The fog, thick enough to muffle sound, seemed to leech the daylight from the sky along the old country road. To the left, a hay field that someone ...
- Benjamin Balazs / PixabayThe fog, thick enough to muffle sound, seemed to leech the daylight from the sky along the old country road.
I knew the story our fabled folklorist Helen Creighton tells in her book Bluenose Ghosts: how, on a foggy night just like this one, a man had been heading home along the same road when he saw a woman nearby who was “a mass of fire.” Ghost stories seem to be our birthright in Atlantic Canada with our mixture of old civilizations, our oral culture, our largely rural demographic.
No wonder when weather and season permits the Annapolis Valley and Lunenburg have ghost walks and Annapolis Royal a graveyard tour. Five years later, when the Halifax Explosion occurred, the windows of the Argyle Street building shattered, according to a Canadian Press story, but the funeral parlour remained open and, in the days ahead, conducted services for roughly 2,000 victims of the sinking.
“There was no way that she would have known that there had been other similar sightings like that in the restaurant before,” Fraser, now retired as restaurateur and sommelier, told me.the Port Morien-based SaltWire columnist heard from his dad a long time ago.
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