headless, 61
moving objects, 16, 17, 18, 31, 96–97
opening and closing doors, 23, 24, 61, 77, 93
responding to questions, 17, 18, 80–82
sound of footsteps, 22, 61, 77, 99, 121
speaking through people, 77, 80
spiteful 20–25
throwing objects, 18, 23
touching or hitting people, 22, 78, 99
walking from George’s Island to Birch Cove, 67
ghost-busting equipment, 119–120
Grand Manan Island, NB, 105
hags, 24, 25–26
H
Halifax Explosion, 83–94
Halifax Harbour, 9–15, 69–73, 83–86, 103
Halifax Herald, 98–101
Halifax, NS, 9, 20, 59, 66, 69, 83, 103, 105
Harbour Breton, NL, 113
Harris, John, 21–23
Hart family, 43–57
Hatfield, Captain George Albert, 116–118
Hubbell, Walter, 19
I
Ismay, Bruce, 38, 49, 59
J
Jipugtug Bay, see Halifax Harbour
K
King’s College, 24–25
L
L’Ardin, Jean, 63–64
M
MacDonald
Andrew, placing curse on family, 96
Black John, Janet, and Mary Ellen, 95–102
MacIntyre, N. Carroll, 96, 102
Madeleine, 63–66
McDonald, Randall and Rebecca, 107–113
medium, see psychics
Mi’kmaq curse, 11–12
Milledge House, 60
N
Nova Scotia Supreme Court building, spirits of children in, 92
P
phantom, see ghost
poltergeist, see ghost
Port Royal, NS, 63
possession, 20, 77
premonition, 43–50
presence, see ghost
Price, Dr. Walter Franklin, 100–101
Price, Harry, ghost-busting kit, 119
protection
holy objects as, 26, 78, 103
praying as, 20, 104
psychics, 18, 79
radiance, protecting from demon, 21
R
radio broadcast of exorcism, 79
recurring appearances, 67, 93–94, 105, 112–113
Richmond School, 86, 92
Robinson, Hazel and Olive, 87–92
S
seance, 18
voices heard at, 18, 80–81
shape of house changing, 25, 104
shape-shifter, 25
smell
lilacs, 33–36
unpleasant, 25, 78, 80–81
Smith, Captain Edward J., 40, 41, 49
sounds
children playing, 93
footsteps, 22, 61, 77, 99, 121
knocking/pounding, 17, 29, 77
music, 31–32, 76, 93
South Shore, NS, 75
spirit, see ghost
spirit, spiteful 20–25
spontaneous human combustion, 104–105
Spook House, 95–102
Strauss, Isidor and Ida, 48, 52, 58
television, changing channels, 76
T
Titanic, 37–59
bad luck before maiden voyage, 41–43
behaviour of animals on board, 47–48
rescue of survivors, 52–57
uncanny events after disaster, 58–59
typhoid/typhus, 70–73
W
weight on chest, 20, 22, 24
writing, automatic, 96, 101
Y
Yarmouth, 108–113
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 108
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