Three-Fingered Willie

Three-Fingered Willie is a popular story and urban legend around camp similar to the Man With His Eyes Sewn Shut, but unlike the McWain Monster which is actually real. The origin of the story is unknown, but any camper along the wall knows the danger of a new moon when it is darkest, and Willie can move about with ease.

Willie is supposedly a worker on a nearby lumber mill before his accident. He spent his days chopping down trees and feeding them through his large cross-cut saw to make planks for building and pulp for a nearby paper mill. One day when operating his antiquated, rusty, gas-guzzling saw a fox ran into his mill. Surprised, Willie turned to see the creature scamper away. In his lapse in attention, however, his hand slipped into the blade of the saw, cutting off everything but the thumb and pointer finger on his right hand. Willie now stalks the woods around Lake McWain, searching for the fox who caused his suffering.