Once a proud family estate built in the 1920s, this now-abandoned farmhouse belonged to the Whitakers, a reclusive family of Norwegian immigrants who settled in rural North Dakota to escape the industrial chaos of the East Coast. Known for their handcrafted furniture and hard winter harvests, they lived off the land and rarely ventured into town. But after the tragic winter of 1985, when a gas heater malfunction led to the silent death of both parents in their sleep, the three remaining siblings