#43 : Buried Alive! PEI Legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
#43 : Buried Alive! 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 !
# 43 : Buried Alive.
Hugh MacIntyre came to Belfast PEI in 1803 with other immigrants on the good ship, Polly. Hugh was somewhat of a ‘ scalawag’ and often know to drink in the taverns until quite drunk. In that state he was also known as someone who loved to pick a fight. He was a very good fighter too and it’s said on one occasion he knocked out seven men one after another at a New Year’s celebration at a neighbours house.
One night at a party a drunken Hugh ( a married man) cut in a man who was dancing with his sweetheart and it wasn’t long before the two were fighting. It was a very even match, unusual for Hugh and went on for a half hour. Finally a bystander had had enough and cracked Hugh over the head with an iron poker laying him out. He was carted home and ‘died ‘ the following day and was duly buried in the small Belfast cemetery. Some time after that the family left the Belfast area and moved to New Brunswick. They bough a family plot over there and decided to move Hugh’s body to there. The two men assigned the task were surprised to find the casket in perfect shape and, curious to see If Hugh was too, they open the casket. To their horror they discovered Hugh, on his face with handfuls of his own hair in both hands. He had been buried alive. One can only imagine the misery of his real death.
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