Langley Lake Howler Mystery Cache
Hidden : 12/22/2011
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Langley Lake Howler
A Vancouver Island Ghost Story

It was a cold and bitter winter in the woods surrounding the logging camp near Langley Lake. But there was plenty of game to be found if you were a good hunter, so the men didn't go hungry. The camp cook was a jolly fellow from Quebec and quite smart with his money for a logger. He kept his life savings in a Loc N Loc hidden deep in the woods. He drew a secret map to the location that he kept in a money belt that he wore at all times.
Now an Irish lumberjack named Ryan knew about the cook's money and concocted a plan to get it. He was the best hunter in camp, and he promised to teach the cook his secrets. The two men set off one Sunday on a hunting trip. When they were deep in the woods, Ryan turned his rifle on the Frenchman and shot him dead. He then took the money belt off the body thinking that it would hold the cook’s money. When he opened the belt he was shocked to see that instead of the riches he was hoping for all that the belt contained was a map. He knew that he would have to figure out the map somehow but it would have to wait until later
When he returned to camp alone, Ryan told his fellow loggers that they had been attacked by a bear. Ryan claimed to have been knocked out by a glancing blow, and said that when he came to, he found that the cook had been dragged away. Ryan told the lumberjacks that he had tried to track the bear, but a rainstorm had obliterated the tracks. Search parties were sent out, but they found no trace of the dead cook. Meanwhile, Ryan made himself scarce to try and figure out the map while the men were out searching, and no one ever found out where he went.
At sundown that night, the lumberjacks heard a terrible screaming coming from everywhere at once, and from nowhere. The men recognized the voice as that of the cook. They searched desperately for the man as the screams grew louder and louder, but there were no tracks in the mud save their own. After ten minutes, the screams stopped as abruptly as they started.
The men searched again in the morning for the cook, but could find no trace of him. At dusk that night, the screams began again. The men were terrified, and decided that it must be the ghost of the cook screaming in terror. By this time, they knew that Ryan was gone from the camp, and the lumberjacks began to question the Irishman's story of the bear attack. The lumberjacks did find a bloody money belt that looked like it had been dropped on the path that the Irishman would have used to make a hasty retreat. In the belt was what looked like a map but no one could make sense of it. The map was passed down from generation to generation until it ended up in my hands. What about the ghost? At dusk every evening for several weeks, the ghost of the cook shrieked out his terror and rage over his murder. All action in the logging camp ceased at the first sound of the “Langley Lake Howler," as the ghost came to be called, and no one dared move until the sound died away. At the first sign of spring, the logger's packed up camp and hurried away.
The ghost was not heard so frequently after the camp was disbanded, but local residents are still subjected every so often to the terrible screams of the Langley Lake Howler.
To this day, people living in the Langley Lake area sometimes hear the eerie screaming of the Langley Lake Howler when they walk outside at dusk.

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