#25: The Ringing Bells:PEI legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
Olewaif: Beautiful last day of October.. perfect time to be out and about retrieving caches as I continue the process of archiving. This was a popular cache but it is time for it to meet its DOOM!!!!! ( little hallowe'en touch there)
#25: The Ringing Bells:PEI legends and Lore series
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camoed pill bottle in rock pile
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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 !
# 25 : The Ringing Bells:
October 7, 1853 was a memorable day in Charlottetown for several reasons. It was on that day that news reached the town that the ship, Fairy Queen , had sunk with the loss of seven of her passengers. Four of these were members of the St James Church.
At around 5:30 that morning the bell on the St James Church began to toll. It continued to do this for about a half-hour. One of the few people up so early was a Captain Cross , who went up to the church to investigate. As he approached he saw three white-robed figures on the church steps and a fourth up in the belfry ringing the bell. The sexton of the church and the pastor, Reverend Dr. Snodgrass both soon arrived. The figures were seen by the sexton but vanished and the tolling had stopped just before the pastor got there. They told the pastor what they had seen and he decided they should go in the locked church and investigate. As they entered the church the bell rolled one final time. They found nothing amiss inside and no explanation was ever found.
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Ybbx va gur fznyy ebpx cvyr oruvaq gur puhepu.