Mystery of Devil’s Kettle

In Judge CR Magney State Park, way up the north shore of Minnesota, is a mystery that is said to be solved, but I am not one hundred percent convinced.

Devil’s Kettle is a mysterious hole that half of the Brule River flows into, while the other half goes over the falls. Thousands of objects have been thrown into the Devil’s Kettle to see where they might come out, only to never be seen again.

In the Spring of 2017, Hydrologists Jeff Green and Calvin Alexander set out to solve the mystery of the Kettle. They measured the volume of the water above the waterfall and downstream, and the volumes were near identical. The test shows that while the Devil’s Kettle must rejoin somewhere, it did not prove where.

The pair were set to go back in the fall of 2017, when the river was lower, to put dye into Devil’s Kettle in order to see where it rejoins. However, that experiment was called off and deemed unnecessary, and no further explanation has ever been given.

To me, this means the mystery remains. While the hydrologists answered whether or not it rejoins with the river, they failed to provide a path the Kettle takes, and most importantly, where it rejoins the river. While the volume test proves it does, not knowing where remains a mystery and may stay that way forever.