Description
Book SynopsisA collection of haunting legends, delightful yarns, and spine-tingling ghost stories.Swathed in mist, surrounded by the secretive sea, wind wailing like the lost souls of sailors around its shores, Prince Edward Island is the ideal setting for the strange and incredible, even the supernatural. Islanders have handed down, from one generation to the next, many legends and ghost stories of visiting spirits, buried pirate treasure, sea serpents, and ghostly apparitions.
Who dares to doubt the veracity of the sailors who met a phantom schooner, the fishermen who fled from a sea monster, or the countless Islanders who have dug for pirate gold, only to be terrified by something uncanny and to have abandoned their search?
Curl up on a dark night with this new second edition and find yourself transported to the magical and mysterious Prince Edward Island.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
ONE An Early History
TWO A Bishop Walks Thousands of Miles to Serve His Flock
THREE The Phantom Ship of Northumberland Strait
FOUR The Great Seal Robbery
FIVE Shipwrecks and the High Seas
SIX Buried Treasure
SEVEN The Murder of Abel
EIGHT Abel’s Cape
NINE Captain George Knows His Place at King’s Playhouse
TEN Lost Baby Lures Ghost Again and Again
ELEVEN The Shadow of Holland Cove
TWELVE The Fork in the Graveyard
THIRTEEN An Annual Visit from “The Master” at the Macphail Homestead
FOURTEEN Tread with Caution in Goblin’s Hollow
FIFTEEN Sea Serpents and Monsters
SIXTEEN Romantic Link Revealed on Halloween
SEVENTEEN The Ghost of Barlow Road
EIGHTEEN Ghostly Encounters at Yeo House
NINETEEN Naked Nathan
TWENTY Summerside
TWENTY-ONE Tignish
TWENTY-TWO The Ghostly Miller of Clyde River
TWENTY-THREE The Smugglers of Holland Cove
TWENTY-FOUR Forerunners
TWENTY-FIVE Loss of the Fairy Queen
TWENTY-SIX The Yankee Gale
TWENTY-SEVEN World’s Fastest Ship Meets Its Demise
TWENTY-EIGHT Crossing at the Capes in Winter
TWENTY-NINE A Horse Through the Ice
THIRTY Charlottetown
THIRTY-ONE Conflict
THIRTY-TWO Treacherous Travel
THIRTY-THREE West of the Capital
Acknowledgements
Recommended Reading
Places to Visit
