Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador

by Butts, Edward

• ISBN13: 9781554887859
• ISBN10: 1554887852
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd

Summary

Shrouded in the mists of history and legend, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a land of mysteries. Its waters are a graveyard for countless wrecked ships. Its lore is full of tales about treachery and murder. And it was once the haunt of pirates. Haunt, indeed!Newfoundland and Labrador has tales of the supernatural that date back centuries, to a time before Canada even existed as a nation. Here the ghosts not only lurk in old houses and forlorn cemeteries, they come up out of the sea to walk the decks of ships before the eyes of terrified crewmen. They lament out on the ice where seventy-seven men perished in the Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914. And in St. John's the courthouse is said to be haunted by the ghost of Catherine Snow, who was hanged in 1834 for the murder of her husband.Here we find tales, both personal and historical, of ghostly haunting and unexplained happenings; from the Old Hag to headless ghosts. So read on ... if you dare!

Author Biography

Edward Butts is the author of numerous books, including Murder, Line of Fire, Running with Dillinger, True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries, and The Desperate Ones, which was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Q & A With Diana Leadbeater	p. 15
Oft Told Tales: St. John's	p. 24
The Ghosts of Signal Hill	p. 24
The Headless Captain	p. 27
The Ghost of Catherine Snow	p. 29
The Duelist's Ghost	p. 30
The Haunted Hotel Room	p. 33
The Missing Gravestone	p. 35
The Cry of the Banshee	p. 36
Cold Fire	p. 38
A Nightmare on Gower Street	p. 39
Case Files: St. John's	p. 41
The Knights of Columbus Fire	p. 41
The Ghost Next Door	p. 43
Q & A With Gene Browne	p. 47
Gene Browne's Haunted House	p. 52
Oft Told Tales: Literature and Folklore	p. 57
The Oral Tradition	p. 57
Jack the Sailor	p. 57
Brave Jack and the Ghosts	p. 60
A Ghostly Ballad	p. 64
Fair Marjorie's Ghost	p. 64
Mischievous Fairies	p. 65
Case Files: The Old Hag	p. 67
Dead Lady and the Night Hag	p. 71
Gene Browne's Old Hag	p. 74
Tom's Story	p. 75
It Didn't Like Me	p. 76
Judy's Story	p. 77
Just the Hag, Not My Ghost	p. 79
A Scratching Noise	p. 80
Courtney's Story	p. 81
Mysteries of the Sea	p. 83
The Ghostly Crew of the Charles Haskell	p. 83
The Ghost That Wasn't	p. 88
Tale of a Haunted Ship	p. 92
Samson's Island Ghost	p. 94
A Mystery of the Gulf	p. 96
Harry Smith of the Falcon	p. 101
The Wreck of the Ella M. Rudolf	p. 102
"How True!"	p. 104
Ghosts of HMS Harpooner	p. 104
The Keys	p. 106
The Dower Mystery	p. 108
The Wrecker	p. 109
The Phantom Galley	p. 110
The Ghost Light of Trinity	p. 111
Ghosts on the Ice	p. 113
X Marks the Spot	p. 119
Guardians of Pirate Treasure	p. 119
Torbay's Treasure Cove	p. 122
The Ghosts of Shoal Bay	p. 124
The Ghosts of Copper Island	p. 127
The Ghosts of Kelly's Island	p. 129
The Ghosts of Chapel Cove Pond	p. 131
The Treasures of Captain Kidd	p. 133
Oft Told Tales: Around the Island	p. 136
The Ghost Train of Buchans	p. 136
Lost in the Woods	p. 137
The Black Stag	p. 138
The Ghost of Clarke's Beach	p. 140
The Ghost of Holyrood	p. 141
The Corpse Light of Harbour Grace	p. 142
Unless He Went Down Dead	p. 144
The Town That Disappeared	p. 147
Disaster at Dead Man's Gulch	p. 148
Case Files: Around the Island	p. 152
Bad Dreams in the Basement	p. 152
Knitting Needles and a Corduroy Jacket	p. 155
The Click of Knitting Needles	p. 156
The Man in the Corduroy Jacket	p. 157
Dark Shadows	p. 159
Gran's Sewing Machine	p. 161
I Thought the Door Got Hit With a Sledgehammer	p. 162
I Just Come by to Say Goodbye	p. 164
Two Ghost Stories	p. 165
The Fishing Trip	p. 166
The Helpful Ghost	p. 168
Three Mystic Experiences	p. 170
A Picture of Dad	p. 170
A Paper Cross	p. 171
One Single Red Rose	p. 172
I Refused to Be Scared of My House	p. 172
That Was Mother	p. 178
The Flatrock Fires	p. 180
The Whole House Was Haunted	p. 182
A Near Trip to Heaven	p. 186
Oft Told Tales: Labrador	p. 189
The Mysterious Trapper of Labrador	p. 189
The Mystery of Sam Croucher's Gold	p. 192
Case Files: Ghosts of Labrador	p. 194
Courtney's Story: Slamming Doors	p. 194
Jenny's Story: The Man Behind the Furnace	p. 196
Amanda's Story: Indian Graves	p. 197
Pamela's Story: "This is Really Beginning to Scare Me"	p. 198
Olive's Story: "I Could See Right Through Him"	p. 199
Cherie's Story: Try to Explain That	p. 200
Jennifer's Story: A Big Bang	p. 201
Jody's Story: I Hate That House	p. 202
Matt's Story: I Got a Little Freaked	p. 203
Odd Tales	p. 205
A Problematic Dream	p. 205
Scared to Death	p. 208
Dead Men Can Advance No Farther	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 217
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