# 39:Flying Bough Bed: PEI legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
# 39:Flying Bough Bed: PEI legends and Lore series
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Camoed pill bottle. This cache can really only be accessed by a beach walk and then only at low tide. It is still a slippery area so be careful. You may think you can get to this one from nearby road but you are wrong.. there's an unseen creek in your way.
"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 !
# 39 : Flying Bough Bed :
This adventure happened to Fred and Mike O'Brien of Mitchell River on January 15th, 1835.
The two brothers were journeying to Cardigan along forest pathsm carrying their muzzle-loading guns lest they encounter some worthwhile game. As it happened they came upon and followed the zigzagging tracks of a bear becoming hoplessly lost as night fell. To add tot their trouble a winter snow storm arrived as the evening went on. They fashioned a crude bough bed and made as best a camp as they could but had no means to make a warming fire as their matches were wet. They drifted off to sleep and when they awoke in the morning they were astonished to find themselves high in the air and not in the forest at all... sailing laong through the air in their bough bed ! After drifting aimlessly for a long time they fell back to sleep and in that sleep death came to Fred, frozen solid. Mike threw the body ove the side of the bough bed and watched it fall down into the storm below... he fdrifted some more until suddenly he saw below him the sight of Cardigan. The bed began to descend at a dizzying pace , eventually depositing Mike with a bump on the land again.. he climbed out and saw the bough bed once again ascend into the sky. Mike walked safely into Cardigan.
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