In 'The Bright Eyed Sisters', Obadiah Marsh and his two friends lose their way in the fog while fishing the waters of Lake Superior, and they capsize their little boat near a mysterious stony island off the shore of Grand Marais.

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Five Mile Rock not only exists today, but it is visible from the shore while driving north on Highway 61 out of Grand Marais. The island is only a few hundred yards in diameter, and it's nestled roughly five miles from shore. Hence the name. It's an odd sight. And, at first glance, it almost looks like a whale or capsized boat. There are numerous folk tales surrounding the island.

Some say that the rock was planted there by the US Coast Guard to test visibility in foggy conditions. Others say that the island was a sacred site to the nearby Chippewa tribe, containing an ancient spring that could heal, or curse. Others tell a tale of three future industrialists who became stranded on the island during a fishing trip. They would eventually be rescued. One would go on to start Harley Davidson, another to create Sears-Roebuck, and another to become the mayor of Chicago. One final theory says that the island is secretly the cap to an underwater cinder cone volcano, and that occasional earthquakes can be felt from shore.

All of the Great Lakes were formed when ancient glaciers carved out the landscape. Glaciers leave behind iconic topography. Kettle lakes, drumlins, eskers, and moraines pepper the Great Lakes region, as well as numerous glacial erratics. Never-ending wave action had diminished many of these features in the lakebed, but some of them still exist, most notably the numerous islands stretched along the northern shores of Lake Superior. Five Mile Rock is not the only odd-shaped island along the shore, and most of them appear to have been formed through the accumulation of glacial till and erratics (debris). In all likelihood, Five Mile Rock used to be much larger, but has slowly eroded over the centuries down to the windswept stone slab we see today.

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