phenomena, including eerie lights, strange sounds, and panicky awakening

For a century, France shipped prisoners to Devil's Island located off French Guiana so they would vanish from the public eye. | HISTORY