Case file · Folklore / legend
The Lost Lemon Mine curse
A prospector named Lemon is said to have killed his partner over a rich gold find in the foothills of southwestern Alberta around 1870; Stoney witnesses cursed the spot and searchers die or fail.
1870 CE · 50.10, -114.45 · status: legend
The account
The story was published by Senator Dan Riley and others in the 1940s. Searchers still look in the Highwood and Crowsnest areas.
The sceptical view
No mine has been found and the earliest accounts are from decades later.