# 26 The Whistler: PEI Legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
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# 26 The Whistler: PEI Legends and Lore series
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NOTICE : Apparently there is a HUGE dog resident to house across the way.. BUT as early logs say.. he is all bark and ' please pet me. ' Still cynophobes should take note.
"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 !
# 26: The Whistler:
On July 1, 1805, Colonel Joseph Desbares arrived in Charlottetown accompanied by a companion one Jack Dale, the melodious whistler. The Colonel had come to take up the post of Lieutenant Governor from Mr Fanning. A week later a gala was held at the Fanning home to celebrate the arrival and mark the assumption of Desbarres into the vice-regal post. Jack Dale was invited, of course and towards the end of the evening he was asked to entertain the guests with his whistling. He walked over the yard until he was under the nearby maples and birches and began to whistle. All present were astonished at the amazing sweet quality of the music that Dales whistling made. The very air seemed filled with the melody and then an astonished event occurred. Birds began gathering in the trees above and began to join in with their voices . There were robins, goldfinches and bluebirds. When the melody was ended there was loud applause and when that ended Jack pursed his lips and blew one more long note, described as enchanting , which sent the birds into a frenzy as they descended in a multitude to Jack landing about him and flying close by. It is said that Dale had tears in his eyes as he left the trees and rejoined the guests.
Sadly, Jack Dale was not long for this world. Two months later his body was found near the Brighton shore. Doctors say he most likely died of a heart attack. It was on the day of his funeral that a very strange event occurred. As his body was brought to the grave on a lovely clear day, all present were struck by the absolute silence in the area. Not a single bird cry could be heard throughout that area during that entire day. It seemed the birds themselves were mourning the death of the melodious whistler.
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