Minnow Bucket
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.
If you don’t have pictures, it’s just a fish story.
Comment by mike m. | 10.20.2005 | 2:33 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.
Comment by mike m. | 10.20.2005 | 2:42 pm
screw minnow bucket he probably ate all the fish
Comment by hah | 03.4.2006 | 1:08 am
i was fishin for some TROUT but never caught any in lake michigan. must have been minow buckett
Comment by ican_beyourz | 05.9.2006 | 5:36 am
I grew up in his house. And my family currently lives there.
Comment by ryne miller | 05.24.2006 | 11:44 am
Ryne,
And? Why don’t you finish your story? So far it is as exciting as watching snails mate. Very dull.
Comment by Big Bill | 06.7.2006 | 2:44 am
This is extremely dumb. You people should be SHOt! Okay bye bye. Have a nice day.
Comment by Leah Ariana | 08.21.2006 | 11:12 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.
Comment by Nabeel Malik | 03.16.2007 | 6:01 pm
this story is the best by nabeel
Comment by Nabeel Malik | 03.16.2007 | 6:01 pm
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 *** ol’ time
Comment by harry pits | 03.20.2007 | 9:25 am
i think your sotry is sutpid buthead
Comment by kathlena | 03.30.2007 | 2:20 pm
it so scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i live there before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!by vanssa dump(my aunt die there)
Comment by vanssa | 03.31.2007 | 5:48 pm
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.
Comment by Duke | 06.16.2007 | 3:29 am
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.
Comment by Star | 08.31.2007 | 7:53 pm
Big Bill-
You’re a ***. Shut the **** up.
Comment by KillBill | 09.27.2007 | 4:37 am
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.
Comment by jim | 10.15.2007 | 2:46 pm
Wow, do you guys ever come back and read these comments to yourself?
Comment by JesseWoodruff | 10.23.2007 | 9:56 am
this story is not that scary uz should get a better story that ill make me pi on my pans
Comment by vanessa | 10.31.2007 | 4:36 pm
Are any of you people actually literate? I’m from Ritchie and I thought our people were bad. This is something else.
Comment by Janice from Ritchie | 12.27.2007 | 7:24 pm
i think it was stupid that people beat a man because he tricked them out of their money.crrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzyyyyyy
Comment by Sara | 03.25.2008 | 7:13 pm
Well i heard that something like that happened but it didnt happen in Wilmington…. I heard i happend in Oglesby, IL in a parking lot of Dollar General.. but it like just happened like a month or two ago!!!
Comment by Kayy | 04.17.2008 | 11:15 am
My dad bought this house years after Minnowbucket was murdered. Years ago we put in new carpet. When we tore the old carpet up , there was blood stains all over the plywood on the ground. Also my dad never knew Minnow Bucket,but one day he came home and saw a man and a woman in his bedroom. He described the man and woman to our neighbor. Out neighbor said , the man he described was Minnow bucket. Growing up, during the summers,I always thought it was strange when it would be 90 degrees out and i would feel a very cold rush thru my body. Other times i heard very strange noises thru out the house.
Comment by Ryne | 04.20.2008 | 6:19 pm