#14 Barlow Road Ghost: PEI legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
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#14 Barlow Road Ghost: PEI legends and Lore series
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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 !
# 14 : The Ghost of Barlow Road
Ben Horne had spent the early afternoon in the tavern so it's fair to say he was of a relaxed and 'receptive' frame of mind as he set out to walk home along the Barlow Road from Ellerslie to Port Hill.
About half way, close to Grant's Creek stood a stately pine, aged and scarred from its battle with the elements in this bleak place. This ' halfway ' tree was said to be a place where ' evil ' lurked. Some said spirits lived in the tree itself. One of these was the legendary ' Ghost Lady of Barlow Road."
It was only 5 in the early evening as Ben neared Grants creek and he was startled to see a fence stretching across the road! He had no idea where this could have come from but as he wanted to go home , he began to climb over the obstacle. Suddenly a womans piercing scream rent the air and Ben knew , in an instant, that it had to be the Ghost Lady! Ben fell to the ground beside the fence and to his astonishment saw the fence posts turn into soldiers and the soldiers to form up in formation and march down the road. Then the Ghost lady herself appeared. She wielded bull whip and in an instant the soldiers turned into giants and the giants whirled about and began to march back towards Ben. As they neared him they came to clsoe to the tree, wherein they turned that way and vanished into the forest beside the road. The white-robed Ghost lady vanished a few moments later.
The tree and the tavern are long gone but Grants Creek is still there and who knows whether the Ghost Lady still can be found there.
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