#4 : Cape Wolfe Death House: PEI legends and Lore Traditional Cache
#4 : Cape Wolfe Death House: PEI legends and Lore
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"They have tales ." Oh yes they do ! P.E. Islanders love to share tales and there is no shortage of yarns both short and tall to tell. The history of this tiny island is replete with strange occurrences and each seems to spawn one or more explanations to account for them. Ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night are commonplace in this lore. The stranger the actual events the more detailed the often supernatural story around it. Some of these tales go back centuries. Loss and gain, treasure, triumph, disaster, birth, life and death all feature prominently. Not many who live here doubt the existence of spirits and ' haunts' , nor the places they can be found. Forerunners, omens of all kinds, even Satan himself often show up in these accounts.
I have lived here too long to dismiss all these tales as fiction, nor the beliefs that they encompass. I know too many perfectly sober honest people who have had ' strange ' experiences to doubt the veracity of what they say happened.
This series contains a variety of such tales I gleaned from several Island folklore books, old newspaper articles, a few first-person accounts and even an on-line site or two. None are original to me and I certainly wish to thank all those who gathered the stories. I have tried to place the caches in the communities and, if possible, on or close to the exact sites of the described events. For some of these stories you would NOT find me at the exact site late at night. Not a chance. I hope you enjoy both the story and the going to where it happened !
# 4 Cape Wolfe Death House :
This story concerns a mansion built in the late seventeenth century on Cape Wolfe overlooking the Northumberland Strait by a wealthy Frenchman, named Perry (probably Pierre) Martill. The place had more than thirty rooms and was three stories high with wide staircases and the best of fine wood interiors. Martill brought his wife and six children to this place. Exactly where Martill was from in France and how he came about his apparent wealth was not known nor was it known why he had chosen to live in such an isolated area in Isle St. Jean. Unfortunately the Martills were not fated to enjoy their lovely home. Within a year four of the Martill children drowned in an accident and the other two were killed in another accident within the house by suffocation. Madame Martill was so distraught with these losses that she hanged herself from a beam in the kitchen. These tragic events were too much for Perry Martill. Within a year he left the House of Death ( as it had come to be called) and the Island suddenly and forever, All furniture and house contents remained. The house sat vacant for two years before an elderly English couple moved in but they were there only a very short time before the woman died and the man left the unhappy place. The house now remained empty as no one wanted to live in such an unlucky place. Left empty and without upkeep the house eventually became rundown but it was a great storm that finally led to its demise. The roof was blown off and one wing of the house collapsed. The rest, now exposed to the elements quickly decayed leaving a very large debris pile that was eventually burned to clear the land of any trace of this unhappy place.
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5' hc ynetr RT. ' gjvttl'
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