Ghosts, Myths and Legends:
A series of "13" caches commemorating 13 years of the Doors Open Heritage Festival in the Crowsnest Pass.
Native Legend of the Mountain that moves.
- One Blackfoot legend tells of a party of raiding Crow Natives from Montana was ambushed at the base of Turtle Mountain. During the battle a huge rock broke away from the mountain and killed 200 men. The Blackfoot believe that spirit Napi had delivered a warning. They stopped the battle and carved a message into the rock that fell. It read, “Peace forever in this valley. Let no one break the peace.” Thinking that the mountain must be moving itself slowly forward, stone by stone, the Blackfoot named it Turtle Mountain.
- In the aftermath of the slide, stories of survival were miraculous, and have generated at least one urban myth. Anyone who has heard of the Frank Slide has heard of the baby girl, the only survivor, found on the boulder. That story is untrue, but it is loosely grounded in fact. Three little girls survived the slide. Fernie Watkins was found in the debris. Fifteen-month old Marion Leitch was thrown from her house and found in a pile of hay, the one most likely to be the "boulder baby." Gladys Ennis, 27 months old, was found in the mud by her mother Lucy, who saved her baby's life by clearing the mud out of her nose and throat. Gladys was the last survivor of the slide when she died in 1995 in Bellevue, Washington.