Alexander GillisCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island1885 Finding a dead body in a cemetery shouldn’t be that remarkable an event. However, on Sunday, May 24, 1885, John Longworth found it to be one of the strangest experiences he’d lived through—and it took him three whole days to find that dead b...
Legend has it that if you travel along the Grandique Ferry Road approximately one kilometre from Grand Anse, you will come to a clearing. There, framed by a border of tall black spruce standing so stock still that they seem to be holding their needled breath and waiting for something to crawl out...
This is a tale that’s best told over the guttering coals of a campfire, when the night sounds are creeping closer to you and the moon is haunting high overhead. I shouldn’t have to remind you not to forget your marshmallows. Between the winding tracks of the Bartholomew and the Renous rivers snak...
My Dad said that he and Mom had named me after a weed – on account of the way I had sprouted up where I wasn’t supposed to be – whatever that was supposed to mean. That guy sitting across from me? That little fellow, with his hair poked up like a hay stack that can’t spell “comb” if his life dep...
These dogs are frequently thought to be forerunners of death. They are seldom found very far from the sea, and some folklorists believe them kin to the man-eating water horse or the selkie seal people. Originally told in the British Isles, these stories migrated with the British and Scottish sett...