#31:Scotts Mill Ghost: PEI legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
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#31:Scotts Mill 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 !
# 31 : Scot's Mill Ghost;
This story involves Chowans Mill, back when it was called Scots Mill and run by John Scot and his sons. It was a good mill with a good reputation but this story occurred on an occasion when illness had made it impossible for the Scots to keep up with the grinding so wheat was piling up in the mill. John was at home resting one night when he heard the wheel of the mill start to creak and turn. He thought there was an intruder and went down the hill to the mill to investigate. There was a lantern lit and he could hear the grinding wheel working inside. As he went in he was amazed to see wheat being ground , the hopper full, bags fitted to elevators and everything operating perfectly. There was another light over by the mill stone but he saw no one. Then he saw a figure descend the stairs walk over to the hopper and a hand reach in and run fingers through the wheat grains as an experienced miller would. As Scott moved foreward to speak to the stranger, the outer door slammed shut, all the lights went out and the wheel began to grind to a halt. It took a minute for Scott to light a lantern and when he did there was no one to be seen and , though he searched everywhere, he found no one. The identity of the mysterious miller was never discovered.
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