#28:Deathly Forerunner:PEI Legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
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#28:Deathly Forerunner: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 !
# 28 Deathly Forerunner :
Many years ago, on a farm not far from Cornwall and towards the Old Post road was the family of John and Sarah Wilson. They had two girls, Mary who was six and Ruth aged eight. One late evening as John and Sarah sat on their verandah watching the night come they suddenly saw what appeared to be a meteor descending from the sky towards them. As it got closer they could see sparks flying off it and then they saw and heard it come to earth in the back field of their farm. The girls were still asleep so the couple ran back along the field until they reached the place where the object had landed. The meteor as cooling as they approached and then they saw an amazing sight. A celestial being looking like an angel appeared beside the meteor.. it looked at them and smiled. It was holding in its arms their daughter, Mary. Sarah ran forward to rescue the girl but the vision vanished before their eyes. What could this mean?
The couple hurriedly went home with a growing fear in their hearts. They rushed to the bedroom only to see their fears were right as Mary lay dead in the bed , with the family cat lying across her mouth and nose.
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