S2.E8: The Black Stag (Halloween Special Pt. 2)
Season 2, Episode 8 (Halloween Bonus 2)
When nights grow long and familiar paths suddenly lead you astray; when fog shrouds the coast in deathly gloom and strange lights flicker in empty bogs,
that’s the time when ghosts and ghouls explore this new found land.
Welcome to the Strange Truths & Tall Tales Halloween Special.
Title: The Black Stag
Time: 15 minutes
Locations: St. Brides, Point Lance, Elliston
Story: The Black Stag of St. Brides, The Ghost Dog of Elliston, and The Mudsucker
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About The Episode:
Halloween Bonus Episode Pt. 2
It’s October and the nights are getting noticeably longer. As darkness takes a hold. I’ve decided to embrace the ‘spooky season’ for some short Halloween episodes.
This instalment features an old folktale set near St. Bride’s, NL. It concerns a strange black Stag seen on the roadside and a series of unexplained deaths that plagues a family soon afterward.
Continuing on with the theme, I share some legends of other ghostly creatures from Newfoundland, starting with the headless dog of Elliston.
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Credits
Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor (Bach) from orangefreesounds.com, Paul Pittman, public domain.
Thunder (bajko) from freesound.com, creative commons 0
Sources & Further Reading
The Black Stag of St. Bride’s, Product of Newfoundland
Home Before Dark, Product of Newfoundland
The Black Stag -- A Ghost Story, James McGrath, Newfoundland Quarterly, 1910
The Story of the Black Stag, New-Land Magazine, Spring 1965
St. Bride's, Decks Awash, May-June, 1990
The Black Stag of Distress, Off-Beat Mystery of Newfoundland, Michael Harrington, 1988
The Black Stag, Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador, Edward Butts, 2010
Ghost Dog, People of Elliston — Then and Now, Facebook
Mudsucker, Dictionary of NL English, word slip
Elliston, Encyclopedia of NL
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