Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants and sometimes sends it back.

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🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING

Here is everything used to research this episode.

🔗 WEB SOURCES

Helen Creighton Folklore Society - Significant Stories

Saint Mary's University - Modernity, Myth and Memory on Nova Scotia's Devil's Island

NS Ghost Stories - Devil's Island, Where Spirits Still Roam

NS Ghost Stories - Peggy's Cove, Ghost of the Lady in Blue

Friends of McNabs Island - Devils Island

MyNewBrunswick.ca - Legend of Money Cove

MyNewBrunswick.ca - A Pirate Ghost on Grand Manan

Maclean's Archive - The Fiery Phantom That Sails Bay Chaleur, 1951

Fox Harb'r Resort - The Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait

NUVO Magazine - The Flaming Ghost Ship of Prince Edward Island

PEI Lighthouse Society - West Point

CBC News - Are old lighthouse keepers haunting West Point?

CBC News - Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic

Mysteries of Canada - Doppelganger Stories from Canada

📚 BOOKS

Helen Creighton, Bluenose Ghosts (Ryerson Press, 1957)

Helen Creighton, Bluenose Magic (1968)

Julie V. Watson, Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island (1988)

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908)

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