Originally Posted by nico-t

Already i hear rumors about this one fellow who used to live there as well... His indian name was 'Whining Rat'. Peculiar fellow.

Word is that when the locals would use smoke signals to spread the word that someone had died, this 'Whining Rat' character started his own fire and copied those smoke signals with his own smoke signals. Nobody understood why he would signal something that everyone already saw before, but he kept doing it every day.