It was well after dark but it certainly sounded like a schooner was coming into the harbour. The people of Holyrood rushed to the shore, what they found —or more importantly —didn’t find, has kept this story alive for more than a century.

One moonlit night in Proctor’s Cove, Sarah saw Jake walking across a frozen bog. There was just one problem: Jake was sitting at home, and he hadn’t been out all evening.

George Gaulton was a fiercely independent man in life, who played by his own rules. If this old story is to be believed, death did little to change that.

According to one newspaper, Torbay was gripped by a ghostly disturbance in 1877. Night after night, Moses Power’s home was under attack…

A battered schooner discovered off Newfoundland’s west coast seems to have no one aboard. When rescuers bring her ashore, they discover a tragedy that began weeks earlier.

Captain James Walsh never captured a giant bear or encountered a sea serpent. So why did Newfoundland newspapers insist he did? A true tale of hoaxes, humour, and mystery.