# 27: Ghost Riders: PEI Legend and Lore series Traditional Cache
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# 27: Ghost Riders: PEI Legend 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 !
# 27 : Ghost Riders:
Jack Connaway, one of the early settlers to the Cornwall area lived near the present East Wiltshire school. One night as he rode home from town he went to pass over the Kellows Hollow bridge when bloodcurdng scream rent the air ! Thus caused his horse to rear up and throw Jack from the saddle where he hit the bridge rail and was killed. All this was witnessed by James Kellow.
Legend says that from that time forward the spirit of Jack Connaway haunted the area around the bridge. It also says that the spirit was seen with other ‘ creatures from the Land of Mist ‘ and that they all lived in the hollow heart of a nearby great pine tree.
The strangest of these stories comes from Michael Conaway, the brother of jack. He too rode home one night along that road and as he approached the bridge he suddenly saw in the clear full moon night as his horse suddenly halted and as Michael looked ahead he saw first many lights near the bridge which suddenly were transformed into ghostly figures. He counted twenty white robed beings wearing white skull caps. Then he saw his brother, similarly clad, who drove the being in front of him across the bridge and towards the great tree where they disappeared into its heart. The tree is now long gone, but people still talk of the strange visions seen down in Kellows Hollow.
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