The Swamp's Grim Secret: The Unsolved Mystery of a Body Found Half-Missing in the Deep Marsh The Beltrami Island State Forest in Northern Minnesota is a place where the map often fails. It is a sprawling, 700,000-acre maze of peat bogs, interlocking lakes, and "muskeg"—swampy terrain that can swallow a man to his waist in a single step. To the north lies the massive Lake of the Woods, a body of water so large it creates its own weather. In October 2006, this wilderness became the stage for a van