Episode 379: In the annals of Canadian folklore and unsolved mysteries, few stories have endured as hauntingly and stubbornly as that of Jerome, the silent, legless man who appeared from out of nowhere on the remote beach of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, in September 1863. To this day, no one knows for sure who he was, where he came from, or what chain of events led to his abandonment. What is known, thanks to accounts recorded by locals and later collected by historians and folklorists, is the extraordinary set of circumstances under which he entered the lives of several small maritime communities and remained there, silent and enigmatic, for nearly half a century.

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Jerome: Solving the Mystery of Nova Scotia's Silent Castaway by Fraser Mooney
Apr 30, 1930, page 28 - The Evening Mail at Newspapers.com
Jul 23, 1910, page 3 - The St. John Standard at Newspapers.com
Sept 16, 1905, page 10 - The Montreal Star at Newspapers.com
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Strange, Spooky and Supernatural - Mike Browne - Paperback

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