In the autumn of 1927, four Detroit gangsters drove north into the quiet woods of Ogemaw County, Michigan. Their destination: a secluded cabin on Rifle Lake, rumored to be a Purple Gang hideout. Their purpose: to retrieve smuggled whiskey—or so one of them believes. Within forty-eight hours, three men will be dead, and the fourth will be found staggering along a dirt road, chained at the ankle, babbling about ghosts.

The Ogemaw County Incident blends true crime and paranormal mystery into a haunting account drawn from the archives of the Michigan Paranormal Research Institute. As Sheriff Dwight Arthur and County Prosecutor Loretta Frazier struggle to make sense of the killings, they enlist Dr. Eugene Watkins to assess the lone survivor—a man whose story veers between confession and madness. But when the victims’ bodies vanish from the local funeral home, the investigation takes a chilling turn. Was this a mob hit gone wrong, or did something far darker rise from Rifle Lake to claim its own justice?