Bete Grise on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula is a protected lakeshore landscape between Lac La Belle and Lake Superior, known for its wetlands, shoreline, and unusual “singing” sand. The area includes the Houghton–Keweenaw Conservation District’s larger preserve and the adjacent Bete Grise Wetlands Preserve near the Mendota Ship Canal. Local tradition holds that the sand can make musical sounds when pressed or struck, and folklore connects both the sound and the place-name to legends of loss and a mysterious “gray beast.” Once busier during the copper-mining era, with a school, church, and store, the bay now is valued for conservation, local lore, and its role as a Lake Superior harbor of refuge.