History & local legend
The Storm Hag is a creature of Lake Erie folklore associated with the water off Presque Isle. In S. E. Schlosser’s retelling in Spooky Pennsylvania, she is a green-skinned woman with yellow eyes who lives beneath the lake among weeds and wreckage, drawing sailors into the depths.
Her most treacherous moment comes just after a storm. A crew relaxes as the wind drops, believing the danger is over, and then hears a woman singing through the remaining waves. Her song invites them to dance underwater, where earlier victims’ bones lie in her cave. Another gale follows, and the apparently safe ship is pulled down into the lake.
