A 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.Julie V. Watsonhas written hundreds of articles for publications across North America, and she is the author of more than two dozen books. Julie lives in Charlottetown.
The work of photographerJohn C. Watsonhas appeared in numerous magazines, books, and even on the sides of buses. John lives in Vancouver.Introduction
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 Abels Cape NINE Captain George Knows His Place at Kings 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 Goblins Hollow FIFTEEN Sea Serpents and Monsters SIXTEEN Romantic Link Revealed on Halloween SEVENTEEN The Ghost of Barlow Road EIGHTEEN Ghostly Encounters at Yeo House