Devil's Island is located on the northeast entrance of Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, and is said to be Haunted.
The Island was granted to Captain John Rous in July
1752 and became known as Rous' Island. It was first settled in 1830, and by
1900, there were approximately 20 families that call the Island their home.
It soon earned the name "Devil's Island"
because Sheppard’s and sailors saw ghosts there. Up until 1852, there was no
lighthouse, and with its shoals and other hazards for seafarers, caused
numerous shipwrecks.
Members of the dead man’s family moved into his house, and their baby died within a day or two, with no obvious cause of death.
Folklorist Helen Creighton visited Devils Island often, collecting tales for her book Bluenose Ghosts. She writes about the haunted house with mysterious footprints appearing on freshly painted floors, fires that gave the illusion of burning but did not consume anything, sounds of knocking and dragging, foul smells, apparitions of a man in oilskins and a baby dressed in white.
Creighton described the house as “bleak and unfriendly… and I was glad to leave it to the wind and the weather and any family unfortunate enough to have to live there.”
Spirits and spooks remained restless until islanders tore down the demonized structure. Perhaps they should have burned it—those who scavenged lumber to reuse “almost immediately had bad luck.”
The Island now sits abandoned, and light keepers have long gone, but the ghosts that haunt the island still remain.
Unexplained fires and lights are still seen from the mainland to this day.
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credits: saltscapes.com, wikipedia.org
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credit: Clara
Dennis, Nova Scotia Archives
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I love reading about things like this, and however I am not from n.c. but I live in a small town in tennessee. when first built was two houses, and ours was one of them. ours, and one next door. for years I do see shadows every so often, and you can tell if they are male, or female. they go from room to room,, and look at me, but they never have bothered me. I am not the only one that has seen them. a friend of mine that has seen them besides me is dead now. she said she would die early in her fifties and she did. there is a lot to this story that I could tell but it would take too long to write. and I can tell you they do indeed exist. my home is in Brownsville tennessee.
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I’ve seen lights over there late at night as well. I just assumed people were camping.
ReplyDeletehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1sLqbjBewaEzvjAMlfJFBLEcq5cC6KN0tAYraH1ctZUE/edit?usp=sharing that is of the north umber land straight in mlingning cove NS, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WaadX9iPkwV9JOhg39riA3Z3WnGQEEw7ig_U4WkKU6M/edit?usp=sharing and that is about the blue nun in StFx.
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DeleteThe Blue Nun of St. Francis Xavier University
ReplyDeleteMount Saint Bernard College was opened by the Sisters of Notre Dame in the late 19th century as a Catholic girls school before it became St. Francis Xavier University a decade later, presided over by the Sisters of Notre Dame.
Legend has it that one of the sisters was in love with a priest, but she was so overcome with guilt over the cheating that she jumped from a balcony to her death. Some even say that the priest went on to kill himself as well, due to the overwhelming guilt and grief he felt in both his lovers’ and unborn child’s death. An apparition of a priest, has often been seen lurking around the school's spiral stairway. They are now known as the Blue Nun and the Red Priest.
Every year, Freshmen report a ghostly figure in a glowing blue habit drifting through their dorm rooms, sounds of footsteps walking the halls at night, hearing very quiet voices in hallways, and very slight giggles in the hallways when no one was there.
Students have also reported lights turning on in the middle of the night, objects moving around on their own, including textbooks being thrown across dorm room floors, slamming doors, water turn on, shadow figures, and even the sound of an old telephone ringing.
A recent resident of St. FX had a haunting experience. In her house, she heard a crash. Turning her head, she saw that a cup had fallen to the ground, its plastic lid and straw on the floor. Too afraid to pick it up, she left the distinct pieces there. The next day, she recounted this story to her friend.
Upon Hearing, he remembered that he had borrowed a dish from her, and returned her cup – the same cup that she had seen fall in her room the night before and the same cup she had passed in order to visit this friend.
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Another student, whose books and papers regularly rearranged themselves, reported waking in the middle of the night to find a specter with red glowing eyes hovering over his bed. The figure pointed at him and then disappeared
The legend of a ghost ship in Northumberland Strait dates back at least 200 years, and it is typically described as a beautiful schooner that has three or four masts with pure white sails, all of which are said to become completely engulfed in flames as onlookers watch.The Northumberland Strait separates Prince Edward Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and according to local folklore, the ghost ship appears before a northeast wind, and is a forewarning of a storm.
ReplyDeleteA number of legends and ghost stories exist that describe sightings of the ghost ship over the years and include descriptions of distinctive outlines of the ship's masts and phantom crew members climbing them before the vessel supposedly either completely burns, sinks or vanishes."According to legend, in 1900, a group of sailors boarded a small rowboat in Charlottetown Harbour and raced toward the phantom ship to rescue the crew only to have the ship vanish. In January 2008, 17-year-old Mathieu Giguere told a local newspaper he believed he saw the legendary phantom ship in the Tatamagouche Bay, describing it as a "bright white and gold ship". Tatamagouche Mountain resident Melvin Langille also claims he saw the ship one night in October, explaining, "I believe in all that stuff and I don't know what else it would be.