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CONTENTS


Introduction

I — HAUNTINGS OF THE PAST

1. Spirits of the Native Peoples

Feasts for the Happy Spirits

Initiation and Instruction

Religious Beliefs

When He Came to Life Again

A Creation Myth

Feathers Within

2. Some Old-Fashioned Ghosts

A Ghost Story

The Ghost of the Drowned Man

A Guardian or a Warden

The Sergeant’s Ghost Story

Ghosts and Witches

A Ghastly Apparition

Dr. Briggs’s Ghost Story

Strange Premonition of Impending Fate

A True Ghost Story

3. Some Old Haunted Houses

The Devil at Large

A Ghost in Whitby

Fearful Sight

Ghost Story

Remarkable Phenomena

A Midnight Apparition

The Clarion-Square Ghost

Bothered by Ghosts

My Tower Ghosts

4. Strange Events and Stranger People

The Old Woman’s Account

A Reputed Canadian Witch

The Very Pole Itself

Singular Phenomena

Death Warnings

Saw the Fight

I Have Been More or Less Clairvoyant

Jennie Bramwell

Foretold Man’s Drowning

Madame Curry’s Prophecy

The Car Started to Rise Up

The Spectre of the Brocken

5. Mysteries of the Sea

The Spectre Brig

The Monster of Lake Utopia

Phantom Ship

An Apparition

They Call It a Phantom Ship

Fire or Phantom Ship

Phantom Ship of the Bay of Chaleur

The Phantom Ship of Etobicoke

6. Summoning the Spirits

Wonderful Manifestations by a Piano

A Spiritualist in Montreal

The Harmony “Rappings”

The Keys of the Instrument Were Sounded

A Power over Which We Have No Control

Spiritualism at Maple Bay

“Sailing ‘Round the Stars”

I Would Have Strange Experiences

Resist Not the Spirit

The Spirit of the Hanging Judge

II — HAUNTINGS OF THE PRESENT

1. At Home ... Alone?

Ghost of a Girl in Cornwall

It Circled Behind Me

I Was Not Really Home Alone

A Haunted House in Prescott

Footsteps in the Attic

We Figured It Was a Female Spirit

I Wait for Him

Strange Happenings

2. Some Psychical Experiences

More a “Sensitive” Than a Psychic

Ghosts in My Life

The Boyd Gang and Some Ghosts

Something Evil Abroad

The Grey Lady

A Very Strange Experience

Some Frightened Me More Than Others

3. Very Interesting Cases

Psychic Detection

Some Famous Haunts of Modern Times

Mackenzie King’s Ghost

The Haunting of Mackenzie House

The “Twilight Zone” Truck Stop

4. The Power of Fear

The Ghost of Mary Mowat

The Futon Ghost

There Was a Story Behind It

The Ghost of Darcel Avenue

On Old Road

Strange Noises in the Basement

A Call in the Night

Characters and Creatures

5. Monstrous Beings

Monster Turtle

The Sim-moqui

Jacko

It Makes Me Shudder Even Now

Windagoos! Cannibals!

Exorcism of a Wendigo

The Oshawa Sea Serpent

Oshawa’s Ogopogo?

The Shaking Tent

Abducted by the Sasquatches

Sasquatch

Maybe This Was a Sasquatch

Evolutionary Precursor

Glimpsing the Bushman

6. Aliens from Elsewhere

The Man from the Sky

Sighting and We Are Not Alone

The Falcon Lake Encounter

Contact

Letter from Simson

“George Adamski-Land”

It Suddenly Glowed Very Brightly

Why Seven?

Fascinated by the Skies

7. Email Encounters

I Am Not Supernaturally Gifted

We Couldn’t Stop Thinking About Them

I Was Completely Amazed

The Open Window

The Corner Brook Sighting

A Woman Walking by the Door

Finally One Day I Saw a Ghost

I Heard Footsteps in the Living Room

Family Stories

8. More Email Encounters

A Dream That I Had Had

The Algonquin Park Haunting

Weird and Strange Memories

Interesting Mail

I Froze! I Was Terrified!

This Damn Crazy Story

The Unmistakable Brightness of His Eyes

Two Experiences

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Note from Author

The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings

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