Strange But True: Canadian Stories of Horror and TerrorThis is a chilling collection of 50 accounts of truly unusual events and experiences that are told by the people who experienced them. Are there ghosts here? Yes. Are there strange coincidences here? Yes. Are there strange creatures of the forest here? Yes. Are there conspiracies here? Yes. Are there horors here aplenty? Yes, yes! The accounts come from many regions of Canada and cover the last hundred or so years. These fascinating first-person accounts originate in the columns of old newspapers or in the highly readable narratives derived from correspondence conducted by the author with present-day witnesses. Shake hands with your fears and dreads. Here are engrossing and unsettling occurences that are supernatural or psychical, paranormal, or parapsychological, all betweent he covers of one book. Not for the faint of heart! Highly exciting reading! |
Contents
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| 25 | |
| 46 | |
Something So Utterly Bizarre | 60 |
My Ghost Stories | 82 |
Strange Happenings | 97 |
Saw a Man Coming Towards Me | 114 |
Ghosts on Parliament Hill? | 116 |
Nazi Film | 133 |
Interesting Experience | 147 |
My Spiritual Encounters | 162 |
AWeird Dread | 178 |
Still Deal with the Spirit World | 195 |
The Vanished Village | 210 |
Myth as Nightmare | 225 |
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Page 25 - Alliance movement, and in the Populist party; author of many published speeches and addresses, and of numerous books, including Atlantis, the Antediluvian World (1882), Ragnarok, the Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), and The Great Cryptogram, Francis Bacon's Cipher in the so-called Shakespeare Plays (1888). He lived many years at Nininger, a few miles west of Hastings, and was often called "the Sage of Nininger.
Page 12 - ... electricity came in; but surely this is to misapprehend the nature of the ghostly. What drives ghosts away is not the aspidistra or the electric cooker; I can imagine them more wistfully haunting a mean house in a dull street than the battlemented castle with its boring stage properties. What the ghost really needs is not echoing passages and hidden doors behind tapestry, but only continuity and silence. For where a ghost has once appeared it seems to hanker to appear again; and it obviously...
Page 11 - true," that it "had really happened," in it went; and can it be only by accident that the one story in this large collection which is even faintly striking and memorable is the one with an apologetic footnote to the effect that the editor had not been able to trace it to its source? Sources, as a matter of fact, are not what one needs in judging a ghost story. The good ones bring with them the internal proof of their ghostliness; and no other evidence is needed.
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Page 98 - I got up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water from a wide bottomed but small necked glass vessel.
Page 12 - What is most to be feared is that these seers should fail; for frailer than the ghost is the wand of his evoker, and more easily to be broken in the hard grind of modern speeding-up. Ghosts, to make themselves manifest, require two conditions abhorrent to the modern mind: silence and continuity. Mr. Osbert Sitwell informed us the other day that ghosts went out when electricity came in; but surely this is to misapprehend the nature of the ghostly. What drives ghosts away is not the aspidistra or the...
Page 8 - Images have their own potency and their own persistence; they testify to human need and desire, but also to a transcendent frontier that marks either a limit to the human, or a limitlessness that may be beyond the human.
Page 60 - ... conferences, then spend the night drafting a remarketing agreement to correct them. Then the objections begin to flow in from all over the country. Finally we hold public hearings, and at last the Sec'y of Ag. signs and approves the agreement, etc., etc. The procedure is complicated— too complicated. I would like to tell you about it but it would take forever. Furthermore, it is changed almost daily! If anything, my complaint would be that there is too much drafting done by the legal division...
Page 236 - MJ, who holds a position with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa. He has an amazing series of incidents to relate and he relates them with great skill and concern.