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Minnow Bucket

Wilmington, Illinois

An old man named “Minnow Bucket” was beaten to death by two young men after flaunting his money during a card game. Minnow Bucket is said to walk along the riverbank–of which he was once caretaker– and talks to fishermen about their catches and what lures to use. However, he often gives bad advice.

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mike m. says:

October 20, 2005, 2:33 pm

If you don’t have pictures, it’s just a fish story.

mike m. says:

October 20, 2005, 2:42 pm

I have fished the river in Wilmington. I have heard some stories about a guy named “minnow bucket”. Many years ago I fished at nite for walleye.
An old man used to walk around and give advise to all the fisherman.
He was a local named Henry. He was sometimes lost in his own conversation. Mumbling on and on about nothing in perticular. As I look back at the time, you could say he was a bit frieghtning. The funny thing was, whenever Henry was around nobody ever caught fish.Even on a good nite,one could catch walleye after walleye. When Henry showed up, the fishing all but died.(No pun). Timeline was 1978-1979. I heard from a local business owner that Henry had passed away. I am guessing 1990. Thats all I know.

hah says:

March 4, 2006, 1:08 am

screw minnow bucket he probably ate all the fish

ican_beyourz says:

May 9, 2006, 5:36 am

i was fishin for some TROUT but never caught any in lake michigan. must have been minow buckett

ryne miller says:

May 24, 2006, 11:44 am

I grew up in his house. And my family currently lives there.

Big Bill says:

June 7, 2006, 2:44 am

Ryne,

And? Why don’t you finish your story? So far it is as exciting as watching snails mate. Very dull.

Leah Ariana says:

August 21, 2006, 11:12 pm

This is extremely dumb. You people should be SHOt! Okay bye bye. Have a nice day.

Nabeel Malik says:

March 16, 2007, 6:01 pm

This is true, a boy named matt was buried alive. He was sick for five days and the doctor told the mother to stay calm and the boy died. He had died, people thought and was buried at the cemetery and the next day his mother had a dream that was, that matt was crying but he was 5 years old. So Matts mother hurried to the cemetery with her husband and dug up the coffin and when they opened the coffin matt was on his side.But when he was buried he was on his head, so the doctor started to whisker his lips and awhile he woke up.But Matt really really died in 1953 where he was 93 years old.

Nabeel Malik says:

March 16, 2007, 6:01 pm

this story is the best by nabeel

harry pits says:

March 20, 2007, 9:25 am

i saw him the other day i was loading up my boat to go catch some shrimp for dinnner when good ol’ minnow bucket stopped by for a chat. his actualy name is john canavan he was a fisherman who got decapitated in the late 1800′s. but boy he sure could crack a joke, he smelled of alcohol and gummy bears. boy i wish he would come over some time and have a cup of irish cofee boy that would be gay ol’ time

kathlena says:

March 30, 2007, 2:20 pm

i think your sotry is sutpid buthead

vanssa says:

March 31, 2007, 5:48 pm

it so scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i live there before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!by vanssa dump(my aunt die there)

Duke says:

June 16, 2007, 3:29 am

I went fishing one day, and it was really foggy, my dog was with me and minnow buckethead came, he was playing guitar so well, i said,
“hey lil b**ch, lick his ****, come on, come on now.” but then i was abducted by aliens and the fu**ked me in my bu*thole.

Star says:

August 31, 2007, 7:53 pm

I don’t know anything about Minnow Bucket haunting any places, but I did know him personally and he was brutally murdered around 1984 by two carnival men who stayed behind when the annual carnival for Catfish days left. Minnow Bucket was a man who would give anything to anyone if only they asked. He held a strong belief in children getting an education, as the week before he was murdered he promised me that he would take me fishing and I told him that I would skip school to go with him and he told me no we would go on a saturday that I needed my education. I was about 12 when this happened.

KillBill says:

September 27, 2007, 4:37 am

Big Bill-

You’re a ***. Shut the **** up.

jim says:

October 15, 2007, 2:46 pm

harry pitts you re a dumbass.his name was james knowles,he died in 1984 but i lived in wilmington most of mylife and ive never heard this story.

JesseWoodruff says:

October 23, 2007, 9:56 am

Wow, do you guys ever come back and read these comments to yourself?

vanessa says:

October 31, 2007, 4:36 pm

this story is not that scary uz should get a better story that ill make me pi on my pans

Janice from Ritchie says:

December 27, 2007, 7:24 pm

Are any of you people actually literate? I’m from Ritchie and I thought our people were bad. This is something else.

Sara says:

March 25, 2008, 7:13 pm

i think it was stupid that people beat a man because he tricked them out of their money.crrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzyyyyyy

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