2. Some Psychical Experiences
More a “Sensitive” Than a Psychic
Ghosts in My Life
The Boyd Gang and Some Ghosts
Something Evil Abroad
The Grey Lady
A Very Strange Experience
Some Frightened Me More Than Others
3. Very Interesting Cases
Psychic Detection
Some Famous Haunts of Modern Times
Mackenzie King’s Ghost
The Haunting of Mackenzie House
The “Twilight Zone” Truck Stop
4. The Power of Fear
The Ghost of Mary Mowat
The Futon Ghost
There Was a Story Behind It
The Ghost of Darcel Avenue
On Old Road
Strange Noises in the Basement
A Call in the Night
Characters and Creatures
5. Monstrous Beings
Monster Turtle
The Sim-moqui
Jacko
It Makes Me Shudder Even Now
Windagoos! Cannibals!
Exorcism of a Wendigo
The Oshawa Sea Serpent
Oshawa’s Ogopogo?
The Shaking Tent
Abducted by the Sasquatches
Sasquatch
Maybe This Was a Sasquatch
Evolutionary Precursor
Glimpsing the Bushman
6. Aliens from Elsewhere
The Man from the Sky
Sighting and We Are Not Alone
The Falcon Lake Encounter
Contact
Letter from Simson
“George Adamski-Land”
It Suddenly Glowed Very Brightly
Why Seven?
Fascinated by the Skies
7. Email Encounters
I Am Not Supernaturally Gifted
We Couldn’t Stop Thinking About Them
I Was Completely Amazed
The Open Window
The Corner Brook Sighting
A Woman Walking by the Door
Finally One Day I Saw a Ghost
I Heard Footsteps in the Living Room
Family Stories
8. More Email Encounters
A Dream That I Had Had
The Algonquin Park Haunting
Weird and Strange Memories
Interesting Mail
I Froze! I Was Terrified!
This Damn Crazy Story
The Unmistakable Brightness of His Eyes
Two Experiences
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Note from Author
Miss Seward (with an incredulous smile): “What, Sir! about a ghost?”
Johnson (with solemn vehemence): “Yes, Madam: this is a question which, after five thousand years, is yet undecided; a question, whether in theology or philosophy, one of the most important that can come before the human understanding.”
— James Boswell, quoting Dr. Samuel Johnson on
April 15, 1778, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Did you ever wonder whether the place where you are now dwelling is haunted?
Here is a big book about such matters, about ghosts and hauntings, a book that is calculated to make you pause and wonder about the world of spirits, about haunted sites and places, and about the interconnections that may exist between the world of the living and the world of the dead or unborn. The accounts in this tome raise questions about the extent and limit of human knowledge and the reliability of human experience. In many ways it is an entertaining book; in other ways, a sobering collection of riveting accounts of “what should not be.” In other words, here are one hundred or so of what I call “Canadian mysteries.”
