-New Book -2025-

   The Greatest mysteries of Lake Pepin

-A must have and one of a kind masterpiece that captured most important events, believes, people accounts, adventures, and dreams of this picturesque area and its inhabitants.  

                       The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin

-There are more than 50+ stories and 500 images on 350 pages in this amazing book.

-Book is available in color (for only $40) or as a black and white copy (for only $30).

-This illustrated book covers mysterious events and a period from 500 million years ago to our present times.

-If you liked Pepin Odyssey and One Upon a Lake in Pepin this is the book that you will enjoy even more.

- Everything you ever wanted to know about the greatest mysteries of this area is now in one book.

-Town of Pepin is an epicenter of this book. Besides town of Pepin, this book is covering related events that influenced several bordering counties including Buffalo, Pierce, St. Croix, Dunn, Pepin, Trempealeau, and Eau Claire (in Wisconsin), and Goodhue, Winona, and Wabasha in Minnesota… The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin glorifies past events on the both sides of Lake Pepin.

                                                           The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin 

       Goran Pesic, author of the books Once Upon a Lake in Pepin and The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin, presents his investigation findings and research on more than 190 historical mysteries of the area, where Lake Pepin, a lookalike of Loch Ness in Scotland (by identical length and width - and its monster), is described as the eye of the Driftless Area, an epicenter of countless unexplained phenomena and a cradle of mystery.

       This book will present you with a collection of 300 years of local folklore and stories that make this region one of the most unique in the USA. It might include legends of the Maiden Rock, Pepie - the lake monster, the Dakota myth of the birth of Wakinyan - Thunderbird, and its mythical battle with Unktehi - their version of Pepie -the beast imprisoned in the lake, the mysterious crash of B-24, the UFO accounts, Bigfoot sightings, examining the proofs of Viking visitors, and the evidence of the race of the ancient giants buried here, the Indian mounds, crop circles, ancient villages and fortifications and many, many more great myths, folktales, legends, and unexplained phenomenon that fascinates the generations of Americans visiting this area.

       This is a fun presentation of facts and visuals, a concise collection of historical and regional folklore-based facts about the most popular mysteries, compiled by the author through research on the accounts of early explorers, local wisdom, Native American traditions, and interviews with people on both sides of Lake Pepin in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The author attempted to investigate these fantastic accounts like a gigantic puzzle, seeking to get closer to finding exact locations, explanations, and the truth behind these mysteries.

      There is a little bit of everything for everyone to find in ...

                                  The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin

Get a copy your kids, friends, parents, and grandparents, and enjoy learning more about your area. These are fun accounts and tales to share with your friends and family for years to come.  

                                                         There is a little bit of everything for everyone to find in…

                                                                                   The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin

 

For only $30 (Black & Whiteor $35 (ColoCopyyou can own this amazing account on the historical event of this area in last 500 million years to present times.

-This is a great gift for all of those distinguished lovers of good mysteries, history buffs, residents, visitors, and all of people who love this area of Lake Pepin and the Driftless and call it their home. 

  • -Great 350 page- illustrated book and a gift for everyone.
  • -Rediscover Pepin’s Area History through its greatest mysteries. The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin recounts the events, people, and landscapes that made this area the charming place it is today. With an attempt both fun and comprehensive, local history educator Goran Pesic covers several centuries of Lake Pepin’s remarkable past, uncovering how it was shaped by the Native American cultures, French explorers and traders, waves of new inhabitants, politics and upheavals that created states of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
  • -As an ambitious project, the Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin documents and investigates many amazing events and secrets including the first ever reported case of the crop circles in the US, the Sea Wing and the worst boat disaster on the Upper Mississippi River that took lives of 98 children, the B-24 crash secrets of 1944, the Oneota villages and their mysterious past, the UFO sightings, the mysterious origins of Native American mounds, the secrets and the mysterious locations of French forts, the stories of lost and buried treasures, Pepie- the Lake Monster of Pepin and its Native American version called Unktehi, the mystery of who named Lake Pepin, the mysterious origins of Rolling Stone Colony, and an African American Colony of Pierce Colony, the secrets of Maxwell Brothers, outlaws from the area that killed more law enforcement officers than any other outlaws in the US history… and many, many more.....
  •                              There is something for everyone to find, discover, read, and learn in…

                                                    The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin.

  • Everything you wanted to know about this marvelous location, its people, local attractions, and their history - you can find in this book. 
  • Area of Lake Pepin is a Twin Peaks of the Midwest Region. Its past and present are filled with amazing and extraordinary stories and events. There is a story for everyone. 
  • -Here you will learn about ....

               - How did Area of Pepin looked like 500 Million Years Ago during the Cambrian Period

               - Why is this area called the Driftless Area and how glaciers never covered the landscape of 

                 Lake Pepin.

               - What are some secrets of the first humans that inhabited these lands. 

               - Pepie the monster of Lake Pepin, a story similar to famous Loch Ness legend 

               - Secrets of mysterious Native American burial mounds scattered all around Pepin prairies,

               - When did Dakota and Chippewa peoples arrive in Pepin Area and why did they get into the never ending wars

               - Who are Kiuksa (Code Breakers) Sioux who lived around Lake Pepin?

               - The Last Stand of Big Ojibway in 1795 - an Indian Chief and his Spartan story,

               - French Nicholas Perrot who wanted to burn an entire Lake Pepin in 1686,

               - How the Lake of Tears became known as the Lake Pepin in 1680?

               - What mysterious fortifications did Jonathan Carver reported seeing near Lake Pepin in 1767?

               - How did Chief Wapasha II lost his eye?

               - Infamous 1824 massacre of white Canadian traders on the shores of Lake Pepin,

               - Who is African American runaway slave who married Dakota Chief's daughter near Pepin in 

                 1847?

               - Who was that famous Indian girl that leaped of the Maiden Rock in 1700 and why she did that?

               - How did Red Wing, Pepin, Plum City, Nelson, Stockholm, Lund, Wabasha.... become townships?

               - Who are Santee Sioux (Dakota) from this region and are they related to the Oneota Civilization? 

               - Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder and where she was born in 1867?

               - Why did B-24 bomber crash in Lake Pepin in 1944 and should its crew be remembered as 

                  heroes

               - How the water skiing was invented on Lake Pepin in 1922?

               - Did you know that there is a buried treasure somewhere between Stockholm and Pepin?

               - Where is a location of only conducted archaeological excavation in this area and who financed 

                 it?

               - Do you believe in Aliens? Only 30 miles from Pepin, one town claims to be be the UFO capital of the world.

               - Learn of the last public lynching in the Midwest and an infamous crimes of Maxwell Brothers.

               - Did you know that there were three bank robberies in Pepin and that two of them went 

                 unsolved?

               - How did Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau make Wabasha famous in 1993?

               - Was there really a bull shark found in the Lake Pepin in 2006?

               - What is the story of the Flood Run and how it began in 1970?

               - What did Jesse James do in this area in 1876 and were the Maxwell Brothers his associates?

               - What is the location on the Lake Pepin of this worst boat accident on the Upper Mississippi 

                 River (1890)?

                                                     

                                      ...and hundreds of more amazing stories accompanied with 500 images...

  Everything you ever wanted to ask is now in one book.

 

                                                  The Greatest Mysteries of Lake Pepin