Log Lady
Margaret Lanterman (née Coulson), better known as the Log Lady, is a character in the television series Twin Peaks (1990–2017), created by Mark Frost and David Lynch.The Log Lady was her final role, as she died of complications from cancer in 2015, two years before the airing of the revived series; she appears in five episodes, in scenes shot shortly before her death.On the night Laura is murdered, Margaret later claims "my log" witnessed "two men, two girls" both approaching Jacques Renault's cabin—which is located a distance away from her own cabin home in the woods.The Log Lady also provides advice to the other townspeople, most notably an other-worldly message she tells Major Briggs to deliver to Cooper and, it is strongly implied, to Donna Hayward in a note mentioning Laura's involvement in the Meals-On-Wheels.During the disastrous Miss Twin Peaks Pageant, the Log Lady is impersonated in a bizarre disguise by the insane former FBI Agent Windom Earle, who intends to abduct the winning girl to help provide the means to enter the Black Lodge.In Twin Peaks: The Return, which is set roughly 25 years after the original series, a terminally ill Log Lady has several telephone conversations with Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill, providing guidance in the Sheriff Department's investigation into Special Agent Dale Cooper's disappearance.[9] Shortly after Twin Peaks premiered, the contemporaneous new television series Northern Exposure featured a reference to the Log Lady in Season 1, episode 5 "Russian Flu" (1990).In the video game Thimbleweed Park, heavily influenced by Twin Peaks 2017, the Log Lady is mentioned when the player tries to pick up a pile of wood when playing with one of the characters, Agent Ray.