In further Lumberjack related deductions between Lockwood and myself: our local ghosts were cultivated by the ladies of the lake after a strange woman and the dead appeared. As Wrath and several others have indicated, this is likely the Huntress, historically. Hatisse advises she's left something of herself behind to fuel what's happening.

The Lumberjack sincerely does not wish to disappoint the ladies of the lake. What he acts for has that in mind, ah? Not to speak on the rest of our haunts. How many of us continue our nightly hauntings?