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Grey ghosts in the smoke
On a cold day in November 1989, my father was flying low in a Cessna-185 fixed-wing airplane over the Caribou Mountains in northern Alberta, when he saw a vast number of otherworldly animals scattered across the surface of a frozen lake. He was astonished. …