As a child, Ellen Moses spent summers at her family’s 1930s lake house in Detroit Lakes, Minn., where her father used to tell her a story about how the home was built on top of tree stumps. Ms. Moses, now 55, always assumed that was nothing more than family folklore. “The house was built on tree stumps and logs set sideways,” said Ms. Moses, whose father passed away in 2001. “On top of that, there were a lot of animals living under the house. It was quite a discovery.”

Source: New York Times May 22, 2018 09:00 UTC