#20 Hunter River Ghost:PEI Legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
Olewaif: Out and about on a nice -enough November afternoon to retrieve some caches in the area so I can now archive them.
#20 Hunter River 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 !
# 20 : Hunter River Ghost :
The Haunting of Mary: In Hunter River, PEI, in the very early 1800s, there was a little girl named Mary. Mary was a trouble maker and everyone in the village were annoyed by her. She played pranks on everyone and they didn’t find it funny at all. Mary’s parents were very abusive and embarrassed by Mary’s behavior. Her room was in the basement and they had no trouble throwing her in every night and locking the door. But Mary made a secret escape and was able to sneak out from her room and she used to go outside and play more pranks, out of revenge. Being bad was the only way to get herself noticed. One night, Mary played a bad prank. She had ruined one of her neighbour’s gardens and Mary was, of course, severely punished. Her parents beat her before chucking her into the basement and locking the door. Mary cried for hours before silently going through her secret escape and went to the river. Mary’s house was located right across the street from where today’s Hunter River Bakery is. Mary headed behind today’s bakery, where she had her own little rowboat hidden in the reeds.She went out in the river with it and somehow drowned. They say that Mary still roams Hunter River. On a moon lit night you can see the ripples from her rowboat.
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